Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
3:30 AM ET, October 10, 2008

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Carrie Dann / MSNBC:
BIDEN: SAY IT TO HIS FACE  —  From NBC/NJ's Mike Memoli  —  ST. JOSEPH, MO - Joe Biden echoed the campaign's response to continued Republican efforts to highlight Obama's past associations, adding a personal touch to the idea that McCain wasn't willing to make the attacks in person.
RELATED:
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Hispanics turn cold shoulder to McCain  —  Despite championing immigration reform in 2007, John McCain is poised to lose the Hispanic vote by a landslide margin that is well below President George W. Bush's 2004 performance.  —  Polls show Obama winning the broadest support from Latino voters …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
McCain Goes There  —  Waukesha, Wisconsin — In response to a broad question about how Barack Obama “got here” — presumably got his lead — John McCain didn't name Bill Ayers but spoke of him directly.  McCain said “We don't care about an old washed up terrorist and his wife” …
Michelle Malkin:
Reports: Supporter begs McCain to fight; McCain bungles the ball …
Discussion: The Other McCain
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama on Ayers: ‘I assumed that he had been rehabilitated’  —  In an interview with the sympathetic conservative talk radio host this afternoon, Obama offered the clearest explanation yet of how an extremely careful politician allowed himself anywhere near a former '60s radical who would become …
RELATED:
RickinVa / Brutally Honest:
Charlie Gibson engages in verbal sex with Barack Obama (UPDATED)
Discussion: Wizbang
Hollywoodreporter / The Live Feed:
Obama buys half-hour of network primetime  —  Barack Obama has purchased a half-hour of primetime television on CBS and NBC, sources confirm.  —  The Obama campaign is producing a nationwide pitch to voters that will air on at least two broadcast networks.
RELATED:
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:   A half-hour of prime time?  —  I'm starting to get the sense …
Serge F. Kovaleski / New York Times:
In Dozens of Calls, Palins and Aides Pressed for Trooper's Removal  —  ANCHORAGE — The 2007 state fair was days away when Alaska's public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, took another call about one of his troopers, Michael Wooten.  This time, the director of Gov. Sarah Palin's Anchorage office was on the line.
RELATED:
Matt Apuzzo / Associated Press:
Palin pre-empts state report, clears self in probe  —  ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Trying to head off a potentially embarrassing state ethics report on GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, campaign officials released their own report Thursday that clears her of any wrongdoing.
The Huffington Post:
McCain Co-Chair Calls Obama “A Guy Of The Street,” Raises Drug Use  —  Former Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating, a McCain campaign co-chairman, edged up to an explicitly racial attack on Barack Obama on Thursday, describing the Illinois Senator as a “guy of the street” before raising his youthful drug use.
RELATED:
CNN:
McCain surrogate raises Obama's past drug use  —  (CNN) — A prominent surrogate for John McCain on Thursday raised Barack Obama's admitted cocaine use as a teenager and said the Illinois senator should speak candidly about it to the American people.  —  Speaking to Dennis Miller …
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
QUESTIONER: ‘I ACTUALLY DID’ KNOW FANNIE  —  From NBC's Michael Levine  —  I tried to get in touch via Facebook with Oliver Clark, the man who McCain said probably didn't know what Fannie Mae was before the financial crisis (at Tuesday's debate).  Apparently others have done the same.
RELATED:
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Moment of Truth  —  Last month, when the U.S. Treasury Department allowed Lehman Brothers to fail, I wrote that Henry Paulson, the Treasury secretary, was playing financial Russian roulette.  Sure enough, there was a bullet in that chamber: Lehman's failure caused the world financial crisis, already severe, to get much, much worse.
Nouriel Roubini / Nouriel Roubini's Global …:
The world is at severe risk of a global systemic financial meltdown and a severe global depression  —  The US and advanced economies' financial system is now headed towards a near-term systemic financial meltdown as day after day stock markets are in free fall, money markets have shut …
Salon:
Meet Sarah Palin's radical right-wing pals  —  Extremists Mark Chryson and Steve Stoll helped launch Palin's political career in Alaska, and in return had influence over policy.  “Her door was open,” says Chryson — and still is. … Video: Interview with former Alaskan Independence Party chairman Mark Chryson
Marc Ambinder:
Is John McCain's Homeowner Resurgence Plan legal?  —  Folks who are much more savvy on the specifics of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) wonder whether the government's $700 billion bailout/rescue program expressly prohibits what John McCain now says he wants to do …
Discussion: The RBC
RELATED:
Arnab Datta / Political Radar:
McCain: ‘New Money’ Might Fund $300 Billion Mortgage Plan
Discussion: Think Progress
Washington Post:
