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Media Matters / Media Matters for America:
Fox's Geraldo Rivera: “I Think The Hoodie Is As Much Responsible For Trayvon Martin's Death As George Zimmerman” — On the March 23 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, Fox News contributor Geraldo Rivera reacted to the killing of 17-year-old, unarmed Florida resident Trayvon Martin …
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Byron Tau / Politico:
Obama: 'If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon' — President Obama weighed in Friday on the shooting of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, calling it a national tragedy - and saying that the young man reminded him of his own children. — “When I think about this boy, I think about my own kids,” Obama said in Rose Garden remarks.
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Michelle Malkin, CNN, WLS-TV, TBogg, Campaign 2012, americanthinker.com, Weasel Zippers and Daily Kos
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
Trayvon Martin Updates — First, Sanford police chief Bill Lee is done—for now. — Second, here is an absolutely disgusting clip from Geraldo Rivera, who essentially blames Trayvon Martin's death on the fact that he was wearing a hoodie. In the rain:
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The Daily Caller, Hot Air and Washington Monthly
Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:
Geraldo Rivera: 'The Hoodie Is As Responsible For Trayvon Martin's Death As George Zimmerman' — Geraldo Rivera stopped by Fox & Friends Friday morning, where he gave his take on the Trayvon Martin shooting — particularly on the hoodie the teen was wearing the night he was shot.
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Firedoglake, DISSENTING JUSTICE and Gothamist, more at Mediagazer »
Mj Lee / Politico:
Geraldo Rivera: Trayvon Martin killed due to ‘hoodie’ — Fox News host Geraldo Rivera said Friday he would “bet money” that Trayvon Martin wouldn't have been fatally shot by a neighborhood watch captain if the teenager hadn't been wearing a hoodie and he called on parents to stop their kids from going out in public dressed that way.
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Daily Kos and The Huffington Post
CNN:
Obama weighs in on Trayvon Martin
Obama weighs in on Trayvon Martin
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Mediaite, Hot Air, This Just In and National Review
CNN:
Obama: 'If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon'
Obama: 'If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon'
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BuzzFeed, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*, Campaign 2012 and This Just In
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Obama Speaks Out on Trayvon Martin Killing
Obama Speaks Out on Trayvon Martin Killing
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New York Times, Connecting.the.Dots, Prairie Weather, Althouse, The Lede, ACS Blog and The Raw Story
Alex Wong / ABCNEWS:
As Santorum Fires Gun, Woman Shouts 'Pretend It's Obama' — WEST MONROE, Louisiana - At a campaign stop at a firing range, while Rick Santorum was firing off some rounds, a woman shouted, “pretend it's Obama.” — Santorum, who was far from the woman, couldn't hear the comment as he proceeded with his target practice.
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Hot Air, Sister Toldjah and americanthinker.com
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Santorum leads in LA and other notes... Rick Santorum is headed for a commanding win in Louisiana on Saturday. We find him with 42% to 28% for Mitt Romney, 18% for Newt Gingrich, 8% for Ron Paul, and 2% for Buddy Roemer. — It's interesting to look at these numbers in the context of last week's results in Alabama and Mississippi.
Scott Whitlock / NewsBusters.org:
MSNBC's Karen Finney Smears: Racism of Limbaugh Had ‘Lethal Consequences’ in Killing of Teen — MSNBC analyst and Democratic strategist Karen Finney disgustingly smeared Rush Limbaugh and several Republican presidential candidates on Thursday, charging that the racist hate of these conservatives had …
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Matt K. Lewis / The Daily Caller:
Rick Santorum is getting grief — even from some of his supporters …
Rick Santorum is getting grief — even from some of his supporters …
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Hot Air, The Other McCain, Pundit & Pundette, ABCNEWS, The Right Scoop, Erick's blog and American Spectator
Billy Hallowell / TheBlaze.com:
FARRAKHAN TWEETS: ‘WHERE THERE IS NO JUSTICE, THERE WILL BE NO PEACE...LAW OF RETALIATION MAY...BE APPLIED’
FARRAKHAN TWEETS: ‘WHERE THERE IS NO JUSTICE, THERE WILL BE NO PEACE...LAW OF RETALIATION MAY...BE APPLIED’
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Weasel Zippers and The Moderate Voice
Rick Santorum / CNN:
Santorum: ‘I would never vote for Barack Obama’
Santorum: ‘I would never vote for Barack Obama’
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The PJ Tatler, Political Watch and ABCNEWS
Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
Sharpton emcees racially-focused Sanford rally, warns against use of violence
Sharpton emcees racially-focused Sanford rally, warns against use of violence
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The Lonely Conservative, Instapundit, Atlas Shrugs and PJ Media
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway:
Santorum: People May As Well Vote For Obama If Romney Is The Nominee
Santorum: People May As Well Vote For Obama If Romney Is The Nominee
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The Maddow Blog, msnbc.com, Mother Jones, Los Angeles Times and Eunomia
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Santorum up 14 points in latest Louisiana poll
Santorum up 14 points in latest Louisiana poll
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CNN and The Raw Story
Carrie Budoff Brown / Politico:
5 things Dems got wrong on health care — President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies thought their political assumptions were airtight during the yearlong battle to overhaul the health care system. — Voters would reward them, they thought, even if Democrats muscled a bill through without Republican support.
