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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Perry implodes; Update: Campaign is over, says top fundraiser — Via Business Insider. A few choice quotes. Larry Sabato: … Rich Lowry: … Mona Charen: … He's down to 4.9 percent now on InTrade; before the debate he was at 9.3 percent.
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Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Rick Perry crashes, Cain cheered at GOP debate — ROCHESTER, Mich. - The Rick Perry comeback hit a potentially disastrous snag Wednesday night, as the Texas governor again froze on the debate stage — this time, while attempting to list three federal agencies he'd eliminate as president.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
The ‘oops’ heard 'round the world — Some debate screw-ups are so memorable, they practically become iconic. Gerald Ford claiming there was “no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe,” Dan Quayle comparing himself to JFK, and James Stockdale asking who he is and what he's doing there were all pretty unforgettable.
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Ford. Quayle. Stockdale. Now, Poor Rick Perry — In the long annals of presidential-campaign debating, there had until this evening been three famous-disaster moments: — 1) 1976, Gerald Ford and Poland. This one wasn't quite fair. Ford was trying to make a reasonable point …
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Most Brutal Debate Video and Tweets Ever — Full report on CNBC debate here. The only part that will be remembered is Rick Perry's freeze on stage. He was having a reasonable debate until that point. I feel sorry for him. One freeze on stage should not end a campaign …
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ABCNEWS:
Rick Perry on His ‘Oops’: There's No ‘Perfect Candidate’ — Texas Governor Rick Perry hit the airwaves this morning to try to recover from a performance that one presidential scholar deemed “the most devastating” of any primary debate. — “The bottom line is that we're going to get up every …
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The Politico:
Romney rivals continue to implode
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Zeke Miller / Business Insider:
PERRY DEBATE DISASTER: This Is The Moment That Officially Killed His Campaign — For Good
Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
Debate crowd cheers Cain in face of sexual harassment claims
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Nate Schweber / New York Times:
Penn State Students Clash With Police in Unrest After Announcement — STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — After top Penn State officials announced that they had fired Joe Paterno on Wednesday night, thousands of students stormed the downtown area to display their anger and frustration, chanting the former coach's name …
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The Atlantic Online, Althouse, Gothamist, Gawker, The Daily Dish, CBS Chicago, Rod Dreher and Balloon Juice
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Mark Viera / New York Times:
Penn State Coach Joe Paterno Is Fired — STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Graham B. Spanier, one of the longest-serving and highest-paid university presidents in the nation, who has helped raise the academic profile of Penn State during his tenure, stepped down Wednesday night in the wake …
ESPN:
Joe Paterno, Graham Spanier out — Both football coach Joe Paterno and president Graham Spanier are out at Penn State in the wake of a disturbing child sex abuse scandal involving a former assistant coach. — Paterno said in a statement Wednesday he would retire after the season …
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CBS News:
Paterno fired over Penn St. child abuse scandal
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Sports Illustrated:
The Penn State scandal echoes a hockey horror
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Rod Dreher, Salon.com, The Huffington Post and Ed Driscoll
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Personal Foul at Penn State
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ThinkProgress, ESPN, PennLive.com, American Spectator, Booman Tribune, Mediaite, Don Surber and Althouse
Mike Paluska / CBS Atlanta 46:
Investigator: Herman Cain innocent of sexual advances — Private investigator TJ Ward said presidential hopeful Herman Cain was not lying at a news conference on Tuesday in Phoenix. — Cain denied making any sexual actions towards Sharon Bialek and vowed to take a polygraph test if necessary to prove his innocence.
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Herman Cain PAC, Doug Ross and PoliPundit.com
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Anti-Cain hoax exposed — Yesterday I saw a lengthy thread at Memeorandum about a “HermanCainPAC” website which had a large cover story calling Karen Kraushaar an “ugly bitch.” Here's the screenshot: — The website looked real, with a donate page and so on.
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Ann Coulter / Official:
DAVID AXELROD'S PATTERN OF SEXUAL MISBEHAVIOR
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The Other McCain, American Spectator, Herman Cain PAC and Chicago Tribune
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Cain chief of staff under fire
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Washington Times, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, The Political Carnival and Riehl World View
The Page:
CNBC's “Your Money, Your Vote: The Republican Presidential Debate” Live from Oakland University in Rochester, MI ... BARTIROMO: And good evening, everyone. I'm Maria Bartiromo. — HARWOOD: I'm John Hardwood. — And welcome to CNBC's Republican Presidential Debate.
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Michigan Debate Fact Check
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Benjy Sarlin / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM SLIDESHOW: Meet The 2012 GOPers — Newt Gingrich
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Washington Monthly and Political Mojo
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
In the Perry camp, sad — A prominent Perry supporter emails: — Original Message— From: — Sent: Wed 11/9/2011 9:21 PM — To: Ben Smith — Subject: i'm sad — stuck a fork in himself — can't decide which is worse Dean scream or Perry oops — bourbon for me, i think
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Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
The Financial Folly of Fairness — When I was a young and naive economics writer, I used to write about developing countries a fair amount. Time and again they would make these bizarre and pointless moves, like suddenly and for no apparent reason defaulting on a bunch of debt.
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Questions and Observations, Paul Krugman, Political Mojo and Firedoglake
Quinnipiac University:
Obama, Romney Tied In Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll Finds; Cain, Romney Duel For Gop Lead In All Three States — One year before the presidential election, President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney are running neck and neck in Florida …
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GOP 12, The Strata-Sphere, The Politico, Naked Politics and Taegan Goddard's …
Stuart Tomlinson / Oregonian:
Police arrest man at Occupy Portland camp for throwing Molotov cocktail into stairwell at World Trade Center — A 29-year-old man was arrested this morning inside the Occupy Portland encampment, police said, on suspicion of throwing a Molotov cocktail onto a staircase at the World Trade Center last night.
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The Gateway Pundit and Jammie Wearing Fools
Craig Whitlockand Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
Remains of war dead dumped in landfill — The Dover Air Force Base mortuary for years disposed of some dead troops' body parts by burning them and dumping the ashes in a Virginia landfill, a practice that officials have since abandoned in favor of burying the remains at sea.
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Hot Air, ABCNEWS, Outside the Beltway, Pat Dollard, Mediaite and US Politics
The Politico:
Supercommittee Dems offer $350 billion in Medicare cuts — Supercommittee Democrats quietly floated details late Wednesday of a $2.3 trillion tax-and-cut proposal that includes $400 billion in Medicare and Medicaid reductions, but also clears the way for a new physician payment formula.
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Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
Google+ Is Dead — The search behemoth might not realize it yet, but its chance to compete with Facebook has come and gone. — Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt didn't post his first Google+ message until three months after it went live — AFP/Getty Images.
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Rod Dreher
Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
Reggie Love, Obama ‘body man,’ to leave White House by year's end — Reggie Love, a key member of the Obama entourage, is planning to leave the White House by the end of the year, people close to the administration said. — Love, 30, is a popular, gregarious figure in the White House.
Felicity Barringer / New York Times:
Parks Chief Blocked Plan for Grand Canyon Bottle Ban — Weary of plastic litter, Grand Canyon National Park officials were in the final stages of imposing a ban on the sale of disposable water bottles in the Grand Canyon late last year when the nation's parks chief abruptly blocked the plan …
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