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9:25 PM ET, October 11, 2007

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Faiz / Think Progress:
EXCLUSIVE: E-mail Reveals That McConnell Staffer Propagated Smear Campaign Against Graeme Frost  —  Yesterday, ThinkProgress reported that there was mounting evidence that a staffer for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) may have been involved in the right-wing campaign to smear Graeme Frost and his family.
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Faiz / Think Progress:
CNN Pins Blame On Democrats For Right-Wing Smear Of 12-Year Old Boy  —  This morning, CNN aired its first report on the right-wing smear campaign against 12-year old SCHIP recipient Graeme Frost.  CNN pinned the blame on Democrats for assault on the Frost family.
Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
WHAT IS A "SMEAR?"  WHAT IS AN "ATTACK?"  AND WHAT CONSTITUTES "DEBATE?"  —  I didn't want to write about the SCHIP imbroglio again today but frankly, I find it fascinating that simply by writing about it, I am accused of "smearing" or "swiftboating" a 12 year old boy.  —  Are many on the left brain dead?
Amy Ridenour / Townhall.com:
SCHIP, Graeme Frost, and the Bloggers
Discussion: QandO, Balloon Juice and Sadly, No!
Faiz / Think Progress:
Rep. Murphy on smear of Graeme Frost.
Discussion: The Gavel
Fox News:
Columnist Ann Coulter Shocks Cable TV Show, Declaring 'Jews Need to Be Perfected by Becoming Christians'  —  Slash-and-burn columnist Ann Coulter shocked a cable TV talk-show audience Monday when she declared that Jews need to be "perfected" by becoming Christians, and that America would be better off if everyone were Christian.
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Editor and Publisher:
Ann Coulter on CNBC Show: Jews Need 'Perfecting'  —  NEW YORK Appearing on Donny Deutsch's CNBC show, "The Big Idea," on Monday night, columnist/author Ann Coulter suggested that the U.S. would be a better place if there weren't any Jewish people and that they had "perfected" themselves into — Christians.
Little Green Footballs:
Media Matters Scandal of the Week  —  Well, judging from my email, a lot of people want to discuss the latest manufactured Media Matters controversy, Ann Coulter's statement that "Jews Need to Be Perfected by Becoming Christians."  —  I recommend reading the transcript at the above link …
The Raw Story:
Jewish group calls on media to boycott right wing author  —  The National Jewish Democratic Council called for media organizations to stop inviting arch-conservative Ann Coulter to appear on television after the right wing pundit and author continued her habit of making outrageous, offensive comments on national television.
Carla Marinucci / SFGate:
UPDATE - Gore cancels appearance at Boxer fundraiser  —  Sen. Barbara Boxer's office just contacted us to say former Vice President Al Gore has been called "overseas" for a trip related to his work on global warming and has canceled his scheduled appearance Thursday in San Francisco at a fundraiser for Boxer's re-election effort.
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Movement From the Gore-acle?  —  As regular Fix readers know, we have long been fascinated with former Vice President Al Gore and his future (or lack thereof) in elected politics.  —  The confluence of two recent stories has our Gore-dar buzzing again.  The first was an ad that ran in the New York Times yesterday.
Tom Hays / Associated Press:
Police: Columbia Won't Turn Over Video  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University has refused to turn over security videotape that could help identify who hung a noose on a black professor's office door, police said Thursday.  —  Investigators began asking on Wednesday for tapes from cameras in the building …
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Satyam / Think Progress:
Lynne Cheney: Terrorist Attacks Worldwide Don't Affect 'American Interests'  —  A frequent Bush administration talking point in defense of the "war on terror" is claiming that United States has not been attacked since 9/11.  —  Yesterday, Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Cheney …
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Brian Faughnan / Weekly Standard:   Hillary's Arrogant Foreign Policy
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Not Ready To Make Nice  —  Well this gets a big, fat "hell, no" from me.  Via e-mail from Liz Rose of the ACLU on the draft Senate version of the FISA bill, which is not yet publicly available and not being widely shared for review either: … If they didn't do anything wrong, why should they get retroactive immunity?
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
GLENN GREENWALD: Warrantless eavesdropping and telecom amnesty
Discussion: Open Left
Media Matters for America:
Gibson knew school shooter was white because "[b]lack shooters don't" shoot themselves; "they shoot and move on" … On the October 10 broadcast of his nationally syndicated Fox News Radio show, while discussing 14-year-old Asa H. Coon, who earlier that day shot four people at his Cleveland high school …
CNN:
Turkey recalls ambassador to U.S.  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Turkey has recalled its ambassador to the United States in response to a House resolution that would call the World War I massacre of Armenians by Turkish forces genocide, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
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Rocky Mountain News:
Documents: Qwest was targeted  —  'Classified info' was not allowed at ex-CEO's trial  —  The National Security Agency and other government agencies retaliated against Qwest because the Denver telco refused to go along with a phone spying program, documents released Wednesday suggest.
FactCheck.org:
Fred's Facts Check Out; Rudy's Don't  —  Thompson avoids error at his GOP debate debut.  But Giuliani commits multiple gaffes.  —  Former Sen. Fred Thompson got the facts straight for his GOP debate debut Oct. 9.  But former Mayor Rudy Giuliani added to a lengthening string of exaggerations and misstatements:
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Answering Ezra  —  Ezra Klein homes in on my own record in helping scuttle Hillary Clinton's dreadful healthcare reform plan in 1993 and 1994.  It's odd that Klein still supports a plan that Clinton herself has now conceded was misbegotten.  Her current plan is far more market-friendly and less bureaucratic.
 
 
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"Read the Constitution!"  —  Chris Matthews asks the GOP candidates …
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James Pindell / Boston Globe:
Thompson cancels NH trip
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GOP.com:
HILLARY'S SPEND-O-METER  —  After Only 9 Months On The Campaign Trail …
Scott Horton / Harper's:
Karl Rove Linked to Siegelman Prosecution
Michael J. Totten:
On Patrol in Ramadi  —  Join me and Army Captain Phil Messer …
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Marcella Bombardieri / Boston Globe:
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
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