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9:50 PM ET, September 24, 2006

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Judd / Think Progress:
VIDEO: Clinton Sets The Record Straight On Terrorism, Smacks Down Fox News  —  Here's the key portion of the Fox News Sunday interview with President Clinton.  He sets the record straight on his efforts to combat terrorism, the Bush administration's record and the tactics of Fox News.  Watch it:
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Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:
Chris Wallace Has Indeed Grilled Bush Officials About Failing to Get Osama Before 9/11  —  In an interview aired on Fox News Sunday today, Chris Wallace asked Bill Clinton why he hadn't done more to get Osama bin Laden.  Clinton's furious answer lasted several minutes, and included finger-wagging reminiscent …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Clinton vs. Wallace on "Fox News Sunday" Update: Wallace asked Rumsfeld same question in '04  —  I tried to cut all the best parts but you're well advised to read the transcript.  Righties are going to have a field day fact-checking him.  Points to take away:
Michelle Malkin:
He doth protest too much  —  ***scroll for updates***  —  Wallace to Clinton: "You seem upset."  —  Check out Hot Air highlights of the Wallace-Clinton fireworks on Fox News Sunday.  Wallace was terrific.  Unflappable.  Unrelenting.  Unapologetic.  Clinton was a basket case.
Discussion: TigerHawk and Dr. Sanity
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
Bill Clinton's Bipartisan Love-In Blows Up in His Face  —  Hooray!  Good for Bill Clinton.  He finally called Fox News and the right-wing on their BS, right?  Well, sort of.  —  Sure, Clinton said exactly what he should have said during his interview this weekend with Chris Wallace on Fox News.
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Patrick / FishBowlDC:
Wallace: "I felt as if a mountain was coming down in front of me. "
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Clinton on "Fox News Sunday."
Bluto / The Jawa Report:   Was Clinton's "Meltdown" as Counterfeit as the Man?
Karen Matthews / Associated Press:
Bill Clinton Defends Bin Laden Handling
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Tammy Bruce:   LIVEBLOGGING: CLINTON INSISTS BIN LADEN NOT INVOLVED IN SOMALIA.  EVER.
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
'Just a comma'  —  I'll have the transcript up as soon as CNN posts it, but George W. Bush appeared on "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer" this afternoon and made one of those stunning remarks that could — or rather, should — become a political problem for the White House.
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Bush dismisses bloodshed in Iraq as 'just a comma'  —  Steve finds this piece of revealing data..  —  Video-WMP Video-QT … This is an appalling statement to make.  With a civili war full of Iraqi bloodshed and over 20,000 of our men and women killed or wounded since the war started-one would think this might matter.
Brian Knowlton / New York Times:
Intelligence Report Stirs Debate on Terror Fight  —  An intelligence assessment that the war in Iraq increased Islamic radicalism, worsening the terror threat, set off a sharp debate today among American political officials over credit and blame for the war and the broader fight against terrorism.
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Reuters:
WHouse: newspaper's account of Iraq report incomplete
Discussion: Power Line and Gateway Pundit
Michael Scherer / Salon:
Teammates: Allen used "N-word" in college  —  WASHINGTON — Three former college football teammates of Sen. George Allen say that the Virginia Republican repeatedly used an inflammatory racial epithet and demonstrated racist attitudes toward blacks during the early 1970s.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Jules Crittenden / Boston Herald:
Does AP stand for Al-Qaeda Propaganda?  —  The Associated Press, the reliable just-the-facts news agency you and I once knew, no longer exists.  Amoral propagandists have taken over.  —  It is not only in the disturbing matter of Bilal Hussein, AP photograher and al-Qaeda associate …
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Tom Curley / Washington Post:
In Iraq, a Journalist in Limbo
Stirling Newberry / tpmcafe.com:
Do You Want Lies With That?  —  One reason we have problems in this country is the number of lying idiots who work for major press outlets.  The lastest entrant in the media class twit of the year sweepstakes is Perry Bacon Jr. who says "the Netroots hit their limits" because …
Discussion: Beltway Blogroll
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Perry Bacon Jr / Time:
The Netroots Hit Their Limits
Elizabeth Holtzman / Chicago Sun Times:
Bush seeks immunity for violating War Crimes Act  —  Thirty-two years ago, President Gerald Ford created a political firestorm by pardoning former President Richard Nixon of all crimes he may have committed in Watergate — and lost his election as a result.  Now, President Bush …
Times of London:
Police to brief Muslims before terror raids  —  POLICE have agreed to consult a panel of Muslim leaders before mounting counter-terrorist raids or arrests.  Members of the panel will offer their assessment of whether information police have on a suspect is too flimsy and will also consider …
NY Daily News:
The war on freedom  —  Barry Bonds hit another home run Friday night, tying Hank Aaron at 733 for the all-time National League record, and is now just 23 home runs short of breaking Aaron's major league record.  Gary Sheffield, another who testified in front of the BALCO grand jury …
Baron Bodissey / Gates of Vienna:
Jihad on Wheels  —  We've often said in this space that in ridicule is the most powerful weapon in the arsenal of the Counter-Jihad; it's one that our enemies have no defense against.  —  Now there's a car dealership in Ohio that gets it, according to yesterday's Columbus Dispatch:
 
 
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Associated Press:
Iraqi soldiers hinder U.S. efforts to combat militias, tame Baghdad streets
Massoud Ansari / Telegraph:
Omar role in truce reinforces fears that Pakistan 'caved in' to Taliban
Matthew Continetti / Weekly Standard:
George Allen Monkeys Around
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Press Association:
One in 10 Muslims 'ignore terror'
Discussion: Jihad Watch
David Morgan / Reuters:
No evidence bin Laden is dead: Saudi Arabia
Hindrocket / Power Line:
HEARING IS BELIEVING  —  We linked the other day to a news report …
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
The Tide's In for Independents
 

 
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