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9:40 PM ET, June 1, 2011

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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
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.
Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
Weiner: ‘Picture of a Wiener’ Clearly a Prank
Publius / Big Government:   Did Rep. Weiner Violate House Rules?
Alan Colmes' Liberaland:
Anthony Weiner “Can't Say With Certitude” Whether Picture Is His
Discussion: Pajamas Media
Caleb Howe / RedState:
Case Closed? Leftblog Claims Definitive Proof Weiner Was Framed.
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Oh, My: In NBC Interview, Weiner Won't Deny Authenticity of Lewd Photo UPDATE: Interview Video Added
Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:
WeinerGate: What do Reporters Think?  —  And the Weiner saga continues.
Discussion: Mediaite and Pajamas Media
Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
Wolf Blitzer Asking Weiner The Most Candy-Cane Questions Possible
Discussion: Pajamas Media
Daily Mail:
'I can't say with certitude if it's my crotch': But Congressman Weiner DENIES sending lewd photo …
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
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,” …
Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
A “Frosty” and “Frank” Meeting Between President Obama and House GOP
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The Note
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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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Minnesota Miscellaneous
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 …
Discussion: RedState and Politics
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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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CNBC:
Stocks Tumble 1%, Led by Banks; VIX Jumps
Discussion: UNCOVERAGE.net
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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Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com:
Obama Admin Denies Indiana Request to De-Fund Planned Parenthood
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 …
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.
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.”
Discussion: Washington Post
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Wasserman Schultz's bogus claim that the GOP Medicare plan will ‘throw you to the wolves’
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 …
Discussion: 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 …
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 …
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: The Political Carnival and TPMDC
 
 
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