memeorandum: Fox News Producer Ambushes Bill Moyers; Gets Taste Of His Own Medicine (Nicole Belle/Crooks and Liars)

3:30 PM ET, June 8, 2008

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The Problem Wasn't the Message — It Was the Money — Perhaps the most frustrating part of losing a close race is thinking about what else you could have done to win. You replay the campaign over and over again in your head. As an adviser to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, I sure do.

Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs, Swampland, QandO, Sister Toldjah, Connecting.the.Dots, THE GUN TOTING LIBERAL™, PSoTD, marbury and Barack Obama

Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:

Unity: The Day After — Hillary Clinton gave a great speech yesterday. And Unity is at hand . . . I'd like to interrupt this Unity Day message with a small reminder to the Barack Obama campaign and the Democratic Party - unless he picks Hillary Clinton as his running mate …

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, Matthew Yglesias, The Moderate Voice, Wake up America and The Democratic Daily

Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:

HILLARY AS VEEP?....Big Tent Democrat is happy that Democrats are finally united behind a candidate, but warns of stormy weather ahead: … BTD has been banging this particular drum for a long time, and I happen to think he's wrong about it. The party will unite just fine around …

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report

Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:

Bob Schieffer Commentary: “Hillary Clinton Gave The Speech Of Her Life Yesterday” — This morning on Face The Nation, host Bob Schieffer gave props to Hillary Clinton for her speech yesterday. While noting that there were parts of her campaign that weren't pretty, and that she ultimately came up short …

Michael Goldfarb / John McCain 2008:

ISSUES — NEWS & MEDIA — EVENTS — ACTION — STORE — CONTRIBUTE — Senator Clinton has really grown on us over here in Crystal City over the past few months. She ran an impressive campaign, and proved herself to be an impressive candidate and as John McCain has said, inspired a generation of women.

Discussion: The New Republic, The Carpetbagger Report, Pajamas Media, doubleplusundead and Weekly Standard

Ankush Khardori / Cogitamus:
It Wasn't Me — Mark Penn on why the Clinton campaign failed:

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns and Money and JustOneMinute

Jonathan Martin / The Politico:

The unhappy warrior — Openly frustrated by what they see as an ongoing double standard in the press's treatment of his campaign, Sen. John McCain and his aides have been aggressively denouncing unfavorable stories as “smear jobs” and “scurrilous attacks,” while the candidate himself …

Discussion: Democrats.com, The Political Carnival and TIME.com

New York Times:
OBAMA MAPS A NATIONWIDE PUSH IN G.O.P. STRONGHOLDS

Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Each Party Is Set to Hunt The Other's Usual Ground

Discussion: TownHall Blog and Associated Press

Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:

Fox News Producer Ambushes Bill Moyers; Gets Taste Of His Own Medicine — I think this is my favorite piece of video footage since Jon Stewart told off Tucker Carlson on Crossfire. Seriously, watch it again and again, it just gets better. — At the National Conference for Media Reform …

Discussion: I Am TRex, The Moderate Voice, The Latest, Rising Hegemon and News Hounds

Brother Nathanael Kapner / Barack Obama:

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Discussion: Doug Ross, Israel Matzav, The Other McCain, Right Wing Nut House and Hot Air

Little Green Footballs:

At the Official Obama Site: ‘How the Jewish Lobby Works’ — Here's yet another disgusting antisemitic page at the official Barack Obama campaign web site, by a group calling itself “Socialists for Obama.” This group of Jew-haters has apparently been at his site since April …

Discussion: Rhymes With Right, Gateway Pundit and PoliGazette

Ed O'Keefe / ABCNEWS:

New York Mayor, ABC News Invite Obama, McCain to Historic Town Hall — Network Offers Primetime Coverage of Unprecedented Event — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and ABC News have invited Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain to participate in a 90-minute, primetime town hall meeting …

Discussion: The Swamp, The Caucus, Comments from Left Field and TIME.com

Mike Allen / The Politico:

Bloomberg, ABC propose first Town Hall — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and ABC News on Sunday proposed that the presidential nominees hold a joint town hall as a 90-minute network special from Federal Hall, on Wall Street in Lower Manhattan. — Such a joint meeting would be a new twist …

Discussion: Democrats.com and Donklephant

Ari Fleischer / Washington Post:

‘Complicit Enablers’? Not Quite. — Among the allegations in former White House press secretary Scott McClellan's book is his assertion that the national press corps was “too deferential to the White House” and that the media were “complicit enablers” of President Bush's agenda.

Discussion: protein wisdom, Newshoggers.com, NewsBusters.org, Ed Driscoll.com and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS

Manu Raju / The Hill:
Bush warns of pay cuts for troops

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report, VetVoice and American Street

Sharon Churcher / Daily Mail:

The wife U.S. Republican John McCain callously left behind — Now that Hillary Clinton has at last formally withdrawn from the race for the White House, the eyes of America and the world will focus on Barack Obama and his Republican rival Senator John McCain.

Discussion: Taylor Marsh and Bring It On!