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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Romney says the name of Rick Perry's hunting camp is ‘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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Jon Ward / The Huffington Post:
Rick Perry Signed 2007 Mandate Requiring 30 Minutes Of Daily Exercise For Texas Students
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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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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Paul supports anti-Wall Street protests
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The Politico, The Daily Caller and Ben Smith's Blog
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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Russell Goldman / ABCNEWS:
President Obama Calls Himself ‘Underdog’ in 2012 Race for White House — George Stephanopoulos of ABC News interviews President Barack Obama live on ABCNews.com and Yahoo! today at 2:35 EST. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images) — Calling himself an “underdog,” President Obama today …
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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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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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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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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Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times, PERRspectives and ThinkProgress
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.
Dan Hirschhorn / The Politico:
Obama impeachment a possibility, says Ron Paul — Ron Paul said Monday that President Barack Obama's targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki might be an impeachable offense. — Asked at a Manchester, N.H. town hall meeting about last week's killing of the American-born Al Qaeda leader …
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Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress:
VIDEO: Reagan Called For An End To ‘Crazy’ Tax Loopholes That Let Millionaires Pay Less Than Bus Drivers — When President Obama released his plan for “the Buffett rule,” which involves closing tax loopholes and ensuring that millionaires pay their fair share in taxes, he explained that …
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Rep. Cantor rejects Obama, says president's jobs package is dead — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) declared President Obama's $447 billion jobs bill dead on Monday in its current form, flatly rejecting the president's latest plea for Congress to vote on the measure.
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Janet Hook / Washington Wire:
Cantor: Obama's Job Bill Is Dead in Congress
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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
The Cost Of A Demobilized Left — Watching the growth of Occupy Wall Street solidarity protests around the country, it's hard not to be reminded of the lost opportunity to mobilize a left-wing popular movement back in the winter of 2008-2009 and the spring of 2009.
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Alex Sundby / CBS News:
Poll: Half of U.S. says Afghan war not a success — CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto — Half of Americans think the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan hasn't been a success, a CBS News poll released Monday shows.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How Obama's tax hikes would really impact the rich, in three easy charts — Ever since Obama redoubled his push to hike taxes on the rich, conservatives have been ridiculing Obama's invocations of fairness, insisting that the rich are already paying a rising share of the overall tax burden …
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