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2:00 AM ET, May 12, 2009

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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
The Two Jokes  —  What makes Wanda Sykes's witless vulgarity amusing to the president?  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  The White House Correspondents Dinner took place this weekend.  As usual, the president was in attendance and a comedian provided the evening's entertainment.
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Dana Milbank / Rough Sketch:
Etch-a-Sketch: Limbaugh Edition  —  Good morning.  —  Today, let us try a new game in which I, the Sketchwriter, get you, the Sketchreader, to do my work for me while I go to the gym, eat lunch and listen to Rush Limbaugh on the radio.  I call this Etch-a-Sketch.
Discussion: The Politico, MSNBC and Liberty Street
Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
WANDA SYKES' OFFENSIVE ROUTINE.  —  Wanda Sykes' comedy routine at the White House Correspondent's Dinner was really offensive.  In it, Sykes suggested that conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh is supported by Hamas, and that Islamists are “constantly issuing Limbaugh talking points.”
Ben Shapiro / Big Hollywood:
Wanda Sykes' Gutless Performance
Discussion: Hot Air, FOX Forum and alicublog
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Steele: “I'm the Gift That Keeps on Giving”
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Wanda Sykes sees the humor of 9/11; White House not
Discussion: Extra and protein wisdom
Mike Lupica / NY Daily News:
Lupica: Wanda doesn't deserve a pass for crass
Discussion: Philly.com
Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
White House distances itself from Wanda Sykes's joke about Rush Limbaugh.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Dan Gainor / Fox News:
Comedian Wanda Sykes Draws Fire With Cracks About Rush Limbaugh's Health, Patriotism
New York Times:
Commander's Ouster Tied to ‘New Approach’ in Afghan War  —  WASHINGTON — The top American commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David D. McKiernan, was forced out Monday in an abrupt shake-up intended to bring a more aggressive and innovative approach to a worsening seven-year war.
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Fred Kaplan / Slate:
The ouster of Afghanistan commander David McKiernan could make—or break—the Obama presidency.  —  Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced this afternoon that he has “asked for the resignation” of Gen. David McKiernan, commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, and that he plans to replace him with Gen. Stanley McChrystal.
Jerusalem Post:
Sheikh attacks Israel, pope walks out  —  Article's topics: Sheikh Tamimi, Benedict XVI  —  Chief Islamic Judge of the Palestinian Authority, Sheikh Tayseer Rajab Tamimi, launched a poisonous verbal attack at Israel at a Monday night gathering attended by Pope Benedict XVI.
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Gateway Pundit:
Pope Walks Out on Hostile Islamic Judge in Jerusalem
Discussion: Fausta's Blog
National Post:
David Frum: Quick fix today, crisis tomorrow in Obama's White House  —  Something bad and dangerous is happening in Barack Obama's America.  —  The powers that the Obama administration claimed in order to arrest the financial crisis and mitigate the recession are being used and abused in ways …
Discussion: NO QUARTER and Swampland
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Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:
“You don't need banks and bondholders to make cars”?
Discussion: The Sundries Shack
Paul Ingrassia / Wall Street Journal:   How Ford Restructured Without Federal Help
The Politico:
Pelosi: Torture protest improper in '03  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi learned in early 2003 that the Bush administration was waterboarding terror detainees but didn't protest directly out of respect for “appropriate” legislative channels, a confidant of the San Francisco Democrat said Monday.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Bob Graham: I Wasn't Told About Waterboarding Or EITs In My Briefing  —  Former Senator Bob Graham, who received a classified briefing on terror detainees during the same month in the fall of 2002 as Nancy Pelosi, was not briefed about the use of either waterboarding or enhanced interrogation techniques during …
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Hoekstra calls for CIA documents to be declassified
Satyam Khanna / Think Progress:
Lieberman breaks with Cheney: 'We're not less safe' under Obama.  —  Yesterday on CBS's Face the Nation, former Vice President Cheney repeated his claim that President Obama is making the country less secure.  Notably, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), who has largely agreed with Cheney on national security policy, disagrees.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
White House To Declassify “Holy Grail” Torture Report That Could Undercut Cheney  —  There's a big piece of news about Dick Cheney and torture buried toward the end of this big Washington Post piece about the torture wars.  —  Specifically: The White House has decided to declassify and release …
Andy Barr / The Politico:
Lieberman knocks Cheney
Discussion: Don Surber
Mark Blumenthal / Pollster.com:
