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Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM:
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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Andrew Golis / PBS:
The Story Behind the Obama Law School Speech Video — The web is abuzz today about video of a speech Barack Obama gave in 1990 (some reports have incorrectly identified the speech as occurring in 1991) at Harvard Law School defending the actions of Professor Derrick Bell.
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
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
Joseph Williams / Politico:
1991 Obama video aired in 2008 — The “racially themed” video of President Barack Obama as a 29-year-old Harvard law student that's gone viral on the Web was broadcast as part of a PBS documentary on the future president nearly four years ago. — On the eve of the groundbreaking 2008 presidential election …
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Michelle Horstman / The PJ Tatler:
A Few Fun Facts About Professor Derrick Bell Jr. — Today's Breitbart.com has announced a video to be released, showing Harvard law student Barack Obama defending Professor Derrick Bell Jr. in a protest. According to Breitbart.com, the original video has been heavily edited and more will be shown on Hannity tonight.
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Doug Ross, protein wisdom, The Gateway Pundit, BREITBART.COM and Ed Driscoll
Brett Smiley / New York Magazine:
Breitbart's Obama Video Is a Total Dud — That movie stunk. — Breitbart.com's explosive, blockbuster video that would expose Barack Obama as a radical commie who wasn't vetted by the media was almost entirely hype. — Breitbart.com's Editor-in-Chief Joel Pollak and Editor …
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Amy Bingham / ABCNEWS:
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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Rush Limbaugh:
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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Adam Clark Estes / The Atlantic Wire:
Rush Limbaugh's Latest Verbal Victim Feels Derided, Dismissed
Rush Limbaugh's Latest Verbal Victim Feels Derided, Dismissed
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
The ‘Respectable’ Punditocracy Joins The Rush Party
The ‘Respectable’ Punditocracy Joins The Rush Party
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Bill Maher Defends Rush Limbaugh
Bill Maher Defends Rush Limbaugh
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Party of Hate — Millions of Americans voted for Barack Obama in the hope that he would be a trailblazer who would conduct the presidency in a new way. Well, he has: Obama has been the most divisive president in our modern history, unabashedly stirring up hate against not only his political enemies …
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Neil Munro / The Daily Caller:
Democrats sign Bill Maher for fundraiser as Obama urges civility
Democrats sign Bill Maher for fundraiser as Obama urges civility
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Townhall.com, The Last Tradition, Weasel Zippers, Nice Deb, The PJ Tatler, The Right Scoop, Hot Air and Jezebel
TSA Out of Our Pants!:
$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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Blogger Bob / The TSA Blog:
Viral Video About Body Scanners
Viral Video About Body Scanners
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Guardian, Hot Air and Campaign 2012
Zandar / Angry Black Lady Chronicles:
Won't Be Long Now, Folks! — And the odds that we'll get to somebody dropping the ni-CLANG word on President Obama took a really big step forward today, along with bonus misogyny to boot. They say a picture's worth a thousands words, and judging from the latest Mike Lester political cartoon from the Rome …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Zandar Versus The Stupid
Daniel McCarthy / The American Conservative:
Missing Kucinich — America has reached the point where its politics are conformist and polarized at the same time. That's maybe not such a paradox: when there's little substantive disagreement between the party of Obamacare and the party of Romneycare, the party of foreign intervention …
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Stephanie Condon / CBS News:
Dennis Kucinich concedes defeat to Marcy Kaptur in Ohio Democratic primary
Dennis Kucinich concedes defeat to Marcy Kaptur in Ohio Democratic primary
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Alex Isenstadt / Reuters:
‘Joe the Plumber’ wins Ohio Republican congressional primary bid
‘Joe the Plumber’ wins Ohio Republican congressional primary bid
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msnbc.com:
Romney campaign says losing nomination would take ‘act of God’ — By NBC's Garrett Haake and Jamie Novogrod — BOSTON — Mitt Romney's campaign gathered the national press corps in their campaign war room this morning to deliver a simple message: It would take an “act of God” …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Gingrich spokesman: Alabama and Mississippi are must-wins
Gingrich spokesman: Alabama and Mississippi are must-wins
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Ben Smith / Politico:
Ohio boosts Portman as VP choice
Ohio boosts Portman as VP choice
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Reid J. Epstein / Reuters:
Mitt Romney fights back with math
Mitt Romney fights back with math
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Eric Kleefeld / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012 — Bachmann: ‘Health Care Dictator’ Could Decide How Many Babies You Can Have — Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is warning that the Obama administration's contraception insurance mandate could put America on a slippery slope — to a totalitarian one-child policy.
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Scott Baker / TheBlaze.com:
BACHMANN WARNS: FEDS COULD USE BUDGET TO LIMIT NUMBER OF BABIES BORN PER FAMILY
BACHMANN WARNS: FEDS COULD USE BUDGET TO LIMIT NUMBER OF BABIES BORN PER FAMILY
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Bachmann warns healthcare reform law could be used to limit family birth rates
Bachmann warns healthcare reform law could be used to limit family birth rates
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David Batty / Guardian:
Massive solar storm heading for Earth — Airlines and energy suppliers are on alert as the largest solar storm in five years threatens to disrupt flights and power lines — Airlines and energy suppliers are on alert as the largest solar storm in five years heads toward Earth, threatening to disrupt flights and power lines.
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New York Post:
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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Joshua Keating / FP Passport:
Guest post: Joseph Kony is not in Uganda (and other complicated things) — Thanks to an incredibly effective social media effort, #StopKony is trending on Twitter today. The campaign coincides with a new awareness-raising documentary by the group Invisible Children.
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Washington Post, Visible Children, New York Magazine and Boing Boing
Adam Kealoha Causey / Florida Times Union:
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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National Review:
Conspiracy, Again — As Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio beclowns himself and his wayward admirers, it is worth bearing in mind that the manufactured controversy surrounding President Barack Obama's birth certificate has its origins in anonymous e-mails sent by Hillary Clinton partisans during the 2008 Democratic primary.
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BBC:
Afghan concern over ‘guidelines for women’ — MP Fawzia Koofi says that the religious council ruling is the beginning of “a process of Talibanisation” in Afghanistan — Afghanistan's top religious council has said women should not mix with men in school, work or other aspects of daily life.
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