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Both the major-party candidates for President have now made their first major decision — on a running mate — and I can't remember a year when the selections were more revealing about the character of the candidates. What we have is a choice between a conservative and a radical. The conservative is Barack Obama. He is a careful man, perhaps to a fault. His vice-presidential selection process was quiet, orderly and comprehensive. The selection of Joe Biden was no great surprise — he added experience to the ticket, a reliable loyalist and gleeful attack dog, a working-class Roman Catholic with...

This has got to be one of the lamest protests ever.Whiny Canadian members of the social networking website Facebook are taking down their profile photos to protest the Canadian government's decision to reduce funding for the arts.According to a CTV news reportWhile pooping puffins and sweater vests have made headlines during this year's election campaign, Canada's arts community says one important issue has been conspicuously absent: arts funding.So, frustrated with a lack of accountability over $45 million in recent arts cuts and a low profile for the arts so far in the campaign, theatre organizer Keith Barker decided to do...

This year, we have an obligation to stand together behind a new declaration — a declaration of energy independence. We, as a nation, face an energy crisis, and I know that if we harness the same American ingenuity and commitment this country was founded on, we can solve this crisis. We have two responsibilities: Bring down gas prices in the short term and break our national addiction to oil in the long term. Moving toward clean, affordable alternative energy will strengthen our national security, revive our economy and preserve our environment, and the time is now. I announced a plan...

In a statement reminiscent of Howard Dean’s controversial statement from 2005 about the RNC and "people of color," Time magazine columnist Joe Klein blasted Karl Rove’s recent slam of Barack Obama on Monday’s "Election Center" program on CNN. "I just think that the image is kind of hilarious when you think about it: Barack Obama at a country club sipping a martini. It's kind of a parody of the Republican view of the world. Everybody belongs to -- since when [did] we start letting people like Barack Obama into Republican country clubs?" "People like Barack Obama"? That sounds like Dean’s...

Tonight on CNN's Election Center, Joe Klein spewed the following while engaged in a group discussion about a comment made by Karl Rove.......BLITZER: Let's turn to another hot topic right now from the campaign trail today, Karl Rove seriously blasting Barack Obama. We have got some of the smartest people here to talk about that, Joe Klein, Leslie Sanchez, Candy Crowley. Candy, here's the quote from Karl Rove at a breakfast, a Republican breakfast today -- quote -- "Even if you never met him, you know this guy. He's the guy at the country club with the beautiful date holding...

Richard McLean and Edith Stevens did not fabricate evidence or lie to win their controversial land case against neighbors Don and Susie Kirlin, District Judge James C. Klein ruled today. Klein’s order essentially upholds his decision last fall to award about 34 percent of one of the Kirlins’ vacant lots to McLean and Stevens after they sued for it using the squatter’s-rights law of “adverse possession.” The Kirlins had filed paperwork earlier this year alleging that McLean, a former district court judge, and Stevens, an attorney, faked evidence of a dirt path across the Kirlins’ property and lied about using...

Many readers of Swampland would probably disagree with Michael Yon's position on Iraq, but he has been on the ground, in the line of fire for 18 months and his reports about the hard work and occasional successes of U.S. troops have to be respected. What Yon is seeing now--what I also saw in Iraq, what Michael O'Hanlon and Ken Pollack also saw--is a significant turn of the Sunni population against Islamic extremists. This development is undeniable and encouraging. It points to the difficulty that Salafists are going to have in trying to control the "street" in other Islamic nations:...

They dislike him! They really dislike him! Time Magazines’ Joe Klein has an article on Mitt Romney today that isn’t particularly favorable. Actually, it’s downright hostile. Before continuing, I must confess to liking Joe Klein. I enjoyed “Primary Colors,” and have always thought him a far more entertaining media presence than the leftwing bloggers do. Those guys hate him. The point of Klein’s article is that Mitt Romney rubs him the wrong way. There’s really nothing more substantive there, or certainly nothing more substantive that you haven’t already heard 8 million times before. As required by the Time Magazine...

