memeorandum: BIG HRC FUNDRAISER DEFECTS TO OBAMA (Chuck Todd/MSNBC)

10:20 PM ET, April 25, 2008

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Keith Olbermann's Idea For Beating Hillary: Literally Beating Hillary — There are two kinds of people in the world: People who think there's an ugly strain of misogyny running through Hillary Clinton's media coverage, and people who think she's just not very likable and deserves it for running …

Discussion: JustOneMinute, TalkLeft, Salon, MSNBC, Gawker, NO QUARTER, Shakesville and Buck Naked Politics

Jeralyn / TalkLeft:

Olbermann Comments on Hillary Causing Stir — Keith Olbermann's latest: A discussion with Howard Fineman about the need for a superdelegate to “take [Clinton] into a room and only he comes out."/p> — Bloggers say he called for Hillary's murder. Here's a different take by RiverDaughter at Confluence:

Discussion: Delilah Boyd, Redstate, Classical Values, Anglachel's Journal, The Confluence and Althouse

Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:

Keith Olbermann Apologizes For Crack About Hillary — As I've noted here before, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann has a bizarre tendency to listen to the substance of criticism against him. Even more strange, considering that he's a top-shelf media star, is the fact that he apologizes for his conduct when he's wrong.

Discussion: Macsmind

Think Progress:
Olbermann apologizes for implying ‘something untoward.’

Discussion: Open Left and Blue Girl, Red State

National Journal Online:

Q&A: David Plouffe — Obama's Manager Discusses Clinton's Negatives & The Delegate Race — Fri. — National Journal's Linda Douglass sat down with David Plouffe, Barack Obama's campaign manager, for the April 25 edition of “National Journal On Air.” This is a transcript of their conversation.

Discussion: CANNONFIRE, Hot Air, AMERICAblog, Gateway Pundit, The Page, Commentary and Political Punch

Geoff Garin / Washington Post:

Fair Is Fair — What's wrong with this picture? Our campaign runs a TV ad Monday saying that the presidency is the toughest job in the world and giving examples of challenges presidents have faced and challenges the next president will face — including terrorism, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Newshoggers.com, Political Punch, Donklephant, American Street, The Common Ills, TalkLeft, Daily Kos, Don Surber, MyDD, HillaryClinton.com, The Page, The Campaign Spot and The Opinionator

See-Dubya / michellemalkin.com:
Hillary Clinton: Prayer Warrior.

Discussion: Washington Times, Foreign and AmericanPapist

Ben Smith / The Politico:
Plouffe: McCain has the racist vote anyway

Discussion: Patterico's Pontifications

Saira Anees / Political Punch:

DNC Official: “You Know What You Call Someone Who Digs Up Dirt on John McCain? An Archeologist” — Call it the perils of Twitter. — Or a new Maginot Line in what Slate's John Dickerson has called “the Umbrage War.” — On his Facebook page, the Democratic National Committee's director of research …

Discussion: Hot Air, Hotline On Call and The Impolitic

Mark Halperin / The Page:

Obama-DNC Fundraising Deal — After a series of discussions, the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee have decided to file papers with the Federal Election Commission establishing a “joint fundraising agreement.” Under the law, such a committee can accept up to $28,500 from individuals …

Discussion: The Fix, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Marc Ambinder, The Caucus, Prairie Weather, NO QUARTER, The Confluence, TPM Election Central, The Democratic Daily and Oliver Willis

Financial Times:
Democrats to choose ‘by end of June’

Discussion: TalkLeft, The Page and Political Radar

Gallup:

Gallup Daily: Obama and Clinton Tied at 48% to 47% — Clinton's increased support has mainly come from undecided voters — PRINCETON, NJ — The Democratic nomination race is now tied, with Barack Obama favored by 48% of national Democratic voters and Hillary Clinton by 47%.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Marc Ambinder, The Washington Note, Weekly Standard Blog, Top of the Ticket, The Swamp, Donklephant, Real Clear Politics and Indianapolis Star

Chuck Todd / MSNBC:

BIG HRC FUNDRAISER DEFECTS TO OBAMA — From NBC's Chuck Todd — One of the things that both Dem campaigns are always nervous about is defectors. In particular, Clinton is more vulnerable to this problem since she's the candidate that is trailing. Well, NBC News has learned …

Discussion: Matthew Yglesias, Liberal Values, AMERICAblog and The Jed Report

Brandon Friedman / VetVoice:

Fort Bragg Barracks: Shades of Walter Reed? — A Fort Bragg soldier's father uploaded a YouTube video of photos he took of his son's barracks earlier this month. The video shows the deplorable living conditions to which his son and the other soldiers of his unit in the 82nd Airborne Division returned …

Discussion: Blue Girl, Red State

Spencer / Attackerman: Only In Return We Get A Stabbing In The Back — These are the conditions at Fort Bragg.

Ben / Think Progress:

Matthews: Whites are ‘willing’ to support Obama in the same way they ‘root for black athletes.’ — Last night on Hardball, host Chris Matthews sought to give Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) some “advice” on how to get white Americans to vote for him for president: … Watch it:

Discussion: Newshoggers.com and Shakesville

MSNBC:
‘Hardball with Chris Matthews’ for Thursday, April 24

Discussion: Stop The ACLU

Washington Post:

Who'll Cover the Checks? — THE DEMOCRATIC presidential candidates have some big plans — with big price tags attached. By our calculations, using figures supplied by the campaigns, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) has proposed new spending and tax breaks that would amount to almost $265 billion …

Discussion: EconLog, Liberal Values, The Daily Dish, The Glittering Eye and The Trail

Rasmussen Reports:

Election 2008: Pennsylvania Presidential Election — Pennsylvania: McCain 44% Obama 43% — What a difference two weeks of intense campaigning can make. The final two weeks of campaigning in the Pennsylvania Primary may not have changed the outcome of the Democratic race, but it helped John McCain in the Keystone State.

Discussion: NO QUARTER, TalkLeft, FiveThirtyEight.com and Redstate

Bernard-Henri Lévy / Wall Street Journal:

The Sad End of Jimmy Carter — The problem is not that he is, or is not, talking to the Syrians - everyone does it to some degree. — It isn't that he went to Damascus to meet with the exiled head of Hamas - everyone, including the Israelis, will one day have to do that too …

Discussion: Gateway Pundit, Israel Matzav and TigerHawk

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

DON'T NEED A WEATHERMAN TO KNOW ... As you know the Weather Underground, the somewhat hapless but definitely violent 60s and 70s radical group, has bubbled up into the 2008 presidential campaign. It's come up against Obama for his association with Bill Ayers and then Obama brought …

Discussion: The Huffington Post and Spin Cycle