Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
3:30 PM ET, March 4, 2008

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Zogby:
Reuters/C-SPAN/Houston Chronicle Poll: Clinton Rebounds as Closing Campaign Boosts Her Barely Ahead of Obama in Texas - Tied in Ohio!  —  Republican McCain leads in Texas and Ohio  —  UTICA, New York - On the strength of some strong campaigning in Ohio and Texas, Democrat Hillary Clinton …
RELATED:
Roger Simon / The Politico:
Clinton plays victim and victimizer  —  The stage has been set for a Hillary Clinton comeback on Tuesday.  —  Nobody knows if she has the votes to do it, but the opportunity is ripe.  —  She not only is vigorously attacking Barack Obama but simultaneously portraying herself as a victim.
This Is London:
CLINTON AIDES NOW INSIST LOSSES IN TEXAS AND OHIO TOMORROW …
Karen Tumulty / Time:
Clinton Takes Obama Head On
Tahman Bradley / Political Radar:
Limbaugh Caller Says Obama Reminds Daughter of Cartoon Monkey  —  ABC News' Tahman Bradley Reports: Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh issued an on-air apology to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., today after a caller said her daughter thought the Democratic presidential frontrunner looked …
RELATED:
Fox News:
Rush Limbaugh Explains Why He's Urging Republicans in Texas and Ohio to Vote for Hillary Clinton on Super Tuesday 2  —  This is a rush transcript from “The O'Reilly Factor,” February 29, 2008.  This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.  —  Watch “The O'Reilly Factor” …
CNN:
Limbaugh urges listeners to vote for Clinton  —  (CNN) - As Hillary Clinton battles to keep her presidential bid alive, she may be getting help from an unlikely source: conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh.  —  Limbaugh has been actively urging his Texas listeners to cross over and vote …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Ask Tough Questions?  Yes, They Can!  —  SAN ANTONIO It took many months and the mockery of “Saturday Night Live” to make it happen, but the lumbering beast that is the press corps finally roused itself from its slumber Monday and greeted Barack Obama with a menacing growl.
RELATED:
Michael Saul / NY Daily News:
Angry Barack's Bam-barded by media  —  SAN ANTONIO, Tex. - An exasperated Barack Obama scurried away Monday from the toughest news conference of his campaign, telling reporters who kept shouting questions that he'd spent enough time on the grill.  —  “Come on!
Jeff Poor / The Business & Media Institute:
Weather Channel Founder Blasts Network; Claims It Is ‘Telling Us What to Think’  —  TWC founder and global warming skeptic advocates suing Al Gore to expose ‘the fraud of global warming.’  —  Business & Media Institute  —  The Weather Channel has lost its way, according to John Coleman, who founded the channel in 1982.
RELATED:
Steve James / Reuters:
Climate skeptics roast Al Gore on global warming
Ali / Think Progress:
Despite Broad Coverage Of Global Warming Deniers Conference …
Abe Greenwald / Commentary:
An Iraqi Sea Change  —  Question: What is the most extraordinary thing about the following extraordinary sentence? … Answer: It is the lead of a story in today's New York Times.  The paper of record, which for the past few years could accurately be described as a body count with a styles section …
Discussion: BLACKFIVE and neo-neocon
RELATED:
John Riley / Spin Cycle:
Latest Clinton tactic: Fake news reports  —  The Clinton campaign's latest tactic in Ohio is, apparently, a radio ad that tries to make listeners think it's a news report until the very end.  —  Stuff like this, if it succeeds in fooling voters, fairly seriously pollutes the information environment …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
RELATED:
Mark Halperin / The Page:
Script of Clinton Radio Ad Provided by Obama Campaign
Discussion: Fact Checker and NO QUARTER
David Brooks / New York Times:
A Defining Moment  —  The Democratic presidential primary campaign began around Christmas 2006, and it may end Tuesday night.  But of all the days between then and now, the most important was Nov. 10, 2007.  —  On that day, the Democratic Party of Iowa held its Jefferson-Jackson dinner and invited the candidates to speak.
