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2:15 PM ET, October 7, 2008

Top Items:

Unleashed, Palin Makes a Pit Bull Look Tame — FORT MYERS, Fla., Oct. 6 John McCain is collapsing in the polls in Florida and other swing states, but Sarah Palin, God bless her, has a solution. — “For me, the heels are on, the gloves are off,” she announced at high noon Monday to a group …

The Huffington Post:

Obama Hatred On Display Again At Palin Rally, Supporter Screams “Treason!” — In the latest instance of inflammatory outbursts at McCain-Palin rallies, a crowd member screamed “treason!” during an event on Tuesday after Sarah Palin accused Barack Obama of criticizing U.S. troops.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Washington Monthly, Matthew Yglesias, The Huffington Post, The Moderate Voice, Hullabaloo, The Seminal, Taylor Marsh and folo

City Journal:

The Bomber as School Reformer — Back in the early eighties, in an interview with David Horowitz and Peter Collier, Bill Ayers remembered his reaction upon learning that he would not be prosecuted by the government for his bombing spree as a member of the Weather Underground.

Discussion: Pajamas Media, Commentary, No Left Turns, Reason and Power Line

Geoff Earle / New York Post:

OBAMA: NO KNOWLEDGE OF AYERS' TERRORIST PAST — WASHINGTON - Barack Obama's top political adviser said today Obama “didn't know the history” of unrepentant bomber William Ayers' activities in the violent Weather Underground movement when the candidate attended a political event at Ayers' home in 1995.

Discussion: Power Line, The Corner, Moonbattery, Take Our Country Back, QandO, www.redstate.com, Israpundit, Bookworm Room, Political Machine, The Campaign Spot and Macsmind

Mark Silva / The Swamp:

Sarah Palin: Obama's ‘left-wing agenda’ — Sarah Palin, waging the Republican Party's presidential campaign in a state that she and John McCain count on for victory, kept up an assault today on Democratic rival Barack Obama's association with William Ayers, a Chicago education professor and onetime radical war protester in the Sixties.

Discussion: New York Times, FiveThirtyEight.com and Top of the Ticket

Dirty Harry / Dirty Harry's Place:
CNN Ayers Investigation: Obama Lied In Debate

Discussion: Weekly Standard, THE CITIZENS JOURNAL and Stop The ACLU

Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
CNN: Obama's lying about William Ayers

Discussion: The Corner and Macsmind

Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
The Most Clueless Man in Chicago

Discussion: Think Progress, TigerHawk and Emptywheel

David Frum:
“The Chicago Way” — My pals over at the Corner are very excited …

Discussion: American Spectator and Donklephant

Rich Lowry / National Review:
Change vs. Change the Subject

Discussion: Ross Douthat, Blog entry and Outside The Beltway

ccrjustice.org:

Court Orders Release of 17 Innocent Guantanamo Detainees into U.S. — Tallahassee and D.C. Religious and Community Leaders Offer Plan for Men's Support — Today, for the first time, a federal court ordered the release into the United States of 17 innocent Uighur men who have been imprisoned …

Discussion: TalkLeft

William Glaberson / New York Times:
Release of Chinese Muslims Ordered

Discussion: The Swamp and JammieWearingFool

Del Quentin Wilber / Washington Post:
Judge Orders Release of Chinese Muslims Into U.S.

Discussion: Washington Monthly

Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

Hulu, NBC Pull SNL Skit — But Political Skits Bringing in Huge Numbers — The presidential campaign has been good for “Saturday Night Live” — and for Hulu.com. In a few short weeks, the first clip of Tina Fey impersonating Gov. Sarah Palin has become the site's most-viewed of all time.

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider and JammieWearingFool

Michelle Malkin:
The missing SNL bailout skit — and the Soros connection

Discussion: Terry Ann Online, Hot Air, The Jawa Report, Associated Press, The Foundry, NewsBusters.org, A Tiny Revolution, The Huffington Post, The Poor Man Institute, Clayton Cramer's BLOG, www.redstate.com, Pajamas Media, Fausta's Blog and Pat Dollard

Gallup:

Gallup Daily: 9-Point Obama Lead Ties Campaign High — Voters prefer Obama to McCain by 51% to 42% — PRINCETON, NJ — The latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking poll shows registered voters preferring Barack Obama to John McCain for president by 51% to 42%. — The nine percentage point lead …

