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8:05 PM ET, September 28, 2007

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Brian Faughnan / Weekly Standard:
What Limbaugh Said  —  The folks on the Left are beside themselves today—thinking that by dint of a truncated quote, they will succeed in shutting down Rush Limbaugh and taking him off the air.  Before lining up next to the folks from Crooks and Liars, FireDogLake, Media Matters, ThinkProgress …
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Karen Tumulty / TIME: Swampland:
Re: Phony Soliders  —  Via Ana, who is not able to post it herself at the moment, comes this reaction to Rush from John McCain: … UPDATE: Rush is starting to look pretty lonely on this.  Mitt Romney spokesman Kevin Madden tells the Huffington Post: … Sphere Related Blogs & Articles
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Exclusive: Dem Rep To Introduce House Resolution Condemning Rush Limbaugh On Monday  —  I've just learned that Rep. Mark Udall (D-CO) will be introducing a resolution in the House of Representatives on Monday condemning Rush Limbaugh for his "phony soldiers" remark.
Bryan / Hot Air:
Media Matters leads dishonest smear on Rush Limbaugh's "phony soldiers" line Video added  —  Earlier in the week, it was Bill O'Reilly.  Now, it's Rush Limbaugh in the crosshairs as the lefty Gestapo hunts another head.  Like the O'Reilly smear, they're wrong on the facts here too.
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Breaking: White House Faults Rush Limbaugh Over "Phony Soldiers" Comment  —  As we reported earlier today over at The Horse's Mouth, Democrats and others have been pressuring the White House press corps to ask White House flack Dana Perino if President Bush — who'd earlier condemned MoveOn …
Discussion: Horses Mouth, AMERICAblog and Corrente
CNN Political Ticker:
Dems seize on Limbaugh's 'phony soldiers' comment
Anne Schroeder / The Politico:
MSNB-No?  —  Looks like MSNBC correspondent David Shuster may have deprived loyal MSNBC viewers of their favorite GOP talking heads — at least for now.  —  This week, the MSNBC reporter "sandbagged" Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) during an interview by asking her to name the last solider from her district to die in Iraq.
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Michael Roston / Huffington Post:
Congresswoman Pressed MSNBC For Retraction On Soldier Killed In Iraq  —  Staff for Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), who could not name the last soldier from her district killed in Iraq during an appearance on MSNBC, acknowledged they sought a retraction from the network after the incident occurred.
Atrios / Eschaton:   Wanking Dan Abrams
Patrick / mediabistro.com:
Report: Bohannon's "last legal address was in Blackburn's district."
Devlin Barrett / Associated Press:
Clinton: $5,000 for Every U.S. Baby  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that every child born in the United States should get a $5,000 "baby bond" from the government to help pay for future costs of college or buying a home.
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Associated Press:
Senior Al Qaeda in Iraq Leader Killed by U.S. Forces  —  WASHINGTON — U.S.-led forces have killed one of the most important leaders of Al Qaeda in Iraq, a Tunisian believed connected to the kidnapping and killings last summer of American soldiers, a top commander said Friday.
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Frederick W. Kagan / Opinion Journal:
Why We're Winning Now in Iraq  —  Anbar's citizens needed protection …
Discussion: Dean's World and SWJ Blog
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Hired Gun Fetish  —  Sometimes it seems that the only way to make sense of the Bush administration is to imagine that it's a vast experiment concocted by mad political scientists who want to see what happens if a nation systematically ignores everything we've learned over the past few centuries …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Gingrich takes step toward '08 run  —  Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will open a website by Monday in an effort to round up the $30 million in pledges that he says would be his ticket to entering the race for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.
Huffington Post:
Audio: Limbaugh Calls Iraq Vet "Staff Puke," Claims He Volunteered For War "To Pad [His] Resume"  —  Audio has surfaced of Rush Limbaugh viciously attacking another Iraq war veteran who was critical of President Bush's war policy.  —  Paul Hackett served in the 1st Marine Division in Ramadi and Fallujah during 2004 and 2005.
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PageOneQ.com Latest:
US Congressman owned home with another man, took DC tax deduction while voting in NC  —  Congressman Patrick T. McHenry (R-NC), right, purchased a residence in Washington, DC's Capital Hill neighborhood with another man, PageOneQ has learned.  While he owned the home, McHenry …
beliefnet:
John McCain: Constitution Established a 'Christian Nation'  —  Presidential candidate and U.S. Senator John McCain discusses the country's Judeo-Christian roots, explains why the prospect of a Muslim in the White House makes him uncomfortable, and reveals that he wouldn't undergo …
Discussion: ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES and Slog
Bonner R. Cohen Ph.D. / TCS Daily:
Gore Dodges Repeated Calls to Debate Global Warming  —  As over 150 heads of state and government gather at UN headquarters in New York to discuss climate change, former Vice President Al Gore, the most prominent proponent of the theory of the human-induced, catastrophic global warming …
 
 
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Martina Stewart / CNN Political Ticker:
Clinton and Obama to raise in the $20 million neighborhood
Stephanie Taylor / Democratic National Committee:
Giuliani Says He Took Cell Phone Call From Wife Because of Sept. 11
National Review:
Edwards: 'Pretty Soon We're Not Going to Have a Young African …
Libby Quaid / The Huffington Post:
Giuliani Cites Bible on Personal Life
Kimberly Hefling / Associated Press:
Murtha must testify in defamation case
The Hill:
As Bush seeks $190B more for war, Dems signal protracted battle looms
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Robynn Tysver / Omaha World-Herald:
Hal Daub exits Senate race
Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
A Prosecution Tests the Definition of Obscenity
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A job well done  —  As meaningless, non-binding symbolic Senate …
Mark Morford / San Francisco Chronicle:
Larry Craig's bathroom stall!  Haggard's meth hotel! …
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Edwards' talking points
Times of London:
The day Burma was silenced  —  The junta showed a subtle …
Julia Preston / New York Times:
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