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The Van Jones (non) feeding frenzy — From a Nexis search a few moments ago: Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the New York Times: 0. Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the Washington Post: 0. Total words about the Van Jones controversy on NBC Nightly News: 0.
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Gawker, Weekly Standard, Green Sheet, Nice Deb, RedState, Pajamas Media, NewsBusters.org and Sadly, No!
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Busted. Van Jones Linked to 9-11 Truther Movement Back in **January 2002** — Yesterday, news broke out that Barack Obama's communist Green Czar was a 9-11 Truther. The administration much later in the day released a statement saying Van Jones was “not now or ever” involved in the 9-11 Truther movement.
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JustOneMinute, Ztower, The TrogloPundit, The Atlantic Politics Channel, Pajamas Media, NewsReal Blog, National Review Online, Weekly Standard, Michelle Malkin, The Washington Independent, Dean's World, The Mahablog, thelcabroadside.wordpress.com, Green Sheet, Confederate Yankee, NewsBusters.org, AmSpecBlog, Stop The ACLU, Right Wing Nut House, YID With LID, Moonbattery, The Daily Dish, theblogprof and Riehl World View
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Van Jones, Gone in 60 Seconds? — kf hears today is the day the MSM (not just Tapper) officially turns on Van Jones, the White House “green jobs” adviser who signed a 2004 Truther petition. ‘Gone by midnight’ is the prediction. He's on the Liverpool Care Pathway!
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FIRST THOUGHTS: STUCK IN THE MIDDLE — From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali Weinberg — *** Stuck in the middle with you: As President Obama prepares to deliver his primetime health-care speech on Wednesday, he's finding himself boxed in from the left and right — of his own party.
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White House stands by ‘truther’ Van Jones — The White House would not say whether the White House's green-jobs czar, who has been linked to Sept. 11 conspiracy theorists, continues to enjoy the confidence of the president, but an official said he is still a part of the administration.
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Bond Urges Congressional Hearing on Administration's Mr. Jones
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Trouble For Jones — At his daily press briefing Friday afternoon …
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Meg Whitman Blasts Van Jones
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The Washington Independent, KansasCity.com Prime Buzz, Michelle Malkin, Grist and Ben Smith's Blog
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Trutherism-lite, and a second Jones tie
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Political Punch, Little Green Footballs, The Huffington Post, Swampland, Gothamist, Erick's blog, A Blog For All and The Jawa Report
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Oh my: White House refuses to say that Van Jones still has Obama's confidence
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And So it Goes in Shreveport, The washington times Blogs, Climate Progress, Wonk Room, Reason, CBS News, Pundit & Pundette and Ztower
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Poizner camp: Whitman, Jones in ‘love’
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The Washington Independent
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Sources: White House drafting health care bill — WASHINGTON (CNN) — CNN has learned that the White House is quietly working to draft health care legislation after allowing Congress to work on its own for months. — Multiple sources close to the process tell CNN that while the plan is uncertain …
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Washington Monthly, American Power, The Hill, TPMDC, Hot Air, Salon, The Page and msnbc.com
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White House Polling Memo Omits Numbers Showing Support For Public Option
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Daily Kos, The Washington Independent, AMERICAblog News, Taylor Marsh, TalkLeft and The Political Carnival
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Obama Holds Conference Call With Progressives Who Oppose “Trigger”
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NO QUARTER
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Gates: AP decision ‘appalling’ — Defense Secretary Robert Gates is objecting “in the strongest terms” to an Associated Press decision to transmit a photograph showing a mortally wounded 21-year-old Marine in his final moments of life, calling the decision “appalling” and a breach of “common decency.”
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Rare AP Photo Captures U.S. Death in Afghanistan — Going back to 2002, I have been writing about the shameful reluctance, even refusal, of U.S. media outlets to carry truly graphic images of the true cost of our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — dead or even, in many cases, gravely wounded U.S. soldiers and Marines.
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AP picture shows pain of Afghan war — NEW YORK — The Associated Press is distributing a photo of a Marine fatally wounded in battle, choosing after a period of reflection to make public an image that conveys the grimness of war and the sacrifice of young men and women fighting it.
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Franken Talks Down Angry Mob!!! — I got to witness something really special the other day. About a dozen tea party activists had staked out Sen. Al Franken's booth at the Minnesota State Fair and confronted him loudly when he arrived. But within minutes, he'd turned an unruly crowd into a productive conversation on health care.
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Health Bills Might Not Protect Some Needy Americans, Experts Say — Patrick Gilbert, an uninsured lumber company worker in upstate New York, is in a predicament that President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats believe they can solve. Gilbert and his wife have two children …
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Rep. Bachmann: Dems Want To Sabotage Me Because I Might Become President — On Mike Gallagher's radio program yesterday, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) offered a novel theory as to why Democrats want her out of office: They don't want her to become the first woman president.
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Audi Chief Calls Chevy Volt “A Car For Idiots” — Bring on the war of words. In a frank conversation with MSN writer Lawrence Ulrich, Audi of America President Johan de Nysschen has said that the Chevy Volt will fail and that anybody who buys the car is an idiot.
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Fausta's Blog
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Can We Have Buckley Back? — Over the last few days, Jon Henke has laid out the case for the Right more strongly disavowing outfits like WorldNetDaily that actively peddle Birther nonsense. To the extent the mainstream Right has weighed in, it has been to urge Jon to ignore WND and move on …
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Could Texas' Gingrich-Based High School History Curriculum Go National? — While Republicans are busy gnashing their teeth over President Obama's imminent indoctrination of the nation's schoolchildren, there's an education story bubbling up in Texas that could have considerably more far-reaching consequences.
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Obama Regulation Czar Advocated Removing People's Organs Without Explicit Consent — (CNSNews.com) - Cass Sunstein, President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), has advocated a policy under which the government would “presume” …
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Why ‘GQ’ Doesn't Want Russians To Read Its Story … text sizeAAA — For war journalist Scott Anderson, the most confounding part of his recent assignment for GQ magazine to explore the root of terrorist acts in Russia a decade ago wasn't the suggestion of treachery and subterfuge he found.
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Taibblog, The Daily Dish, At-Largely, Ben Smith's Blog, Michael Calderone's Blog and Mediaite
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Let's Get Fundamental — If I were magically given an hour to help Barack Obama prepare for his health care speech next week, the first thing I'd do is ask him to read David Goldhill's essay, “How American Health Care Killed My Father,” in the current issue of The Atlantic.
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The Balance Sheet, JustOneMinute, Matthew Yglesias, Ezra Klein, dallasmorningviewsblog … and Weekly Standard
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The Coming Reset in State Government — My fellow governors and I are likely facing a permanent reduction in tax revenues. — Printer — Friendly — State government finances are a wreck. The drop in tax receipts is the worst in a half century. Fewer than 10 states ended …
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John Murtha's Airport for No One — If you hate the hubbub of crowded airports, you might want to consider flying out of Johnstown, Pa. The airport sees an average of fewer than 30 people per day, there is never a wait for security, you can park for free right outside the gate …
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Chris Christie Accident — On July 26, 2002 Christie was driving a leased BMW in the city of Elizabeth. — He was on his way to a swearing in ceremony for the Union County Prosecutor. But Christie apparently got a little lost. When he got to the intersection of Murray street and Clinton …
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Drift — Charlie Cook is out with another ominous political analysis/forecast for the Democrats, particularly when it comes to continued Democratic control of the House. The key issue for Cook is Obama's dramatic decline in support among political independents over the course of the summer.