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Romney Offends the Pundits — Doesn't he know he's not supposed to debate foreign policy? — Tuesday's assaults on the U.S. Embassies in Benghazi and Cairo have injected foreign policy into the Presidential campaign, but suddenly the parsons of the press corps are offended by the debate.
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ABCNEWS, Althouse, The Caucus, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, Power Line, NewsBusters.org, The Right Scoop, Instapundit, Mediaite, National Review and American Power
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Turmoil Spreads to U.S. Embassy in Yemen — SANA, Yemen — Turmoil in the Arab world linked to a contentious video denigrating the Prophet Muhammad spread on Thursday to Yemen, where hundreds of protesters stormed the United States Embassy, two days after assailants killed the American ambassador …
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The media lash out — The murders of US diplomats in Libya and the attempted storming of the US Embassy in Cairo took place 56 days before the election of America's next president. — Apparently, it is the view of much of the mainstream media and foreign-policy establishment that discussing …
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Gail Collins / New York Times:
Mitt's Major Meltdown — Mitt Romney broke our deal. — Perhaps he didn't know he'd made it, although, really, I thought it was pretty clear. — He could do anything he wanted during this campaign as long as he sent out signals that once he got in the White House he was not likely to be truly crazy.
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The American Conservative, Balloon Juice and The Hinterland Gazette
Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
Inside the public relations disaster at the Cairo embassy — One staffer at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo was responsible for the statement and tweets Tuesday that have become grist for the presidential campaign, and that staffer ignored explicit State Department instructions not to issue the statement …
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Wall Street Journal, The Daily Beast, The Maddow Blog, Washington Post, National Review, Hot Air, The Spectacle Blog, Outside the Beltway, iOwnTheWorld.com, americanthinker.com, GILL REPORT, The Hinterland Gazette, Election 2012, rubber hose, Liberal Values, NationalJournal.com, Washington Wire, The Atlantic Online and Talking Points Memo
Erick Erickson / RedState:
The American Media Beclowned Themselves Yesterday — Yesterday, as the American consulate in Libya was smoking and the rioters were returning in Egypt, the President of the United States flew off to Las Vegas for a fundraiser while his spokesman was telling the American press corps that yesterday wasn't really a normal political day.
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GOP 12, Slate, protein wisdom, Illinois Review, First Read, The American Conservative, The Atlantic Online, Balloon Juice and BREITBART.COM
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A Challenger's Criticism Is Furiously Returned — WASHINGTON — The deadly attack on an American diplomatic post in Libya propelled foreign policy into the forefront of an otherwise inward-looking presidential campaign on Wednesday and presented an unexpected test not only to the incumbent …
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The Atlantic Online, American Prospect, You Feed My Soul …, Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine, A Blog For All, Politico, Daily Kos, iOwnTheWorld.com, Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, IHT Rendezvous, The Maddow Blog, USA Today, BuzzFeed, ABCNEWS, The Caucus, CNN, Hot Air and Washington Post, more at Mediagazer »
Associated Press:
FACT CHECK: Romney Misstates Facts On Attacks — WASHINGTON (AP) — The gunfire at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, had barely ceased when Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney seriously mischaracterized what had happened in a statement accusing President Barack Obama of …
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New York Times, Middle Earth Journal, Washington Post, The Moderate Voice, US Politics, Connecting.the.Dots, Newsy, Rush Limbaugh and Politico
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
How the media turned Obama's foreign policy bungle into a Romney gaffe … We're still learning more details about the events leading up to and surrounding the attacks by Islamic radicals on the U.S. consulate in Libya and embassy in Egypt, but the media has already agreed on one thing: Mitt Romney is the political loser.
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Washington Monthly, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Riehl World News and Conservatives4Palin
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Mitt Romney won't stop attacking — Mitt Romney must have ignored his fortune cookie: “When reaching for shiny object, make sure you are not standing on cliff.” — Recently, the Romney campaign dismissed foreign policy as a “shiny object,” a trifle, a mere bagatelle.
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Reuters, CNN, Swampland and Booman Tribune
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Protesters storm US Embassy in Yemen
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Taylor Marsh, americanthinker.com, Via Meadia, Shakesville and Jihad Watch
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Yemen protesters storm US embassy - live coverage
Yemen protesters storm US embassy - live coverage
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New Yorker, Melanie Phillips, CNN, The PJ Tatler, Balloon Juice, This Just In and Weekly Standard, more at Mediagazer »
John Aravosis / US Politics:
Romney gets capital of Libya wrong in press conf criticizing Obama on foreign policy
Romney gets capital of Libya wrong in press conf criticizing Obama on foreign policy
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Mediaite, PoliticusUSA, The Political Carnival, DownWithTyranny! and The Stranger …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Who's to blame for the original Cairo apology?
