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Journolist 2.0: OccupyDC Emails Show MSM, Dylan Ratigan, Working With Protesters To Craft Message — Big Journalism has learned that the Occupy Washington DC movement is working with well-known media members to craft its demands and messaging while these media members report on the movement.
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New York Post, Marooned In Marin, The Gateway Pundit, americanthinker.com and JammieWearingFool
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Occupy Wall Street Trying to Settle on Demands — In a quiet corner across the street from Zuccotti Park, a cluster of 25 solemn-faced protesters struggled one night to give Occupy Wall Street what critics have found to be most lacking. — “We absolutely need demands,” said Shawn Redden, 35, an earnest history teacher in the group.
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ThinkProgress, Associated Press, The Politico, Ynetnews, The Huffington Post, Betsy's Page, Verum Serum and Washington Post


White House Draws Closer To Occupy Wall Street, Says Obama Is Fighting For The Interests Of The 99% — The White House continued its embrace of the Occupy Wall Street protests on Sunday, using the strongest terms yet to identify President Barack Obama with the growing movement.


Israelis worried by anti-Semitic flavor of ‘Occupy Wall St.’ protests — A growing number of Israelis and foreign Jewish groups are expressing concern over the anti-Semitic flavor of some of the “Occupy Wall St.” economic protests in the US. — From the 13th century expulsion of Englands Jews …


Mitt Romney: Too unloved to be inevitable? — Mitt Romney has won every Republican presidential debate. He has outraised all of his primary opponents. Polls show he's the most competitive candidate against President Barack Obama. — And most Republicans still don't want to nominate him.
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Riehl World View, americanthinker.com, GOP 12 and ABCNEWS
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DeMint May Endorse Romney — Mitt Romney is the favorite to receive Sen. Jim DeMint's (R-S.C.) much-sought-after endorsement in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, according to knowledgeable GOP sources. — DeMint, who endorsed the former Massachusetts governor in 2008 …
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GOP 12, Outside the Beltway and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog

Gingrich: Romney's Rockefeller Problem
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Hot Air and MyFox Boston

Axelrod: Electorate unsure of Romney's ‘core principles’
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ABCNEWS and The Daily Caller


Obama Targeting a Few, Crucial States — President Barack Obama starts a three-day bus trip Monday through North Carolina and Virginia that brings fresh attention to the kinds of voters he will rely on as he works to assemble a majority next year in the Electoral College.
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MyFox Boston and The Page
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The Obama bus trip: A political guide — President Barack Obama's summer Midwestern bus trek was about reconnecting with disaffected independents, but the North Carolina and Virginia road trip that starts Monday is a more narrowly targeted exercise in 2012 politics.

President Obama is returning to the road this week to press Congress …
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Weekly Standard, Michelle Malkin, Reuters, ABCNEWS, American Power, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and The Politico

Herman Cain nailed “Meet the Press.” — In my opinion, and I was quite critical of Cain after the last debate. Here's the transcript and video. I'll add a few comments to this post soon. — ADDED: I thought David Gregory really lost his cool early on, as he was questioning Cain about 9-9-9.
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JustOneMinute, The Other McCain, Booman Tribune, Instapundit and The Strata-Sphere
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Herman Cain defends 9-9-9 proposal, says ‘most people will pay less’ in taxes
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CNN, Daniel W. Drezner and Power Line

Cain Says His Deadly Fence Plan Was ‘a Joke’
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Business Insider, Commentary Magazine, New York Times, Outside the Beltway, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Washington Post, The Lonely Conservative, The Hill, Hot Air, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, New York Magazine, The Raw Story, Towleroad News #gay, The Gateway Pundit, Connecting.the.Dots, Little Green Footballs and 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com


Obama extends support for protesters — Barack Obama, US president, offered more support for protesters against the global financial system after a weekend of demonstrations in cities around the world, but called on them not to “demonise” those who worked on Wall Street.
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americanthinker.com, Althouse and Power Line
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America's ‘Primal Scream’
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Tom Watson, New York Magazine, Balloon Juice, Newshoggers.com, Gothamist, Washington Post, Daily Kos, Truthdig, Prairie Weather and Outside the Beltway

Obama: King would have backed ‘Occupy Wall Street’
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Right Wing News, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air and JammieWearingFool


Protecting Lady Liberty: Airport-type security screening finds Statue of Liberty tourists well-armed — Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses - just tell them to leave their switchblades, their blackjacks and their brass knuckles at home. — The Statue of Liberty is attracting …
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Runnin' Scared, City Room, New York Magazine and Prairie Weather

Big Cash Edge Powers Obama in Drive for '12 — President Obama is exploiting his early lead in campaign fund-raising to bankroll a sprawling grass-roots organization and information technology apparatus in critical general election battlegrounds. He is doing so even as the Republican …
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Taegan Goddard's …


Neo-Cannibals, Deadbeats, Dopers and Democrats Occupy Denver — Back with a Vengeance, Evicted Protesters Take the Streets — “Occupy Denver” returned to the streets with a vengeance Saturday after being expelled, having their camp forcibly removed from Veterans' Park by police at 4 a.m. Friday morning.
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Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit