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11:35 PM ET, August 9, 2008

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Bonnie Fuller / The Huffington Post:
Elizabeth Edwards Drank Her Husband's Kool-Aid And Became His “Ambition Enabler”  —  Here's why Elizabeth was willing to believe her husband could cheat and STILL run for president  —  It's easy to understand why John Edwards first felt he was entitled to cheat on his wife and family …
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ABCNEWS:
Mistress' Family Challenges Edwards to Take DNA Test  —  Sister of Other Woman in Edwards Affair: ‘Stop Bad-Mouthing My Sister’  —  The family of John Edwards' former mistress, Rielle Hunter, is challenging the former senator to take a DNA paternity test after his claim that he did not father Hunter's 6-months-old child.
Marisa Guthrie / Broadcasting & Cable:
Edwards furious with ABC News  —  John Edwards' ludicrous denials of an extramarital affair crumbled on Friday when ABC News applied enough pressure to get Edwards to agree to an interview - and an admission - finally giving the story first reported in the National Enquirer legitimacy in the eyes of the mainstream media.
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Candidates' Reactions to Georgia Conflict Offer Hints at Style on Foreign Affairs  —  LAS VEGAS — When Russian troops rolled into South Ossetia on Friday, Senator John McCain's response was immediate and tough.  —  Russia had crossed “an internationally recognized border into the sovereign territory …
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
‘Invasion of Georgia’—a ‘3 a.m. moment’  —  When the North Caucasus slid into war Thursday night, it presented Senators John McCain and Barack Obama with a true “3 a.m. moment,” and their responses to the crisis suggested dramatic differences in how each candidate, as president, would lead America in moments of international crisis.
Elise Labott / CNN:
U.S. official: Russia's attack on Georgia is ‘disproportionate’  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Russia's use of strategic bombers and ballistic missiles against Georgia's civilians outside of the South Ossetian conflict is “far disproportionate” to Georgia's alleged attack on Russian peacekeepers, a senior U.S. official said Saturday.
Discussion: MoJoBlog and Donklephant
New York Post:
RAPING GEORGIA  —  RUSSIA INVADES AN AMERICAN ALLY  —  AS I write, Russian tanks grind into a brave and isolated democratic state.  —  Assuming that the world's attention would focus on Beijing, Moscow stage-managed an elaborate act of aggression against Georgia.
Charles Ganske / Russia Blog:
War in Georgia: Yawns and Kneejerks in America
Discussion: BLACKFIVE and Eunomia
The New European / Transatlantic Politics:
Russia crushes Georgia and Europe's hopes for energy independence
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama 47%, McCain 42%  —  Preferences have been stable last few days  —  PRINCETON, NJ — The latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update finds Barack Obama with a 47% to 42% lead over John McCain, when registered voters are asked for whom they would vote if the presidential election were held today.
Ron Beasley / Newshoggers.com:
McCain in a nutshell  —  Is Barack Obama fit to be president?  That is a question we hear all the time.  But Rex Nutting of Dow Jones MarketWatch wonders why few are asking the same question about St John McSame.  He takes a look on John McCain's resume and doesn't see much that would qualify him to lead the nation.
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Freddie Wilkinson / The Huffington Post:
K2: What The Mainstream Media Isn't Reporting  —  The media frenzy surrounding the recent tragedies on K2 climaxed on Wednesday with a front page article in the New York Times.  Though disjointed, the article did sketch out the rough facts that by now have been widely reported in the mainstream news.
SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:
The surge is working?  Hardly.  —  A Guardian journalist returns home to Iraq to find that far from what we hear in the US, the surge has produced nothing approaching normalcy or peace, but rather ghettos seething with violence, with nothing but makeshift walls dividing the increasingly hostile warring factions.
Beth Fouhy / Associated Press:
No Olympic holiday for McCain's presidential bid  —  LAS VEGAS - John McCain doesn't begrudge Democratic rival Barack Obama his weeklong holiday in Hawaii.  In fact, the GOP presidential hopeful says he could use a little rest himself.  —  Speaking Friday to reporters aboard his campaign plane …
Discussion: Newshoggers.com and The Jed Report
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Ashley Parker / New York Times:
Clinton T-Shirts Are Off, Obama's On  —  Isaac Baker, who was Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's communications director in Ohio, has stashed away the Hillary T-shirts and the campaign's taunting “Meet Me in Ohio” sign.  Mr. Baker did end up meeting Senator Barack Obama in the Buckeye State as the sign urged …
Discussion: TIME.com
Brooks Jackson / Newsweek:
More Tax Deceptions  —  McCain misrepresents Obama's tax proposals again.  And again, and again.  —  McCain released three new ads with multiple false and misleading claims about Obama's tax proposals.  —  A TV spot claims Obama once voted for a tax increase “on people making just $42,000 a year.”
Discussion: Macsmind
New York Times:
In Loose Style, McCain Leads a Camp Divided  —  WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain is so quick to pick up his gold-colored cellphone to solicit advice — from senators, campaign consultants, even the stray former deputy press secretary — that aides, concerned about his tendency to adopt …
Discussion: TIME.com
Neal Gabler / Los Angeles Times:
Obama: star of his own movie  —  His ‘celebrity’ comes from an emotional identity with voters, not from ‘rock star’ hysteria.  —  THE MOST UBIQUITOUS POLITICAL trope of the presidential campaign has been that Barack Obama is not just any old politician; he's a “rock star.”
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
 
 
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Associated Press:
Democrats compromise on party platform
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John Wildermuth / San Francisco Chronicle:
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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”

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

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

 
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