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Media Matters for America:
Rush Limbaugh Closes First Hour With Dead Air — Rush Limbaugh closed the first hour of his radio show on his flagship station, WABC, with 1:03 of dead air Monday. — From WABC's online feed of the final commercial break of the first hour: — While advertisers have fled Limbaugh's show since …
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Rush Scrubs ‘Slut’ Comment, Demand for Fluke Sex Tapes — RushLimbaugh.com appears to have removed parts of his radio transcripts from February 29 and March 1 in which he called Sandra Fluke a “slut” and demanded a sex tape as a thank you to taxpayers for subsidizing her birth control.
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Politico, Jezebel and The Impolitic
Bloomberg:
Limbaugh's AWOL Sponsors Open Way for Nonprofits
Limbaugh's AWOL Sponsors Open Way for Nonprofits
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Addicting Info, Riehl World View and US Politics
Amanda Peterson Beadle / ThinkProgress:
RushLimbaugh.com Removes Offensive Attacks On Sandra Fluke From Transcript Archives
RushLimbaugh.com Removes Offensive Attacks On Sandra Fluke From Transcript Archives
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Speakeasy, Angry Black Lady Chronicles, The American Way of Eating and Examiner
Pinecone / rebelpundit:
Was Soledad O'Brien Bailed Out by Producers on Critical Race Theory Definition? — CNN's Soledad O'Brien's venomously sarcastic interview with Breitbart.com editor-in-chief Joel Pollak culminated with her throwing out her definition of “Critical Race Theory” in the heat of her interview over the Obama/Bell Tapes released last night.
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Media Matters / Media Matters for America:
Rush Limbaugh's Advertisers, March 8 — At least 50 advertisers have reportedly dropped their ads from Rush Limbaugh's radio show in the wake of his misogynistic attacks on Sandra Fluke. — Here are his March 8 advertisers, in the order they appeared on WABC, the flagship station for Limbaugh's show.
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Ben Geman / The Hill:
Senate rejects GOP measure to construct Keystone pipeline, 56-42 — The Senate has rejected a GOP plan to approve construction of the Keystone oil pipeline after President Obama made personal calls to Democrats urging them to oppose it. — The 56-42 vote staves of an election-year rebuke of Obama …
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Michelle Malkin, Scared Monkeys and Politico
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Erica Martinsonand Dan Berman / Politico:
Senate's Keystone message to W.H.
Senate's Keystone message to W.H.
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Taylor Marsh, Conservatives4Palin, The PJ Tatler, Weasel Zippers and Firedoglake
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Democrats Are Warming to Obama Connection
Democrats Are Warming to Obama Connection
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The Caucus, Prairie Weather and Truthdig
Simon Maloy / Media Matters for America:
It's Always A Conspiracy: Derrick Bell Edition — Yesterday, the Breitbart empire stepped up to the plate, called their shot, swung, missed, hit themselves in the face with the bat, then took a triumphant trot around the bases as spectators looked on with piteous and mocking wonder.
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Lachlan Markay / The Heritage Foundation:
Derrick A. Bell Visited the White House Twice in 2010
Derrick A. Bell Visited the White House Twice in 2010
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Charles C. Johnson / BREITBART.COM:
OBAMA FORCED HIS STUDENTS TO READ BELL AT UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL
OBAMA FORCED HIS STUDENTS TO READ BELL AT UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL
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Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
Mitt Romney's media charm offensive — BOSTON — It's the worst-kept secret of the 2012 campaign: The candidate who does the least public media-bashing — Mitt Romney — has the worst relationship of all with the press. — But as Romney seeks to nail down the GOP nomination and cement …
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Media Decoder:
New Republic Gets an Owner Steeped in New Media — The newest owner of The New Republic magazine is Chris Hughes, a new-media guru who co-founded Facebook and helped to run the online organizing machine for Barack Obama's presidential campaign. — Mr. Hughes's purchase of a majority stake …
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BuzzFeed:
Romney Calls Southern Primaries “An Away Game” — Lowering expectations for a rough stretch, he tells an Alabama radio station he hopes to pick up delegates in Birmingham — even if he can't win the state. — Mitt Romney admitted Thursday that he might not be the most natural fit …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Gallup: Unemployment now up over 9% — The Bureau of Labor Statistics will release the official unemployment report for the month of February, but we have two previews this week to use as a gauge. First, the ADP report predicts a net growth of 216,000 jobs in the private sector …
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The Gallup Organization / Gallup:
U.S. Unemployment Up in February
U.S. Unemployment Up in February
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Scared Monkeys, msnbc.com, Calculated Risk, TheBlaze.com, Weasel Zippers, AMERICAN DIGEST and The PJ Tatler
Ezra Klein:
How a $1,000 test could destroy the health-insurance industry — The New York Times reports that the cost of sequencing an individual genome will soon be less than $1,000. That's not nothing, but given what most health care costs, it's not much. And it means that an individual mandate — or something much like it — is inevitable.
