memeorandum: Weird Smoking Ad Boosts Cain's Cash Haul (Neil King Jr/Washington Wire)

11:05 PM ET, October 28, 2011

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Caitlin E. Curran / Gawker:

How Occupy Wall Street Cost Me My Job — Joining the Occupy Wall Street protests has its dangers. You could get pepper-sprayed or end up in handcuffs. Or, as Brooklyn-based journalist Caitlin Curran explains, your boss could see a photo of you holding up a sign at a protest and fire you the next day.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Business Insider, Gothamist, TBogg, Boing Boing and Politics & Elections Blog, more at Mediagazer »

John Hinderaker / Power Line:

Occupy Wall St. Sanctioned for Public Masturbation — The Occupiers aren't a political movement, they are a crime wave! It started with sexual assault, drug dealing, rioting and attacks on police officers. Now Occupy Madison has been denied a permit because of a history of public masturbation:

Discussion: Boston Globe

myfoxny.com:

Fox 5 News Reporter Assaulted At OWS — MYFOXNY.COM - A protester, angered by the presence of a news crew inside Zuccotti Park Friday morning, threatened to stab Fox 5 News reporter John Huddy. — What has been an otherwise violence-free period during his six weeks covering …

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Doug Stanglin / USA Today:

Report: Fights erupt among Occupy Wall Street protesters — Fights are erupting among Occupy Wall Street protesters, so much so that one corner of Zuccotti Park has emerged where protesters say they won't go for fear of their safety, the New York Daily News is reporting.

NY Daily News:
Occupy Wall St. gets dangerous; NYPD threatens to sue rowdy demonstrators who initiate violence

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and City Room

Marjorie Connelly / The Caucus:
Occupy Protesters Down on Obama, Survey Finds

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, National Review and Business Insider

Christina Boyle / NY Daily News:
Occupy Wall Street protesters stripped of their power, literally, by fire department and NYPD

Discussion: City Room, The Crawdad Hole, New York Magazine, Washington Post, Wake up America, The Powers That Be, Runnin' Scared and Big Government

Neil King Jr / Washington Wire:

Weird Smoking Ad Boosts Cain's Cash Haul — Does smoking sell? It appears to, if you're the Herman Cain campaign. — Mr. Cain's camp, as of the latest tally Friday morning, says the former Godfather's Pizza CEO has pulled in nearly $5 million in donations - earlier reported as $3 million …

Discussion: The Lonely Conservative and The Hill

A.Killough / CNN:

Huntsman daughters spoof Cain's smoking ad — (CNN) - Earlier this week Herman Cain said Americans need a sense of humor, and on Friday, a few people took his words to heart: Jon Huntsman's daughters. — Responding to Cain's controversial web ad -where his chief-of-staff, Mark Block …

Discussion: Fox News, Gawker and The Raw Story

Robert Costa / National Review:

Cain Goes Big — Mark Block and Linda Hansen, Herman Cain's senior advisers, tell National Review Online that Cain will soon hold a series of “major town-hall meetings” in early primary states. — They predict that packing school auditoriums and conference halls with supporters will enable Cain …

Discussion: CNN, Daily Kos, GOP 12 and Business Insider

Justin Sink / The Hill:
Report uncovers DUI arrests, campaign suspension on Cain chief of staff

Discussion: The PJ Tatler, Ed Driscoll and 2012 Decoded

Associated Press:
Top Cain aide has checkered past

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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:

Huntsman: Romney's a ‘perfectly lubricated weather vane’ — (CNN) - Jon Huntsman unleashed new attack lines on two of his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination Friday. — The former Utah governor called Mitt Romney a “perfectly lubricated weather vane” and Herman Cain …

Discussion: Hot Air, The Reaction, Washington Monthly, GOP 12 and Balloon Juice

Brad Johnson / ThinkProgress:

Romney Flips To Denial: 'We Don't Know What's Causing Climate Change' — Speaking at the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney reversed his earlier stance on climate change pollution and rejected man-made global warming.

Discussion: The Politico, The Hill, New Hampshire Primary 2012, Swampland, National Review, Washington Wire, The Caucus, The Raw Story, Political Mojo, Mediaite, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Washington Monthly and Daily Kos

Lisa Riley Roche / Deseret News:
Jon Huntsman Sr. says voters just need to get to know his son

Discussion: The Hill, Guardian, New York Magazine and Swampland

Alexander Burns / The Politico:

George Will column on Mitt Romney: ‘Has conservatism come so far ... for THIS?’ — Playbook has a sneak peek at George F. Will's Sunday column, which fires a shot through the growing GOP establishment consensus that Mitt Romney would be an acceptable, electable nominee:

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Pat Grossmith / unionleader.com:

Woman charged with pimping teen recruited at Occupy NH rally — MANCHESTER - A city woman is accused of pimping a 16-year-old girl she met in Victory Park during the Occupy NH demonstrations. — Justina Jensen, 23, of 341 Hanover St., is charged with felony prostitution.

