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The Huffington Post:
Keith Olbermann To RETURN Tuesday, Phil Griffin Announces — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? … Keith Olbermann will return to the air on Tuesday after being suspended without pay for two shows (this past Friday and the upcoming episode on Monday). — The host of MSNBC's “Countdown” …
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
MSNBC to Lift Olbermann Suspension on Tuesday — Keith Olbermann will be allowed to resume his nightly program on MSNBC on Tuesday, the channel's president said Sunday night, after he was suspended for donating money to three Democratic candidates. — The policy at MSNBC's parent, NBC News …
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Washington Monthly, Mixed Media, Daily Kos and Wonkette
Jeremy Gaines / nbcuniversal.presscentre.com:
STATEMENT REGARDING KEITH OLBERMANN - SUNDAY, NOV. 7
STATEMENT REGARDING KEITH OLBERMANN - SUNDAY, NOV. 7
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NPR Topics, Donklephant and Patterico's Pontifications
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Olbermann returns after two nights off on Tuesday
Olbermann returns after two nights off on Tuesday
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IMAO, The Daily Caller, NewsBusters.org blogs, Moe Lane and Mediaite
David Carr / New York Times:
Olbermann, Impartiality and MSNBC
Olbermann, Impartiality and MSNBC
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TVNewser and The Politico, more at Mediagazer »
New York Times:
A New Leader for the Democrats — Nancy Pelosi has been an extremely effective speaker of the House for four years, shepherding hundreds of important bills toward passage and withstanding solid Republican opposition. Her work in passing health care reform and strong ethics oversight achieved …
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Washington Monthly, Time, Fox News, AmSpecBlog, Hot Air, Taylor Marsh, Wake up America, Dennis the Peasant and The Reaction
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
New York Times editorializes against Pelosi's bid for leader
New York Times editorializes against Pelosi's bid for leader
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Weasel Zippers
Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Drive to Repeal 'Don't Ask' Policy All but Lost for Now — The drive in Congress to repeal the military's “don't ask, don't tell” policy appears all but lost for the foreseeable future, with action unlikely this year and even less likely once Republicans take charge of the House in January.
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Reuters:
President Obama isolated ahead of 2012 — President Barack Obama has performed his act of contrition. Now comes the hard part, according to Democrats around the country: reckoning with the simple fact that he's isolated himself from virtually every group that matters in American politics.
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Washington Monthly, Talking Points Memo, Bloomberg, NPR Topics, Mediaite, NPR and Mother Jones
Alex Wagner / Politics Daily:
Robert Gibbs Clashes With Indian Security Over Coverage of Obama-Singh Meeting
Robert Gibbs Clashes With Indian Security Over Coverage of Obama-Singh Meeting
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Washington Post and Weasel Zippers
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
'Tis the season — Now is the moment for every national politician's …
'Tis the season — Now is the moment for every national politician's …
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CNN
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Doing It Again — Eight years ago Ben Bernanke, already a governor at the Federal Reserve although not yet chairman, spoke at a conference honoring Milton Friedman. He closed his talk by addressing Friedman's famous claim that the Fed was responsible for the Great Depression …
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Robert Costa / National Review:
Palin to Bernanke: ‘Cease and Desist’ — As President Obama prepares for the G20 summit in South Korea this week, Sarah Palin is challenging the Federal Reserve's monetary policy, which will likely be a key issue at the talks. On Monday, in a keynote address at a trade-association convention in Phoenix …
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New York Sun, Conservatives4Palin.com and msnbc.com
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama defends Fed decision
Allysia Finley / Wall Street Journal:
California: The Lindsay Lohan of States — Sacramento is headed for trouble again, and it shouldn't expect a bailout. — Listen up, California. The other 48 states—your cousin New York excluded—are sick of your bratty arrogance. You're the Lindsay Lohan of states …
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Pundit & Pundette, Betsy's Page, JammieWearingFool and Gateway Pundit
J. Taylor Rushing / The Hill:
Crist willing to consider Jim Morrison pardon before leaving office — In his last two months in office, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is considering a December surprise: A posthumous pardon for Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors, for indecent exposure charges after an infamous 1969 Miami concert.
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Talking Points Memo and Outside the Beltway
Hendrik Hertzberg / New Yorker:
ELECTORAL DISSONANCE — Barack Obama had the mot juste last Wednesday for what had just befallen him and his party: a “shellacking.” The President's choice of word was one syllable (and one “g") longer than his predecessor's summary after a parallel midterm debacle.
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Democratic Strategist
Jon Ralston / Las Vegas Sun:
One word: Preparation — How did Harry Reid withstand the Tea Party tidal wave and beat conservative Sharron Angle in the U.S. Senate race? — 2 a.m. — Shortly before the June 8 primary, I was chatting with a Harry Reid operative about my plans for a break after covering the intense Republican scrum …
Neela Banerjee / Los Angeles Times:
Climate scientists plan campaign against global warming skeptics — The American Geophysical Union plans to announce that 700 researchers have agreed to speak out on the issue. Other scientists plan a pushback against congressional conservatives who have vowed to kill regulations on greenhouse gas emissions.
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Crooks and Liars and Dot Earth
Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
Regulators flawed in foreclosure oversight — As foreclosures began to mount across the country three years ago, a group of state bank regulators suspected that some borrowers might be losing their homes unnecessarily. So the state officials asked the biggest national banks for details about their foreclosure operations.
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Power Line
The Irish Times:
If you thought the bank bailout was bad, wait until the mortgage defaults hit home — THE BIG PICTURE: Ireland is effectively insolvent - the next crisis will be mass home mortgage default, writes MORGAN KELLY … WHEN I wrote in The Irish Times last May showing how the bank guarantee …
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The Atlantic Online and naked capitalism
Anne Barrowclough / TheAustralian:
Barack Obama joined Muslim prayers at school, teacher says — AS a schoolboy in Jakarta, Barack Obama attended Muslim prayer sessions with his classmates against the wishes of his mother. — The US President's former grade three teacher said that Mr Obama - who was known as “Barry” …
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Israpundit, Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers
Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
Odd Little Moment at the CEO Meeting — There was an odd little moment with Spice Jet founder Bhupendra Kansagra when President Obama spoke to CEOs Saturday in Mumbai. — MR. KANSAGRA: Thank you. Welcome, Mr. President, to India. As a fellow Kenyan, I'm very proud to see that you have made —
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Weasel Zippers
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Online:
I Am a Blogger No Longer — This is my final blog post for The Atlantic. Five years ago, as a way to boost the competitive metabolism of The Hotline, Chuck Todd hired me away from ABC News to create “Hotline On Call.” I was to be the first political reporter working for a mainstream news …
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The New Republic
St. Petersburg Times:
Tea party favorite Marco Rubio walks a fine line as senator — WASHINGTON — When a French TV station set out to understand the American phenomenon known as the tea party, it sent a reporter overseas to Florida, down a dusty country road, past a bug-swarmed pond, and into a Pasco County pasture filled with people waving American flags.
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Ben Smith's Blog