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Tuesday, June 05, 2007

In Brief - June 5th, 2007 (Gore Edition)

Here is today's quick news digest - haven't done one of these in a while.
  • Seems there's been a lot of decent people in local and national politics dying lately. Wyoming Senator Craig Thomas became the latest loss earlier this week. Our sincere condolences to his family and friends. The Democratic Governor of Wyoming, Dave Freudenthal, will appoint a successor from a list of three names submitted by the State Republicans.
  • Keith Olbermann explored the nexus of politics and terror on his show Monday night in a must watch segment. Crooks and Liars has the video.
  • Fenced into a corner, the greedy and shameless Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is dropping a lawsuit against a woman it had baselessly accused of downloading music from peer to peer (P2P) networks. Because the case has been dismissed with prejudice, the defendant (Tanya Andersen) will be able to attempt to recover attorneys' fees.
  • Fox Noise can't seem to rid its broadcast of suspicious errors. The Republican Party mouthpiece yesterday showed footage of Congressman John Conyers as it talked about the indictment of Representative William Jefferson. Fox has since offered a lame on-air apology which has not satisfied Conyers, who is disgusted, but like the rest of us, not surprised. TPM has the clip.
  • Over the weekend, determined to continue its losing ways, the state Republican Party unanimously endorsed Tim Eyman's Initiative 960. NPI's Permanent Defense Journal has more.
And finally, here are links to a number of other stories and posts about Gore's appearance at Town Hall Monday night:
We may post audio from Gore's talk later this week after we do some editing and compression. (It runs about fifty minutes).

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