I'm not going to bother wasting your time with posting any of the actual article, but you're welcome to read it for the sheer fun. Apparently, BDS has finally gotten the better of Joe Klein. George Bush is "unfit to lead" in the confrontation with Islam, but I don't recall Klein taking Bill Clinton to the woodshed during HIS administration over a lack of leadership in the confrontation with Islam that pretty much got 3000 Americans killed in one day. An example of the mindless Donkey braying from Klein in his DNC press release: Supreme Court BAD - for 'installing'...

Longtime Hillary Clinton attack dog Sidney Blumenthal "led the charge" in the campaign to suppress the bestselling biography "The Truth About Hillary," author Ed Klein charged on Tuesday. "I've been totally 'blackouted' by the mainstream broadcast media, ABC, CBS and NBC," Klein said on a national radio show yesterday. "They all scheduled me on their shows and then, when Mrs. Clinton and her attack dogs got wind of it, they called up these TV networks and, in essence, threatened them that if they had me on, she would become less available to them." Asked if he "knew for sure that...

Nearly 100 honchos at the ratings-challenged cable network jetted off to the Bahamas for some fun in the sun this week - much to the chagrin of other CNN rank and file who were left behind. TV gossip site FTVLive.com reports that among those hitting the beaches at the exclusive Atlantis resort on Paradise Island are Jim Walton, president of CNN Worldwide, and Jon Klein, president of CNN/U.S.

EDMONTON ? Alberta Premier Ralph Klein is making no apologies for his stinging, shoot-from-the-lip comments about other politicians in the weeks leading up to his retirement from politics. Klein was seen on the Rick Mercer Report on Tuesday telling a national TV audience that Liberal leadership hopeful Bob Rae is politically "stupid." Then Tuesday at a roast in Calgary, the premier made a crude sexual joke about the relationship Ontario MP Belinda Stronach had with fellow MP Peter MacKay before she bolted from the Conservatives to join the Liberals. "I don't think she ever did have a Conservative bone in...

My fellow members of the American Legion, I have made some serious mistakes and miscalculations in our struggle against Islamic extremism over the past five years. Some of these were made out of anger and impatience in the months after we were so viciously attacked on Sept. 11, 2001. Others were made out of my heartfelt belief that our American values—freedom, democracy, market economics—are the surest path away from the fury and despair that have plagued the nations at the heart of the Islamic world. I still believe deeply in those values. I am still convinced that we are facing...

Someone at TIME Magazine has finally figured out why Democrats lose elections. Joe Klein blames the losing record of the Democrats on their dependence on consultants and focus groups. Limbaugh has been saying this for years -- I don't know why it's taken so long for a smart man like Klein to figure this one out. When it comes to politics, the Democrats are still at "Ned in the First Reader."Of course, the other reason that Democrats lose elections is that they're wrong on the issues, but Klein hasn't figured that one out yet and probably won't.Klein talks of Gore...

Ed Klein was the a guest today on Sean Hannity's radio show to discuss THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY. It has been on the NY TIMES best-seller list for five weeks, much to the chagrin of Hillary and her band of thugs. One such thug is Sidney Blumenthal. Yep, Sid the Snake. In no uncertain terms, Klein told Hannity that Blumenthal has been behind the effort to keep him off mainstream shows. Klein is getting play almost exclusively on talk radio on our side of the political spectrum. His message is clear -- Hillary will do absolutely anything for political power.

Ed Klein spent an hour with Al Rantel tonight on KABC in Los Angeles. Ed is the best-selling author who has really upset Hillary and her gang of thugs with his blockbuster -- THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARYWARNING: Put garlic around your neck or hold a Crucifix I miraculously managed to get through on the telephone (what are the odds of that?). I asked Ed to comment on the Soros organization called Center for American Progesss, run by John Podesta, and its offshoot Media Matters. Media Matters is responsible for attacking Ed in the press and warning people across the nation...

