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TRANSCRIPT: Fox News-Google GOP Debate — This is a rush transcript from the Fox News-Google GOP Presidential debate on September 22, 2011 at the Orlando Convention Center in Orlando, Fla. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. — BRET BAIER, ANCHOR …
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goproud.org:
Rick Santorum Owes Gay Soldier an Apology — For Immediate Release — Joint Statement of Christopher R. Barron, Chairman of the Board and Jimmy LaSalvia, Executive Director — (Washington, D.C.) - “Tonight, Rick Santorum disrespected our brave men and women in uniform, and he owes Stephen Hill …
Evan McMorris-Santoro / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012 — Audience Members At Fox News Debate Boo Gay Soldier (VIDEO) — ORLANDO, FL — Members of the crowd gathered for the Fox News/YouTube debate booed a video of a gay soldier in Iraq who asked if the nine presidential candidates on stage would work to “circumvent” the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Gay soldier booed at GOP debate, candidates stay mum
Gay soldier booed at GOP debate, candidates stay mum
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NPR, Big Journalism, The Atlantic Online, The Politico and Gay Politics
Paul Waldman / TAPPED:
This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, Affordable Care Act Edition
This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, Affordable Care Act Edition
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Washington Monthly
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Audience Members Of GOP Debate Boo Steven Hill, Gay Soldier Serving In Iraq
Audience Members Of GOP Debate Boo Steven Hill, Gay Soldier Serving In Iraq
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Opinion L.A., ThinkProgress, Outside the Beltway, Hot Air and No More Mister Nice Blog
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
No Thanking the Gay Soldier in Iraq for His Service?
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Special Editorial: Yikes — THE WEEKLY STANDARD's official reaction to last night's Republican presidential debate: Yikes. — Reading the reactions of thoughtful commentators after the stage emptied, talking with conservative policy types and GOP political operatives later last evening and this morning, we know we're not alone.
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Michelle Malkin:
Video: Perry's cringe-worthiest debate moment — This is a gimme. Seriously. — I mentioned Rick Perry's DREAM Act debate blunder in my round-up post. — It gets second place. — The cringe-worthiest moment, by a hair, was when Perry botched what should have been his most potent attack on Mitt Romney's chronic flip-flopping.
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Joshua Altman / The Hill:
Perry: DREAM Act detractors have no heart
Perry: DREAM Act detractors have no heart
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Washington Post and Right Wing Watch
Philip Klein / Campaign 2012:
Why I doubt Romney would repeal Obamacare
Why I doubt Romney would repeal Obamacare
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Washington Post, Left Coast Rebel, Cold Fury, National Review and Hot Air
Russell Berman / The Hill:
House approves stopgap funding but Reid says Senate will block measure — The House early Friday narrowly approved a stopgap spending measure to keep the federal government running through Nov. 18, as Republican leaders secured the votes of conservatives who had rejected a similar bill a day earlier.
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Michelle Malkin, Reuters, Don Surber, Ballot Box, ThinkProgress and americanthinker.com
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Cram It! Senate Dems And Republicans Reject Holding Disaster Aid Hostage
Cram It! Senate Dems And Republicans Reject Holding Disaster Aid Hostage
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Indecision Forever and Hullabaloo
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Senate likely to reject House-passed spending bill; shutdown still possible
Senate likely to reject House-passed spending bill; shutdown still possible
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New York Times, Washington Monthly and msnbc.com
Russell Berman / The Hill:
House lawmakers to leave town Friday
House lawmakers to leave town Friday
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Washington Monthly and National Review
Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress:
Tea Party House Republicans Sell Their Principles For Gimmicky $100 Million Cut
Tea Party House Republicans Sell Their Principles For Gimmicky $100 Million Cut
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Firedoglake, The Politico, The Huffington Post and US Politics
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Rush Limbaugh On Gary Johnson Joke: 'Guess I've Become Show Prep For The GOP Debates' … NEW YORK — Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson brought down the house at Thursday night's Fox News/ Google debate when he joked about how his “next-door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration.”
