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6:55 PM ET, August 5, 2009

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The Corner:
Krauthammer's Take  —  From last night's All-Stars: On North Korea releasing U.S. journalists to President Clinton: Well, it's the return of hostages in exchange for stuff.  And we will learn about that stuff.  It's clear that this was wired in advance.  There probably was an apology [offered by President Clinton in Pyongyang].
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Let the Big Dog Run  —  When I look at the incorrigible Kim Jong-il, an insult hurled by the incomparable Billy Wilder comes to mind.  —  Leon Wieseltier, the literary editor of The New Republic, was having dinner with Wilder years ago when the subject of Swifty Lazar, the very famous and very short agent, came up.
New York Times:
Bill Clinton and Journalists in Emotional Return to U.S.
CNN:
CNN Poll: Americans split on Obama's health care proposals  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - Americans appear split over President Barack Obama's health care reform proposals, according to a new national poll.  —  Fifty percent of those questioned in CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday morning …
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Rasmussen Reports:
71% Say Obama's Policies Have Driven Up Deficit  —  Seventy-one percent (71%) of U.S. voters say President Obama's policies have increased the size of the federal deficit, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.  —  Only five percent (5%) say the president's policies …
Arthur B. Laffer / Wall Street Journal:
How to Fix the Health-Care ‘Wedge’
New Orleans Times-Picayune:
William Jefferson verdict: Guilty on 11 of 16 counts  —  ALEXANDRIA, VA. - Former Democratic Congressman William Jefferson was found guilty of 11 of 16 corruption charges today by a federal jury.  —  The jury of eight women and four men returned a guilty verdict following five days of deliberation.
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David Stout / New York Times:
Ex-Rep. Jefferson Convicted in Bribery Scheme  —  WASHINGTON — Former Representative William J. Jefferson was convicted Wednesday afternoon of using his office to try to enrich himself and relatives through a web of bribes and payoffs involving business ventures in Africa.
Discussion: Firedoglake and The Page
Paul Courson / CNN:
Ex-Rep. Jefferson convicted of corruption
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Mark Preston / CNN:
GOP turns tables on Democrats  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — National Republicans turned the tables on their political counterparts Wednesday by redirecting angry telephone calls coming into their switchboard to the Democratic National Committee.  —  The DNC released a Web video early …
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The Politico:
Obama: ‘Left-wing groups’ should back off.  —  OBAMA WAVES OFF LIBERALS: On the same day that MoveOn.org announced a new wave of ads to pressure centrist ...  ... Democrats on health care reform, President Obama told Senate Democrats he wished “left-wing groups” would back off.
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Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
Cornyn to Obama: Stop With the Enemies Lists
Discussion: Erick's blog and Power Line
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Washington Post Kills ‘Mouthpiece’ Video Series  —  The Washington Post has brought down the curtain on “Mouthpiece Theater.”  —  Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli killed the satirical video series Wednesday after harsh criticism of a joke about Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton …
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
A Word on Mouthpiece Theater
Discussion: The Impolitic
Roll Call:
House Orders Up Three Elite Jets  —  Last year, lawmakers excoriated the CEOs of the Big Three automakers for traveling to Washington, D.C., by private jet to attend a hearing about a possible bailout of their companies.  —  But apparently Congress is not philosophically averse to private air travel …
Ben Armbruster / Think Progress:
Liasson: ‘Cash for Clunkers’ program ‘is like a mini-Katrina.’  —  Last night, Fox News aired a clip of a woman at a Philadelphia town hall meeting over the weekend berating Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) about health care reform.  “What I see is a bureaucratic nightmare, senator. ...
Think Progress:
Freshman Democratic lawmaker ‘physically assaulted at a local event’ by activists.  —  As lobbyist-run groups encourage conservative activists to “rattle” members of Congress at local town hall events, Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA), the president of the freshman Democratic class has revealed that …
Discussion: NOW! Blog, D-Day and AFL-CIO NOW BLOG
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
CNN Refusing To Run Health Care Ad Critical Of Insurance Industry  —  What on earth is going on at CNN?  —  The network — already taking criticism for declining to run an ad criticizing Lou Dobbs — is now refusing to run an ad nationally criticizing the insurance industry, the group that tried to place the ad tells me.
