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September, 2004 Entries


September 30

    • Three predictions
    • Tora Bora
    • Closing statements
    • Part VII
    • Part VI
    • Part V
    • Part 4
    • Debate notes part three
    • Debate continues...
    • Streaming comments, part one...
    • The manicure story
    • Donna Shalala gets to introduce this shin-dig?
    • The Torch analyzes New Jersey
    • Hey, here's a late-breaking oddity
    • I'm back, and my debate wish
    • A prediction, and updates a little later this evening
    • A weird e-mail from the DNC
    • Kerry blames 'entertainment industry' for Swift Boat ads
    • Bizarre pre-debate story - griping over the lights?
    • Finally, someone's holding Senator Osama Day Care Centers to account
    • Slew of new polls - slim lead for Bush in Ohio and PA among likely, Bush leads post-Hurricane Florida
    • Errors? Spin? Lies? Whatever you call 'em, they're piling up
    • Three thoughts on the draft
    • Women go wild for W.
    • Dean's post-Iowa surge finally arrives
    • L.A. Times: Bush by 5 vs. Kerry, by 6 with Nader in
    • This myth is harder to kill than Dracula
    • Predictable line from tonight's debate
    • One key vote fraud case settled, one pending
    • Each day, more reports of voter fraud
    • art
    • INDC Interviews the CBS Evening News

September 29

    • Ten Interesting Things in the Hotline today
    • CBS refuses to run anti-Rather ads
    • Hey, will someone show NPR how to use OpenSecrets.org?
    • Serious criticisms of Bush, from an NR editor
    • RCP: Try the "Nicholson in 'A Few Good Men' strategy"
    • The deal with that NPR swing voter
    • The whole story on absentee ballot issues in Florida
    • Rahm Emanuel may not get a Christmas card from John Kerry this year
    • Sometimes, I just don't understand the Note
    • Forget all the polls - reports indicate massive voter fraud efforts
    • Edwards appearance in NJ didn't go so well
    • The next ad from Swift Boat Vets for Truth
    • Kerry on Diane Sawyer
    • The Draft, Democrats, and CBS
    • Okay, I don't always like Gallup results...
    • It was late, Kerry said, referring to noon
    • Kerry's Weak Terror-Warrior Try

September 28

    • Mrs. KerrySpot: "Hey, Mr. Noble, don't forget to make the bed."
    • The draft rumor won't die...
    • More fears of potential voter fraud
    • About those reports of surging Democratic voter registration
    • IBD/TIPP shows tie
    • So should polling samples be consistent in party breakdown?
    • Soros to voters: What's wrong with you?
    • The Ten Most Interesting items in the Hotline today
    • Is a flip-flopper less popular than a consistent liberal? Apparently so
    • An early heads-up on the Pew poll
    • Okay - Bush isn't winning New Jersey, but it's close
    • A political case for Ace Ventura
    • It's an honor just to get nominated
    • How long until Bush critics begin denouncing voters?
    • 'I'm telling you, Dole could still win this thing," I said
    • Quick update on the world of Rather
    • Orange you glad there's only three debates?
    • Whew! Barone sees similar shifts
    • Like a skipping record, some Democrats continue to urge Kerry to 'attack, attack, attack'
    • I support military action against Iraq, but only under Democratic presidents
    • Bush ads keep going after 'liberal' Kerry
    • No, Lockhart's not a good closer either
    • Hitch on the October surprise
    • Why do I doubt 'misleadisments' will catch on?
    • art
    • The Forest and the Trees

