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J.P. Freire / Beltway Confidential:
“Rally to Restore 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.
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The Moderate Voice, The Nation, The Daily Beast, American Power, Joe. My. God. and Theo Spark, more at Mediagazer »
Washington Post:
Rally to Restore Sanity: ‘If we amplify everything, we hear nothing’ — Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, the first names in fake-news anchormen, drew throngs of exuberant supporters to Washington on Saturday for a televised and live-streamed joint rally that shut down streets, overloaded the transit system and flooded the Mall.
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Moraes on TV, Pajamas Media, Outside the Beltway, Achenblog, skippy the bush kangaroo, Guardian, Hot Air and Corrente
Louise Radnofsky / Washington Wire:
Counting the Crowd: Hard to Do for Jon Stewart's Rally — How many people are on the National Mall for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert? The final answer? We don't know. — Mr. Stewart opened the rally with an allusion to the difficulties of figuring this out, proposing to the assembled crowd, “We're going to count them all.”
The Politico:
Jon Stewart points finger at media — Jon Stewart has met the enemy, and it's the media. — The Comedy Central comedian and “Daily Show” host walked a fine line between politics and humor Saturday as he gathered tens of thousands on the National Mall for his “Rally to Restore Sanity.”
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JammieWearingFool and CNN
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Democrats Recruit Volunteers Outside Stewart-Colbert Rally — Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert may not want an overtly political rally on Saturday, but the Democratic National Committee is doing everything it can to capitalize on the event. — Volunteers and staff members from the headquarters …
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Beltway Confidential, TPMDC, JammieWearingFool, Hot Air and Prairie Weather
Hope Yen / Associated Press:
Stewart-Colbert rally draws tens of thousands
Stewart-Colbert rally draws tens of thousands
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msnbc.com, Doug Ross and Weasel Zippers
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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Liberty Pundits Blog, Little Green Footballs, The Plum Line and TPMDC
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Why our elections are a joke …
Why our elections are a joke …
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Crooks and Liars, Washington Monthly and Media Matters for America
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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The Plum Line, Weasel Zippers, Mediaite, SpeakEasy, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Reid Report, Pajamas Media and TPMDC
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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Hot Air, sisu, POWIP, GOP 12, Wake up America, Gateway Pundit, The Right Scoop, Right Wing News, Riehl World View, five feet of fury., National Review and Cubachi
msnbc.com:
Yemen: Woman detained in terror bomb plot — More packages examined for explosives; U.S. suspects al-Qaida affiliate — Yemeni authorities on Saturday arrested a woman thought to be involved in sending explosive packages headed to the United States and were searching for more suspects believed linked …
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Hot Air, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and The Daily Beast
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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.
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National Review, Daily Kos and POLISING
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, Hullabaloo and TPMDC
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Clinton rallies base, slams ‘fact-free’ GOP midterm campaign — CANTON, Ohio — A fiery former President Bill Clinton rallied the Democratic faithful in Ohio on Saturday, where several of the party's incumbents face long odds Tuesday. — Clinton rallied with Gov. Ted Strickland and freshman …
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Damien Cave / New York Times:
Bill Clinton's Role in Florida Senate Race Seems to Cost Democrat Some Black Votes
Bill Clinton's Role in Florida Senate Race Seems to Cost Democrat Some Black Votes
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Ben Smith's Blog, msnbc.com and Hot Air
Bob Cusack / The Hill:
House Dems who pushed health bill to passage face grim Election Day
House Dems who pushed health bill to passage face grim Election Day
Discussion:
Wake up America
Ed Driscoll / Pajamas Media:
Video: Riding the Peace Train — Earlier today, Yusuf Islam, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens, whom you may remember from such 1970s hits as “Peace Train” and “The First Cut is the Deepest” appeared at Jon Stewart's “Rally to Restore Sanity.” Mediaite has the vide of his appearance there, and notes:
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Mediaite, blogs.telegraph.co.uk and Hot Air
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Aaron Worthing / Patterico's Pontifications:
WTF?! Islamofascist at the Rally to Restore Sanity?! …
WTF?! Islamofascist at the Rally to Restore Sanity?! …
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TPMDC and AmSpecBlog
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
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.
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protein wisdom and Joanne Jacobs
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
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Washington Monthly and Politics Daily