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Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Fox And Friends Defends News Corp's Hacking Scandal: ‘We Should Move On’ — Fox News finally addressed their parent company's hacking scandal head on this morning, with Fox and Friends launching a comically sycophantic and pathetically inaccurate defense of News Corp. Host Steve Doocy …
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REPORT: How CNN, MSNBC, And Fox Are Covering News Corp. Hacking Scandal — News Corp.'s long-simmering phone-hacking scandal has reignited, throwing its global media empire into turmoil. As allegations of hacking into private citizens' voicemail increase, media and tabloid practices have been called into question.
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Wall Street Journal:
Dow Jones CEO Resigns Over Scandal
Dow Jones CEO Resigns Over Scandal
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton Stepping Down
Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton Stepping Down
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Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
Les Hinton's Resignation Letters to Murdoch and Journal Staff
Les Hinton's Resignation Letters to Murdoch and Journal Staff
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Eric Marrapodi / CNN:
Michele Bachmann officially leaves her church — Washington (CNN) - Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann has long been a darling of conservative evangelicals, but shortly before announcing her White House bid, she officially quit a church she'd belonged to for years.
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Tony Kennedy / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Marcus Bachmann says his clinics not anti-gay — Therapists will oblige if patients ask for counseling to become heterosexual, but they don't force treatment, he said. — The husband of Republican presidential contender Michele Bachmann has come forward to defend his family-owned Christian …
Dan Amira / New York Magazine:
Blogger Who Posted Marcus Bachmann's ‘Barbarians’ Remark: 'I Didn't Doctor a Damn Thing' — It's becoming increasingly difficult to keep track of all of Michele and Marcus Bachmann's anti-gay remarks and beliefs, but unfortunately, today brings with it yet another twist.
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Andy Birkey / Minnesota Independent:
‘Ex-gay’ conference headed to St. Paul in 2012
‘Ex-gay’ conference headed to St. Paul in 2012
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Josiah Ryan / The Hill:
Jackson Lee: Congress complicating debt ceiling because Obama is black — Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) on Friday strongly suggested that members of Congress are making it difficult for President Obama to raise the debt ceiling because of his race. — “I do not understand …
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Obama: Public is ‘sold’ on tax increases in a debt-ceiling deal — President Obama on Friday kept up the pressure on Republicans to agree to revenue increases in a deal to raise the debt ceiling, claiming 80 percent of the public supports Democrats' demand for tax increases.
The Note:
Pawlenty Calls Out Romney On Debt Ceiling Debate
Pawlenty Calls Out Romney On Debt Ceiling Debate
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The Politico:
Of Obama's $86 million, 40% from bundlers — About 40 percent of President Barack Obama's record-breaking $86 million second-quarter fundraising haul came from big-money bundlers, according to a POLITICO analysis of donors listed on Obama's campaign web site.
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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Obama's Haul: Big Money From Big Donors — Twenty-seven fund-raisers collected more than $500,000 each in contributions for President Obama and the Democratic Party in the past three months, helping Mr. Obama collect a record haul of campaign cash as he starts his re-election effort.
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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Obama fundraising report signals juggernaut campaign
Obama fundraising report signals juggernaut campaign
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Sarah Palin Movie Debuts to Empty Theater in Orange County — “Why aren't you seeing Harry Potter?” an usher said to the reporter sitting alone in the audience — When the clock struck 12:01 am today, AMC theaters in select cities were permitted to start showing “The Undefeated,” a feature length documentary about Sarah Palin.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
McConnell proposal would force major review of entitlements — Larry Kudlow, who's plugged in with Congressional Republicans, scoops a key new detail about the emerging Mitch McConnell proposal to transfer control of the debt ceiling to the president:
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Larry Kudlow / National Review:
McConnell's Uber-Clever Debt-Deal Stratagem
McConnell's Uber-Clever Debt-Deal Stratagem
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Liberals worry embrace of McConnell proposal could harm Dem Party
Liberals worry embrace of McConnell proposal could harm Dem Party
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Obama makes his case to the left — President Obama recently took a beating from some on the left for suggesting that immediate deficit reduction is necessary to take the issue off the table and make it possible to spend more on liberal priorities later. And Obama of course has regularly …
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David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Obama's “Deficit Now, Jobs Later” Strategy Doesn't Seem Sound
Obama's “Deficit Now, Jobs Later” Strategy Doesn't Seem Sound
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David Weigel / Slate:
Erick Erickson's Bad Advice — The RedState editor tweets that this post of his is being passed around the House GOP's caucus meeting. Hey, lots of things are passed around at meetings. Let's just hope no one takes this seriously, because it's totally incoherent. … Who actually thinks this?
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Erick Erickson / Erick's blog:
Dear House Republicans, This is Your “Time For Choosing”
Dear House Republicans, This is Your “Time For Choosing”
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Katrina Trinko / National Review:
Perry's Briefing — Word in Austin is that Rick Perry is doing everything necessary to prepare for a presidential run, including brushing up on foreign policy. — We hear that he recently met with top national-security experts Doug Feith and William Luti.
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Martha Raddatz / ABCNEWS:
Osama Hit List: President Obama, Petraeus, Major U.S. Sporting Event — President Barack Obama boards Air Force One after arriving at Andrews Air Force Base Md., June 28, 2011. Officials say that Osama bin Laden, still obsessed with attacking airplanes, was trying to hatch a plan to kill Obama …
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The Huffington Post:
Obama Publicly Backs Means-Testing Medicare (UPDATE) … WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama formally acknowledged on Friday that he would support a plan to means-test Medicare as a part of a deal to raise the nation's debt ceiling. — “I have said that means-testing on Medicare …
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David Kravets / Threat Level:
Court OKs Airport Body Scanners, Rejects Constitutional Challenge — A federal appeals court on Friday unanimously declined to block the government from using intrusive body scanners across airports nationwide, saying it is “not persuaded by any of the statutory or constitutional arguments” against them.
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Darren Goode / The Politico:
House turns off light bulb standards by voice vote — The House on Friday morning moved to block federal light bulb efficiency standards without even a roll call vote. — An amendment from Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) defunding the Energy Department's standards for traditional incandescent light bulbs …
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