September 27

    • USA Today poll internals:
    • ABC poll has Bush up, 51-45
    • Edwards and the language of good and evil
    • Kerry's "secret plan" obsession
    • Early peek at poll results
    • This week is make-or-break for Kerry in Wisconsin
    • Will Rove sabotage the air-conditioner?
    • Read Frum on the NY Times and bloggers
    • Will Bush attack Kerry on the Allawi comments?
    • Forget windsurfing - this is a flip-flop ad
    • How would Bush be doing against Dean?
    • Kerry by two in Pennsylvania
    • Brownstein: Did 9/11 shift country to the GOP?
    • The Swifties get called 'refuted', while the CBS memo is merely 'disputed'
    • Kerry watching the Packers-Colts game
    • Clip and save this item for when Kerry mentions Vietnam
    • Another edition of 'blame the staffer'
    • Could Rather leave CBS in spring?
    • And yet Lockhart's 'puppet' remark was on-the-record
    • A disturbing story
    • art

September 25

    • Pondering the logo, for four weeks

September 24

    • Hey, retractions all around!
    • Christmas in Cambodia, armistice in Safwan?
    • Lockhart didn't ask for documents
    • Kerry on Crossfire in 1997
    • Could big media counterattack the alternative media?
    • Kerry cosponsored AIDS legislation - then missed vote
    • Odd critical quote from Brinkley
    • AP: Bush up 7
    • It depends on the definition of the word "backed"
    • Great moments in Diplomatic History, Vol. I
    • Milbank denounces - er, analyzes attacks on Kerry
    • art
    • A grim headline for Kerry
    • Speaking of polls...
    • Mystery pollster offers his two cents
    • So what did Burkett and Lockhart talk about?
    • And now, the news...

September 23

    • NOTE OUR CORRECTION BELOW
    • Teresa: We're down in Arizona? Who cares?
    • Why was Terry using terms from the CBS memo 9 hours before broadcast? -UPDATE: It wasn't before.
    • I concede, I cannot comprehend Kerry's strategy
    • Yeah, poll consensus looks like small Bush lead
    • Duuuuuuude! Kerry shifts in the wind, man
    • Speaking of missed opportunities
    • Two disastrous moves by Kerry
    • Rove reveals all
    • Maybe the toughest column on Kerry this year
    • Tina mocks the pajamahad- well, you know who
    • The hot debate over the windsurfing ad
    • Morris: Bush should attack Kerry over U.N.
    • The Tribune accuses Kerry of 'channeling Dean'
    • What does Jayson Blair think of CBS?
    • Kerry concedes Arizona, Arkansas, Louisiana and Missouri
    • Bush - 50%, 'moderately well-trained Doberman Pinscher' - 49%
    • NRO contributor says Kerry is right - sort of
    • Bush up 10 in Wisconsin?
    • ART

September 22

    • NBC poll - small lead for Bush
    • Are you kidding me?
    • Say what?
    • Variety reports on outcry to affiliates
    • Well, here's one poll - ARG shows tie
    • Hewitt did respond - and defended Dan
    • Oh, the Times editors did finally mention Memogate
    • About that rumored neck-and-neck poll
    • CBS names panel
    • Rather roundup
    • A Communique to the Pajamahadeen
    • Bush has new ad featuring Kerry windsurfing
    • The media anger against CBS builds
    • Coverage of the Swift Boat Vet ad
    • Kerry was briefed about Lockhart's call?
    • Kurtz looks at CBS options now

September 21

    • McAuliffe: The Republicans did it!
    • Swifties are back
    • Kerry reaction to Bush UN speech
    • Bush up by 11 in Ohio?
    • Teresa: 'You have to treat stepchildren like pets.'
    • In the 'can you believe this stuff' department
    • The Note's generous review of Kerry on Letterman
    • What Coelho said
    • Finally, Kerry is winning back his core constituency
    • Ah, keep Rather around, Podhoretz says
    • Kerry's back up in Illinois, and general race analysis
    • Kaus chock full of goodies
    • What the Kerry camp said about the memos...
    • Hardball, and Kerry on David Letterman

