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Igor Bobic / Talking Points Memo:
Former ‘60 Minutes’ Producer: Discredited Benghazi Story Was Done To Appeal To Conservatives — A former “60 Minutes” producer who was fired over a 2004 story about then-President George W. Bush's service in the Air National Guard said Friday that CBS' now retracted story about the attack in Benghazi …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Simon & Schuster pulling Benghazi book — The publisher for Dylan Davies, the source of “60 Minutes” controversial Benghazi report, announced on Friday that they are pulling his book “in light of information” brought to their attention since its publication.
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Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
CBS 60 Minutes' Lara Logan Apologizes for Erroneous Benghazi Survivor Report: ‘We Were Wrong’ — CBS 60 Minutes reporter Lara Logan admitted on Friday that a person who claimed to have been witness to the deadly September 11, 2012 attack on an American consulate in Benghazi and who served …
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New York Times:
CBS to Correct Erroneous Report on Benghazi — As it prepared to broadcast a rare on-air correction Sunday for a now-discredited “60 Minutes” report, CBS News acknowledged on Friday that it had suffered a damaging blow to its credibility. Its top executive called the segment …
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Obama's Second-Term Slide Continues — 65% Disapprove of his Handling of Economy — Barack Obama has had a difficult year since his reelection victory. His overall job rating stands at 41%, down 14 points since last December. A majority (53%) now disapproves of the way he is handling his job as president.
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George E. Condon Jr / NationalJournal.com:
How Obama Blew the Entire Last Year
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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Noonan: 'I'm Gonna Be the Republican Nominee' — Mitch McConnell on the shutdown's failure, ObamaCare's future, and his own primary challenge. — Washington — It is a month since the government shutdown and a day after the election. The minority leader of the U.S. Senate …
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Andrew Kohut / Wall Street Journal:
The GOP Is in Better Shape Than You Think — Independents favor the GOP on handling the economy by a whopping 46%-30% margin. — Tucked away in recent polls—which have documented the extraordinary anger directed at the Republican Party during the shutdown crisis—are measures of clear disappointment with the Democratic Party.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell quietly convenes group for next fiscal showdown
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Obama Considers Administrative Fix To Health Care Law — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is considering a fix to the president's health care law that would expand the universe of individuals who receive tax subsidies to help buy insurance, an administration source told The Huffington Post.
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Lynn Sweet Washington / Chicago Sun Times:
Sweet: Obama tries to empathize over health insurance cancellations, but is that the best he's got?
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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Analysis: Tens of millions could be forced out of health insurance they had — Facebook Twitter Google Plus Reddit E-mail Print — WASHINGTON — Even as President Barack Obama sold a new health care law in part by assuring Americans they would be able to keep their insurance plans …
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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Obama laments site, not health plans
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Donna Cassata / Associated Press:
House GOP Leader: No Vote On Immigration Reform This Year — WASHINGTON (AP) — The third-ranking House Republican told immigration advocates that lawmakers won't vote this year on the issue, confirming what many had long assumed. — California Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the majority whip …
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Brian Beutler / Salon:
GOP's intolerance trap: How ENDA fight explains all of U.S. politics
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Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Top Oversight Dem slams Issa for HealthCare.gov claims — The top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee says he has evidence that contradicts information Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has released about the number of users HealthCare.gov was expected to handle.
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The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: Obama's Secret Iran Détente — Long before a nuclear deal was in reach, the U.S. was quietly lifting some of the financial pressure on Iran, a Daily Beast investigation reveals. How the sanctions were softened. — The Obama administration began softening sanctions …
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Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
Obama Burns Media Supporters with Apology — Many were hurled under President Barack Obama's bus on Thursday night when he told NBC News reporter Chuck Todd that he was “sorry” those who were losing their health insurance coverage were shocked by this eventuality because of repeated “assurances” he made to the contrary.
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JustOneMinute and Outside the Beltway
Shahien Nasiripour / The Huffington Post:
New York Fed Chief Levels Explosive Charge Against Big Banks — The head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Thursday that some of America's largest financial institutions appear to lack respect for the law, a potentially explosive charge against an industry already roiling …
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Associated Press:
HOME DEPOT APOLOGIZES FOR RACIST TWEET — You are here — Home » AP Company » Home Depot apologizes for racist tweet — NEW YORK (AP) — Home improvement maker Home Depot Inc. on Thursday apologized for a tweet that showed a picture of two African-American drummers with a person …
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Jennifer Kabbany / The College Fix:
UC Berkeley Student Government Bans Term ‘Illegal Immigrant’ — The UC Berkeley student government has banned the term “illegal immigrant” from its discourse, deeming the phrase racist, offensive, unfair and derogatory. — In an unanimous vote, student senators passed a resolution that stated the word …
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Weasel Zippers, National Review, protein wisdom and Liberaland
Michael Kinsley / New York Times:
‘Double Down,’ by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann — “Chasmal.” Is that a word? Here, I'll use it in a sentence for you: “Santorum had been turfed out of office in 2006, losing his re-election bid by a chasmal 18-point margin.” According to Merriam Webster, it is indeed a word, meaning "resembling a chasm."
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The New Republic and Hullabaloo
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Guns & Ammo Editor Apologizes for Pro-Gun Control Column, Steps Down — Unconditional Apology Follows Reader Outrage in Social Media — Jim Bequette, the editor in chief of Guns & Ammo, issued an abject apology Thursday for the magazine's recent editorial advocating gun regulation …
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Voices, Hit & Run and The Reality-Based Community
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Only 5 enrollments completed in D.C. Obamacare exchange — Only five people have fully completed the enrollment process in the D.C. insurance exchange, according to information compiled by lawmakers from four of the insurance companies participating in the exchange.
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