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Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
Olbermann's MSNBC Exit Was Weeks in the Making — On Thursday, NBC's news division staged an elaborate presentation for advertisers, seeking to sell commercial time in NBC's news programs over the next year. All the members of MSNBC's prime-time lineup spoke at the lunch with one exception …
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Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, The Wire, Daily Kos, Seeing the Forest, HotAirPundit and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
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TMZ.com:
Keith Olbermann's Exit — Secret Deal — Keith Olbermann saw the handwriting on the wall with the new owner of NBC and cut a deal for his exit that will give him money and options — sources tell TMZ. — Here's how it went down. Sources familiar with the situation tell us …
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New York Magazine, Epicenter and YID With LID
Deadline.com:
NEW DETAILS: “MSNBC And Keith Olbermann Have Ended Their Contract”; Lefty MSNBC About To Make Right Turn? — 2ND UPDATE, SATURDAY AM: An MSNBC insider told this to Deadline today about Keith Olbermann's departure Friday: … Rachel Maddow & Bill Maher React To Keith Olbermann's Ouster
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Mixed Media, Outside the Beltway, The Gateway Pundit, Liberty Pundits Blog and HillBuzz.org
New York Post:
MSNBC pulls plug on gasbag Olbermann — Broadcast blowhard Keith Olbermann's countdown has finally come to an end. — The liberal lip of MSNBC was unceremoniously dumped by the peacock network last night in a major shakeup that set tongues wagging across the broadcast world.
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Hot Air, Salon, NewsBusters.org blogs, Pajamas Media, his vorpal sword, The Daily Caller and NewsBusters.org
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Keith Olbermann gives abrupt goodbye to MSNBC show
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HillBuzz.org, The Nation, Scared Monkeys, The Other McCain, Da Techguy's Blog, Moonbattery, theblogprof, FrumForum and Tower Ticker
Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
MSNBC, Olbermann Call It Quits, Cancel Show
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Speakeasy, Doug Ross, No Left Turns and Media Decoder, more at Mediagazer »
Richard Adams / Guardian:
NBC sacks Keith Olberman
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Washington Post, Scripting News, TMZ.com, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, msnbc.com, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Firedoglake, Mediaite and Instapundit
The Note:
Romney Wins New Hampshire Republican Party Committee Straw Poll — ABC News Political Director Amy Walter reports: — In the first ever “straw poll” of New Hampshire Republican party committee members sponsored by ABC News and WMUR and sanctioned by the state Republican party …
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CNN, Cubachi, The Other McCain, TPMDC, Scared Monkeys and LewRockwell.com Blog
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Kasie Hunt / The Politico:
Mitt Romney wins N.H. GOP straw poll — DERRY, N.H. - Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won the first presidential straw poll of the 2012 cycle, kicking off New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary election race. — Romney won with 35 percent, beating second-place finisher Ron Paul …
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Outside the Beltway and FrumForum
James Pindell / WMUR Political Scoop:
Results: WMUR, ABC News, NH GOP 2012 Straw Poll — Here are the results from the WMUR, ABC News, NH GOP 2012 Straw Poll that was conducted today at the NH GOP annual meeting held at Pinkerton Academy in Derry. — Nearly 500 republicans were eligible to vote, and 273 of them cast ballots.
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The Fix, The Hill, iOwnTheWorld.com, Freedom's Lighthouse and TPMDC
Abby Goodnough / New York Times:
Tea Party Activist Takes Over New Hampshire G.O.P.
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Politics Daily and Associated Press
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
First in nation, last with Sarah Palin
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Anchorage Daily News, CNN, Conservatives4Palin and The Wire
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Spotlight From Glenn Beck Brings a CUNY Professor Threats — On his daily radio and television shows, Glenn Beck has elevated once-obscure conservative thinkers onto best-seller lists. Recently, he has elevated a 78-year-old liberal academic to celebrity of a different sort, in a way that some say is endangering her life.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
WHEN BECK'S MINIONS GET THE MESSAGE.... Glenn Beck doesn't just rail …
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Left Coast Rebel, American Power and The Mahablog
Mike Stopa / Boston Globe:
The reality of death panels — ObamaCare's end-of-life planning comes down to economics — SUPPORTERS OF President Obama's health care reform law have relentlessly derided Sarah Palin's notion of “death panels” as a vulgar rhetorical technique, with no basis in reality …
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Don Surber and Conservatives4Palin
Wall Street Journal:
Obama to Push New Spending — State of Union Speech to Call for Boosting ‘Competitiveness’ While Nodding to Need for Budget Cuts — President Barack Obama and GE's Jeffrey Immelt, left, with plant manager Kevin Sharkey, visited a GE factory Friday to talk about green jobs.
CNN:
Former U.S. lawmaker assisting Duvalier — Port-Au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — A former U.S. congressman was among a group of American attorneys accompanying former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier as he spoke in the country's capital Friday. — Former Republican Congressman Bob Barr …
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ThinkProgress, Eunomia, Outside the Beltway and Hit & Run
Mwarren / Weekly Standard:
The Decline of the Justice Department — Mukasey's verdict on Holder. — Former attorney general Michael Mukasey is not prone to hyperbole. He's a former federal judge, a meticulous lawyer, and, as he proved in succeeding Alberto Gonzales, a skilled administrator who restored morale …
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Power Line and Pajamas Media
Tim Hoover / Denver Post:
Secretary of State plans to moonlight with old firm — Less than two weeks on the job, Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler says the $68,500 a year salary doesn't pay enough. — That's why Gessler, a Republican, says he is going to be moonlighting as a lawyer for his old law firm …
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Crooks and Liars and The Huffington Post
Big Journalism:
Washington Post Organizes News Boycott of Sarah Palin; Starts Twitter Campaign Against GOP Star — The Washington Post is engaging in online political activism by encouraging its readers to boycott news coverage of Sarah Palin. — The Post has picked up the call initiated this morning …
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