{"id":16360,"date":"2008-07-25T18:40:53","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T22:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/16326.html"},"modified":"2008-07-25T18:40:53","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T22:40:53","slug":"todays-mini-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/todays-mini-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday&#8217;s Mini-Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Post by Adam<\/p>\n<p>This time I promise asterisks. Er, bullet points.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Zbigniew Brzezinski <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/07\/25\/brzezinski-warns-against_n_114999.html\">doesn&#8217;t think<\/a> more troops in Afghanistan are the answer. Both candidates now essentially favor an increase in troops in the area.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>McCain now <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/07\/mccain_embraces_nurembergtype.php\">likes the idea<\/a> of a Nuremberg style trial for Osama Bin Laden. Weeks ago McCain mocked Obama for saying the same thing. This will be disappointing for all the people who wanted OBL&#8217;s execution by beheading committed by people in masks and recorded on a handycam.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Ta-Nehisi Coates thinks it&#8217;s time for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ta-nehisi.com\/2008\/07\/why-some-print-guys-hate-bloggers.html#more\">journalists to stop hating on bloggers<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>After stating that setting a timetable was a &#8220;strategy for defeat,&#8221; McCain <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/205716.php\">has decided he likes<\/a> Maliki&#8217;s sixteen month timetable. But he doesn&#8217;t like Barack Obama&#8217;s sixteen month timetable, apparently because Obama is a &#8220;real jerk&#8221; and wouldn&#8217;t trade his twinkie for McCain&#8217;s juicebox. Nominally though, it&#8217;s because Maliki&#8217;s is based on &#8220;conditions&#8221; and Obama&#8217;s isn&#8217;t, a line that will only work on people who haven&#8217;t been paying attention.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TPM establishes <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/07\/mccains_iraq_timeline_criticiz.php\">the &#8220;definitive McCain timeline&#8221;<\/a> on Iraq.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Brian Williams <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/07\/25\/brian-williams-to-intervi_n_115027.html\">will be interviewing<\/a> Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran. The interview will air Monday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Sarkozy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0708\/ObamaSarkozy_lovefest.html?showall\">really, really likes Obama.<\/a> Remember when the Right was all jubilant over Sarkozy being elected? I think that American conservatives often don&#8217;t realize how far right on the political spectrum they actually are. Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0708\/Race_in_Europe.html?showall\">Christiane Amanpour<\/a> asked Sarko about some of his comments on race while he was standing with Obama, which is kind of awesome.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.feministing.com\/archives\/009911.html#comments\">Can we put the term<\/a> &#8220;tar baby&#8221; to bed? Srsly. No one born after Carter knows what it means, so they have to ask, and then everyone is embarrassed for you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The market had a better day <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/26\/business\/economy\/26econ.html?ref=business\">today than it&#8217;s been having<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The CBC is split over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/25\/business\/25menthol.html?ref=business\">proposed legislation<\/a> that would ban flavored cigarettes, except for menthols, the kind of cigarettes most black smokers smoke. Menthols comprise a huge share (28%) of the cigarette market.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s all I got. Thanks for having me CR readers, and I&#8217;ll see ya&#8217;ll over at TAPPED next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Post by Adam This time I promise asterisks. Er, bullet points. Zbigniew Brzezinski doesn&#8217;t think more troops in Afghanistan are the answer. Both candidates now essentially favor an increase in troops in the area. McCain now likes the idea of a Nuremberg style trial for Osama Bin Laden. Weeks ago McCain mocked Obama for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}