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So I was down in DC this past weekend and happened to run into a well-connected media person, who told me flatly, unequivocally that “everyone knows” The LA Times was sitting on a story, all wrapped up and ready to go about what is a potentially devastating sexual scandal involving a leading Presidential candidate. “Everyone knows” meaning everyone in the DC mainstream media political reporting world. “Sitting on it” because the paper couldn’t decide the complex ethics of whether and when to run it. The way I heard it they’d had it for a while but don’t know what to...

Mickey Kaus writes: Do you sense there is some large mass of dark matter, an unseen Scandal Star, the gravitational pull of which is warping the coverage of what seems, on the surface, a pretty dull presidential race? I do. So does Ron Rosenbaum. I thought the Dark Star was the Edwards affair allegation. But Rosenbaum says "everyone in the elite Mainstream media" knows about another juicy scandal that the LAT is supposedly sitting on. I guess this is proof that I’m not in the elite, because I don’t know what he’s talking about. … My vestigial Limbaugh gland tells...

Hillary's Mystery Woman: Who is HUMA? Last June, under an oppressive sun, at a rally to save the Niagara military base at the University of Buffalo, all of New York’s top politicians—George Pataki, Chuck Schumer, Hillary Clinton—poured sweat. Yet there was exactly one member of the wilting delegation who managed, somehow, to stay cool: Hillary Clinton’s mysterious, glamorous and eerily unflappable aide de camp, Huma Abedin.

by Spencer Morgan Published: April 1, 2007Tags: Politics, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin, Oscar de la Renta Huma Abedin.Last June, under an oppressive sun, at a rally to save the Niagara military base at the University of Buffalo, all of New York’s top politicians—George Pataki, Chuck Schumer, Hillary Clinton—poured sweat.Yet there was exactly one member of the wilting delegation who managed, somehow, to stay cool: Hillary Clinton’s mysterious, glamorous and eerily unflappable aide de camp, Huma Abedin.“It was like 110 degrees outside,” recalled the source, a political aide who asked to remain anonymous. “We were all just pouring down...

Hillary's all-female team targets women By Tim Shipman in Washington, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 12:35am BST 24/06/2007 Hillary Clinton has assembled the largest team of top-level female advisers ever seen in a presidential campaign in an attempt to maximise her support among women voters, who could hold the key to the White House. Hillary Clinton 'now has to prove she's a woman' The women are known simply as "the Board" - a group of strategists and spin doctors, many of whom worked for Sen Clinton in her husband Bill's White House, 15 years ago. They do yoga together, give each...