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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 …
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Ben Smith's Blog, Little Green Footballs, Wonkette, The Confluence, Raw Story and The Nation
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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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Weekly Standard, TPM LiveWire, Outside the Beltway, Left Coast Rebel, National Review and Weasel Zippers
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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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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Michelle Malkin, Weasel Zippers, iOwnTheWorld.com, Betsy's Page and National Review
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Pete Rouse, who will replace Emanuel as chief of staff, is known as ‘fixer’ — Few people outside Washington, and not many inside, have heard the name Pete Rouse. The man President Obama will name as his interim White House chief of staff on Friday is a quiet political player who avoids the spotlight.
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Hill worries Rahm's exit changes little
Hill worries Rahm's exit changes little
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CNN, New York Times, The Hill, The Caucus, Taylor Marsh and American Power
John Podhoretz / Commentary:
The Meltdown Accelerates — at the Very Top
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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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Think Progress, Jezebel, Law Blog, The Bilerico Project, GayPatriot, AMERICAblog Gay, Pam's House Blend and CNN
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Laura Berman / Detroit News:
Assistant AG suspended over gay-bashing blog — Attorney General Mike Cox changed his stance Thursday, suspending Andrew Shirvell after the assistant attorney general attracted national attention for a controversial blog that ridicules and denounces a University of Michigan student leader …
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The Snitch, The Moderate Voice, Lez Get Real, Raw Story, Towleroad News #gay, Joe. My. God. and Think Progress
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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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The Daily Dish, Weekly Standard, HillBuzz, JammieWearingFool, Daily Kos and iOwnTheWorld.com
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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
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 …
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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Matthew Yglesias, Washington Monthly, NewsBusters.org, AmSpecBlog and The Page
Ezra Klein:
The demographics of 2010 — Some nice demographic polling out from Gallup today. Over the past seven months, middle-age voters have been pretty stable in their preferences between Democrats and Republicans. It's the young and the old who've diverged, with the young swinging toward …
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Suburban Guerrilla
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
In Midterms, Dems Gain With Young Voters, Slip With Hispanics
In Midterms, Dems Gain With Young Voters, Slip With Hispanics
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Firedoglake and Hot Air
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Why is Obama sending troops to Afghanistan? — From the beginning, the call to arms was highly uncertain. On Dec. 1, 2009, commander in chief Barack Obama orders 30,000 more Americans into battle in Afghanistan. But in the very next sentence, he announces that an American withdrawal will begin after 18 months.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Armed Services chairman: Obama must not budge on Afghan withdrawal date
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Coalition Picks Maliki in Move That May End Iraq Stalemate — BAGHDAD — After nearly seven months of deadlock, Iraq's prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, took a decisive step toward winning a second term, gaining the endorsement of a Shiite bloc that had until recently opposed returning him to power, officials from his party said.
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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 …
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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Church's protests at military funerals a free-speech test for Supreme Court — TOPEKA, KAN. - A filmmaker several years ago tracked Shirley Phelps-Roper and her family members as they went about praising God for killing U.S. soldiers and picketing their funerals - their way of putting the nation on notice about the Almighty's wrath.
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Dozens of NATO oil tankers attacked in Pakistan — SHIKARPUR, Pakistan - Suspected militants in southern Pakistan set ablaze more than two dozen tankers carrying fuel for foreign troops in Afghanistan on Friday, highlighting the vulnerability of the U.S.-led mission a day after Pakistan closed a major border crossing.
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The AfPak Channel, Ventura County Star Stories, Jihad Watch, Atlas Shrugs, Washington Post and New York Times
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Austerity Caucus — If I had as much money as Meg Whitman, I'd probably have a more exuberant house. Hers is perfectly nice. But at a time when other Silicon Valley moguls were installing underground squash courts, arcade-size game rooms and other gewgaws, she stuck with a New England-style colonial.
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NewsBusters.org, The Huffington Post, driftglass and The Daily Dish
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News Corp. gave $1 million to pro-GOP group — News Corp., the parent company of Fox News, contributed $1 million this summer to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the business lobby that has been running an aggressive campaign in support of the Republican effort to retake Congress, a source close to the company told POLITICO.
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Ben Smith's Blog, CNN, The Caucus, NPR Topics, Washington Monthly, Gawker, Prairie Weather and The New Republic
Jennifer Wishon / CBN.com:
O'Donnell: 'God's Keeping Me in the Race' — In an exclusive interview with CBN News, Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell said God is keeping her in the race. — She made the statement before she stopped doing interviews at the advice of Tea Party power broker Sarah Palin.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Think Progress and Raw Story
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The Twister of 2010 — America's political landscape will never be the same. — On a recent trip to Omaha, Neb., I found a note prominently displayed in my hotel room warning of the possibility of “extreme weather” including “tornadic activity.” The clunky euphemism was no doubt meant …
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Riehl World View and No More Mister Nice Blog
Quinnipiac University:
Despite Annoying Ads, Scott Leads In Florida Gov Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Obama Approval 16 Points In The Hole — Republican Rick Scott holds a 49 - 43 percent lead over State Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink, the Democrat, in the race to become Florida's next governor …
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Hotline On Call, Hot Air, Post on Politics and TPMDC
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Senate votes to turn down volume on TV commercials — WASHINGTON - Legislation to turn down the volume on those loud TV commercials that send couch potatoes diving for their remote controls looks like it'll soon become law. — The Senate unanimously passed a bill late Wednesday …
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“You Elected Me To Do What Was Right” — Obama's speech to Gen44 tonight knocked my socks off. It's streaming on CSPAN here. If you've forgotten why many of you worked your ass off for this guy, and felt hope for the first time in many years, watch it. He deserves criticism when necessary …
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iOwnTheWorld.com, JustOneMinute, Comments from Left Field and Althouse
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Karl Rove reprises role as Democrats' bogeyman — That headline — like so many others on the subject - overstated Rove's involvement , according to Jonathan Collegio, spokesman for American Crossroads, who called Democratic efforts to target Rove “desperate.”
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Power Line
The Hill:
2012 hopefuls are not showing the Tea Party candidates the money — Senate GOP candidates backed by the Tea Party movement have received much less financial support than more established candidates from their party's leading contenders for the White House. — The GOP figures jockeying …
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Think Progress, Erick's blog and GOP 12