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To Our Readers — This is only the second time in its nearly ten-year history that the Dish has gone silent. The reason now is the same as the reason then. When dealing with a delusional fantasist like Sarah Palin, it takes time to absorb and make sense of the various competing narratives that she tells about her life.
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Villainous Company, Power Line, The Corner on National …, Another Black Conservative, Sister Toldjah, The New Republic, Gawker, Dennis the Peasant, Wonkette, Mediaite, The Moderate Voice, NewsMax.com, Macsmind, TBogg, Ben Smith's Blog, AmSpecBlog, Jules Crittenden, Riehl World View and Althouse
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Fox News displays old campaign footage to claim Palin is getting ‘huge crowds’ at her book signings. — This afternoon, Fox News host Gregg Jarrett proudly announced that Sarah Palin is “continuing to draw huge crowds while she's promoting her brand new book. Take a look at — these are some of the pictures just coming into us.”
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Media Matters for America, Crooks and Liars, TPM LiveWire, Alas, a blog, The Swamp, Raw Story, Michael Calderone's Blog, Gawker and News Hounds
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FOX rolls wrong video, heads may roll — FOX has done it again, and this time, once again, FOX says its misplay of the wrong crowd video was another regrettable mistake. — Today, FOX News host Gregg Jarrett was talking about Republican Sarah Palin's book tour and the crowd she is drawing …
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McCain defends campaign team against Sarah Palin — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Senator John McCain on Wednesday strongly defended the top advisers from his 2008 presidential campaign in the face of sharp criticism from his vice presidential running mate, Sarah Palin.
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Nicolle Wallace Calls Sarah Palin's Description of Couric Interview ‘Fiction’ — As we reported last week, in her new memoir “Going Rogue” Sarah Palin writes about the campaign interviews she gave to Katie Couric. Palin contends McCain aide and former CBS News political contributor Nicolle Wallace …
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Sarah Palin gives Oprah biggest audience in two years — Oprah Winfrey's interview with former vp candidate Sarah Palin scored the talk show host her highest rating in two years. — Monday's episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” drew a 8.7 household rating and 13 share …
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Detroit Free Press, NewsBusters.org, Stop The ACLU, Say Anything, GOP 12 and Dr. Melissa Clouthier
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Empowering Sarah — There's a great little Mad Men moment in Jonathan Van Meter's detailed profile of Hillary Clinton in this month's Vogue (and what socially ambitious magazine piece doesn't have a Mad Men moment these days). “That's how it was!” enthuses the Secretary of State.
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Palin photographer breached contract with sale to Newsweek
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Wizbang, The Gaggle, Pajamas Media, Front Row Washington, The Hill, Texas for Sarah Palin and NewsBusters.org
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DNC circulates Palin memo; ‘God Bless’
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Human Events, Althouse, The Caucus, Taylor Marsh, The Huffington Post, The Swamp, Riehl World View, D.C. Now and Mudville Gazette
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A Conservative Read On Palin's ‘Going Rogue’
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Reid modifies abortion provisions but eschews Stupak language — The Senate healthcare reform bill includes new language designed to prevent taxpayer money from financing abortions, an anti-abortion-rights Democrat said Wednesday. — Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), who was briefed on the healthcare bill …
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Reid Outlines Bill For Caucus, Warns Conservative Dems That Reconciliation Is Still An Option — At a special evening meeting of the Democratic caucus tonight, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid outlined, in broad strokes, the details of his health care bill, which the CBO has found …
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Senate leader unveils $849 billion health care bill
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Senate announces $848 billion health-care bill
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NPR Shocker: Attorney General Holder Stumped By Lindsey Graham — During Wednesday's Justice Department oversight hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) stumped Attorney General Eric Holder on what should have been a fairly routine question for America's top law enforcement official.
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The Other McCain, Wizbang, The Corner on National …, Althouse, JustOneMinute and Another Black Conservative
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Holder's Testimony — By: Andy McCarthy
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Hot Air, Power Line, Nice Deb, Commentary, Dr. Melissa Clouthier and National Review Online
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Sebelius says Ignore Mammogram Rec, GOP Attacks Health Reform Bill — HHS Secretary Sebelius did her best to ride the wave of incredulous opposition to the new government-sponsored guidelines advising women to hold off on regular mammograms til age 50. Perhaps anticipating that opponents …
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Sebelius on Mammograms: Don't Change What You're Doing
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The Caucus, Swampland, KIKO'S HOUSE, neo-neocon, The Democratic Daily and New York Times
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Congress Asks Why H1N1 Vaccine Ran Short
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Jeff Mapes on Politics
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EXCLUSIVE: CIA Secret ‘Torture’ Prison Found at Fancy Horseback Riding Academy — ABC News Finds the Location of a “Black Site” for Alleged Terrorists in Lithuania — The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania …
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To Our Readers, An Update — This Dish will resume as normal tomorrow morning. We apologize for the lacuna. And I suppose some will say we've gotten this book and the issues it raises out of perspective. But since the last campaign, we have raised many questions about Palin …
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The Other McCain
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Texas' gay marriage ban may have banned all marriages — AUSTIN — Texans: Are you really married? — Maybe not. — Barbara Ann Radnofsky, a Houston lawyer and Democratic candidate for attorney general, says that a 22-word clause in a 2005 constitutional amendment designed …
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5:30 p.m. | Palin comes out of the bus, clad in a red and black jacket and black skirt and carrying her son Trig. She tells the people gathered outside that she was thrilled to be back in Michigan. — “Alaska and Michigan have so much in common with the huntin' and the fishin' and the hockey moms …
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Jesse Jackson: 'You can't vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man' — The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats' signature healthcare bill. — “We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill,” Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night.
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Another Black Conservative, Hot Air, The Moderate Voice, TPM LiveWire, The Other McCain and Weasel Zippers
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Senator Vitter doesn't know if Loving was correctly decided. — Vitter graduated Tulane Law School in 1988. Loving v. Virginia, decided in 1967, was a unanimous Supreme Court decision that declared state anti-miscegenation (interracial marriage) laws unconstitutional.
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Stimulus Goes to the Dogs — President Obama in a speech to the National Conference of State Legislatures on March 2009: … Half a block from my house, November 2009: — Yep. That's a state-of-the-art dog park, paid for with stimulus money. — Like the man said: No plan is perfect.