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Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
Rush Limbaugh's show targets jerks, judging from the latest ads — Advertisers learned something about Rush Limbaugh's demographic this week. — “Here we thought lots of pleasant, upstanding people were listening to and enjoying the rational things Rush had to say,” dozens of companies said.
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ThinkProgress, Rush Limbaugh, American Spectator, The Daily Caller, The Moderate Voice, News One, OhioDaily and Daily Kos
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Armed Forces Chairman Levin wants Limbaugh dropped from military radio — The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Wednesday that he would “love” to see controversial conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh dropped from the Armed Forces Network.
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Jammie Wearing Fools, Weasel Zippers and Outside the Beltway
Gloria Goodale / Christian Science Monitor:
For Rush Limbaugh advertisers, backlash could hit hard in social media age
For Rush Limbaugh advertisers, backlash could hit hard in social media age
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The Moderate Voice and The Reaction
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Rep. Bachmann calls outrage over Limbaugh ‘overkill’
Rep. Bachmann calls outrage over Limbaugh ‘overkill’
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Politico and Rush Limbaugh
Gene Weingarten / Live Q&A's:
Conversations / Live Q&A — Chatological Humor: Why 'fair comment …
Conversations / Live Q&A — Chatological Humor: Why 'fair comment …
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Balloon Juice, The Daily Dish, Southern Beale and The Mahablog
George Talbot / Breaking News from the Press-Register:
New poll shows Rick Santorum leading in Alabama GOP primary — A new poll released on the eve of Rick Santorum's first campaign visit to Alabama shows the former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania leading in the state Republican Party presidential primary. — The statewide poll conducted …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
How Would Santorum Do Without Gingrich? — One of the reasons to be skeptical that Rick Santorum could win the Republican nomination is that we now have a pretty good idea of how the vote will play out from state to state — and the coalition that he is building seems short of a majority.
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Daily Kos, Politico, The Other McCain, ABCNEWS, The Daily Dish, The Hill and CNN
Danny Yadron / Washington Wire:
Gingrich Takes a Break — JACKSON, Miss. — It was a long day on the campaign trail Wednesday, and Newt Gingrich ended it here with a drink and more than an hour of dancing to a two-piece cover band at a hotel bar. … There was The Beatles' “All My Loving,” “September,” by Earth Wind & Fire …
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Washington Monthly, The Hill, Washington Post, msnbc.com and GOP 12
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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Washington Monthly, Colorlines, Althouse, BuzzFeed, The POH Diaries, TBogg, Doug Ross, Business Insider and Mediaite
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: CNN beclowns itself painting Breitbart editor-in-chief as racist — Soledad O'Brien and her CNN panel manage to stumble into Contessa Brewer territory in this appearance by attempting to paint Breitbart.com editor-in-chief Joel Pollak as a racist for making a point about Barack Obama's support …
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protein wisdom, The Jawa Report, National Review, Ed Driscoll, The PJ Tatler, The Daily Caller and The Gateway Pundit
Frances Martel / Mediaite:
Hannity Debuts Breitbart Obama College Video Reveals “Controversial” Hug With Embattled Professor
Hannity Debuts Breitbart Obama College Video Reveals “Controversial” Hug With Embattled Professor
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Crooks and Liars, The Right Scoop, BREITBART.COM, Indecision Forever, Ed Driscoll and The Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »
John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
BEN SMITH ON OBAMA HARVARD TAPES: NOTHING TO SEE HERE
BEN SMITH ON OBAMA HARVARD TAPES: NOTHING TO SEE HERE
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Daily Mail, americanthinker.com, Addicting Info, The PJ Tatler, Nice Deb, Don Surber, Washington Post and BuzzFeed
Andrew Golis / PBS:
The Story Behind the Obama Law School Speech Video
The Story Behind the Obama Law School Speech Video
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Little Green Footballs, Wonkette, Telegraph, BREITBART.COM, LGBT|POV, The Moderate Voice, Angry Black Lady Chronicles, Politico, Power Line, Shakesville, Green Mountain Daily, Mediaite, News One, Seeing the Forest, The PJ Tatler, Campaign 2012, Atlas Shrugs, New York Magazine, ABCNEWS, Talking Points Memo, The Last Tradition, The Raw Story, Rumproast, Sadly, No!, Hot Air, Balloon Juice and No More Mister Nice Blog
Mj Lee / Politico:
Joe the Plumber blows a gasket on CNN — Samuel Wurzelbacher, who on Thursday morning accused CNN of being like TMZ and trying to trap him with “gotcha questions,” explained to POLITICO immediately following the tense interview that he is “sick of the gossip and drama.”
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The Raw Story, ThinkProgress, Balloon Juice, Indecision Forever, Taylor Marsh, Mediaite, CNN, Towleroad News #gay, TheBlaze.com and Reuters
Gail Collins / New York Times:
Dogging Mitt Romney — I don't know if I've ever mentioned this, but Mitt Romney once drove to Canada with the family Irish setter on the roof of the car. — Seamus, the dog-on-the-roof, has become a kind of political icon. You cannot go anywhere without running into him.
