Edwards: Hey, I Was "99% Honest"
It's all the tabloid's fault!
Museum quality. Not a joke!** Hard to see how it can be topped. .. [via Economist via Mortman via Insta]
**--though it's from February (before the flip-flops!) ... 9:57 P.M. link
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Bracing overseas perspective! ... Note to MSM: If you've lost Romenesko ....[via Insta] 9:21 P.M.
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Michael Kinsley emails about the Edwards/Hunter story:
AS for your laundry list of reasons to cover it, I think there's one more much simpler: the MSM told a story about Edwards—they told it often and loud—it was probably one of the best-known and totally accepted stories of the 2008 campaign: John loyally standing by his loyal wife as she deals with cancer. If the story isn't true, they should run a correction. My god, look at the things they run corrections over—the spelling of people's names, and so on. Yet they're leaving this huge story uncorrected, and leaving their readers misinformed. No?
5:34 P.M. link
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Obama: "We don't want to return to marginal tax rates of 60 or 70 percent." Good to hear! He was getting close, by some calculations. ... 3:17 P.M.
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