Tom DeFrank admits covering up Nixon's impending resignation

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Tuesday October 30, 2007 · 10:28 AM PDT

2007/10/30 · 10:28

On Sunday's Meet the Press, New York Daily News Washington bureau chief Tom DeFrank made an extraordinary admission.

DeFrank said that four months before Richard Nixon's resignation, Vice President Gerald Ford told him that Nixon would soon leave office. It was a bombshell, directly contradicting Ford's public statements that Nixon was an innocent man and would remain in office.

According to DeFrank -- then a young journalist -- Ford was on-the-record. Nonetheless, DeFrank now admits he decided to cover-up Ford's stunning declaration.

Why? Why would a young, ambitious reporter with the scoop of a lifetime, choose to sit on it? It doesn't seem to make any sense.

Well, DeFrank's explanation will make your blood boil.

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Monday October 29, 2007 · 12:30 PM PDT

2007/10/29 · 12:30

Update: I note this below, but the HRC to which I refer is Human Rights Campaign not Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Everybody is talking about Barack Obama's decision to associate his campaign with Donnie McClurkin. Personally, I think the substance of the issue is open and shut -- easy to analyze. McClurkin is a bigot. Obama shouldn't have anything to do with him. Period.

What I'd like to focus on, however, is the politics behind this decision. Obama's strategy seems to be: (a) a significant number of blacks are bigoted and (b) the voting behavior of blacks reflects that bigotry. Obviously, the strong level of support for Clinton in 1992 (despite gays in the military) and against Bush in 2004 (despite Bush's proposed gay marriage ban) belies those strategic assumptions. Not only are those who advance this argument wrong, I think they exhibit a patronizing and offensive attitude towards blacks.

The fact is that there is no evidence (at least that I'm aware of) that Donnie McClurkin's support will help Obama win support from black voters. In fact, in 2004, McClurkin performed at the Republican National Convention. And you know what? Despite the fact that Bush ignored HRC's plea to cancel McClurkin's appearance, Bush still only got 11% of the black vote.

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Sunday October 28, 2007 · 12:14 PM PDT

2007/10/28 · 12:14

As you may know, the Colorado Rockies are playing the Boston Red Sox in this year's World Series. As I write this, the Rockies have lost three games and could be eliminated today -- Sunday.

It would be especially ironic if the Rockies were to be eliminated on a Sunday, because for the past few years, the team's owner has made a conscious effort to turn his major league baseball team into a Christian baseball team, saying: "I don't want to offend anyone, but I think character-wise we're stronger than anyone in baseball. Christians, and what they've endured, are some of the strongest people in baseball. I believe God sends signs, and we're seeing those."

As you might guess, the owner -- Charlie Monfort -- is a die-hard Republican. In fact, he and his family have contributed $162,550 to extremely conservative Republicans over the last ten years.

As you might also guess, Monfort is open charges of hypocrisy. It might not be a case of soliciting extramarital gay sex in a bathroom stall, but is a case of gambling, girls, and a married man - with children. All in Las Vegas.

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Friday October 26, 2007 · 9:34 AM PDT

2007/10/26 · 09:34

I'm a junky, you're a junky, we're all junkies. It's impossible to ignore this poll, that poll, or the the new FEC numbers. How big is Hillary's lead today? Is Barack Obama surging? Who will Dennis Kucinich marry next? How would Al Gore do if he did do it?

In our addiction to the information of the present, though, we lose perspective on the past. It's worth stepping back, from time to time, and remembering that the one thing we can be sure about it is this: between now and Iowa, things will change -- and probably by a lot.

So please, sit back and relax. Step inside, and I'll tell you a story -- and a heart-warming one, at that.

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Wednesday October 24, 2007 · 10:01 AM PDT

2007/10/24 · 10:01

I've recently discovered how to import the FEC filings of presidential campaigns into Excel, and I'm now wasting time like never before.

The biggest surprise for me was the fact that Barack Obama has outraised Hillary Clinton by $12 million in individual donations for the primary campaign, netting $75 million compared to Hillary's $63 million haul.

I was also surprised that almost all of Hillary's $14 million cash-on-hand advantage is useless to her in the primary because $17 million of her contributions can only be used in the general election.

