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ap.org:
AP Standards Center issues staff advisory on covering New York City mosque — Associated Press Deputy Managing Editor for Standards and Production Tom Kent sent the following note to the staff about covering the New York City mosque story: — Colleagues,
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Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
AP advises staff on location of Islamic center and mosque — The Associated Press, one of world's most powerful news organizations, issued a memo today advising staff to avoid the phrase “Ground Zero mosque.” — The Upshot reported Tuesday that the AP started using the phrase “Ground Zero mosque” in some headlines in late May.
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Palin to AP: It's ‘Ground Zero mosque’ — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) called out The Associated Press on Twitter Thursday for its decision to avoid the term “Ground Zero mosque” in its coverage. — She also knocked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for suggesting Wednesday …
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Weasel Zippers and Gateway Pundit
Doug Powers / Michelle Malkin:
Help AP Writers Find a Substitute Phrase for ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ — Update: Rep. Grayson Helps Out — The Associated Press is now prohibiting its staff from using the words “Ground Zero mosque” in stories: … The AP memo is here. Give it a read and see if you think it's simply a re-tread …
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Doug Ross and NewsBusters.org
The Huffington Post:
Ted Olson, Former Bush Solicitor General And Husband Of 9/11 Victim, Backs Obama On ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — Ted Olson, former George W. Bush solicitor general, attorney behind the case against California's gay marriage ban, and husband of a woman who died aboard …
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Crooks and Liars and TPMCafe
People-Press.org:
Growing Number of Americans Say Obama is a Muslim — Religion, Politics and the President — OVERVIEW — A substantial and growing number of Americans say that Barack Obama is a Muslim, while the proportion saying he is a Christian has declined. More than a year and a half into his presidency …
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Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Media: Maybe Obama Should Go To Church More Publicly So People Know He's Christian — Today, Pew put out a poll showing that 18 percent of the American public believes President Obama is a Muslim. That number includes 31 percent of Republicans. Only 34 percent of the adult public says Obama …
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Eschaton, Left Coast Rebel, Politics Daily and Gawker
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
In Defining Obama, Misperceptions Stick — WASHINGTON — Americans need only stand in line at the grocery checkout counter to glimpse the conspiracy theories percolating about President Obama. “Birthplace Cover-Up,” screams the current issue of the racy tabloid Globe. “Obama's Secret Life Exposed!”
CNN:
TRENDING: White House strikes back at ‘Muslim’ tag
TRENDING: White House strikes back at ‘Muslim’ tag
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The Politico, Nice Deb and The TrogloPundit
Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
Tribalism And Constitutional Rights, Ctd.
Tribalism And Constitutional Rights, Ctd.
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Mother Jones, Outside the Beltway, DISSENTING JUSTICE and Ben Smith's Blog
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Wire:
White House Defends Obama's Faith
Alex Altman / Time:
TIME Poll: 61% of Americans Oppose ‘Ground Zero Mosque’
TIME Poll: 61% of Americans Oppose ‘Ground Zero Mosque’
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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
‘Ground Zero’ Imam: ‘I Am a Jew, I Have Always Been One’ — The right-wing campaign against the so-called “Ground Zero mosque” includes vicious personal attacks on the Muslim cleric who leads the Cordoba Initiative, the organization behind the plan. I know Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf …
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Weasel Zippers, The New Republic, Harry's Place and Washington Monthly
CNBC:
Weekly Jobless Claims Post Surprise Jump, Hit 500,000 — New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly climbed to a nine-month high last week, yet another setback to the frail economic recovery. — Initial claims for state unemployment benefits increased 12,000 to a seasonally adjusted 500,000 …
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Ezra Klein:
If only Obama had ... See if this structure seems familiar to you …
If only Obama had ... See if this structure seems familiar to you …
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National Review, The New Republic, Matthew Yglesias, Don Surber and New York Times
Christine Hauser / New York Times:
Shares Fall on News of Slow Recovery
Shares Fall on News of Slow Recovery
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Greg Hengler / Townhall.com:
Hip-Hop Mogul: If You Blame Muslims For 9-11, Blame Christians For 1st WTC Bombing! — I did not know Ramzi Yousef, Mahmud Abouhalima, Mohammad Salameh, Nidal Ayyad, Abdul Rahman Yasin and Ahmad Ajaj were Christian names? Must have been converts prior to 1993.
