Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
10:50 AM ET, April 20, 2008

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Hillary Clinton / CNN:
Clinton camp: Obama was a ‘hypocrite from day one’  —  (CNN) - Hillary Clinton's campaign accused surrogates for Barack Obama of resurrecting her controversial comments over Bosnian sniper fire Saturday.  —  “One of the inherent duties of the president of the United States is to lay a wreath …
RELATED:
John Dickerson / Slate:
RIDING THE RAILS WITH SEN. OBAMA IN PENNSYLVANIA.  —  DOWNINGTON, Pa.— At the next train stop, I'm going to stand behind Senator Obama when he speaks.  When he's decrying the trivial distractions in politics, I think he may be crossing his fingers behind his back.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Obama & Clinton in Full ‘Outrage’ Mode  —  The final days before any contested primary are filled with charges and counter-charges as each campaign (and their allies) throw everything against the wall in hopes that something will stick and affect the outcome of the vote.
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:   CLINTON CAMP'S PA ROBOCALL ATTACKS
Chuck Todd / MSNBC:
NEW PA. POLL HAS CLINTON HOLDING LEAD  —  From NBC's Chuck Todd  —  A new MSNBC/McClatchy/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette poll of Pennsylvania indicates things are staying fairly competitive in the Pennsylvania Dem primary.  —  The poll of 625 likely Dem primary voters was conducted Thursday …
Discussion: Donklephant
RELATED:
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Major revelation: U.S. media deceitfully disseminates government propaganda  —  This morning's “blockbuster” New York Times article by David Barstow, documenting the Pentagon and U.S. media's joint use of pre-programmed “military analysts” who posed as objective experts while touting …
Discussion: UT Documents
RELATED:
David Barstow / New York Times:
Behind Military Analysts, the Pentagon's Hidden Hand  —  In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave of criticism over Guantánamo Bay.  The detention center had just been branded “the gulag of our times” by Amnesty International, there were new allegations …
N. Gregory Mankiw / New York Times:
The Wealth Trajectory: Rewards for the Few  —  IF there is one thing about the United States economy in recent years that is beyond dispute, it is this: It's a great time to be rich.  —  Yes, I know, being rich has never exactly been a downer.  But today it is all the more sweet.
Karl / protein wisdom:
Fear and Loathing at the Los Angeles Times  —  With the Iraqi Army defeating Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army in Basra, the L.A. Times has moved on to tell its readers how terrible things might get in Najaf.  Buried in the middle of the piece, however, is a bit about the battle for Basra:
RELATED:
Los Angeles Times:
HBO, after the revolution  —  CURRENT HISTORY: Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney in HBO's “ John Adams.”  The classy miniseries, which has done well, in the ratings, ends its run Sunday.  —  It used to always be the premium of the premiums.  Now the cable pack's catching up.
Michael Leahy / Washington Post:
McCain: A Question of Temperament  —  John McCain cupped a fist and began pumping it, up and down, along the side of his body.  It was a gesture familiar to a participant in the closed-door meeting of the Senate committee who hoped that it merely signaled, as it sometimes had in the past …
Discussion: The Swamp, Althouse and NewsBusters.org
Megan McArdle:
Georgia on my mind  —  I have to say, I don't like to hear that Barack Obama is going slow on supporting Georgia against Russia's land-grab.  Russia not only attempts to exert economic and military hegemony over its neighbors; it has a distinct dislike for free elections.
Discussion: The RBC
Louis Uchitelle / New York Times:
The Wage That Meant Middle Class  —  Whatever Senator Barack Obama meant by his less than artful remarks about small-town Pennsylvanians “bitter” over lost jobs, he certainly turned a lot of attention last week to the decline of the American worker, bitter or not.
Discussion: Megan McArdle and Crooked Timber
Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Bob Casey: Obama Would Probably Find DC Handgun Bill Constitutional  —  Update: The AP has a new article on Obama's many efforts at gun control.  —  At Wednesday's debate, Barack Obama wouldn't say what his position is on the DC law banning handguns.  He dodged, saying he wasn't familiar with the facts of the case.
Discussion: NO QUARTER
RELATED:
Kenneth P. Vogel / Yahoo! News:
Obama linked to gun control efforts
Discussion: JustOneMinute
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 10:50 AM ET, April 20, 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: 
James Hamilton / Econbrowser:
Why new oil price highs?
See-Dubya / michellemalkin.com:
An interesting endorsement for Obama
Frank Rich / Washington Post:
Shoddy! Tawdry! A Televised Train Wreck!
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and Althouse
Zzaki / Political Radar:
Bill Clinton Says Criticisms of Hillary's Healthcare Plan are ‘Bull’
Discussion: TalkLeft and Corrente
 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
Pope Speaks Up for Immigrants, Touching a Nerve
Larry Eichel / Philly.com:
Obama pushes across Pa.
New York Times:
U.S. Commanders Seek to Widen Pakistan Attacks
Associated Press:
13 soldiers hurt in Kerem Shalom attack
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
The Financial Times signs a deal with OpenAI to train AI models on the publisher's archived content and to let ChatGPT reply with short summaries of FT articles

The Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount CEO Bob Bakish steps down; Brian Robbins, Chris McCarthy, and George Cheeks will run Paramount on an interim basis as an “Office of the CEO”

Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Shari Redstone agreed to take less than $2B for her Paramount stake as part of Skydance's “best and final” offer, lower than what was initially offered

 
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