For months there had been a quiet buzz in both political and publishing circles surrounding "The Book" being written about Sen. Hillary Clinton. The scuttlebutt had it that New York Times best-selling author Edward Klein was in the final stages of a blockbuster expose of the former first lady, the likes of which could derail her 2008 presidential aspirations. "The Truth About Hillary" is now out, and it has lived up to its billing in the fireworks department. Except the controversy surrounds not Hillary Clinton but author Ed Klein, and the broadsides against him are coming primarily from conservatives, not...

Thursday, July 14, 2005 10:01 a.m. EDT Paul Weyrich: Every American Should Read 'Truth About Hillary' Edward Klein's "The Truth About Hillary" has become a runaway New York Times best seller. NewsMax has learned it will make the New York Times top 10 best-seller list for the third week in a row – despite a near total ban on the book by major television shows. Story Continues Below And despite criticism from even opponents of Hillary Clinton that the book is just too sensational, one of the nation's most noted conservatives is strongly embracing the book. "I was impressed with...

Media: You’d think an author with a book that shot to the top of best-seller lists would be a hot commodity for producers of content-starved TV talk shows. But you’d be wrong. At least, that’s what the case of Edward Klein suggests. Klein, a man of impeccable liberal-media credentials, has written “The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She’ll Go to Become President.” Despite the wordy title, it has shot up the best-seller lists.

ALFRED E."What, me worry?" CLINTON + CRAZY HIL MAD COVER STORY THE THREAT OF TERRORISM IS AS CLOSE AS A CLINTON IS TO THE OVAL OFFICE  by Mia T, 7.13.05   THE CLINTONS--AMERICA'S BIGGEST BLUNDERHear Bush 41 Warn Us--October 19, 1992*         hear*Thanx to Cloud William for text and audio     LEHRER: President Bush, your closing statement, sir. PRESIDENT BUSH: Three weeks from now--two weeks from tomorrow, America goes to the polls and you're going to have to decide who you want to lead this country ... On foreign affairs, some think it's irrelevant. I...

Edward Klein’s book, The Truth About Hillary, has made him quite the popular person. On second thought, maybe it hasn’t. Since its release in mid-June, Klein’s book has reached the number two spot on the New York Times bestsellers list and has attracted much criticism as well as praise. But you’d be hard-pressed to find him talking about the book on television as he’s been shunned by most of the networks. There’s no doubt his book is critical of the former First Lady. Klein is convinced that Hillary has been trying to re-position herself and re-brand herself as a centrist...

hillary clinton is a "CONGENITAL LIAR" "I am not a crook"   by Mia T, 7.08.05 "Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady... is a congenital liar.* William Safire, Blizzard of Lies *The first word I had in mind was 'prevaricator,' which means 'liar,' and the second one was 'dissembler,' which also means 'liar.'" "She's the most unbelievable actress I have ever met," said a woman who worked on Hillary's Senate campaign. "I remember one time at a Women's Leadership Forum event in New York, thirty of us sat around Hillary, talking...

From the inside: "The axe fell at CNN Atlanta on Wednesday, with producers, directors, and copy editors being shown the door due to staffing cuts. Newsroom and control room morale is the lowest ever, with employees wondering who is next on the list. Union-forming rumors are beginning as Atlanta staff tries to combat management's horrible handling of the latest round of Atlanta downsizing. "

Despite the Hillary-induced news blackout, Klein's book will debut at No. 2!   j (click here to see it reeeeeeeally large)

CNN's Lou Dobbs broke the self-imposed television embargo on the new biography of Hillary Clinton Monday night with an in depth interview with author Edward Klein. Describing Klein’s "The Truth About Hillary” as a "highly controversial and provocative book,” Dobbs challenged Klein on allegations he is reported to have made, including charges that Hillary is a lesbian and that Bill Clinton once "raped” his wife. Dobbs noted the "salacious nature” of the biography and "the highly personal attacks that you bring to bear . . . But this is reaching to a personal level that is extraordinary.” Klein noted some...