September 20

    • Hey, do you smell a scapegoat grilling?
    • More weirdness from the Times coverage
    • This story just gets weirder
    • Burkett met with Lockhart - UPDATED
    • Kerry up 5 in New York? Tied in Maryland?
    • Watching CBS report right now
    • Want to read Burkett's own words?
    • Assessing Kerry’s strategy
    • A few more affiliate responses
    • What the heck got into Dick Lugar?
    • An important message
    • Uh, I hope everybody's reading all the way down the page
    • Ooh, Dan, you gonna pay for that one
    • Great judgment there, guys
    • Jeff Greenfield salutes the Pajamahadeen
    • So who's the source, Dan???
    • What CBS is telling employees
    • CBS News to issue statement
    • Teresa: My critics are 'scumbags'; Lesson of disagreeing with mom now clear
    • From within CBS - announcement to staff later this morning
    • This morning's reading...
    • CBS is folding, according to New York Times
    • The RNC seizes the memos as a line of attack
    • My insomnia pays off: CBS may be folding
    • If broken clocks can be right twice a day, so can Kerry
    • So is these guys' source for real?

September 19

    • More Sauronic art
    • Burkett's story vs. logic
    • Uh, Mr. Schieffer, about those memos... no big deal!
    • Oh, this will solve everything
    • Zogby has Bush up a little
    • Look, bad terrorism policies kill people
    • Leave it to Mark Steyn...
    • Rather and the Fox reporter
    • The Kerry Spot praises our non-Dan Rather subject
    • More state poll numbers for Bush
    • Activate the Drudge siren - Redstone dumping CBS stock?
    • What would it take for the DNC to dump Kerry? Not much, apparently
    • A radio host fired for criticizing Rather
    • Howard Kurtz & the Post guys deserve the Pulitzer
    • Great party, great readers, both here and everywhere

September 18

    • Bush weighs in
    • A good picture, and more affiliate responses
    • About that phantom Guard and reservist call-up
    • Appearing on Ron Insana radio show now

September 17

    • Meanwhile, CBS still does polls
    • More messages from affiliates
    • On Hewitt soon, and other notes
    • First signs of success with 'the plan'
    • Two other notes
    • The wrong quote in the wrong place at the wrong time
    • Extending the Sauronic metaphor
    • Chicago Tribune: CBS makes all our jobs harder
    • Should CBS critics target advertisers?
    • NPR is treating me like Montel Williams
    • How the Blogs Can Beat Rather
    • CBS digging out from Hurricane Dan
    • Busy day at the NY Times correction desk
    • Kaus is en fuego again
    • Latest Swiftie ad
    • Everything you wanted to know about Burkett
    • Your Required Reading List
    • Too good a joke to not pass along
    • This appeals to my inner geek
    • Hamilton Jordan: Bush bounce 'is beginning to look like a Hurricane Ivan surge'
    • Pierce tells reporter CBS gave him 'lots more documents'
    • McCurry: Numbers 'bouncing around' Brazile: 'Panic button'
    • About the Harris poll
    • Oh, did that make Kerry's day
    • Okay, this begins to explain some things
    • Post: Shakeup pushing Kerry's old crew out
    • Reaction to Kerry at National Guard Association
    • McCurry: Attacking Bush's Guard service 'not something that gets you anywhere'

September 16

    • Gallup
    • Split decision on Juan Williams
    • Weirdness in the Pew Poll
    • Bob Dole: 'Arg. Bob Dole doesn't need two hands to smack around MoveOn.org punks'
    • 51 percent of Democrats believe 'U.S. wrongdoing' motivated 9/11 attacks
    • Two additional points
    • Who is James Pierce?
    • 
    • Rather Untrue
    • CBS vs. its own experts
    • MoveOn.Org PAC's latest ad
    • A skeptical voice on Kerry's new team, from Arkansas
    • Is Kerry losing women? Chicago Tribune thinks so
    • Is Kerry cratering? The counter-argument
    • Hugh Hewitt spots silliest story ever
    • Meanwhile, the Kerry campaign is cratering...
    • Will voters be swayed by service records?

