memeorandum: Noonan: Confusing Strength With Aggression (Wall Street Journal)

2:10 PM ET, October 12, 2012

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CNN:

CNN Poll: Debate watchers split on who won VP debate — Danville, Kentucky (CNN) - Call it a draw. — Forty-eight percent of voters who watched the vice presidential debate think that Rep. Paul Ryan won the showdown, according to a CNN/ORC International nationwide poll conducted right after Thursday night's faceoff.

CBS News:

Poll: Biden takes debate over Ryan, uncommitted voters say — Fifty percent of uncommitted voters who tuned into Thursday night's vice presidential debate in Danville, Ky., said they see Vice President Joe Biden as the winner over Mitt Romney's GOP running mate Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., according to an instant poll taken by CBS News.

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Wall Street Journal:

The Bully vs. the Wonk — The Veep's strategy: Show contempt for your opponent. — So now we know what Team Obama's comeback plan was following last week's defeat in the Presidential debate. Unleash Joe Biden to interrupt, filibuster, snarl, smirk and otherwise show contempt for Paul Ryan.

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Rick Wilson / Ricochet Conversations Feed:

The Edge of Panic — Last night's performance by Biden â€" capering, giggling, near-maniacal opera buffa â€" was targeted in one place: a dispirited, demoralized Democratic base on the edge of panic. — Paul Ryan was businesslike, steady, and on-point.

Joe Biden / CNN:

Transcript: Vice Presidential Debate — (CNN) - Vice President Joe Biden and Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan met in Danville, Kentucky on Thursday evening for the vice presidential debate. — MARTHA RADDATZ, MODERATOR: Good evening, and welcome to the first and only vice presidential debate …

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Wall Street Journal:

Noonan: Confusing Strength With Aggression — A draw on substance, but the vice president loses on style. — The vice presidential debate was uniquely important because if Paul Ryan won it or did well, the Romney-Ryan ticket's momentum would be continued or speed up. If he did not, that momentum would slow or stop.

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Katie Glueck / Politico:

Sarah Palin: Martha Raddatz let Joe Biden run wild — Sarah Palin took vice presidential debate moderator Martha Raddatz to task for allowing Vice President Joe Biden to “run roughshod” over Paul Ryan. — “Really tough format, Sean, for someone like a Paul Ryan or anybody else up against Joe Biden …

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Patrick Gavin / Politico:
Twitter frowns on Joe Biden's laugh

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Alex Wong / Rolling Stone: The Vice Presidential Debate: Joe Biden Was Right to Laugh

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
In Polls, Biden Gets a Hold

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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Angry old man yells at Paul Ryan for 90 minutes; Update: CNN insta-poll of undecideds shows tie …

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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
GOP not smiling over Biden's laughter at debate vs. Ryan

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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Biden Bombed — You don't win a nationally televised debate by being rude and obnoxious.

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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
VP Debate 2012: The Real Paul Ryan Is Bad for America

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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Very Quick Thoughts

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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Joe Biden Dispenses With the Niceties

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Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
Thoughts on the vice presidential debate

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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Live-Blogging The Biden-Ryan Debate

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Ricochet Conversations Feed:
Mollie Hemingway, Ed. : You Want To Win The Debate, But You Also Want To Win The Post-Debate

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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Debate verdict: Martha Raddatz took control

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Andrew Rosenthal / Taking Note:
In Praise of Martha Raddatz

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Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:

White House: Obama and Biden were never aware of requests for more Benghazi security — Vice President Joseph Biden speaks only for himself and President Barack Obama, and neither man was aware that U.S. officials in Libya had asked the State Department for more security before the Sept. 11 attack …

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Eli Lake / The Daily Beast:

VIDEO CAPTURED LIBYA ATTACK — Footage from the night of Sept. 11 might be the clearest evidence yet of a military-style assault on the consulate in Benghazi. Eli Lake reports. — Video footage from the United States consulate in Benghazi, Libya, taken the night of the Sept. 11 anniversary attacks …

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Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
Biden contradicts State Department on Benghazi security

Gene Maddaus / The Informer:

Brad Sherman Grabs Howard Berman At Debate, Challenges Him To A Fight — Think Biden-Ryan was a hard-fought debate? Then you missed the Berman-Sherman brawl up in the Valley today. — Congressman Brad Sherman put his arm around rival Congressman Howard Berman and challenged him to a fight, saying “Do you want to get into this?”

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Shelby Grad / PolitiCal:
Berman, Sherman get into near-altercation at forum [Video]

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Michael R. Blood / Associated Press:
Brad Sherman, Howard Berman Fight: California Congressional Race Turns Physical (VIDEO)

Discussion: Mediaite and National Review

John Boone / E! Online:

NEWS/Lindsay Lohan: I'm Voting for Mitt Romney — Lindsay Lohan should have enough issues to focus on in her life (like, say, the blow up fight she had with her mom and subsequent fight she had with her dad) but she has another on her mind: Unemployment. — The Liz & Dick star stepped …

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Cindy Adams / New York Post:

Lindsay Lohan endorses Mitt Romney — LOS ANGELES - Four years ago, Lindsay Lohan referred to Obama's Presidential victory as “amazing,” but cut to 2012, and it seems the “Mean Girls” star has had a serious change of heart. — “I think unemployment is very important for now, so as of now I think …

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Nobelprize.org:

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2012 — The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2012 is to be awarded to the European Union (EU). The union and its forerunners have for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe.

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Iain Martin / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
EU winning Nobel Peace Prize is beyond parody, like knighting Fred Goodwin in the middle of a mad boom

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TWS Podcast / Weekly Standard:

Kristol Reacts to the Vice Presidential Debate — Hosted by Michael Graham. — THE WEEKLY STANDARD podcast with Bill Kristol, hosted by Michael Graham: — This podcast can be downloaded here. Subscribe to THE WEEKLY STANDARD's iTunes podcast feed here.

Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:

At The Vice Presidential Debate: Ryan Told 24 Myths In 40 Minutes — Paul Ryan spoke for 40 of the 90 minutes during Thursday night's vice presidential debate and managed to tell at least 24 myths during that time: — 1) “It took the president two weeks to acknowledge that [the Libya attack] was a terrorist attack.”

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Lee Enterprises / Missoulian:

Grenade burns sleeping girl as SWAT team raids Billings home — A 12-year-old girl suffered burns to one side of her body when a flash grenade went off next to her as a police SWAT team raided a West End home Tuesday morning. — “She has first- and second-degree burns down the left side …

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Edward Krudy / Reuters:

U.S. consumer sentiment jumps ahead of elections — (Reuters) - U.S. consumer sentiment unexpectedly rose to its highest in five years in October as consumers became more optimistic about the economy in a possible boost to President Obama's reelection hopes.

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Hinterland Gazette