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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.
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The Nation, The Daily Beast, American Power 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, Achenblog, skippy the bush kangaroo, Guardian, Hot Air and Corrente
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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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, JammieWearingFool, TPMDC, Hot Air and Prairie Weather
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.”
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 — 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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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, GOP 12, POWIP, Wake up America, Gateway Pundit, The Right Scoop, Riehl World View, Right Wing News, National Review, five feet of fury. and Cubachi
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 and msnbc.com
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
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Wake up America
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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Daily Kos, National Review 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
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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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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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 …
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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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Connecting.the.Dots, CNN and Outside the Beltway