September 15

    • Two lighter comments
    • Want another reason to suspect Burkett?
    • From the Washington Post's other memo story
    • Bill Burkett uses Abilene Kinkos
    • The Post puts this story front page tomorrow
    • Yes, I've seen Drudge.
    • More reaction from CBS affiliates
    • Word from within CBS
    • This poll result, if accurate, is stunning
    • Affiliated Frustration
    • Rather interviewing Knox now
    • Big CBS release
    • Attention, Dan Rather: You're losing Juan Williams
    • Bizarre CBS statement: We're redoubling efforts
    • Meanwhile, the Globe backtracked
    • Yup, Rather is talking to the secretary
    • Timing of CBS announcement
    • How is the Rather interview huge? My take
    • Now it's 5 pm? Uh-oh
    • Stunning development: Dan Rather speaks
    • A thought about hearings
    • CBS Affiliates
    • Kerry on his future cabinet
    • Imus, on phone with Kerry, calls salute 'dopey'
    • Kerry, on Imus, addresses Hillary 2008 rumors
    • Kerry on Imus: Edwards doing great
    • What does this delay mean?
    • Waiting for the statement, CBS talking to Knox
    • The Imus interview was a less than sterling success
    • CBS announcement: Whatever it is, it ain't a retraction
    • The Kerry campaign refutes new document
    • Arizona Republic
    • What Schieffer said
    • The shield is down. Commence attack on the CBS News main reactor.
    • Uh, something's funny about this 'sweet old lady'

September 14

    • Significant news from the New York Times
    • New wrinkles reported by Washington Post
    • You Call This a Defense, Episode III
    • Tony Coelho to Kerry campaign: You stink
    • Here's what ABC found out about CBS' unused experts
    • No more benefit of the doubt. CBS knew the documents were shaky.
    • Can Terry McAuliffe read?
    • CBS affiliates upset
    • The latest from CBS and ABC
    • Hewitt wants hearings
    • Saddle up, Pajamahadeen!
    • The NR editors: No debate moderation for Bob Schieffer!
    • 66 percent of fund managers expect Bush win
    • Special “Good News for Kerry” Summary
    • Source: CBS getting desperate
    • "You Call This a Defense?" Episode II
    • Interesting suspects of who gave CBS the memos
    • Kerry hires McCurry
    • Meanwhile, in the Midwest...
    • New York Times not wowed by Kitty Kelley book
    • Bush addresses the National Guard Association today
    • Will USA Today flip like Matley?
    • This story gets better and better
    • The latest from within CBS
    • Development on Kerry's Navy docs

September 13

    • Read the Post, pronto
    • Very tiny Bush lead in Pennsylvania, tie in Maine
    • Problems with Democratic morale?
    • 60 Minutes to investigate 60 Minutes II (parody)
    • Hey, you forgot to mention the UFOs
    • Drudge's latest scoop on Bush's 120 days
    • Joe Klein's memo to the Kerry camp
    • You're close, Brownstein, now try just a little more skepticism
    • That's one police organization each for Bush and Kerry
    • Hooray! Lots of new readers!
    • Who is 'a person with knowledge of Texas Air National Guard operations'?
    • 'Hypothetical questions are not real'
    • This Is a Defense?
    • How is Kerry going to pay for this again?
    • The shrinking battlefield
    • Maybe this is why he stopped doing interviews
    • Worried the CBS memo story will fade out? Not yet
    • Also note this about the right track/wrong track numbers
    • Stunning nugget from Time magazine

September 12

    • The CBS memo debunkers just get better (and longer, and more detailed)
    • Kerry's interview with Time
    • Rose garden campaigning coming from Bush
    • Kerry's pep talk
    • Mr. Kaus, does this count as Kerry panic?
    • Did Newsweek find the guy who gave CBS the documents?
    • Barnes and another Rather, meeting earlier...
    • Globe: Okay, we meant 'new doubt', not 'no doubt' about the documents
    • And about that Newsweek story…
    • About that L.A. Times story...

