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4:40 PM ET, September 15, 2008

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McCain Loses Fox News: Megyn Kelly Rips McCain Flack For Claiming Obama Would Raise Middle Class Taxes — On Fox News today, host Megyn Kelly called out McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds for the campaign's lies about Sen. Barack Obama's (D-IL) tax proposals.

Discussion: Michelle Malkin, The Moderate Voice, Political Machine, The Reaction, Washington Wire, Buck Naked Politics, Balloon Juice, Obsidian Wings and Group News Blog

Wall Street Journal:
Palin's Project List Totals $453 Million

Discussion: Chicago Boyz, Perfunction, QandO, Think Progress, The Caucus, Pajamas Media, Washington Post, TheZoo and Booman Tribune

Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
EVEN FOX NEWS.... I guess we've reached a tipping point.

Discussion: TBogg

Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Palin's federal funds requests: earmarks or legislation?

Discussion: Wizbang

Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:

MCCAIN STILL SEES THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THE ECONOMY AS STRONG.... The Obama campaign routinely tweaks John McCain for having argued that the “fundamentals of our economy are strong.” Last week, the Washington Post's Jonathan Weisman criticized Obama for using the line, insisting that the quote is “months old.”

Jesse Lee / The Huffington Post:
50 Days Out: Dishonesty & Deregulation

Discussion: Christian Science Monitor, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, Washington Post and Jack & Jill Politics

Paul Krugman:
We're number what? — This is trivial, sort of.

Discussion: MoJoBlog and Matthew Yglesias

DealBook:

There Will Be Blood — Call it the Weekend That Changed Wall Street. — The upheaval of the past few days offers some lessons about the markets and how a financial crisis turns fatal. Here are a few that I've been thinking about. — Lesson 1: Perception Is Everything

Discussion: Balkinization and Conglomerate

CNN:
Changes rock Wall Street

Discussion: Barack Obama and Joe Biden, Crooks and Liars, New York Times, Weekly Standard, The Glittering Eye, Harry's Place, Donklephant and The Moderate Voice

New York Post:

OBAMA TRIED TO STALL GIS' IRAQ WITHDRAWAL — WHILE campaigning in public for a speedy withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Sen. Barack Obama has tried in private to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement on a draw-down of the American military presence.

Faiz / Think Progress:

Fiorina rips Tina Fey's portray of Palin as ‘dismissive’ and ‘sexist.’ — On MSNBC this afternoon, McCain adviser Carly Fiorina decried Tina Fey's portrayal of Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live as “sexist.” “I think she looked a bit like her — I think of course the portrait was very dismissive …

Discussion: CBS News and pandagon.net

Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:

MCCAIN ADVISOR RIPS ‘SNL’ SKIT.... By now, I suspect most of you have seen the opening skit from “Saturday Night Live,” which featured a joint press conference hosted by Sarah Palin (played perfectly by Tina Fey) and Hillary Clinton (Amy Poehler). If you missed it, and it was pretty hilarious, NBC has posted the whole thing.

Discussion: Ta-Nehisi Coates and The Corner

Greg Gutfeld / The Huffington Post:

SARAH PALIN'S MURDEROUS WEB OF DEATH — Calling Sarah Palin a murderer might seem a stretch. — At first. — But alarmingly, Sarah Louise Heath Palin was born on February 11, 1964 - a suspicious beginning, as it is also the forty-eighth anniversary of the arrest of the free-thinking …

Discussion: Mother, May I Sleep …

Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:

McCain's Crowd Numbers Plummet In Palin's Absence — John McCain returned to the campaign trail on Monday, only this time without his popular vice presidential pick, Sarah Palin. The results were somewhat less than enthusiastic. As reported by MSNBC's First Read, the Republican presidential …

Discussion: MSNBC and MyDD

Jonathan Martin / The Politico:

Being passed out today by Team McCain today in FL — Photo courtesy of Amie Parnes, on the McCain trail — post comment | … I love it! Where can I get one? — By the way, kudos to Dan for suggesting Palin for Veep — that's the first I ever heard of her, right here in his blog posts on Politico.

Discussion: Townhall.com

Ryan Corsaro / CBS News:

Biden: Americans Want “ Sleepover With People They Like!” — From CBS News' Ryan Corsaro: — (CHARLOTTE, N.C.) - Joe Biden came up with an interesting metaphor tonight. — When telling the story of how his granddaughters had a slumber party with Barack Obama's daughters during the week …

Discussion: Hot Air, Silent Running and USS Neverdock

Philly.com:

Intolerance thrives in Palin's Pacific Northwest — Catherine McNicol Stock is chair of the history department at Connecticut College and author of “Rural Radicals: Righteous Rage in the American Grain” — Despite her efforts to portray herself as an average, small-town, “folksy” American …

Discussion: Hot Air

Times of London:

Google search finds seafaring solution — Google may take its battle for global domination to the high seas with the launch of its own “computer navy”. — The company is considering deploying the supercomputers necessary to operate its internet search engines on barges anchored up to seven miles (11km) offshore.

Discussion: Global Guerrillas

Fox News:

Atlantic Monthly Editor to Offer Apology to McCain for Photog's Doctored Pics — The editor of The Atlantic Monthly said Monday he is sending a letter of apology to John McCain after a woman the magazine hired to photograph the Republican presidential nominee posted manipulated pictures from the photo shoot on her Web site.

Discussion: TigerHawk, Wake up America, Power Line and Pajamas Media

CNN:

Poll of polls: Dead heat in Ohio battleground — (CNN) - It all came down to Ohio in the last presidential election. 2008 could be a sequel. — A new CNN poll of polls of the latest surveys in Ohio suggest the race for the state and its crucial 20 electoral votes is a dead heat.

Discussion: Washington Wire, BrothersJudd Blog and Riehl World View

Cathy Young / Wall Street Journal:

Why Feminists Hate Sarah Palin — Left-wing feminists have a hard time dealing with strong, successful conservative women in politics such as Margaret Thatcher. Sarah Palin seems to have truly unhinged more than a few, eliciting a stream of vicious, often misogynist invective.

Discussion: protein wisdom, Althouse, Lawyers, Guns and Money and The Opinionator

Dan Gilgoff / God-o-Meter:

Obama Rolls Out New Line of Faith Merchandise — God-o-Meter has learned that the Obama campaign is about to email religious supporters an annoucnement about a new line of Obama faith merchandise—bumper stickers, buttons, and signs with three different messages, featured here—along with the following note: