Eric Florack on August 25th, 2008

Interesting note from The Politico, yesterday:

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell was supposed to give “closing remarks” during this afternoon’s Shorenstein Center-sponsored panel discussion with all three Sunday show moderators — NBC’s Tom Brokaw, ABC’s George Stephanopoulous and CBS’s Bob Schieffer

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Eric Florack on July 18th, 2008

Hume:

On his upcoming overseas trip, Barack Obama will be met along the way by the anchors of the three network evening newscasts. About 200 other journalists have also asked to join Obama during his trip.

But Howard Kurtz of

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James Joyner reads the New York Times, apparently, so that you don’t have to. This morning, he notes:

Elizabeth Edwards, who despite no public policy credentials other than having been married to a one-term senator and yet oddly seems

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Eric Florack on March 30th, 2008

MSNBC is saying:

BAGHDAD – Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Sunday ordered his fighters off the streets nationwide and called on the government to stop raids against his followers and free them from prison.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki issued a

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The New York Times is finally catching on to what we mere mortals already know just on the look of the thing:

Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer was deeply involved in his administration’s efforts last year to discredit the State Senate

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Eric Florack on March 16th, 2008

Ed Morrissey:

John McCain took some time off of the campaign trail and hit the ground in Iraq this morning.  The media calls it a “surprise visit”, but he had given indications that he would visit Iraq after he clinched

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Eric Florack on February 17th, 2008

Blue Crab Blvd is running a link to Evan Thomas, this morning, who in Gauius’ words:

….describes the complicated relationship between the media and the Clintons. In fact, the relationship between the press and any president or presidential candidate. Thomas

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Yes, Civil war in both parties seems likely to me.

The usual suspects are already complaining about civil war happening in the Democratic Party…. Frank Rich, at the New York Times, for example, perhaps without intending to, marks the

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