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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
The Prez, The Press, The Pressure — Networks Grouse About Obama in Prime Time — In the days before President Obama's last news conference, as the networks weighed whether to give up a chunk of their precious prime time, Rahm Emanuel went straight to the top.
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Jennifer Senior / New York Magazine:
The Message Is the Message — Barack Obama's ubiquitous appearances as professor-in-chief, preacher-in-chief, father-in-chief, may turn out to be the most salient feature of his presidency. — Photo-illustration by James Porto — Since occupying the White House, Barack Obama …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The scope — and dangers — of GE's control of NBC and MSNBC — (updated below - Update II) — I want to return to the subject of GE's silencing of Keith Olbermann both because there are new facts I've obtained that shed light on what happened here and because this is one of the most blatant examples yet …
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Village Voice:
Birther or Not, Here They Come! Rightbloggers Work the Obama Birth Certificate Angle — As you may have heard, there is among certain people a controversy as whether Barack Obama was really born in the United States. They generally believe that Obama's certification of live birth …
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David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
‘Birthers’ Latch Onto Forged Kenyan Birth Certificate
‘Birthers’ Latch Onto Forged Kenyan Birth Certificate
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Salon, The Huffington Post, Obama Conspiracy Theories, Hot Air, Raw Story, Native and Natural … and Wonkette
Jeremy Schulman / Media Matters for America:
Sorry, WorldNetDaily: Kenya wasn't a republic until Dec. 1964
Sorry, WorldNetDaily: Kenya wasn't a republic until Dec. 1964
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Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:
Angry right harasses Rep. Lloyd Doggett with anti-health care chants. (Updated) — Today, House members are back home to begin their month-long recess. The far right has indicated that they plan to welcome many of their representatives with large, angry throngs ("town halls gone wild").
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Jeffrey Young / The Hill:
Sen. Enzi: No deadline for healthcare talks — One of the three Republican senators working on a bipartisan agreement on healthcare reform legislation flatly denied Monday the Democratic claims that negotiators had set a mid-September deadline to complete their work.
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Michelle Malkin:
Into the lion's den: My encounter with The View; Vid link added — Just finished up on The View, where I sparred with the ladies about Culture of Corruption. — You can watch a bit of it at RCP and I'm sure Hot Air will have highlights up soon. — Best part: Every single member of the audience got a copy of the book!
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Blue-State Blues — We know because he said so, in the first of many famous speeches, that Barack Obama doesn't see Red America or Blue America — he only sees the United States of America. But as the president contemplates his faltering poll numbers and his stalling health-care push …
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Political Party Affiliation: 30 States Blue, 4 Red in '09 So Far — PRINCETON, NJ — An analysis of Gallup Poll Daily tracking data from the first six months of 2009 finds Massachusetts to be the most Democratic state in the nation, along with the District of Columbia.
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Juan Cole / Salon:
Sarah Palin, meet Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — You two right-wing populists have a surprising amount in common — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivers a speech in Mashhad, Iran, on Friday; Gov. Sarah Palin gives her resignation speech in Fairbanks, Alaska, on July 26. — Is Sarah Palin America's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?
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McCain To Vote “No” On Sotomayor — Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) announced today that he will vote against Sonia Sotomayor, Pres. Obama's nominee to become the first Hispanic SCOTUS justice. — McCain, in a Senate floor speech: … McCain voted against Sotomayor's nomination to the 2nd Circuit Court …
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Wall Street Journal:
Cash From Clunkers — Let's have a $4,500 subsidy for everything. — Printer — Friendly — Americans are streaming back into auto showrooms, and one reason is the “cash for clunkers” subsidy. Democrats are naturally claiming this is a great success, while Republicans are claiming …
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Just 32% of Virginia Republicans Think Obama is a Citizen — Here's an advance look at a new Public Policy Polling survey in Virginia completed over the weekend: An astonishing 41% of the state's Republicans think President Obama was not born in the United States while just 32% think he was and 27% are still not sure.
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Zandar Versus The Stupid, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Little Green Footballs, PoliBlog, Hotline On Call and Brendan Nyhan
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
U.S. Weighs Iran Sanctions if Talks Are Rejected — The Obama administration is talking with allies and Congress about the possibility of imposing an extreme economic sanction against Iran if it fails to respond to President Obama's offer to negotiate on its nuclear program …
Jane M. Von Bergen / Philly.com:
Temperatures rise at health-care meeting — If any political prognosticators wanted proof that President Obama faces a tough sell on his health plan, they merely needed to show up at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia yesterday. — A raucous standing-room-only crowd of more than 400 cheered …
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Victor Zapanta / Think Progress:
Ghost Letters: Opponents Of Clean Energy Reform Send Fake Letters To Sen. Conrad — Last week, ThinkProgress reported that a DC-based lobbying firm was caught forging letters to Rep. Tom Periello (D-VA) in opposition to the Waxman-Markey clean energy bill. The company, Bonner & Associates …
David Corn / Politics Daily:
Obama's Anger Problem? — If President Obama is mad, who's he so mad at? — Let me explain. On Friday afternoon, at the daily White House press briefing, press secretary Robert Gibbs was explaining why his boss this week will be making his second trip as president to hard-hit Elkhart …
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Politico Only Knows Conservative Experts — Politico had the interesting idea of asking various DC policy experts to recommend books in their areas of expertise. Unfortunately, it went off the rails. Things start out okay on the Middle East where they ask one person from CAP (left) …
Michael Yon:
Resurrection — The bugs are not bad in this part of Afghanistan. The scorched terrain is biologically boring. Mice and ferret-like creatures dash around in the evenings when sparrows and doves and a few other sorts of birds flutter through the cool air.
Rasmussen Reports:
Confidence in U.S. Health Care System Has Grown in Recent Months — Forty-eight percent (48%) of U.S. voters now rate the U.S. health care system as good or excellent. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 19% rate it as poor.
Daily Mail:
Three policewomen spend full day dressed in Muslim burkhas in controversial ‘In Your Shoes’ exercise — A police exercise which saw female officers spending a day dressed in full Muslim dress has been blasted ‘a complete waste of time’. — Two sergeants and a community support officer dressed …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Rewarding Bad Actors — Americans are angry at Wall Street, and rightly so. First the financial industry plunged us into economic crisis, then it was bailed out at taxpayer expense. And now, with the economy still deeply depressed, the industry is paying itself gigantic bonuses.
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:
CROWD EXPLODES when Arlen Specter says “do it fast.” This kind of thing just keeps happening.... CROWD EXPLODES when Arlen Specter says “do it fast.” — This kind of thing just keeps happening. And it's happening all over. — Plus, planning to eliminate private insurance?