I've put together a whimsical YouTube video with some of the data I put together, but if you want to jump straight into the numbers and my brief analysis, click through -- they're after the jump.

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Tuesday October 23, 2007 · 10:37 AM PDT

2007/10/23 · 10:37

I thought I was reading The Onion when I saw this headline:

Giuliani Defends, Employs Priest Accused of Molesting Teens

Presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani hired a Catholic priest to work in his consulting firm months after the priest was accused of sexually molesting two former students and an altar boy and told by the church to stop performing his priestly duties.

Incredibly, I was reading ABC News.

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Thursday October 18, 2007 · 10:11 PM PDT

2007/10/18 · 22:11

Now, I know this is going to be a controversial post, so I'm just going to get my main assertion out of the way right now before I get flamed by the Ron Paul brigade: Hillary Clinton doesn't think Al Gore should run for president.

Why doesn't she think he should run? Because, in her words: "I think we've got great candidates running. We have a wonderful field -- you don't have to be against anybody."

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Monday October 15, 2007 · 9:50 AM PDT

2007/10/15 · 09:50

I have to admit, after reading Barcelona's tantalizing diary about Al Gore's decision to upload three message-oriented videos to CurrentTV, I'm feeling optimistic.

In fact, I'm starting to get fired up.

In that spirit, I present to you three of Al Gore's best moments on the campaign trail, video-style. Let's do this thing!

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Sunday October 14, 2007 · 1:54 AM PDT

2007/10/14 · 01:54

At first blush, when I saw a report suggesting that Al Gore's potential entry into the presidential election would help Hillary Clinton, I laughed.

Then, when I saw the numbers and analysis (43% for Hillary and 15% for Gore, who was in second place) and learned that in the poll most of Gore's support came from undecided voters or those not supporting Hillary, I was sad.

Finally, when I did a little bit of research and found out the poll was sponsored, conducted, and paid for by a Republican hack -- Newt Gingrich's former campaign chairman -- I got angry.

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Friday October 12, 2007 · 12:58 PM PDT

2007/10/12 · 12:58

With all the buzz over Al Gore running for President, I thought I'd share one of my favorite political video clips of all time.

It's of Al on the stump in 1992, with Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton all looking on, laughing and enjoying Gore's fiery speech in which he proclaims (about King Bush I): "Everything that oughta' be down is up, everything that should be up is down. They've got it upside down, and we're gonna' turn it rightside up!"

In this video, Al is loose, engaging, and all around, just totally awesome. Totally at his best, having fun -- and destroying the elephant. Video after the jump.

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Thursday October 11, 2007 · 1:57 PM PDT

2007/10/11 · 13:57

The right-wing Las Vegas Review-Journal today released a new poll of likely caucus goers in Nevada. (Nevada's caucus is on January 19, after Iowa's, but before New Hampshire's primary.)

Even as other Republican presidential candidates' support in Nevada fluctuates, Mitt Romney's continues to grow, putting him tied for the lead with national front-runner Rudy Giuliani in a new independent poll of likely caucus goers.

Meanwhile, far from being dented by other Democratic candidates' attempts to make inroads, Hillary Clinton's lead has soared to more than 50 percent in the poll conducted over the weekend by American Research Group.

The New York senator and former first lady's 51 percent was 37 points ahead of the second-place candidate, former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, who had 14 percent, while Illinois Sen. Barack Obama had 11 percent.

The poll of 600 voters on each side who said they planned to participate in party caucuses in January carries a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

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Tuesday October 09, 2007 · 10:04 PM PDT

2007/10/09 · 22:04

I know. You're thinking: what in the heck (or, maybe, hell) is a diary about poker doing on Daily Kos?

Well, tonight I saw perhaps the most hilarious moment in poker -- EVER. It was a huge pot in the biggest poker tournament on the planet -- the World Series of Poker -- and one of the players was "all-in."

What ensued was tremendous hilarity. One of the players prayed -- seriously -- to God. The other player's fiancee quoted scripture and asked God to let her soon-to-be-husband win the pot so that he would become a believer. I'm not kidding! Video after the jump.

Poll

24 votes Show Results

To win at poker, you need...

24 votes Vote Now!

To win at poker, you need...

...God on your side.

0 votes

...a combination of skill and good luck.

14 votes

...Al Gore running for President, baby!

10 votes

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