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Martin H. Simon / ABCNEWS:
Full Transcript: George Stephanopoulos and Mitt Romney — The following is a full transcript of my interview with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. — GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Governor, thank you for doing this. — MITT ROMNEY: Thank you, George. — STEPHANOPOULOS: Boy …
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Martin H. Simon / ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE - Romney on Debates: Obama Will 'Say Things That Aren't True' — With the first presidential debate less than three weeks away, Mitt Romney is spending lots of time getting ready behind closed doors. In his first comments on that debate prep, he told me that Sen. Rob Portman …
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Romney team sharpens attack on Obama's foreign policy — Advisers to Mitt Romney on Thursday defended his sharp criticism of President Obama and said that the deadly protests sweeping the Middle East would not have happened if the Republican nominee were president.
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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Romney owes an apology — To a certain extent, no one should be surprised by Mitt Romney's decision to seize on — actually, make that exploit — the attack on U.S. diplomatic outposts in Egypt and Libya as ammunition in the presidential campaign. — After all, the Republican presidential nominee wrote …
Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Poll: Obama Holds Narrow Edge Over Romney — President Obama holds a narrow three-point advantage over Mitt Romney among Americans most likely to vote in November, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. — With their back-to-back political conventions behind …
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Benjy Sarlin / Talking Points Memo:
Bryan Fischer: Today's GOP Will Be ‘Dead’ If Romney Loses
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Benjy Sarlin / Talking Points Memo:
Mitt Romney Condemns Anti-Muslim Film, Echoing White House Position
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Michael Falcone / ABCNEWS:
Mitt Romney And The Art Of The Double-Down (The Note)
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John Hudson / The Atlantic Wire:
A Map of Muslim Protests Around the World — If you can't keep track of all the Muslim protests erupting across the globe, you're not alone. The uproar over a 14-minute anti-Islam YouTube video has sparked furious protests from Somalia to Egypt to Sudan to Tunisia to Libya to Bangladesh to Indonesia to Pakistan.
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Robert Wright / The Atlantic Online:
The Muslim Protests: Two Myths Down, Three to Go — Here is the narrative that pretty much everyone was buying into 36 hours ago: Crude anti-Islam film made by Israeli-American and funded by Jews leads to Muslim protests that boil over, causing four American deaths in Libya.
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David Gordon Smith / Spiegel Online:
'Obama's Middle East Policy Is in Ruins' — US embassies in the Muslim world were on high alert Friday following days of violent protests against an anti-Islam film. Germany, too, closed several embassies in fear of attacks. Some German commentators argue that the violence shows that Obama's Middle East policies have failed.
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Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
Carney: Global Protests Directed At Offensive Video, Not U.S. Policy Or The Obama Administration
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Shariah vs. the Constitution
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Kim Sengupta / The Independent:
Revealed: inside story of US envoy's assassination — Exclusive: America ‘was warned of embassy attack but did nothing’ — NOTE: WE DO NOT STORE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS(ES) BUT YOUR IP ADDRESS WILL BE LOGGED TO PREVENT ABUSE OF THIS FEATURE. PLEASE READ OUR LEGAL TERMS & POLICIES
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Bloody Hand Prints at Consulate Reveal Americans Were Dragged From Building Before Their Death — The attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi came in two waves on the night of 9-11. — Four Americans were murdered in a coordinated attack by reportedly 400 Islamists. — It was a highly coordinated attack.
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Jackie Vega / KXAN-TV:
University of Texas classes canceled — All other activities will resume at 5 p.m. Friday — AUSTIN (KXAN) - Classes at the University of Texas are canceled for Friday following a bomb threat from a caller claiming to be with al-Qaida who said he placed bombs all over campus.
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Doug Stanglin / USA Today:
Bomb threats clear Texas, N. Dakota State campuses
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Amy Lavalley / Chicago Sun Times:
Threat made to Valparaiso University campus
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Talking Points Memo:
Kansas Goes Birther: State Board Considers Removing Obama From Ballot — Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, an informal advisor to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, said on Thursday he and his fellow members of a state board were considering removing President Barack Obama from the Kansas ballot this November.
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Tim Carpenter / Topeka Capital-Journal:
Kansas panel delays ballot decision on Obama
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Ben Blanchard / Reuters:
China commentary slams Romney's “foolish” China-bashing — (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's attacks on China and promise to name the country a currency manipulator if elected are foolish and hypocritical, China's official Xinhua news agency said on Friday.
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Stephanie Cutter Uses Communist Propaganda Outlet to Hit Romney (Updated: DNC Too)
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Tara Palmeri / New York Post:
Samuel's prez ad: Wake the f@#k up! — They picked the perfect actor for a political ad loaded with f-bombs. — Samuel L. Jackson will film a provocative spot supporting President Obama's re-election bid as early as tomorrow — telling voters to “Wake the f—k up, Vote for Obama.”
ABCNEWS:
Jennifer Granholm, DNC Firebrand, ‘Cute’ on '78 ‘Dating Game’ — Here's Jennifer Granholm like you've never seen her. The former Michigan governor and current liberal talkshow host, who gave the single most-fiery speech at the Democratic convention, was a contestant on “The Dating Game” in 1978.
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Matt Blake / Daily Mail:
Black flag of Islam flies over U.S. embassy in Tunisia as America is targeted by angry mobs across the globe in day of chaos — 10,000 Muslims stage a noisy protest in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, burning and trampling American flags while chanting anti-US slogans
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Sept. 13: After Convention Bounce, Holding Obama's Polls to a Higher Standard — On Thursday at 6:30 p.m. Eastern time, there was a deluge of comments in my Twitter feed when NBC News and Marist University released poll results showing President Obama with clear leads in three swing states.
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Shayna Jacobs / NY Daily News:
NYPD identifies Jackie Barcliff, 44, as the Occupy Wall Street demonstrator who raped a fellow protestor in lower Manhattan earlier this week — After the sex attack, the 56-year-old woman was thrown from a second-story outdoor park; she fell 20 feet, breaking her pelvis and her right arm
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Dawn C. Chmielewski / Los Angeles Times:
‘Innocence of Muslims’: Administration asks YouTube to review video — Bangladeshi Muslims burn a U.S. flag in protest against the movie “Innocence of Muslims” in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Thursday. — Administration officials have asked YouTube to review a controversial video that many blame …
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Caroline Glick:
US-commanded MFO in Sinai under attack — dead reported in compound — Israel media - Channel 2 - just reported that the US-commanded Multi-National Force Observors headquarters in the Sinai is under assault. Salafists laid seige to the building this afternoon and some 50 armed men stormed it.
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Brian Doherty / Hit & Run:
The Badgering of Bob Dylan, Or, Tell Us You Love Obama, Bob! Please! — Rolling Stone features another of its many mega-cover story interviews with Bob Dylan—a character always valuable, or at least amusing, to listen to. (The interview is not yet online, but appears in the Sept 27 issue …
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