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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Lazy and uneducated photo of the day! — Someone just sent me this. I think it's too good to be true, but you can inspect the full-sized version yourself by clicking the image. — If it is a photoshop, it's awfully well done. — Update: Readers think it's real. I concur.
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John Whitesides / Reuters:
Kerry says sorry for "botched joke" — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Sen. John Kerry apologized on Wednesday for a "botched joke" that had drawn fire from President George W. Bush and dominated debate in the last days of a bitter fight for control of Congress.
Discussion:
Boston Herald, neo-neocon, JustOneMinute, Villainous Company, The Anchoress and The Sundries Shack
MSNBC:
Kerry apologizes for 'botched joke' on Imus — Kerry says administration has 'failed America,' playing distraction politics … In an unscheduled call-in interview this morning, Senator John Kerry (D-Ma) spoke with Don Imus about his misstatements in a speech Monday.
Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:
Kerry apologizes for 'a botched joke' — WASHINGTON - Sen. John Kerry apologized for "a botched joke" about President Bush's Iraq policies that led Bush and fellow Republicans to accuse him of insulting U.S. troops. Even some Democrats assailed Kerry, who had some campaign appearances scratched Wednesday.
Bill Brubaker / Washington Post:
Kerry Remark Draws Sharp Criticism — A comment Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) made about getting "stuck in Iraq," which he later said was a botched joke about President Bush, prompted sharp criticism today from Bush and other Republican leaders. — Bush accused Kerry of insulting American troops …
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Minneapolis Star Tribune, Hotline On Call, La Shawn Barber's Corner, New York Times, Power Line, Tim Blair, Townhall.com Blog's …, Brendan Nyhan, The Democratic Daily, The Heretik, Sigmund, Carl and Alfred, The Horse's Mouth, The Huffington Post, rightlinx.com, www.johnkerry.com blog, Gun Toting Liberal, Blue Crab Boulevard, TIME and The Raw Story
DownWithTyranny!:
HAROLD FORD OR JOHN KERRY— I'D TAKE KERRY ANY DAY OF THE WEEK. AND ERIC MASSA IS LIKE 100 TIMES MORE THE MAN THAN HAROLD FORD — An organization I'm affiliated with endorsed Harold Ford for the U.S. Senate a few days after Harold Ford felt the need to butt into the Connecticut senate race …
Jenffifer Loven / 570news.com:
Fallout from Kerry flap reflected in comments, campaign schedule changes
Fallout from Kerry flap reflected in comments, campaign schedule changes
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Times Herald-Record
Andy Sher / tfponline.com:
Ford asks Kerry to apologize
Ford asks Kerry to apologize
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Two Cents, Hot Air, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, Ace of Spades HQ, MyDD, Volunteer Voters, The Caucus, Power Line and On Deadline
Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:
Some Dems Join GOP Seeking Kerry Apology
Some Dems Join GOP Seeking Kerry Apology
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RightWinged.com
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
U.S. Central Command Charts Sharp Movement of the Civil Conflict in Iraq Toward Chaos — A classified briefing prepared two weeks ago by the United States Central Command portrays Iraq as edging toward chaos, in a chart that the military is using as a barometer of civil conflict.
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The Corner, Dick Polman's American Debate, Firedoglake, The Moderate Voice, The Mahablog, Outside The Beltway, TAPPED, DownWithTyranny!, Norwegianity, Riehl World View, The Belgravia Dispatch, Political Animal, The Agonist, Bring it On!, Daily Kos, The Peking Duck, Global Guerrillas, Matthew Yglesias, The Heretik and Donklephant
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The Daily Dish:
Abandoning An American Soldier — While the media is obsessed parsing the ad libs of someone on no ballot this fall, something truly ominous has just happened in Iraq. The commander-in-chief has abandoned an American soldier to the tender mercies of a Shiite militia.
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Firedoglake, Confederate Yankee, Comments From Left Field, Obsidian Wings, Angry Bear and NO QUARTER
Kirk Semple / New York Times:
Iraqi Demands Pullback; U.S. Lifts Baghdad Cordon
Iraqi Demands Pullback; U.S. Lifts Baghdad Cordon
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Political Animal, Taylor Marsh, AMERICAblog, Informed Comment, Free Frank Warner, Bull Moose, the talking dog, Whiskey Bar and FP Passport
Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Letter from Mike Stark — The following is a letter to NBC29 from Mike Stark, the man who was tackled for a comment he made at Senator Allen's campaign stop in Charlottesville on Tuesday. — My name is Mike Stark. I am a law student at the University of Virginia, a marine, and a citizen journalist.
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Allen's Fumbles, Romney's Gain — Even before the votes are counted, over the Republican Party a "thick darkness broodeth" — words from a Victorian hymn, for a party with a Victorian tendency. But one Republican, who is not running for anything this year, will emerge from this bruising season with enlarged prospects.
Jamie Holly / Crooks and Liars:
Is CNN Trying To Defend George Allen's Goons?
Is CNN Trying To Defend George Allen's Goons?
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IntoxiNation
rushlimbaugh.com:
Rush's Interview with President George W. Bush — RUSH: Mr. President. — THE PRESIDENT: Hey, Rush, how are you? — RUSH: Never better. It's a thrill to have you on the program today and many thanks for making time for us. — THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, sir, for giving me a chance to visit with you.
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Cutting to the Chase
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Baltimore Sun:
Governor race a tossup … The Maryland governor's race is a virtual tie less than a week before Election Day, as Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s relentless attacks on Mayor Martin O'Malley's record on crime and schools have eroded the Democrat's support in the Baltimore suburbs, a new poll for The Sun shows.
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Agence France Presse:
Nearly half of Americans uncertain God exists: poll — Nearly half of Americans are not sure God exists, according to a poll that also found divisions among the public on whether God is male or female or whether God has a human form and has control over events.
Discussion:
protein wisdom, Pharyngula, The Sundries Shack, The World Wide Rant and Shakespeare's Sister
Rasmussen Reports:
Partisan Trends: Dems Peaking at the Right Time — In the final full month before Election 2006, the number of people identifying themselves as Republicans has fallen to its lowest level since we began reporting this measure of partisan trends in January 2004.
Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
What if We're to Blame? — "Towering over Presidents and [Congress] . . . public opinion stands out, in the United States, as the great source of power, the master of servants who tremble before it." — James Bryce, "The American Commonwealth," 1888 — The problem of American democracy is (of course) democracy.
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Blue Crab Boulevard
Ezra Klein:
What's Wrong With The Press Corps? — This. Greenwald comments: … It's not just unseemly, it's unprofessional. The point of journalism, of punditry, of analysis, is that it's independent. That doesn't mean it's not ideological, or even totally non-partisan, but that it's not written to attract external approval.