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Dallas Morning News also reported on HIV meds foun...

2009-11-19T12:04:43.273-05:00

Dallas Morning News also reported on HIV meds found in Hasan's apartment. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/111209dntexhasanapartment.2a8606e13.html

Ben Smith at Politico wrote about the Clinton conn...

2009-11-18T15:20:54.883-05:00

Ben Smith at Politico wrote about the Clinton connection a couple of years ago:

The political world has been holding its nose for the last twenty-four hours while peering at the weekly tabloid National Enquirer, which published a story yesterday alleging that presidential candidate John Edwards had an extra-marital affair.

"The story is false," Edwards told reporters in South Carolina today, according to a reporter who was there.

What the tabloid's readers, in politics and out, may not know is that a key owner of the Enquirer is a prominent New York investment banker and one of Hillary Clinton's key backers, Roger Altman. Altman was an official in the first Clinton administration, and his name is often mentioned as a possible Clinton Treasury Secretary.

The investment boutique which Altman founded and chairs, Evercore Partners, bought a controlling stake in American Media, which publishes the Enquirer, in 1999, which it still holds with a partner. Evercore's president, Austin Beutner, sits on American Media's Board of Directors, according to Evercore's website.

A spokesman for American Media, Richard Valvo, said in an email that Altman has "no involvement in editorial, ever." He said that Evercore owns 20 percent of the company through an investment fund. Altman didn't respond to an email seeking comment or to a message left with his secretary.

American Media has also published lurid and negative stories about the Clintons since its acquisition.

Yesterday's National Enquirer story was mirrored by a pair of stories in the Huffington Post -- whose public face, Arianna Huffington, is a harsh critic of Clinton. The Huffington Post stories implied that the Edwards campaign was concerned about its relationship with a film-maker, Rielle Hunter, who had shot web videos for Edwards. The stories stopped short of directly suggesting the candidate had a relationship with her, something Mickey Kaus made explicit on Slate yesterday.

"The MSM seems to be strenuously trying to not report it," Kaus wrote, and indeed, aside from a disapproving link to Kaus's item on the website of the New Republic, and gleeful coverage on the gossip blog Wonkette, the story has mostly stayed out of the old-line press. But it's unclear whether that reluctance is the result of Clinton-era neurosis about the topic of sex, or a less fraught sense that there simply isn't much to report here, particularly in the case of a candidate who lacks the media wattage and poll numbers of his rivals.

Spooknp...I would not mind being shipped off to fi...

2009-11-18T10:32:05.858-05:00

Spooknp...I would not mind being shipped off to fight my own people if "my people" were violent and treated women as property and slaves.

You bet, Mike. Don't forget the publication is...

2009-11-18T08:25:16.502-05:00

You bet, Mike. Don't forget the publication is run by a close friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton. This is the same publication that exposed John Edwards love child while all of the mainstream media ignored the story. You can laugh, but the Enquirer has broke many big stories over the years.

Come on Gary - the National Enquirer???

2009-11-18T00:22:17.556-05:00

Come on Gary - the National Enquirer???

It's refreshing to see a candidate expose Cars...

2009-11-17T15:26:14.541-05:00

It's refreshing to see a candidate expose Carson for what he is...an uninformed arrogant idiot.

Please lord oh please gerrymander me out of his di...

2009-11-17T14:26:26.063-05:00

Please lord oh please gerrymander me out of his district, I am begging you.

"...The fact that he is Muslim is wholly imma...

2009-11-17T09:04:41.503-05:00

"...The fact that he is Muslim is wholly immaterial to his actions in the larger sense..."

How many Catholics, Methodists, Baptists, Jews, Christians, or 7-Day Advantists have you EVER heard cry, "Allah Akbar!" just before cutting off a prisoner's head, or shooting them in the back?

This "political correctness" CRAP has GOT to STOP!

If this is true, then Obama's promise to end &...

2009-11-17T04:24:01.266-05:00

If this is true, then Obama's promise to end "Don't ask, don't tell" might have played a part in why the attack occurred. If he was gay, then he can't come out due to his religion. However, by coming out, he gets out of being deployed. Does anyone know when the deployment was to start? Maybe he had decided to plan to come out of the closet right before leaving, but Obama's recent speech of ending the ban on homosexuals scared him into thinking that even if he came out, nothing would happen and he would be shipped off to fight what he viewed as his own people??