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David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Scenes From the DC Tea Party: More Photos! — Here's a supplement to Aaron's great photo spread from this afternoon's rally. — Remember: Fox News reported on these rallies. It didn't promote them! — This was a popular theme, along with references to images of President Obama's bow to the King of Saudi Arabia.
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Media Matters / Media Matters for America:
CNN's Roesgen grills tea party protestor who calls Obama a “fascist,” says protest “highly promoted by the right-wing conservative network Fox” — This whole FARCE is custom made for cable news, not the MSM of network TV. The MSM cant cover something 24/7 like CNN or FOX can.
David / Crooks and Liars:
Fox anchor rants about fascism during tea party coverage — Fox Business Network anchor Cody Willard didn't appear to be very “fair and balanced” as he let out his opinion of Democrats' economic policy during a tea party protest in Boston. “When are we going to wake up and start fighting …
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
In Defense Of The Tax-Day Tea Parties — The of tea-party enthusiasm on the American right has provoked a fairly typical reaction from the organized American left. It's a fake. It involves tea bags and (a) Dick Armey. It's got the consistency of astroturf, not natural grass.
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Michelle Malkin:
Massive: Tax Day Tea Party USA — I just have one word: Wow. More than 800 tea parties across the country. Here's your first photo/vid round-up from the events across the country, large and small, every corner of this great nation (hit your refresh button often...I'll keep updating):
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Chris / TVNewser:
CNN Reporter at Chicago Tea Party: It's “Anti-CNN Since This is Highly Promoted By the Right-Wing, Conservative Network Fox” — CNN correspondent Susan Roesgen could barely get through her live shot at the Chicago tea party this afternoon. Over shouts of, “You're not a reporter,” …
Jim Iovino / NBC Washington:
1 Million Tea Bags, But No Place to Dump — Permits end dumping before it starts — WASHINGTON — It was a great idea, really. Take a million tea bags and dump them in Lafayette Park to protest government spending. Hip, hip, hoo-ray! — But a funny thing happened en route to a visually pleasing Tax Day protest.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Left Behind? — Glenn Reynolds today pens an op-ed hailing the “tea-party” “movement” as a post-partisan, spontaneous uprising of ordinary folks against the establishment of both parties. He makes no mention of Pajamas Media's heavy investment in the events, nor Fox News' endless touting …
Jane Hamsher / The Huffington Post:A Teabagger Timeline: Koch, Coors, Newt, Dick Armey There From The Start
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The Huffington Post:DC Tea Party Protest Shut Down By Secret Service, Package Thrown …
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The Moderate Voice
Jeff Poor / The Business & Media Institute:CNBC Asks Santelli to React to Tea Parties: 'I'm Pretty Proud of This'
David Weigel / The Washington Independent:The Second Rule of Tea Parties Is You Don't Talk About Tea Parties
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Marc Cooper / Los Angeles Times:Anti-Obama Taxpayer Tea Parties steeped in insanity
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Gov. Perry Talks Secession for Texas at Tea Party: “Texas Can Leave Union If It Wants To” — All the insane talk coming from the Limbaugh National Convention is spreading into the fabric of the entire GOP. Listen to Texas Gov. Rick Perry say: … These republicans are talking treason in my mind.
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Wayne Slater / Associated Press:
Texas Gov. Rick Perry gets crowd boiling at Austin ‘tea party’ — wslater@dallasnews.com — AUSTIN - Gov. Rick Perry told an anti-tax “tea party” Wednesday the federal government is “rampaging through the halls of Congress” with big-spending programs and only states' rights can stop it.
Department of Homeland Security:
Statement by U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on the Threat of Right-Wing Extremism — The primary mission of this department is to prevent terrorist attacks on our nation. The document on right-wing extremism sent last week by this department's Office …
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Jimmy Vielkind / Politicker NY:
NY-20 Judge: Most Objections Invalid — ALBANY—Judge James Brands just ruled that most of the over 1,200 contested absentee ballots in the race to replace Kirsten Gillibrand in Congress were objected to improperly based on discrepancies in their applications. This means many more ballots will be counted.
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obamas' tax return: $2.66 million — Has the Obama brand peaked? — While running for president wasn't putting a pinch on Barack Obama's pocketbook, his total household income dropped to $2.7 million in 2008, down from $4.2 million the previous year. — While many Americans …
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Dexter Filkins / New York Times:
Afghan Women Protest New Restrictive Law — KABUL, Afghanistan — The young women stepped off the bus and moved toward the protest march just beginning on the other side of the street when they were spotted by a mob of men. — “Get out of here, you whores!” the men shouted. “Get out!”
Alaska_Politics / Anchorage Daily News:
Dems won't vote on Palin's three names for Senate seat (Updated) — State Senate Democrats are refusing to vote on the three names that Gov. Sarah Palin forwarded as appointees for the open Senate seat. They obtained a legal opinion this morning saying it is illegal for Palin to submit more than one name.
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Charles Bremner / Times of London:
World Agenda: Nicolas Sarkozy puts Barack Obama in the doghouse — Why the master of America's new First Mutt is no longer in good odour with President Sarkozy — France has been cooing along with everyone else over the arrival of Bo Obama at the White House, but the master of America's …
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Weekly Standard
New York Times:
N.S.A.'s Intercepts Exceed Limits Set by Congress — WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency intercepted private e-mail messages and phone calls of Americans in recent months on a scale that went beyond the broad legal limits established by Congress last year, according to government officials.
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