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Amanda / Think Progress:
Malkin quits The O'Reilly Factor. — Inside Cable News has obtained an e-mail written by Michelle Malkin stating that she has decided to quit appearing on Fox News's The O'Reilly Factor: … Some highlights of her time on the show HERE, HERE, and HERE.
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New York Magazine:
Michelle Malkin Quits O'Reilly After Nasty Three-Way — People who hate everyone also hate each other. Photo: Patrick McMullan — We guess Michelle Malkin won't be coming to town to guest-host for Bill O'Reilly anymore. She just quit forever, after a three-way conservative-pundit street fight …
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Spud / Inside Cable News:
Malkin quits The Factor... ICN has obtained an email written by Michelle Malkin that states she has quit doing The O'Reilly Factor...
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Did Malkin quit O'Reilly's Factor over Geraldo clash? — Geraldo apologizes to Malkin on The Factor: Then he says he fell on Bill's sword over the apology while explaining why Limbaugh should apologize over his "phony soldiers" comment... Download (443) | Play (438) (h/t Scarce and justabill for the vids)
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP targeting Clinton on phone-call snooping — Republicans plan to seize on an allegation from the 1992 presidential campaign to tarnish Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) on the red-hot issue of government surveillance. — Government surveillance will be at the forefront of the political debate …
Martin Kady II / The Politico:
Democrats profile another SCHIP family — Michelle Malkin, meet Bethany Wilkerson. — Bethany is the latest child being profiled by Democrats arguing for an override of President Bush's veto of the State Children's Health Insurance Program bill. — Malkin, the conservative blogger …
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Nobel Committee Bypassed Holocaust Savior for Al Gore — As media do a victory lap over Friday's Nobel Peace Prize announcement, it seems a metaphysical certitude that few Americans are aware of the other 180 nominees for the award besides the Global Warmingist-in-Chief Al Gore.
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New York Times:
Top Air Force Official Dies in Apparent Suicide — The second-highest ranking member of the Air Force's procurement office was found dead of an apparent suicide at his Virginia home Sunday, Air Force and police officials said today. — The official, Charles D. Riechers, 47 …
Rusty / The Jawa Report:
Inshallashshaheed Outted: North Carolina Jihadi in the News (UPDATED) — Michael Moss of the New York Times has outted Inshallashaheed, the al Qaeda supporting blogger who we've been investigating for over a year. I've been sitting on his true identity for months, but in one fell swoop Samir ibn Zafar Khan …
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Gary Younge / Guardian:
The land of optimism is in the dumps, but refuses to accept how it got there — Not since Watergate has such pessimism afflicted Americans. They want politicians to lift them without facing the cause — On April 27 1968 the vice president, Hubert Humphrey, announced his presidential candidacy.
Lawyers, Guns and Money:
Orrin James Noon, Jr., 1943-2007 — After surviving nearly eight months with pancreatic cancer — the same disease that killed his own father four years ago — my dad passed away quietly at home this morning. My three siblings and I were able to spend the last few days with him …
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Hillary Rodham Clinton / Foreign Affairs:
Security and Opportunity for the Twenty-first Century — Summary: The next U.S. president will have a moment of opportunity to reintroduce America to the world and restore our leadership. To build a world that is safe, prosperous, and just, we must get out of Iraq, rediscover the value of statesmanship …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Job of U.S. soldiers is killing "mothers and sisters," says David Crosby — So self-parodic is this all the way around the horn that I can't muster the requisite outrage. Of course David Crosby thinks American soldiers are out to kill women. Of course Graham Nash thinks "dialogue" is the answer to suicidal jihadism.
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Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Universal healthcare: it's not just for Dems anymore — With the party taking a bit of a beating over its resistance to expanding access to healthcare for low-income children, Republicans on Capitol Hill apparently have a new idea: they'll introduce a universal healthcare plan of their own.
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Media Matters for America:
CBSNews.com article contains language nearly identical to WorldNetDaily article, including falsehood … An October 10 article on the conservative news website WorldNetDaily about reactions to right-wing pundit Ann Coulter's comment that Christians "just want Jews to be perfected, as they say" …