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Political Roundup 6-10-05
June 10, 2005

  • Time magazine reports that John Edwards has been talking to left-leaning bloggers:
    Although John Edwards isn't officially running for office, he is already courting a key constituency for a possible presidential bid in '08: left-leaning bloggers. Not only did the former VP candidate spend the week guest-blogging on TPMCafe, a new offshoot of the popular Talking Points Memo, but amid his postings on such issues as poverty and globalization, another blog disclosed that he had been the host of an off-the-record dinner with several bloggers at his house in Washington. "Gaining the loyalty of bloggers," noted TAPPED, "is not that hard to do if you just talk to them."
  • BlogPulse, a service which tracks conversations in blogs, offers this graphical look at blog discussion of the Bush Initiatives in 2005 so far.
  • The Iraq Smart Culture Card is a guide for communication and cultural awareness in Iraq.
  • The Boston Herald's Inside Track reports that Steven Spielberg doesn't think the democratic Hollywood base campaigned hard enough during the 2004 election:
    Steven Spielberg is hitting out at Hollywood for not rallying around John Kerry in the last election. The War of the Worlds director apparently feels the film industry wasn't vociferous enough in its support for the Bay State's junior senator. Apparently, Steven wasn't paying attention when Ben Affleck, Barbra Streisand, Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston, the Baldwins, etc. prostrated themselves before the pride of Louisburg Square. Because in an interview on an Australian chat show, Spielberg fumed, ``The Democratic Hollywood base, power base and money base really didn't come out this year and I was surprised about that.''
  • Detroit Democrat John Conyers is blogging at conyersblog.us
  • G8 Scientists are urging President Bush to act on global warming before it is too late.
  • The Star Tribune reports that Dick Cheney claims he doesn't understand Howard Dean's appeal:
    Howard Dean is "over the top,'' Vice President Dick Cheney says, calling the Democrats' chairman "not the kind of individual you want to have representing your political party.'' "I've never been able to understand his appeal. Maybe his mother loved him, but I've never met anybody who does. He's never won anything, as best I can tell,'' Cheney said in an interview to be aired Monday on Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes.''
  • The liberal DailyKos blog had some controversy over a pie fight ad for The Real Gilligan's Island reality tv show.
  • Bloggerman reports that John Kerry has been amazed by the lack of media coverage of the Downing Street Memo.
    Last Wednesday, Senator John Kerry told the editorial board of the newspaper in New Bedford, Massachusetts, the "Standard-Times," that he was amazed at the lack of American media coverage of the so-called "Downing Street Memo" — notes of a July, 2002 British cabinet meeting that suggested the U.S. was making all the evidence fit a pre-planned invasion of Iraq.

    The words of the Democrats' 2004 standard-bearer?: "When I go back (to Washington) on Monday, I am going to raise the issue. I think (the memo) is a stunning, unbelievably simple and understandable statement of the truth..."
    Bloggerman also explains how some blogs and media outlets incorrectly interpreted John Kerry's statement as a call for impeachment.
  • Bob Woodward's new book about Watergate is due out next month. The original book about Deep Throat and Watergate, All the President's Men, is also popular again.

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