Ed Klein, author of the explosive new book "The Truth About Hillary," said in an interview the senator threatened the mainstream television networks over the book, saying she would no longer appear on any TV outlet that hosted Klein. In an interview with John Hawkins, who runs the blog RightWingNews.com, Klein stated: "Because of my book, Hillary and her war machine have called every major television network in the United States and suggested to them that if they have Ed Klein on to discuss his book, they can forget about Hillary being a guest on their network. "As a result,...

HILLARY CLINTONSTAHLclinton agitprop machine censors truth about hillary   by Mia T, 6.27.05     All propaganda has to be popular and has to adapt its spiritual level to the perception of the least intelligent of those towards whom it intends to direct itself. Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampfjackboot thugs     Biography lends to death a new terror.................................................................... Oscar Wilde.................................................................................Upstaged, clinton Recycles Tired Canard, Tries New Revisionist Tack.....................     Hypocrisy abounds in this Age of Clinton, a Postmodern Oz rife with constitutional deconstruction and semantic subversion, a virtual surreality polymarked by presidential alleles peccantly misplaced or, in the...

Hannity Bucks Pressure on Hillary Book Talk show host Sean Hannity broke the media censorship of the details of the new book by Edward Klein,"The Truth About Hillary." But one of the nation's top conservative talkers said the book had ignited a "huge controversy" and that even he was under enormous pressure to cancel his planned interviews with Klein for his ABC syndicated radio program and Fox News TV show. "I've had more political pressure than I've ever had in all my years in radio," Hannity said to Klein after a blockbuster 90-minute interview with the controversial author. Hannity did...

Best Sellers at Amazon.com: 1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) by J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPre 2. 1776 by David McCullough 3. The Truth About Hillary : What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President by Edward Klein

Hillary hit by sex smears in best-seller By Francis Harris in Washington (Filed: 22/06/2005) A muck-raking account of Senator Hillary Clinton's life soared into the American best-seller lists within hours of its release yesterday. But the book, The Truth About Hillary by a former New York Times journalist, Edward Klein, divided America's Clinton-hating Right. Some prominent figures branded it nasty and counter-productive. Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton Right-wing websites had claimed the book would torpedo Mrs Clinton's widely anticipated candidacy for the presidency in 2008 and it hit number two on the Amazon.com non-fiction list. Publishers have printed 350,000 copies. The...

Edward Klein is a prolific writer, and what a supremely confident one. The author of three bestsellers about the Kennedys, and a former editor at the New York Times and Newsweek, Klein was casting about for a new book project even as he was striking a deal for an account of Jackie Kennedy Onassis's final days, writing magazine profiles and penning a weekly column. snip His book, "The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President" -- his fifth book in nine years -- goes on sale today. The bold...

NewsMax has learned that Edward Klein, the author of the controversial new book about Hillary Clinton will break his silence this Tuesday in exclusive interviews with Sean Hannity. The highly anticipated book that has outraged Hillary Clinton and her closest friends will be officially released that day. Klein's first interview will be on Hannity's nationally syndicated ABC Radio Network show - heard over 400 stations. Later Tuesday night, Klein will again be interviewed by Hannity on Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" program. Expect fireworks from Hillary friend and Hannity co-host Alan Colmes. The book is so hot it has...

An angry Hillary Clinton has responded to a new book highly critical of the New York Senator, calling it a "work of fiction."But a new report about the book confirms what was first revealed exclusively in NewsMax's Insider Report this past weekend: The late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan and his wife Liz despised Hillary.For the Insider Report, NewsMax pundit John LeBoutillier chatted with Ed Klein, author of "The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President."NewsMaxStore has among the first copies of this book. This book is due out later...

