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James Hibberd / EW.com:
DONALD TRUMP GIVES SNL ITS BIGGEST RATINGS IN YEARS — Trump is still bringing the bump. — With Donald Trump hosting, Saturday Night Live jumped to its biggest overnight rating since 2012. — According to NBC, SNL had a whopping 6.6 household rating on Saturday night …
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Hank Stuever Tv / Washington Post:
Trump's sorry night on ‘SNL’: An overhyped bummer for us all — Donald Trump's highly touted and almost certainly inappropriate hosting gig on NBC's “Saturday Night Live” turned out to be an anemic and halfhearted dud. — Once upon a time, not so long ago, there might be a lesson to learn …
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ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript: Ben Carson and Donald Trump — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR ‘THIS WEEK’ ON NOVEMBER 8, 2015. (MUSIC PLAYING) ANNOUNCER (voice-over): Starting right now on ABC, THIS WEEK, live from New York with the GOP debate just days away, the Donald does “SNL.”
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Maureen Ryan / Variety:
Donald Trump on ‘Saturday Night Live’: Not Hugely Entertaining
Donald Trump on ‘Saturday Night Live’: Not Hugely Entertaining
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Vox, Washington Post, Outside the Beltway, Associated Press and Politico
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Larry David yells 'Trump's a racist' during ‘SNL’ monologue
Larry David yells 'Trump's a racist' during ‘SNL’ monologue
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Althouse, Towleroad and Slantpoint
John Santucci / ABC News:
Donald Trump Hosts ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Looks Ahead to 2018 in the White House
Donald Trump Hosts ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Looks Ahead to 2018 in the White House
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Associated Press, Hot Air and Politico
William Leitch / Bloomberg Business:
Kind of Dead As Trump Hosts Saturday Night Live
Kind of Dead As Trump Hosts Saturday Night Live
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Business Insider, MichelleMalkin.com, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Mother Jones
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Ben Carson's Psychology Test Story Gets Even Weirder — More Ben Carson news today! You remember Doc Carson's story about the psychology test hoax that proved he was the most honest man at Yale? Well, Carson says it really happened, and the proof is on the right.
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Dr. Ben Carson, Lawyers, Guns & Money, bradford-delong.com and Washington Post
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Casey Quinlan / ThinkProgress:
Ben Carson Says Drug Addiction Is A Symptom Of ‘Political Correctness’ — As voters in numerous states express increasing concern over the rise in drug abuse, current Republican presidential front-runner, neurosurgeon Ben Carson, said the problem can be traced back to an over-emphasis on “political correctness.”
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Carson thanks ‘biased media’ for $3.5M fundraising haul
Carson thanks ‘biased media’ for $3.5M fundraising haul
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Fox News, Politico, Mediaite and The San Diego Union …
Scott Gleeson / USA Today:
Missouri football players to boycott until president Tim Wolfe resigns — More than 30 football players at the University of Missouri will not participate in any practices or games until Missouri System president Tim Wolfe resigns or is terminated. Several black team members announced …
Elias Isquith / Salon:
“A turning point for Obama”: How the president learned to love the national security state — NYT reporter Charlie Savage tells Salon the real reason why Obama has broken less from Bush than many hoped — One of the great mysteries — and ongoing controversies — of the Barack Obama presidency …
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Washington Monthly and Hullabaloo
New York Post:
Mall downplays Christmas decorations so as not to ‘offend’ — A Long Island mall swapped Santa's sleigh for something resembling a spaceship and nixed the Christmas tree because it didn't want to “offend” anyone, irate shoppers told The Post. — The Roosevelt Field Mall ditched …
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protein wisdom, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Fox News Insider
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Dying of the Whites — STARTING around the turn of the millennium, the United States experienced the most alarming change in mortality rates since the AIDS epidemic. This shift was caused, not by some dreadful new disease, but by drugs and alcohol and suicide — and it was concentrated …
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JustOneMinute, Washington Monthly and Independent Journal
Paul Hakimata / National Review:
Democrats Asked for Obamacare but Now Try to Duck Out of Paying for It — Congressional Democrats led by Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are quietly working to repeal the “Cadillac tax,” a 40 percent excise on certain expensive health-insurance policies enacted as part of the so-called Affordable Care Act …
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Josh Blackman's Blog
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Clinton, Kimmel talk politics with kids — Women can't be president because “they're too girly” and will make “girl rules,” according to some youngsters appearing in a segment on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” that featured Hillary Clinton. — ABC's late-night host gathered a pair of girls and boys …
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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Fiorina defends not correcting ‘black Muslim’ remark about Obama
James Murray Exclusive / Daily Express:
British extremists linked to jet bomb: London & Birmingham voices heard cheering disaster — BRITISH extremists were behind the bombing of a Russian jet over Egypt, intelligence experts believe. — GETTY — British extremists have been linked to the Russian jet bomb
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Jihad Watch, Pamela Geller and Daily Mail
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Ana Marie Cox / The Daily Beast:
Ben Carson Thinks You're the Crazy One — The real reason we should mock Ben Carson's pyramid theory? Because it reveals a very dim view of humankind. — Of all the gifts that Ben Carson has given comedy writers and Twitter wags in the past weeks, it's his stubborn belief …
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ThinkProgress, Power Line, theGrio, The American Conservative and addictinginfo.org
Fox News:
Rep. McCaul on downed Russian jet, growing terror threat; Gov. Christie responds to missing cut for FBN's prime-time debate — This is a rush transcript from “Fox News Sunday,” November 8, 2015. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. — CHRIS WALLACE, FOX NEWS HOST: I'm Chris Wallace.