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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?
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Tim Blair, QandO, Confederate Yankee, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, NewsBusters.org, Pajamas Media, JammieWearingFool, GayPatriot, AmSpecBlog and Erick's blog
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.
Bob Cusack / The Hill:
House Dem urges NFL not to let Limbaugh buy the St. Louis Rams
House Dem urges NFL not to let Limbaugh buy the St. Louis Rams
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Gateway Pundit
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Matthews muses on killing Rush Limbaugh
Video: Matthews muses on killing Rush Limbaugh
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Hit & Run, Ace of Spades HQ, theblogprof, Moonbattery, The Western Experience, Pajamas Media, Macsmind, Gateway Pundit, Moe Lane and NewsBusters.org
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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Ben Smith's Blog, Wall Street Journal, Wonk Room, American Spectator, Washington Post and New York Times
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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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.
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Think Progress, The Note, DailyFinance, Wonk Room, FT Alphaville, Clusterstock, Balloon Juice and New York Times
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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Sean Higgins / Investor's Business Daily:
Americans, In Reversal, Now Back Afghan Troop Surge — As President Obama mulls the military's request for a big troop build-up in Afghanistan, Americans have swung in favor of such a move, according to a new IBD/TIPP Poll. — The survey of 927 adults found that a plurality of 48% favors sending …
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Fred Kaplan / Slate:
There's a way to solve the Afghanistan mess without sending a lot …
There's a way to solve the Afghanistan mess without sending a lot …
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Taylor Marsh
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Not Good Enough — If President Obama can find a way to balance …
Not Good Enough — If President Obama can find a way to balance …
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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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.
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Matthew Yglesias, The Reality-Based Community, Daniel W. Drezner, Raw Story, QandO, Free exchange and Philly.com
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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Michelle Malkin, Breitbart.tv, Sister Toldjah, AmSpecBlog, Jenn Q. Public, Pundit & Pundette and Weasel Zippers
Joe Nocera / Executive Suite:
Subprime and the Banks: Guilty as Charged — “There has not been a case made that there is an enforcement problem with banks,” Edward Yingling, the head of the American Bankers Association, said last week. “There is a problem with enforcement on nonbanks.”
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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.
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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Laura Rozen's Blog, Associated Press, Jules Crittenden, Guardian, The AfPak Channel, Commentary and The Page
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Daisy Chain of Cheneys — I imagine that if you called the new consulting firm of Cheney, Cheney & Cheney and got put on hold, you'd hear the “Ghostbusters” theme: … It's hard to believe that the Bush dynasty, which limped away in disgrace after smashing our economy and the globe, has spawned another political dynasty.
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.
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Pro-Obamacare Republicans in the pay of the health industry — As the White House dismissed the insurance lobby's critiques of the Senate health care bill as self-serving corporate disinformation, President Obama used his weekly radio address to laud four former Republican officials for supporting the push for “reform.”
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Hit & Run
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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The TrogloPundit, The Strata-Sphere, Flopping Aces, Outside The Beltway, Don Surber, theblogprof and Sister Toldjah