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You know, I’m starting to think that CNN president Jon Klein is just a fucking liar.

Thanks to Cohen Jr. for the quick call.

Political Wire has a Brown poll showing Republican Lincoln Chafee maintaining leads over both of his likely challengers, Sheldon Whitehouse and Matt Brown.
Josh Marshall wants to know who’s to blame for the candidate most likely to beat Chafee, Jim Langevin not being in the race anymore.
You may remember that we covered this ground back in […]

Just as they have each year since 1990, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a pay raise for themselves:
The House on Tuesday agreed to a $3,100 pay raise for Congress next year,to $165,200, after defeating an effort to roll it back.
Compared to what most of them could be making in the private sector, and considering […]

It’s hard to imagine any Democrat pulling for former Florida secretary of state and current U.S. Representative Katherine Harris, but when she causes strife in the Republican party in her quest to get the nomination for Florida’s Senate race, I think we can all agree to root for her before we root against her:
“It’s unimaginable […]

Last time we checked, Vietnam was still considered as one of the few remaining Communist countries. But somehow that didn’t stop its prime minister from visiting Washington DC last week, where he met with President Bush in the Oval Office and discussed issues such as expanding religious freedoms, recovering the remains of US servicemen and […]

The President’s speech last night was notable for nothing, except another round of manipulation and the construction of yet more Potemkin villages.
In their never ending quest for hard news, CNN pulled out all the stops, even commissioning a special Gallup poll for the occasion.
Polling, presumably even for Gallup is a science. What would […]

While none of the current Supreme Court Justices have yet indicated that they are stepping down, anticipation of such an occurrence has caused groups on both the right and the left to go into high alert. For conservative groups, the chance to reverse Roe vs. Wade and gain judicial allies on other hot-button issues such […]

**Though I’m giving in (this time) to readers who have emailed in for thoughts on last night’s speech, don’t get too used to it. We don’t usually do instant analysis (the staff at ThinkProgress always does), especially when the only story is that the speech itself took place.
As the President prepared for yet another […]

After being off about the United States’ coal supply by a few orders of magnitude, further proof that the Bush administration can’t do anything right:
On June 7, the President said:
Over the past four years, we have tripled our assistance to Sub-Sahara Africa, and now America accounts for nearly a quarter of all the aid in […]

Media Matters has a statement from MSNBC host Joe Scarborough explaining why he canceled his show’s booking of The Truth About Hillary author Ed Klein:
“After learning the stories were inflammatory, the sources were weak, and the book’s relevance was less than zero, I canceled the booking.”
After Joe Conason destroyed Klein on Air America last […]