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Brian Faughnan / Weekly Standard:
What Limbaugh Said — The folks on the Left are beside themselves today—thinking that by dint of a truncated quote, they will succeed in shutting down Rush Limbaugh and taking him off the air. Before lining up next to the folks from Crooks and Liars, FireDogLake, Media Matters, ThinkProgress …
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Karen Tumulty / TIME: Swampland:
Re: Phony Soliders — Via Ana, who is not able to post it herself at the moment, comes this reaction to Rush from John McCain: … Sphere Related Blogs & Articles
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Breaking: White House Faults Rush Limbaugh Over "Phony Soldiers" Comment — As we reported earlier today over at The Horse's Mouth, Democrats and others have been pressuring the White House press corps to ask White House flack Dana Perino if President Bush — who'd earlier condemned MoveOn …
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Exclusive: Dem Rep To Introduce House Resolution Condemning Rush Limbaugh On Monday — I've just learned that Rep. Mark Udall (D-CO) will be introducing a resolution in the House of Representatives on Monday condemning Rush Limbaugh for his "phony soldiers" remark.
Bryan / Hot Air:
Media Matters leads dishonest smear on Rush Limbaugh's "phony soldiers" line Video added — Earlier in the week, it was Bill O'Reilly. Now, it's Rush Limbaugh in the crosshairs as the lefty Gestapo hunts another head. Like the O'Reilly smear, they're wrong on the facts here too.
Anne Schroeder / The Politico:
MSNB-No? — Looks like MSNBC correspondent David Shuster may have deprived loyal MSNBC viewers of their favorite GOP talking heads — at least for now. — This week, the MSNBC reporter "sandbagged" Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) during an interview by asking her to name the last solider from her district to die in Iraq.
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Michael Roston / Huffington Post:
Congresswoman Pressed MSNBC For Retraction On Soldier Killed In Iraq — Staff for Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), who could not name the last soldier from her district killed in Iraq during an appearance on MSNBC, acknowledged they sought a retraction from the network after the incident occurred.
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Devlin Barrett / Associated Press:
Clinton: $5,000 for Every U.S. Baby — WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that every child born in the United States should get a $5,000 "baby bond" from the government to help pay for future costs of college or buying a home.
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US Congressman owned home with another man, took DC tax deduction while voting in NC — Congressman Patrick T. McHenry (R-NC), right, purchased a residence in Washington, DC's Capital Hill neighborhood with another man, PageOneQ has learned. While he owned the home, McHenry …
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Associated Press:
Senior Al Qaeda in Iraq Leader Killed by U.S. Forces — WASHINGTON — U.S.-led forces have killed one of the most important leaders of Al Qaeda in Iraq, a Tunisian believed connected to the kidnapping and killings last summer of American soldiers, a top commander said Friday.
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Huffington Post:
Audio: Limbaugh Calls Iraq Vet "Staff Puke," Claims He Volunteered For War "To Pad [His] Resume" — Audio has surfaced of Rush Limbaugh viciously attacking another Iraq war veteran who was critical of President Bush's war policy. — Paul Hackett served in the 1st Marine Division in Ramadi and Fallujah during 2004 and 2005.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Gingrich takes step toward '08 run — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will open a website by Monday in an effort to round up the $30 million in pledges that he says would be his ticket to entering the race for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Hired Gun Fetish — Sometimes it seems that the only way to make sense of the Bush administration is to imagine that it's a vast experiment concocted by mad political scientists who want to see what happens if a nation systematically ignores everything we've learned over the past few centuries …
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John McCain: Constitution Established a 'Christian Nation' — Presidential candidate and U.S. Senator John McCain discusses the country's Judeo-Christian roots, explains why the prospect of a Muslim in the White House makes him uncomfortable, and reveals that he wouldn't undergo …