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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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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?
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.
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Matthews muses on killing Rush Limbaugh
Video: Matthews muses on killing Rush Limbaugh
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Ben Frumin / TPM LiveWire:
Schumer To Reid: The Fate Of The Public Option May Be In Your Hands — Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) threw down the gauntlet on the public option for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) last night. Appearing on The Rachel Maddow Show, Schumer essentially put the fate of the public option …
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Ceci Connolly / Washington Post:
Health Insurers Emerge as Obama's Top Foe in Reform Effort — Now they have an enemy. — For months, President Obama and his administration waged their fight for a health-care overhaul without a clear opponent, even courting the industry executives and interest groups that helped kill reform efforts 15 years ago.
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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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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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Michelle Malkin, The Swamp, LewRockwell.com Blog, msnbc.com, Clusterstock and Real Time Economics
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Wall Street Journal:
Wall Street On Track To Award Record Pay — Major U.S. banks and securities firms are on pace to pay their employees about $140 billion this year — a record high that shows compensation is rebounding despite regulatory scrutiny of Wall Street's pay culture.
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.”
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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.
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Bob Cusack / The Hill:
House Dem urges NFL not to let Limbaugh buy the St. Louis Rams — Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) on Tuesday urged the National Football League (NFL) not to let conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh buy the St. Louis Rams. — Limbaugh, a former employee of Major League Baseball's Kansas City Royals …
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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.
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.”
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Ben Szobody / The State:
‘Chill out,’ Graham tells critics — GREENVILLE - An often clamorous crowd blasted, grilled and occasionally cheered Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., in a town hall meeting Monday that centered on health care reform but returned repeatedly to his positions on climate change, judicial appointees and immigration.
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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.
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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 TrogloPundit, The Strata-Sphere, Flopping Aces, theblogprof, Don Surber and Sister Toldjah
Quinnipiac University:
Christie's Lead Is Ultra-Thin In New Jersey Gov Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Daggett At 14%, But 77% Say He Can't Win — The New Jersey governor's race is going down to the wire as Republican challenger Christopher Christie gets 41 percent of likely voters, with 40 percent …
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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 …
Louis Uchitelle / New York Times:
Still on the Job, but at Half the Pay — 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.
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.
PittsburghLIVE.com:
Poll shows Specter staring at ‘near fatal’ 31 percent re-election figure — TRIBUNE-REVIEW — HARRISBURG — Only 31 percent of Pennsylvania voters believe Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter should be re-elected, and 59 percent believe it's time to give someone else a chance, a state poll released today shows.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
BOEHNER'S UNDERSTANDING OF ‘IMMUTABLE CHARACTERISTICS’.... Last week, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) announced that he would oppose a military spending bill because it included a provision to expand hate-crime protections. — “All violent crimes should be prosecuted vigorously …