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9:45 AM ET, July 14, 2008

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Mike Allen / The Politico:
‘Scare tactic’ — Obama slams Muslim portrayal  —  The Obama campaign is condemning as “tasteless and offensive” a New Yorker magazine cover that depicts Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in a turban, fist-bumping his gun-slinging wife.  —  An American flag burns in their fireplace.  —  The New Yorker says it's satire.
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
THAT NEW YORKER COVER....I blogged a few hours ago about Ryan Lizza's Obama piece in the current issue of the New Yorker, but at the time I hadn't seen the cover that went along with it.  Now I have, because when I browsed through my RSS feed after dinner it turned out that the entire (liberal) …
Mike Allen / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Ya can't make it up  —  The New Yorker says it's satire.  It certainly will be candy for cable news.  —  At a press availability Sunday afternoon in San Diego, Senator Obama was asked, according to the diligent Maria Gavrilovic of CBS News: “The upcoming issue of the New Yorker …
Nico Pitney / The Huffington Post:
Barry Blitt Defends His New Yorker Cover Art Of Obama  —  Barry Blitt is the artist behind this week's very controversial New Yorker cover of Barack and Michelle Obama.  Via email, I asked him to respond to those who feel that his work was offensive, and to explain his own personal feelings about the Obamas.
The Huffington Post:
David Remnick On That New Yorker Cover: It's Satire, Meant To Target “Distortions And Misconceptions And Prejudices” About Obama  —  Earlier today, the New Yorker released its cover for the July 21, 2008 issue — and the reaction was swift and furious.  —  The cover by Barry Blitt, called …
Editor and Publisher:
‘New Yorker’ Cover With Obama as Muslim “Terrorist' Draws Heat  —  NEW YORK If it was meant to be provocative — it succeeded.  The cover of this week's New Yorker features Baack Obama in Muslim garb, with his gun-toting Afro-ed wife, an American flag burning in the fireplace.
Discussion: The Fix and Philly.com
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obama was right: Another hateful, bigoted attack from ... the New Yorker?
Barack Obama / New York Times:
My Plan for Iraq  —  THE call by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki for a timetable for the removal of American troops from Iraq presents an enormous opportunity.  We should seize this moment to begin the phased redeployment of combat troops that I have long advocated …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Fannie, Freddie and You  —  And now we've reached the next stage of our seemingly never-ending financial crisis.  This time Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are in the headlines, with dire warnings of imminent collapse.  How worried should we be?  —  Well, I'm going to take a contrarian position …
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Clive Crook / Financial Times:
Guarantees for America's guarantors  —  US taxpayers are about to find out what their long-standing and (strictly speaking) non-existent guarantee of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will cost them.  One way to think of it is this: take the US national debt of roughly $9,000bn and add $5,000bn.
Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
Treasury Acts to Shore Up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
Obama backers on the left are doing the wincing now  —  When Jesse Jackson's Castrato-gate or the Barack Obama Nuts Controversy or whatever you want to call it erupted last week—as captured by the hot microphones of Fox News—terrible cries of pain went unnoticed.
Discussion: pandagon.net
Wall Street Journal:
Foreign Courts Take Aim at Our Free Speech  —  Our Constitution is one of our greatest assets in the fight against terrorism.  A free-flowing marketplace of ideas, protected by the First Amendment, enables the ideals of democracy to defeat the totalitarian vision of al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.
CNN:
Sudanese president charged with genocide  —  (CNN) — The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has filed genocide charges against Sudan's president for a five-year campaign of violence in Darfur.  —  Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Monday urged a three-judge panel to issue an arrest warrant …
Discussion: Blogs of War
Susan Page / USA Today:
Hopes on race relations are high, poll shows  —  WASHINGTON — Barack Obama's groundbreaking candidacy has raised high expectations among blacks and whites that his election would make race relations in the United States better.  —  A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll of nearly 2,000 Americans also finds …
Discussion: TIME.com and Real Clear Politics
Elizabeth Aguilera / The Politico:
Denver businesses stiffed by DNC  —  As soon as Charlotte Kulscar heard the Democratic National Committee named Denver its 2008 convention site, she began researching how to get a piece of the estimated $160 million economic impact for her print shop.  —  She thought she had a good shot.
Discussion: Hot Air
 
 
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Los Angeles Times:
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Aaron Deslatte / Orlando Sentinel:
No fuzzy math: State Dems sign up voters 7-1 over GOP
Discussion: MSNBC
Learfield / Radio Iowa:
Huckabee 2012?  —  Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee …
Discussion: MSNBC
Peter Wallsten / Los Angeles Times:
McCain takes a Social Security risk
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Washington Post:
Candidates Pushing Hard for the Latino Vote
Megan McArdle:
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Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
In Obama's Circle, Chicago Remains The Tie That Binds
Discussion: TIME.com
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MSNBC:
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Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Gallup:
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CNN:
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