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National Review, Outside the Beltway, Via Meadia and New York Times
Yahoo! News:
Ron Paul's pointless Internet presidency — Ron Paul has about as many votes in this year's GOP primaries as he has Facebook fans - is his fierce online following that much less relevant than it appears? — Four years ago, the shrewdest presidential candidates used YouTube, MySpace, Facebook and a dash of Twitter.
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BuzzFeed and National Review
John McCain / CNN:
‘Game Change’ actors dish on Palin, portrayals and politics — Washington (CNN) - Actress Julianne Moore, who portrays former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in the HBO movie “Game Change,” said she was surprised to learn how disorganized the McCain-Palin campaign was in 2008.
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Politico
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
The Unchained Woman — What used to be a normal family life is now available only to the affluent. — Susanna Mancini, a 27-year-old lawyer, sent her boyfriend a photo of herself wearing a swimsuit and sunglasses. “Too bad you can't see my eyes,” she wrote him. “I am so proud of my tough yuppie stare!”
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Washington Monthly, The New Republic and Runnin' Scared
Shlomo Shamir / Haaretz:
UN women's rights panel due to culminate annual session by condemning Israel — Israel's envoy to UN Prosor bemoans Commission on the Status of Women ‘obsessive’ preoccupation with Palestinian issue, while ignoring women being ‘butchered, tortured, raped’ in Syria. — Get Haaretz on iPhone
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Weasel Zippers, Israel Matzav and Atlas Shrugs
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Ignorance Is Strength — One way in which Americans have always been exceptional has been in our support for education. First we took the lead in universal primary education; then the “high school movement” made us the first nation to embrace widespread secondary education.
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Prairie Weather
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Mitt: Pay for Your Own Damn College! — And get off my lawn while you're at it. — Earlier this week, a pretty interesting and telling exchange took place at a Mitt Romney town hall meeting. A student asked Romney what he would do to make college more affordable for students who struggle to pay for it.
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Zandar Versus The Stupid and Washington Monthly
Wall Street Journal:
MF Global Still Set to Pay Bonuses — Executives Helping Trustee in Wake of Firm's Collapse Could Get Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars — Three top executives of MF Global Holdings Ltd. when it collapsed could get bonuses of as much as several hundred thousand dollars each under a plan …
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Pat Robertson Says Marijuana Use Should be Legal — Of the many roles Pat Robertson has assumed over his five-decade-long career as an evangelical leader — including presidential candidate and provocative voice of the right wing — his newest guise may perhaps surprise his followers the most: marijuana legalization advocate.
Rusty Weiss / Accuracy in Media:
Scandal at The Washington Post: Fraud, Lobbying & Insider Trading — In the summer of 2010, business columnist for The Washington Post Steven Pearlstein lifted the veil on the little-known company operating procedure that involves an incestuous relationship between his own employer …
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The Other McCain
Philip Pullella / Reuters:
U.S. adds Vatican to money-laundering ‘concern’ list — (Reuters) - The Vatican has for the first time appeared on the State Department's list of money-laundering centers but the tiny city-state is not rated as a high-risk country. — The 2012 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report …
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