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LOU DOBBS IS A REAL CHARACTER, REAL CLASSY GUY: Well glory be, one of the Media Matters press releases has a funny in it! Here’s CNN host Lou Dobbs opening his show on March 21: “Tonight, Senator Obama wins the endorsement of the nation’s only Hispanic governor, Bill Richardson. Is Obama pandering to ethnocentric special interests again? We’ll have complete coverage.” Barack Obama has yet to denounce the Hispanic race, because that would be like denouncing his uncle. [Media Matters]

*AWW, SAD TWEETY:* Chris Matthews opened Hardball today with a long explanation/apology about his kinda sexist comments against Hillary Clinton. Check out the video and transcript on Media Matters — the “WHOA” at the end, that’s priceless. And speaking of Media Matters, screw those guys. They quoted us on their just-as-longwinded, just-as-worthless manifesto against Chris Matthews earlier today. We enjoy making fun of this puerile douchemongerer nearly as much as Mike Huckabee enjoys a good thoroughbred in the sack. But an earnest movement against this Aspies flapmouth? Please, spare us. [Media Matters]

Remember the alleged strong-arm tactics the Clintons used with GQ earlier this year? No? Well, basically the allegations were that unless GQ spiked an unflattering story about Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign, then Bill Clinton would not cooperate with an article and accompanying cover photo for the December’s Men of the Year issue. Not surprisingly, GQ dropped the story. At the time, one editor said the Clinton camp did not force them the to kill the story, adding that the magazine drops stories all the time and for lots of reasons. Well, with just a few days before the magazine hit stands, we must ask: Was killing the Clinton story worth spiking a potentially revealing political piece? Do we really need to see a Smiling Bubba on another magazine cover? And what’s up with your Men of the Year choices, GQ? After the jump, feast on the list, which includes — WTF! — a woman? MORE »

News stories are held and spiked for lots of reasons. But all sorts of red flags should go up when the delay–say, um, three years–is coming from the White House. Shame on The New York Times. Politico explains. At White House Behest, NYT Sat On Scoop [Politico]

Whatever you may or may not think about The New York Times‘ Deborah Solomon and her Q&A magazine column, she certainly tries to pin down her subject. In last weekend’s column, she cornered former Disney honcho Michael Eisner and briefly drilled him on politics. The result? Eisner comes off looking like an ass-kissing, dodgy asshat. Or, in other words: mission accomplished! The exchange, after the jump. MORE »

The scolds at David Brock’s Media Matters think MSNBC was in the wrong for - like us - hyping Ann Coulter’s insane “Bill Clinton: Meat eater” interview.

Despite her vitriolic attacks on the 9-11 widows, highlighted by NBC’s Today host Matt Lauer, Coulter’s appearances on the July 26 editions of The Big Idea and Hardball will mark at least the sixth and seventh times NBC, or one of its cable news channels, has hosted Coulter since the publication of her book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism.

Yeah, but it’s the first time she’s called Bill Clinton gay. MORE »

(Actually, no one is predicting that; we just wanted to quote a Vanessa Williams song. And now it’s stuck in your heard — a bad case of earworm. Sorry about that!) MORE »

Ok, our buddy/tablemate Brian Montopoli pointed this out in the earlier-linked MRC dinner post, but Chris Matthews can’t catch a break. The reactionary conservatives at the MRC hate him. The whiny bleeding-heart ideologues with poor hygiene at Media Matters hate him. And we think it’s getting to him. How else to explain this (from aforementioned bleeding-heart etc. etc.)? MORE »