memeorandum: First Female Vice-Presidential Nominee Geraldine Ferraro Dies (Fox News)

5:25 PM ET, March 26, 2011

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Douglas Martin / New York Times:

Geraldine A. Ferraro, First Woman on Major Party Ticket, Dies at 75 — Geraldine A. Ferraro, the former Queens congresswoman who in 1984 strode onto a podium to accept the Democratic nomination for vice president and to take her place in American history as the first woman nominated …

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Geraldine Ferraro / NBC New York:

Geraldine Ferraro Dead at 75 — Geraldine A. Ferraro, who earned a place in history in 1984 as the first woman to run on a major party national ticket for vice president, has died. She was 75-years-old. — Ferraro, who was born in Newburgh, New York, passed away today at Massachusetts General Hospital …

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Sarah Palin / Facebook:

On the Passing of Geraldine Ferraro — My family and I would like to express our sincere condolences to the family of Geraldine Ferraro. When I had the honor of working alongside Geraldine on election night last year, we both discussed the role of women in politics and our excited expectation …

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Associated Press:

Geraldine Ferraro, first female major party candidate for national office, has died at 75 — BOSTON — Geraldine Ferraro, who in 1984 became the first woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket, only to lose in a landslide, died Saturday. She was 75.

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Jennifer / Cubachi:

Geraldine Ferraro passes away. Palin remembers Ferraro. — Democrat and female pioneer for women in politics, Geraldine Ferraro passed away today in the age of 75 from her battle with blood cancer. She was a classy and smart woman who would discuss politics, and may differ with Republicans, but was always respectful.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Liberty Pundits Blog

Gautham Nagesh / The Hill:
Geraldine Ferraro, first female vice presidential candidate, dies

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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Ferraro — Geraldine Ferraro, the New York Congresswoman …

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Fox News:
First Female Vice-Presidential Nominee Geraldine Ferraro Dies

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David Jackson / USA Today:
Geraldine Ferraro, first female veep nominee, dies

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Fhardingj / CNN: Geraldine Ferraro dies, at age 75

CNN: ‘Trailblazer’ Geraldine Ferraro dies at age 75

Ben Smith / The Politico:

Media Matters' war against Fox — David Brock described Media Matters' campaign against Fox as ‘guerrilla warfare and sabotage.’ — The liberal group Media Matters has quietly transformed itself in preparation for what its founder, David Brock, described in an interview as an all-out campaign of …

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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Media Matters plots “guerrilla warfare and sabotage” against Fox?

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Bob Herbert / New York Times:

Losing Our Way — So here we are pouring shiploads of cash into yet another war, this time in Libya, while simultaneously demolishing school budgets, closing libraries, laying off teachers and police officers, and generally letting the bottom fall out of the quality of life here at home.

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T. A. Frank / Washington Monthly:

Why Is Bob Herbert Boring? — The perils of punditry for the powerless — TThe first thing you need to know about New York Times columnist Bob Herbert is that he's always right. No, not in the way a drunk in a bar is always right—Herbert's genuinely right, or at least close enough that it'd be petty to look for exceptions.

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New York Times:

Qaddafi Forces Pull Back as Rebels Retake Ajdabiya — AJDABIYA, Libya — Rebels seized Ajdabiya on Saturday, government and rebel forces said, succeeding in an effort to retake this key town in the east following another night of allied air strikes against forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.

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Telegraph:
Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters have al-Qaeda links

Washington Post:
Libyan intervention making ‘progress,’ Obama says

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Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Peter King will support more funds for military operations in Libya

Discussion: CNN

David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:

Libyan Woman Struggles to Tell Media of Her Rape — TRIPOLI — A Libyan woman burst into the hotel housing the foreign press in Tripoli Saturday morning and fought off security forces as she told journalists that she had been raped and beaten by members of the Qaddafi militia.

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Daily Dish, more at Mediagazer »

Stable Hand / The Jawa Report: Libyan Woman Struggles to Tell media of Her Rape

Daily Mail:

After blitz of the Ritz, it's the siege of Fortnum & Mason: Anarchists hijack the anti-cuts demo and go on rampage in central London — These are the scenes in central London tonight as riot police struggle to control anti-capitalist protesters following the TUC's national demonstration against the cuts.

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Telegraph:

TUC protest march: live — Follow our rolling coverage of today's marches which saw an estimated 400,000 people take to London's streets, in the biggest public backlash against the Government's spending cuts since it came to power. … • Main march and rally remains calm …

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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:

IS A LOOMING GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN UNAVOIDABLE?.... Last week, facing the latest in a series of deadlines, there was bipartisan support for another budget extension, funding the federal government through April 8. It gave policymakers three weeks to craft a deal that would finance the rest of the fiscal year …

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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Budget Impasse Increasing Risk of U.S. Shutdown

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Mark Steyn / Orange County Register:

Do-gooders in a land with no good guys — It is tempting and certainly very easy to point out that Obama's war (or Obama's “kinetic military action,” or “time-limited, scope-limited military action,” or whatever the latest ever more preposterous evasion is) is at odds with everything candidate Obama …

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