{"id":8799,"date":"2006-10-18T17:33:55","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T21:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8799.html"},"modified":"2006-10-18T17:33:55","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T21:33:55","slug":"wednesdays-mini-report-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wednesdays-mini-report-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday’s Mini-Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s edition of quick hits.<\/p>\n

* Keith Olbermann did a good piece<\/a> on habeas corpus on Countdown last night; it’s worth watching. As long as we’re on the topic, I’d add that rumor has it that Olbermann will tackle the subject in more detail tonight. Get your Tivos ready.<\/p>\n

* In Maryland, Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, received sought-after endorsements yesterday from a convicted murderer and a convicted rapist on the same day<\/a>. Steele thought this was a good<\/i> thing.<\/p>\n

* I really like it when reporters do solid fact-checking pieces like this one<\/a> at mainstream news outlets. I wish they were far more common.<\/p>\n

* If there’s a reasonable defense for denying former Rep. Gerry Studds’ (D) widow death benefits<\/a>, I can’t think of it.<\/p>\n

* Why did<\/i> CNN devote 50 times<\/a> as much coverage to Harry Reid’s land deal as Dennis Hastert’s?<\/p>\n

* As if the existing controversy wasn’t enough, there are apparently rumors about a third page scandal<\/a>, this one involving a 16-year-old girl.<\/p>\n

* The New Democratic Network has a good idea<\/a> about urging Condoleezza Rice to come clean about her July 2001 meeting about counter-terrorism warnings.
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\n* It certainly sounded as if White House Press Secretary Tony Snow suggested<\/a> that the CIA’s “secret prisons” could be back in business.<\/p>\n

* Via TP<\/a>, a University of Wisconsin study of TV coverage found<\/a> that Midwest broadcasters “allocated an average of less than 30 seconds per 30-minute news broadcast to election coverage” compared to “two minutes for crime stories, seven minutes for sports and weather, and 10 minutes for advertising.”<\/p>\n

* Poor Tony Blankley has been watching the election season unfold — and he’s starting to crack<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* And in Ohio, where Republicans are starting to feel a little desperate, the RNC has launched a new attack ad, accusing Sherrod Brown of not having paid his unemployment taxes for the last 13 years. Unfortunately for the RNC, the ad is completely wrong<\/a>. There’s proof<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If none of these particular items are of interest, consider this an end-of-the-day open thread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s edition of quick hits. * Keith Olbermann did a good piece on habeas corpus on Countdown last night; it’s worth watching. As long as we’re on the topic, I’d add that rumor has it that Olbermann will tackle the subject in more detail tonight. Get your Tivos ready. * In Maryland, Lt. Gov. Michael […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8799","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=8799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}