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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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Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
BREAKING: Rick Sanchez Fired From CNN — CNN released this statement today: — “Rick Sanchez is no longer with the company. We thank Rick for his years of service and we wish him well.” — They will broadcast CNN Newsroom from 3-5pm for the foreseeable future. — Here's more from the story earlier today:
Stand UP!:
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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Lez Get Real, Washington Monthly and Gawker
Keach Hagey / The Politico:
Sanchez out at CNN — Rick Sanchez lost his job at CNN on Friday, just 24 hours after giving a satellite radio interview in which he called Jon Stewart a “bigot” and suggested that Jews run CNN and other media companies. — “Rick Sanchez is no longer with the company,” CNN said in a statement.
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Weekly Standard
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
What Rick Sanchez said about CNN and Jews — The Web is burning up with this comment that CNN's Rick Sanchez made on a radio show, which seems like he's saying CNN and the networks are run by Jews: … If Sanchez meant that everybody who runs the networks is a lot like Stewart in that they're Jewish …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Breaking: Rick Sanchez fired from CNN
Breaking: Rick Sanchez fired from CNN
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Patterico's Pontifications and Pajamas Media
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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TPM LiveWire and Balloon Juice
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Palin jousts with Rouse — (CNN) - Pete Rouse was just installed as White House chief of staff on Friday, but he's already been facing fire from Sarah Palin for over a week. — Now White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is hitting back, calling the former Alaska governor's accusations “fairly silly.”
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Political Punch, The Politico and Outside the Beltway
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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
John Podhoretz / Commentary:
The Meltdown Accelerates — at the Very Top
The Meltdown Accelerates — at the Very Top
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Hot Air and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
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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Wonk Room, Jezebel, Think Progress, AMERICAblog Gay, The Bilerico Project, Law Blog, GayPatriot, Towleroad News #gay, Advocate, Pam's House Blend and CNN
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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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Lez Get Real, The Moderate Voice, Towleroad News #gay, Raw Story and Joe. My. God.
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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Newshoggers.com, The Daily Caller, Think Progress and Balloon Juice
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 …
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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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Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Paladino switches gears and course-corrects (Updated) — Carl Paladino, in interviews with the Buffalo News and NY1, says he wasn't alleging Andrew Cuomo had affairs in his interview with me on Tuesday, and also that he wasn't suggesting that he had evidence to release on the topic.
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CNN, The Daily Politics, Hot Air, Mediaite, New York Magazine, Capital Tonight and Buffalo News
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David Freedlander / Associated Press:
Paladino Concedes: I Got No Proof [VIDEO]
Paladino Concedes: I Got No Proof [VIDEO]
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New York Magazine and Riehl World View
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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Opinion L.A., Liberty Pundits Blog, National Review, The Consumerist and Pajamas Media
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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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Doug Ross, Cato @ Liberty and AmSpecBlog
Carolyn Lochhead / San Francisco Chronicle:
Whitman within law, immigration lawyers say — (10-01) 04:00 PDT Washington - — Whether or not Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman received a letter from the Social Security Administration saying her former housekeeper's false documents did not match its records …
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CNSNews and The Washington Independent
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Alex Seitz-Wald / Think Progress:
Fiorina Called For Imprisoning 'Employers Who Knowingly Hired …
Fiorina Called For Imprisoning 'Employers Who Knowingly Hired …
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CBS News and The Daily Caller
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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Eunomia, Weasel Zippers, GOP 12, The Reaction and Commentary
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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The Consumerist, Gawker, Runnin' Scared, Daily Kos, Truthdig and Prairie Weather
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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The Atlantic Online and Eschaton
Scott Wong / The Politico:
Liberals hope rally rivals Beck's — The rally liberal groups are staging at the National Mall on Saturday hasn't received nearly the media buzz of Glenn Beck's Aug. 28 rally, but organizers insist that their numbers will rival Beck's, which drew tens of thousands - or hundreds of thousands, depending on whose estimates you believe.
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Pajamas Media
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Blago gives Levi good news — Levi Johnston's reign as the most unpopular person PPP had ever polled on in any individual state didn't last very long. Rod Blagojevich assumes that dubious crown after we found that 83% of voters in Illinois have an unfavorable opinion of him to only 8% who see him positively.
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Politics Daily
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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The Hill, Erick's blog, The Page and GOP 12
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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Hullabaloo
Linda Austin / BusinessJournalism.org Reynolds Center …:
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz calls for second federal stimulus — Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz called for a second round of federal stimulus spending in a New York speech to the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
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