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Knowledge is Power and Freedom's Lighthouse
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Russell Simmons on Ground Zero mosque: We didn't blame all Christians …
Russell Simmons on Ground Zero mosque: We didn't blame all Christians …
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Fausta's Blog, Cold Fury, Dean's World, Big Hollywood, Pajamas Media and Israel Matzav
Matthew Balan / NewsBusters.org:
Russell Simmons on CNN: Christians Bombed the WTC in 1993?
Russell Simmons on CNN: Christians Bombed the WTC in 1993?
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Michelle Malkin and Pajamas Media
Nicole Allan / The Atlantic Online:
The Most Sexist Ad, Well, Ever — In an act of shockingly retro, sexist stupidity, a local unit of the Republican Party of Minnesota has broadcast a new reason you should vote Republican: GOP women are hot, and Democratic women are not. — The group has made a web video contrasting photos of attractive …
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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Clemens to Be Indicted for Perjury in Doping Testimony — Federal authorities have decided to indict Roger Clemens on charges of making false statements to Congress about his use of performance-enhancing drugs, according to two people briefed on the matter. — An announcement is expected later today.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
GOP Senate candidate yanks video showing smoldering 9/11 site — This one is ugly. — GOP Senate candidate Roy Blunt's campaign has pulled down a Web video displaying the smoldering remains of the 9/11 attacks alongside audio of his Democratic opponent saying the location of the Islamic center should be up to New Yorkers to decide.
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
The Deal — Bob Somerby is following the latest Social Security chatter and hopes that Paul Krugman can explain how the trust fund works in an understandable way: … Well, hell, I'll take a crack at it. Here's the simple version. — In 1983, when we last reformed Social Security …
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Tim Fernholz / American Prospect:
Mike Allen's Mind-Mis-Meld.
Mike Allen's Mind-Mis-Meld.
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Firedoglake and Foster's Daily Democrat
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
New Dem message: ‘Improve’ health care, don't talk cost — Key White House allies are dramatically shifting their attempts to defend health care legislation, abandoning claims that it will reduce costs and deficit and instead stressing a promise to “improve it.”
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YID With LID, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, Hit & Run, Swampland, Verum Serum, Corrente and Bloomberg
Andy Barr / The Politico:
Shot fired at Al Franken's condo — Minneapolis and Capitol Hill police are investigating a shot that was fired at the condo of Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.). — Nobody was home at the time of the incident, which was not reported until after the senator and his wife returned home to Minneapolis …
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Hotline On Call:
How To Lose A Guy In 75 Days — Two years after his coattails helped sweep two dozen Democrats into office, President Obama is proving more a boon to Republicans than to Democrats during the midterm elections. His poll numbers are so morose that Democrats are planning ways to avoid his shadow …
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National Review:
You'll Get Served — The West Wing is on notice. — If Republicans win the House this fall, Rep. Darrell Issa will wield the majority's sharpest investigative tool: the subpoena pen. — “Cabinet officers, assistant secretaries, directors — I will be able to take on everybody …
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Federal Eye, American Glob and Weigel
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Skip the lecture on Israel's ‘risks for peace’ — In the intifada that began in 2000, Palestinian terrorism killed more than 1,000 Israelis. As a portion of U.S. population, that would be 42,000, approaching the toll of America's eight years in Vietnam. During the onslaught …
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Commentary, Betsy's Page, Israel Matzav and Yourish.com
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Decline of Private Health Insurance — I'm not very interested in the underlying dispute between Scott Winship and Mike Konczal, but I did think this Winship chart about health insurance was interesting: — I emailed Winship to ask him what this data looks like if we examine the under-65 crowd.
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ScottWinshipWeb and TalkLeft
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Video discussion with Gov. Howard Dean — Howard Dean spoke to me this afternoon for roughly 20 minutes regarding his remarks on a New York City radio station yesterday concerning the proposed Islamic community center in Lower Manhattan, as well as the response he wrote, published today on Salon, to my criticisms.
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Ben Smith's Blog, HotAirPundit, DISSENTING JUSTICE, Wake up America, Left in the West and NewsReal Blog
Quinnipiac University:
Sink Inching Up In Close Florida Gov Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Crist Leads Three-Way Senate Race — Apparently bolstered by the civil war for the Republican nomination for Governor in Florida, State Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink, the Democrat, is on the plus side …
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Darren Goode / The Hill:
NOAA official: Roughly three-quarters of spilled oil still in Gulf — Roughly three-quarters of the oil that spilled into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's ruptured well is still in the environment, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration official told a House panel Thursday.
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The Politico, The Washington Independent and HotAirPundit