In Brief - June 5th, 2007 (Gore Edition)
Here is today's quick news digest - haven't done one of these in a while.
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- 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.
- David Postman had a very well written story on the front page of the Seattle Times this morning (above the fold!) - entitled, Gore raps media, ignores rumors he'll run. Our thanks to Postman for featuring and linking to my liveblogging coverage on his blog.
- Joel Connelly scored an interview with the former Vice President which the Seattle Post-Intelligencer featured on Page B1 this morning and at the top of its website for almost 24 hours, with a story about the Draft Gore activities.
- SLOG has devoted plenty of space to Gore's visit- Dan Savage joined me liveblogging and the Stranger's photographers snapped some shots of Gore as he spoke. Dan was kind enough to link to NPI as well.
- Seattlest has a funny post about the event.
- The Seattle Weekly's Aimee Curl also chimed in at the Daily Weekly.
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