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9:15 AM ET, October 3, 2007

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Limbaugh Broadcaster Comes to Radio Host's Defense — WASHINGTON — The owner of the company that airs Rush Limbaugh's show has come to his defense, telling Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid that while he isn't certain to whom Limbaugh was referring when he used the term "phony soldiers," …

Discussion: Reason Magazine, Wake up America, Right Wing News, NewsBusters.org, PSoTD, Doug Ross, Army of Dude and Macsmind

Carl Hulse / New York Times:

Limbaugh Latest Victim in War of Condemnation — Having abandoned for now their effort to force President Bush to withdraw troops from Iraq, Democrats are not giving ground against a lesser nemesis: Rush Limbaugh. — With the help of liberal advocacy groups, the Democrats in Congress …

Discussion: JustOneMinute, The BRAD BLOG, Think Progress, Seeing the Forest, Taylor Marsh and Wizbang

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:

Battle lines are drawn over conservative radio — House Republicans are threatening to launch a discharge petition on legislation that would ensure the future prosperity of conservative radio talk-show hosts but is expected to face opposition from Democratic leaders.

Discussion: NewsBusters.org and Maggie's Farm

Brandon Friedman / Daily Kos:
Digging a Deeper Hole: Rush Responds to Our New Ad

Discussion: Media Matters for America, The New Republic, Hot Air, Baltimore Sun, The Van Der Galiën Gazette, All Spin Zone, TBogg, Norwegianity, MyDD, Think Progress, Horses Mouth, Little Green Footballs and Open Left

Mr. Mark P. Mays / Drudge Report:
SENATE DEMOCRATS CONDEMN LIMBAUGH'S ATTACK ON OUR TROOPS

Discussion: The Daily Background, Hot Air, Stop The ACLU, Gateway Pundit and Crooks and Liars

Michelle Malkin:
Fairness Doctrine Watch: The Crush Rush Democrats' agenda …

Discussion: Power Line, The Young Turks, The Sundries Shack, The Moderate Voice, All Spin Zone, Big Brass Blog, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, Comments from Left Field, Brilliant at Breakfast, The Gun Toting Liberal™, Riehl World View, Lonewacko, Bark Bark Woof Woof and Right Voices

Phillip Anderson / the albany project:
VIDEO: Massa to Comedian Rush Limbaugh: "You are a pompous coward."

Discussion: Riehl World View, Hullabaloo and Cliff Schecter

Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Limbaugh free spirit, CEO says, regretting offense

Discussion: The Gun Toting Liberal™

Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Wes Clark Says Remove Limbaugh From Armed Forces Radio Network, Too

Discussion: Media Matters for America, DownWithTyranny! and Taylor Marsh

Quinnipiac University News and Events:

October 3, 2007 - Clinton Tops Giuliani By 11 Points In New York State, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Favorite Son And Daughter Dominate Party Primaries — Sen. Hillary Clinton leads the Republican front-runner, former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani 52 - 41 percent in the 2008 …

Discussion: The Swamp and The Daily Politics

CNN Political Ticker:

CNN Political Ticker AM — CNN Chief National Correspondent John King is covering McCain in South Carolina, and he sits down with the Arizona senator for an interview to air on "The Situation Room." — Edwards to highlight differences with Clinton on Iraq

Discussion: The Swamp and The Politico

Washington Post:

Clinton Widens Lead in Poll — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has consolidated her place as the front-runner in the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination, outpacing her main rivals in fundraising in the most recent quarter and widening her lead in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, Oliver Willis and TIME

Chris Cillizza / The Fix:

Parsing the Polls: Inside the Clinton Surge — It doesn't take a polling expert to understand that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's showing in the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll is a major moment in the campaign. — Clinton, as the Post's Anne Kornblut and Jon Cohen write in today's newspaper …

Discussion: Raising Kaine

Washington Post:
Poll Shows Giuliani Atop An Unsettled GOP Race

Discussion: TIME and No More Mister Nice Blog

Associated Press:

Soldiers hunt dissidents in Myanmar — YANGON, Myanmar - Soldiers announced that they were hunting pro-democracy protesters in Myanmar's largest city Wednesday and the top U.S. diplomat in the country said military police were pulling people out of their homes during the night.

Discussion: Associated Press, Blue Crab Boulevard, Truthdig and AMERICAblog

Griff Witte / Washington Post:

Pakistan Seen Losing Fight Against Taliban And Al-Qaeda — PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistan's government is losing its war against emboldened insurgent forces, giving al-Qaeda and the Taliban more territory in which to operate and allowing the groups to plot increasingly ambitious attacks …

Discussion: The Swamp, PrairiePundit, ParaPundit and Truthdig

New York Times:

From Errand to Fatal Shot to Hail of Fire to 17 Deaths — It started out as a family errand: Ahmed Haithem Ahmed was driving his mother, Mohassin, to pick up his father from the hospital where he worked as a pathologist. As they approached Nisour Square at midday on Sept. 16 …

Discussion: Firedoglake, Brilliant at Breakfast and The RBC

Chris Frates / The Politico:

SCHIP fans storm Capitol Hill — Small children pulled red Radio Flyers filled with petitions in support of kids' health care up to President Bush's front door earlier this week. — But the White House didn't accept the mailbags, so organizers turned the wagons around and said they would deliver …

Discussion: The Swamp

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:

Hillary Chuckles; Pundits Snort — Clinton's Robust Yuks Lead To Analysis of Appeal of Laughter — Forget the cleavage. It's now about the cackle. — No joke: Hillary Clinton's laugh is now being analyzed, scrutinized and, yes, mocked as if it were a sound barrier on her glide path …

Discussion: Bark Bark Woof Woof

Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:

N. Korea Nuclear Accord Reached — Side Deal With U.S. Involves Terror List — North Korea will begin disabling key nuclear facilities within weeks and start disclosing details of its nuclear programs under a six-nation agreement to be announced this week, U.S. and Asian diplomats said yesterday.

James D. Miller / TCS Daily:

A Thousand Chinese Einsteins Every Year — Humankind may be changed radically by the recently developed technique allowing the safe gathering of thousands of immature eggs from a woman's ovarian tissue. This technique combined with cheap DNA sequencing and embryo selection will soon allow parents …

Discussion: Don Surber and Joanne Jacobs