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Jacob Weisberg / Slate Magazine:
His book about Obama is as spurious as the ones he wrote about Bush. — As an editor, you develop a B.S. meter—an internal warning system that signals caution about journalism that doesn't feel trustworthy. Sometimes it's a quote or incident that's too perfect —a feeling I always …
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Ron Suskind's Larry Summers problem — Jacob Weisberg isn't a big fan of Ron Suskind's new book, nor, for that matter, of Ron Suskind. I've also been reading ‘The Confidence Men,’ and like Weisberg, I'm not impressed, but for a very different reason. Let's call it, as Suskind does, the Larry Summers problem.
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Mother Jones
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Social Contract — This week President Obama said the obvious: that wealthy Americans, many of whom pay remarkably little in taxes, should bear part of the cost of reducing the long-run budget deficit. And Republicans like Representative Paul Ryan responded with shrieks of “class warfare.”
The Politico:
Texas toast? Perry worries GOP — ORLANDO - The first line of Rick Perry's campaign obituary may have been drafted Thursday night: He got in too late. — It's not quite time for his camp to panic but in his third debate in a month - nearly as many as he's done in the entire decade he's served …
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The Daily Beast:
Obama Sold Israel Bunker-Buster Bombs — While Obama publicly pressured Israel to make concessions to the Palestinians over settlements, he secretly sold Jerusalem deep-penetrating bombs it had long sought. Eli Lake previews an exclusive story appearing in Monday's Newsweek.
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Pajamas Media, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Danger Room, Hot Air, Attackerman, The Politico, ThinkProgress and New York Magazine
Geneva Sands-Sadowitz / The Hill:
Gov. Mitch Daniels: Obama ‘inhabits a different planet’ on economic issues — Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) said President Obama “inhabits a different planet” when it comes to the understanding of job creation and the economy. — “I do believe the president, his life has been so far removed …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
The ACA would not have killed Cain — Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain continues to make a ridiculous argument about the Affordable Care Act, and it's important the public realize that the candidate is simply lying. — Here was his pitch in last night's debate, explaining why he “would be dead under Obamacare.”
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The Incidental Economist, The Maddow Blog and Political Correction RSS
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Erick Erickson / RedState:
Herman Cain Won the Debate
Herman Cain Won the Debate
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The Daily Beast, The Daily Dish, The Daily Caller, US Politics and Taegan Goddard's …
Lisa Depaulo / GQ:
Is This the Sanest Man Running for President? — If you're seeking the presidency but no one notices, are you still seeking the presidency? Gary Johnson was governor of New Mexico for eight years, balanced the hell out of his budgets, and climbed Mount Everest with a broken leg.
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Hit & Run and The Agitator
Lymari Morales / Gallup:
Majority in U.S. Continues to Distrust the Media, Perceive Bias — More perceive liberal bias than conservative bias — WASHINGTON, D.C. — The majority of Americans still do not have confidence in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly.
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Big Journalism, Questions and Observations, NewsBusters.org and Weasel Zippers
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Fact checking the GOP debate in Orlando — Let's see what the candidates got wrong this time at last night's debate in Orlando, Fla., hosted by Fox News, Google and the Republican party of Florida: … Bachmann, in trying to spin her way out of a political problem, is simply not telling the truth here.
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Washington Monthly, Rick Perry 2012 Campaign … and Campaign 2012
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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
The Dueling UN Speeches, Or, This is Getting Tiresome — I'm running around a bit doing some other journalism today (there are apparently other issues in the world besides the demand to create a 23rd Arab state), but I'll try to watch the Abbas speech, and the Netanyahu speech, later on.
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Attackerman
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Dead federal retirees are paid $120 million annually, report says — The federal government pays out millions of dollars to dead people each year — including deceased retired federal workers, according to a new report. — In the past five years, the Office of Personnel Management …
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Outside the Beltway, The Politico, Gretawire and americanthinker.com
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
John Mearsheimer Endorses a Hitler Apologist and Holocaust Revisionist — Gilad Atzmon is a jazz saxophonist who lives in London and who has a side gig disseminating the wildest sort of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. He is an ex-Israeli and a self-proclaimed “self-hater” …
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Adam Holland, Via Meadia and Pajamas Media
Darren Samuelsohn / The Politico:
Solyndra executives repeatedly invoke the Fifth — Solyndra executives repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment this morning as House lawmakers pressed them to answer questions about the company's financial collapse and any hopes of repaying their $535 million federal loan guarantee.
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New York Times, The Western Experience, Weasel Zippers and JONATHAN TURLEY