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To: Sully- who wrote (69376)	2/9/2009 4:05:14 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

Another Possible Obama Tax Problem? Mark Hemingway The Corner Daily News: <<< The White House chief of staff [Rahm Emanuel] said this week that he did not pay rent during the five years he bunked at the Capitol Hill home of Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn). But that raises questions whether Emanuel reported the rent-free lodging to Congress, since DeLauro is married to pollster Stan Greenberg. And will either of the parties report what could be “imputed income” to the IRS? Reps for Emanuel and DeLauro argue that House Ethics rules allow “hospitality between colleagues.” >>> UPDATE: Both Rahm Emanuel and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (which Emanuel was formely the chairman of) are listed as clients on the website of Stan Greenberg's polling company. corner.nationalreview.com

To: Sully- who wrote (69376)	2/9/2009 4:13:37 AM
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RE: OpinonWeek Mark Hemingway The Corner Jonah, I wrote a column about this exact phenomenon among newsweeklies a few months back, keyed to Newsweek's recent — and now infamous — cover story on gay marriage. Jon Meacham's blustery editor's note defending the story's pro-gay marriage position is pretty much the classic example of how newsweeklies are trying to have it both ways. After trying to track his bizarre and conflicted defense I finally threw my hands up in the air and responded: "Meacham should change the name of his magazine to Opinionweek and stop scolding other people for correctly pointing out that he has an agenda." But two points — you write, "I have no problem with Time and Newsweek becoming better funded and 'newsier' versions of The New Republic, I do think they have an obligation to be honest about it." I'm essentially on the same page, but the ultimate problem in that equation isn't the obvious bias. It's the "newsier" part. Getting back to the Newsweek cover story on gay marriage, that article's, er, cardinal sin wasn't that it was disagreeable. The problem was journalistic. To the extent it was a reported story, it read like you snatched an Amazonian tribesman out of the jungle and locked him in a room with a bottle of Night Train, the wikipedia entry on Christianity, and a typewriter. It badly, badly mangled the facts and arguments involved (the missus had a pretty good rundown). I expect we'll see a lot more debasing of these magazines' once high journalistic standards going forward now that they're free of objective constraints. The other thing I would note is that the desire of the newsweeklies to move in an opinionated direction doesn't necessarily appear to be a shrewd move on their part. Newsweek recently slashed their circulation by a million copies, and I fail to see how a new editorial slant that further alienates a good many mainstream readers will somehow staunch the bleeding. corner.nationalreview.com