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CNN had an EXCLUSIVE interview with Condi Rice today on the Situation Room today! MORE »

The White House showed its brand-new “situation room” to a couple reporters the other day (Rutenberg, seriously? We thought he was a traitor!) — it’s gone from classy ’50s board room to ugly basement entertainment center/Sports Bar. We know there’s no one with any taste in the White House anymore, but this barely works even as 24 War Porn homage. MORE »

Last night on CNN, Wolf Blitzer, Agent of Zionism, interviewed freedom-fighter and Jew-hater David Duke. The interview started off contentious, with Duke bitching about how many times they mentioned his KKK days and reminding viewers that Wolf used to be a lobbyist for AIPAC, then got even funnier. We were gonna put up a clip for you, but it’s like 12 minutes long and the whole thing’s golden. So just go watch it at CNN. Highlights: MORE »

Remember that letter from an anonymous Marine we posted the other day? Come on, think, think! Yes, the one about Wonkette and various other political blog-style sites of the non-Bush Supporty Variety being blocked by the Evil Pentagon Blocking Technology?

Well, we still don’t know if it’s true, but CNN’s “Situation Room” was able to milk it for 30 seconds of legendary broadcasting. See the shocking evidence, after the jump.

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* America’s finest journalists hard at work: “I mean, Wolf Blitzer on “THE SITUATION ROOM” gets a gazillion screens, and I get one crummy screen.” [FishbowlDC]
* This just in: Sartre to blame for Europe’s declining birth rate, Kierkegaard presumably at fault for this whole cartoon riot thing. [MediaMatters]
* “They’re going to have to pry my monkey from my cold, dead hand.” [BusinessWeek, Via]
* From the foreign policy desk comes a video that could mean bad news for Chinese-American relations, already strained due to Iran’s… fuck it, it’s just a funny movie. [Sundance]
* If anyone could help us figure out the “George Washington engaged in electronic wiretapping” defense, we’d greatly appreciate it. We’re a little stumped. [WaPo (scroll down)]

A few days ago CNN, due to the Katrina and Roberts hearings “situations,” expanded “The Situation Room” to, we dunno, 24 hours a day. Our question: When does it stop being a situation? As a correspondent pointed out, a “situation” that lasts for a long time becomes a “crisis” or a “castastrophe,” or a “debacle.” All of which do describe the show. Perhaps a name change is in order? “The Debacle Room”? “The Padded Mattress Room”? Make all those large plasma screens serve a double purpose. MORE »

Yesterday a worm infection laid low computers at The New York Times, ABC, and CNN. Here’s how the Washington Post’s Brian Krebs and Mike Musgrove describe the fraught scene at the cable network: MORE »

“The Situation Room” is re-running the entire Bill Clinton interview from its first hour in its third hour. Will they also replay the “analysis”? MORE »

Bill Clinton makes everyone’s heart beat a little faster, so fast, in fact, that it takes half an hour to come down. Which is why, until recently, on “The Situation Room, four CNN correspondents were offering — as the lower third says — “ANALYSIS OF OUR EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH BILL CLINTON.” Observed Candy Crowley: The interview showed “how good he is with the English language.” This awesome exercise in masturbation gives lie to a rejoinder Wolf made to Clinton: “That’s my job, I’m newsman. I try to make news and you try to avoid news, that’s your job.” Well, someone is avoiding news. MORE »