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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.

Surely, Just An RNC Brain Fart

By Marc Ambinder
Jun 4 2008, 1:33 PM ET Comment

So the RNC, in its video on Democrats who've criticized Obama, plays a sound bite of Sen. John Edwards noting Obama's "high-falutin" language.

The accompanying translation posted by the RNC also has Edwards talking about hot air... just hot air of a different kind.

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"Flatulent." ? (In fairness, the spell checker renders "falutin" as "flatulent.")

(Hat tip to CBS News's Mark Knoller for the catch.)

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