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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
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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Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:
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.”
Steve Holland / Reuters:
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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Jeremy Schulman / Media Matters for America: More proof that Fox ran fake video of Palin's book-tour “crowds”
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
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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Jeffrey Young / The Hill:
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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New York Times:Senate Health Plan Seeks to Add Coverage to 31 Million
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Wall Street Journal:Showdown Set for Health Bill
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CNN:Budget office: Health care bill costs $849 billion
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
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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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
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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Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Sullivan promises to be ‘normal’ today — Of course, he's made a career of being abnormal, but . . . (Also we apologize for the “hiatus,” but too many non-Harvard types know that word and “wankathon” is a bit too specific, so “lacuna” it is!) … “Earnestness”?
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
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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Gail Collins / New York Times:
The Breast Brouhaha — Everyone has been trying to come up with a good nickname for the 10 years we're concluding next month. Terror Era really sounds like too much of a downer. How about the Decade of Medical Backtracking? — Somewhere between the reports that Pap smears and tests …
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George Stephanopoulos / George's Bottom Line:Sebelius says Ignore Mammogram Rec, GOP Attacks Health Reform Bill
Kate Phillips / Prescriptions:Sebelius on Mammograms: Don't Change What You're Doing
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Palin hits the (book) trail — GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—If Sarah Palin were running for president, this is where she'd come: The outskirts of a second city in the conservative heartland of Western Michigan, where thousands gathered Wednesday to see her, shake her hand and have her sign their copies of “Going Rogue.”
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Detroit Free Press:
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 …
Dave Montgomery / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
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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ABCNEWS:
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 …
Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
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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Mark Schleifstein / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Corps' operation of MR-GO doomed homes in St. Bernard, Lower 9th Ward, judge rules … In a groundbreaking decision, a federal judge ruled late Wednesday that the Army Corps of Engineers' mismanagement of maintenance at the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet was directly responsible for flood damage …
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
House Dem: ‘Growing’ liberal consensus to dump Geithner — A Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) member said there's “growing consensus” among liberals that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner should step down. — {mosads}Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) said Wednesday that he and other liberal House members …
Mike Stark / StarkReports.com:
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.
Washington Post:
Bailout program could be extended — plan carries political risk Unused money might be used to reduce U.S. debt — The Obama administration is poised to extend the life of the highly unpopular $700 billion financial bailout and, to display a commitment to fiscal responsibility …
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Former Bush press secretary Perino appointed to Obama administration post — Former press secretary to President George W. Bush Dana Perino was appointed as a member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Wednesday evening. — The board governs all government sponsored …
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