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Keach Hagey / The Politico:
ESPN yanks Hank Williams for comparing Obama to Hitler  —  Hank Williams Jr., the voice famous for asking millions of viewers if they're ready for some football, has been pulled from Monday's broadcast of “Monday Night Football” over a comment he made on Fox News this morning.
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ESPN:
ESPN pulls Williams from MNF opening  —  The Hank Williams Jr. song that has opened Monday Night Football for 20 years was not part of the opening of this week's Indianapolis-Tampa Bay game after Williams made controversial comments about President Barack Obama.
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Obama is Hitler: Hank Williams Jr. Impersonates a Tea Party Sign on Fox & Friends  —  Hank Williams Jr. joined the morning crew of Fox & Friends and meandered off the rails.  It even had the Ailes puppet crew freaking out, causing them to disavow his comments at the end of the segment.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
James Crugnale / Mediaite:
Hank Williams Jr. Likens Obama To Hitler In Uncomfortable Fox and Friends Interview  —  Country music singer Hank Williams Jr. compared President Obama to Adolph Hitler in an awkward interview Monday morning on Fox and Friends.  Williams called the golf summit the president had with Speaker …
Discussion: msnbc.com, News Hounds and The Reaction
2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012  —  Hank Williams Jr. Booted From ESPN Over Obama/Hitler Comparison  —  Country singer Hank Williams Jr. is being removed from his regular spot on ESPN's Monday Night Football after comparing President Obama to Adolf Hitler in an interview with Fox & Friends.
Nina Mandell / NY Daily News:
Hank Williams Jr. bounced from tonight's Monday Night Football opener after controversial comments
Marc Caputo / St. Petersburg Times:
Fla poll: Romney 28%, Cain 24, Gingrich 10, Perry 9  —  Debates matter.  So did Florida's straw poll.  Just ask two guys: Herman Cain and Rick Perry.  —  Cain is now running in second place in Florida now that his support surged nearly 19 percentage points after last month's Republican Party …
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Adam Serwer / Mother Jones:
Faced With Perry's “Niggerhead” Controversy, Conservatives Slam...Herman Cain  —  Postracial politics?  Yeah, right.  —  Post Comment  —  As Texas Gov. Rick Perry deals with the fallout from the revelation that his family leases a hunting camp called “Niggerhead,” Herman Cain is facing his own backlash …
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Rick Perry slips, Herman Cain rises in bid for GOP nomination, poll finds  —  After a quick rise in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has experienced an almost equally dramatic decline, losing about half of his support over the past month, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Romney says the name of Rick Perry's hunting camp is ‘offensive’  —  Mitt Romney said that the racial epithet that served as the name of Rick Perry's Texas hunting lodge was “offensive” in a interview Monday with Sean Hannity.  —  “I've followed it from afar,” Romney said.  “I think it's offensive.
Emily Ramshaw / The Texas Tribune:
Perry Critics Defend Him In Racist Camp Name Furor
Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:   Perry Declares ‘There Is Nothing In That Constitution’ That Allows Medicaid To Exist
Jon Ward / The Huffington Post:
Rick Perry Signed 2007 Mandate Requiring 30 Minutes Of Daily Exercise For Texas Students
Discussion: Campaign 2012 and ThinkProgress
The New York Observer:
Exclusive: Occupy Wall Street Activist Slams Fox News Producer In Un-Aired Interview [Video]  —  Even if Geraldo Rivera was at the Zuccotti Park yesterday, Fox News has generally been a tad dismissive of the Occupy Wall Street movement.  Foxnews.com (as of this writing) …
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook:
On Wall Street, a Protest Matures  —  “I think a good deal of the bankers should be in jail.”  —  That is what Andrew Cole, an unemployed 24-year-old graduate of Bucknell University, told me Monday morning in Zuccotti Park, the epicenter of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
New York Times:
Anti-Wall Street Protests Spreading to Cities Large and Small  —  A loose-knit populist campaign that started on Wall Street three weeks ago has spread to dozens of cities across the country, with protesters camped out in Los Angeles near City Hall, assembled before the Federal Reserve Bank …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
White House on Occupy Wall Street: ‘We understand’
Gary Langer / Politics:
Majority Expects Obama to Lose Re-Election  —  A majority of Americans expect Barack Obama to be a one-term president, an assessment on which, in past elections, the public more often has been right than wrong.  —  Just 37 percent in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll say they expect Obama …
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Jon Cohen / Washington Post:
Republicans expect to win in 2012
Discussion: Washington Wire
Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Poll: 7 in 10 say Obama has not helped economy  —  CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto  —  A new CBS News poll finds that nearly seven in 10 Americans believe President Obama has not made real progress in fixing the economy.
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Alex Sundby / CBS News:
Poll: Half of U.S. says Afghan war not a success
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ABCNEWS:
Obama on Solyndra: ‘Hindsight Is Always 20/20’
Meredith Bragg / Hit & Run:
Ken Burns on PBS Funding, Being a “Yellow-Dog Democrat,” & Missing Walter Cronkite  —  “In a perfect world,” says legendary filmmaker Ken Burns, “we'd want government support [for the arts] and a lot more of it.”  —  Burns' new PBS documentary, Prohibition, was made with his longtime collaborator Lynn Novick …
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Bloomberg Whiffs, Part 1  —  Last Friday, I wrote about a Bloomberg Markets story on Koch Industries which at that time was still in preparation.  According to multiple reports, the story was expected to focus on claims that a European Koch subsidiary had business transactions in Iran …
Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
After Ruling, Hispanics Flee an Alabama Town  —  ALBERTVILLE, Ala. — The vanishing began Wednesday night, the most frightened families packing up their cars as soon as they heard the news.  —  They left behind mobile homes, sold fully furnished for a thousand dollars or even less.
Neal Stephenson / World Policy Institute:
Innovation Starvation  —  My lifespan encompasses the era when the United States of America was capable of launching human beings into space.  Some of my earliest memories are of sitting on a braided rug before a hulking black-and-white television, watching the early Gemini missions.
The Politico:
Lobbyists in on ‘super’ secrets  —  “Information is slowly coming out, but there hasn't been a lot of progress,” Bonjean said.  —  The intense press coverage on supercommittee members' fundraising has also contributed to the clampdown.  —  Several of the panel's lawmakers have moved to slow …
 
 
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Gretchen Morgenson / New York Times:
Fannie Mae Knew Early of Abuses, Report Says
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Wall Street Journal:
Fund-Raiser Offers Clues on Governor's Intentions
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
uml.edu:
U.S. Senate Race Poll Data, Oct. 2, 2011
Discussion: WBUR, New York Times and Firedoglake
Washington Examiner:
‘Durbin fee’ will cost bank customers billions
Anthony Watts / Watts Up With That?:
Hansen rakes it in  —  Disclosure Obtained by ATI Environmental …
Discussion: Swords Crossed and Pajamas Media
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
HuffPost at One Biiiilllliiion Monthly Page Views: More Buying, More Launching, More Hiring
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Karl Smith / Modeled Behavior:
Investment  —  I get the sense that a lot of people believe …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and TheMoneyIllusion
Brian Bakst / Associated Press:
More aides leave Bachmann presidential campaign
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Is America Suffering from Rogue Leaders or Broken Institutions?
Discussion: Alas, a Blog
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How Obama's tax hikes would really impact the rich, in three easy charts
Discussion: Political Mojo
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Bloomberg:
A look at the challenges facing Crunchyroll, as current and ex-staffers say its management is out of touch, amid Disney and Netflix's expansion into anime

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK
 
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