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2:25 PM ET, October 27, 2006

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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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Michelle Malkin:
Politics and pulp fiction  —  ***bumping back to the top...Webb responds...AUDIO....***  —  Remember how pathetic it was when the Left tried to make scandals out of books written by Lynne Cheney and Scooter Libby?  —  Cheney wrote a pulpy novel, "Sisters," about a frontier woman …
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
G.O.P. Moves Fast to Reignite Issue of Gay Marriage  —  The divisive debate over gay marriage, which played a prominent role in 2004 campaigns but this year largely faded from view, erupted anew on Thursday as President Bush and Republicans across the country tried to use a court ruling …
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Alan Cooperman / Washington Post:
Religious Conservatives Cheer Ruling on Gays as Wake-Up Call  —  The New Jersey court decision that gay couples are entitled to the same rights as heterosexual couples was bad news for social conservatives — the bad news they were hoping for.  —  "Pro-traditional-marriage organizations ought …
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.'"
Discussion: AMERICAblog
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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 …
Michael Grunwald / Washington Post:
The Year Of Playing Dirtier  —  Rep. Ron Kind pays for sex!  —  Well, that's what the Republican challenger for his Wisconsin congressional seat, Paul R. Nelson, claims in new ads, the ones with "XXX" stamped across Kind's face.  —  It turns out that Kind — along with more than 200 …
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.)
Discussion: AMERICAblog
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Media Matters for America:
Lauer on Limbaugh's Michael J. Fox attacks: "Didn't Rush Limbaugh …
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Ian Urbina / New York Times:
Democrats Fear Disillusionment in Black Voters  —  Last weekend, Jim Webb, the Virginia Democrat who hopes to oust Senator George Allen, crammed in visits to 12 black churches, and for several weeks he has been pumping money into advertisements on black radio stations and in black newspapers.
Washington Times:
Special treatment for Air America  —  When is a campaign donation not a campaign donation?  Apparently if you spend the money to run a radio program instead of paying for campaign ads that run on that same program.  Just look at Air America.  With $41 million in losses since 2004 …
David Cay Johnston / New York Times:
I.R.S. Going Slow Before Election  —  Mark W. Everson, commissioner of internal revenue, said he regularly discussed the potential impact of agency actions with senior staff members.  "We are very sensitive to political perceptions," Mr. Everson said.  —  The commissioner of internal revenue …
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
In the Libby Case, A Grilling to Remember  —  With withering and methodical dispatch, White House nemesis and prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald yesterday sliced up the first person called to the stand on behalf of the vice president's former chief of staff.  —  If I. Lewis "Scooter" …
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.
StrategyPage:
Calling Out the New York Times  —  The U.S. Department of Defense is now taking its requests for corrections public through a website known as For the Record (located at http://www.defenselink.mil/home/ dodupdate/index-b.html).  Here, the Department of Defense is openly calling for corrections …
Paul Schindler / gaycitynews.com:
Email to a friendPost a CommentPrinter-friendlyAbsorbing Gay Pain & Praise, Clinton Says She's Evolved  —  In an appearance early Wednesday evening in front of roughly three-dozen LGBT leaders, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton indicated that she would not oppose efforts by Eliot Spitzer …
 
 
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