(Cut and pasted from WaPo)

Terry Moran and Hugh Hewitt on the Press Corps

ABC News White House correspondent Terry Moran's question Tuesday -- "With respect, who made you editor of Newsweek?" -- got a lot of play in the blogs and on talk radio.

Radioblogger captured the transcript of Moran's appearance on conservative talk jock and blogger Hugh Hewitt's radio show. There's a lot of material there.

(I lifted a particularly choice excerpt.)

Support Public Financed Clean Election Campaigns
In Connecticut!

As of 2004, four states have passed "clean election" laws (Maine, Vermont, Arizona, Massachusetts) laws that provide public money for state election campaigns if a candidate agrees to strict spending limits. Connecticut's legislature passed a clean election bill in 2000 but it was vetoed by Governor Rowland, for reasons that have become painfully clear in Connecticut.

Today, the prospects for public financed campaigns in Connecticut is looking pretty good and you can help make them better!

Although it looks like this will be a busy day at Kos with the nuclear showdown looming - prospects in Connecticut for public financed campaigns is looking pretty good. The two main bills proposed for this effort, collectively dubbed "The Clean Elections Bills", have successfully passed out of the finance and appropriations committees (Monday) and the CT House floor vote will likely be next week or the end of this week.

Please call everyone, your state reps and senators today (be they democrat or republican) to express your support for public financed campaigns (The Clean Elections reforms) in Connecticut. Hell, even give the new Govenor a call while your at it!

CT House Dems - 1 800 842 1902
CT House Repubs - 1 800 842 1423
CT Senate Dems - 1 800 842 1420
CT Senate Repubs - 1 800 842 1421
Govenor Jodi Rell - 1 800 406 1527

State Rep. Jeffrey E. Habay, a five-term Allegheny County, PA Republican who is awaiting trial on ethics charges in an unrelated case, was charged with lying about a white powder he alleged was inside a letter mailed from a critical constituent, raising fears of anthrax contamination.

Remember the Tawana Brawley hoax of 1987? Black activists Reverend Al Sharpton, Attorneys Alton Maddox and C. Vernon Mason quickly seized upon her story as an example of the rampant racism in our society. They shielded Tawana's own voice from the media, yet at the same time staged many rallies, conferences and talk-show appearances to maintain the national spotlight on and frame the burning issue of the day as the need to confront rampant racism in our society - from racially motivated institutionalized violence to the racially biased and corruptible justice system. Except that Tawana was not a victim.

Neither is Terry Schiavo.