memeorandum: ‘Countdown with Keith Olbermann’ for March 11 (MSNBC)

8:05 AM ET, March 13, 2008

Top Items:

For an Aspiring Singer, a Harsher Spotlight — She left a broken home on the Jersey Shore at 17 and came to New York City to work the nightclubs as a rhythm and blues singer. Now, at 22, she is the unwitting, and as yet unseen, star of the seamy drama that is the downfall of Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York.

Associated Press:
Report: Spitzer Call Girl Identified

Discussion: Power Line and A Blog For All

Hillary Clinton / CNN:

Breaking: Ferraro steps down — (CNN) - Geraldine Ferraro has stepped down from her role as a member of Hillary Clinton's finance committee.In a letter to Clinton obtained by CNN's Suzanne Malveaux — who spoke with the former vice presidential candidate shortly after she sent it to Clinton …

Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:

Countdown Special Comment: Sen. Clinton, “This is not a campaign strategy. This is a suicide pact.” — Tonight on Countdown, Keith Olbermann's Special Comment was directed at Senator Hillary Clinton over her failure to immediately fire supporter and former member of her campaign finance committee …

Discussion: MSNBC, Booker Rising, The Moderate Voice, Comments from Left Field, Shakesville, Political Byline and Daily Kos

Devlin Barrett / Associated Press:

Clinton Apologizes to Black Voters … WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton did something Wednesday night that she almost never does. She apologized. And once she started, she didn't seem able to stop. — The New York senator, who is in a tight race with Illinois Sen. Barack …

Discussion: Hot Air, Don Surber and Donklephant

Joyce Purnick / New York Times:

Ferraro Is Unapologetic for Remarks and Ends Her Role in Clinton Campaign — Geraldine A. Ferraro resigned Wednesday from Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign finance committee but remained unapologetic for citing Senator Barack Obama's race as the decisive factor in his success.

Discussion: Washington Wire, The Huffington Post, TigerHawk, ABCNEWS, BAGnewsNotes and Discriminations

MSNBC:
‘Countdown with Keith Olbermann’ for March 11

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The Huffington Post:
Keith Olbermann To Do “Special Comment” …

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Gateway Pundit: Ferraro Quits Clinton Campaign— Says Obama Blocking Her Freedom of Speech

dnA / Too Sense:
What The Clinton Campaign Wants You To Hear

Discussion: Daily Kos

Rebecca Sinderbrand / CNN:
Ferraro steps down from Clinton campaign

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Fox News:

Obama's Controversial Pastor Puts Church in Hot Water — CHICAGO - Barack Obama's controversial pastor and the church he's served for 36 years may be in hot water over statements he has made from the pulpit in support of the Illinois senator's run for the White House.

Discussion: The Jed Report and Riehl World View

Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:

Wright on film — Sure does feel like we're plunging into the abyss tonight. — Fox just posted a big Jeremiah Wright story, and the video is pretty gripping, and deeply racially confrontational. He begins by describing the Romans, who crucified Jesus, as Italians, and thus white, and more or less goes from there.

Discussion: JustOneMinute and Taylor Marsh

David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:

Support for war effort highest since 2006 — American public support for the military effort in Iraq has reached a high point unseen since the summer of 2006, a development that promises to reshape the political landscape. — According to late February polling conducted by the Pew Research Center …

Discussion: Political Machine and Hot Air

Faiz / Think Progress:

Buchanan flips out, tells guest to ‘shut up!’ — Tonight on MSNBC's Live with Dan Abrams, guests Pat Buchanan, Rachel Maddow, and Keli Goff discussed the role of race in Barack Obama's presidential campaign. Buchanan suggested Obama is winning the black vote simply because he is black.

Discussion: skippy the bush kangaroo

Michelle Malkin:

Hot Air TV: Sen. John Kerry confronted about Winter Soldier II — Grab the popcorn. We've got another joint YAF/Hot Air TV production for you, just in time for the anti-war confab known as “Winter Soldier II” that kicks off in Washington, D.C. tomorrow and runs through Sunday.

Discussion: Obiter Dictum, A NEWT ONE, Democracy Project, The Nation, Gateway Pundit and Pat Dollard

New York Times:

Pentagon Cites Tapes Showing Interrogations — WASHINGTON — The Defense Department is conducting an extensive review of the videotaping of interrogations at military facilities from Iraq to Guantánamo Bay, and so far it has identified nearly 50 tapes, including one that showed …

Larry McShane / NY Daily News:

Richest man in England may have been Client No. 6 — The richest man in Great Britain was a customer of the same high-end prostitution service patronized by Gov. Spitzer. — The Duke of Westminster, listed as the world's 46th richest person by Forbes magazine, hired four hookers …

Discussion: Gothamist, JammieWearingFool and TalkLeft

Al Giordano / The Field:

Delegate Math Guarantees Clinton a “Big, Big Pennsylvania Victory” — Surrogate-in-chief Bill Clinton was making the rounds yesterday in Western Pennsylvania doing his expectations-setting thing, telling reporters and anyone that would listen that Senator Clinton needs to post a “big, big victory” in Pennsylvania on April 22:

Discussion: Shakesville, Open Left and American Street