The Edwards 2008 What-If  —  The publication of a new book by Elizabeth Edwards, and especially the revelation that she advised her husband against running in 2008, has created a lot of “what if” speculation about how the race might have been different.  Two weeks ago, for example …
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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Trippi refutes claim Edwards staffers knew of affair
Mickey Kaus / Kausfiles:
Elizabeth Edwards' Reality Problem
Peter Hamby / CNN:
Romney camp hits back at Steele for Mormonism comments  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - In an unusual move for the person tasked with being his party's top cheerleader, Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele is shining a light on the political vulnerabilities of one of the GOP's top figures …
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Jay Cost / HorseRaceBlog:
It's Time for Michael Steele To Resign  —  On Friday, Michael Steele guest hosted Bill Bennett's radio show - and he got into a conversation with a caller on the subject of Mitt Romney's presidential candidacy.  This caller - “Jay” (not me!)  - had suggested that Mitt Romney could have won …
Fox News:
Pageant Double Standard?  Steamy Photos of Miss Rhode Island Won't Threaten Her Crown  —  While racy photos of Miss California Carrie Prejean could cost the outspoken first runner up in the Miss USA pageant her crown, pageant officials don't seem to care about even steamier photos of Miss Rhode Island that appeared in a men's magazine.
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Greg Hengler / Townhall.com:
Gay Miss CA Director Goes Nuclear On ‘Henchman’ …
Discussion: GayPatriot
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Resistance Is Futile  —  They told me that if I voted for McCain we'd have we'd have a buffoon for a Vice President.  And they were right!  —  Biden insults President Obama's dog at Syracuse  —  ...Oh, it was an idyllic setting.  Nobody saw it coming.  The vice president …
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Jorr / Christian Science Monitor:
Biden insults President Obama's dog at Syracuse
Discussion: Top of the Ticket and The Swamp
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Meghan McCain at WHCD: “Does he even know who the f*** I am?”  —  Sadly obligatory.  I've been monitoring her Twitter feed all day in hopes of an angry denial, but no dice.  What are the odds that the daughter of a senator and a millionaire heiress would turn out to be a brat?
Discussion: Politics Daily and Townhall.com
Hugh Hewit / www.washingtonexaminer.com:
Here comes California's May 19 Rebellion  —  California voters head to the polls next week with predictions of doom echoing in their ears if they decline to endorse the massive tax hikes prescribed for them by big Democratic majorities in the statehouse, Arnold and a handful of now ruined-politically Republican legislators.
Room for Debate:
Why Iran Freed Roxana Saberi  —  An Iranian-American journalist, Roxana Saberi, who was tried and sentenced to eight years in prison in April on charges of spying for Washington, was released Monday after an appeals court reduced the sentence.  —  Iran has detained several Western journalists …
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Joe Klein / Swampland:
Persian Smoke, Persian Fire?
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Marisa Guthrie / Broadcasting & Cable:
Jon Stewart to Make History Special  —  ‘The Naturalized’ highlights the network's most ambitious programming slate  —  Jon Stewart, who knows a thing or two about irony, will create a two-hour special on a perfect target—the U.S. naturalization process—for History Channel, to air in the fourth quarter.
Discussion: Media Blog
Mark Halperin / The Page:
Limbaugh on Cheney's Motivations  —  What motivates Dick Cheney?  —  He doesn't need the money.  He has no further political ambitions.  He is not hot for interns.  He is not a torture freak.  He knows that he is toxic and despised by the drive-by media and the Democrat party and the left in this country.
 
 
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Huckabee speaks out against alienating social conservatives.
Discussion: BitsBlog
David Paul Kuhn / Real Clear Politics:
Social Conservative Leaders Feel Scapegoated
Brad DeLong / Grasping Reality with Both Hands:
Progress in Macroeconomics?  —  A decade ago, Olivier Blanchard …
Los Angeles Times:
Defending Dawn Johnsen
Discussion: Firedoglake and ACS Blog
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Documents: Defense Contractor Mentioned Powerful Uncle Rep. Murtha …
Chris Wallace / Fox News:
Transcript: Gen. David Petraeus on ‘FNS’
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and ATTACKERMAN
San Francisco Chronicle:
Air board pays $75K for columnist's speech
Discussion: Weekly Standard
 Earlier Items: 
Kbh / KeithHennessey.com:
The President's silly health care announcement
Discussion: EconLog
John Podhoretz / Weekly Standard:
Going Boldly
Discussion: New Yorker and The Moderate Voice
William C. Flook / www.washingtonexaminer.com:
Official who gave ‘troubling’ testimony on McAuliffe now fundraising for him
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Malcolm Venable / Virginian-Pilot:
In Norfolk, musician will.i.am backs McAuliffe for governor
 

 
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