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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
The real reason the White House is attacking Fox News: Containment — This seems so obviously correct that I feel embarrassed for not having figured it out sooner. … Allen and Gerstein: … Both Politico and Mediaite note that the expected righteous indignation at being lectured …
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Political Punch:
Today's Qs for O's WH - 10/20/2009 — From this morning's gaggle in White House press secretary Robert Gibbs' office: — Can you explain why it's appropriate for the White House to decide that a news organization is not one - — Gibbs: Jake, we render, we render an opinion based …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Gibbs's opinion — Tapper and Gibbs spar on the subject of Fox:
Gibbs's opinion — Tapper and Gibbs spar on the subject of Fox:
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WorldNetDaily:
Traditional Americans are losing their nation — In the brief age of Obama, we have had “truthers,” “birthers,” tea party activists and town-hall dissenters. — Comes now, the “Oath Keepers.” And who might they be? — Writes Alan Maimon in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Oath Keepers …
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Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
Pat Buchanan: White Americans Are “Losing” Their Country. — Pat Buchanan knows who America really belongs to. After a litany of what he sees as white working class grievances in his latest column, Buchanan concludes: (via TPM) … There's been a lot of attention paid …
Grunt / Media Matters for America:
Limbaugh to NYTimes environment reporter Revkin: “Why don't you just go kill yourself” — From the October 20 edition of Premiere Radio Network's The Rush Limbaugh Show: — Please upgrade your flash player. The video for this item requires a newer version of Flash Player.
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Andrew C. Revkin / Dot Earth:
Thought Experiments on Birth and Death — I'd like to think that Rush Limbaugh was floating a thought experiment, and not seriously proposing something, when he told millions of listeners the following: “Mr. Revkin, why don't you just go kill yourself, and help the planet by dying.”
Philip Boroff / Bloomberg:
Carnegie Hall Stagehand Moving Props Makes $530,044 — Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) — After you practice for years and get to Carnegie Hall, it's almost better to move music stands than actually play the piano. — Depending on wattage, a star pianist can receive $20,000 a night at the 118-year-old hall …
Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
Democrats lock Republicans out of committee room — Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) locked Republicans out of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee room to keep them from meeting when Democrats aren't present. — Towns' action came after repeated public ridicule from the leading Republican …
Bill Donohue / Washington Post:
America's secular saboteurs — There are many ways cultural nihilists are busy trying to sabotage America these days: multiculturalism is used as a club to beat down Western civilization in the classroom; sexual libertines seek to upend the cultural order by attacking religion …
Oprah.com:
Oprah Winfrey Talks to Sarah Palin on The Oprah Winfrey Show — CHICAGO — In a world exclusive, Oprah Winfrey will interview former Alaska governor Sarah Palin for an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show to air Monday, November 16, 2009. Winfrey and Palin will meet for the very first time on the episode …
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama urges GOP to ‘get a mop’ and clean up Bush administration mess — President Barack Obama urged Republicans to help clean up the mess the Bush administration left behind in comments at a Tuesday night fundraiser. — Obama, speaking to donors to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) …
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
President Obama takes on Wall Street in New York City fundraiser
President Obama takes on Wall Street in New York City fundraiser
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Bernstein on Human Rights Watch — It's certainly news that Human Rights Watch's critics were able to get a former HRW chairman to slam the organization for having the temerity to hold Israel to the same standards of international humanitarian law to which it holds every other country.
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Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
NY-23 GOP Campaign And Weekly Standard Feud: Read The E-mails — The feud is heating up between the Weekly Standard and the Dede Scozzafava campaign — the moderate Republican running in the three-way NY-23 special election — with Scozzafava spokesman Matt Burns now forwarding …
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NY Daily News:
Judge revokes Bernard Kerik bail, sends ex-NYPD top cop to jail for trying to taint jury pool — A judge tossed former NYPD commissioner Bernard Kerik in jail for trying to taint the jury pool via the Internet Tuesday - days before the top cop's corruption trial starts.
Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Medicare for everyone — Say hello to “Medicare Part E” — as in, “Medicare for Everyone.” — House Democrats are looking at re-branding the public health insurance option as Medicare, an established government healthcare program that is better known than the public option.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
NY-23: Can Doug Hoffman Win? — President Barack Obama heads to New York City later today to raise campaign cash for businessman Bill Owens, the party's nominee in the Nov. 3 special election in New York's 23rd district, but the emerging storyline in the race is whether Conservative party …
Bob Holmes / New Scientist:
Meet future woman: shorter, plumper, more fertile — For similar stories, visit the Evolution and Human Evolution Topic Guides — Women of the future are likely to be slightly shorter and plumper, have healthier hearts and longer reproductive windows. These changes are predicted …
Sandra Block / USA Today:
Latest bank fee is for paying off credit card on time every month — You floss regularly, yield to oncoming traffic and use your credit cards judiciously, dutifully paying off your balance every month. — You may believe that your exemplary behavior shields you from unexpected credit card fees.
Vos Iz Neias:
Kinsman, IL - FBI Raids Halal Slaughterhouse — Kinsman, IL - Federal agents conducted a raid Sunday afternoon at a goat meat processing plant near Morris, Illinois. The secretive operation was led by the Chicago FBI office, the Feds are being very tight-lipped on what they found and why they were even there.
Eric Shawn / Fox News:
‘They Tried to Steal an Election,’ N.Y. Voter Fraud Case Heats Up — Thirty-eight forged or fraudulent ballots have been thrown out, according to records at the Rensselaer County Board of Elections in Troy, N.Y. Enough votes, an election official admits, to likely have tipped the November election to the Democrats.
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Neil Offen / Durham Herald-Sun:
Hersh: Military waging war with White House — DURHAM — The U.S. military is not just fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, America's most renowned investigative journalist says. — The army is also “in a war against the White House — and they feel they have [President] Obama boxed in …
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Happy Hour Roundup: New CBO Score Bodes Well For Public Option — Update: This just in: — In another step forward for the public option, I'm told reliably by a source that House leaders have been given a new Congressional Budget Office “score” finding that the evolving House bill …