Discussion: TPM Election Central, FiveThirtyEight.com and No More Mister Nice Blog

Frank Newport / Gallup: Americans' Satisfaction at All-Time Low of 9%

Frank Newport / Gallup:
Bush Job Approval at 25%, His Lowest Yet

Discussion: Open Left, The Swamp, Democrats.com and Mudflats

Richard Cohen / Washington Post:

This Debate's Biggest Loser — Reading William Kristol's column in yesterday's New York Times, I discover that Sarah Palin and I have something in common. Kristol, who was once Dan Quayle's chief of staff and therefore, shall we say, has a Mister Rogers approach to certain politicians …

Discussion: The Daily Dish, TalkLeft and The XX Factor

Wall Street Journal:

About That Middle-Class Tax Cut . . . Remember the last time a charismatic Democrat made such a promise? — “It's like déjà vu all over again.” — As John McCain heads into the second round of presidential debates tonight, Yogi Berra's words come to mind.

Discussion: Donklephant and Commentary

Roger Simon / The Politico:

How McCain could pull this one off — Can John McCain possibly win this thing? Can he actually win in November? — The outlook is bleak: The polls are ugly, the Electoral College map is grim, the economy is getting worse, and McCain's choice of Sarah Palin may have energized the Republican base …

Discussion: Democratic Strategist and Stop The ACLU

Rob Crilly / Times of London:

Jerome Corsi, anti-Obama author, detained in Kenya — A leading American neo-conservative author has been detained by immigration authorities in Kenya as he tried to launch a book smearing Barack Obama. — Jerome Corsi, of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth fame, was this morning being held after failing to reckon with Obamamania.

Discussion: Fox News, WorldNetDaily, The Swamp, Media Blog and Atlas Shrugs

Tom Odula / Associated Press:
Kenya deporting US author of anti-Obama book

Discussion: Guardian, Gateway Pundit and NewsBusters.org

CNN:

CNN Polls: New Obama gains in battleground states — WASHINGTON (CNN) - Polls in five key battleground states in the race for the White House released Tuesday suggest that Sen. Barack Obama is making major gains. — The CNN/Time Magazine/Opinion Research Corporation polls of likely voters in Indiana …

Discussion: TPM Election Central and Sister Toldjah

Michael Scherer / Time:
Poll: Obama Gains in States That Went for Bush

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, TIME.com and Donklephant

Attila Girl / Little Miss Attila:

THEATER FRAUD? Sabotage of An American Carol and Its Opening-Week Numbers? — Now this sounds like enemy action. Help me out here, folks. — Mpower pictures and Vivendi are starting to hear complaints about sabotage of An American Carol by employees of theaters that are carrying the movie.

Discussion: Oliver Willis and The Other McCain

Clif / Sadly, No!:
Little Miss Attila Goes To The Movies

Discussion: Shakesville

Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:

FIRST THOUGHTS: NEEDING A GAME-CHANGER — From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Carrie Dann — NASHVILLE, Tenn. — McCain heads into tonight's debate here down in the polls and in need of a game-changer. Three weeks after the Wall Street crisis began …

Discussion: New York Times, MyDD and Spin Cycle

David Zaring / Conglomerate:

The Fed Can't Let Section 13 Go — The latest rescue development moves the Fed back to expanding its section 13 discount window powers still further and has absolutely nothing to do with the bailout bill. It is the new initiative whereby the central bank would buy commercial paper directly from issuers.

Discussion: The Washington Independent, D-Day and Firedoglake

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
For release at 9:00 a.m. EDT

Discussion: Washington Post, The Swamp, Portfolio and The Big Picture

Stanley Kurtz / National Review:

Planting Seeds of Disaster — 'You've got only a couple thousand bucks in the bank. Your job pays you dog-food wages. Your credit history has been bent, stapled, and mutilated. You declared bankruptcy in 1989. Don't despair: You can still buy a house.

Discussion: JammieWearingFool

Glen Johnson / Associated Press:
Frank says GOP housing attacks racially motivated

Discussion: Marc Ambinder, Clayton Cramer's BLOG, The Next Right, Political Punch and www.redstate.com

Daily Mail:

Man shot three times in street by racist gunman - for wearing Barack Obama T-shirt … A man told today how he was shot three times in a London street for wearing a Barack Obama T-shirt. — Dube Egwuatu was buying a mobile telephone top-up card in an off-licence when the gunman confronted …