Dirt being dug on Hillary Clinton! (ANI News) New York: A book to be published by biographer Ed Klein on Sen. Hillary Clinton could as well determine her fate in the presidential elections, if rumours are to be believed. According to New York Daily News, the book titled “The Truth About Hillary” will supposedly unearth tons of fresh dirt on Hillary that could mar her run for the presidency in 2008. “We’re just trying to sell books. It will be up to the voters to read the book and decide for themselves about Senator Clinton. We’re not out to get...

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"Creative" Writing at the Associated PressThe Associated Press, that self-described "backbone of the world's information system," still boasts an impressive 1,700 U.S. newspapers among its clients. But for some time now, it seems, a fair number of those papers have been complaining to The Backbone that the news dispatches sent over its wires just don't cut it anymore. Specifically, as AP managing editor Mike Silverman all but explicitly acknowledged in a client advisory distributed last week, the wire service's customary who-what-when-where-why approach to major "spot stories" increasingly guarantees that those stories will already be stale by the time they reach...

On Monday, Jan. 10, CNN’s new president, Jonathan Klein, was sitting in his fourth-floor office in the Time Warner Center recalling an adage a former boss gave him about journalistic principles in TV news.Jon," he recalled him saying, "we’re not going to do just anything to win."The former boss was CBS News president Andrew Heyward, whose news organization was at that moment on the verge of being flogged from West 57th Street to Television City for looking as though it would do just anything to win.Nevertheless, "that stuck with me," said Mr. Klein. "I’d never heard that before. It defines...

Klein lambastes Kerry Canadian Press Sangudo, Alta. — The U.S. border will likely remain sealed shut to Canadian cattle if John Kerry is elected to the White House, Alberta Premier Ralph Klein said Saturday. Mr. Klein lambasted the Democratic presidential challenger as a "protectionist" for signing a letter in April — along with several other Democratic senators — demanding Washington maintain its ban on live cattle trade. Mr. Kerry most recently spoke about the mad cow crisis in last month's issue of the journal Nature, where he criticized the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush for not doing enough...

I always expect a presidential election to be something of a circus, and this one is no exception. In one ring you have John Kerry trying to balance his positions on Iraq. In another President Bush is juggling his own sentences. Each has a team of clowns ready to rush out to explain what the candidate meant to say. I call that the greatest show on earth. But I wasn't prepared for what took center ring on Sept. 8 - 60 Minutes II ran one of its trademark exposes on George W. Bush's days in the Air National Guard. The...

Jonathan Klein, a former executive vice president of CBS News who oversaw "60 Minutes," committed a momentous error when, while defending Dan Rather, he spitefully referred to the bloggers as guys sitting around in their pajamas. Klein is now regretting that description. Among the bloggers sitting around in their jammies are other skilled "fair and balanced" journalists, software engineers, skilled lawyers, printers who can recognize typeface design, intelligence veterans, talented artists, musicians and a lot of military veterans. The guys in their jammies cleaned Dan Rather's clock. They have three words for Mr. Klein: "Bring it on."

Open letter to Jonathan Klein Dear Mr. Klein, you sexist twit, I just finished reading your comment dismissing pajama clad bloggers. "You couldn't have a starker contrast between the multiple layers of check and balances [at '60 Minutes'] and a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas writing." You seem to be in dire need of a reality check and/or an eye exam. Please, allow me to offer my assistance. You should begin by removing the rose-colored glasses issued to you in the 1960s. In doing so you might possibly be able to see that it wasn't until...

I'd Rather Be Blogging CBS stonewalls as "guys in pajamas" uncover a fraud. A watershed media moment occurred Friday on Fox News Channel, when Jonathan Klein, a former executive vice president of CBS News who oversaw "60 Minutes," debated Stephen Hayes, a writer for The Weekly Standard, on the documents CBS used to raise questions about George W. Bush's Vietnam-era National Guard service. Mr. Klein dismissed the bloggers who are raising questions about the authenticity of the memos: "You couldn't have a starker contrast between the multiple layers of check and balances [at '60 Minutes'] and a guy sitting in...

