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Matthew Zeitlin / BuzzFeed:
Scott Rudin On Obama's Favorite Movies: “I Bet He Likes Kevin Hart” — An exchange between Sony Pictures chair Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin turned into a riff on films they thought the president liked. UPDATE: Both Rudin and Pascal have apologized for the emails. — Danny Moloshok / Reuters
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Alex Stedman / Variety:
Leaked Sony Emails Reveal Jokes About Obama and Race — In the latest of embarrassing emails to leak online from Sony this week, studio co-chairman Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin riff on what President Barack Obama's favorite movies could be, focusing mostly on films starring and by African Americans.
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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Warren, left fume over deal — Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday sought to rally opposition to the $1.1 trillion government funding bill, spearheading a revolt on the left that has put her influence in the Democratic Party to the test. — The Massachusetts liberal pleaded for House Democrats …
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Progressives caucus urges ‘no’ vote on spending bill — The Congressional Progressive Caucus is pushing its nearly 70 Democrats to oppose a sweeping funding bill on Thursday because it rolls back a key aspect of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law. — The liberal group's whip operation blasted …
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The PJ Tatler
Reuters:
Psychologist says U.S. Senate's CIA report makes false charges — (Reuters) - One of the two psychologists who devised the CIA's harsh Bush-era interrogation methods said on Wednesday that a scathing U.S. Senate report on the torture of foreign terrorism suspects “took things out of context” and made false accusations.
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The Daily Beast, Mediaite and Politico
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Kasie Hunt / NBC News:
Rick Perry: Presidential Campaign's ‘Not an IQ Test’ — Texas Gov. Rick Perry says life experience is more important than book smarts in a president, telling NBC News he's not the same guy who ran in 2012.
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Talking Points Memo, Outside the Beltway and Daily Kos
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Kasie Hunt / msnbc.com:
Rick Perry: Presidency is ‘not an IQ test’
Rick Perry: Presidency is ‘not an IQ test’
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Hot Air, American Spectator, Bloomberg Politics and The Huffington Post
Oliver Milman / Guardian:
Full scale of plastic in the world's oceans revealed for first time — Over five trillion pieces of plastic are floating in our oceans says most comprehensive study to date on plastic pollution around the world — More than five trillion pieces of plastic, collectively weighing nearly 269,000 tonnes …
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The Strata-Sphere, Firedoglake and Althouse
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Miles Weiss / Bloomberg Politics:
Jeb Bush Has a Mitt Romney Problem — Over the last several months, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush has been giving speeches, campaigning for candidates, appearing at public forums, and meeting with wealthy donors, which has led many people to believe that he may soon enter the race to become the next Republican presidential nominee.
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Washington Monthly, Business Insider, Talking Points Memo and CNN
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Why The Media's Fact Problems Are Way Bigger Than Rolling Stone — George Packer argues in The New Yorker that journalism's big crisis is just a business crisis. In the very first paragraph, noting the collapse of Rolling Stone's story about a violent gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity …
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Minding The Campus, Ed Driscoll, The Dish, Instapundit, Hot Air and JustOneMinute
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Pelosi / Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi Dear Democratic Colleague on CRomnibus — It is clear from this recess on the floor that the Republicans don't have enough votes to pass the CRomnibus. This increases our leverage to get two offensive provisions of the bill removed: the bank bailout and big money for campaigns provision.
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The Daily Caller, Daily Kos and Business Insider
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Roll Call:
Lacking Sufficient Support, House GOP Leaders Delay ‘Cromnibus’ Vote — Unsure whether they have the votes to pass a trillion-dollar federal spending package, House GOP leaders on Thursday afternoon delayed a final vote on the “cromnibus.” — They did so with mere hours to go until …
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New York Times, PoliticusUSA and Political Wire
Scott Wong / The Hill:
Government shutdown would not stop Obama on immigration — Even if Republicans shut down the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) next year, President Obama could still carry out his executive actions giving legal status to up to 5 million undocumented immigrants.
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Catherine Keefe / Washington Post:
I'm an Obama supporter. But Obamacare has hurt my family. — Obamacare has been far more frustrating than I'd ever dreamed. — At the moment President-elect Barack Obama proclaimed that “change has come to America,” I stood at the foot of my husband's bed in the cardiac ICU of Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo.
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The Hill, Patterico's Pontifications, Hot Air and BREITBART.COM
Mike Giglio / BuzzFeed:
ISIS Is Trying To Sell The Body Of U.S. Hostage James Foley For $1 Million — Middlemen in touch with ISIS or its associates say the group has turned a grim new page in its deadly hostage trade âÂ" by trying to sell the remains of at least one of the U.S. citizens it has executed in Syria.
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Truth Revolt, rubber hose, Business Insider, New York Magazine, Mediaite and National Review
Beverly Johnson / Vanity Fair:
Bill Cosby Drugged Me. This Is My Story. — Like most Americans, I spent the 60s, 70s, and part of the 80s in awe of Bill Cosby and his total domination of popular culture. He was the first African American to star in a dramatic television series, I Spy, a show my family in Buffalo, New York, always watched.
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Gawker and TMZ.com
Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
Gawker discusses cost of ‘gamergate’ — The “gamergate” controversy cost Gawker Media “seven figures” in lost advertising revenue, the company's head of advertising Andrew Gorenstein said at an all-hands meeting on Wednesday afternoon, according to two people in attendance at the meeting.
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Talking Points Memo, Politico and New York Magazine, more at Mediagazer »
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
All Senate GOP staff going on ObamaCare — Senate Republican staffers will be required to obtain health insurance through ObamaCare's exchanges under a rule passed Wednesday by the GOP Conference. — The proposal from Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) means that Senate Republicans will designate their staff as …