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Bloomberg:
McCain-Palin Crowd-Size Estimates Not Backed by Officials — Sept. 13 (Bloomberg) — Senator John McCain has drawn some of the biggest crowds of his presidential campaign since adding Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to his ticket on Aug. 29. Now officials say they can't substantiate the figures McCain's aides are claiming.
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Mark Murray / MSNBC:
WHEELS COME OFF STRAIGHT TALK EXPRESS? — From NBC's Mark Murray — For a candidate who prides himself in “straight talk” — and whose political image in part is based on that truth-telling reputation — Saturday proved to be a brutal day for John McCain and his campaign.
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Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
Palin Camp Provides Conflicting Accounts of Iraq Visit — RENO, Nev. — Aides to Gov. Sarah Palin spent Saturday scrambling to explain details of her only trip outside North America in the wake of a report that that trip did not include travel into Iraq, as the McCain-Palin campaign had initially claimed.
Dan / Riehl World View:
They Really Are Deranged: Yes, Enough Is Enough — So now the media really cares precisely which foot of Sarah Palin may or may not have been across a border on one overseas trip? Kornblut, who already has a story which had to be edited to at least make it appear truthful (WaPo didn't disclose that), citing the Globe.
Bryan Bender / Boston Globe:
Palin camp clarifies extent of Iraq trip
Palin camp clarifies extent of Iraq trip
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New York Times:
Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes — WASILLA, Alaska — Gov. Sarah Palin lives by the maxim that all politics is local, not to mention personal. — So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate …
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Jennifer Rubin / Commentary:
Is This It? Really? — The New York Times does the all-so predictable Sarah Palin bill of indictment for its Sunday front page. It certainly sounds compelling in the paragraph called the “nut graf”: … But what is so remarkable is how little there is in the page after page of minutiae thrown against the wall by the Times.
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Tom Smith / The Right Coast:
First report from Alaska back to the NY Times Tom Smith — First report from Alaska back to the NY Times — You have to check this out. It looks like the reporters the NY Times sent up to Alaska to dig up what they could on Palin have sent back their first missive. I would say the great Klondike strike, it ain't.
Gateway Pundit:
Palimania Spreads— 10,000 Show Up For 3,500 Seats in Carson City — Governor Sarah Palin bid farewell to Alaska today... Then it was off to Nevada for one of her first solo campaign appearances. — The People of Nevada Were Psyched to see Sarah— A swarm of Palin fans hoping …
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Kathleen Hennessey / Associated Press:
Palin sticks to the familiar in first solo outing — CARSON CITY, Nev. - Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin made her first solo campaign appearance outside her home state Saturday, sticking largely to a speech that has boosted her popularity among Republican faithful but drawn criticism for having misstatements.
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CNN:
Obama aide: McCain camp ‘sleaziest’ in modern history — MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (CNN) — Sen. Barack Obama's spokesman on Saturday accused Sen. John McCain of “cynically running the sleaziest and least honorable campaign in modern presidential campaign history.”
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Tim Shipman / Telegraph:
Barack Obama under fire for ignoring advice on how to beat John McCain — Barack Obama and his senior advisers are under fire for ignoring the advice of Democratic senators and governors who are concerned that they do not know how to beat John McCain. — The Democratic presidential candidate's slump …
Houston Chronicle:
Powerless: More than 99 percent of region in the dark — Comments Recommend — Daybreak today in Hurricane Ike's wake only revealed what Houston area power providers already knew — the lights are out for roughly 5 million people, and getting the juice flowing again will be a painstaking process that could take weeks.
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Washington Post:
Group With Swift Boat Alumni Readies Ads Attacking Obama — A new group financed by a Texas billionaire and organized by some of the same political operatives and donors behind the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign against Sen. John F. Kerry in 2004 plans to begin running television ads …
Cernig / Crooks and Liars:
McCain's Economist: We Need Tax Increases — Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former Director of the Congressional Budget Office and current chief McCain economic advisor tells Fortune columnist Matt Miller in a forthcoming book, The Tyranny of Dead Ideas, that the next President is simply going to have to raise taxes.
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Jules Crittenden:
I Knew When I Married Her ... ... she was hot and smart. Fifteen years on she's all that and it turns the wife can write, too. But don't take my word for it. — New York Times Sunday Book Review: … Reasonable people can disagree about that “comes close to ruining” ending part …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
The latest Sarah Palin smear from the Left: teen molester — Just when you thought the Left could not possibly sink any lower in their bid to smear Sarah Palin, Air America manages to provide what hopefully will be the nadir of their efforts. Randi Rhodes of Air America/Nova M Radio told …
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