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1:20 AM ET, September 29, 2012

Top Items:

Todd Akin Suggests Employers Should Be Able To Pay Women Less — Todd Akin appeared to endorse allowing employers to pay women less than men at a town hall on Thursday. — Gender discrimination in compensation has been illegal in the United States since the passage of the 1963 Equal Pay Act.

Discussion: CBS News, Wonkette, Daily Kos and ThinkProgress

Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

Akin consultant compares his fortitude to cult-leader David Koresh — • BY KEVIN McDERMOTT > kmcdermott@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8268 — UPDATE 1:48 p.m.: Akin spokesman Ryan Hite has responded with a one-line written statement: “It was a stupid comment to make.”

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, CNN, Political Capital, Right Wing Watch and New York Magazine

Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:

GOP Senate Candidate Akin: ‘Free Enterprise’ Means Being Allowed To Deny Equal Pay To Women — Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) has struggled with a well-established woman problem in his Senate campaign, ever since he claimed women could not get pregnant from “legitimate rape.”

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

BuzzFeed:

“Morning Joe” Mocks Romney For Something That Didn't Happen — A misleading subtitle leads to a viral clip making fun of Romney. A frustrated Scarborough defends the clip on Twitter, says he will “take note” of all those who note the mistake. — On Wednesday, MSNBC's Morning Joe kicked off …

Discussion: Battleground Watch, Riehl World News and driftglass

Becket Adams / TheBlaze.com:

ANOTHER MSNBC SCANDAL? BLAZE READERS AT CAMPAIGN EVENT CLAIM NETWORK MISLED IN VIDEO OF RALLY CHANT (WITH AUDIO COMPARISON) — On Wednesday, MSNBC aired a clip of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney leading what looks like a failed “Romney-Ryan” chant at a campaign stop in Ohio on Tuesday …

Discussion: Scared Monkeys, NewsBusters.org blogs, iOwnTheWorld.com and The Lonely Conservative

Greg Hengler / Townhall.com:
MSNBC Caught Doctoring Clip From Romney/Ryan Rally

Discussion: NewsBusters.org blogs and The PJ Tatler

Fars News Agency:

Gallup Poll: Rural Whites Prefer Ahmadinejad to Obama — TEHRAN (FNA)- According to the results of a Gallup poll released Monday, the overwhelming majority of rural white Americans said they would rather vote for Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad than US President Barack Obama.

Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Iranian news agency duped by Onion

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Weekly Standard, The Gateway Pundit, The Back Channel and Outside the Beltway

James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:

Jim Webb on ‘Givers’ and ‘Takers’ — I have known, respected, and come very much to like Jim Webb over the course of more than 30 years. We originally met because of deep disagreements about the Vietnam War. He went to Annapolis, served with distinction and bravery as Marine officer …

Discussion: The Daily Dish and Politico

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:

Sept. 27: The Impact of the ‘47 Percent’ — After a secretly-recorded videotape was released on Sept. 17, showing Mitt Romney making unflattering comments about the “47 percent” of Americans whom he said had become dependent on government benefits, I suggested on Twitter that the political impact …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, The Atlantic Online, Greg's Opinion, Outside the Beltway and Seeing the Forest

Bobby Cervantes / Politico:

Peter King calls for Susan Rice's resignation — Rep. Peter King called for the resignation Friday of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice for initially saying that the deadly Sept. 11 assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was spontaneous.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Reuters, Nice Deb and CNN

Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Huckabee Suggests Obama Should Be Impeached Over Libya Incident

Discussion: Crooks and Liars and The Gateway Pundit

Fox News:
Top intelligence official backtracks on Libya story, says initial assessment premature

Discussion: CNN, National Review and The PJ Tatler

Steve Ralls / Immigration Equality:

Immigration Equality Praises Obama Administration for New, Written Guidance Providing Discretionary Relief to LGBT Immigrant Families — For Immediate Release — (202) 347-7007 / sralls@immigrationequality.org — Immigration Equality Praises Obama Administration for New …

Discussion: New York Times, Towleroad News #gay and Advocate

Miranda Leitsinger / U.S. News:
US immigration chief: Same-sex ties are family ties

Discussion: Firedoglake and ImmigrationProf Blog

Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed: Napolitano Orders Same-Sex Couples' Immigration Rights To Be Put In Writing

Henry Payne / Detroit News:

Dearborn Muslims rally against the First Amendment — Led by a newspaper publisher, Muslim activists will call for putting limits on American free speech at a Dearborn rally this evening. You can't make this stuff up. — Nearly a decade after Dearborn's streets celebrated America …

Discussion: BREITBART.COM, Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit

Michael Warren / Weekly Standard: Muslims in Michigan to Rally Against First Amendment

Mark Landler / New York Times:

Shifting Reports on Libya Killings May Cost Obama — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration's shifting accounts of the fatal attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, have left President Obama suddenly exposed on the national security and foreign policy issues …

