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10:40 AM ET, May 28, 2008

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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Exclusive: McClellan whacks Bush, White House  —  Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President Bush “veered terribly off course,” was not “open and forthright on Iraq,” and took a “permanent campaign approach” …
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Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Ex-Press Aide Writes That Bush Misled U.S. on Iraq  —  Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that the Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated “political propaganda campaign” led by President Bush and aimed at “manipulating sources of public opinion” …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Scott McClellan on the “liberal media”  —  In a minimally rational world, this extraordinary passage, from the new book by Scott McClellan, would forever slay the single most ludicrous myth in our political culture: The “Liberal Media”: … Just consider how remarkable that is.
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
In Ex-Spokesman's Book, Harsh Words for Bush  —  PHOENIX — President Bush “convinces himself to believe what suits his needs at the moment,” and has engaged in “self-deception” to justify his political ends, Scott McClellan, the former White House press secretary, writes in a critical new memoir about his years in the West Wing.
H. Josef Hebert / Associated Press:   American Lung Association Sues Over Smog
Roger Simon / The Politico:
Dems seek to avoid meltdown  —  Those people who believe all problems have solutions may be unfamiliar with the inner workings of the Democratic Party.  —  On Saturday, the party's Rules and Bylaws Committee will try to solve a big problem, in order to avoid a huge problem in order to prevent a train wreck.
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Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Obama urges supporters not to demonstrate at crucial DNC meeting  —  Sen. Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) campaign is urging its supporters not to demonstrate at Saturday's highly anticipated Democratic National Committee (DNC) meeting on how to handle the delegates of Florida and Michigan.
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Dem lawyers: Fla., Mich. can't be fully restored  —  WASHINGTON - A Democratic Party rules committee has the authority to seat some delegates from Michigan and Florida but not fully restore the two states as Hillary Rodham Clinton wants, according to party lawyers.
Krooney / TIME.com:
DNC Lawyers: Michigan, Florida Delegates Can't Be Fully Restored
Discussion: TPM Election Central
Marc Ambinder:   The RBC Meeting: A Preview
New York Times:
Al Qaeda Warrior Uses Internet to Rally Women  —  BRUSSELS — On the street, Malika El Aroud is anonymous in an Islamic black veil covering all but her eyes.  —  In her living room, Ms. El Aroud, a 48-year-old Belgian, wears the ordinary look of middle age: a plain black T-shirt and pants and curly brown hair.
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Stephen Adams / Telegraph:
John Bolton to be target of citizen's arrest at Hay Festival  —  John Bolton, the former US ambassador to the United Nations, faces a citizen's arrest when he addresses an audience at the Hay Festival in Wales this evening.  —  George Monbiot, the journalist and activist …
Discussion: A Blog For All
David Boaz / Wall Street Journal:
Our Collectivist Candidates  —  On Sunday Barack Obama urged graduates of Connecticut's Wesleyan University to devote themselves to “collective service.”  This is not an unusual theme for a commencement address.  But it was interesting how long he went on discussing various kinds …
Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy and EconLog
Washington Post:
McCain Accepts a Hand From Bush, at Arm's Length  —  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — When President Bush ventured here for a private fundraiser with John McCain on Tuesday night, his first real campaign appearance with the presumptive GOP nominee, the event was closed to the news media …
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Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
MCCAIN URGES NEW ARMS PACT WITH MOSCOW
Discussion: The New Republic
Fernando Suarez / CBS News:
Clinton Casts Wide Net of Exaggeration, Claims to Lead in “Every Poll”  —  From CBS News' Fernando Suarez:  —  BILLINGS, MONT. — During an evening rally in Montana's largest city Tuesday night, Hillary Clinton explained to the crowd why she should be the Democratic Party's nominee …
Scott W. Johnson / Weekly Standard:
The Kennedy-Khrushchev Conference for Dummies  —  Remedial history for Barack Obama.  —  BARACK OBAMA FIRST VOWED to meet unconditionally with the leaders of America's foremost enemies in the YouTube Democratic candidates' debate on July 23, 2007.  Since then he has reaffirmed and expanded …
StrategyPage:
Al Qaeda Discusses Losing Iraq  —  Al Qaeda web sites are making a lot of noise about “why we lost in Iraq.”  Western intelligence agencies are fascinated by the statistics being posted in several of these Arab language sites.  Not the kind of stuff you read about in the Western media.
Oregonian:
Why I've chosen to back Barack Obama  —  F or the first time in 40 years, the Oregon Democratic primary has played a pivotal role in deciding who may be our president.  In casting our votes, we Oregonians understood the seriousness of our decision.  —  As one of the superdelegates …
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs and TIME.com
 
 
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Robert Gehrke / Salt Lake Tribune:
Bush to stump for McCain in Utah
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Richard Norton-Taylor / Guardian:
UK ready to scrap cluster bombs
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Kevin Hassett / Bloomberg:
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
MSNBC, Leaning Left And Getting Flak From Both Sides
Discussion: Too Sense
Andrew Jacobs / New York Times:
Parents' Grief Turns to Rage at Chinese Officials
Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
Stark Contrasts Between McCain and Obama in Judicial Wars
Discussion: MSNBC
Paul Graham:
Cities and Ambition  —  Great cities attract ambitious people.
Discussion: Megan McArdle and EconLog
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Can He Take a Frisk?  —  After “Rahmbo” Emanuel, the Illinois …
Discussion: Prairie Weather and MSNBC
 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
Challenger Gets Cold Shoulder in New Jersey
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
In Rare Move, 3 Candidates Join in Pledge on Darfur
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Amartya Sen / New York Times:
The Rich Get Hungrier  —  WILL the food crisis that is menacing …
Ralph Blumenthal / New York Times:
2 Voter Rights Cases, One Gripping a College Town, Stir Texas
Discussion: Election Law
Alan Fram / Associated Press:
Obama competitive against McCain with key voters
Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
FBI interviews Arizona staffers
Haig Simonian / Financial Times:
UBS tells unit staff to avoid US visits
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
G/O Media sells The Onion to Global Tetrahedron, a new Chicago firm owned by former Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson; former NBC News senior reporter Ben Collins is CEO

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Memo: CNN's Poppy Harlow is leaving the network; she joined in 2008 and most recently co-hosted CNN This Morning, which was effectively canceled earlier in 2024

Financial Times:
Sources: RedBird IMI prepares to withdraw its Telegraph bid as early as next week, triggering an auction expected to draw bids from Rupert Murdoch and others

 
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