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Atlantic’s bombshell on Hillary’s internal memos not much of a bombshell, really
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... — although, given what Jake Tapper found , maybe I should have. The one semi-bombshell detail, Mark Penn’s strategy to target (by implication) Obama’s ...

EXACTLY what tapes is Mark Penn referring to?
The Next Right — Jen Rubin passes on a great little tibit from Jake Tapper on the document dump from the Atlantic. You want to read this one which contains Mark Penn's analysis just prior to the Iowa Caucus. On page 8, in the scenario that Hillary Clinton comes in second behind Barack Obama, Penn recommends: If it is a two-way race with Obama, on Friday we do a media interviews (sic) and basically say that he is unvetted, discuss his ever-changing positions. Release the tapes. Create immediate pressure that deprives him of ...

The (Innocent) Obama Tapes Mark Penn Wanted Released
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... one of those documents was causing quite a buzz. On December 30, 2007, pollster and chief strategist Mark Penn wrote fellow staffers that if it was a two way race with Obama after Iowa, Clinton would best be suited to launch several hypothetical attacks. "[O]n Friday we do a media interviews (sic) and basically say that he is unvetted, discuss his ever-changing positions. Release the tapes. Create immediate pressure that deprives him of oxygen." The tapes? Or, as Jake Tapper over at ABC wrote: "Release the tapes???? What tapes?" Could Penn have been ...

About Those Clinton Memos
TalkLeft — ... suggests the memos "appealed to prejudice" and in this later post, refers to a memo written after Iowa in which Wolfson talked about "releasing the tapes" to counter Obama. Tapper asks, "What tapes?" ...

About those tapes
Ben Smith's Blog — Jake Tapper and I wondered yesterday what tapes Mark Penn was referring to in one of the memos leaked to the Atlantic. The answer, according to former Clinton aide, is a set of tapes from Obama's Chicago days, showing him taking positions more liberal on issues from Cuba to marijuana than the ones he says he's always had. They ran on ABCNews and in the Washington Times, but didn't have much impact.

From the Mark Penn memos: "Release the tapes. Create immediate pressure that deprives him of oxygen."
Althouse — Jake Tapper asks: "What tapes?" The date on the memo is December 30, 2007, so it must be the Jeremiah Wright tapes. Can there really be anything left that the Clintons didn't use? Here's an index of all the memos. Can you find anything interesting? ADDED: “A word about being human,” he wrote. “Bill Gates once asked me, ‘Could you make me more human?’ I said, ‘Being human is overrated.’”LOL. ...