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3:00 PM ET, October 14, 2009

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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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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.
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 …
Matthew Filipowicz / The Huffington Post:
Rush Limbaugh Reveals His St. Louis Rams Uniform Design
Discussion: Gateway Pundit and ACS Blog
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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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.
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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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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Eric Zimmermann / The Hill:
Snowe: Public option could be dealbreaker
The Note:
Public Option with Opt-Out Clause Not a Silver Bullet for Snowe
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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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.
Discussion: JTA and Real Clear Politics
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Beth Reinhard / MiamiHerald.com:
U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler to step down
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Mary Katharine Ham / Weekly Standard:   The Washington Post Has a Tenuous Grasp on Idea of ‘Incivility’
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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Daniel W. Drezner:
So it turns out that Arab sheikhs understand the meaning of “chutzpah”
Discussion: Megan McArdle
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.
Douglas Holtz-Eakin / Wall Street Journal:
The Baucus Bill Is a Tax Bill  —  Middle-class families would get hit with a double-digit increase in their marginal tax rate.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  Remember when health-care reform was supposed to make life better for the middle class?  That dream began to unravel this past summer …
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Jeffrey A. Anderson / New York Post:
The Senate reform fraud
Discussion: National Review and Hot Air
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 …
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
An Apartment Complex Teeters  —  High-Profile Tishman/BlackRock Property in New York in Danger of Default  —  The giant Stuyvesant Town apartment complex on Manhattan's East Side, shown Tuesday, was developed by MetLife for World War II veterans.  —  One of the biggest …
Jake Sherman / The Politico:
Boehner downplays Dow 10,000  —  Dow 10,000 just isn't that big a deal, House Republican leader John Boehner said Wednesday morning.  —  And anyone who places significance on the stock market hitting this symbolic number is “certainly not talking to the American people.”
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Darya Korsunskaya / Reuters:
Russia's Putin warns against intimidating Iran  —  BEIJING (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned major powers on Wednesday against intimidating Iran and said talk of sanctions against the Islamic Republic over its nuclear programme was “premature”.
Discussion: Dean's World
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 …
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.
Andie Coller / The Politico:
Bush memoirs to haunt GOP  —  For Republicans looking forward to the first Bush-free election in a decade, the book publishing schedule is the bearer of bad news: Between New Year's Day and next November, as many as five Bush administration officials — including the former president himself — will rehash history in hardback.
 
 
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
The Rising: Strawn's Youth Movement in Iowa
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Martin Wolf / Financial Times:
The rumours of the dollar's death are much exaggerated
Haya El Nasser / USA Today:
Senators try to exclude illegal immigrants from 2010 Census
Jim Motavalli / New York Times:
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Conrad Black / National Review:
The Obama Fiasco  —  The whole Obama era to date has been wasted …
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and Israpundit
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Clinton: I'd have hired Obama
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Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
Feeling Strategically Reassured
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Pro-Obamacare Republicans in the pay of the health industry
Discussion: Hit & Run
Joe Nocera / Executive Suite:
Subprime and the Banks: Guilty as Charged
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
The war on Beck  —  Fox News has taken a relatively cautious …
Discussion: GayPatriot and Wizbang