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THE VETTING: BEN SMITH RELEASES SELECTIVELY EDITED OBAMA RACE VIDEO — Earlier today, Buzzfeed's Ben Smith announced on Twitter that video researcher Andrew Kaczynski had released “the mysterious Harvard/Obama/race video that the Breitbart folks have been talking about.”
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Little Green Footballs, The Daily Caller, his vorpal sword, No More Mister Nice Blog, Don Surber, The PJ Tatler, Ed Driscoll, Nice Deb, Mediaite, The Spectacle Blog, Rumproast, Wake up America, The Gateway Pundit, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Outside the Beltway, Atlas Shrugs, Weasel Zippers, The Lonely Conservative and American Spectator
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At Harvard, Obama Dived Into Diversity Fight — In this video, not previously available online but licensed by BuzzFeed from a Boston television station, the future president speaks at a 1991 campus protest organized to demand tenure for minority and female law professors. — Source: youtube.com
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Rush Limbaugh: Over 40 Advertisers Flee, Host Says 'Everything's Cool' — Talk show host Rush Limbaugh sought to reassure listeners Wednesday after the tally of local and national companies that have pulled their advertisements from his time slot topped 40, insisting that the show …
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Addicting Info, Tucson Citizen, Mediaite and Colorlines
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Clearing Up Misinformation on Our Sponsors — RUSH: I want to ask if you will indulge me for just a brief few minutes for some inside baseball stuff before we move on to our review of the issues of the day, politics and so forth, Super Tuesday, the results, and where we are.
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The Last Tradition, The Hill, Don Surber, msnbc.com, Hot Air and Campaign 2012
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Bill Maher Defends Rush Limbaugh — Last night on Twitter, Bill Maher defended Rush Limbaugh and attacked liberals for not accepting Limbaugh's apology after he spent three days relentlessly attacking law student Sandra Fluke. — Notably, Limbaugh only apologized for “two words,” after attacking Fluke dozens of times.
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The Daily Dish, Politico, The Daily Caller, Indecision Forever, Hot Air, Firedoglake and Examiner
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The insincere push to crush Rush — The people who want to drive Rush Limbaugh off the air aren't assuaged or persuaded by his apology over the weekend. They say he wasn't sincere: He only apologized for calling a Georgetown University law student a “slut” and a “prostitute” because of pressure from advertisers.
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No More Mister Nice Blog, The Moderate Voice and Balloon Juice
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Mitt Romney's Zombie Problem — The GOP front-runner's grabbing more of the delegates—but he's being pursued by living-dead competitors he can't vanquish. — Mitt Romney faces the fundamental problem confronted by all zombie hunters: How do you kill that which is dead already?
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BuzzFeed
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Republican Split Decision
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National Review, RedState, New York Post, Townhall.com, Reuters, GOP 12, Politico and Campaign 2012
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Mitt Romney fights back with math
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Politico, CNN, Washington Times, The Jane Dough, Wonkette and ABCNEWS
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Obama campaign says long GOP primary hurts president's fundraising
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Politico
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Romney campaign says losing nomination would take ‘act of God’
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Washington Monthly and Daily Kos
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Ohio boosts Portman as VP choice
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Hot Air, Washington Post, The New Republic and Guardian
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News Analysis: No Super Tuesday Knockout Punch
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Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, Mail Online, Sabato's Crystal Ball, Bloomberg, Washington Post, The Caucus, White House Dossier, Salon, CNN, Power Line, The Other McCain, The Huffington Post, Freedom Writing, BuzzFeed, Politico, Wall Street Journal, The Impolitic, ABCNEWS, Ballot Box, National Review, The Lonely Conservative, Don Surber, Connecting.the.Dots, Daily Kos, American Spectator, Fox News, The Moderate Voice, Shakesville, The Page and Sky Dancing
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Mitt's Glass Half Empty
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FiveThirtyEight, Reuters, The Enterprise Blog and TalkLeft
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No Clear Path To Victory For Romney
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New York Times, Wake up America and Politico
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Maine Miscellany —It looks like Maine voters will reverse their 2009 decision and legalize gay marriage in the state this fall. 54% think that gay marriage should be legal to only 41% who think it should be illegal. And when we asked about the issue using the exact language voters …
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Truth Wins Out
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Liberal darling Chellie Pingree won't run for Snowe's seat
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Hotline On Call
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Chellie Pingree Announces She Will Not Run For Retiring Senator Olympia Snowe's Seat
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The Maddow Blog
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Centrist Prom King: Angus is no Bernie
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Firedoglake and Washington Post
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$1B of TSA Nude Body Scanners Made Worthless By Blog — How Anyone Can Get Anything Past The Scanners — This video is here to demonstrate that the TSA's insistence that the nude body scanner program is effective and necessary is nothing but a fraud, just like their claims that the program is safe …
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Crooks and Liars, Brilliant at Breakfast, US Politics, Addicting Info, Mashable, Moonbattery and The Daily Caller
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‘Joe the Plumber’ wins Ohio Republican congressional primary bid — Yes, Marcy Kaptur blew out Dennis Kucinich, and Jean Schmidt unexpectedly lost her House seat to a challenger. — But one of the biggest — and most overlooked — surprises of Tuesday night was in a northeast Ohio Republican congressional primary.
