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1:20 PM ET, July 13, 2013

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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.
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 …
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.
Matier And Ross:
KTVU apologizes for racist SF plane crash gaffe
Discussion: Boston Globe
Cord Jefferson / Gawker:
KTVU Reports Asiana Air Pilots Were “Sum Ting Wong” and “Ho Lee Fuk”
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
KTVU Apparently Pranked
Discussion: USA Today and Power Line
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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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 …
Shefali Luthra / The Texas Tribune:
Protesters Question Report on Confiscations
Discussion: Guardian and RH Reality Check
Chris Tomlinson / Associated Press:
Tampons Seized In Security Checks At Texas Abortion Debate
John Schwartz / New York Times:
Texas Senate Approves Strict Abortion Measure  —  AUSTIN, Tex. — The Texas Senate gave final passage on Friday to one of the strictest anti-abortion measures in the country, legislation championed by Gov. Rick Perry, who rallied the Republican-controlled Legislature late last month …
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Jonathan Bernstein / Salon:
Wendy Davis can't lose in 2014 — no matter the outcome
Discussion: New York Times
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 …
Discussion: CNN and Weekly Standard
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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.
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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Gothamist:
A Spitzer Petitioner's Tale: $1,600 To Get Signatures For “A Schmuck”
Discussion: New York Times and FT Alphaville
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
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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Rush Limbaugh and Balloon Juice
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