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CNN, New York Times, Hot Air, Balloon Juice, ABCNEWS and No More Mister Nice Blog
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
It's Not About the Law, Stupid — Forget precedent. Ignore Scalia's musings. Next week's health care argument before the Supreme Court is all about optics, politics, and public opinion. — Next week the Supreme Court will hear arguments over the Affordable Care Act, what many people know as Obamacare.
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American Prospect, Ezra Klein, The Huffington Post, ACS Blog and ThinkProgress
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
The Ineffective Greenhouse — A liberal legal legend's ludicrous ObamaCare defense. — Linda Greenhouse is something of an institution of legal journalism. She became the New York Times's Supreme Court correspondent in 1978. Thirty years later, when she accepted an early-retirement package …
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Don Surber, The Volokh Conspiracy, National Review, American Power, Hit & Run, RADAMISTO, Prairie Weather and Opinionator
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Obamacare: The reckoning — Obamacare dominated the 2010 midterms, driving its Democratic authors to a historic electoral shellacking. But since then, the issue has slipped quietly underground. — Now it's back, summoned to the national stage by the confluence of three disparate events …
Sarah Kliff / Ezra Klein:
Health reform at 2: Why American health care will never be the same
Health reform at 2: Why American health care will never be the same
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ThinkProgress, Washington Post and THEROOT.COM
Robert Kuttner / American Prospect:
A Surprise World Bank Pick — President Barack Obama startled handicappers by selecting Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim as the U.S. candidate to lead the World Bank rather than the reported front-runner Larry Summers, Obama's former National Economic Council director.
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Ezra Klein and Suburban Guerrilla
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John H. Cushman Jr / New York Times:
Dartmouth President Is Obama's Pick for World Bank
Dartmouth President Is Obama's Pick for World Bank
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Power Line, Associated Press, Firedoglake, Crooks and Liars, Daily Kos, msnbc.com and The Maddow Blog
Julie Pace / Associated Press:
AP sources: Obama taps Jim Yong Kim for World Bank
AP sources: Obama taps Jim Yong Kim for World Bank
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Firedoglake, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Mashable!
Mike Allen / Politico:
Playbook: America's seniors
Playbook: America's seniors
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Economist, Political Watch and Daily Kos
Congressman Allen West / Facebook:
I have sat back and allowed myself time to assess the current episode revealing itself in Sanford Florida... I have sat back and allowed myself time to assess the current episode revealing itself in Sanford, Florida involving the shooting of 17-year-old Treyvon Martin.
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Campaign 2012
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Laura Bassett / The Huffington Post:
Richard Hanna, GOP Congressman, Tells Women To Give Their Money To Democrats … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Video, Equal Rights Amendment, GOP War On Women, Carolyn Maloney Equal Rights Amendment, Rep. Richard Hanna, Richard Hanna Equal Rights Amendment, Richard Hanna Women, Politics News
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The Hill, Citizen, Taegan Goddard's … and The Raw Story
Washington Post:
One word impressions of GOP candidates — Mitt Romney's campaign might take solace in the fact that “Mormon” is no longer the single most frequently mentioned one-word descriptor for the former Massachusetts governor, but they may bemoan its replacements atop the list: “no” and “rich”
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Taegan Goddard's … and Guardian