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2:45 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.
Time:
The Swift-Boating of Graeme Frost  —  A 12-year-old causes an Internet storm for speaking out in favor of the Children's Health Insurance Program.  Says his father: "My family does not deserve this retribution"
Sadly, No!:
Stalkin' Malkin Is Losing It  —  It's getting funnier and funnier.  She's plunged straight off the deep end with this one: … Gad, it's like watching one of the Heathers write in her personal pity diary.  All that's missing is angry complaints about Confederate Yankee and Ace turning into Swatch Dogs and Diet Coke Heads.
Discussion: RADAMISTO
Michelle Malkin:
My reply to Respectable Liberal Blogger Ezra Klein and his fellow travelers; Plus: Hillary threatens S-CHIP critics  —  Update 1:35pm Eastern.  WHY DO YOU HATE CHILDREN SO MUCH?!  —  Update 1:00pm Eastern.  Snort-worthy blue-on-blue spat of the day: ThinkProgress vs. CNN.
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
THE FEVER SWAMP....A plainly disgusted Karen Tumulty recaps Graeme Frost's introduction to the modern conservative fever swamp in Time magazine and concludes with this: … But of course, that's the whole point.  The slavering hordes of Malkin-land might or might not have made a difference …
Discussion: Brian Beutler
Ezra Klein:
An Answer!  —  Michelle Malkin replies to my challenge for a debate about S-CHIP.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and D-Day
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:   CNN blames Dems for Frost family smear
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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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Will Gore add Nobel to Oscar and Emmy?  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Will Al Gore add a Nobel Peace Prize to his Oscar and Emmy honors?  —  "An Inconvenient Truth," a documentary featuring the former vice president captured two Academy Awards in February.  The film focuses on Gore and his worldwide travels …
Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
Al Gore for President
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Movement From the Gore-acle?  —  As regular Fix readers know …
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
Adam Zagorin / Time:
Rove Linked to Alabama Case  —  A Republican lawyer claims she was told that Karl Rove — while serving as President Bush's top political advisor — had intervened in the Justice Department's prosecution of Alabama's most prominent Democrat.  Longtime Alabama GOP activist Dana Jill Simpson …
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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.
Marcella Bombardieri / Boston Globe:
Clinton vows to check executive power  —  Would curb use of signing statements  —  Senator Hillary Clinton said yesterday that if she is elected president, she intends to roll back President Bush's expansion of executive authority, including his use of presidential signing statements to put …
WorldNetDaily:
Giuliani 'doesn't deserve to live'  —  Terrorists threaten presidential candidate, cite Rudy's war stance, Arafat treatment  —  Saying Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani "doesn't deserve to live," Palestinian terror leaders are threatening to harm the former New York mayor …
Hugh Naylor / New York Times:
Syria Tells Journalists Israeli Raid Did Not Occur  —  Foreign journalists perused the rows of corn and the groves of date palms pregnant with low-hanging fruit here this week, while agents of Syria's ever-present security services stood in the background, watching closely, almost nervously.
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.
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?
Discussion: Open Left, Corrente and Taylor Marsh
Alex Berenson / New York Times:
Boom Times for Dentists, but Not for Teeth  —  For American dentists, times have never been better.  —  The same cannot be said for Americans' teeth.  —  With dentists' fees rising far faster than inflation and more than 100 million people lacking dental insurance, the percentage of Americans …
 
 
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Brian Faughnan / Weekly Standard:
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
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Randal C. Archibold / New York Times:
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
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