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J.P. Freire / Beltway Confidential:
“Rally to Resore Sanity” pledges to “strictly prohibit filming” at National Mall — Irony reaches new heights as Comedy Central is going to “strictly prohibit filming” of the Rally to Restore Sanity/March to Keep Fear Alive. PJTV's Washington Bureau chief Richard Pollock inquired …
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Dave Itzkoff / The Caucus:
Live Blog: ‘Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear’ — Andy Geremiah and Scott Petersen, both from Southington, Conn., walk through the crowds with Stewart and Colbert's faces carved into their pumpkins prior to the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in Washington.
Discussion:
Theo Spark, American Power and The Nation
The Politico:
Jon Stewart walks fine line with rally — Two months after Fox News' Glenn Beck led a massive crowd of conservatives for the purpose of “restoring honor,” Comedy Central's Jon Stewart appeared to be drawing at least as large an audience Saturday “to restore sanity.”
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CNN
Washington Post:
Rally to Restore Sanity: ‘If we amplify everything, we hear nothing’
Rally to Restore Sanity: ‘If we amplify everything, we hear nothing’
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Moraes on TV, skippy the bush kangaroo, Achenblog, Guardian, Hot Air and Corrente, more at Mediagazer »
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Democrats Recruit Volunteers Outside Stewart-Colbert Rally
Democrats Recruit Volunteers Outside Stewart-Colbert Rally
Discussion:
Beltway Confidential, JammieWearingFool, TPMDC, Hot Air and Prairie Weather
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Why our elections are a joke — the mainstream news is now hiring professional clowns to do its election night coverage — Send In The Clowns — ABC has hired Andrew Breitbart and his lying little helper Dana Loesch to do election night coverage. Seriously.
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Coordinator / ABC News' Press Room:
Breitbart's Participation in ABC News Digital Town Hall Event Draws Fire — The following is attributable to Andrew Morse, Executive Producer, ABC News Digital: — Since conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart announced on his website that he was going to be a participant …
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Little Green Footballs and TPMDC
P.J. Salvatore / Big Journalism:
ABC Election Night Coverage to Feature Loesch, Breitbart
ABC Election Night Coverage to Feature Loesch, Breitbart
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Mediaite, SpeakEasy, Pajamas Media and TPMDC
The Huffington Post:
ABC Taps Andrew Breitbart For Election Night Analysis
ABC Taps Andrew Breitbart For Election Night Analysis
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JammieWearingFool, iOwnTheWorld.com, Media Matters for America, The Jawa Report and Big Journalism
Sarah Palin / Facebook:
Lisa, are you going to shut down my Facebook page for writing this? — Yesterday, Lisa Murkowski's hired guns threatened radio host Dan Fagan, and more importantly, the station that airs Fagan's show, with legal action for allegedly illegal “electioneering.”
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sisu, Hot Air, POWIP, Wake up America, Gateway Pundit, The Right Scoop, Riehl World View, National Review, Right Wing News, five feet of fury. and Cubachi
Jon Ralston / Las Vegas Sun Blogs:
Republicans lose ground for second straight day in early voting, maintain turnout percentage edge — Republicans lost ground to the Democrats in the urban counties on the largest and last day of early voting Friday, surely giving Democrats hope that a surge to blunt the GOP momentum could carry over into Election Day.
Discussion:
National Review, Daily Kos and POLISING
msnbc.com:
Yemen: Woman detained in terror bomb plot — More packages examined for explosives; U.S. suspects al-Qaida affiliate — msnbc.com staff and news service reports — Yemeni authorities on Saturday arrested a woman thought to be involved in sending explosive packages headed to the United States …
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Hot Air
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New York Times:
Authorities in Yemen Close In on Suspect in Explosives Plot — BEIRUT, Lebanon — The authorities in Yemen on Saturday were prepared to arrest a woman suspected of sending two packages containing explosives on cargo planes bound for the United States that were intercepted in Dubai and Britain on Friday …
Discussion:
Gawker, ABCNEWS, The Moderate Voice, The Greenroom and Althouse
Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Obama urges cooperation after election, calls GOP remarks ‘troubling’ — President Obama urged Republicans and Democrats to work together to solve the nation's economic issues regardless of the outcome of Tuesday's midterm elections. — In his weekly address Saturday …
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theblogprof, Weasel Zippers, The Politico, CNN and JammieWearingFool
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CQ-Roll Call / The Eye:
Rich Iott Won't Commit to Backing Boehner for Speaker
Rich Iott Won't Commit to Backing Boehner for Speaker
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Talking Points Memo, TPMDC and Hullabaloo
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Private School Civility Gap — Education reform is all the rage these days. — It's no longer just the weighty obsession of parents with few options scrambling to get a child into a better school. It has also become the “it” topic of the cocktail crowd, including many parents with children …
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JustOneMinute and LewRockwell.com Blog
Damien Cave / New York Times:
Bill Clinton's Role in Florida Senate Race Seems to Cost Democrat Some Black Votes — MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Former President Bill Clinton's political bank shot appears to have hit its mark with many black Democrats who were lined up at the polls here Friday.
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Ben Smith's Blog and msnbc.com
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The White House:
Weekly Address: President Obama Calls on GOP Leadership to Put Aside Partisan Politics and Focus on Strengthening the Economy — WASHINGTON - In his weekly address, President Obama called the recent comments by the GOP leadership, which put scoring political points over solving the problems facing …
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The Plum Line
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Jesse Lee / White House.gov Blog Feed:
Weekly Address: Working Together on the Economy
Weekly Address: Working Together on the Economy
Discussion:
Politics Daily and Washington Monthly
8newsnow.com:
Sharron Angle Asked Tough Policy Questions — LAS VEGAS — It is going to be a busy final weekend for Sharron Angle and Harry Reid. The Republican candidate has declined all of 8 News NOW's requests for interviews about her positions on the issues. — She is in Las Vegas …
Discussion:
Washington Monthly, TPMDC, Outside the Beltway, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Booman Tribune and Daily Kos
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Meredith Shiner / The Politico:
Angle bans TV crews from election eve
Angle bans TV crews from election eve
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CNN, Connecting.the.Dots and Outside the Beltway
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
McDonald's Workers Are Told Whom to Vote for — WASHINGTON — When workers in a McDonald's restaurant in Canton, Ohio, opened their paychecks this month, they found a pamphlet urging them to vote for the Republican candidates for governor, Senate and Congress, or possibly face financial repercussions.
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SpeakEasy, The Reaction, Washington Monthly, The Huffington Post and ThinkProgress
Wall Street Journal:
The Education Manifesto — Michelle Rhee and Adrian Fenty on what they learned while pushing to reform D.C.'s failing public schools. — Michelle Rhee and Adrian Fenty tour an elementary school in June 2007. — Our time in office and in charge of the school system of Washington, D.C., is quickly drawing to an end.
Discussion:
protein wisdom and Joanne Jacobs
Myglesias / Yglesias:
Is Housing Inherently Bubbly? — Mike Konczal on how to spot a bubble: … Adam Ozimek calls this the Beware of Amateurs rule. It strikes me as a particular problem with real estate. Most of the time the vast majority of stock trading is being done by professionals.
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Angry Bear