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12:20 AM ET, May 12, 2009

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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.
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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
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.
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.”
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Steele: “I'm the Gift That Keeps on Giving”
Ben Shapiro / Big Hollywood:
Wanda Sykes' Gutless Performance
Discussion: Hot Air, alicublog and FOX Forum
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
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
U.S. Replaces Commander in Afghanistan in War Overhaul  —  WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is replacing the top American commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David McKiernan, less than a year after he took over, marking a major overhaul in military leadership of a war that has presented President Obama with a worsening national security challenge.
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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.
abu muqawama:
McKiernan Out, McChrystal In (Updated)
Discussion: QandO and Danger Room
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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
Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:
“You don't need banks and bondholders to make cars”?  —  The WSJ's “USA Inc” series continues today with detail on how the US got secured lenders to abandon their fight to get paid more than 30% of their claims, as against giving more than half the company to unsecured workers.
Discussion: The Sundries Shack
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National Post:
David Frum: Quick fix today, crisis tomorrow in Obama's White House
Discussion: NO QUARTER and Swampland
Paul Ingrassia / Wall Street Journal:   How Ford Restructured Without Federal Help
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 …
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 …
Kbh / KeithHennessey.com:
The President's silly health care announcement  —  The President spoke about health care in the cross-hall today, flanked by the heads of several major health lobbying groups ("trade associations," in Washington vernacular):  — hospitals — the American Hospital Association ("AHA");
Discussion: EconLog
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Huckabee speaks out against alienating social conservatives.
Discussion: BitsBlog
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
IS THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY ON OBAMA'S SIDE? …
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
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
Jorr / Christian Science Monitor:
Biden insults President Obama's dog at Syracuse  —  It was as though Vice President Biden time-warped back to last fall.  Because on Sunday he was in full campaign attack mode.  —  Oh, it was an idyllic setting.  Nobody saw it coming.  The vice president had just finished delivering …
Discussion: Top of the Ticket and The Swamp
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:   Resistance Is Futile  —  They told me that if I voted for McCain …
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.
Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog and Salon
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
MOTIVATIONS.... Dick Cheney stuck up for Rush Limbaugh yesterday …
Discussion: The Page
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
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 …
Discussion: The Lede and FP Passport
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Joe Klein / Swampland:
Persian Smoke, Persian Fire?
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Telegraph
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.
David Paul Kuhn / Real Clear Politics:
Social Conservative Leaders Feel Scapegoated  —  There is a brooding sense within top social conservative circles that they have become the revolving scapegoat of the Republican Party.  Many of the longtime leaders of the Christian right, from Richard Land to Tony Perkins to Gary Bauer …
 
 
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Brad DeLong / Grasping Reality with Both Hands:
Progress in Macroeconomics?  —  A decade ago, Olivier Blanchard …
Los Angeles Times:
Defending Dawn Johnsen
Discussion: Firedoglake
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Documents: Defense Contractor Mentioned Powerful Uncle Rep. Murtha …
Discussion: Moe Lane
San Francisco Chronicle:
Air board pays $75K for columnist's speech
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Family ties aid Obama applicants
Discussion: Hot Air
John Podhoretz / Weekly Standard:
Going Boldly
Discussion: New Yorker and The Moderate Voice
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Malcolm Venable / Virginian-Pilot:
In Norfolk, musician will.i.am backs McAuliffe for governor
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Who Monitored The Torture?
Mickey Kaus / Kausfiles:
Elizabeth Edwards' Reality Problem
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