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NTSB:
NTSB statement on erroneous confirmation of crew names — The National Transportation Safety Board apologizes for inaccurate and offensive names that were mistakenly confirmed as those of the pilots of Asiana flight 214, which crashed at San Francisco International Airport on July 6.
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NY Daily News:
San Francisco plane crash: TV station duped into giving racist, false names of pilots by NTSB intern — Oakland's KTVU apologizes for saying ‘Captain Sum Ting Wong,’ ‘Wi Tu Lo,’ ‘Ho Lee Fuk,’ and ‘Bang Ding Ow’ flew the plane - but says NTSB had confirmed the names.
Discussion:
Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Colorlines
KTVU-TV:
KTVU Apology for Friday Noon report — Sponsored Links — On Friday evening, KTVU Channel 2 issued the following on-air apology. — On Friday, July 12, during the KTVU Channel 2 Noon newscast, we misidentified the pilots in the Asiana Airlines crash. — We made several mistakes when we received this information.
Barry Petchesky / Deadspin:
Pranked TV Station Reports “Ho Lee Fuk,” “Wi Tu Lo” As SF Crash Pilots — Bay Area Fox affiliate KTVU purportedly learned the names of the flight crew of Asiana flight 214, which crashed last Saturday at San Francisco International Airport, killing two. These—"Sum Ting Wong," “Wi Tu Lo …
Discussion:
Jammie Wearing Fools, The Gateway Pundit and Outside the Beltway
Nick Gass / Politico:
NTSB confirmed fake pilot names of Flight 214 — The NTSB said late Friday that an intern had confirmed to a California news station the fake names of the pilots aboard the crashed Asiana flight in San Francisco, sparking an outcry in the national media and prompting an on-air apology from the station.
Discussion:
KTVU-TV, The PJ Tatler, americanthinker.com, Los Angeles Times and NewsBusters blogs
Cord Jefferson / Gawker:
KTVU Reports Asiana Air Pilots Were “Sum Ting Wong” and “Ho Lee Fuk”
Discussion:
No More Mister Nice Blog, Balloon Juice and Sense of Events
The Texas Tribune:
Abortion Bill Finally Passes Texas Legislature … After impassioned, often personal speeches from lawmakers in both parties noting the emotions that have followed House Bill 2 through the legislative process, the Texas Senate approved the omnibus abortion measure late Friday night.
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NBC Latino, Taegan Goddard's … and The Reaction
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The Huffington Post:
Tampons Confiscated, Guns Still Allowed At Texas Capitol Ahead Of Abortion Vote [UPDATE] — UPDATE — 4:43 p.m.: According to a tweet from Stand With Texas Women, the Department of Public Safety has stopped confiscating tampons and maxi pads. According to Burnt Orange Report …
Josh Rubin / CNN:
Texas Senate passes abortion bill
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Jezebel, ThinkProgress, The Raw Story, PoliticusUSA and Daily Kos
John Schwartz / New York Times:
Texas Senate Approves Strict Abortion Measure
Discussion:
Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Gawker and Outside the Beltway
Shefali Luthra / The Texas Tribune:
Protesters Question Report on Confiscations
Discussion:
Guardian and RH Reality Check
KETK NBC:
Jars of urine, feces confiscated at TX capitol as abortion bill voting takes place
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addictinginfo.org, Hot Air, The Lonely Conservative, The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers and National Review
Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:
You're Allowed To Carry A Gun Into The Texas Senate Gallery, But Not A Tampon
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Washington Monthly, americanthinker.com, The Raw Story, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Reuters, Hullabaloo, Dallas Morning News and CNN
Manu Raju / Politico:
Brian Schweitzer gives GOP Senate hopes new life — Former Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer said Saturday he won't run for the Senate in Montana — a surprise development that imperils Democrats' chances of holding the seat in 2014. — He told the Associated Press that he wants to stay …
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CNN, Weekly Standard, Business Insider and Taylor Marsh
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Matt Gouras / Daily Journal:
APNewsBreak: Former Democratic Mont. Gov. Schweitzer won't run for open US Senate seat — HELENA, Montana — Popular former Gov. Brian Schweitzer says he will not run for Montana's open U.S. Senate seat in 2014. — The Democrat tells The Associated Press on Saturday he doesn't want to leave Montana and go to Washington, D.C.
Discussion:
Ballot Box, Outside the Beltway, Post Politics and Daily Kos
David Bauerlein / Associated Press:
State Attorney Angela Corey fires information techonology director who raised concerns in Trayvon Martin case — State Attorney Angela Corey fired her office's information technology director Friday after he testified last month about being concerned prosecutors did not turn over information …
Discussion:
Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, protein wisdom, Scared Monkeys and Weasel Zippers
Daniel Beekman / NY Daily News:
Eliot Spitzer sued for defamation by Wall Street titan Hank Greenberg — Lawsuit charges Spitzer has kept up 'a long-standing malicious campaign ... to discredit Mr. Greenberg and damage Mr. Greenberg's reputation and career, while attempting to bolster Mr. Spitzer's own reputation and career.'
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Crooks and Liars, Wall Street Journal, Yahoo! News and New York Times
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Reuters:
Snowden documents could be ‘worst nightmare’ for U.S.: journalist — (Reuters) - Fugitive former U.S. spy contractor Edward Snowden controls dangerous information that could become the United States' “worst nightmare” if revealed, a journalist familiar with the data said in a newspaper interview.
Discussion:
Little Green Footballs, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Raw Story and WikiLeaks
Jonathan Bernstein / Salon:
Wendy Davis can't lose in 2014 — no matter the outcome — Yes, she's a Democrat in a very red state — but regardless of the result, here's why she should run for Governor — It's not the job of outsiders to tell people what to do with their political careers.
Discussion:
New York Times
Gail Collins / New York Times:
The House Just Wants to Snack — And, now, the Tasty Bites theory of government. — You may have heard that the House of Representatives passed a farm bill this week. Or possibly not. I have found that many Americans can go for a very long time without mentioning the farm bill.
Discussion:
Slate and Prairie Weather
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
THE REPUBLICAN FLYING MONKEYS TRIUMPH
Discussion:
Firedoglake, The Reaction and Campaign for America's Future
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Administration pressures human rights groups not to help Snowden — The Obama administration on Friday urged human rights groups not to help National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden seek asylum. — A U.S. Embassy official called a human rights activist who was set to meet with Snowden …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
White House: Obama to personally lobby Putin on Edward Snowden
Discussion:
Politico, Boing Boing and The Daily Caller
Daniel J. Flynn / American Spectator:
Two Males, No Men — They don't make men like they used to. One can consult a Danish study that shows plummeting testosterone levels for scientific confirmation of this. Or, one could more easily turn on any cable news network's wall-to-wall coverage of the Zimmerman-Martin case …
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Balloon Juice and Rush Limbaugh
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