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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 …
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Audience Members Of GOP Debate Boo Steven Hill, Gay Soldier Serving In Iraq — At Thursday night's Fox News/Google Republican Presidential Debate, the crowd was once again the star of an ugly moment. Moderator Megyn Kelly introduced a question via Youtube from Stephen Hill, a soldier who's currently serving in Iraq.
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Outside the Beltway, ThinkProgress and The Atlantic Online
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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democracyarsenal.org, Business Insider, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Harry's Place
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Gay soldier booed at GOP debate, candidates stay mum — Some members of the GOP debate audience booed a gay soldier who asked via video whether the Republican candidates would reinstitute the recently repealed “don't ask, don't tell” policy of banning openly gay soldiers.
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Outside the Beltway and The Politico
Fox News:
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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The Atlantic Online, GOP 12, ImmigrationProf Blog, PoliPundit.com, Top of the Ticket and CNN
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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Philip Klein / Campaign 2012:
Why I doubt Romney would repeal Obamacare
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Washington Post, Cold Fury and Weasel Zippers
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Perry: “I Don't Think You Have a Heart” If You Oppose In-State Tuition for Children of Illegal Immigrants
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
N.H. poll shocker: Perry falls, Romney surges as does Jon Huntsman
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Left Coast Rebel, Hit & Run, Campaign 2012 and Outside the Beltway
David Shepardson / Detroit News:
McCotter drops out of race for GOP presidential nomination
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National Review, The Other McCain, Wonkette, Iowa Caucuses, The Iowa Republican, Washington Post, Althouse, The Politico, Gallup and Hot Air
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
House approves spending measure opposed by Senate; shutdown possible — Washington lurched toward another potential government shutdown crisis Friday, as the House approved a Republican-authored short-term funding measure designed to keep government running through Nov. 18 that Democrats in the Senate immediately vowed to reject.
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
House approves stopgap funding, Reid says Senate will block — The House early Friday narrowly approved a stopgap spending measure to keep the federal government running into October, as Republican leaders secured the votes of conservatives who rejected a similar bill a day earlier.
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Reuters, ThinkProgress, Ballot Box, Los Angeles Times and Michelle Malkin
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
GOP Ups Ante Big Time In Government Shutdown Fight
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Hullabaloo, Daily Kos and Firedoglake
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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Brains and Eggs, ThinkProgress and Rick Perry 2012 Campaign …
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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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NewsBusters.org, Big Journalism and Weasel Zippers
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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Press Widely Criticized, But Trusted More than Other Information Sources — Views of the News Media: 1985-2011 — OVERVIEW — Negative opinions about the performance of news organizations now equal or surpass all-time highs on nine of 12 core measures the Pew Research Center has been tracking since 1985.
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The Politico, NewsBusters.org and Mediaite
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.”
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Northern Reflections, Prairie Weather, Daily Kos, Washington Post, FrumForum and Booman Tribune
Arlette Saenz / Politics:
HPV Vaccine Fact Check: Perry Misstated Relationship With Dying Woman — Although Rick Perry said at a debate on Thursday that he was “lobbied” by a 31-year-old woman suffering from cervical cancer to require young girls to receive the HPV vaccine, he did not meet the cancer patient until …
Juana Summers / The Politico:
Tweeters pan Republican debaters, debate technology — With Fox News partnering with Google for Thursday night's debate, the emphasis was on interactivity that seemed custom-made to appeal to Twitter users. According to Google, more than 18,000 questions were submitted to the Fox News YouTube channel to be considered for the debate.
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Big Government and YID With LID
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Jim Forsyth / Reuters:
Fancy last supper requests off the menu on Texas death row — (Reuters) - The Texas prison system abolished on Thursday the time-honored tradition of offering an opulent last meal to condemned inmates before their executions, saying they will get standard prison fare instead.
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Hullabaloo, Outside the Beltway, The Moderate Voice, New York Magazine and The Agonist
Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Tax Morass — Barack Obama and his perpetually angry Democratic “base” are the outliers on comprehensive tax reform. — Barack Obama has a remarkable habit of dumping the responsibility for solving massive fiscal and political problems on someone else.
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Hotline On Call:
Dem Poll: Obama Dragging Down His Own Party — One of the Democratic party's leading pollsters released a survey of 60 Republican-held battleground districts today painting an ominous picture for Congressional Democrats in 2012. The poll shows Democratic House candidates faring worse …
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RedState, Don Surber, Scared Monkeys, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air and The Politico
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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Politics and Business Insider
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
House liberal breaks with Obama on UN vote — Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said Friday that Obama is “wrong” to oppose the vote for Palestinian statehood at the United Nations. — “The key issue of statehood is something that we can do now …
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Weasel Zippers
Andrew Harmon / Advocate:
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Becomes First Republican to Cosponsor DOMA Repeal — A bill to repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act now has bipartisan support after Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida announced Friday that she would cosponsor the legislation, becoming the first Republican to do so.
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The Hill
Ariane De Vogue / ABCNEWS:
Health Care Law: Obama Administration Returns to Court — Lawyers for the Obama administration will once again head to court to defend the health care reform law, this time from challengers who argue it violates their religious freedom. — The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia …
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Bloomberg and Healthwatch
Tim Mak / The Politico:
DOJ: No full severance for 'don't ask' service members — Two days after the repeal of the controversial, “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” policy, the Obama administration is trying to block full severance pay for those dismissed under the rule. — The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit …
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Associated Press
Seth McLaughlin / Washington Times:
Perry's support of tuition for children of illegals puts him in GOP crosshairs — Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, right, listens as Texas Gov. Rick Perry makes a statement during a debate Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, Pool)
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Right Wing News
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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New York Magazine
New York Times:
In Rush to Assist Solyndra, U.S. Missed Warning Signs — WASHINGTON — President Obama's visit to the Solyndra solar panel factory in California last year was choreographed down to the last detail — the 20-by-30-foot American flags, the corporate banners hung just so, the special lighting …
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Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
Bill Clinton: Netanyahu killed the peace process — Who's to blame for the continued failure of the Middle East peace process? Former President Bill Clinton said today that it is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — whose government moved the goalposts upon taking power …
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