Other Political Dishes Served Thursday

Now that Donkey Dish has whet your appetite for political punditry, check out other servings around the Net, with various bloggers and pundits taking on Mark Penn, Mike Huckabee, media bias, “victories” in Iraq and more…

  • It didn’t derail his campaign, but controversy surrounding the comments made by Rev. Jeremiah Wright stripped Sen. Barack Obama of his image as the country’s anointed savior, writes Steven Stark of The Boston Phoenix.
  • Also from here in Boston, the Globe breaks down the media bias quotient in a McCain-Obama race. McCain is a tough cookie, but he Illinois Senator takes it, 59-41! Obama beats Hillary Clinton 73-27, incidentally.
  • We missed this guy: Mike Huckabee disappeared from the news a while ago now. When the Wonkette tried to track him down, a mysterious “under construction” website was found. What’s could our man be up to?

Mike Huckabee Site

  • The Clinton-Colombia connection - under scrutiny after Mark Penn and the revelation that her spokesman Howard Wolfson also has financial ties to Colombia - goes back a long way, according to The Huffington Post.
  • More on this week’s Iraq war hearings, and the nuanced (at best), possibly duplicitous (at worst) responses provided by Gen. “Petraeus the Shameless,” courtesy of the terrific One Little Victory blog …
  • Speaking of a victory, are we any closer to one in Iraq? Joe Conason of TruthDig writes that Republicans’ remedy for destructive consequences in Iraq is a wider and even more dangerous conflict …
  • When celebrity gossip and politics collide: In large part because of one blogger’s biased reporting and perceived slander against Barack Obama, a new website is urging everyone to boycott Perez Hilton
 

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