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CNN, The PJ Tatler, Outside the Beltway, The Week, Politico, The Other McCain and Washington Wire
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Racial incident mars high school game — School district, students apologize — SAN ANTONIO - — A local school district is apologizing after an apparent incident of racism at a boys high school basketball game this past weekend. — When the final whistle blew Saturday …
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Bachmann warns healthcare reform law could be used to limit family birth rates — Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) suggested Tuesday that President Obama's health care reform law could give the government a dangerous amount of power in individual's health care decisions, going as far as to say …
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Politico
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BACHMANN WARNS: FEDS COULD USE BUDGET TO LIMIT NUMBER OF BABIES BORN PER FAMILY
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ThinkProgress and Mediaite
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Channel 4 booting anchorwoman Sue Simmons after 32 years — After more than three decades, WNBC/Channel 4 is tossing anchorwoman Sue Simmons overboard. — Last week, the station gave her the bad news that her contract would not be renewed — and come June, she's history.
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Gothamist, New York Times, Colorlines and Gawker, more at Mediagazer »
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Obama loses Dem primary in 15 Oklahoma counties — OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — President Barack Obama collected the most votes in the Oklahoma Democratic primary, but lost in 15 counties. — With 98 percent of precincts reporting Tuesday, Obama won 57 percent of the vote.
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Indecision Forever, ABCNEWS, Scared Monkeys, Wonkette, Wizbang, Weasel Zippers, Campaign 2012 and Clayton Cramer's Blog
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Clay clerk accuses U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns of trying to buy him out of race — GREEN COVE SPRINGS — Clay Clerk of Courts James Jett told a group of Republicans today the FBI is looking into Rep. Cliff Stearns for what Jett said is a plot to buy him out of this fall's congressional primary.
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Politico, ThinkProgress, ABCNEWS, The Hill and Hotline On Call
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TPMDC — Senate Republicans Backing Off Contraception Wars — From one top GOP senator openly lamenting the fallout of the ongoing fight over contraception, to the author of the controversial legislation at the heart of that fight effectively conceding defeat in the upper chamber …
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Firedoglake, Ezra Klein, pandagon.net, The Loyal Opposition and The Maddow Blog
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A Remarkable Man Has Stepped Into the Clearing; Captain Carroll LeFon USN (Ret.) 1960-2012 — As the sun's rays broke over the top of the eastern hills this morning, the military blogging community was coming to grips with the loss of a truly remarkable man.
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The PJ Tatler, Outside the Beltway, Questions and Observations and RedState
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Apple next-generation iPad liveblog! — March 7, 2012. Hard to say if it's a day that'll live long in terms of historical significance, but you can bet it'll be an important milestone in the history of Apple's iPad family. The next iPad (iPad 3? iPad HD? iPad 2S?) is due to be unveiled …
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TPM Idea Lab and Vodkapundit
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It Ain't Over — Out here, in the dark quiet of the winter suburban night, it's startling to hear the harsh sounds piercing through the cold air from the direction of Washington, D.C. It takes a while to recognize the sound as the gnashing of thousands of D.C. GOP power brokers' teeth.