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How to get a conservative to say “I’m sorry”: put your gripe on video. It worked for U.S. Rep. Steve Israel with his Minnesota counterpart, Michele Bachmann, and for cable host Jon Stewart with his opposite at Fox, Sean Hannity.

In a clip on The Daily Show last night, Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel defended the release of secret Bush administration memos relating to extreme interrogations by stating that much of the details were already published elsewhere.  “It’s been written,” he said. “Go get The New York Review of Books. It’s there.”  To that, [...]

“Minnesota Representative and free-range cougar” Michele Bachmann got prominent play on The Daily Show last night as a key example of conservatives “speaking crazy to power.” At 2:50 into the clip (below), host Jon Stewart plays Bachmann’s recent comments that an expansion of the AmeriCorps program might lead to PC “re-education camps.”

Jon Stewart and former Reagan/Bush I speechwriter (and current WSJ columnist) Peggy Noonan discuss the economy and the presidential race. Video’s below the jump; highly recommended.
An excerpt of Noonan’s remarks:
I think we are in an epic political moment… We are in a real economic crisis, and the American political establishment said we must do A, [...]

Progressive Media USA, led by Media Matters’ David Brock, launched an ad on CNN and MSNBC today that suggests George W. Bush and John McCain speak the same language, literally and figuratively. As Steve Benen puts it, “The drive to define presidential candidates should always be really simple. Kerry? Flip-flopper. Obama? Elitist. Gore? Exaggerator. McCain? [...]