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Article from: U.S. News & World Report Article date: November 05, 2008

Advice for a Wartime President (http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2953): The new U.S. president must be prepared to be a wartime leader, a report warns, since he "will face unprecedented challenges and dangers in the Middle East, with few good options and precious little time to waste." In a paper for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Michael Eisenstadt says that the new administration will have no time for a gradual foreign policy transition, as the president will have to act quickly to manage continuing and emerging threats like instability in ...

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McCain 'Insider' Who Leaked Palin Dirt a Fake

Posted Nov 13, 08 9:43 AM CST in Politics 

McCain 'Insider' Who Leaked Palin Dirt a Fake
Source: AP Photo/Al Grillo

(Newser) – MSNBC thought it had a scoop: On Monday, it identified "Martin Eisenstadt, a McCain policy adviser" as the man who claimed Sarah Palin didn't know Africa was a continent. Only trouble? Martin Eisenstadt doesn't exist—he's a character in an elaborate, months-long hoax that has taken in news organizations from the New Republic to the LA Times, the New York Times reports.

"With the 24-hour news cycle they rush into anything they can find," said one of two obscure filmmakers who built up the Eisenstadt character, complete with a bogus think tank and a frequently updated blog. Despite warnings that Eisenstadt is a fake, bloggers and the mainstream media keep quoting him. As for the name, the filmmakers explain, "All the neocons in the Bush administration had Jewish last names and Christian first names."

Source: New York Times

More about:  Sarah Palin • MSNBC • hoax • Internet hoax • cable news • Martin Eisenstadt

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