Crooks and Liars: “OLBERMANN: “This country was founded to prevent anybody from making it up as they went along.”
By: Jamie Holly @ 6:29 PM – PST

Keith delivers another powerful special comment. This time it is about tomorrow’s elections.
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‘And so we look at the verdict in the trial of Saddam Hussein yesterday, and, with the very phrase ‘October, or November, Surprise’ now a part of our vernacular, and the chest-thumping coming from so many of the Republican campaigners today, each of us must wonder about the convenience of the timing of his conviction and sentencing. ‘
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AMERICAblog: A blog for a great nation that deserves the truth: “GOP ‘robo-call’ scandal grows, now hitting Washington state as well
by John in DC – 11/06/2006 05:20:00 PM

UPDATE: Add New Jersey to the growing list of states where the Republican party is trying to defraud voters with fake phone calls.

UPDATE: Fraudulent calls hitting Virginia voters too. In Virginia, Democratic voters are getting phone calls telling them they’ll be arrested (Markos has the audio via the link above).

The fraudulent GOP voter-intimidation scam has now hit Washington state. Other states being targeted by the GOP calls, that we know of so far, include Pennsylvania, Kansas, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and New York.

We are the point of needing an FBI investigation because this is now clearly happening across the country in a clearly coordinated way (across interstate lines, mind you).

The Republican party is engaging in a campaign to defraud the voters and Democratic congressional campaigns by making phone calls to voters, often late at night and repeated, and making the voters think that the calls are coming from the Democratic campaigns when in fact they’re coming from the Republicans.

This is fraud. It an effort to steal the vote. It violates a number of consumer telemarketing laws, and more.

We already knew the GOP had decided to run racist and anti-semitic ads in the South a”

Gone to Croatan

Crooks and Liars: “CNN Gives Coverage To The Robocall Scam
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The robocall scam is starting to get some national attention. CNN just reported about it on the Situation Room:

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Talking Points Memo was highlighted in the segment, which Josh does deserve the credit on this, as he has been working none stop to bring this scandal to the natio”

Think Progress » The Dixie Chicks Ad NBC Doesn’t Want You To See: “The Dixie Chicks Ad NBC Doesn’t Want You To See
NBC is refusing to air an ad for the new Dixie Chicks documentary, “Shut Up & Sing.” Variety reports, “NBC’s commercial clearance department said in writing that it ‘cannot accept these spots as they are disparaging to President Bush.’”
Harvey Weinstein, who is distributing the movie, issued the following statement:
It’s a sad commentary about the level of fear in our society that a movie about a group of courageous entertainers who were blacklisted for exercising their right of free speech is now itself being blacklisted by corporate America. The idea that anyone should be penalized for criticizing the president is profoundly un-American.
ThinkProgress has obtained the ad NBC doesn’t want you to see. Watch it:”

Social Investing and Consuming Cartoons: “‘There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know that we don’t know. But there are also unknowns unknowns. These are things we don’t know we don’t know.'”

Midterm elections: the blame game, George Allen, and more. – By Mark Halperin and John F. Harris – Slate Magazine: “Sexual Tension Unbearable Between 15-Year-Old, Rest Of World”

The Washington Post’s John Harris tells co-author Mark Halperin of ABC to STFU – The Smirking Chimp: “Bookmark/Search this post with:
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Unclaimed Territory – by Glenn Greenwald: More on Mark Halperin’s sad little crusade for right-wing blessings: “Isn’t there something extremely unseemly about the political director of ABC News engaging in such an intense campaign to win the approval of one of the most blindly partisan, extremist Bush followers in the country?”

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2006
ABCNEWS, WASH POST REPORTERS: ‘DRUDGE RULES OUR WORLD’

Here they come…

In the stampede of books attempting to make their mark this season comes THE WAY TO WIN, by longtime political reporters Halperin and Harris.

The political director of ABCNEWS and the national politics editor of the WASHINGTON POST make it official in their new insider tome on DC politics and how it’s played: The four words in every newsroom and campaign headquarters are: Have you seen DRUDGE?

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In an extended 15-page homage to the glories of this site, they report: ‘Matt Drudge is the gatekeeper… he is the Walter Cronkite of his era.’

‘In the fragmented, remote-control, click-on-this, did you hear? political media world in which we live, revered Uncle Walter has been replaced by odd nephew Matt.’

Mark Halperin and John Harris write ‘Matt Drudge rules our world.’ They say, ‘With the exception of the ASSOCIATED PRESS, there is no outlet other than the DRUDGE REPORT whose dispatches instantly can command the attention and energies of the most established newspapers and television newscasts.’

Page after page…

‘Matt Drudge counts as one of the most important entrepreneurs of his era…’

Paragraph after paragraph…

‘One of the biggest success stories of his generation….’

Halperin and Harris explain: ‘So many media elites check the DRUDGE REPORT consistently that a reporter is aware his bosses, his competitors, his sources, his friends on Wall Street, lobbyists, White House officials, congressional aides, cousins, and everyone who is anyone has seen it, too.’

And the dynamic duo get their plug. Hitting boo”