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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 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.
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
Perry Declares ‘There Is Nothing In That Constitution’ That Allows Medicaid To Exist
Justin Sink / Ballot Box:
Cain denies playing ‘race card’
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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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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 …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
White House on Occupy Wall Street: ‘We understand’
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
'You're creating a vision of the sort of society you want to have in miniature.'
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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
The Cost Of A Demobilized Left
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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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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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Amy Harder / NationalJournal.com:
E-Mails Show Obama Was Warned; Bitter OMB, DOE Divide Over Solyndra — President Obama tours Solyndra's California headquarters in 2010 to tout investment in renewable energy. New emails show the White House was warned before the visit about Solyndra's long-term viability …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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Andrew Breitbart / Big Government:
Shock Photos: Candidate Obama Appeared And Marched With New Black Panther Party in 2007 — New photographs obtained exclusively by BigGovernment.com reveal that Barack Obama appeared and marched with members of the New Black Panther Party as he campaigned for president in Selma, Alabama in March 2007.
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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.
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