Anger Is Crowd's Overarching Emotion at McCain Rally  —  There were shouts of “Nobama” and “Socialist” at the mention of the Democratic presidential nominee.  There were boos, middle fingers turned up and thumbs turned down as a media caravan moved through the crowd Thursday …
Discussion: Pajamas Media and TPMCafe
Satyam / Think Progress:
Keating to McCain in 1986: 'I'm yours til death do us part.'  —  The Washington Times reports that in 1986, John McCain wrote a note on House stationery to Charles Keating, chairman of a failed savings and loan association who went to prison in the late 1980s.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Dan Balz's corrupted journalistic “balance”  —  (updated below)  —  The Washington Post's Dan Balz has an article today perfectly illustrating how the modern journalist's conception of “balance” leads them to distort the truth.  Balz's article is about the increasing use of “character attacks” …
RELATED:
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
“He's Got The Bloodlines”
Discussion: Reason and The New Republic
Bloomberg:
Asian Stocks Plunge as Credit Crisis Widens; Nikkei Tumbles  —  Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) — Asian stocks tumbled, driving Japan's Nikkei 225 Stock Average down 11 percent, and U.S. futures slumped on concern the deepening credit crisis will push the global economy into recession and spur corporate failures.
Discussion: naked capitalism
Hugh Hewitt / Townhall.com:
Obama-Khalidi-Ayers and the MSM  —  The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza is a regular and very welcome guest on the program.  Prompted by Ace of Spades, I asked Chris on Tuesday prior to the presidential debate about MSM's treatment of Joe Biden's serial misstatements at last week's VP debate.
Eric Pfanner / International Herald Tribune:
Iceland is all but officially bankrupt  —  REYKJAVIK: People go bankrupt all the time.  Companies do, too.  But countries?  —  Iceland was on the verge of doing exactly that on Thursday as the government shut down the stock market and seized control of its last major independent bank.
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Maggie Thurber / Thurber's Thoughts:
BREAKING: Federal Court says Ohio Secretary of State broke voter laws  —  A federal court ruled tonight that Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner violated federal election laws by not taking adequate steps to validate the identity of newly registered voters.
Discussion: Michelle Malkin and Wizbang
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:
The Obama Discount  —  I have no idea whatsoever if there's merit to this, and if there is how much merit, but lots of email like this: … Update: Enraged readers sent here from other sites might want to read this.  —  10/09 04:09 PM  —  Time Warp [Jonah Goldberg]  —  GM stocks down to 1950 level.
Discussion: Reuters, TBogg and pandagon.net
Paul Krugman:
Dow 9,000!  —  Stock prices are, however, the least of our worries.  The money markets are frozen; the TED spread is 4.14%.  —  G7 meeting tomorrow, IMF-World Bank over the weekend.  Now is the time for major action — an announcement of coordinated capital injections, liquidity measures, and more.
Sean Cockerham / Anchorage Daily News:
Supreme Court won't block Troopergate inquiry  —  The Alaska Supreme Court today rejected an attempt by a group of six Republican legislators to shut down the Legislature's investigation of Gov. Sarah Palin.  —  The ruling means that Steve Branchflower, the investigator hired by the Legislative Council …
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 3:30 AM ET, October 10, 2008.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Simon Heffer / Telegraph:
Financial crisis: We're all socialists now, comrade
Discussion: The Other McCain and Vox Popoli
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
BIDEN TRIES SOME NEW LINES
Discussion: AMERICAblog News
Ross Douthat:
Ayers, McCain and the Dow
Discussion: Liberty Street and Hot Air
Marc Ambinder:
ACORN Rallies Its Troops
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs, Hot Air and The RBC
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
RNC: ‘Chicago Way’  —  The RNC's new spot, financed …
Discussion: TPM Election Central
 Earlier Items: 
Esquire:
Esquire Endorses Barack Obama for President
Discussion: The Huffington Post and The Swamp
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
GOPers aren't just angry at the Democrats...
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Fear and loathing bubbling up at GOP events
Andrew Roth / Club for Growth:
Obama vs. S&P 500  —  A friend of mine who works in the finance industry sent this to me:
Discussion: The Corner
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
The Atlantic is profitable, has 1M subscribers, and revenue grew 10% in 2023 thanks to a 50% price hike, a harder paywall, and a shift to in-depth reporting

New York Times:
The NBC News-Ronna McDaniel saga highlights the perks and perils of partisan talk TV; a source says McDaniel is now seeking $600K+ for her two year deal

New York Times:
Karlie Kloss' Bedford buys Life publication rights from Dotdash Meredith and plans to resume regular print publication in 2025; Josh Kushner will be publisher

 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page