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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.
Sadly, No!:
Stalkin' Malkin Is Losing It
Stalkin' Malkin Is Losing It
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Ezra Klein, Crooks and Liars, Publius Pundit, Balloon Juice, UrbanGrounds, The Newshoggers, The Moderate Voice and Angry Bear
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The Swift-Boating of Graeme Frost
The Swift-Boating of Graeme Frost
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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.
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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.
The Atlantic Online:
Coulter and the Jews — Atrios and Andrew Sullivan agree that there's something fishy in Ann Coulter's desire to see Judaism wiped off the face of the earth so we can all be "perfected" by becoming Christians. — This is an uncomfortable thing for Jewish people to think about …
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.
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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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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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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
GLENN GREENWALD: Warrantless eavesdropping and telecom amnesty — There is a lot of debate about what accounts for the decrepit state of our political press, but often overlooked is the sheer sloth and ignorance of journalists, who repeat what they are told without having any idea what they are talking about.
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Not Ready To Make Nice — Well this gets a big, fat "hell, no" from me.
Not Ready To Make Nice — Well this gets a big, fat "hell, no" from me.
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 …
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:
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 …