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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.
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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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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Douglas Holtz-Eakin / Wall Street Journal:
The Baucus Bill Is a Tax Bill
The Baucus Bill Is a Tax Bill
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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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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 …
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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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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Mary Katharine Ham / Weekly Standard: The Washington Post Has a Tenuous Grasp on Idea of ‘Incivility’
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
The Curious Resignation Of Robert Wexler — Today, Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL), a well-regarded young congressman with a good job and enough seniority to ensure that he is comfortable, will announce his resignation from the House of Representatives. The reason: he intends to perform other work in a “public policy” capacity.
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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.
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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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Clinton: I'd have hired Obama — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that if she had won presidential election, Barack Obama would “absolutely” have served in her Cabinet. — Recalling the conversation she had with then-president-elect Obama about her joining the administration during …
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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.
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The Note:
Public Option with Opt-Out Clause Not a Silver Bullet for Snowe — ABC News' Teddy Davis reports: — Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, told ABC's Robin Roberts on “Good Morning America” on Wednesday that she has “concerns” about allowing states to opt into a government insurance option without …
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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 …
KATU-TV:
Apartment residents told to take down U.S. flags — Residents of the Oaks Apartments in Albany have reportedly been told to take down their flags. Even this one, on the back of a motorcycle, is part of the reported ban. — ALBANY, Ore. - At the Oaks Apartments in Albany …
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.
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.
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
House Republicans accuse Muslim group of trying to plant spies — Four House Republicans are accusing a Muslim advocacy group of trying to plant spies. — Republican members of the Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus say the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), tried to plant …
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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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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Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
Feeling Strategically Reassured — Reuben Johnson writes for the website today on the ChiCom parade two weeks ago celebrating Mao's victory over Chiang. He notes that “the female troops were all marching in miniskirts and fancy leather ‘these boots were made for walkin’ boots.”