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6:15 PM ET, October 20, 2009

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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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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
White House vs. FOX News: Round Five  —  A new story line is developing in the ongoing war between the White House and the FOX News Channel, which started as a selective fight with a few commentators and has broadened to a contest between an administration and a network.
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and Mediaite
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THE NON-EXISTENT LINE BETWEEN DAYTIME AND PRIMETIME.... For various media figures derisive of the White House's criticism of Fox News, there seems to be some confusion over the nature of the problem.  —  For much of the media establishment, Fox News and MSNBC are somehow bookends, one on the right; one on the left.
Jeff Poor / NewsBusters.org:
Hume Defends Fox Again: Asks How CNN, Others ‘Like Being Patted on the Head and Given the Seal of Approval by the White House’  —  After another round of attacks from the White House, this time from higher levels of the Obama administration, Brit Hume, a senior political analyst for Fox News, went to bat for his network.
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and PostPartisan
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Gibbs's opinion  —  Tapper and Gibbs spar on the subject of Fox:
Discussion: Commentary
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
The real reason the White House is attacking Fox News: Containment
Neil Offen / Durham Herald-Sun:
Hersh: Military waging war with White House
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Michelle Malkin:
MoveOn demands that Democrats stay off Fox News
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
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 …
Discussion: Bark Bark Woof Woof
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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 …
Robert Bernstein / New York Times:
Rights Watchdog, Lost in the Mideast  —  AS the founder of Human Rights Watch, its active chairman for 20 years and now founding chairman emeritus, I must do something that I never anticipated: I must publicly join the group's critics.  Human Rights Watch had as its original mission …
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Bernstein on Human Rights Watch
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Lenny Ben-David / Pajamas Media:
Showdown on J Street  —  Pointed questions for director Jeremy Ben-Ami before the new “pro-Israel, pro-peace” lobby's first big conference.  —  J Street's director, Jeremy Ben-Ami, published an open letter to Israel's Ambassador Michael Oren in the Jerusalem Post this week insisting …
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Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
Headliner Kerry joins J Street no-show list UPDATE
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
J Street Loses Another: Rep. Howard Coble Out
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs
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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Ben Conery / Washington Times:
Justice concludes black voters need Democratic Party  —  U.S. blocks N.C. city's nonpartisan vote  —  Voters in this small city decided overwhelmingly last year to do away with the party affiliation of candidates in local elections, but the Obama administration recently overruled the electorate …
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Kristol: A Reporter Does His Job  —  My colleague John McCormack called me last night, as I was watching the Phillies-Dodgers game, from his car in a parking lot in Lowville, N.Y. He had attended a Scozzafava campaign event, tried to ask the candidate a few questions — and the Scozzafava campaign had called the police.
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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Scozzafava Calls the Cops
Josh Kraushaar / Scorecard's Blog:
Scozzafava's response to the Weekly Standard
Discussion: TPMDC and The New Republic
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Morning Fix: A premature celebration for the GOP  —  Republicans in Washington can barely contain their glee at the turn of President Obama's political fortunes in the first nine months of the year but a new Washington Post/ABC News poll suggests the GOP still faces serious perception problems in the eyes of the American public.
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David M. Halbfinger / New York Times:
Christie May Have Gotten Improper Aid  —  When news broke in August that the former United States attorney, Christopher J. Christie, had lent $46,000 to a top aide in the federal prosecutor's office, he said he was merely helping a friend in need.  He also said the aide, Michele Brown …
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.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid offers doctors a deal  —  The White House and Democratic leaders are offering doctors a deal: They'll freeze cuts in Medicare payments to doctors in exchange for doctors' support of healthcare reform.  —  At a meeting on Capitol Hill last week with nearly a dozen doctors groups …
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Financial Giants Donating Little to Obama Party  —  WASHINGTON — The Wall Street giants that received a financial lifeline from Washington may have no compunction about paying big bonuses to their dealmakers and traders.  But their willingness to deliver “thank you” gifts to President Obama …
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Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
Good Grief... ANOTHER Mao-Praising Obama Czar Caught on Tape (Video)  —  How many commies have invaded the White House?  —  ...We may never know.  —  But here's the latest Obama Czar praising mass-murderer Mao Tse-Tung in a speech:  —  Naked Emporer News  —  Ron Bloom is the Manufacturing Czar.
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Peter Hamby / CNN:
DeMint denounces op-ed with Jewish stereotype  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint is denouncing remarks by two Republican officials in his state that were published in a controversial weekend op-ed which included a Jewish stereotype.  —  The piece, written …
CNN:
CNN Poll: Half the country disagrees with Obama on issues  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - For the first time since he took over in the White House, Americans don't see eye to eye with President Barack on the important issues, according to a new national poll.  But the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation …
Discussion: Hot Air, Politics Daily and TPMDC
Felix Salmon:
The secret Paulson-Goldman meeting  —  Andrew Ross Sorkin's new book is out today, and breaks some pretty stunning news, dating from the end of June, 2008.  At this point, we're still months away from the now-famous but then-secret waiver, issued in mid-September, which allowed Hank Paulson …
 
 
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