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MEGA meta-post on Cleveland Democratic presidential primary debate, 2/26/08, between Clinton & Obama

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Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential debate was the highest-rated show in MSNBC’s 11 year history and the third most watched debate in this presidential election cycle. The total number of viewers is listed as 7.6 million.

The event unfolded in the Wolstein Center at Cleveland State University and continues to be a conversation, or at least blog and Internet news-item starter. If, after today, I read an uniquely outstanding take, I may post about it, but otherwise, this will be it for my round-ups of debate-related posts and I will move on to posting the remainder of my photos and video as well as my reflections of that day. My list is by no means exclusive – it’s just what I’ve come across in the last two to three days. Feel free to add others in the comment section – just copy the URL you want people to visit, place <a href=” before it and quotation marks and </a> after it.

Ohio Daily Blog and Buckeye State Blog have multiple debate-related post but interestingly, neither blog has tags that I could discern to help clumb all the debate posts together so you’ll have to use their search tools (if they tell me an easier way, I’ll post it; it might be a function of Drupal which they both use). You can also go to places like Google’s Blog search, Lefty Blogs or BlogNetNews Ohio and search on “cleveland debate” if you are a glutton for punishment.

Political science major from Muskingum, Josh Chaney, writes up the experience for the Coshocton Tribune

I was lucky to have made it alive. Snow covered every inch of Interstate 77, between Cambridge and Cleveland Tuesday night, making the dividing lines invisible for most of the trip. I don’t think I went faster than 45 mph.

Yet, determined to witness political history, I made it to the Wolstein Center at Cleveland State University in one piece, my poor truck nearly frozen solid, warning lights flashing on the dash.

Jen Steer is a senior broadcast journalism student at Kent State. (She also blogs at Black Squirrel Politics.)

Her photos from the debate floor photographer pool

Her reflections on the debate & debate coverage experience (don’t you wish you were always seeing things with such wide-eyed newness and fascination?)

Great video from the spin room of reactions after the debate including Gov. Strickland, CSU president Schwartz, U.S. Senator from Ohio, Sherrod Brown

Video of ODP Chair Chris Redfern speaking about young voters

Ohio-based freelance journalist and blogger supreme bar none Wendy Hoke gives her debate run-down here.

The truly splendid John Michael Spinelli, who was at the debate with me and all the others, has numerous excellent posts and pictures and I think video too, yes? Start here, where you can find a summary and the entire transcript of the debate.

Joe Libava, The Franchise King, on why he liveblogged the debate

Also, here’s his liveblog video of the debate night activities with bloggers at WKYC

Here is Gloria Ferris’ liveblog of the debate, also done from the WKYC blogger hutch; she used something called CoverItLive – I like it!

And here is Derek Arnold’s liveblog (Derek – is there more somewhere else?)

Cleveland’s Equanimous Philosopher Roger Bundy who was with the MTB group live-blogged here

Here’s WKYC’s own article about the bloggers among them during the debate

Meet the Bloggers’ debate meta

This PR/Marketing firm has a nice post called, “Social and Traditional Media Team up at Cleveland Presidential Debate” which also mentions the WKYC/Meet the Bloggers collaboration

The most current edition of the Cleveland State student publication, The Cauldron, has several articles on the debate:

In general

The debate watch party

CSU steals the spotlight

Feature on Chris Matthews’ Hardball from CSU

How one student finds the debate reassures his vote for McCain

Pho in Akron offers his perspective here.

Great slideshow from the Cleveland Scene.

Please read this liveblog from Keith (who lives east of Cleveland) at Bad American – he does a great in the moment post as it unfolds.

Ed Morrison highlights how the debate didn’t TOUCH education – how many of you knew that Ed in ’08 actually was one of the debate sponsors?

Ohio’s own Five Husbands comments on Tim Russert.

The Plain Dealer says that CSU stars at the debate, but PD political reporter Mark Naymik blogs that the debate missed the important questions (for the first time in a while, I agree completely with Mark).

TIME magazine: “A Clash of Styles in Ohio Debate”

DrTruth was at an Ohio-based debate watch party and wrote this post about it.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:48 pm March 1st, 2008 in Campaigning, Cleveland+, Elections, Hillary Clinton, Media, Meet the Bloggers, Ohio, Politics, Primary, Tech, WH2008 | 5 Comments 

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MSNBC to re-air Cleveland Clinton, Obama debate 3/2, 4-6pm

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That’s according to Media Bistro – I just might have to watch it from the couch and live-blog it that way, just to see if I really do see it/hear it differently

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:31 pm March 1st, 2008 in Announcements, Barack Obama, Campaigning, Debates, Elections, Hillary Clinton, Ohio, Politics, WH2008 | Comments Off 

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UPDATE: Live from NY, it’s: Hillary Clinton absent from scheduled campaign flight

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UPDATE: Hillary will be on Saturday Night Live tonight, so they say.

The Trail says that, “Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has disappeared from the campaign trail, and her campaign plane, with no explanation. Clinton did not show up for this afternoon’s flight from Dallas to Columbus, Ohio, and campaign spokesman Doug Hattaway would not elaborate on the reason or her whereabouts.”

Hmmm. Any ideas? Check out the comments at that thread – some interesting suggestions.

From the article itself:

“It’s nothing bad,” Hattaway said on board the plane. He added that the press corps would see Clinton on Sunday.

