memeorandum: Tennessee Primary: Santorum 34%, Romney 30%, Gingrich 18%, Paul 8% (Rasmussen Reports)

3:50 AM ET, March 5, 2012

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I've spent the past 2 days trying to convince my 16 y/o she is not a “slut” **Updated x 3 — I can hardly type, can hardly put this into words! I have been writing and rewriting this because if I don't break down in tears, I get so angry that I can't think straight!

Discussion: Hullabaloo, Balloon Juice, Addicting Info and The Reality-Based Community

Tali Arbel / Associated Press:

A 7th advertiser pulls out of Limbaugh's show — NEW YORK (AP) — A flower company is the seventh advertiser to pull its ads from conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh's radio program in reaction to his derogatory comments about a law student who testified about birth control policy.

Discussion: The Mahablog and Alan Colmes' Liberaland

Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs:

Pamela Geller Spews Hatred at Sandra Fluke: ‘Banging It Five Times a Day’ — Rush Limbaugh may have “apologized” (disclaimer: not a real apology) for his caveman comments about Sandra Fluke, but the right wing blogosphere continues to spew torrents of venom at her.

Discussion: The Right Sphere, Balloon Juice, The Moderate Voice and The Raw Story

Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs:

Slutgate: Contact Carbonite — Drop Ed Schultz UPDATE: 7 Companies to Boycott — A 30-year-old poses as a 23-year-old, chooses a Catholic University to attend at $65,000 per year, and cannot afford ALL the birth control pills she needs... so she wants the US taxpayers to pay for her rampant sexual activity.

Discussion: Riehl World View, The Lonely Conservative, iOwnTheWorld.com, RedState, The PJ Tatler and Wake up America

ABCNEWS:

George Will: Republican Leaders Are Afraid of Rush Limbaugh — Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh has been inundated with criticism after calling Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown University student who testified before a House committee about contraception, a “slut” and a “prostitute.”

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Daily Kos, The Last Tradition and Outside the Beltway

William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:

Make an example of Carbonite (Update: ProFlowers joins Rush boycott) — Liberal groups have seized on a strategy I didn't think would be effective, but has had some success, to go after advertisers of prominent conservative media personalities. — Media Matters explicitly seeks to bring …

Discussion: Doug Ross, 24Ahead, The Last Tradition, Rumproast and NewsBusters.org

Kirsten Powers / The Daily Beast:

Rush Limbaugh Isn't the Only Media Misogynist — Rush Limbaugh apologized on Saturday for calling a Georgetown Law student a slut for testifying about contraception and starting a firestorm of outrage. Kirsten Powers says the liberals who led the charge need to start holding their own side accountable.

Discussion: The Other McCain, NewsBusters.org, USA Today, Instapundit, American Spectator, Wake up America, Sky Dancing, The Daily Caller, NO QUARTER and Mediaite

Will Dunham / Reuters: Ron Paul unimpressed with Limbaugh apology

Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Gingrich Scolds Gregory and Media for Making Limbaugh ‘The Great National Crisis of This Week’

Discussion: Mediaite, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Have You No Shame, Rush? — AS a woman who has been viciously slashed …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Connecting.the.Dots, Angry Bear, The Last Tradition, The Moderate Voice, Washington Post, The Other McCain, Althouse and Daily Kos

Andrew Breitbart / BREITBART.COM:

THE VETTING, PART I: BARACK'S LOVE SONG TO ALINSKY — Prior to his passing, Andrew Breitbart said that the mission of the Breitbart empire was to exemplify the free and fearless press that our Constitution protects—but which, increasingly, the mainstream media denies us. — “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”

Discussion: Belmont Club, TBogg, The Jawa Report, The Daily Caller, Conservatives4Palin and his vorpal sword

Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs:

Everything Is Different Now - the Breitbartocalypse Is Upon Us — Before his death, Andrew Breitbart had been promising a true BOMBSHELL revelation about Barack Obama, a STUNNER that would finally put an end to Obama's reign of terror. Some whispered darkly that this may have been the reason …

Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:

Eric Cantor Compares Contraceptive Mandate to Kosher Food — I think the Republicans know they overreached this time with the contraceptive debate and the Blunt Amendment. But being a Republican means never having to say you're sorry. You obfuscate, you reframe the debate into something …

Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Eric Cantor endorses Romney for president

Discussion: Politico

Reuters:
Romney catches Santorum in Ohio dead heat: Reuters/Ipsos poll

Discussion: Presidential Power, Politico, CNN, The Reaction, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Scared Monkeys, Ballot Box, msnbc.com, ABCNEWS and The Moderate Voice

Mark Murray / msnbc.com:

NBC/WSJ poll: Primary season takes ‘corrosive’ toll on GOP and its candidates — As another round of voting takes place this week in the Republican presidential race - with 11 states holding Super Tuesday contests - a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows that the combative …

Discussion: Taegan Goddard's … and National Confidential

Marc Israel Sellem / Jerusalem Post:

Likud politicians mock Obama AIPAC speech — Labor's Yacimovich calls the speech “unquestionably pro-Israel”; Livni blames Netanyahu for tensions. — Israeli reactions to US President Barack Obama's speech at the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington on Sunday were divided along party lines.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers

Philip Klein / Campaign 2012:
TEXT: Obama's remarks to AIPAC

Discussion: Commentary, New York Times, The Daily Dish, americanthinker.com, Politico, Guardian, Maggie's Farm, American Spectator, Israel Matzav, The Agonist and The Spectacle Blog

Rasmussen Reports:

Tennessee Primary: Santorum 34%, Romney 30%, Gingrich 18%, Paul 8% — Just two days before Super Tuesday, the Republican primary race in Tennessee has become a two-man competition between Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. The first Rasmussen Reports survey of Likely GOP Primary Voters …

Discussion: PJ Media and Ballot Box

Marist Poll:
3/4: Santorum and Romney Neck and Neck in Ohio

Discussion: Sky Dancing, Hot Air, Politico, The Last Tradition, Hotline On Call, Washington Post, The Page, The Lonely Conservative and Fox News

Marjorie Connelly / The Caucus:
Romney and Santorum Tie in Ohio Poll

Discussion: Marist Poll and Scared Monkeys

Associated Press:

Australian state toughens law for Muslim veils — CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Muslim women in Australia's most populous state will have to remove veils to have their signatures officially witnessed under the latest laws giving New South Wales officials authority to look under religious face coverings.

Discussion: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and Jihad Watch

David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:

Putin Wins Presidency, but Opposition Keeps Pressure — MOSCOW — Russian voters overwhelmingly granted Vladimir V. Putin a six-year term as president on Sunday, a widely expected outcome that set the stage for a far more suspenseful post-election confrontation between the freshly emboldened leader …

Discussion: Outside the Beltway

Washington Post: Vladimir Putin appears set for reelection as Russian president; opponents claim widespread fraud

Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:

Santorum backs nullifying existing gay marriages — There are 18,000 married gay and lesbian couples in California and at least 131,000 nationwide according to the 2010 census, conducted before New York state legalized same-sex marriage in July. — Rick Santorum says he'll try to unmarry all of them if he's elected president.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, The Daily What and Joe. My. God.