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Prickly Peacock nixes Chicks — NBC cancels ads for Dixie docu 'Sing' … The Weinstein Co. is claiming that NBC and the CW have refused to air national ads for the new Dixie Chicks docu "Shut Up & Sing." — But while the Peacock has specifically said it won't accept the spots …
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Judd / Think Progress:
The Dixie Chicks Ad NBC Doesn't Want You To See — NBC is refusing to air an ad for the new Dixie Chicks documentary, "Shut Up & Sing." Variety reports, "NBC's commercial clearance department said in writing that it 'cannot accept these spots as they are disparaging to President Bush.'"
Nathan Burchfiel / CNSNews:
Webb Says His Novels 'Inappropriate' for News Radio — (CNSNews.com) - In an interview on Washington Post Radio Friday morning, Jim Webb, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Virginia, said excerpts of his novels are "a little bit inappropriate" to be read on news radio.
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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Buzz in Virginia — Emails began pouring in earlier today about a rumor on Capitol Hill about some trouble in Sen. George Allen's (R-VA) divorce file. Josh Marshall and others cannot get a response from the Allen campaign. — It seems everyone is emptying their opposition research files today.
Graham Allison / Washington Post:
Deterring Kim Jong Il — In an interview aired last week, George Stephanopoulos put the question to President Bush: What would he do if "North Korea sold nukes to Iran or al-Qaeda?" Bush replied, "They'd be held to account." — Seeking specifics, Stephanopoulos asked: "What does that mean?"
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Geoff Elliott / NEWS.com.au:
Australia 'a nuclear threat' — HAROLD Ford, a handsome 36-year-old from Tennessee, has become one of the sensations of the mid-term elections in the US and a reason why Democrats are a good chance of winning back control of the US Congress for the first time in 12 years.
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Tony Snow-Dick Cheney-waterboarding-a dunk in the water — Tony Snow was trying to dance around the fact that Dick Cheney is all for water-boarding no matter how he tries to spin it. Trying to frame water-boarding as a dunk in the water is not fooling anybody, Tony. — CBS has the video
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Lynne Cheney deflects Dick Cheney's torture remarks by using the "liberal bias" meme — Lynne Cheney came prepared to The Situation Room with the classic conservative tool-"liberal bias," as a way to deflect criticisms of her husband's awful water-boarding remarks. And did she ever apply it.
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Hugh Hewitt / Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
The Latest October Surprise: Lynne Cheney — "Wolf, I have nothing to explain. Jim Webb has a lot to explain" — That was Lynne Cheney an hour ago on CNN. — Wolf Blitzer attempted to sandbag Lynne Cheney today, but that the former Chair of the NEH wasn't buying any of it.
Nick Bryant / BBC:
Australia's Muslims fear backlash — A few weeks ago, I happened to interview Sheikh Taj el-Din al-Hilali outside the Lakemba Mosque in Sydney where he delivered his controversial sermon. — A softly-spoken man, who clearly commands both enormous respect and affection within his community …
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Daily Mail:
Oh my god, South Park mocks Irwin — The creators of South Park have never been afraid to upset celebrities - and many of the show's viewers. — From jokes about religion and homosexuality to four-letter tirades, Trey Parker and Matt Stone have always mixed shock tactics with satire in the hit cartoon series.
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Rasmussen Reports:
Missouri Senate: Talent by Two — Talent (R) 48% McCaskill 46% — In the contest of inches that has marked the Missouri Senate race from the start, the most recent Rasmussen Reports election survey shows incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Jim Talent leading Claire McCaskill 48% to 46% (see crosstabs).
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Judd / Think Progress:
Michael J. Fox: 'I Could Give a Damn About Rush Limbaugh's Pity...I'm Not A Victim' — Rush Limbaugh has smeared Michael J. Fox, claiming that he exaggerated the symptoms of his Parkinson's disease in an ad supporting embryonic stem cell research. (He also mocked Fox by impersonating tremors associated with the disease on air.)
Jeff Greenfield / CNN:
Where the right went wrong — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Fifty years ago, when a 29-year-old Yale graduate named William F. Buckley Jr. funded National Review magazine, conservatism was a small insurgency, fighting the dominant tide of liberalism that had governed the United States for a quarter century.
Steven T. Dennis / CQ.com:
Investigators Say Speaker's Aide Hindered Inquiry of Hill Security Contracts — Two former House committee investigators who were examining Capitol Hill security upgrades said a senior aide to Speaker J. Dennis Hastert hindered their efforts before they were abruptly ordered to stop their probe last year.
Elaine Ganley / Associated Press:
2 public buses torched in Paris suburb — CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS, France - Police deployed 4,000 reinforcements as marauding youths torched at least two public buses Friday, the anniversary of the deaths of two teenagers that ignited weeks of riots in largely immigrant housing projects across France.
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George Lakoff / New York Times:
Staying the Course Right Over a Cliff — THE Bush administration has finally been caught in its own language trap. — "That is not a stay-the-course policy," Tony Snow, the White House press secretary, declared on Monday. — The first rule of using negatives is that negating a frame activates the frame.
John M. Broder / New York Times:
Democrats Are Divided on a Solution for Iraq — If the Nov. 7 election in the United States is a referendum on the Iraq war, what are the choices? — President Bush admitted Wednesday that things were not going as well as he had hoped in Iraq and that he was adjusting tactics on the ground …
Virginia H. Mannering / bea.gov:
News Release: Gross Domestic Product — In order to view the PDF files on this page, the free Adobe Acrobat Reader must be installed. — Recorded message: (202) 606-5306 — GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT: THIRD QUARTER 2006 (ADVANCE) — Real gross domestic product …
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