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5:10 PM ET, January 5, 2008

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Lynn Sweet:
Fox's Bill O'Reilly in confrontation with Obama staffer at rally.  UPDATE  —  NASHUA, N.H.— Fox News host Bill O'Reilly got into a confrontation with an Obama aide after O'Reilly started screaming at him as he tried to get Barack Obama's attention following a rally here.
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John Dickerson / Slate:
The O'Reilly Rumble  —  WATCHING REALITY TELEVISION AT AN OBAMA RALLY.  —  You know when a celebrity television personality like Bill O'Reilly arrives at a political event because they always have a retinue and because people turn their cameras and camera phones from the candidate to capture the famous face.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Obama: The Movement Has Begun  —  NASHUA, N.H. — The line snaked for at least a half mile from the entrance of Nashua North High School.  The first people in it had arrived at 7:30 a.m. — two-and-a-half hours before Barack Obama was scheduled to start speaking.
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
Obama aide: O'Reilly shoved me  —  From NBC's Mark Hudspeth  —  NASHUA, N.H. — An aide to Barack Obama said talk-show host Bill O'Reilly shoved him several times at the rope line after a campaign event today.  —  Marvin Nicholson, Obama's trip director, said the commentator …
Discussion: TVNewser
Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:   Reported on Facebook: O'Reilly Shoves Obama Staffer
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New Hampshire Union Leader:
Suffolk/7 Saturday poll: A post-Iowa bounce for Obama?
Jim Tankersley / The Swamp:
Romney: No more ‘my way or highway’ diplomacy
Discussion: Marc Ambinder
Mead Gruver / Associated Press:
Romney Wins Wyoming Caucuses  —  CASPER, Wyo. (AP) - Mitt Romney captured his first win of the Republican presidential race, gaining most of Wyoming's delegates at stake in GOP caucuses on Saturday.  —  The former Massachusetts governor won six of the first eight delegates to be selected.
Discussion: PoliPundit.com and Hotline On Call
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Michael Medved / Townhall.com:
Stop Lying About Huckabee and Evangelicals!  —  Predictably enough, most media commentators have totally misinterpreted the nature of Mike Huckabee's big win in the Iowa GOP caucuses.  Conventional wisdom says that he swept to victory based on overwhelming support from Evangelicals, but conventional wisdom is flat-out wrong.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Jonah Goldberg and Glenn Reynolds warn of “social unraveling” if Obama loses  —  (updated below - Update II - Update III)  —  Over at National Review, Jonah Goldberg has a “theory” about what might help Obama win in the general election.  After noting that Obama will be …
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Atrios / Eschaton:   Negro Uprising  —  Aside from the racism, the real issue …
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Why was Hillary booed twice in New Hampshire?  —  Time's Jay Newton-Small writes: … Could Time blog a little better?  This piece fails to say when this dinner took place.  And: “If the New Hampshire Democratic Party's 100 Club dinner is any bell weather - Barack Obama will handily win here.”
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Marc Ambinder:
Some Clintonology  —  A hoarse, happy, Barack Obama blew …
Discussion: Deadline USA
Matthew Yglesias:
Clinton: Obama's Too Liberal
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
MISCELLANEOUS OBAMA BLOGGING....This is more a conversation starter than anything else, but I thought there were two especially interesting aspects of Barack Obama's victory in Iowa on Thursday.  Here they are:  — Obama won (or tied) among all income groups and among union households.
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New Hampshire Union Leader:
State GOP withdraws as FOX debate partner  —  MANCHESTER - The New Hampshire Republican Party has quit “with regret” as a co-sponsor of tomorrow night's nationally televised GOP forum on FOX News.  —  The 8 p.m. event at Saint Anselm College — the last debate before Tuesday's primary …
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Matt Stoller / Open Left:
Why Fox News Does Not Want Ron Paul in the Debate
Discussion: Brave New Films blog
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Is Bill Clinton About To Sandbag Hillary Clinton's Campaign?  —  It is often been said that former President Bill Clinton is Senator Hillary Clinton's closest, best and most astute political advisor.  If that's the case and a recent statement he reportedly made is any indication, she should consider firing him and getting a new one.
BuzzFlash.org:
Obama Says That His First Action as President Would be to Bring U.S. Troops Home from Iraq  —  In an 11-minute interview with hometown Chicago radio broadcaster and journalist, Roland Martin, Barack Obama revealed that his first act, if elected president would be to pull our troops out of Iraq as quickly as possible.
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Pro-Hillary mail: Be very afraid  —  Hillary denounces the politics of fear, but the public workers' union AFSCME isn't being shy about reminding voters, in a mailer on her behalf, that it's a scary world.  —  “A Prime Minister is on the phone: They've lost a warhead,” says the fictional memo on the front of the mailing.
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and AMERICAblog
New York Times:
Officials Say Iraqi Soldier Killed 2 U.S. Soldiers  —  BAGHDAD — Two American soldiers killed last month during an operation in the northern city of Mosul appear to have been deliberately shot to death by an Iraqi soldier on patrol with them, senior Iraqi officers said on Saturday.
Discussion: The Newshoggers
Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
Elizabeth Edwards To Chris Matthews And Rest Of Media: Ahem — John And I Are Still Here  —  One of the things I'd been wondering was whether John Edwards' slim victory over Hillary for second-place in Iowa would shift the media dynamic of the race and get people to cover it as more of a three-way contest.
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs
 
 
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