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12:20 AM ET, April 26, 2008

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The Huffington Post:
Keith Olbermann's Idea For Beating Hillary: Literally Beating Hillary  —  There are two kinds of people in the world: People who think there's an ugly strain of misogyny running through Hillary Clinton's media coverage, and people who think she's just not very likable and deserves it for running …
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Keith Olbermann Apologizes For Crack About Hillary  —  As I've noted here before, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann has a bizarre tendency to listen to the substance of criticism against him.  Even more strange, considering that he's a top-shelf media star, is the fact that he apologizes for his conduct when he's wrong.
Discussion: Liberal Values and Macsmind
Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Olbermann Comments on Hillary Causing Stir  —  Keith Olbermann's latest: A discussion with Howard Fineman about the need for a superdelegate to “take [Clinton] into a room and only he comes out."/p>  —  Bloggers say he called for Hillary's murder.  Here's a different take by RiverDaughter at Confluence:
Think Progress:
Olbermann apologizes for implying ‘something untoward.’
Discussion: Open Left and Blue Girl, Red State
Saira Anees / Political Punch:
DNC Official: “You Know What You Call Someone Who Digs Up Dirt on John McCain?  An Archeologist”  —  Call it the perils of Twitter.  —  Or a new Maginot Line in what Slate's John Dickerson has called “the Umbrage War.”  —  On his Facebook page, the Democratic National Committee's director of research …
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Mark Halperin / The Page:
Obama-DNC Fundraising Deal  —  After a series of discussions, the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee have decided to file papers with the Federal Election Commission establishing a “joint fundraising agreement.”  Under the law, such a committee can accept up to $28,500 from individuals …
Financial Times:
Democrats to choose ‘by end of June’
Discussion: TalkLeft, The Page and Political Radar
National Journal Online:
Q&A: David Plouffe  —  Obama's Manager Discusses Clinton's Negatives & The Delegate Race  —  Fri.  —  National Journal's Linda Douglass sat down with David Plouffe, Barack Obama's campaign manager, for the April 25 edition of “National Journal On Air.”  This is a transcript of their conversation.
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Geoff Garin / Washington Post:
Fair Is Fair  —  What's wrong with this picture?
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Plouffe: McCain has the racist vote anyway
Ben / Think Progress:
Matthews: Whites are ‘willing’ to support Obama in the same way they ‘root for black athletes.’  —  Last night on Hardball, host Chris Matthews sought to give Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) some “advice” on how to get white Americans to vote for him for president: … Watch it:
Discussion: Newshoggers.com and Shakesville
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Chuck Todd / MSNBC:
BIG HRC FUNDRAISER DEFECTS TO OBAMA  —  From NBC's Chuck Todd  —  One of the things that both Dem campaigns are always nervous about is defectors.  In particular, Clinton is more vulnerable to this problem since she's the candidate that is trailing.  Well, NBC News has learned …
Washington Post:
Who'll Cover the Checks?  —  THE DEMOCRATIC presidential candidates have some big plans — with big price tags attached.  By our calculations, using figures supplied by the campaigns, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) has proposed new spending and tax breaks that would amount to almost $265 billion …
Brandon Friedman / VetVoice:
Fort Bragg Barracks: Shades of Walter Reed?  —  A Fort Bragg soldier's father uploaded a YouTube video of photos he took of his son's barracks earlier this month.  The video shows the deplorable living conditions to which his son and the other soldiers of his unit in the 82nd Airborne Division returned …
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Spencer / Attackerman:   Only In Return We Get A Stabbing In The Back  —  These are the conditions at Fort Bragg.
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama and Clinton Tied at 48% to 47%  —  Clinton's increased support has mainly come from undecided voters  —  PRINCETON, NJ — The Democratic nomination race is now tied, with Barack Obama favored by 48% of national Democratic voters and Hillary Clinton by 47%.
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
SYRIA FOLLOWUP....Here's more on the Syrian/North Korean nuclear reactor thing.  One of the big questions floating around is: Why now?  The intelligence community has kept quiet about it for a full seven months since Al Kibar was bombed, so why did they finally decide to brief Congress (and the press) this week?
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Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2008: Pennsylvania Presidential Election  —  Pennsylvania: McCain 44% Obama 43%  —  What a difference two weeks of intense campaigning can make.  The final two weeks of campaigning in the Pennsylvania Primary may not have changed the outcome of the Democratic race, but it helped John McCain in the Keystone State.
Bernard-Henri Lévy / Wall Street Journal:
The Sad End of Jimmy Carter  —  The problem is not that he is, or is not, talking to the Syrians - everyone does it to some degree.  —  It isn't that he went to Damascus to meet with the exiled head of Hamas - everyone, including the Israelis, will one day have to do that too …
Greg Sheridan / The Australian:
Esteem for US rises in Asia, thanks to Iraq war  —  THE US war in Iraq has strengthened its strategic position, especially in terms of key alliances, and the only way this could be reversed would be if it lost the will to continue the struggle and abandoned Iraq in defeat and disarray.
Discussion: michellemalkin.com and Don Surber
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
DON'T NEED A WEATHERMAN TO KNOW ...  As you know the Weather Underground, the somewhat hapless but definitely violent 60s and 70s radical group, has bubbled up into the 2008 presidential campaign.  It's come up against Obama for his association with Bill Ayers and then Obama brought …
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Spin Cycle
Amanda / Think Progress:
Zirkle rails against the ‘great porn dragon’ and its influence over Jews.  —  Tony Zirkle, a GOP congressional candidate in Indiana, recently came under heavy criticism for speaking to the American National Socialist Workers Party (ANSWP) on the 119th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's birth.
Discussion: Wonkette and Orcinus
 
 
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New York Times:
The Trouble With Not Being Earnest  —  Senator John McCain …
Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Top black lawmaker calls Bill Clinton's actions ‘bizarre’
Discussion: The Confluence
Jennifer Schuessler / Paper Cuts:
The Icing Storm  —  Six years ago, Dale Peck reduced Rick Moody …
Discussion: Daniel W. Drezner
Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
THE TOTAL WITLESSNESS OF OBAMA APOLOGISTS
Alissa J. Rubin / New York Times:
Sadr Tells Forces Not to Attack Iraqis
Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Thompson: I would turn down VP offer
Philip Klein / American Spectator:
McCain Calls on Obama To Apologize For Ayers
Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
House Dem Leadership Supports Obama With Ignorance
Discussion: Corrente
 Earlier Items: 
Marc Ambinder:
DNC To Assess Challenges On 5/31
See-Dubya / michellemalkin.com:
Hillary Clinton: Prayer Warrior.
Brit Hume / Fox News:
Biblical Scholars Challenge Speaker Pelosi's Old Testament Quote
Alan I. Abramowitz / The New Republic:
Cheer Up, Democrats!
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Wofford, Jr. on Obama's loss
Blue Texan / Firedoglake:
Peggy Noonan Wonders If Obama Loves America, Has Ever Cried Thinking …
Discussion: marbury and Booman Tribune
Richard Blair / All Spin Zone:
Limbaugh Urges Riots in Denver
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard Blog:
McCain: “Clear Who Hamas Wants to be the Next President”