Discussion: The Jawa Report, OWS Exposed, Big Government, nation.foxnews.com and JammieWearingFool

cbpp.org:

Democrats Offer Significant Concessions — Plan Is to the Right of Bowles-Simpson and Gang of Six — The new deficit-reduction plan from a majority of Democrats on the congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (the “supercommittee") marks a dramatic departure …

Discussion: Washington Post, The New Republic, ThinkProgress, Daily Kos and Grasping Reality …

David Dayen / Firedoglake:
CBPP Destroys Catfood Commission Dems' Plan for Deficit Reduction

Discussion: Hullabaloo and Off the Charts Blog

Roger Simon / The Politico:

Exclusive: Bill Daley, unplugged — It is a sunny day at the White House with bright light streaming through the gauzy curtains that cover the patio doors and many windows of Bill Daley's corner office in the West Wing. And so I try to find some underlying gloom.

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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
White House stands by chief of staff's remarks

Discussion: The Politico and Business Insider

Darren Samuelsohn / The Politico:
House panel set to subpoena W.H. for Solyndra docs

Discussion: The PJ Tatler, Daily Kos and CNN

Adam Gabbatt / Guardian:

Scott Olsen ‘cannot talk’ after injury at Occupy Oakland protest — Iraq war veteran is believed to have sustained damage to speech centre of his brain in injury at Occupy protest on Tuesday — Scott Olsen, the Iraq war veteran who was seriously injured by a police projectile during a protest in Oakland …

Discussion: The Raw Story

Morgen / Verum Serum:
Iraq War Veteran Injured at OWS Oakland Founder of IHateTheMarineCorps.com

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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Good Grief... Leftie Hero Scott Olsen Is Founder of “I Hate the Marines Corps.com” & Is a Jew-Basher (Updated)

Discussion: Pat Dollard and This ain't Hell …

Aurelius / Pundit Press:

Occupy Madison Loses Permit Because Protesters were “Publicly Masturbating” — Once again, I feel the need to point out that members of the Tea Party never did anything like this. — Occupy Madison has temporarily been denied an extension in their protesting permit because members of the movement violated …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Hullabaloo

Reuters:

Bank of America revamping debit card fees — (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp, after receiving heavy public criticism for a planned $5 per-month debit card fee, is likely to give customers more ways to avoid the fee, a person familiar with the bank's plans said Friday.

Robin Sidel / Wall Street Journal:
Big Banks Blink on New Card Fees

Discussion: msnbc.com, Crooks and Liars, The BLT and Gawker

Stephanie Condon / CBS News:

Google glitch suggests “Romney can't win” — It appears that Google's mysterious search algorithm has been making a suggestion that Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney may not appreciate. — When a Google user types the phrase “Romney can win” into the search engine …

Discussion: Mediaite, Weasel Zippers and Slate

Natasha Vargas-Cooper / The Awl:

The Night Occupy Los Angeles Tore Itself In Two — Around 8 p.m. on Wednesday night, the 300 people who have been occupying the lawn of Los Angeles City Hall for the past three weeks split themselves into two hostile camps. — Occupy LA's decision-making body, the General Assembly …

Discussion: The Raw Story

Mackenzie Weinger / The Politico:

IG admits: There were no $16 muffins — There will be no more huffin and puffin about that $16 muffin. — On Friday, the Department of Justice inspector general apologized for claiming in a recent report that taxpayers had paid $16 per muffin at a recent department conference.

Discussion: nation.foxnews.com and New York Magazine

Brian Wingfield / Bloomberg:

Boehner Demands $2 Billion for Ohio Plant After Solyndra — House Speaker John Boehner attacked the Obama administration for financing failed solar-panel maker Solyndra LLC, saying government shouldn't pick winners and losers. That hasn't stopped him from demanding that the U.S. make a winner …

Discussion: ThinkProgress and Daily Kos

Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:

Another Obama fundraiser is investor in car company that won federal loan — An investment firm whose vice chairman has been an adviser and fundraiser for President Obama saw one of its portfolio companies win approval this year for $50 million in loans from the administration's clean-energy loan program.

Discussion: Hot Air, The Lonely Conservative, OpenSecrets.org, Weasel Zippers and Say Anything