Page Six picks up on comments FNC personality Bill McCuddy made….

AT the Museum of Arts and Design Visionaries awards, Bill McCuddy praised the museum’s planned new home in the old Huntington Hartford eyesore at 2 Columbus Circle. Noting that the building’s makeover will include windows, the Fox News quipmeister said, “You’ll be able to see right into the newsroom at CNN, which is nice because someone will finally be watching that network.”

Controversial Iraqi Ahmed Chalabi appeared on CNN’s Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer today. Full transcript follows…

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BLITZER: Joining us here in Washington is Iraq’s
deputy prime minister Ahmed Chalabi. He’s on a visit to Washington
meeting with top Bush administration officials and members of
Congress.

Minister, thanks very much for joining us.

CHALABI: Thank you.
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Mary Mapes appeared on CNN’s Reliable Sources this morning. Transcript follows…

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JUDITH MILLER, FMR. “NEW YORK TIMES” REPORTER: I had nothing but a proper relationship with Mr. Libby.

HOWARD KURTZ, HOST (voice over): Exit strategy. Judith Miller forced out of “The New York Times” as the paper’s editors says he didn’t mean to accuse her of improper entanglement with Scooter Libby.

Has “The Times” stopped the bleeding? And can Miller restore her tattered credibility?
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Public Editor Manning Pynn in the Orlando Sentinel pens a piece on the controversy…

(UPDATE: Accidentally left the link off. Fixed.)

Moore agreed that his review “went beyond the factual associations made in the book” but explained, “I wasn’t suggesting she [Van Susteren] was fascist in the least.” His dart, he intimated, was aimed at the perceived political leanings of her employer, which professes balance but tilts right.

If that missed its mark, so did the description of the talk-show host’s childhood household. Johnson, The Age of Anxiety’s author, told me he didn’t know if, as the review stated, Urban Van Susteren kept his copy of Mein Kampf at home.

Was Hitler’s book “cherished” in that house?

“I can’t say,” he stated. “Van Susteren was a captain during WWII, and there is nothing to suggest he admired Hitler.”
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