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Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM:
THE VETTING - EXCLUSIVE - OBAMA'S LITERARY AGENT IN 1991 BOOKLET: ‘BORN IN KENYA AND RAISED IN INDONESIA AND HAWAII’ — Note from Senior Management: — Andrew Breitbart was never a “Birther,” and Breitbart News is a site that has never advocated the narrative of “Birtherism.”
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Roger L. Simon, The Gateway Pundit, americanthinker.com, Politicker, Doug Ross, NO QUARTER, Mediaite, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, ABCNEWS, Ed Driscoll, The PJ Tatler, The Raw Story, Atlas Shrugs, Hot Air, The Lonely Conservative, The Daily Caller, alicublog, Business Insider, Little Green Footballs, The Camp Of The Saints, iOwnTheWorld.com, New York Magazine, The Jawa Report, UrbanGrounds and Clayton Cramer's Blog
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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Literary Agent Says 1991 Booklet was a Mistake — Breitbart News reports on a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama's then-literary agency which describes the author as “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.” — Miriam Goderich issued the following statement to Political Wire:
Ben Shapiro / BREITBART.COM:
OBAMA'S LIT AGENCY USED ‘BORN IN KENYA’ BIO UNTIL 2007
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Erick's blog and The PJ Tatler
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Rahm Emanuel ‘livid,’ not returning calls from Ricketts family — Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is not returning calls from the Ricketts family and is “livid” over a New York Times report that Joe Ricketts commissioned a proposal for a multimillion-dollar ad campaign linking President Obama …
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The Hill and Chicago Business
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New York Times:
Joe Ricketts Rejects Plan to Finance Anti-Obama Ads — Joe Ricketts, an up-by-the-bootstraps billionaire whose varied holdings include a name-brand brokerage firm in Omaha, a baseball team in Chicago, herds of bison in Wyoming and a start-up news Web site in New York, wanted to be a player in the 2012 election.
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Bangor Daily News and The Caucus
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
GOP struggles to banish ghost of Jeremiah Wright
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New York Times, Washington Monthly, GOP 12, The Maddow Blog, Campaign 2012 and Mother Jones
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Mitt Romney On His Reverend Wright Attack: ‘I Stand By What I Said, Whatever It Was’
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ABCNEWS, Liberal Values, Zandar Versus The Stupid, The Caucus, Ballot Box and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney stands by invocation of Rev. Wright
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BuzzFeed, Hullabaloo and The Stranger …
Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
EXCLUSIVE: Romney ‘Repudiates’ Conservative Group's Planned Rev. Wright Attacks
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ABCNEWS, Mediaite, The Moderate Voice, News Desk, New York Times, New York Magazine, American Power, BuzzFeed, American Spectator, CNN, NewsBusters.org, Washington Wire, Guardian, Booman Tribune, Politico, theGrio, Obama 2012 Blog, msnbc.com, The Gateway Pundit, Hot Air, PoliticsPA, Hullabaloo, Shakesville, Taylor Marsh, Wake up America, Ballot Box, The Huffington Post, Little Green Footballs, The Caucus, Business Insider, The Mahablog, The Daily Caller, americanthinker.com, Daily Kos, Conservatives4Palin, The Page and ThinkProgress, more at Mediagazer »
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Romney invoked Wright with Hannity in the primary
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The New Republic, Business Insider, ABCNEWS, New York Magazine and Talking Points Memo
Orlando Sentinel:
Encounter between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin ‘avoidable,’ cops said in report — JACKSONVILLE - Newly released evidence in the case against George Zimmerman shows that Sanford Police believed the encounter between Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin was “ultimately avoidable,” if Zimmerman had …
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msnbc.com, Taylor Marsh, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Daily Kos, National Review and JustOneMinute
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Associated Press:
THC found in Martin's blood — ORLANDO, Fla. — Medical examiners found evidence of marijuana in Trayvon Martin's system after he was fatally shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer, an autopsy report released Thursday shows. — The report was included in a large amount of evidence released …
CNN:
Autopsy: Drug THC found in Trayvon Martin's system — (CNN) — Trayvon Martin had drugs in his system when he was fatally shot earlier this year by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida, according to autopsy results released Thursday. — Martin's blood contained THC, which is the psychoactive ingredient …
USA Today:
Police report: Trayvon Martin's shooting was “avoidable” — Trayvon Martin's fatal encounter with George Zimmerman was “avoidable,” and the teen was not doing anything criminal at the time of their confrontation on Feb. 26, a report by Sanford, Fla., police says.
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CANNONFIRE and New York Magazine
TMZ.com:
Donna Summer Dead — Disco Legend Dies After Battle with Lung Cancer — DEAD AT 63 — EXCLUSIVE — 9:27 AM PST- TMZ has learned ... Donna died from lung cancer. Several sources are telling us Donna believed she contracted it by inhaling toxic particles after the 9/11 attack in New York City.
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Los Angeles Times, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, GLAAD, National Review, Mashable!, Runnin' Scared, Towleroad News #gay, Althouse and The Moderate Voice
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Caitlin McDevitt / Politico:
Ben Stein: Obama's not very smart — Is President Obama smart? Ben Stein wouldn't put his money on it. — During an appearance on Fox News, the economist and actor said he doesn't consider the president to be very intelligent. — “Barack Obama is a smart man, you would say that, right?” host Bill O'Reilly asked.
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The Reaction and The Raw Story
Lizette Alvarez / New York Times:
Florida Tries to Clear Illegal Voters From Rolls — MIAMI — In an attempt to clear the voter rolls of noncitizens, a move that had set off criticism and a threatened lawsuit, Florida election officials decided on Thursday to use information from a federal database to check a list of 182,000 voters …
Sam Baker / The Hill:
Boehner: Keeping any parts of Obama health law ‘unacceptable’ — House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) reiterated Thursday that he wants to repeal all of President Obama's healthcare law if the Supreme Court doesn't toss out the entire statute. — “We voted to fully repeal the president's healthcare law …
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New York Magazine, Politico, CNN, Ezra Klein, Associated Press, protein wisdom and Hot Air
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TEDChris:
TED and inequality: The real story — Today TED was subject to a story so misleading it would be funny... except it successfully launched an aggressive online campaign against us. — The National Journal alleged we had censored a talk because we considered the issue of inequality “too hot to handle.”
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Restoration Roundtable, The Stranger …, Taylor Marsh, Business Insider and Ezra Klein
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DealBook:
Facebook Raises $16 Billion in I.P.O. — Facebook pulled it off. — As investors raced to get shares, the sprawling social network raised $16 billion on Thursday, in an initial public offering that valued Facebook at $104 billion. — The I.P.O. signals a rapid evolution for the company.
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PR Newswire, Truthdig, New York Magazine and American Spectator
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