Who's to blame for the original Cairo apology?
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Mediaite, You Feed My Soul …, Datechguy's Blog and Power Line
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Benjamin Netanyahu vs. Barack Obama — President Barack Obama's national security team had every reason to believe they'd be spared a Bibi eruption before Election Day. — Earlier this year, U.S. and Israeli officials had informally agreed to stop airing their well-documented disagreements …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Hinterland Gazette, Taylor Marsh and National Review
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
White House: anti-Islam film ‘truly abhorrent’
White House: anti-Islam film ‘truly abhorrent’
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Weasel Zippers, Atlas Shrugs and Jihad Watch
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Time's Joe Klein: Netanyahu's Comments On White House Are ‘Outrageous And Disgusting’
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Israel Matzav, The Gateway Pundit and CNN
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Sen. Inhofe: Embassy attacks a result of Obama's ‘policy of appeasement’
Sen. Inhofe: Embassy attacks a result of Obama's ‘policy of appeasement’
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Jammie Wearing Fools
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Opposing view: Why Sam Bacile deserves arrest — Words have consequences. I know that because one of my tweets asking “when Sam Bacile would be arrested” drew wide attention on Wednesday. — My initial tweet about Bacile, the person said to be responsible for the film mocking the prophet Mohammed …
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Weasel Zippers, Jihad Watch, Michael J. Totten's blog and Overlawyered
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Adrian Chen / Gawker:
‘It Makes Me Sick’: Actress in Muhammed Movie Says She Was Deceived, Had No Idea It Was About Islam
‘It Makes Me Sick’: Actress in Muhammed Movie Says She Was Deceived, Had No Idea It Was About Islam
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APNewsBreak: US Sen. Mitch McConnell hires tea party strategist to lead re-election campaign — FRANKFORT, Ky. — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell reached into the upper echelons of the tea party movement for a campaign manager to head his bid for re-election to a sixth term.
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AEIdeas, Politico, Angry Black Lady Chronicles, Dependable Renegade and Hotline On Call
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Flashback: Major-party nominee uses war deaths to score political points — Remember that time when a major-party presidential nominee went on television immediately after the deaths of several Americans abroad to attack the policies of the current administration and his opponent?
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Althouse
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Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
The Times Denies State Department Request to Remove Photo From Web Site — The State Department asked The New York Times on Wednesday afternoon to remove a photograph of the dying ambassador to Libya from a gallery on the newspaper's Web site. The ambassador, J. Christopher Stevens …
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Weekly Standard, Roger L. Simon, Poynter and nation.foxnews.com, more at Mediagazer »
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15 Photos Of Libyans Apologizing To Americans
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Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
For Veteran Envoy, Return to Libya Was Full of Hope
For Veteran Envoy, Return to Libya Was Full of Hope
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The Week, You Feed My Soul …, Philly.com and The White House
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Sept. 12: Polls Since Conventions Point to Decline in ‘Enthusiasm Gap’ — Why did President Obama get a bounce in the polls following the Democratic convention? — Part of it may simply be one of the functions that conventions have long served: to motivate voters who are generally loyal to the party …
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Washington Monthly and Prairie Weather
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News poll: Obama has lead over Romney in post-convention poll
Fox News poll: Obama has lead over Romney in post-convention poll
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Washington Post, GOP 12, Plunderbund, Right Wing News, Pressing Issues, Election 2012, The Political Carnival and Politico
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Obama Administration Still Not Ready to Call Benghazi a Terror Attack — (CNSNews.com) - Asked directly on Wednesday evening if Tuesday's deadly violence in Libya was “linked to a terror attack” - possibly al-Qaeda - a State Department official demurred: — “Frankly, we are not in a position …
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Weasel Zippers, NewsBusters.org blogs and Jihad Watch
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
NYTimes Columnist Sent Article Draft to White House's Valerie Jarrett for Comments Before Publishing — The latest Bob Woodward books reveals that Peter Orszag, at the time a columnist for the New York Times, sent a draft of an article to White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett for review and comments before publishing.
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Weasel Zippers
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Rand Paul Compares U.S. Government To ‘Nazi Germany’ — In an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity this week, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) compared the federal government's decision to reclaim some of its own property to Nazi Germany's confiscations of Jewish-owned art.
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The Raw Story and Wonkette
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Kasich at Romney Event: Our wives are “at home doing the laundry” — Governor John Kasich has been criticized many times for his anti-women decisions and statements. Today we can add another doozy to the list. — Last year Kasich defended his very low number of female cabinet appointments …
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The Raw Story, The Mahablog, Gawker, Angry Black Lady Chronicles, Wonkette, Hullabaloo and Taylor Marsh