memeorandum: Iran Hikers Show Support for Occupy Movement (Lori Preuitt/NBC Bay Area)

3:05 AM ET, October 18, 2011

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New Yorkers Back Wall St. Protesters 3 - 1, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Stay As Long As You Want, Even Republicans Say — By a 67 - 23 percent margin, New York City voters agree with the views of the Wall Street protesters and say 87 - 10 percent that it is “okay that they are protesting …

Discussion: Guardian, TPMDC, Time, New York Magazine, Hot Air, City Room, Nation Now, National Review, Daily Kos, Runnin' Scared, The Political Carnival, Crooks and Liars, ThinkProgress, Business Insider, Suburban Guerrilla and Gothamist

Rolling Stone:

Why Occupy Wall Street Is Bigger Than Left vs. Right — I was surprised, amused and annoyed all at once when I found out yesterday that some moron-provocateur linked to notorious right-wing cybergoon Andrew Breitbart had infiltrated — a series of private e-mail lists …

Discussion: The Daily Caller, WNYC News Blog, ThinkProgress, Mediaite, Business Insider, Hullabaloo, Little Green Footballs and Rumproast

Douglas Schoen / Wall Street Journal:

Polling the Occupy Wall Street Crowd — In interviews, protesters show that they are leftists out of step with most American voters. Yet Democrats are embracing them anyway. — President Obama and the Democratic leadership are making a critical error in embracing the Occupy Wall Street movement …

Discussion: ABCNEWS, The Hill and Weasel Zippers

Mj Lee / The Politico:

Donald Trump: Obama should put a stop to Occupy Wall Street protests — The Obama administration has allowed the Occupy Wall Street protests go on for too long, Donald Trump suggested on Monday. — “I do think that government maybe is letting this go a little bit too far,” Trump said on Fox News Monday morning.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:

The Geography of Occupying Wall Street (And Everywhere Else) — The nascent movement known as Occupy Wall Street had its largest single day of protests on Saturday. And a funny thing happened: most of the action was far from Wall Street itself. — No, I don't mean at Zuccotti Park — which is not, technically, on Wall Street.

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Taft Wireback / News-Record.com:

Occupy protesters look for new campsite — GREENSBORO — The neophyte Occupy Greensboro movement has a secure downtown campsite through Friday and is hunting another location to continue its protest for the long haul. — A day after staging a 600-person march through town protesting financial inequities …

Discussion: The Politico, USA Today, TalkLeft and Pat Dollard

Rick Hampson / USA Today:
Poll: Washington to blame more than Wall Street for economy

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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Occupy Wall Street protesters to confront Obama on trip

Discussion: Weasel Zippers

New York Times:
Bloomberg Says ‘Tent City’ Goes Beyond Free Speech

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, Guardian and National Review

Melissa Grace / NY Daily News:
Dismiss all charges or we will clog up courts, lawyers for Occupy Wall Street protesters say

Discussion: Firedoglake, WNYC News Blog, Business Insider and New York Post

Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
The Hill Poll: Voters say Washington is worse than Wall Street

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Journalism.org:

THE MEDIA PRIMARY — HOW NEWS MEDIA AND BLOGS HAVE EYED THE PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDERS DURING THE FIRST PH ASE OF THE 2012 RACE — In the first months of the race for president, that weeding out period before citizens ever vote or caucus, Texas Governor Rick Perry has received the most coverage …

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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:

So much for the ‘liberal’ media — It's simply taken as a given in Republican circles that President Obama enjoys favorable coverage from major media outlets. This is generally pretty hard to believe among non-conservatives, but it's helpful to take this out of the realm of perception and into more quantifiable analysis.