She disappeared in similar fashion Feb. 7, when, it was later revealed, she had flown to North Carolina to meet with former rival John Edwards.

As the campaign turns…

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:01 pm March 1st, 2008 in Campaigning, Elections, Hillary Clinton, Ohio, Politics, Primary, WH2008 | 2 Comments 

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Author Misha Defonseca admits Holocaust memoir is a fake

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Oh well – it’s just that kind of day for this kind of news I guess.

Thanks to SassyMonkey for writing about it.

First, The Boston Globe gives a very thorough rundown and you should read the entire article to fully get it but here’s where it starts:

Massachusetts author [Misha] Defonseca, who wrote “Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years,” admitted Thursday through her lawyer that her memoir was fabricated. Published in 1997 by [Jane] Daniel’s one-woman operation, the book told the tale of a little Belgian Jewish girl who trekked across Europe on foot during World War II, searching for her deported parents and eluding capture by hiding with packs of friendly wolves. The book was a bestseller in Europe, translated into 18 languages, and the basis for a hit French movie now showing across the continent. After documents emerged that discredited Defonseca’s story, her Belgian lawyer issued a statement admitting that she isn’t Jewish and that she spent the war safely in Brussels.

The memoir is a fake, but the bitter 10-year legal war over its rights and its profits is real – and still going on. In 2002, Daniel was hit with a $32.4 million judgment, upheld on appeal, in breach-of-contract suits brought by Defonseca and her ghostwriter, Vera Lee. Since the judgment, Daniel says, she has lost most of her assets, spent a night in jail on a judge’s order, and is about to lose her house, a bed-and-breakfast inn overlooking Gloucester Harbor.

Read the Globe article for the basis of the lawsuits but basically the two co-authors had issues about how they should have been given more attribution and more money, and now the publisher is saying, you know – your story is a fake to begin with.

Another interesting element about the hoax is noted in this article from the CBC:

The writer says she invented the tale because of the hard life she had growing up as an outsider of sorts.

She was often called “daughter of the traitor” because her father was rumoured to have given up information under torture. She was cared for by relatives.

“Apart from my grandfather, I hated the people who looked after me. They treated me badly … [I] always felt Jewish,” she told French newspaper Le Figaro in an article published Friday.

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The revelation comes amid some controversy that had already been swirling around Defonseca for the past few weeks. There have been rumblings that she was not Jewish in addition to a protracted battle she’s had with her American publisher over royalties.

Oo – I see – just being treated badly is enough to make one feel that they are Jewish? Because what other justification is there to treat you badly except because you are Jewish? Read more

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:37 pm March 1st, 2008 in Business, Courts, Culture, Jewish, Law, Marketing, Media, Scandal, Writing | 27 Comments 

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Jerusalem Post’s Chief Political Correspondent: Prospects for Peace

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Free and open to the community (see specifics here):

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:38 am March 1st, 2008 in Announcements, Cleveland+, Foreign Affairs, Jewish, Media, Ohio, Politics | 4 Comments 

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UPDATE3x: White House public liaison director, Tim Goeglein, resigns after blogger reveals plagiarism

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Update2x: This BNET article from 2002 offers detail and insight about Tim Goeglin’s ambitions.

Update3x: From Stefan Beck:

I’ve heard a few objections to a supposed “double standard”: Haven’t other possible plagiarists, like Barack Obama and Columbia University’s Madonna Constantine, skirted scrutiny for their own thefts? There’s only one standard, which either is upheld or isn’t: If you love something, attribute it. There’s no shame in confessing a little inferiority. I’ll do it right now. Emerson again:

We are as much informed of a writer’s genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his eyes, and find a new and fervent sense; as a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering. As the journalists say, “the italics are ours.”

And I’ll sleep well tonight knowing that those italics are mine.

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I wrote about this incident, which began with this post by blogger Nancy Nalls yesterday, less than 24 hours ago.

Now, the New York Times is reporting that President George Bush’s Director of the Office of the Public Liaison, Tim Goeglein, has resigned as a result of several incidents of plagiarizing being uncovered. Who is Goeglein?

Mr. Goeglein, 44, is little known outside Washington. He is a familiar figure to conservatives and evangelical Christians, who knew him as a spokesman for Gary L. Bauer, the conservative who ran for president in 2000.

When Mr. Bauer dropped out of the race, Mr. Goeglein signed on with Mr. Bush, eventually becoming a top aide to Karl Rove, the chief political strategist. He was the eyes and ears of the White House in the world of religious conservatives and an emissary to that world for Mr. Rove and the president.

Mr. Goeglein was often credited with turning out the evangelical vote that helped re-elect Mr. Bush in 2004.

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A review by The News-Sentinel found that of the 38 columns Mr. Goeglein published since 2000, 19 included plagiarized material, according to Mr. Hubartt. He said the paper would no longer publish work by Mr. Goeglein, whom he described as “well respected here by a lot of people.”

“There was no reason for it that I can see,” Mr. Hubartt said, noting that Mr. Goeglein had submitted columns voluntarily and had no deadlines to meet. “He was not under any pressure.”

We owe a big thanks to Nancy.

Why?

Why is plagiarizing such a big deal? Why isn’t political speech exempt from giving attribution? Would what Goeglein did, time and again, be okay if the people from whom he stole told him it was okay? Read more

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:08 am March 1st, 2008 in Government, Law, Media, Mental health, Politics, Social Issues, WH2008, Writing | 17 Comments 

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