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10:35 PM ET, August 5, 2008

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Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad

Discussion: TalkLeft, TMZ.com, The New Republic, Tennessee Guerilla Women, Dean's World, Open Left, Economist's View, Hot Air, Fox News, TIME.com, The Raw Story, Political Radar, The World Newser, FOX Embeds and Grasping Reality …

Jason Zengerle / The New Republic:

Does Tom Cruise Know About This? — The newest McCain ad describes McCain as “the original maverick”: — Actually, I think this is a pretty good ad. It suggests that, at least when he's not cutting nasty spots comparing Obama to Britney and Paris, Steve Schmidt is going to steer McCain …

Discussion: The Monkey Cage

Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
New McCain Ad: “He's The Original Maverick”

Discussion: www.redstate.com, D-Day, MyDD and The Carpetbagger Report

Natalie Gewargis / Political Punch:

Obama Pushes Back on GOP Tire Pressure Attack: “It's Like These Guys Take Pride in Being Ignorant” — At a town hall meeting in Berea , Ohio, today, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, pushed back against the GOP attack on his advice to a voter last week that having a tuned up car and fully inflated tires would help save energy.

Discussion: The New Republic, skippy the bush kangaroo, Liberal Values, Obsidian Wings, Ben Smith's Blogs, TPM Election Central, www.redstate.com, Pajamas Media, Gateway Pundit and FOX Embeds

Faiz / Think Progress:

Exclusive: Auto Makers Deflate McCain's Ignorant Hot Air On Value Of Proper Tire Inflation — In a series of public events today, John McCain has ramped up his disingenuous attack on the impact proper tire inflation can have in saving energy. At a rally in South Dakota …

Discussion: Wonk Room, Gristmill and The Anonymous Liberal

Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama responds: 'It's like these guys take pride in being ignorant"

Discussion: The Swamp

Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Fact Check: GOP mocks Obama suggestion to inflate tires …

Discussion: The Swamp, Time, Don Surber and Macsmind

Peter Hamby / CNN:

McCain makes the rounds at biker rally — STURGIS, South Dakota (CNN) - Standing on the main stage at a world famous motorcycle rally in rural South Dakota on Monday, John McCain looked out on a sea of denim-wearing bikers and told them he enjoyed their company much more than that of the 200,000 Germans …

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, Political Machine, Wonkette, The Carpetbagger Report, The Seminal, Taylor Marsh, DownWithTyranny!, The Huffington Post, Shakesville, TalkLeft, Commentary and D-Day

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

TAKE MY WIFE, PLEASE! — We're trying to find out a bit more about the Bikini Beauty Pageant at the Buffalo Chip, where John McCain showed up and offered up wife Cindy as a contestant. ESPN says the event is topless and “occasionally bottomless”. Actually their description is worth quoting in full ...

Discussion: Political Machine, American Street, The G Spot and All Spin Zone

Ben Smith / The Politico:
Topless in Sturgis — Meanwhile, at a biker rally in Sturgis …

Discussion: The Caucus, The Huffington Post, Taylor Marsh, Obsidian Wings and The Jed Report

Patrick Ruffini / The Next Right:

dontgo: A Turning Point for the Right — #dontgo is officially a movement. MoveOn is mobilizing against the House Republicans and the rightosphere this afternoon. I don't think they've ever done this in response to a grassroots conservative protest. Something has changed.

Discussion: The Hill's Blog Briefing Room, Open Left, Bang the Drum, The Politico, Right Wing News, The Carpetbagger Report, Lonewacko and RAGGED THOTS

Daniel W. Reilly / The Crypt's Blogs:
GOP: Oil markets ‘responding’ to our protest

Discussion: Human Events, Daily Kos, Gristmill, The Hill and Angry Bear

Mary Beth Schneider / Indianapolis Star:

Bayh: Obama hasn't asked me to join ticket — Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., told The Indianapolis Star today that Sen. Barack Obama has not asked him to be his running mate and that he's not expecting Obama to announce his vice presidential pick when Obama is in Indiana Wednesday.

Discussion: Open Left, The Swamp, The Washington Note and TIME.com

Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Bayh? Bah. — My colleague Josh Patashnik and quasi-colleague …

Discussion: Cogitamus, FiveThirtyEight.com and Commentary

Greg Gordon / McClatchy Washington Bureau:

Queens couple's $61,600 donation to McCain questioned — WASHINGTON — Alice Rocchio is an office manager at the New York headquarters of the Hess Corp., drives a 1993 Chevy Cavalier and lives in an apartment in Queens, N.Y., with her husband, Pasquale, an Amtrak foreman.

Richard Spertzel / Wall Street Journal:

Bruce Ivins Wasn't the Anthrax Culprit — Over the past week the media was gripped by the news that the FBI was about to charge Bruce Ivins, a leading anthrax expert, as the man responsible for the anthrax letter attacks in September/October 2001. — But despite the seemingly powerful narrative …

Discussion: Washington Post, Opinion L.A., Unqualified Offerings and Law Blog

Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The FBI's emerging, leaking case against Ivins

Discussion: Frederick News-Post, Baltimore Sun, Time, Los Angeles Times, Firedoglake and D-Day

Peter Kirsanow / The Corner:

25 Reasons You May be a Racist — The tendency of Obama supporters to see racist impulses behind every criticism of their candidate has evolved into absurdity. Now even the first black president feels compelled to declare he's not a racist. By this measure, nearly every American …

Bob Considine / MSNBC:

Author claims White House knew Iraq had no WMD — Journalist Ron Suskind says Bush ordered forgery linking Saddam, al-Qaeda — President Bush committed an impeachable offense by ordering the CIA to to manufacture a false pretense for the Iraq war in the form of a backdated …

Discussion: The LA Times President …, TalkLeft and The Swamp

The Politico:
Tenet statement on Suskind

Discussion: Washington Post, NPR, Emptywheel and At-Largely

Media Matters for America:

Citing Media Matters report on Obama Nation falsehoods, MSNBC's Brewer asked Corsi: “[W]hy should we give you the credibility?” — On the August 5 edition of MSNBC Live, while interviewing Jerome Corsi, author of the recently released book The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality …

Discussion: Corrente

Gordon Lubold / Christian Science Monitor:

U.S. ARMY HOPES TO KEEP NATIVE ARABIC SPEAKERS — Incentives likely to include large payments to soldiers now working as translators. … The Army may begin paying a retention bonus of as much as $150,000 to Arabic speaking soldiers in reflection of how critical it has become for the US military …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, The Huffington Post, The Carpetbagger Report, Outside The Beltway, Commentary and Donklephant

Associated Press:

Man heckles Obama about Pledge of Allegiance … BEREA, Ohio (AP) - A man who wore press credentials and took photographs from a platform interrupted Barack Obama's town-hall meeting Tuesday by shouting complaints that the Democratic presidential candidate had not called for the audience to say the Pledge of Allegiance.

Discussion: Macsmind, Hot Air and Vodkapundit

Michael Fechter / Articles by the Investigative …:

Ex-Presidential Candidate Advocates Stalking Prosecutor — Mike Gravel, a former two-term senator from Alaska and fringe Democratic and Libertarian presidential candidate, urged people to stalk a federal prosecutor and his family in order to get criminal contempt charges dropped against Sami Al-Arian …

Discussion: The Corner

Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:

Obama signs up lawyers — Obama general counsel Bob Bauer emails lawyers and law students that the campaign is setting up an “unprecedented” new “voter protection” program — a standard feature of Democratic campaigns, but given the general enthusiasm for Obama, and the specific enthusiasm …