September 11

    • Deep breath moment
    • Back to the CBS memos
    • In non-typewriter news...
    • Meltdown roundup

September 10

    • Transcript of Rather report
    • Bad move, CBS
    • Impossible? Not quite. Not yet. But darn unlikely.
    • A note on the 'th'
    • Two new polls
    • CBS readies defense
    • What do the numbers of Kerry's pollster say?
    • How much did Kerry pay in taxes last year?
    • Based on all this, should CBS moderate a debate?
    • About the P.O. Box...
    • McAuliffe blames Rove for CBS documents
    • CBS News new statement
    • Rather: No retraction, 'this story is the truth'
    • How much could the CBS memo hurt Kerry?
    • Is Kerry's problem that his life has 'no story' to it?
    • Oddly contradictory bits about CBS News
    • Harkin still clinging to this stuff?
    • O'Beirne on Stolen Honor
    • So who gave CBS the documents?
    • Mostly conventional wisdom, but...
    • The word from CBS to the other side
    • Maybe Oregon isn't that close
    • The latest from York
    • A fine way to start the day

September 09

    • The Washington Post, A-1, on the CBS memos
    • At what point does CBS give up?
    • One more argument
    • ABC/Washington Post poll internals
    • ABC/Washington Post results?
    • It's more than just the 'th'
    • Fox poll shows much closer race
    • Yet another expert, more arguments against
    • A senior Republican on ABC/Washington Post poll: "Great news"
    • More expert analysis
    • Where is the memo answer? The Online IBM Selectric Museum, of course
    • The Bush campaign's favorite metaphor
    • Dick Morris: Round up on Bush's lead
    • Sharon Bush: Kitty Kelley is lying
    • About that Bush document
    • Has the 'Flip-Flop' horse been ridden as far as it can go?
    • New Jersey - Kerry only up by 4?
    • A reason to check throughout the day
    • The tea-leaves of ad buys
    • New CBS News poll - Bush by 7
    • Kerry's 'Department of Wellness'
    • Thank goodness judges in Florida aren't political
    • Assessing Barnes' interview

September 08

    • New numbers for other states
    • What Kitty Kelley, Gary Condit, and Wiranto have in common
    • Bush up 8 in Ohio?
    • Stop helping, Maddy
    • Oh, that clears up everything
    • Kerry just tossing $6 million to Dem Congressional candidates
    • The race is over - in Arizona at least
    • Which is easier - reorganizing intelligence, or reorganizing the Kerry campaign?
    • Yes, let's compare records on terrorism
    • One more point on Kerry's defense policies
    • Kerry took Clinton's advice
    • Here's an interesting canary in the coal mine
    • A connection the Kerry campaign would prefer was glossed over
    • Abu Abbas, Leon Klinghoffer, and John Kerry
    • Kerry on war costs
    • Impressions from the Kerry Iraq speech
    • Kerry speaking on Iraq right now
    • Gillespie memo on attacks on Bush
    • Kerry speech today to resolve Iraq?
    • At what point do flip-flops turn into mush?
    • Liars!
    • What's a reliable witness to the Globe?
    • Bush pre-spin on Kerry's speech today
    • Hey, how late can a 527 form and run ads?

