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NBC Fires Producer of Misleading Zimmerman Tape — NBC News has fired a producer who was involved in the production of a misleading segment about the Trayvon Martin case in Florida. — The person was fired on Thursday, according to two people with direct knowledge of the disciplinary action …
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Mediaite, Weasel Zippers, NewsBusters.org, Deadline.com, Macsmind, The Volokh Conspiracy and HotAirPundit, more at Mediagazer »
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Armed Neo-Nazis Now Patrolling Sanford, Say They Are “Prepared” For Post-Trayvon Martin Violence — Neo-Nazis are currently conducting heavily armed patrols in and around Sanford, Florida and are “prepared” for violence in the case of a race riot. The patrols are to protect …
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Firedoglake, The Impolitic, The Raw Story and Little Green Footballs

NBC Producer Out But Unnamed — The NY Tmes breaks its Trayvon Martin silence long enough to report at one of their blogs that an unnamed NBC producer has been fired as a result of the doctored Zimmerman “He looks black” report. — The people with direct knowledge of the firing characterized …
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TheBlaze.com

CNN proves “beyond a reasonable doubt” why cases should not be tried in the media — If it were not for the fact that a young man is dead, the factual accounts and investigations in the media of the shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman would be laughable.
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JustOneMinute


NBC probe centers on staffer in shooting story error — (Reuters) - An internal NBC News probe has determined a “seasoned” producer was to blame for a misleading clip of a 911 call that the network broadcast during its coverage of the Trayvon Martin shooting, according to two sources at the network.
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The Daily Caller, Weasel Zippers, neo-neocon and TVNewser, more at Mediagazer »

Blacks, Nonblacks Hold Sharply Different Views of Martin Case
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Weasel Zippers, Campaign 2012, Politico and The Gateway Pundit

Five conservative Supreme Court men join Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, John Boehner and Ron Paul in the war against women — In my latest column, Supreme Court on trial, I initiated a new discussion about how five conservative men on the Supreme Court have joined partisan Republicans in the war against laws and programs that serve women.
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Mediaite, Politico, Hot Air, Ed Driscoll and The Hill
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At UK, Clarence Thomas talks about his upbringing, Supreme Court — His joking remarks gave his audience little doubt about his political views. — After congratulating the University of Kentucky men's basketball team for winning the school's eighth NCAA national championship this week …
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NewsBusters.org

Clarence Thomas scolds colleagues for talking too much at oral arguments — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas defended his silence during the oral arguments last week on President Obama's healthcare law and scolded his colleagues for talking too much. — “I don't see where that advances anything …


National Review Writer Pens Racist Screed: ‘Avoid Concentrations Of Blacks,’ ‘Stay Out Of’ Their Neighborhoods — Popular conservative columnist and National Review writer John Derbyshire topped all of his previous racist screeds (and sexist rants) today by posting a long breakdown …
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Mock, Paper, Scissors

Scott Walker Quietly Repeals Wisconsin Equal Pay Law … REACT: — FOLLOW: — WASHINGTON — A Wisconsin law that made it easier for victims of wage discrimination to have their day in court was repealed on Thursday, after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) quietly signed the bill.
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Democrats in recall race zero in on wealthy
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Blogging Blue and National Review


The big March jobs miss — and why the real unemployment rate sure ain't 8.2% — Swing and a miss. A big miss. A really big miss. U.S. employers added just 120,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said on Friday. That's the smallest increase since October.
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Power Line, White House.gov Blog, The Hill, Doug Ross, Patterico's Pontifications, The PJ Tatler, NO QUARTER, CEPR and Conservatives4Palin
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That Other Obama — President Obama is an intelligent, judicious man who can see all sides of an issue. But every once in a while he tries to get politically cute, and he puts on his Keith Olbermann mask. — I suppose it's to his credit that he's most inept when he tries to take the low road.
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Firedoglake, Washington Post, Paul Krugman, Washington Monthly, Mediaite, msnbc.com, No More Mister Nice Blog and Politico
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Common Sense: Lots of Accolades, but Little Action, on Budget Plan - Common Sense
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The Huffington Post and No More Mister Nice Blog


Bella Santorum Admitted to Hospital — Bella Santorum, the youngest daughter of Rick Santorum, has returned to the hospital. — “Rick and his wife Karen have taken their daughter Bella to the hospital,” Santorum spokesman Hogan Gidley said in a written statement.
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Fire Andrea Mitchell!
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‘God Prefers Kind Atheists Over Hateful Christians,’ Portland Church's Sign Reads … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Atheism, Christianity, God Prefers Kind Atheists, Easter, Easter, Reconciling Ministries Network, Tom Tate, United Methodist Church, Portland, Portlandia, Good News
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Lippmann's Ghost and BuzzFeed


The 5th Circuit Court's insult to Obama — Editor's note: Laurence H. Tribe is Carl M. Loeb University professor and professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School. — (CNN) — There has never been any doubt that President Obama fully accepts the Supreme Court's authority to render …
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The Star-Ledger Editorial Page, Law Blog and Politico

Checking Santorum's delegate math: Are Romney's numbers really inflated? — According to a campaign strategist for Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney doesn't have anywhere near the number of delegates that both his campaign and most media outlets report. — A memo by strategist John Yob …
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CNN, Associated Press and Runnin' Scared


Navy F-18 crashes in Va. Beach — I-264 shut down in both directions at Laskin — VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) - The Navy confirms to WAVY.com that an F-18 jet has crashed in Virginia Beach Friday afternoon. — Grazia Moyers, spokeswoman for the Virginia Beach Police Department …
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msnbc.com, The Jawa Report and HotAirPundit

Obama, Comedian-in-Chief, Woos Women Supporters — While the Obama administration sought to convince women today that it is fighting for gender equality, it was hard to miss some of the awkward laughs President Obama's one-liners brought from the mostly-female crowd gathered at the White House Forum on Women and the Economy.
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Indecision Forever


Intuit Is Now The Fourth Company To Drop Voter Suppression Group ALEC — Software company Intuit, the makers of programs such as Turbo Tax and Quicken, announced today that they will join Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Kraft as the fourth company to end their partnership with the right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council this week.
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Paper Chase and Center for Media and Democracy

Murphy called ‘whore’ in Dem debate — Rep. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) was called a “whore” by a primary opponent during Thursday night's debate for Connecticut's open Senate seat. — Lee Whitnum, who is mounting her second bid for the Senate in Connecticut, blasted Murphy over his support for Israel, the New Haven Register reported.
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Scared Monkeys, The New Haven Register, Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit, The PJ Tatler and Pirate's Cove


Jobs Report, Take #2 — As mentioned in my earlier post, we may be at the beginning of another downshift in job growth or March's disappointing report could be an anomalous blip down in a better underlying trend. There's some reason to hope for the latter—I noted the seasonality issues caused …
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The Daily Dish and Hullabaloo


Found to Have Misbehaved With Pupils, but Still Teaching — A health teacher at a high school in Manhattan, joking about life for homosexuals in prison, forced a male student to bend over a desk, lined up behind him to simulate a sex act, then quipped, according to an Education Department …
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Runnin' Scared, The Enterprise Blog, Eduwonk and Capital New York