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5:10 PM ET, November 19, 2007

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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Obama Camp Uses Disputed Gerth Account Of Clintons' 20-Year-Plan To Fault Hillary  —  Barack Obama has unveiled a new line of criticism against Hillary: In speeches he's started to point to the allegation made in Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta's Hillary book that the Clintons secretly formulated …
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The Atlantic Online:
John Fund Identifies The Obama "Rumor"  —  Why does it seem that Republican columnists have better sources among Democrats than everyone else?  —  Here's John Fund, writing in today's OpinionJournal.com: … Pretty thin stuff.  And haven't we heard the Tony Rezko tale already?
Steve Benen / Talking Points Memo:
Novak and Clinton and Obama ... oh my  —  If the acrimony between the Clinton and Obama presidential campaigns was kindling, Robert Novak's shamelessly unethical column was a match.  —  If you're just joining us, Novak reported yesterday that Hillary Clinton's "agents" …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
ATTACK!  —  I highly recommend Reed Hundt's new post over at TPMCafe …
Discussion: Brendan Nyhan
Norman Podhoretz / Commentary:
A Response to Andrew Sullivan  —  In my article "The Case for Bombing Iran" (COMMENTARY, June 2007), in my book World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism, and in various public appearances (including a televised debate with Fareed Zakaria of Newsweek), I quoted the Ayatollah Khomeini as having said the following:
Discussion: Weekly Standard
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Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
NPod Responds  —  He gets Amir Taheri to cite his Khomeini quote as existing in an out-of-print compilation of Khomeini quotes from 1981.  It appears that Podhoretz originally used the quote without knowing of its provenance.  Taheri, whose reliability has come under suspicion before …
Politicker NJ:
Ferguson won't seek re-election  —  Rep. Mike Ferguson will announce today that he will not seek re-election to a fifth term in 2008.  The 37-year-old Republican, who won re-election last year by just 1% against Democratic Assemblywoman Linda Stender, wants to spend more time with his four young children.
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Juan Melli / Blue Jersey:
Mike Ferguson Announces Retirement
Discussion: DownWithTyranny! and D-Day
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
GOOD NEWS FROM IRAQ.  —  A few weeks ago, in Britain's Prospect magazine, the paper's foreign editor, Bartle Bull, published a bold essay saying that the high tide of violence in Iraq was essentially behind us and that the ebb had disclosed some interesting things.
Associated Press:
Bush homeland security adviser resigns  —  WASHINGTON - Fran Townsend, the leading White House-based terrorism adviser who gave public updates on the extent of the threat to U.S. security, is stepping down after 4 1/2 years.  —  President Bush said in a statement Monday morning that Townsend …
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Amanda / Think Progress:
Townsend's goodbye to Bush: 'You are such a man.'
Discussion: Wonkette
Bryan / Hot Air:
New Hot Air video: The Politics of Planting  —  Why did so many of the "undecided voters" who asked questions at last week's Democrat debate turn out to be either anti-war, labor, race politics or Democrat party activists?  —  Watch this video on blip.  —  Links:  —  Riehl World View
The Atlantic Online:
The LBJ Analogy  —  Dave Roberts comes away impressed by Hillary Clinton: … To me, this is the most convincing case to Clinton.  Rather than Sean Wilentz's Stevenson versus JFK analogy, I would analogize it to Lyndon Johnson versus every well-known liberal politician of the 1950s and 1960s.
Discussion: Gristmill and Talking Points Memo
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Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
WHAT IS HILLARY CLINTON'S FOREIGN POLICY?
Discussion: Washington Monthly
CQ Politics:
Some House Backers of Thompson Are Starting to Lose the Faith  —  Several House Republicans who endorsed Fred Thompson for president now say that they are frustrated with what they view as an apathetic campaign, and at least one regrets having committed to the former Tennessee senator.
Discussion: Eschaton and TPM Election Central
New York Times:
U.S. Hopes to Arm Pakistani Tribes Against Al Qaeda  —  A new and classified American military proposal outlines an intensified effort to enlist tribal leaders in the frontier areas of Pakistan in the fight against Al Qaeda and the Taliban, as part of a broader effort to bolster Pakistani forces …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Republicans and Race  —  Over the past few weeks there have been a number of commentaries about Ronald Reagan's legacy, specifically about whether he exploited the white backlash against the civil rights movement.  —  The controversy unfortunately obscures the larger point, which should be undeniable …
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Mi Casa, Sue Casa  —  Nancy Pelosi tries to force the Salvation Army to hire people who can't speak English.  —  It's been less than a week since New York's Sen. Hillary Clinton and Gov. Eliot Spitzer had to climb down from their support of driver's licenses for illegal aliens.
Bill Carter / New York Times:
Fox Cable Guy Edges Into the Big Pay Leagues  —  Roger Ailes, the chairman of the Fox News Channel, calls Shepard Smith his "go-to guy," the person he wants leading the channel's coverage any time news breaks.  —  Mr. Ailes has put his network's money where he wants its chief voice to be.
Michelle Malkin:
MTV in the Middle East  —  I've often wondered what it would take for MTV to clean up its act.  Now, we know.  The aging music network wants Middle Eastern eyeballs, and it'll do anything to cater to its audience-including toning down raunchy content and covering up scantily-clad hostesses.
Discussion: Clayton Cramer's BLOG
 
 
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Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Bad News for Lewis and Calvert: FBI's Still Probing
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