The American Spectator

Washington Prowler

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Corrine Brown , who represents Jacksonville, Florida, and has been even more visible in her support of a Russian energy company, Itera, than Weldon. /p>

Like Weldon's daughter, Brown's daughter has served as a lobbyist for Itera, and along with Sen. Tom Harkin was instrumental in giving the Russian business interests access to Democrats on Capitol Hill and the Clinton Administration. But funny how Brown's activities and possible role in any Russian energy scandal gets almost no coverage during an election cycle.

p> MAGAZINE DEMOCRATS br> More evidence about where the mainstream media is getting its marching orders, and where its allegiances lie, is on full display out in Phoenix this week, where the American Magazine conference is being held. Beyond the booze and swapping of hotel room keys among editors and their "editorial assistants" at the Biltmore Resort & Spa, the crowd listened rapturously to a Q&A session between New Yorker editor David Remnick and Sen. Barack Obama ("I inhaled...that was the point") and a scathing criticism of the media by Robert Kennedy Jr . Both presentations were received with wild applause. br> /p>

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Barack Obama, Mainstream Media, Business, Islam, Iraq, Russia, Energy