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Obama calls on blogger Sam Stein at press conference

Last night at his first press conference, President Obama called on Sam Stein of the Huffington Post to ask a question. The NY Times calls this a 'first.'

It's not. The first blogger ever to be called on at a presidential press conference was Jeff Gannon, who blogged at The Talon, a website funded entirely by the GOP. Remember him?.

How the World almost Came to an End

This has been going around, so I recommend you watch it. Representative Paul Kanjorski explains to an angry caller on a CSPAN radio show just what went down that day, and why the Fed panicked. The Fed was watching trends that morning and saw that big investors were pulling out of money market accounts, and they became terrified that 5.5 trillion dollars in liquidity was going to vanish in one day. Scary stuff.