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John Avlon / The Daily Beast:
Rush Limbaugh Scandal Proves Contagious for Talk-Radio Advertisers — Ninety-eight major advertisers—including Ford and Geico—will no longer air spots on Premiere Networks' ‘offensive’ programs. Insiders say the loss will rock right-wing talk radio. — Rush Limbaugh made the right …
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: 98 Major Advertisers Dump Rush Limbaugh, Other Right-Wing Hosts — Industry website radio-info.com has the scoop: … This helps explain why, on Rush Limbaugh's flagship station WABC, almost of the commercial breaks were filled with unpaid pubic service announcements.
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Ryan Tracy / Washington Wire:
True Grits: Gingrich Makes Appeal to Mississippi Republicans — MOBILE, Ala. -Newt Gingrich made a pitch to Alabama Republicans Saturday morning with a simple message: He's one presidential candidate who's familiar with their cuisine. … The former House speaker was riffing on comments …
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Montgomery Advertiser:
Poll: Gingrich, Romney in dead heat in Alabama
Poll: Gingrich, Romney in dead heat in Alabama
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Scared Monkeys, Wake up America and Rasmussen Reports
Associated Press:
Romney claims victory in Guam, Northern Marianas
Romney claims victory in Guam, Northern Marianas
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Los Angeles Times, The Moderate Voice and Patterico's Pontifications
CNN:
Romney wins entire Guam delegation
Romney wins entire Guam delegation
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Hot Air, Washington Monthly, The Other McCain, americanthinker.com and The Political Carnival
Robert Griffin III / Associated Press:
Gingrich tells AP he won't quit GOP presidential race if he loses Tuesday in Miss., Ala.
Gingrich tells AP he won't quit GOP presidential race if he loses Tuesday in Miss., Ala.
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Reuters, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, Balloon Juice and FiveThirtyEight
John Podhoretz / Weekly Standard:
Back Stab — Sarah Palin as portrayed by her disloyal staff. — Nicolle Wallace was the onetime consultant to CBS News and media aide to George W. Bush who was assigned to work with Sarah Palin after the Alaska governor was chosen as John McCain's running mate.
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Los Angeles Times:
Television review: ‘Game Change’
Television review: ‘Game Change’
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Bill Maher Defends Limbaugh's Free Speech Rights, Responds To ‘False Equivalency’ From Right — After over a week of pundits piling on Bill Maher for his remarks about conservative women in an attempt to equivocate him with Rush Limbaugh and suggest a media double standard on such controversies …
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CNN:
Rep. Inslee to resign House seat — (CNN) - Democratic Rep. Jay Inslee of Washington will resign his House seat in order to focus on his 2012 run for governor of the state, a Democratic official confirmed to CNN on Saturday. — Inslee, now in his eighth term, represents Washington's 1st …
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Jay Inslee, Washington Congressman, Resigning To Focus On Gubernatorial Campaign … 112th Congress , Video , Jay Inslee Resigning , Washington State , Democratic Congressman , Governors Races , Inslee Resigning , Jay Inslee , Jay Inslee Retiring , Washington , Washington Governor Campaign , Washington Governors , Politics News
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Jim Romenesko:
Report: Some papers won't be running next week's ‘Doonesbury’ strips — I asked around and was told that the Oregonian and Dallas Morning News are among the papers that have discussed pulling the strips. (I've left messages with editors at both newspapers to see what they've decided.)
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Julie Bosman / New York Times:
An Erotic Novel, ‘50 Shades of Grey,’ Goes Viral With Women — “Fifty Shades of Grey,” an erotic novel by an obscure author that has been described as “Mommy porn” and “Twilight” for grown-ups, has electrified women across the country, who have spread the word like gospel on Facebook pages, at school functions and in spin classes.
Al Arabiya / Alarabiya.net English:
Dozens of Iraqi teenagers stoned to death for ‘emo’ haircuts: activists — Iraqi activists sounded the bell over the killing of dozens of teenagers by religious police for having “emo” haircuts. — Activists told the Cairo-based al-Akhbar daily that at least 90 Iraqi teenagers with “emo” …
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Anthony Watts / Watts Up With That?:
Monckton's Schenectady showdown — Monckton vanquishes Union College “Greens too yellow to admit they're really Reds” — Guest post by Justin Pulliam — THE NEWS that Lord Monckton was to give his “Climate of Freedom” lecture at Union College in Schenectady, New York, had thrown the university's environmentalists into a turmoil.
Sam Baker / The Hill:
Healthcare issue will be a heavy lift for Romney against Obama — As Mitt Romney moves closer to locking up the Republican presidential nomination, the questions about his ability to attack President Obama on healthcare are only getting louder. — Conservatives have long been uneasy with Romney's record on healthcare.
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Mary Pilon / New York Times:
A Card-Counting Mix of Bibles, Blackjack and Cash — Colin Jones has toiled in the cacophonous, windowless, artificially lighted corridors of casinos across the country in an effort to beat the house with math. He has worked to master the art of card counting, long scorned by casino operators …