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Brilliant at Breakfast, News Desk, Business Insider, the daily howler and Daily Kos
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John Kerry / Washington Post:
Romney's wrong-headed assertions about Iran
Romney's wrong-headed assertions about Iran
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Democracy in America, Eunomia, Mediaite, CBS News and What The Folly?!
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.
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utsandiego.com, CNN, Campaign 2012, The Raw Story, Althouse and New York Magazine
Manu Raju / Politico:
Obama lobbying Dems over Keystone XL pipeline — President Barack Obama is intervening in a Senate fight over the Keystone XL oil pipeline and personally lobbying Democrats to reject an amendment calling for its construction, according to several sources familiar with the talks.
The Gallup Organization / Gallup:
U.S. Unemployment Up in February — Underemployment is 19.1%, up from 18.7% in January — PRINCETON, NJ — U.S. unemployment, as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment, increased to 9.1% in February from 8.6% in January and 8.5% in December. — The .5-percentage-point increase …
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msnbc.com, TheBlaze.com, Hot Air and Weasel Zippers
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Warns Apple, Publishers — Justice Department Threatens Lawsuits, Alleging Collusion Over E-Book Pricing — The Justice Department has warned Apple Inc. and five of the biggest U.S. publishers that it plans to sue them for allegedly colluding to raise the price of electronic books, according to people familiar with the matter.
New York Post:
US offered Israel advanced weaponry in exchange for delaying Iran attack: report — WASHINGTON — The US offered to give Israel advanced weaponry — including bunker-busting bombs and refueling planes — in exchange for Israel's agreement not to attack Iranian nuclear sites, Israeli newspaper Maariv reported Thursday.
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The Right Sphere, Weasel Zippers, The PJ Tatler, National Review, Jammie Wearing Fools and Associated Press
Dan Springer / Fox News:
Wind farms in Pacific Northwest paid to not produce — Wind farms in the Pacific Northwest — built with government subsidies and maintained with tax credits for every megawatt produced — are now getting paid to shut down as the federal agency charged with managing the region's electricity grid …
Ann Friedman / Ann Friedman's RSS:
International Slutty Women's Day: A Story in GIFs — The year was 2012. Women were basically just hanging out. — You know, doing lady stuff. — We'd gotten used to the fact that, for decades, people have been trying to tell us what to do. — That we should pay attention …
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Jacobin + blog and American Prospect
Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
The Top-Down Romney Campaign — Much of the coverage of the moment is about the problem Mitt Romney is having with Republican base voters, who seem to neither like nor trust him. Their hesitation doesn't seem to be enough to stop Romney from becoming their nominee, but it has …
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Washington Monthly and New York Times
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Eric Gay / ABCNEWS:
Rick Santorum Will Face More Ballot, Delegate Problems — Rick Santorum's ballot problems keep getting worse. — The candidate failed to appear on the ballot in Virginia on Super Tuesday, losing his chance to win 46 delegates. He also may have lost his chance at more than a quarter …
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The Hill and Taegan Goddard's …
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, The Daily Dish and Zandar Versus The Stupid
T.W. Farnam / Washington Post:
The Influence Industry: Obama gives administration jobs to some big fundraisers — Big donors considering whether to work the phones raising money for President Obama's reelection campaign might consider the fate of his 2008 bundlers. Many of them, it turns out, won plum jobs in his administration.
Charles Murray / New York Times:
Op-Ed Contributor: Reforms for the New Upper Class — THERE'S been a lot of commentary from all sides about my recently published book, “Coming Apart,” which deals with the divergence between the professional and working classes in white America over the last half century.
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Ezra Klein, EconLog, The New Republic and Marginal Revolution
Roll Call:
Rep. Jean Schmidt's Defeat Serves as Warning — Ohio Rep. Jean Schmidt had tough primaries before, but it's obvious she didn't see this one coming. — Podiatrist Brad Wenstrup defeated Schmidt by 6 points in Tuesday's GOP primary, likely ending the controversial Congresswoman's career.
New York Times:
Texas Women's Clinics Retreat as Finances Are Cut — Leticia Parra, a mother of five scraping by on income from her husband's sporadic construction jobs, relied on the Planned Parenthood clinic in San Carlos, an impoverished town in South Texas, for breast cancer screenings, free birth control pills and pap smears for cervical cancer.
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Business Insider, Jezebel, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Balloon Juice
Kim Severson / New York Times:
Number of U.S. Hate Groups Is Rising, Report Says — ATLANTA — Fed by antagonism toward President Obama, resentment toward changing racial demographics and the economic rift between rich and poor, the number of so-called hate groups and antigovernment organizations in the nation has continued to grow …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Truth Wins Out and The PJ Tatler
Agoldberg / The Smoking Gun:
Middle School Teacher Is Placed On Leave After Students Discover Her Porn Past — A California middle school teacher has been placed on leave after administrators learned from students that the educator appears in porn videos available online. — Stacie Halas, a 31-year-old science teacher …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Daily Caller