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7:30 AM ET, June 12, 2008

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Alex Koppelman / Salon:
Fox News calls Michelle Obama “Obama's baby mama”  —  An alert reader wrote in just a little while ago to let us know about something he'd spotted on Fox News Wednesday afternoon.  During a segment discussing conservative attacks against Michelle Obama, the wife of presumptive Democratic nominee Barack …
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Joan Walsh / Salon:
Oh no they didn't  —  I don't watch Fox News, but an alert reader saw it, and Alex Koppelman found a clip: The pro-GOP network did, indeed, call Michelle Obama Barack Obama's “baby mama.”  It wasn't some freelance commentator spouting off; it was a network-produced headline featured …
Oliver Willis:
Hey Fox News, Just Call Her A N***** And Be Done With It, Okay?  —  Fox News refers to Michelle Obama as Senator Obama's “Baby Mama”.  —  So here's the thing (because during this campaign I'm apparently learning that we black people have our own secret code and hand signals so this stuff …
Jackie Calmes / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Leads, but Margin Is Less Than Some Expect  —  Poll Has Democrat Continuing to Lag With White Males  —  WASHINGTON — Democrat Barack Obama begins his presidential race against Republican John McCain with a lead in the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, but not so great an edge …
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The Hill:
New Gang of 14 won't back McCain  —  At least 14 Republican members of Congress have refused to endorse or publicly support Sen. John McCain for president, and more than a dozen others declined to answer whether they back the Arizona senator.  —  Many of the recalcitrant GOP members declined …
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Mark Potok / Hatewatch:
President Obama?  Many White Supremacists are Celebrating  —  With the nomination of Barack Obama as the Democratic presidential candidate clinched, large sections of the white supremacist movement are adopting a surprising attitude: Electing America's first black president would be a very good thing.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Unlike Others, U.S. Defends Freedom to Offend in Speech  —  VANCOUVER, British Columbia — A couple of years ago, a Canadian magazine published an article arguing that the rise of Islam threatened Western values.  The article's tone was mocking and biting, but it said nothing that conservative magazines …
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TPM Election Central:
Is Bobby Jindal — Who May Be On McCain's Veep Shortlist — An Exorcist?  —  Bobby Jindal, the 36-year old governor of Louisiana, is being taken seriously by the national press as a candidate on the shortlist to be John McCain's Vice President.  No one doubts that he's a political prodigy …
New York Times:
Pakistan Angry as Strike by U.S. Kills 11 Soldiers  —  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — American air and artillery strikes killed 11 Pakistani paramilitary soldiers during a clash with insurgents on the Afghan border on Tuesday night, a development that raised concerns about the already strained American relationship with Pakistan.
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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
House Fails To Extend Jobless Benefits  —  The House yesterday narrowly failed to approve a proposal to give jobless workers an extra three months of unemployment benefits, but Democratic leaders said they would bring back the bill for a second vote today.  —  Despite a White House veto threat …
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Daniel W. Reilly / The Crypt's Blogs:
Unemployment insurance falls just short in House
Discussion: New York Times and DCCC
Jeff Coen / Chicago Tribune:
Prosecutors leaned on him, Rezko says  —  Letter to judge defended Obama and Blagojevich  —  Two months before he was convicted of federal corruption charges, political fundraiser Antoin “Tony” Rezko told his trial judge that “overzealous” prosecutors were pressuring him to tell …
Discussion: TalkLeft
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Carville's flotation: Gore for Veep  —  Former Clinton aide James Carville suggested on CNN just now that Obama offer Al Gore the vice presidential nomination.  —  “I think if I was Senator Obama I would say the biggest economic problem we face is the biggest national security problem and the biggest environmental problem.
Discussion: Hot Air, Redstate and The New Republic
Guardian:
Experts fear new front with al-Qaida as terror group switches focus from Iraq  —  Last month an Arabic satellite TV channel broadcast a chilling video of a group of Iraqi teenagers called the “Youths of Heaven” - their faces masked and brandishing Kalashnikov rifles, chanting “Allahu Akbar” …
Jared Allen / The Hill:
Hispanic Dems warn Obama he risks losing Latinos  —  Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) must commit to helping illegal immigrants achieve citizenship or else risk losing the vital Latino vote in the general election, Hispanic Democratic lawmakers are warning.  —  If he does not promise …
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
MORE FURMAN FUROR.  —  What I can't figure out about the furor of Barack Obama's decision to name Jason Furman his economic policy director is where have these people been?  This is like getting pissed at Project Runway because it's a show about clothes.  —  Austen Goolsbee …
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
McCain, Obama Reaching Out to Female Voters  —  Sen. John McCain and his aides have gone out of their way to praise Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in recent days, and by the end of the week his most prominent female supporter, former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina …
Discussion: TIME.com
Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
Secret Spy Court Repeatedly Questions FBI Wiretap Network  —  Does the FBI track cellphone users' physical movements without a warrant?  Does the Bureau store recordings of innocent Americans caught up in wiretaps in a searchable database?  Does the FBI's wiretap equipment store information …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Discourse.net
 
 
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