September 07

    • Media looking into Bush National Guard service again
    • Two debates?
    • Kerry, summarized in two sentences
    • What's the deal in Ohio?
    • About that Kitty Kelley book...
    • At what point is Missouri taken off swing state list?
    • The 1,000th soldier has died in Iraq
    • Tough talk from Cheney
    • Do I hear Kerry press aides banging their heads against the wall?
    • NBC notices Kerry hecklers
    • Where the Bush-is-dropping-one-debate rumor started
    • Deficit analysis
    • Any thoughts on the Russian school massacre, Senator?
    • Two bits of gun-related news
    • Bush camp noticed odd echo
    • You want some Bush team optimism?
    • Indeed, Mr. President. Indeed.
    • Real Clear Analysis
    • Mayday! Mayday! Pessimistic Democrat in audience!
    • How much more shaking can they do?
    • Around the web this morning...
    • Kerry's got a gun

September 06

    • New Jersey getting tighter?
    • Kerry's crucial decision to focus on Vietnam
    • Edwards 'taken aback' by Kerry rhetoric?
    • Gallup - solid good news for the Bush camp
    • Kerry and Cheney on allies
    • Weren't you with that other Massachusetts Democrat running for president?
    • Years from now, this will be conventional wisdom
    • Note concludes Chaos in Camp Kerry
    • A Kerry Camp Scorecard
    • From his hospital bed, Clinton can still give advice
    • A disturbing story

September 05

    • New poll in Minnesota
    • Some caution on Newsweek poll
    • Get better Teresa
    • Viewers and schedules
    • Kerry's media fans: Now officially cuckoo for cocoa puffs

September 04

    • Doh!
    • Bad option one: He was drunk. Bad option two: He was sober.
    • Just another slow news Friday
    • Wow - verification of big bump

September 03

    • John Kerry Steps in It
    • Goodnight, good readers...
    • Kondrake: Kerry speech 'incredibly petty'

September 02

    • Kerry implodes
    • Unnerving false alarm
    • Kerry and Edwards look cheap right now
    • Initial take on the finished speech
    • Tomorrow's headline: 'Bush attacks Old Gray Lady'
    • Zogby
    • George W. Bush: The Natural, in baseball at least
    • More speech preview thoughts...
    • He's twice the HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo was
    • Advance text... of Kerry's speech this evening
    • Part Peggy Noonan, part J.R.R. Tolkien
    • Three new Bush ads
    • Back in the media center
    • 21st century tactics for a 21st century president?
    • 'And this is our son, born in 2005, Zell'
    • How did Kerry do before the veterans?
    • Sorry Terry, kids love Zell!
    • Early indicator of a bounce?
    • More McAuliffe and Zell
    • The poorly-chosen words from Vilsack
    • More word from the Street
    • As I was saying, John Street needs to stop speaking
    • New York Mayors get foreign policy, but not Philly’s
    • Terry McAuliffe gets the vapors over Miller
    • What, are we choosing sides in a pickup game?
    • Vilsack and a mayor
    • Morning with McAuliffe and mayors
    • Trippi: Heck, I could run an imploding campaign
    • The Miller-Matthews transcript
    • The respective moods at the conventions

September 01

    • Frank Luntz’s focus group on MSNBC
    • Zell vs. Chris Matthews! The Skirmish in Herald Square!
    • Official and unofficial DNC counterspin on Zell
    • Cool, calm Cheney
    • At this rate, the GOP won't want Zell to retire
    • Spitballs!
    • An impending bombshell?
    • On paper, Zell does have a barnburner
    • In the arena
    • Dry eyes and wet eyes
    • Hughes wrote the Bush twin routine?
    • News elsewhere in the world
    • BOOM! Rove vs. McPeak on 'tarnishing vets'
    • Another classic from McAuliffe
    • An insider's look at New Hampshire
    • FDNY to endorse Bush
    • Kerry's salute
    • Off to midafternoon meeting...
    • Here's the report from Nashville
    • Three ominous signs for Kerry
    • One last comment from Vilsack
    • McAuliffe and Lautenberg on Zell Miller
    • Merrill McPeak, on the attack
    • More Terry: We were nice in Boston
    • Terry on the Kerry shakeup rumors
    • Terry on Kerry's schedule and ground game
    • More from the DNC press conference
    • Lautenberg on Cheney and Halliburton
    • From the DNC rapid response event
    • Wednesday morning
    • The Fourth Swift Boat Vet ad, 'Medals'

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