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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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NewsBusters.org blogs, AmSpecBlog, The Jawa Report, newsfeed.time.com, The Reaction, Philly.com, Balloon Juice and Pajamas Media
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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 and Wonkette
Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
Keith Olbermann Will Return To MSNBC Tuesday — You know all that talk about whether Keith Olbermann would ever be back on MSNBC? — Well whoever speculated about that (me) was totally off - Olbermann will return to Countdown Tuesday night. — From Phil Griffin, President of MSNBC:
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
David Carr / New York Times:
Olbermann, Impartiality and MSNBC
Olbermann, Impartiality and MSNBC
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The Politico, more at Mediagazer »
Sara Jerome / The Hill:
Susan Crawford sees hints of Comcast in Olbermann suspension
Susan Crawford sees hints of Comcast in Olbermann suspension
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Weasel Zippers, Balloon Juice, The Other McCain and Pajamas Media
Glynnis MacNicol / Mediaite:
Report: Olbermann Was Suspended For Refusing To Apologize On Camera
Report: Olbermann Was Suspended For Refusing To Apologize On Camera
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Hollywood Reporter, JOSHUAPUNDIT, Donklephant, The Daily Beast, Sister Toldjah, Brilliant at Breakfast, The Other McCain, The Sundries Shack, mediabistro.com, Scared Monkeys, Weasel Zippers, New York Magazine, Outside the Beltway, Runnin' Scared, The Moderate Voice, NewsBusters.org blogs, Raw Story 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, The Hill, Taylor Marsh and Time
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 and Conservatives4Palin.com
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Doing It Again — Eight years ago Ben Bernanke, already …
Doing It Again — Eight years ago Ben Bernanke, already …
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Daily Kos
Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Obama Endorses India's Bid for Permanent UN Seat — New Delhi, India (CNN) - In another major sign of growing ties between the two nations, President Obama on Monday used a speech before the Indian Parliament to endorse this country's bid for permanent membership on the United Nations Security Council
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama defends Fed decision — President Obama has defended the Federal Reserve's decision to pump another $600 billion into world markets. — Asked at a Monday press conference in India about the decision, which has been criticized abroad and by Republicans in Congress …
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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Betsy's Page and JammieWearingFool
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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Balloon Juice, TPMMuckraker, NPR Topics, Open Congress, The Hill and AMERICAblog Gay
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 Huffington Post:
Tea Party Favorites Rand Paul & Jim DeMint Struggle To Name Specific Budget Cuts (VIDEO) — What's Your Reaction: … WASHINGTON — Signaling how difficult it will be for the Republican Party to live up to its campaign promises of cutting spending while preserving the Bush tax cuts …
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Capital Gains and Games blogs and Outside the Beltway
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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JustOneMinute, Talking Points Memo and Outside the Beltway
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
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
'Tis the season — Now is the moment for every national politician's most enthusiastic and obsequious supporters to tell him he's got a shot at the White House, which most politicians secretly believe to be true in any event. — Today's entrant: Sen. Scott Brown, whose hometown Boston Herald is cheering him on with glee.
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CNN
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
New York Times:
D.E.A. Deployed Mumbai Plotter Despite Warning — WASHINGTON — American authorities sent David C. Headley, a small-time drug dealer and sometime informant, to work for them in Pakistan months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, despite a warning that he sympathized with radical Islamic groups, according to court records and interviews.
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Hit & Run and New York Magazine
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Cantor Refuses To Take Government Shutdown Or Default On U.S. Debt Off The Table — In an interview with Fox News Sunday this morning, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), the #2 Republican in the House, threatened to take the nation's economy hostage if President Obama does not comply with House GOPers' as yet undefined demands.
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