So how does controversial Hillary master pollster Mark Penn gauge public attitudes towards Hillary and her Dem Presidential rivals?
We’ve just interviewed two people polled by Penn’s firm, and they shed some light on Penn’s approach — including the negative messages he’s testing on Obama’s war stance and, surprisingly, on Edwards’ $400 haircut.
CNN picks up the story of Rudy’s new South Carolina campaign co-chair’s “racially charged” comments. More coming?
Former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christine Todd Whitman went before a House subcommittee Monday to testify about the EPA’s reports on the air quality of Lower Manhattan in the aftermath of 9/11, reports which have come under extreme criticism for apparent contradictions and questionable revisions by the White House. Our coverage of a related Senate subcommittee hearing in last Thursday’s episode touched on the White House’s role in shaping these reports. In today’s episode of TPMtv, we show you Whitman resting contentedly on the reassurances she pushed at the time, seemingly willfully ignorant of the number of workers and residents who have grown sick and dying in the ensuing years …
Late Update: Read all about the Mount Sinai Medical Center study, cited at one point during the hearing by Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ), here.
Another ‘no comment’, now from the White House, on Karl Rove’s alleged role in targetting Gov. Don Siegelman (D-AL) for prosecution.
Cricket, cricket …
Hmmm. How aggressively did the FBI look into which unknown and inebriated American official tipped Ahmed Chalabi to the fact that the US had broken a crucial Iranian code — a fact he reportedly then shared with the Iranians?
According to a November 7th 2005 article in the Journal by Scot Paltrow, the FBI never interviewed Chalabi for the probe when he made subsequent visits to the US. Never talked to the central player.
That’s telling and it fits a pattern. Remember, the FBI — notwithstanding a purported investigation into the Niger forgeries — never interviewed him either when he made two trips to the United States in 2004.
From my own reporting I know the FBI ‘probe’ into the Niger forgeries was a sham. Guess maybe the Chalabi one could be the same.
Onetime staunch Lieberman ally Katrina Swett continues her mad dash away from the Connecticut Senator.
There’s been a extremely pointed debate in the blogosphere — based largely on the reporting of Greg Palast — about whether Attorney Purge star Tim Griffin did so-called ‘voter caging’ back in 2004. Specifically, whether he targetted African-American voters in Florida for disqualification at polling places.
The TPMmuckraker staff did an independent investigation of the evidence. And this is their report.
There’s a certain danger in parsing the recent legal arguments coming out of the administration, and that’s crediting ridiculousness by engaging it. But anyway, follow us down the rabbit hole.