Discussion: The Daily Caller

CNN:
Romney, Obama speak with Netanyahu

Discussion: Politico, The Hill, Townhall.com, The Gateway Pundit and Nice Deb

Jared A. Favole / Washington Wire:
Obama, Netanyahu Discuss Iran in Phone Call

Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Algemeiner.com

Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:

Obama and Romney are basically tied in Virginia — I've received plenty of emails from readers in Northern Virginia expressing skepticism about polls that have Obama leading Romney in Virginia by a significant wide margin. And with good reason; it is difficult to believe that Obama …

Discussion: GOP 12 and The Argo Journal

David Taintor / Talking Points Memo:

Meet Dean Chambers, The Virginia Republican Who Is ‘Unskewing’ The Polls — With Republicans up in arms over poll after poll showing President Obama ahead, conservatives have latched on to a new polling site that promises to “unskew” the data, correcting what the site believes are polling samples with too many darn Democrats.

Discussion: Mother Jones, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, Unqualified Offerings and Examiner

Michelle Goldberg / The Daily Beast:

With ‘Dreams From My Real Father,’ Have Obama Haters Hit Rock Bottom? — A pseudo-documentary that slimes Ann Dunham, the president's late mother, is being mailed to swing-state voters. A look at the film and Dinesh D'Souza's book, Obama's America. — So this is what it's come to.

Discussion: Addicting Info, The Maddow Blog, Right Wing Watch and The Impolitic

Los Angeles Times:

Suspicious voter registration forms found in 10 Florida counties — A Republican Party volunteer standing next to a cardboard cutout of President Ronald Reagan solicits newly naturalized U.S. citizens to register to vote. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images / August 23, 2012)

Discussion: his vorpal sword, AMERICAblog, The BRAD BLOG, Firedoglake, The Moderate Voice, The Maddow Blog, Prairie Weather and First Read

John Kartch / Americans for Tax Reform RSS:

Top Five Worst Obamacare Taxes Coming in 2013 — Of the twenty new or higher taxes in Obamacare, below are the five worst that will be foisted upon Americans for the first time on January 1, 2013. — Of the twenty new or higher taxes in Obamacare, below are the five worst …

Discussion: Hot Air

Ben Grant / Portland Press-Herald:

Maine Voices: Asking Dill to step aside assumes King is lying about his true intentions — In their recent columns, both Greg Kesich and Alan Caron laid the outcome of the U.S. Senate race at the feet of the Democrats by urging U.S. Senate candidate Cynthia Dill to step aside in order for Angus King to win.

Discussion: The Daily Caller, The Fix and Ballot Box

ABCNEWS:

Dems Pump Cash Into ME Senate Race, but for Whom? — The Democratic Senate Campaign Committee is buying $410,000 worth of TV advertising in the U.S. Senate race in Maine, but it's not clear for whom. — Executive Director Guy Cecil suggested Friday that the money will be used to fight …

Discussion: Politico

BBC:

France to raise taxes on wealthy — In its first budget, the Socialist government insisted its promise to cut the annual deficit to the eurozone limit of 3% of GDP next year. — The deficit this year is expected to be 83.6bn euros, which is 4.5% of GDP. — Official figures on Friday showed …

Discussion: Firedoglake, Slate, Forbes and blogs.telegraph.co.uk

Wall Street Journal:
France Raises Taxes in Tough Budget

Discussion: Hot Air, Via Meadia and Business Insider

Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:

Romney's Plan to Win Virginia: Lyme Disease — On Thursday evening, Anahita Nemat, a conservative PR specialist living in Northern Virginia, tweeted out this photo, with the description: “Received my first mailer from @MittRomney & @PaulRyanVP today. It talks about Lyme Disease. Huh? I'm confused!

Discussion: Weekly Standard, Election 2012 and Washington Monthly

Sjones / CNSNews:

Katie Couric Voted ‘The Worst Reporter in History of Man’ — (CNSNews.com) - At the Media Research Center's 25th Anniversary Gala in Washington, D.C., on Thursday night, former CBS News anchor Katie Couric was voted “The Worst Reporter in the History of Man.” — Couric barely edged out fellow former CBS News anchor Dan Rather.

Discussion: protein wisdom and The Lonely Conservative

Elspeth Reeve / The Atlantic Wire:

Just How Racist Is the ‘Obama Phone’ Video? — There was a video leading the Drudge Report on Thursday afternoon of a poor black woman with messed-up teeth saying she's voting for President Obama because he gave her a free phone, and perhaps you have some questions about it. Questions like: Is this video racist?

Discussion: Jammie Wearing Fools, The Daily Caller, Gawker, Althouse, iOwnTheWorld.com, Weasel Zippers, Patterico's Pontifications, The Other McCain, The Maddow Blog, Conservatives4Palin, ThinkProgress, Washington Examiner and The PJ Tatler

Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:

Inside The Planning Of A James O'Keefe “Sting” — The conservative provocateur planned a sting of SEIU in 2010 — based off information from a source of John Fund's, with Foster Friess as a potential investor. It didn't end up working out. (Updated below) — Source: images.politico.com

Discussion: Daily Kos