Doug Mataconis / Below The Beltway:
Picture Of The Day: Earth And Moon As Seen From Mars … Click image for higher resolution.  —  Full story here.
Michael Crowley / The New Republic:
The Day After  —  Tonight's results will matter a lot, of course.  But only up to a point.  It seems quite likely that Hillary will win Ohio and at least come close in Texas, and perhaps win the primary there—but won't run up large margins.  Under most of the likely scenarios …
Jonathan Turley / Los Angeles Times:
Mukasey's Paradox  —  When you think about it, his manipulations are a beautiful, twisted thing.  —  The recent decisions of Atty. Gen. Michael B. Mukasey to block any prosecution of Bush administration officials for contempt and to block any criminal investigation of torture led to a chorus of criticism.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Marc Ambinder:
Ohio Secretary Of State's Office Rebukes Obama Campaign  —  Ohio's Secretary of State, an office held by a Democrat, has rebuked Sen. Barack Obama's campaign for trying to staff precincts with poll workers who presented insufficient credentials.  —  Obama's campaign calls this charge “wrong.”
Lisa Schiffren / The Corner:
Are Women Dumb?  —  Whoa.  I just read the Charlotte Allen piece in the Washington Post Outlook section that Kathryn linked to Sunday.  (Unpromisingly Titled, “We Scream.  We Swoon.  How Dumb Can We Get?")  I want to believe that the Post got as much dissident mail on that one as it deserved.
Andrew Malcolm / Los Angeles Times:
Hillary Clinton puts the media in its place — the men's room  —  In an obvious bid for the Ron Paul media conspiracy vote, Sen. Hillary Clinton's Democratic presidential campaign dumped the traveling press corps exactly where many voters believe they belong today — in the men's room of the Burger Activity Center.
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 3:30 PM ET, March 4, 2008.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
CNN:
Flooding prompts Ohio to extend primary voting in one county
Phillip Martin / Burnt Orange Report:
TX Primary: Final Early Vote Totals
Discussion: The New Republic, Eschaton and MyDD
Michelle Malkin:
D&D co-creator Gary Gygax, R.I.P.
Henry / Crooked Timber:
Introducing the BBPI
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
YOUR WORLD IN TWO CHARTS: “REGULATE PHARMA” EDITION.
Michael Luo / New York Times:
Memo Gives Canada's Account of Obama Campaign's Meeting on Nafta
Discussion: MoJoBlog
Matthew Yglesias:
College and Inequality  —  Folks like me have spent a good deal …
Discussion: Will Wilkinson
Mirna Sleiman / MarketWatch:
Gulf investors may not save Citigroup, Dubai executive says
 Earlier Items: 
Jerusalem Post:
‘Guardian’ editor apologizes for Jenin editorial
Jonathan Chait / Los Angeles Times:
Clinton campaign's dying light
Natasha Korecki / Chicago Sun Times:
Low-key start to Rezko trial
Washington Post / On The Plane:
Vanity's Fair?  —  CAIRO, March 4—A well-timed Vanity Fair …
Michael J. Totten:
In the Slums of Fallujah  —  FALLUJAH, IRAQ - Captain Steve …
Discussion: The Belmont Club
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
THE BIG STORY  —  Zogby has Clinton moving back ahead …
Discussion: TalkLeft
Bob Herbert / New York Times:
The $2 Trillion Nightmare
The Politico:
Lobbyist to run McCain's Hill effort
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
The Atlantic is profitable, has 1M subscribers, and revenue grew 10% in 2023 thanks to a 50% price hike, a harder paywall, and a shift to in-depth reporting

New York Times:
The NBC News-Ronna McDaniel saga highlights the perks and perils of partisan talk TV; a source says McDaniel is now seeking $600K+ for her two year deal

New York Times:
Karlie Kloss' Bedford buys Life publication rights from Dotdash Meredith and plans to resume regular print publication in 2025; Josh Kushner will be publisher

 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page