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10:00 PM ET, October 11, 2007

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Faiz / Think Progress:
EXCLUSIVE: E-mail Reveals That McConnell Staffer Propagated Smear Campaign Against Graeme Frost  —  Yesterday, ThinkProgress reported that there was mounting evidence that a staffer for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) may have been involved in the right-wing campaign to smear Graeme Frost and his family.
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Faiz / Think Progress:
CNN Pins Blame On Democrats For Right-Wing Smear Of 12-Year Old Boy  —  This morning, CNN aired its first report on the right-wing smear campaign against 12-year old SCHIP recipient Graeme Frost.  CNN pinned the blame on Democrats for assault on the Frost family.
Faiz / Think Progress:
Rep. Murphy on smear of Graeme Frost.
Discussion: The Gavel
Amy Ridenour / Townhall.com:
SCHIP, Graeme Frost, and the Bloggers
Discussion: QandO, Balloon Juice and Sadly, No!
Fox News:
Columnist Ann Coulter Shocks Cable TV Show, Declaring 'Jews Need to Be Perfected by Becoming Christians'  —  Slash-and-burn columnist Ann Coulter shocked a cable TV talk-show audience Monday when she declared that Jews need to be "perfected" by becoming Christians, and that America would be better off if everyone were Christian.
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Editor and Publisher:
Ann Coulter on CNBC Show: Jews Need 'Perfecting'  —  NEW YORK Appearing on Donny Deutsch's CNBC show, "The Big Idea," on Monday night, columnist/author Ann Coulter suggested that the U.S. would be a better place if there weren't any Jewish people and that they had "perfected" themselves into — Christians.
Little Green Footballs:
Media Matters Scandal of the Week  —  Well, judging from my email, a lot of people want to discuss the latest manufactured Media Matters controversy, Ann Coulter's statement that "Jews Need to Be Perfected by Becoming Christians."  —  I recommend reading the transcript at the above link …
The Raw Story:
Jewish group calls on media to boycott right wing author  —  The National Jewish Democratic Council called for media organizations to stop inviting arch-conservative Ann Coulter to appear on television after the right wing pundit and author continued her habit of making outrageous, offensive comments on national television.
Tom Hays / Associated Press:
Police: Columbia Won't Turn Over Video  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University has refused to turn over security videotape that could help identify who hung a noose on a black professor's office door, police said Thursday.  —  Investigators began asking on Wednesday for tapes from cameras in the building …
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Movement From the Gore-acle?  —  As regular Fix readers know, we have long been fascinated with former Vice President Al Gore and his future (or lack thereof) in elected politics.  —  The confluence of two recent stories has our Gore-dar buzzing again.  The first was an ad that ran in the New York Times yesterday.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
GLENN GREENWALD: Warrantless eavesdropping and telecom amnesty  —  There is a lot of debate about what accounts for the decrepit state of our political press, but often overlooked is the sheer sloth and ignorance of journalists, who repeat what they are told without having any idea what they are talking about.
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Media Matters for America:
Gibson knew school shooter was white because "[b]lack shooters don't" shoot themselves; "they shoot and move on" … On the October 10 broadcast of his nationally syndicated Fox News Radio show, while discussing 14-year-old Asa H. Coon, who earlier that day shot four people at his Cleveland high school …
Satyam / Think Progress:
Lynne Cheney: Terrorist Attacks Worldwide Don't Affect 'American Interests'  —  A frequent Bush administration talking point in defense of the "war on terror" is claiming that United States has not been attacked since 9/11.  —  Yesterday, Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Cheney …
Scout Prime / First Draft:
Please Blog...Fund Raising Drive to Bring Miracle and her family home to the Lower 9th Ward  —  Two weeks ago I posted about the Joseph family who lost their Lower 9th Ward home for the second time.  Kellie Joseph and her 6 children lost their home to Katrina.
Rocky Mountain News:
Documents: Qwest was targeted  —  'Classified info' was not allowed at ex-CEO's trial  —  The National Security Agency and other government agencies retaliated against Qwest because the Denver telco refused to go along with a phone spying program, documents released Wednesday suggest.
FactCheck.org:
Fred's Facts Check Out; Rudy's Don't  —  Thompson avoids error at his GOP debate debut.  But Giuliani commits multiple gaffes.  —  Former Sen. Fred Thompson got the facts straight for his GOP debate debut Oct. 9.  But former Mayor Rudy Giuliani added to a lengthening string of exaggerations and misstatements:
 
 
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Houston Chronicle:
Lawyers say judge violated executed man's rights
Rosalind Russell / The Independent:
Only now, the full horror of Burmese junta's repression of monks emerges
Discussion: Daimnation!
Steven R. Hurst / Associated Press:
9 children killed in U.S. raid in Iraq
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Bush: 'Didn't watch' the Republicans debate
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Rusty / The Jawa Report:
Sniper Scope POV in Iraq
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Jerry Seper / Washington Times:
Judge blocks crackdown on hiring of illegals
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Grand jury issues subpoena in Lewis probe
Discussion: D-Day
SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:
"Read the Constitution!"  —  Chris Matthews asks the GOP candidates …
Discussion: The Right's Field
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John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Regula to step down Friday, insiders say
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Answering Ezra  —  Ezra Klein homes in on my own record …
Jim Abrams / Associated Press:
`God' back on flag documents
Discussion: Hot Air and Stop The ACLU
Elizabeth Cohen / CNN:
Bosses, co-workers, may be killing you
The Rothenberg / The Rothenberg Political Report:
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Marshall criticized after 'nay' vote on child health
Michael J. Totten:
On Patrol in Ramadi  —  Join me and Army Captain Phil Messer …
Discussion: BLACKFIVE
Marcella Bombardieri / Boston Globe:
Clinton vows to check executive power