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Joseph / CANNONFIRE:
CASE CLOSED! CONGRESSMAN WEINER WAS FRAMED! (An important update to “The Weiner affair: Close to solution (but I need your help!)” — Readers — please pass along the information here, including the all-important update. In that update, you'll find that we have made an important breakthrough.
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Matt Lewis / The Daily Caller:
MSNBC is about to come out with what appears to be a terrific interview. Luke Russert was just asking Rep. Anthony Weiner questions about his controversial Tweet, and Weiner appears to actually be answering. Unfortunately, the live feed kept going out — so we will have to wait for MSNBC to air the full video in a bit.
First Read / msnbc.com:
Weiner 'can't say with certitude' that lewd photo isn't of him — UPDATED AT 4:30 PM ET WITH A REPORT FROM ANOTHER WEINER PRESS CONFERENCE. Weiner attempts a joke, saying he regrets being a little “stiff” with reporters yesterday. — From NBC's Luke Russert and Carrie Dann
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Washington Post, The Daily Caller, Taylor Marsh, Maggie's Notebook, Associated Press and Towleroad News #gay
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Rep. Anthony Weiner 'can't say with certitude' photo isn't him — Rep. Anthony Weiner says he “can't say with certitude” that the lewd photo of a man's crotch sent using his Twitter account to one of his followers isn't of him. — “I didn't send that picture out,” Weiner said in an interview with NBC News.
Daily Mail:
Revealed: The glamorous Twitter girls followed by Congressman Weiner as he denies sending lewd picture — The New York Congressman under fire for allegedly sending a crotch picture to a female student faced fresh controversy today after it emerged he follows a string of glamorous women on Twitter.
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The Politico, New York Post and The Political Commentator
New York Post:
Weiner's tweet-hearts — By S.A. MILLER in Washington …
Weiner's tweet-hearts — By S.A. MILLER in Washington …
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Don Surber, Fox News, POWIP, The Other McCain, Weasel Zippers, American Power, New York Times, Fox Nation, NY Daily News, Althouse and JammieWearingFool
Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
Weiner: ‘Picture of a Wiener’ Clearly a Prank
Weiner: ‘Picture of a Wiener’ Clearly a Prank
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The Note, Opinion L.A. and Weasel Zippers
Alan Colmes' Liberaland:
Anthony Weiner “Can't Say With Certitude” Whether Picture Is His
Anthony Weiner “Can't Say With Certitude” Whether Picture Is His
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Pajamas Media
Caleb Howe / RedState:
Case Closed? Leftblog Claims Definitive Proof Weiner Was Framed.
Case Closed? Leftblog Claims Definitive Proof Weiner Was Framed.
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Little Green Footballs and Founding Bloggers
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Oh, My: In NBC Interview, Weiner Won't Deny Authenticity of Lewd Photo UPDATE: Interview Video Added
Oh, My: In NBC Interview, Weiner Won't Deny Authenticity of Lewd Photo UPDATE: Interview Video Added
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Mediaite, The Huffington Post, Gawker, Nice Deb, Paco Enterprises, Verum Serum, The Lonely Conservative, minx.cc, American Power, Hot Air and BackyardConservative
Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:
WeinerGate: What do Reporters Think? — And the Weiner saga continues.
WeinerGate: What do Reporters Think? — And the Weiner saga continues.
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Mediaite and Pajamas Media
Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
Wolf Blitzer Asking Weiner The Most Candy-Cane Questions Possible
Wolf Blitzer Asking Weiner The Most Candy-Cane Questions Possible
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Pajamas Media
Michelle Malkin:
Spinning Weiner: “I can't say with certitude” …
Spinning Weiner: “I can't say with certitude” …
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Hot Air, City Room, RealClearPolitics Video Log, CNN, GayPatriot and Power Line
Stephanie Condon / CBS News:
Anthony Weiner “can't say with certitude” lewd photo's not him
Anthony Weiner “can't say with certitude” lewd photo's not him
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CBS News, Top of the Ticket, The Gateway Pundit, The Daley Gator, The Note, American Thinker, American Power and Pajamas Media
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
CNN Poll: Majority gives thumbs down to Ryan plan — Washington (CNN) - A new national poll indicates that a majority of Americans don't like what they've heard so far about congressional Republicans' plans to change Medicare. — According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
CNN poll: GOP losing the argument over Medicare
CNN poll: GOP losing the argument over Medicare
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The Gavel, Balloon Juice, Daily Kos, Hullabaloo and TPMDC
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Paul Ryan: ‘Obamacare Ends Medicare As We Know It’
Paul Ryan: ‘Obamacare Ends Medicare As We Know It’
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Crooks and Liars, Washington Monthly, Know Your Care, The New Republic, Democracy in America and Washington Post
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
‘Paul’ and ‘Barack’ talk Medicare
‘Paul’ and ‘Barack’ talk Medicare
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The New Republic, Mother Jones, Swampland, Washington Monthly, ThinkProgress and Hullabaloo
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker rejects White House trip, says he won't be ‘lectured to’ by Obama — A freshman GOP lawmaker rejected an invitation to the White House on Wednesday, saying he didn't want to be “lectured” by President Obama. — “I have respectfully declined the president's invitation to the White House today …
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Obama talks about lower taxes than Reagan; GOP members roll their eyes — Republicans attending a White House meeting on Wednesday didn't take kindly to President Obama telling them tax rates were higher during the Reagan administration. — GOP members engaged in a lot of “eye-rolling,” …
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Associated Press, ThinkProgress, Washington Monthly, The Gateway Pundit and Prairie Weather
Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
A “Frosty” and “Frank” Meeting Between President Obama and House GOP
A “Frosty” and “Frank” Meeting Between President Obama and House GOP
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Weasel Zippers and The Note
Walter Shapiro / The New Republic:
Glass Ceiling — Why Obama can't assume Republicans will ever …
Glass Ceiling — Why Obama can't assume Republicans will ever …
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PERRspectives, The Politico, The Daily Dish, The Nation, Booman Tribune, The Moderate Voice and msnbc.com
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Romney leads in Iowa, Cain surging — Mitt Romney has the lead in PPP's first Iowa poll since Mike Huckabee and Donald Trump exited the race, but with six different candidates polling in double digits it's clear this thing is wide open. — Romney polls at 21%. Sarah Palin and Herman Cain are tied for second at 15%.