EDINBURG — Temperatures were in the triple digits all last week but baseball fans didn’t care as they packed the Edinburg Baseball Stadium Thursday night to watch their local professional ball team. U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett didn’t seem to mind the heat, either, as he threw out the first pitch and took the opportunity to work the crowd by walking around and listening to the concerns and complaints of Hidalgo County residents. In November, Doggett, D-Austin, will face Republican Becky Armendariz Klein of Austin in the race for newly drawn congressional District 25, which includes most of Hidalgo County. And...

George W. Bush's most memorable day as President was Sept. 14, 2001, when he stood in the rubble of the World Trade Center, holding a bullhorn in one hand, his other arm slung over the shoulder of a veteran fire fighter from central casting. Bush was pitch perfect that day—the common-man President, engaged and resolute. This is the image the Bush campaign is probably saving for the last, emotional moments of the election next fall. It is the memory the Republicans want you to carry into the voting booth. It is why the Republican Convention will be held in New...

Diana Lam, New York City's Deputy Chancellor fir Reading and Learning, was canned on Monday last, forced by her boss, Chancellor Joel Klein, to resign her $250,000 job. Faithful Conning Tower readers could not have been surprised because I had written these prophetic words in this space a mere three months ago. Diana Lam will get her walking papers soon, and the lamentable Mr. Klein will follow her. True, I hadn't figured she would be busted for having commanded that her husband be hired ASAP as a supervisor at a neat $100K salary while ignoring his lack of certification for...

Majority Leader Tom DeLay's first goal in reviving Texas congressional redistricting was to simply increase GOP numbers in the delegation. But while DeLay's first mission was numerical, there is little doubt that his second mission included ending Austin congressman Lloyd Doggett's career in Washington. An unapologetic liberal, Doggett is every bit as partisan and hardball as DeLay. Doggett's rhetorical ability to turn a phrase frequently captures print and television attention. Like DeLay, Doggett can simply drip acid about the other political party. Doggett earned the ire of his Texas Democratic colleagues by ignoring the court battles over the redistricting map....

The panel on the syndicated Chris Matthews Show over the weekend salivated about how Democrats should be able to use "crony capitalism" as an issue against President Bush with Chris Matthews regretting how Democrats are supposedly called "unpatriotic" when they raise the subject. Time's Joe Klein recommended: "I think crony capitalism is gonna be a big issue. All of the connections between the Bush White House and companies like Haliburton and the deals on energy and the environment and so on, I think the Democrats are gonna use that." Klein insisted this is not just bashing the rich: "This is...

Vice President Dick Cheney is on the record. “There is only one way to protect ourselves against catastrophic terrorist violence, and that is to destroy the terrorists before they can launch further attacks against the United States,” he announced during a speech at The Heritage Foundation on Oct. 10. Many people, including New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, disagree. “The war in Iraq and its aftermath have proved that Mr. Cheney was wrong to think that a show of brute strength would deter our enemies from attacking us. There are improvements in Iraq, but it is still a morass,” she...

ZOA Notes Contradictory U.S. Policy 19:30 Sep 09, '03 / 12 Elul 5763 The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned the statement by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell suggesting that Israel's actions cause Arab children to grow up to be terrorists - especially in light of a statement by President Bush implying the opposite. Speaking on the ABC News program "This Week" on September 7, Secretary Powell, who supports American assassinations of Bin Laden terror leaders and aides to Saddam Hussein, condemned Israel's attempt to kill Hamas terrorist leaders who have murdered hundreds of Israelis and Americans....

<p>While the Bush administration ended the Iraqi terrorist state, its ''road map'' will create a Palestinian Arab terrorist state, a mini Iraq. This will endanger Israel and undermine America's war against terrorism.</p> <p>Granting statehood does not guarantee peace. Syria, Iran and North Korea are sovereign states. That hasn't made them peaceful. No wonder a recent poll found that by 71% to 13% Americans oppose creating a Palestinian Arab state.</p>