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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.
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Contrived Displacement Story Of The Day

By Marc Ambinder

Oct 10 2007, 2:08 PM ET Comment

Meaning -- political controversies manufactured by the elite that serve only the interests of politicians and interest groups; that displace insecurities of their respective political bases; that fill hours of cable television; that matter, in the end, not a whit. The outrage is generally, though not always, contrived. One sure sign: when the words "refused to condemn" appear in the lead sentence of a press release.

Today:

The Frost Family.

Just to keep a running tally for the month:

Democrats on Boehner on the war's cost
Democrats on Limbaugh on "phony troops"
Republicans on "MoveOn"'s Petreaus Ad
Republicans on Ahmadinejad

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