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11:00 AM ET, September 3, 2008

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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Aides Say Team Interviewed Palin Late in the Process  —  Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was not subjected to a lengthy in-person background interview with the head of Sen. John McCain's vice presidential vetting team until last Wednesday in Arizona, the day before McCain asked her to be his running mate …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
McCain: Palin more qualified than Obama  —  Mounting a ferocious defense of his embattled running mate, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said he is buying a TV ad arguing that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has more experience than the Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
McCain Strategist Blasts Media  —  Top Aide Says News Organizations Are ‘on a Mission to Destroy’ Palin  —  Sen. John McCain's top campaign strategist accused the news media Tuesday of being “on a mission to destroy” Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin by displaying “a level of viciousness and scurrilousness” …
William Yardley / New York Times:
Palin's Start in Alaska: Not Politics as Usual  —  WASILLA, Alaska — The world arrived here more than a century ago with the gold rush and later the railroad.  Yet one aspect of American life did not come to town until 1996, the year Sarah Palin ran for mayor and Wasilla got its first local lesson in wedge politics.
Washington Post:
Before Speech, Running Mate Gets Some Coaching  —  Since Sunday night, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has been holed up in her suite in the Hilton Minneapolis while a parade of Sen. John McCain's top advisers have briefed her on the nuances of his policy positions, national politics and, above all …
Wall Street Journal:
The Beltway Boys  —  Even as the Obama camp ponders how best to handle John McCain's veep pick of Sarah Palin, the high priests and priestesses of the media have marked her as an apostate.  The Beltway class is in full-throated rebellion against a nondomesticated conservative who might pose …
Discussion: Hot Air and Commentary
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Palin Slashed Funding for Teen Moms  —  ST. PAUL — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee who revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, earlier this year used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live.
Lindsey Ellerson / Live Blogging:
How Palin is Playing in the Supermarket Aisles  —  Rick Klein, from ABC's The Note, reports: Let's say you don't read The New York Times or The Washington Post (or The Note, for that matter).  Let's say you don't follow the big political blogs and you're not obsessed with every turn of the screw of this fascinating presidential race.
Rachel D'Oro / Associated Press:
Bristol Palin's boyfriend heads to convention  —  WASILLA - The boyfriend of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's unwed, pregnant daughter will join the family of the Republican vice presidential candidate at the GOP convention in St. Paul, Minn.  —  Levi Johnston's mother said her 18-year-old son left Alaska …
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
The Media Descend to a New Low  —  The smearing of Sarah Palin gets uglier.  —  Time's Mark Halperin has posted an advance copy of the cover of US Weekly magazine, the tabloid published by Rolling Stone's Jann Wenner.  That cover shows a smiling Sarah Palin, holding her youngest son Trig.
Discussion: The Foundry
Wall Street Journal:
GOP Tightens Image Control As Palin Prepares for Debut  —  ST. PAUL, Minn. — The McCain campaign scrambled to take control of the public debate over vice-presidential pick Sarah Palin, canceling her public appearances and teaming her with high-powered Republican operatives as she prepared …
Matt Welch / Reason:
The View on Palin from an Alaskan Anti-Real ID Activist and Democrat  —  I ran into anti-Real ID activist Bill Scannell, “the man who helped kill CAPPS II,” and asked him what intelligence he can give us about Sarah Palin, governor of the state he's lived in for the past several years.
Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:
Why Do We Like Palin?  —  Much has been written why Palin both brings strength to the McCain ticket and is a gamble at the same time.  Why then the growing wave of popular sentiment in her favor?  —  Various reasons, but one I think is that millions of Americans are simply tired of being lectured at by smug elites.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Well, I Did Something Right  —  Thanks to Stephen Hayes:
Discussion: Sonny Bunch
Los Angeles Times:
Sarah Palin is being prepped for prime time
Discussion: The Caucus and American Power
ABCNEWS:
Another Controversy for Sarah Palin
Discussion: Political Machine
Michael Isikoff / Newsweek Blogs:
Bushies Come to Palin's Aid
Discussion: RADAMISTO, The Moderate Voice and TBogg
New York Times:   A Low-Key Outdoorsman Faces a National Role
Matthew Mosk / Washington Post:
Palin Scrubbing Turns Up an Undeclared Car Wash
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Obama Met With Fox News Executives  —  At a secret meeting with Barack Obama three months ago, Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes says, he tried to clear the air with the Democratic senator by saying that his organization was determined to be fair but would not be “in the tank” for Obama's campaign.
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Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Obama to Appear on Fox on Thursday Night  —  CHICAGO — Before Senator John McCain delivers his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, Senator Barack Obama will make a marquee appearance of his own.  —  Call it counter-intuitive.  He will appear on “The O'Reilly Factor” on Fox News Channel.
Discussion: Outside The Beltway and Don Surber
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Dept. of Counterprogramming: Obama to appear on O'Reilly Thursday
Discussion: Top of the Ticket
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Angry Left  —  I don't have the credentials necessary to go to the actual convention, but according to folks I've talked to it's been low energy in the Xcel Energy Center and a not-exactly-packed house.  Indeed, President George W. Bush didn't even bother to show up in person to deliver …
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Joe Klein / Swampland:
The Republicans Tonight
Discussion: Jezebel and Spin Cycle
Hindrocket / Power Line:   A GOOD NIGHT FOR THE GOOD GUYS  —  The GOP convention got …
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Jewish voters may be wary of Palin  —  ST. PAUL, Minn. — Barack Obama has struggled for 18 months to lock down the support of a traditionally Democratic group, Jewish voters.  —  In the past week, John McCain may have helped Obama with his Jewish problem by choosing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate.
Michael Moore:
Michael Moore Responds to Joe Lieberman  —  (Last night, during his primetime speech from the podium at the Republican National Convention, Senator Joe Lieberman made the following statement: “... if John McCain is just another partisan Republican, then I'm Michael Moore's favorite Democrat.
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Obama ad slams McCain on abortion rights  —  ST. PAUL, Minn. — Barack Obama has launched a broadside against John McCain's opposition to abortion rights and moved one of the most divisive issues in modern American politics to the airwaves on a large scale for the first time in this presidential campaign.
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Gingrich Slams MSNBC's Allen Concerning Palin's Qualifications  —  Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich did what conservatives have been waiting for someone to do since Sarah Palin was announced as John McCain's running mate: take on someone in the media claiming that she lacks the qualifications to be vice president.
Discussion: Macsmind
 
 
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Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
Economy?  What Economy?  —  ST. PAUL, Minn. — Maybe it's …
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