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2:35 AM ET, May 10, 2009

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Richard Leiby / Washington Post:
Obama Delivers the Zingers at Journalists' Dinner  —  When President Obama made his debut as the nation's Stand-Up-in-Chief last night, the star attraction at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, no one in his administration was safe from his one-liners.
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The Huffington Post:
White House Correspondents Dinner: Wanda Sykes Knocks Limbaugh, Hannity  —  Wanda Sykes, the comic featured as tonight's entertainer at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, took a couple of shots at Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.  She speculated that Limbaugh was actually the 20th hijacker …
Discussion: Redhot and News Hounds
Ken Tucker / EW.com:
President Obama and Wanda Sykes knock ‘em dead at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner  —  Wanda Sykes may be known to most of America as Julia Louis-Dreyfus' pal on The New Adventures of Old Christine, but at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, she re-established herself as a mow-'em-down stand-up comic.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Huckabee warns GOP could become ‘irrelevant’  —  (CNN) — Days after national Republicans launched a new campaign to broaden the party's outreach, former upstart presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says the GOP is at risk of becoming “irrelevant as the Whigs.”
The Wall Street Journal / Fox News:
Obama to Propose More Taxes From Estates, Firms to Fund Health Care Reform  —  The measures total $60 million, but administration officials describe the plan as eliminating ‘tax loopholes’ rather than hiking taxes  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will propose $60 billion …
Danny Shea / The Huffington Post:
Marci Klein, SNL Producer, On Sarah Palin's Handshake, Writing Hillary Clinton Sketches, Discovering Will Ferrell & More (VIDEO)  —  Marci Klein, senior producer of “Saturday Night Live” and executive producer of “30 Rock,” recently sat down with host Julie Menin for her NBC New York show “Give and Take.”
Discussion: Top of the Ticket
Glenn Thrush / Dinner Dish's Blog:
“All of you voted for me”  —  President Obama began with a kind of awkward TelePrompter gag — and then hit one out with a joke that cut a little too close to the bone for many conservatives.  —  Looking out on the crowd of 3,000, Obama declared:  —  “Most of you covered me (pause)... All of you voted for me.”
Deutsche Welle:
Germany says US data on Guantanamo inmates insufficient  —  In a newspaper interview published on Sunday, Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble complained that Washington had not yet provided sufficient information for Germany to act on resettling Guantanamo detaineees.
Discussion: Fox News and Flopping Aces
John Romano / Big Hollywood:
Obama Bans the Commonfolk from Normandy  —  A lot of the difference, the change if you will, between Obama and Bush has much to do with the word humility.  —  George Bush is and was a humble man.  Obama thinks the world counts on him and him alone to lead us.  Bush went to church and prayed often.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Tariffs Are Bad, Mkay?  —  Matt Steinglass breaks with some of his fellow liberals:  —  There are few areas where I agree with the CATO Institute crowd, but this is definitely one of them: long-term tariffs on manufactured goods are really, really stupid.  Germany and Japan …
New York Times:
New York Charges Rent for Working Homeless  —  The Bloomberg administration has quietly begun charging rent to homeless families who live in publicly run shelters but have income from jobs.  —  The new policy is based on a 1997 state law that was not enforced until last week …
Associated Press:
Ohio Christian school tells student to skip prom  —  FINDLAY, Ohio - A student at a fundamentalist Baptist school that forbids dancing, rock music, hand-holding and kissing will be suspended if he takes his girlfriend to her public high school prom, his principal said.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THIS WEEK IN GOD.... First up from the God Machine this week …
Jules Crittenden:
Sounds Like His Heart Was In The Right Place  —  But it doesn't sound like he knows the troops as well as he thinks he does.  The Hill: … Feherty's rhetorical excess is one of many in a satire-heavy piece that also calls for capital punsihment for pro-lifers.
Alex Isenstadt / The Politico:
Clarke blasts GOP terror video  —  House Republicans have rolled out another searing video — with terrorist mug shots and World Trade Center footage — to warn people about the shut down of Guantanamo Bay.  But one former Bush administration official is telling them to back off.
Discussion: LewRockwell.com Blog
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:   Obama's ‘symbolism over security:’ GOP
 
 
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