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Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
Charles Johnson Now So Anti-Racist He's Denouncing Fake Racist Quotes — Charles Johnson was against fake but accurate before he was for it. — No link for the idiot. I'll just quote him. From a thread: … That link I've left in provides a flurry of extremely dubious Limbaugh “quotes” — and not a single link or citation.
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RushLimbaugh.com:
State-Run Media Scum Smear Rush Using Fabricated Quotes — BEGIN TRANSCRIPT — RUSH: Folks, also, I don't know what to do today. I really don't know what to do. The audio sound bite roster is, again, 95% about me. The reason for my indecision here is that — well, I've talked to you about this before.
Mark Steyn / The Corner on National Review Online:
Okay, Prove You Didn't Say It! — By: Mark Steyn — For some reason, Rush Limbaugh's mooted purchase of a sports franchise has prompted CNN and others to distribute far and wide what appear to be entirely fabricated racist quotes by Rush. As Tim Blair points out: … Just so. What's the theory here?
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Matthews muses on killing Rush Limbaugh
Video: Matthews muses on killing Rush Limbaugh
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Mark Maske / Washington Post:
NFL Casts Doubt on Limbaugh's Bid
NFL Casts Doubt on Limbaugh's Bid
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Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
Stick a fork in Limbaugh's NFL dream, it's done
Stick a fork in Limbaugh's NFL dream, it's done
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Anthony Man / Broward Politics:
Robert Wexler to resign from Congress — Update: U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, who represents Broward and Palm Beach counties, plans to resign from Congress. Wexler plans to meet with reporters Wednesday morning in Boca Raton to detail his next move. A Democratic source with knowledge …
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Beth Reinhard / MiamiHerald.com:
U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler to step down — U.S. House of Representatives member Robert Wexler of Boca Raton, a self-described “fire-breathing liberal,” defender of Israel and friend of both President Barack Obama and Gov. Charlie Crist, is quitting Congress to head a think tank seeking peace in the Middle East.
Spencer Ackerman / The Washington Independent:
Wexler to Resign Florida Congressional Seat. What Obama Job Will He Get?
Wexler to Resign Florida Congressional Seat. What Obama Job Will He Get?
Laura Rozen / Laura Rozen's Blog:
Wexler for USAID? — Development community sources buzzing …
Wexler for USAID? — Development community sources buzzing …
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Robert Schmidt / Bloomberg:
Geithner Aides Reaped Millions Working for Banks, Hedge Funds — Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) — Some of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's closest aides, none of whom faced Senate confirmation, earned millions of dollars a year working for Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Citigroup Inc. and other Wall Street firms …
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Jeffrey A. Anderson / New York Post:
The Senate reform fraud — THE Senate Finance Committee yesterday voted on a fraud: Sen. Max Baucus' “re sponsible” health-reform bill is actually a recipe for fiscal disaster — and the Congressional Budget Office report that supposedly bolstered the bill actually exposes it.
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Douglas Holtz-Eakin / Wall Street Journal:
The Baucus Bill Is a Tax Bill
The Baucus Bill Is a Tax Bill
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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
The Top Ten Things Worth Fighting For
The Top Ten Things Worth Fighting For
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Breaking: Snowe defects on committee vote — Charles Grassley predicted that the Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee would stick together on the final panel vote on the Baucus health-care overhaul plan. Unfortunately, he didn't reckon on colleague Olympia Snowe's desire to make …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Snowe Day in Washington — It's mid October, but all the talk …
Snowe Day in Washington — It's mid October, but all the talk …
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Brad Wilmouth / NewsBusters.org:
Olbermann: Without ‘Fascistic Hatred,’ Malkin Is Just a ‘Mashed-Up Bag of Meat with Lipstick’ — On Tuesday's Countdown show, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann spewed bile at conservative commentator Michelle Malkin, accusing her of possessing “fascistic hatred,” and comparing her to a “mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it.”
Michael A. Cohen / The Politico:
Now who loves America more? — Twenty-five years ago, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick famously lambasted Democrats as “blame America firsters” and a party plagued by “self-criticism and self-denigration” of America. It was a speech at pace with an emerging political stereotype …
New York Times:
Saudis Seek Payments for Any Drop in Oil Revenues — Saudi Arabia is trying to enlist other oil-producing countries to support a provocative idea: if wealthy countries reduce their oil consumption to combat global warming, they should pay compensation to oil producers.
P.J. Gladnick / NewsBusters.org:
Robert Reich Reveals Brutal Health Care Truths; MSM Snores — Paging Congressman Alan Grayson! Here is a quote that validates what you said about those EVIL Republicans: … Aha! So it turns out that Grayson was right when he said “Republicans want you to die quickly.” Only one “little” problem here.
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Outside The Beltway, The Strata-Sphere, The TrogloPundit, Flopping Aces, Don Surber and Sister Toldjah
New York Times:
JPMorgan Chase Reports Strong Profit of $3.6 Billion — JPMorgan Chase said Wednesday that its profit surged to $3.6 billion in the third-quarter from strong trading results and a flurry of new deals, strengthening its position as one of the dominant banks to emerge from the financial crisis.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
The war on Beck — Fox News has taken a relatively cautious line toward the White House attacks on the network, leaving the real fireworks to Glenn Beck, who Monday accused the White House of being “more worried about the war on Fox than the actual war in Afghanistan.”
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
A Historic Success In Military Recruiting — In Midst of Downturn, All Targets Are Met — For the first time in more than 35 years, the U.S. military has met all of its annual recruiting goals, as hundreds of thousands of young people have enlisted despite the near-certainty that they will go to war.
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Biden No Longer a Lone Voice on Afghanistan — WASHINGTON — A few hours after getting off a plane from America's war zones, Joseph R. Biden Jr. slipped into a chair, shook off his jet lag and reflected on what he had seen. The situation in Iraq, he said, was much improved.
Michelle Malkin:
Michelle Obama is afraid of...South Carolina? — First, the White House goes to war with Fox News. — Now, if Democrat Rep. James Clyburn is to be believed, it looks like the First Lady is spoiling for a tiff with the state of South Carolina. — Is there anyone Team Obama isn't willing to alienate these days?
Louis Uchitelle / New York Times:
Still on the Job, but Making Only Half as Much — MECHANICSVILLE, Va. — The dark blue captain's hat, with its golden oak-leaf clusters, sits atop a bookcase in Bryan Lawlor's home, out of reach of the children. The uniform their father wears still displays the four stripes of a commercial airline captain, but the hat stays home.
Associated Press:
Controversial Bush-Era EPA E-mail Released — Message Buried by Bush Administration Because of Its Conclusions on Global Warming Surfaces — (AP) A controversial e-mail message buried by the Bush administration because of its conclusions on global warming surfaced Tuesday …
Paul Tharp / New York Post:
Dollar loses reserve status to yen & euro — Ben Bernanke's dollar crisis went into a wider mode yesterday as the greenback was shockingly upstaged by the euro and yen, both of which can lay claim to the world title as the currency favored by central banks as their reserve currency.