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May 25, 2008

A Requiem [Dan Collins]

for the disgraced. Happy Memorial Day!

If You Read SoCalPundit [Dan Collins]

lend a hand if you can.

A quasi-defense of campaign media hype [Karl]

At the Politico, John H. Harris writes about the way the media makes minor stories seem like major ones.  The aspect most will note is his confession that the Politico jumped all over Hillary Clinton invoking the assassination of RFK as a rationale for continuing her presidential campaign to juice the site’s traffic statistics.  But there is more to it than that. After all, Harris also notes that: If this really was a

Iowahawk Rewrites “Death of a Salesman” [Dan Collins]

Here. And personal advice doled out by O! (h/t Reynolds) Most amazing midget wrestling facecrawling video ever. Rodeo deer. Chestnut Mare. Cool web tools to bookmark. Message to Obama: Bad Day at the Office

Newsweek notices Obama’s Lobbyist Connection [Karl]

At Newsweek, Michael Isikoff has a small piece on ASK Public Strategies – a “consulting” firm that specializes in lobbying via “astroturfing” run by Barack Obama’s top strategist, David Axelrod. However, true to Newsweek’s general left-wing, pro-Obama stance, the piece buries any link between ASK’s corporate clients, like the utility company Exelon, and Obama near the very bottom of the inverted pyramid, noting in passing: One of them, Exelon, lobbied Obama

Sunday Funnies [Dan Collins]

Insouciant: (Source) Mona on Karl TMI I think we ought to have happyfeet go here and file a report.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Katherine Graham’s Skull [Karl]

A glance at the front page of the Washington Post website before retiring last night had four stories pegged to the new Indiana Jones movie: an archaeologist complaining that the Indy movies are (omg!) not an accurate portrayal of the profession; the wacky backstory on antiquities from Afghanistan on display at the National Gallery of Art; a Reuters story from Friday about Russian Communists calling for the movie to be banned

The book(s) on John McCain [Karl]

At The Left-Wing Review of Books, left-wing journalist Michael Tomasky reviews three new books on presumed GOP presidential nominee John McCain, including one by admitted liar (and piss boy to George Soros) David Brock.  However, Tomasky’s favorite is by Matt Welch, an editorial-page editor at the Los Angeles Times and a former editor at Reason magazine: His book is the best of the three. The other two, though useful, would have

Is the GOP overly cocky, or simply deluded? [Karl]

At the Politico, David Paul Kuhn reports on the strides the DNC has made microtargeting voters for GOTV efforts, which has become increasingly important to the parties as the more traditional forms of communication become less and less effective in campaigns. Yet you find that some in the GOP have a very blasé attitude about it: Some Republicans question whether the DNC could catch up in the span of just