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2:35 PM ET, September 23, 2008

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Scott Conroy / CBS News:
Palin Camp Goes To New Lengths To Shut Out Media  —  From CBS News' Scott Conroy:  —  (NEW YORK) Update: After media outlets complained to the McCain/Palin campaign about its attempt to prevent an editorial presence at Gov. Palin's first meeting of the day, a pool producer was allowed …
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Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Palin press may boycott UN conference  —  NEW YORK - Journalists, displeased with Sarah Palin's efforts to restrict their access to her, are threatening not to cover her events surrounding the United Nations conference here unless they're allowed more access.
Michael Cooper / The Caucus:
Palin and Karzai Bond Over Children  —  Meeting Karzai |  1 p.m. When Gov. Sarah Palin sat down with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan on Tuesday afternoon, the polite preliminaries to their conversation centered around children, as Mr. Karzai spoke of the birth of his first child last year.
Sara Kugler / Associated Press:
Palin bars, then admits reporters to UN meetings  —  NEW YORK - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who has not held a press conference in nearly four weeks of campaigning, initially barred reporters from her first meetings with world leaders Tuesday, but reversed course after they protested.
Marc Ambinder:
Palin Shuts Down The Pool; Media Revolts (UPDATE)
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Hotline On Call:   Palin Meets Karzai, “No Writers” Allowed
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Sarah Palin's media-free zone
Discussion: Top of the Ticket
SteveK / TVNewser:
McCain Campaign About-Face On Editorial Presence for Palin's U.N. Visit
Discussion: The World Newser
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Press vs McCain
Discussion: Kevin Drum
Stanley Kurtz / Wall Street Journal:
Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools  —  Despite having authored two autobiographies, Barack Obama has never written about his most important executive experience.  From 1995 to 1999, he led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001.
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Marc Ambinder:
Obama And Ayres  —  Associations can be fair game, but here's my question about Barack Obama and William Ayres:  —  What “radical” ideas did Obama and Bill Ayres come up with to foist on the Chicago school system?  —  What specific projects — “radical” projects — did Obama work on with Ayres?
Discussion: Silent Running
The New Republic:
Kurtz's Obama-Ayers Fishing Expedition Comes Up Empty
Discussion: News Hounds, Kevin Drum and Israpundit
Peter Kirsanow / The Corner:
Ayers and Obama  —  Stanley Kurtz's articles today on NRO …
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Biden: ‘No coal plants here in America’  —  Some great rope line video from Joe Biden's recent Ohio swing, where he was asked by an anti-pollution campaigner about clean coal — a controversial approach in Democratic circles for which Obama has voiced support, particularly during the Kentucky primary.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Obama may scale back promises  —  Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) said in an interview aired Tuesday that the cost of the mortgage bailout plan may rein in his ambitious plans for health care, energy, education and infrastructure.  —  Obama's comments reflect the possible new constraints …
Aaron Bruns / FOX Embeds:
Biden Calls Obama Attack Ad “Terrible”
Discussion: The New Republic and USS Neverdock
CNN:
Biden dials back ‘terrible’ comment
Discussion: Open Left
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Biden garbles Depression history  —  Joe Biden's denunciation of his own campaign's ad to Katie Couric got so much attention last night that another odd note in the interview slipped by.  —  He was speaking about the role of the White House in a financial crisis.
Discussion: Power Line and Hot Air
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Jesse Walker / Reason:
And if you owned an experimental TV set in 1929, you would have seen him.  And you would have said to yourself, “Who is that guy?  What happened to President Hoover?”  —  From Katie Couric's sit-down with Joe Biden: … [Hat tip: John-David.]
Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:
Biden — The Election Wouldn't Be the Same without Him
Discussion: The Campaign Spot
M. Duss / Wonk Room:
Maliki: Bush Tried To Delay U.S. Withdrawal To Help McCain  —  In an al-Iraqiya interview on September 17, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki discussed the state of negotiations between the U.S. and Iraqi governments regarding the eventual withdrawal of U.S troops from Iraq.
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Ben / Think Progress:
EXCLUSIVE: Maliki Suggests Bush Pushed To Extend U.S. Presence In Iraq To Help McCain  —  Last July, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said U.S. troops should be out of Iraq “as soon as possible” and endorsed Sen. Barack Obama's (D-IL) withdrawal plan.  Obama “talks about 16 months.
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:   Bush Pressured Maliki to Revise Withdrawal Date to Bail Out McCain
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Close Contests in Four Key States:  —  The presidential race between John McCain and Barack Obama in four key battleground states remains remarkably stable despite a month of politically significant developments, with the Illinois senator running ahead of or even with his Republican rival according …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Boston Globe
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Mark Murray / MSNBC:
FIRST THOUGHTS: SUNSHINE FOR OBAMA
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Jay Newton-Small / Time:
Obama Scales Back His 50 State Strategy
Discussion: Townhall.com
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Mike Nizza / The Lede:
Following the Bailout Hearing  —  Too Little?, 1:36 p.m. Senator Bunning, citing Alan Greenspan's view that the $700 billion is nowhere near enough, asked Mr. Bernanke whether he may come back for more taxpayer money?  Agreeing, Mr. Bernanke said that it's hard to know how much is enough …
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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Factchecking the Factcheckers on Obama's New Ad  —  Factcheck.org has decided Barack Obama's new argument about John McCain's health care plan is misleading.  National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru agrees.  And, since I made a similar argument about McCain's health plan here on Sunday, Ramesh criticizes me, too.
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
McCain Loses His Head
Times of London:
CEO murdered by mob of sacked Indian workers  —  Corporate India is in shock after a mob of sacked workers bludgeoned to death the chief executive who had dismissed them from a factory in a suburb of Delhi.  —  Lalit Kishore Choudhary, 47, the head of the Indian operations of Graziano Transmissioni …
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Establishment Lives!  —  Once, there was a financial elite in this country.  During the first two-thirds of the 20th century, middle-aged men with names like Mellon and McCloy led Wall Street firms, corporate boards and white-shoe law firms and occasionally emerged to serve in government.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Not a surrogate  —  I'd missed “The View” yesterday, but watching now, it's striking how one of the world's great's political salesman is acting as an analyst, and not a surrogate, when it comes to this race, and making no real effort to boost Obama.
Discussion: Marc Ambinder and USS Neverdock
 
 
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Suzy Shuster / The Huffington Post:
An Open Letter to Tina Fey
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Punitive Measures  —  I just heard Ben Bernanke saying …
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Fifth Grader Suspended For Wearing Anti-Obama Shirt
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LIMBAUGH'S LATEST SMEAR.... I don't want to alarm anyone …
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