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Romney Aides Scratch Their Heads Over Eastwood's Speech — TAMPA, Fla. — Clint Eastwood's rambling and off-color endorsement of Mitt Romney on Thursday seemed to startle and unsettle even the candidate's own top aides, several of whom made a point of distancing themselves from the decision to put him onstage without a polished script.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
The most extraordinary story of the GOP convention — Popular in Politics — TAMPA — When CNN asked top Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom to assess Clint Eastwood's performance on stage at the Republican convention Thursday night, Fehrnstrom answered simply, “It's improv.”
Michael Moore / The Daily Beast:
Thanks, Clint: You Made Our Day! — The Hollywood legend growling at an empty chair will live on in infamy as the moment when a crazy old man hijacked a national party's most important gathering to tell off the president. Michael Moore on the creepiness of crazy Clint.
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Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Pundits pan Clint Eastwood's ‘disaster’ speech — MSNBC pundits said Clint Eastwood's GOP convention speech Thursday night was a “bizarre” and “embarrassing” “disaster,” and a Fox News reporter wouldn't even touch it. — But GOP strategist Steve Schmidt was more forgiving of the Hollywood icon's performance.
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John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
MEDIA STRIKES BACK AFTER DIRTY HARRY DARES TO MOCK OBAMA
MEDIA STRIKES BACK AFTER DIRTY HARRY DARES TO MOCK OBAMA
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CNN:
Obama takes his seat
Obama takes his seat
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Fox News:
Transcript of Clint Eastwood speech at RNC
Transcript of Clint Eastwood speech at RNC
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Politico:
Clint Eastwood RNC speech transcript (text, video)
Clint Eastwood RNC speech transcript (text, video)
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Mary McNamara / Los Angeles Times:
Clint Eastwood and his imaginary non-friend at the convention
Clint Eastwood and his imaginary non-friend at the convention
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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Shoving Match Between Chris Matthews' Hecklers, MSNBC Producer Investigated at RNC (Video) — A fight broke out after two men shouted, “Hey Chris, how's that tingle up your leg.” — TAMPA, Fla. - A scuffle involving an MSNBC producer and two men who heckled host Chris Matthews …
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Joe Picard / The Hill:
Chris Matthews gets into confrontation with GOP delegates — TAMPA, Fla. — MSNBC host Chris Matthews got into a heated exchange with Republican delegates at a Tampa restaurant early Friday morning following the conclusion of the GOP national convention. — Matthews was booed and sworn …
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Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Mitt Romney's Incoherent View of Mothers
Mitt Romney's Incoherent View of Mothers
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Alessandra Stanley / New York Times:
How MSNBC Became Fox's Liberal Evil Twin
How MSNBC Became Fox's Liberal Evil Twin
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Sheelah Kolhatkar / Business Week:
Exclusive: Inside Karl Rove's Billionaire Fundraiser — On the final morning of the Republican National Convention, Karl Rove took the stage at the Tampa Club to provide an exclusive breakfast briefing to about 70 of the Republican party's highest-earning and most powerful donors.
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Jonathan Easley / Twitter Room:
Akin: Rove apologized — Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) says former Bush adviser Karl Rove has apologized for joking about murdering him. — Late Friday, Akin tweeted “Rove apologizes to Todd Akin,” along with a link to an Associated Press story saying an Akin adviser had confirmed the nature of a phone call between the two men.
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Federal Court Strikes Down Ohio Law Restricting Early Voting — Last month, President Obama's reelection campaign filed a lawsuit claiming that a recently enacted Ohio law eliminating early voting in the three days before an election, except for members of the military …
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Rick Hasen / Election Law Blog:
Breaking News: Federal Judge Orders Ohio to Restore Weekend Early Voting in Ohio Weekend Before Election Day
Breaking News: Federal Judge Orders Ohio to Restore Weekend Early Voting in Ohio Weekend Before Election Day
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Sterling C. Beard / Ballot Box:
Judge grants injunction against Ohio early-voting law
Judge grants injunction against Ohio early-voting law
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Jim Siegel / The Columbus Dispatch:
DeWine to appeal judge's ruling on early voting
DeWine to appeal judge's ruling on early voting
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The Volokh Conspiracy
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
Monetary Policy since the Onset of the Crisis — When we convened in Jackson Hole in August 2007, the Federal Open Market Committee's (FOMC) target for the federal funds rate was 5-1/4 percent. Sixteen months later, with the financial crisis in full swing, the FOMC had lowered the target …
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Wall Street Journal:
Bernanke Signals Readiness to Do More
Bernanke Signals Readiness to Do More
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Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
Bernanke Speech Makes Detailed Case for Fed Action
Bernanke Speech Makes Detailed Case for Fed Action
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Daily Mail:
Obama bounced into announcing visit to storm-ravaged Louisiana after Romney shows him up with surprise visit — President Barack Obama was today forced to announce he will fly to storm-hit Louisiana on Monday - hours after Mitt Romney beat him to the punch by deciding to head there this afternoon.
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BuzzFeed:
Republican Congressman: There Are Very Few Pregnancies From Rape, It Is A Tiny Percentage — The pro-life congressman reiterated support for abortions in the case of rape, incest, and the life of the mother, but added that very few pregnancies and abortions are a result of rape. — Source: youtube.com
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
What War? — The United States has some 68,000 troops fighting in Afghanistan. Over two thousand Americans have died in the more than ten years of that war, a war Mitt Romney has supported. Yet in his speech accepting his party's nomination to be commander in chief, Mitt Romney said not a word about the war in Afghanistan.
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Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
OOPS: Mitt Romney Calls United States A ‘Company’
OOPS: Mitt Romney Calls United States A ‘Company’
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Scott Douglas / Newswire:
Paul Ryan Says He's Run Sub-3:00 Marathon … In an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt last week, Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan said he's run a sub-3:00 marathon. — In the interview, after Ryan told Hewitt that he ran in high school, Hewitt asked if Ryan still runs.
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Sunthecolumn / The Column Blog:
‘The Fighter’ bails on Brown — Nothing is sheltered from the whirlwind whims of elections season, even the squared-circle of a boxing ring. — Mill City ring king Micky Ward found himself backed into a corner Thursday when word trickled out that he was supporting U.S. Senator Scott Brown's re-election campaign.
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ThinkProgress:
Ann Romney: 'We're Used To' Passing Up Multi-Million Dollar Jobs — On Friday, Fox & Friends asked Ann Romney if it was difficult for the couple to turn down a $30 million job offer after Mitt lost the 2008 presidential nomination. Ann, who has been trying to help her husband connect …
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Crooks and Liars and Daily Kos
Jason Cherkis / The Huffington Post:
RNC Convention Workers Being Paid Below Minimum Wage … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Florida, Labor, Video, Rep. Paul Ryan, Cleanevent, Janitors, Media, Minimum Wage, Mitt Romney 2012, Republican Convention Workers, Rnc, Rnc Convention Workers, Rnc Janitors …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Dem convention will focus on Bush economics — but not on Bush the man — The Obama campaign just held a conference call with reporters to discuss the GOP convention and contrast it with plans for their own gathering next week. The most notable tidbit: David Axelrod's suggestion …
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Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Mitt Romney speech leaves Ron Paul ‘skeptical’ — Rep. Ron Paul said GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney's convention speech left him “very skeptical” that the country's economic policies will change. — “The speech is what I would expect,” the Texas Republican said Friday on Bloomberg Television's “In the Loop.”
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