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5:45 PM ET, September 14, 2008

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Matt / Think Progress:
Rove: 'You can't trust the fact-check organizations.'  —  This week, non-partisan fact-checking organizations like PolitiFact and FactCheck.org  —  have called Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) out for lies in his attack ads against Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL).  But on Fox News Sunday today …
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Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Rove: McCain ads gone too far  —  Karl Rove said this morning that John McCain's attacks against Barack Obama have stretched the truth.  —  Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Rove said McCain had “gone one step too far, and sort of attributing to Obama things that are, you know, beyond the 100-percent-truth test.”
Mosheh Oinounou / FOX Embeds:
Rove: McCain attacks have gone “one step too far”
Discussion: Climate Progress and Corrente
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:   ROVE SAYS MCCAIN HAS GONE ‘ONE STEP TOO FAR’.... Karl Rove …
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
McCain's Lying Has Gone Too Far, According To ... Karl Rove!
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Hullabaloo
John Griffin / Political Punch:
Why Doesn't McCain Use a Computer?  —  Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. introduced a new TV ad his week that paints Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., as out of touch for being, when it comes to technology, shall we say a touch “old-school.”  —  “1982, John McCain goes to Washington,” the narrator says.
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Arnab Datta / Political Punch:
Obama Surrogate Attacks McCain for Age, Cancer  —  On This Week with George Stephanopoulos this morning, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., a surrogate for the campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., raised the age and health of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., when discussing the qualifications, or lack thereof, of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
Bryan Bender / Boston Globe:
Obama ad takes heat for McCain cyber shot  —  Insensitivity to war injuries cited  —  WASHINGTON - Democrat Barack Obama's campaign came under fire from conservative bloggers yesterday for a new political ad criticizing his 72-year-old opponent, John McCain, for not using computers.
Ginger Adams Otis / New York Post:
MAC HATER HAS A LOUSY ‘IMAGE’  —  MAG FOTOG IN DIRTY TRICK TO TURN POL ‘EVIL’  —  Controversial celebrity photographer Jill Greenberg, a self-professed “hard-core Dem,” deliberately took a series of unflattering shots of Republican nominee John McCain for the current cover of The Atlantic - and then bragged about it on a blog.
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AMERICAN DIGEST:
Out-Takes: Behind The Atlantic's McCain Cover  —  “Some of my artwork has been pretty anti-Bush, so maybe it was somewhat irresponsible for them [The Atlantic] to hire me.”  - Jill Greenberg  —  The Atlantic Monthly's current cover by Beverly Hills photographer Jill Greenberg looks like this:
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Lib Photographer Admits Making McCain Look Sinister for Mag Cover
Discussion: PDNPulse and Wake up America
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama raises $66 million in August  —  Sen. Barack Obama raised $66 million in the month of August, making it his best month ever and the best in American political history, an aide said Sunday morning.  —  Obama is releasing that number after suggestions that his fundraising was failing to meet expectations.
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Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Obama Raised a Record $66 Million in August
Discussion: AMERICAblog News
Matthew Mosk / Washington Post:
Obama Raised $66 Million in August
Discussion: The Raw Story
New York Times:
Lehman's Fate Is in Doubt as Barclays Pulls Out of Talks  —  Unable to find a savior, the troubled investment bank Lehman Brothers appeared headed toward bankruptcy on Sunday, in what would be one of the biggest failures in Wall Street history.  —  The fate of Lehman hung in the balance …
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Rdan / Angry Bear:
Roubini and the Bail-in this weekend
Discussion: Once Upon a Time
Akmuckraker / Mudflats:
‘Alaska Women Reject Palin’ Rally is HUGE!  —  I attended the Welcome Home rally for Sarah Palin this morning.  Hooo.  It was an experience.  About a thousand (maybe) hard-core Palin supporters showed up to hear her speak at the new Dena'ina Convention Center in downtown Anchorage.
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Tahman Bradley / Political Radar:
Live From New York, It's Sarah (Tiny Fey) Palin!  —  ABC News' David Wright and Alyssa Litoff Report: As comedienne Tina Fey debuted her impression of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live, the governor and her staff were watching from 30,000 feet.  —  Palin was on board …
Willie Brown / San Francisco Chronicle:
How does President Palin sound?  —  For first time in modern history, a presidential race is actually going to be decided by the vice presidential pick.  —  Thanks to Sarah Palin, this is no longer a contest between Barack Obama and John McCain - it's between Brother Barack and Sistah Sarah.
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Making America Stupid  —  Imagine for a minute that attending the Republican convention in St. Paul, sitting in a skybox overlooking the convention floor, were observers from Russia, Iran and Venezuela.  And imagine for a minute what these observers would have been doing when Rudy Giuliani led …
Barton Gellman / Washington Post:
Conflict Over Spying Led White House to Brink  —  This is the first of two stories adapted from “Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency,” to be published Tuesday by Penguin Press.  Original source notes are denoted in [brackets] throughout.  —  A burst of ferocity stunned the room into silence.
Thomas Beaumont / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Obama opens double-digit lead  —  Democrat Barack Obama has established a double-digit lead over Republican John McCain in Iowa as the presidential race in this Midwestern battleground enters its critical fall stretch, according to The Des Moines Register's latest Iowa Poll.
 
 
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Christine C. Quinn / The Huffington Post:
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George F. Will / Newsweek:
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Offshore Drilling Is Coming to a Vote
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Where is the debate over the Bush Doctrine?
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
PALIN'S ‘BRIDGE TO NOWHERE’ LINE RETURNS
Editor and Publisher:
Newspapers Deliver Millions of ‘Terror’ DVDs to Subscribers — In ‘Swing States’
Discussion: The Raw Story
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Steve Chapman / Chicago Tribune:
To McCain, the truth is expendable
William Yardley / New York Times:
Active Role for Palin's Husband in Alaska Government
Mona Charen / The Corner:
For C-SPAN viewers  —  I appeared on Washington Journal …
Discussion: Campaign Silo
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Bering Straight Talk
Ben Adler / The Politico:
Ohio secretary of state prevents vote caging
Discussion: unbossed.com and TheZoo
Washington Post:
Group With Swift Boat Alumni Readies Ads Attacking Obama
 

 
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