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3:25 PM ET, October 6, 2011

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Noah Bierman / Boston Globe:
Scott Brown quips about Elizabeth Warren's appearance on Boston radio show  —  Republican Senator Scott Brown made a crack about Democrat Elizabeth Warren's physical appearance on a radio show this morning.  —  Brown was responding to a crack Warren made in Tuesday's debate …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Scott Brown, on Elizabeth Warren's claim she kept her clothes on during college: “Thank God”  —  During the Massachusetts Senate debate earlier this week, Elizabeth Warren and the other Dem candidates were reminded by the debate moderator that Scott Brown had posed nude in college, and asked what they had done to pay for school.
Braden / 100.7 WZLX:
Senator Scott Brown Calls In & Thanks Elizabeth Warren For Keeping Her Clothes On  —  WZLX's Kevin Karlson: “Have you officially responded to Elizabeth Warren's comment about how she didn't take her clothes off?”  —  Senator Scott Brown (laughs) “Thank God.”
Nick Baumann / Political Mojo:
Scott Brown Calls Elizabeth Warren Ugly  —  Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) doesn't think anyone should have to see Elizabeth Warren naked.  —  At Tuesday night's primary debate, Warren, the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination to challenge Brown, used a question about how she paid for tuition to take a jab at the freshman Senator.
Eric Kleefeld / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012  —  Scott Brown Replies To Warren: 'Thank God …
Discussion: Reuters, The Politico and The Caucus
MyFox New York:
Occupy Wall Street Arrests; Fox 5 Crew and Protesters Hit by Mace, Batons  —  Protest broadens scope  —  MYFOXNY.COM - While covering the Occupy Wall Street protests on Wednesday night, Fox 5 photographer Roy Isen was hit in the eyes by mace from a police officer and Fox 5 reporter Dick Brennan was hit by an officer's baton.
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Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Wall Street Corruption, Solyndra, and Fast & Furious: Today's Q's for O - 10/6/2011  —  TAPPER: Thank you, Mr. President.  Just to follow up on Jackie's question, one of the reasons why so many of the people at the Occupy Wall Street protests are so angry is because, as you say, so many people on Wall Street did not follow the rules.
Discussion: emptywheel
New York Post:
‘Furious’ mess has Justice in full panic  —  So now the Fast and Furious affair has reached Stage 2 of the classic Washington scandal: House Republicans have called for a special counsel to investigate Attorney General Eric Holder himself for possible perjury.
Discussion: National Review
Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
‘Calm down’ about Fast and Furious gun sting, ATF acting director says
Michael A. Memoli / Los Angeles Times:
Obama: Occupy Wall Street protests show Americans' frustration
John Markoff / New York Times:
Steven P. Jobs, 1955-2011: Steve Jobs of Apple Dies at 56  —  Steven P. Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple who helped usher in the era of personal computers and then led a cultural transformation in the way music, movies and mobile communications were experienced in the digital age, died Wednesday.
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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Why So Few Steve Jobses?
Discussion: Political Mojo
Christopher John Farley / Speakeasy:
Steve Jobs Knew The End Was Near Weeks Ago, Says Coming Biography
David Frum / FrumForum:
Palin: Already Almost Forgotten  —  “I will continue driving the discussion for freedom and free markets...”  — From Sarah Palin's statement announcing her decision not to run for president.  —  Um, probably not.  Sarah Palin's political voice had dwindled well before she announced her decision not to run.
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Scott Olson / ABCNEWS:
Sarah Palin's Die Hard Supporters ‘Stunned,’ ‘Disappointed’  —  Peter Singleton and Michelle McCormick left their jobs, homes, and families to move to Iowa to campaign for Sarah Palin.  Wednesday evening they found out they didn't have a candidate.  —  The former Alaska governor's supporters founded …
Shushannah Walshe / ABCNEWS:
Huntsman Hits Palin for ‘Stringing People Along’
Discussion: The Hill
Richard Adams / Guardian:
Sarah Palin: the end of an error
Discussion: Associated Press and The Reaction
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Obama Says He Would Accept a Surtax on High Incomes  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama said on Thursday that he was “comfortable” with a Senate proposal to pay for his jobs legislation with a tax surcharge on income above $1 million.  —  “I'm fine with the approach they have taken,” …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Execution by secret WH committee  —  Reuters describes the bureaucratic panel that, with no oversight or transparency, orders citizens killed by the CIA  —  Here is what the Democratic President has created and implemented, and what many party loyalists explicitly endorse (when there's a Democrat in the White House) — from Reuters:
Discussion: The Crawdad Hole and The Agonist
Mackenzie Weinger / The Politico:
Pollster: 'Trend isn't good' for Obama  —  More Americans than ever say they disapprove of how President Barack Obama is handling his job, a new poll shows.  —  A majority of voters — 55 percent — told Quinnipiac University they don't like how Obama is doing his job.
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Roger Simon / The Politico:
Who will be the GOP messiah?  —  Barack Obama is so doomed politically …
Discussion: CNN and Hot Air
Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Nevada Republicans set Jan. 14 caucus  —  Mark your calendars.  —  Nevada Republicans on Wednesday evening set Jan. 14 for the GOP presidential caucuses here, clearing the way for New Hampshire and Iowa to schedule their traditional first-in-the nation voting dates.
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Frank Cerabino / Palm Beach Post:
Lawmaker wants state to reinstate dwarf tossing  —  Some news on the job-creation front in Florida.  —  A state legislator has found yet another example of government regulation getting in the way of job creation.  —  So Rep. Ritch Workman, R-Melbourne, filed a bill this week to bring back …
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Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
Rachel Maddow: How This Wonky-Tonk Woman Won TV … “Thank you for coming,” says Rachel Maddow to a visiting reporter.  “Why are we doing this?”  —  It's the last Friday in September, and we are walking briskly — at 5-foot-11, Maddow always moves at a near-jog — toward the elevator …
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Elizabeth Warren and liberalism, twisting the ‘social contract’  —  E lizabeth Warren, Harvard law professor and former Obama administration regulator (for consumer protection), is modern liberalism incarnate.  As she seeks the Senate seat Democrats held for 57 years before 2010 …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
 
 
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Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
National World, one of the UK's biggest newspaper groups, gets a £56.2M buyout offer from shareholder Media Concierge, a 40% premium to its Nov. 21 stock price

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
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