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Matthew Mosk / Washington Times:
EXCLUSIVE: Democratic donors rewarded with W.H. perks — Offered access to bowling alley, movie theater — During his first nine months in office, President Obama has quietly rewarded scores of top Democratic donors with VIP access to the White House, private briefings with administration advisers …
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David Zurawik / Z on TV:
Another bad moment for White House in war on Fox — The White House keeps up its attack on Fox News as biased in this video with Valerie Jarrett, another senior adviser to President Obama making the claim. But watch how fast Jarrett folds when CNN anchor Campbell Brown asks her if pro-administration MSNBC isn't just as biased.
New York Times:
Brother of Afghan Leader Is Said to Be on C.I.A. Payroll — KABUL, Afghanistan — Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country's booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years …
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Don't Build Up — It is crunch time on Afghanistan, so here's my vote: We need to be thinking about how to reduce our footprint and our goals there in a responsible way, not dig in deeper. We simply do not have the Afghan partners, the NATO allies, the domestic support …
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Abu Muqawama:The Most Important Article on Afghanistan You'll Read This Week
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CNN:
CNN Poll: 7 in 10 say Palin not qualified to be president — WASHINGTON (CNN) - More than seven in 10 Americans think Sarah Palin is not qualified to be president, according to a new national poll. — Seventy-one percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey …
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Domenico Montanaro / msnbc.com:
FIRST THOUGHTS: BUSINESS AS USUAL — From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali Weinberg — *** Business as usual: We're soon coming up on the one-year anniversary of Barack Obama's presidential win. And one of the messages he used during the two-year campaign …
San Francisco Chronicle:
Did Schwarzenegger drop 4-letter bomb in veto? — Phillip Matier,Andrew Ross, Chronicle Columnists — (10-27) 19:19 PDT SACRAMENTO — Did Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office use a coded veto message to send the f-bomb to Tom Ammiano, soon after the San Francisco assemblyman made news by telling the governor to “kiss my gay ass”?
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Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:Schwarzenegger's secret message to the state Assembly: ‘F*ck you.’
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Schwarzenegger Gives California Legislature A Hidden Finger
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Tim Redmond / Politics:Arnold to SF: F**k You
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Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Defections have Dems ISO Plan B — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's appeals for party unity landed with a thud Tuesday with the very group he needs for his public-option push to pay off: centrists who hold the key to health reform. — And not just any centrists but one who makes liberals see red …
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
On Healthcare, Americans Trust Obama More Than Congress — By 48% to 37%, more trust the Democrats than the Republicans in Congress — PRINCETON, NJ — As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tries to advance a healthcare reform bill onto the Senate floor, just under half of Americans, 48% …
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The Hill:
Rep. Stupak threatens to work with Republicans to kill healthcare bill — Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) on Tuesday threatened that he may work with Republicans to torpedo healthcare reform unless he gets a vote to strip abortion-related provisions out of the House bill.
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Pelosi to unveil health bill to House Democrats Thursday morning — House Democrats are planning to unveil a healthcare bill Thursday that could disappoint liberals in the caucus. — The bill is expected to include a public health insurance option divorced from Medicare rates …
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Mary Katharine Ham / Weekly Standard:
Pew Political IQ Poll: Republicans Consistently More Knowledgeable — You likely won't see this poll result elsewhere, so I thought I'd highlight it here. This is a Pew Political IQ test conducted over the phone with 1,002 adults from Oct. 1-4. They were asked 12 questions …
Wall Street Journal:
Obama Is Right About Fox News — Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution. There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source. And the Newseum in Washington, D.C., establishes the profession's legitimacy …
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama appoints Hagel to intelligence post — President Barack Obama has appointed former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel (Neb.) to serve as a co-chairman of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board. — During his time in the Senate, Hagel was highly critical of the Bush administration's approach to the Iraq war.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Cheney backs Hutchison — How much more fun could the Texas governor's race get? — The latest from AP: — Former Vice President Dick Cheney will throw his support behind U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's campaign for Texas governor. — Hutchison's campaign confirmed Wednesday …
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John Koblin / New York Times:
Times Buyout Package Reveals More than Expected — Just over a week ago, every person in the Times newsroom was sent out a buyout package via UPS Next Day Air. If 100 staffers don't raise their hands by Dec. 7, there will be layoffs. — We got our hands on one of the thickish brown envelopes that went to employees' homes.
Jason Horowitz / Washington Post:
To find right PR guru, Beck looked to his left — A few weeks after Sept. 11, 2001, Glenn Beck, a young Tampa-based disc jockey eager to break into conservative talk radio, called his new Manhattan agent, George Hiltzik, to help arrange a visit to Ground Zero.
Michael Calderone / The Politico:
News gets worse for the MSM — There have been a lot of bad days recently for what's come to be known as the mainstream media — or MSM — but Monday was one of the worst. — New circulation figures showed that big city papers had lost as much as a quarter of their circulation in the past six months.
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