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Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
Rick Sanchez Calls Jon Stewart “A Bigot”; Says CNN Is Run By Jews — CNN's Rick Sanchez is not happy with being made fun of constantly on The Daily Show and Colbert Report. It is from this jumping off point that he absolutely unleashed on Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, and at times his own network …
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CNN's Rick Sanchez Calls Jon Stewart ‘Bigot’ — Cuban-American anchor Rick Sanchez came on Stand Up! with Pete Dominick today for a loose exchange on current events, media, and journalism. Throughout much of the interview, the discussion touched on race. To our surprise, at various points …
The Huffington Post:
Rick Sanchez: Jon Stewart A ‘Bigot,’ Jews Run CNN & All Media — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — CNN's Rick Sanchez made controversial comments on a Sirius radio show Thursday, calling Jon Stewart a “bigot” and saying that CNN and the other networks are all run by Jewish people.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Sanchez: CNN run by the Jews — CNN just overhauled its executive roster. Their on-air lineup may be about to change again, too. Mediaite reports on what looks like a career flameout by host Rick Sanchez, who claims that his network is run by people who are a lot like Jon Stewart …
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Paul Campos / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
Rick Sanchez's formula for achieving more balanced media coverage
Rick Sanchez's formula for achieving more balanced media coverage
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Byron York / Beltway Confidential:
Obama: 'I'd appreciate a little break' — It's often remarked that President Obama has enjoyed a number of getaways, vacations, and mini-vacations during his 20 months in office. But at a Democratic fundraiser Thursday night, the president said, “I'd appreciate a little break.”
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
TRENDING: Palin jousts with Rouse
TRENDING: Palin jousts with Rouse
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Paul Blumenthal / Sunlight Foundation:
Rahm Emanuel's White House visitor trail
Rahm Emanuel's White House visitor trail
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The Politico, Ezra Klein, Hillicon Valley and The Washington Independent
AnnArbor.com News:
UPDATED: Assistant AG takes leave of absence after national attention over blog against U-M student body president — One would expect that the current Republican attorney general contender, along with Rick Snyder and other major GOP state candidates, had a word or two with Mike Cox.
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Laura Berman / Detroit News:
Assistant AG suspended over gay-bashing blog
Assistant AG suspended over gay-bashing blog
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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
TARP Bailout to Cost Less Than Once Anticipated — WASHINGTON — Even as voters rage and candidates put up ads against government bailouts, the reviled mother of them all — the $700 billion lifeline to banks, insurance and auto companies — will expire after Sunday at a fraction of that cost …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
NOT A BAD RETURN ON A COSTLY INVESTMENT.... Whether one approves of 2008's financial industry bailout or considers it the worst piece of legislation in American history, there's one thing we can all be very glad about: its price tag. … Two years ago, the assumption among many was that these hundreds …
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The Daily Caller and Balloon Juice
Reed Abelson / New York Times:
Insurer Cuts Health Plans as New Law Takes Hold — The Principal Financial Group announced on Thursday that it planned to stop selling health insurance, another sign of upheaval emerging among insurers as the new federal health law starts to take effect. — The company, based in Iowa …
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Avery Johnson / Wall Street Journal:
Principal Financial Quits Writing Health-Care Policies
Principal Financial Quits Writing Health-Care Policies
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Phillip Smith / StoptheDrugWar.org:
California Governor Signs Marijuana Decriminalization Bill — Posted in: - Budgets/Taxes/Economics - Decriminalization - Marijuana — Personal Use - News Brief - State & Local Executive Branches - State & Local Legislatures — California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) …
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blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Eco-fascism jumps the shark: massive, epic fail! — I predicted this morning that No Pressure - Richard Curtis's spectacularly ill-judged eco-propaganda movie for the 10:10 campaign - would prove a disastrous own goal for the green movement. — But what I could never have imagined …
Robert Bazell / msnbc.com:
U.S. apologizes for Guatemala STD experiments — Government researchers infected patients with syphilis, gonorrhea without their consent in the 1940s — U.S. government medical researchers intentionally infected hundreds of people in Guatemala, including institutionalized mental patients …
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Exercise and Weight Loss — Ta-Nehisi Coates writes some about losing weight: … I think that's largely true. The biggest gym-related thing I've done to lose weight is that I did some sessions with a personal trainer who warned me up front that you can't really lose weight in the gym—you need to eat less food.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Sen. Thune sees third party if GOP strays — Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) said a third party similar to the Tea Party could emerge as early as 2012. — Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) said a third party could emerge as early as 2012 if Republicans stray from their principles.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Dem senator: Tea Party is a ‘long-term force in this country’
Dem senator: Tea Party is a ‘long-term force in this country’
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The Atlantic Online
Robert Costa / National Review:
Bolton for President: A ‘Goldwater Conservative’ — John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, tells National Review Online that he is seriously considering a 2012 presidential run. “I am a Goldwater conservative,” he says. “I am not a professional politician.
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Graham Bowley / New York Times:
A Single Sale Worth $4.1 Billion Led to the ‘Flash Crash’ — A single sale of $4.1 billion in futures contracts by a mutual fund touched off a series of events that led to the so-called flash crash, the sharp stock market decline that shook investors and markets on May 6, federal regulators said on Friday.
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Gawker, Daily Kos, Runnin' Scared, The Consumerist, Truthdig and Prairie Weather
Robert Shrum / The Week Magazine:
Democrats will hold the House and Senate — For Democrats, it's Rove time: rally the base and save Congress — Maybe I'm wrong. — In fact, maybe I'm really, really wrong, which is the reaction I hear when I dare even to broach this notion to commentators and political strategists in both parties.
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Mark Naymik / Metro:
Lawsuit accuses Tom Ganley of sexual assault; his lawyer calls suit extortion — A 39-year-old Cleveland woman sued auto dealer and Republican congressional candidate Tom Ganley on Thursday, accusing him of sexually assaulting her in his office last year. — The married mother of four filed …
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Politics Daily, The Atlantic Online, Ballot Box, Swing State Project and TPMMuckraker
Morris Workman / Mesquite Local News:
Angle Finds Receptive Audience In Mesquite — Sharron Angle, candidate for U.S. Senate, listens to a question from a member of the audience during her appearance at Scotty's — restaurant on Wednesday afternoon. Angle — offered her remarks, then took questions from the crowd for nearly 20 minutes.
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Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
Reminder to journalists: O'Keefe was not dressed as a pimp inside ACORN offices — With Andrew Breitbart's protégé back in the news this week for allegedly having no common sense, it's important that reporters be accurate about James O'Keefe's most infamous claim to fame …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
The Uncanny Accuracy of Polling Averages*, Part 2: What the Numbers Say — This is the second article in a three-part series in which I'm addressing a question from a reader whom I'm calling Skeptical Sam. — Sam wondered why our election forecasts seem so confident.
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Outside the Beltway and National Review
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Report gives stimulus package high marks — The massive economic stimulus package President Obama pushed through Congress last year is coming in on time and under budget - and with strikingly few claims of fraud or abuse - according to a White House report to be released Friday.
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Keach Hagey / The Politico:
EEOC sues Fox for retaliating against reporter — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing Fox News for retaliating against its reporter, Catherine Herridge, after she complained that she was discriminated against because of her age and gender, according to an EEOC complaint filed Thursday.
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