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Air America Host Randi Rhodes Suspended For Calling Hillary A “Big F*cking Whore” — Air America host Randi Rhodes called both Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton “whores” in a recent appearance, seen below. Rhodes, who hosts a weekday radio show on Air America, said to the cheering crowd, “What a whore Geraldine Ferraro is!
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Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
Randi Rhodes Suspended After Calling Hillary ‘Big F***ing Whore’ — WHORE-IBLE INSULTS — Unhinged Rhodes Stand-Up Routine Results In Suspension — *** RHODES CLAIMS CONTRACT BREACH *** — An unhinged tirade by Air America Radio host Randi Rhodes has led to an unprecedented suspension …
Air America / Air America Radio blogs:
STATEMENT OF AIR AMERICA RADIO, FROM CHAIR CHARLIE KIREKER — New York - Air America has suspended on-air host Randi Rhodes for making inappropriate statements about prominent figures, including Senator Hillary Clinton, at a recent public appearance on behalf of Air America in San Francisco …
Fox News:
Air America Host Suspended for Obscenity-Laced Rant Against Clinton, Ferraro — Air America radio has suspended talk show host Randi Rhodes for what has been described as an appalling rant against Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Clinton supporter Geraldine Ferraro.
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David Hinckley / NY Daily News:
Air America's Randi Rhodes suspended
Air America's Randi Rhodes suspended
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New York Times:
Obama's Support Softens, Poll Shows — Senator Barack Obama's support among Democrats nationally has softened over the last month — particularly among men and upper-income voters — as voters have taken a slightly less positive view of him than they did after his burst of victories in February …
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Ed Ronco / South Bend Tribune:
Poll: Clinton, Obama neck and neck in Hoosier state — Obama is choice for 81 percent of black Democratic primary voters. — Sen. Barack Obama has a huge lead among younger voters in Indiana, Sen. Hillary Clinton holds the same lead with voters older than 60, and both candidates …
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Saira Anees / Political Punch:
Obama is Smokin' — Last August, I ran into Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, outside the Senate chamber in the Capitol. — This was before the Obama surge, before he had omnipresent Secret Service agents, back when you might see him strolling solo. — We chatted for a second …
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Michael Wines / New York Times:
New Signs of Mugabe Crackdown in Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe's government staged separate police raids on Thursday against the main opposition party, foreign journalists and at least one democracy advocate, raising the specter of a broad crackdown aimed at keeping the country's imperiled leaders in power.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Why doesn't the 9/11 Commission know about Mukasey's 9/11 story? — (Updated below with response from Philip Zelikow - — Update II - Update III - — Update IV -Chairman Conyers demands answers from Mukasey) — Last week, during a question-and-answer session following a speech …
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Nature:
Dangerous assumptions — Roger Pielke, Jr1, Tom Wigley2 & Christopher Green3 — Roger Pielke Jr is in the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0488, USA. — Christopher Green is in the Department of Economics, McGill University, Montreal H3A 2T7, Canada.
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Pamela Hess / Associated Press:
Report: Security in Iraq is improving — WASHINGTON - A new classified intelligence assessment on Iraq says there has been significant progress in security since the last assessment was delivered in August, a senior military official said. — In most ways the new National Intelligence Estimate hews closely …
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Noah Shachtman / Danger Room:
Al Qaeda #2: We'll Attack Iran — Recently, Senator John McCain has repeatedly indicated that Iran and al-Qaeda are in cahoots. The terror group's number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, would beg to differ. In a long-promised online Q&A session, Zawahiri says it would be “in the interest” …
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Sinead Carew / Reuters:
John Edwards says would not accept VP nomination — LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said on Thursday he would not accept the nomination for U.S. vice president as he did four years ago. — Edwards, a former senator from North Carolina …
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Daily Mail:
British Muslims ‘planned to kill thousands by bombing SEVEN transatlantic airliners in one go’ — A British terror gang plotted to use liquid explosives to blow up transatlantic passenger jets in mid-flight, a court heard today. — Eight men planned to smuggle bombs disguised as soft drinks …
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Murtha: Clinton Cannot Win Nomination Without Popular Vote — Hillary Clinton simply cannot be the Democratic nominee if she doesn't win the popular vote, Pennsylvania congressman and Clinton-backer John Murtha said Wednesday. — “Clinton has to win Pennsylvania,” he argued in an interview.
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Marc Ambinder:
Donations to DCCC Spike after Clinton Threat To Pelosi — The effort by Hillary Clinton's bundlers to pressure Speaker Nancy Pelosi into retracting her comments about superdelegates has caused a spurt of Obama-linked donations to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democrats with direct knowledge of the situation said.
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Susan Davis / Wall Street Journal:
Clinton Adviser's Colombia Talks — Penn Met to Discuss Free-Trade Pact — Fought by Senator — Hillary Clinton's chief campaign strategist met with Colombia's ambassador to the U.S. on Monday to discuss a bilateral free-trade agreement, a pact the presidential candidate opposes.
Karen Houppert / The Nation:
Another KBR Rape Case — Editor's Note: Lisa Smith is a pseudonym used on request. Additional reporting by Te-Ping Chen. Research support provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute. — Houston — It was an early January morning in 2008 when 42-year-old Lisa Smith* …
Esquire:
EXCLUSIVE: “Torture Memo” Author John Yoo Responds to This Week's Revelations — John Yoo, former Justice Department official and author of the “torture memos” used to provide the legal justification for how the U.S. interrogated captured terrorist suspects, defends his actions.