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Outside the Beltway, Top of the Ticket, National Review, Towleroad News #gay, Mediaite, Eunomia, Swampland, GOP 12, LifeNews.com, Iowa Caucuses and Pajamas Media
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Minnesota Miscellaneous
Minnesota Miscellaneous
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Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times and The Political Carnival
CNN:
Palin meets with Fox News officials — New York (CNN) - Sarah Palin met with officials at Fox News in midtown Manhattan for over an hour on Wednesday. — After checking out of her Jersey City hotel earlier in the day for the fourth day of her “One Nation” bus tour, Palin told a gaggle …
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Margo D. Beller / CNBC:
Wall Street Baffled by Slowing Economy, Low Yields: Trader — Wall Street is having a hard time figuring out what to do now that the U.S. economy appears to be sputtering and yields are so low, Peter Yastrow, market strategist for Yastrow Origer, told CNBC.
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Henry C. Jackson / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: HHS rejects Indiana Medicaid plan — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Health and Human Services Department is telling the state of Indiana that its Medicaid plan, which bans funding to Planned Parenthood, is illegal and must be changed. — In a letter sent to Indiana's Medicaid director …
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ThinkProgress, Feministing, Daily Kos, TPMDC and The Washington Independent
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Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com:
Obama Admin Denies Indiana Request to De-Fund Planned Parenthood
Obama Admin Denies Indiana Request to De-Fund Planned Parenthood
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Maggie's Notebook and Weasel Zippers
New Jersey Online:
Gov. Christie arrives at son's high school baseball game in State Police helicopter — TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie arrived at his son's baseball game this afternoon aboard a State Police helicopter. — Right before the lineup cards were being exchanged on the field …
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Metropolis, msnbc.com, Associated Press, UNCOVERAGE.net, Hot Air, The Moderate Voice, Crooks and Liars, Mediaite, The Blaze, Indecision Forever, The Political Carnival, The Raw Story, Firedoglake, Washington Monthly, Ben Smith's Blog, No More Mister Nice Blog, AmSpecBlog, TBogg, City Room, Salon, Balloon Juice, Daily Kos, The Lonely Conservative, ThinkProgress, Wonkette and The Note
Ctucker / Cynthia Tucker:
Voting Rights Act: I was wrong about racial gerrymandering — WASHINGTON — I won't procrastinate. I'll get the most difficult part of this column over right now: I was wrong. I was shortsighted, naïve and narrow-minded to endorse the concept of drawing Congressional districts to take racial demographics into account.
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Grouchy Old Cripple, Don Surber and National Review
Eugene Kiely / FactCheck.org:
DNC Chair Throws Truth to ‘Wolves’ — Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz falsely claimed that seniors with preexisting medical conditions would be denied Medicare coverage under the GOP's plan. The House GOP plan specifically says insurance companies “must agree to offer insurance to all Medicare beneficiaries.”
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Wasserman Schultz's bogus claim that the GOP Medicare plan will ‘throw you to the wolves’
Wasserman Schultz's bogus claim that the GOP Medicare plan will ‘throw you to the wolves’
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Weasel Zippers, UNCOVERAGE.net, Hot Air and Cato @ Liberty
msnbc.com:
‘Handcuffed by policy’: Fire crews watch man die — First responders, up to 75 others watch suicidal man stand in water for an hour until he drowns — Below: — msnbc.com staff and news service reports — SAN FRANCISCO — Fire crews and police could only watch after a man waded …
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ThinkProgress and National Review
Paul Bond / Yahoo! TV:
TV Executives Admit in Taped Interviews That Hollywood Pushes a Liberal Agenda — The cast of “Friends” Warner Bros. Television — Some of TV's top executives from the past four decades may have gotten more than they bargained for when they agreed to be interviewed for a politically charged book …
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Chicago Boyz, Hot Air, ThinkProgress, Big Hollywood and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
Janie Lorber / Roll Call:
Some Immigrants Turn to Tea Party — Lolita Mancheno-Smoak, an immigrant from Ecuador who once dreamed of becoming her country's president, has found an unlikely home in the tea party movement. — When she launched her campaign for county school board last week at Brion's Grille in Fairfax …
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Left Coast Rebel
JSOnline:
Kapanke hopes public employees “are sleeping” during recall vote — By Daniel Bice of the Journal Sentinel — State Sen. Dan Kapanke, a Republican facing a possible recall election, says he's got one huge obstacle that he must overcome to keep his seat. — All the government workers in his district.
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The Political Carnival and TPMDC