Boston Globe:
Mass. bashers take note: Health reform is working  —  PUNDITS and politicians who oppose universal healthcare for the nation have a new straw man to kick around - the Massachusetts reform plan that covers more than 97 percent of the state's residents.  In the myth that these critics have manufactured …
Blue Texan / Firedoglake:
Jamie Kirchick: Pervasive Republican Birtherism is the Fault of Liberal Blogs  —  Jamie Kirchick is very upset about this terribly unfair birther rap that's dogging Republicans, and in today's Daily News, argues that it's mostly FDL's fault. … Jamie forgot to mention the ones …
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James Kirchick / NY Daily News:
Liberals' birther obsession: It's the left-wing, not the GOP …
Discussion: Townhall.com
Helen Kennedy / NY Daily News:
Shepard Fairey-designed Obama portrait on cover of upcoming Rolling Stone  —  Artist Shepard Fairey, whose iconic HOPE campaign poster of Barack Obama was a global sensation, is back with a new image that both questions and deifies the President.  —  Appearing on the cover of the Aug. 20 Rolling Stone …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Boxer: Protesters too well dressed to be sincere  —  Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) appeared on Hardball last night in support of the Left's attempt to discredit the people showing up to townhalls in protest of ObamaCare.  Boxer says she can tell that they're fakes, because they're too well dressed.
Right Wing News:
Joker Obama Flyers Show Up At George Washington University & Sioux Falls, South Dakota (Updated)  —  Supposedly, prior to yesterday, the Joker Obama posters had only shown up in LA and Atlanta.  Well, now a few hundred have shown up at George Washington University.  Here are a few pics I was emailed yesterday.
Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
Sen. George Voinovich and the GOP as a Party of the South  —  Southern writer Walker Percy liked to poke fun at Ohioans in his novels, just to even things out a bit.  —  “Usually Mississippians and Georgians are getting it from everybody, and Alabamians,” he once explained to an interviewer.
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Palin calls divorce report ‘made up’  —  Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin tells POLITICO that widespread blogosphere reports about a possible divorce from her husband, Todd, are “made up.”  —  In a brief telephone interview on Tuesday night, Palin quipped that she loves finding out “what's goin' on in my life from the news.”
Shmuel Rosner / The New Republic:
Peace Talks  —  Hey Obama, don't waste your time giving a speech in Israel.  —  Two Israeli writers caused a stir last week by calling on President Obama to speak directly to Israelis, similar to the way he has addressed populations from Cairo to Moscow.  “Simply stated, take your campaign directly …
James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
The Other  —  While I'm generally on the other side of the issue, Josh Marshall is one of several left-of-center bloggers I read because he's interesting, thoughtful, and generally fair.  But even he falls for a rather common trope: The belief that your opponents are crazy. … Now, none of that is wrong.
 
 
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Mary Katharine Ham / Weekly Standard:
Think Progress, MSNBC ‘Manufacture’ a Story With Putative Smoking Gun ‘Mob’ Memo
Roger Alford / Associated Press:
Ron Paul son Rand joins Ky. GOP race for Senate
Steve Portnoy / Political Punch:
A First Hand View of a Raucous Town Hall Meeting
Discussion: ABCNEWS, Hot Air and The Campaign Spot
The Politico:
Lessons learned from: A) cash for clunkers B) the town halls C) …
Discussion: Michelle Malkin
James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
Cronkite blunder a revealing look inside New York Times
Discussion: Mediaite
Joel Rubin / Los Angeles Times:
William Bratton announces he will resign as LAPD chief
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Lisa Lerer / The Politico:
Climate bill may fall by the wayside
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Vic Snyder Townhall second update
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Martin Kady II / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
Rockefeller not a fan of ‘gang of six’
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Obama Needed This Like a Hole in the Head
Michelle Malkin:
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