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12:40 PM ET, October 28, 2006

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Drudge Report:
LYNN CHENEY IN CNN SITDOWN, SLAPDOWN: DO YOU WANT AMERICA TO WIN?  —  Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, took on CNN Friday evening during an interview with anchorman Wolf Blitzer.  —  Transcript:  —  CHENEY: You made a point last night of a man who had a bookstore in London where radical islamists gathered.
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John Eggerton / broadcastingcable.com:
Cheney Lays Into CNN  —  Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, strongly criticized CNN Friday for its "Broken Government" series of specials in the run-up to the November mid-term elections and for its airing of tapes of snipers shooting American soldiers in Iraq.
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
In Clean Politics, Flesh Is Pressed, Then Sanitized  —  Campaigns are filthy.  Not only in terms of last-minute smears and dirty tricks.  But also as in germs, parasites and all the bacterial unpleasantness that is spread around through so much glad-handing and flesh-pressing.
Discussion: ScrappleFace
Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
Is There Progress Through Loss?  —  A national election, a national decision.  —  A year ago I wrote a column called "A Separate Peace," in which I said America's leaders in all areas—government, business, journalism—were in some deep way checking out.  They saw bad things coming …
Discussion: The Heretik, Cold Fury and Daily Pundit
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:   Peggy Noonan and the rotting pundit class
James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
Deterring Kim Jong Il  —  Graham Allison charges that the Bush administration's issuance of vague threats has been precisely the wrong approach to North Korea. … There are two problems with this approach.  —  First, Allison is simply wrong on the first of his three C's of deterrence policy.
New York Times:
Democrats Get Late Donations From Business  —  Corporate America is already thinking beyond Election Day, increasing its share of last-minute donations to Democratic candidates and quietly devising strategies for how to work with Democrats if they win control of Congress.
Molly Ball / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Rogich linked to all players but Mazzeo  —  GOP political guru key player in scandal  —  If Chrissy Mazzeo is to be believed, her claims appear to point to a wide-ranging attempted cover-up centering around Republican political guru Sig Rogich, one of the most powerful figures in Nevada, and national, politics.
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Andrew Ferguson / Weekly Standard:
Tangled Webb  —  Cognitive dissonance in Virginia. … Yowie.  We don't often hear rude talk like that up here in Arlington, Virginia, straight across the river from Washington, D.C. Here the leafy, winding streets are lined with Priuses and Volvos and the bumper stickers say "Visualize World Peace" and "Goddess Power."
Discussion: Power Line
George Knapp / klas-tv.com:
Exclusive: Former Employee Says Gibbons Knew of Her Illegal Status  —  Congressman and gubernatorial candidate Jim Gibbons is facing more tough questions on a whole new issue.  These questions revolve around an illegal immigrant whom Gibbons and his wife Dawn employed as their housekeeper and babysitter.
Diane Cardwell / New York Times:
Bloomberg Sends Troops to Help Lieberman  —  In the Lieberman campaign office in Hartford are, from left, Korinne Kubena, Ariel Dvorkin, Crystal Cook and Brian Honan.  All but Ms. Cook are on loan from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York City.  —  In his battle for re-election …
A.M. Mora y Leon / Publius Pundit:
DEATH COMES FOR THE CUBAN TYRANT  —  Last Wednesday, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro may have slipped into a coma.  —  On Saturday, his sycophant, Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez, flew into Havana (scroll down), possibly to bid a final farewell to his Cuban master.
Michael Graham / Boston Herald:
Keeping false hope alive for Dem war plan  —  You can turn off CNN, stop e-mailing me The New York Times editorials and stuff a sock in Keith Olbermann's piehole.  You've done it.  You've closed the deal.  —  I'm ready to vote Democrat.  —  Yes, the man who proudly ran Pat Buchanan's campaign …
Independent:
Robert Fisk: Mystery of Israel's secret uranium bomb  —  Alarm over radioactive legacy left by attack on Lebanon  —  Did Israel use a secret new uranium-based weapon in southern Lebanon this summer in the 34-day assault that cost more than 1,300 Lebanese lives, most of them civilians?
Discussion: CorrenteWire
Washington Times:
Kennedy-KGB collaboration  —  History has long since vindicated Ronald Reagan's Cold War policy.  Even Sen. Ted Kennedy, whom no one would accuse of harboring pro-Reagan sympathies, had to admit that Mr. Reagan "will be honored as the president who won the Cold War."  But opinions have not always been so united.
Discussion: Power Line
SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:
Letterman vs. O'Reilly...Round Two...Fight!  —  David Letterman didn't try to hide the fact last night that he just plain doesn't like Bill O'Reilly.  He wasted no time bashing FOX News and doing what few people can do — ridiculing O'Reillys ratings (Letterman's audience is more than 2x as large .)
Erica Werner / Associated Press:
Rep. Porter releases phone records, denies wrongdoing  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican Rep. Jon Porter on Friday denied ever breaking fundraising laws by calling donors from his congressional offices.  He released phone records and copies of his schedules for days when a former staffer claims he did break the rules.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
 
 
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New York Times:
For New York Comptroller  —  This has been an election year rife …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Agence France Presse:
Israeli PM accuses world of doing 'nothing' over Iran
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Audio: Rick Perry's "Mr. Way-Too-Liberal-for-Texas Guy" …
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Al Qaeda calls for media war against America/some belated thoughts …
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Ed Stoddard / Reuters:
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Aaron Beard / Associated Press:
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David Espo / Associated Press:
GOP consultant cuts ties with Wal-Mart
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Wall Street Journal:
Republicans' Hold On the South Gets Test in Tennessee
Discussion: News Hounds
Redstate:
The Choice Could Not Be Clearer
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Steven T. Dennis / CQ.com:
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Apple reports Q4 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV+, and Apple Music, up 12% YoY to $24.97B, a new quarterly record, but below est.

Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Amazon reports Q3 ad revenue up 19% YoY to $14.33B, vs. $14.25B est., amid its push to insert ads into Prime Video, and subscription sales up 11% YoY to $11.3B

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