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A.Killough / CNN:
CNN Poll: Two-thirds of Republicans say minds are not made up

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Wall Street Journal:
Romney's Support Is Broader Than It Seems

Discussion: Pajamas Media, Washington Wire and The Daily Beast

Tim Mak / The Politico:
David Axelrod: Herman Cain not a serious contender

Discussion: ABCNEWS, Weasel Zippers and Don Surber

Geneva Sands-Sadowitz / The Hill:
Trump didn't know he was in Bachmann town hall ‘till you told me’

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Larry O'Connor / Big Government:

White House Denies **Was President Obama Really Sitting in Front of an Assembly Line in this Video? — UPDATE: The White House has responded to our inquiry and they deny that this week's weekly address video was shot in front of a green screen. They also explained that the production line …

Discussion: Pajamas Media and Little Green Footballs

Julian Pecquet / The Hill:

Obama opposes repeal of healthcare program suspended last week — President Obama is against repealing the health law's long-term care CLASS Act and might veto Republican efforts to do so, an administration official tells The Hill, despite the government's announcement Friday that the program was dead in the water.

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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
New healthcare fight is joined as administration's 2010 law implodes

Discussion: The Politico

Richard Wolf / USA Today:
White House insists Obama's next bus tour isn't political

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Frank Newport / Gallup:

Record-High 50% of Americans Favor Legalizing Marijuana Use — Liberals and those 18 to 29 most in favor; Americans 65 and older most opposed — PRINCETON, NJ — A record-high 50% of Americans now say the use of marijuana should be made legal, up from 46% last year.

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John Hinderaker / Power Line:

“Christopher Columbus Was the First Zionist” — Someone leaked a batch of emails that have been exchanged by leaders of the Occupy Wall Street group. I've only dipped into them briefly, but some are pretty entertaining. This thread reminded me of my days as a leftist …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers

Bill Keller / New York Times:

Good News! No, Really! — Bored by the soggy sleep-ins and warmed-over anarchism of Occupy Wall Street? Fed up (Fed Up!) with the presidential Race to the Bottom? Depressed by the warning signs of the next Depression? — I bring relief. Like Nurse Jackie scavenging in the medicine chest …

Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
What are those OWS people so angry about?

Discussion: Angry Bear, Grasping Reality …, Balloon Juice and Washington Monthly

Michael Muskal / Los Angeles Times:

Hillary Clinton again says she won't run for president in 2016 — (Michael Loccisano / Getty Images / October 14, 2011) — Hillary Rodham Clinton, the woman seemingly born to become the first female president of the United States, on Monday again ruled out a race for the top office in 2016 …

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Taegan Goddard's … and Truthdig

Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress:

Santorum: Saturday Night Live Is ‘Bullying’ Me ‘For Standing Up For The Traditional Family’ — Everyone is out to get GOP presidential field-filler Rick Santorum. The candidate recently blamed Google for his “Google Problem,” blasting the company for discriminating against him because he's a conservative.

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire and Alan Colmes' Liberaland

Justin Sink / The Hill:
Santorum calls SNL sketch ‘bullying’

Discussion: Rumproast, US Politics and Gay Politics

Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:

Herman Cain Claimed That A ‘Liberal Court’ Killed Jesus — Herman Cain Thinks This Guy Was The Ruth Bader Ginsburg Of His Era — Daily Kos's bernardpliers recalls a Herman Cain column from December 2010 where the GOP presidential primary candidate appears to complain that Jesus was killed by liberals.

Discussion: Booman Tribune, Daily Kos and Alan Colmes' Liberaland

RealClearPolitics Video Log:

Obama: GOP Wants “Dirtier Air, Dirtier Water, Less People With Health Insurance” — “My plan says we're going to put teachers back in the classrooms, construction workers back to work,” President Obama said at a campaign event today. “Tax cuts for small businesses, tax cuts for hiring veterans …

Discussion: Townhall.com, Pat Dollard, The Gateway Pundit, Sense of Events, Pajamas Media, Pundit & Pundette and The Lonely Conservative

Lori Preuitt / NBC Bay Area:

Iran Hikers Show Support for Occupy Movement — Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal spoke in Oakland Monday. — From left, Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal, the three University of California at Berkeley graduates who were imprisoned in Iran on espionage charges, speak at an “Occupy Oakland” rally.

Discussion: Pat Dollard and Weasel Zippers