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8:25 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.
Peter Hamby / CNN:
McCain camp tries to keep reporters out of Palin meetings  —  (CNN) — McCain-Palin campaign officials shifted course Tuesday after being informed by television news organizations that they would not broadcast footage of Sarah Palin's meeting with Afghan leader Hamid Karzai Tuesday in New York …
Discussion: The Swamp, MoJoBlog and Gawker
Jeffrey Goldberg:
What is the McCain Camp Hiding?
Discussion: News Hounds
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
A cluster in Midtown  —  Attempts to shield Palin from questions …
Discussion: Newshoggers.com
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Emptywheel:
Bush Mouthpiece Admits: They've Been Sitting on this Plan  —  Hidden in an article reporting that Cheney's going to go hunt up some support for the $700,000,000,000 bailout is this admission that the Bush Administration has been sitting on it for some time: … Which raises three questions for me:
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Daily Kos
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Gingrich urges vote against ‘stupid’ Paulson plan
Discussion: Daily Kos
Chris Bowers / Open Left:
There Is No Crisis—Summary  —  Things are getting a little suspicious …
Discussion: ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:
Chuck Schumer to Sec. Paulson: Why $700 billion?  Why not $150 billion?
Discussion: The RBC
Keith Koffler / Roll Call:
White House Dispatches Team to Push Economic Bill
Andy Glass / The Crypt's Blogs:
Gingrich: McCain should make bailout ‘Obama-Bush’ plan
Discussion: The Swamp
The Politico:
House GOP rises up against Cheney  —  There was a time when Dick Cheney could turn back a Republican revolt on Capitol Hill.  —  That time is gone.  —  House Republicans rose up en masse against their vice president on Tuesday morning to blast an administration proposal …
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Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Democrats to let offshore drilling ban expire  —  WASHINGTON - Democrats have decided to allow a quarter-century ban on drilling for oil off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to expire next week, conceding defeat in a months-long battle with the White House and Republicans set off by $4 a gallon gasoline prices this summer.
Discussion: Hot Air, Slog and QandO
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.
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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.]
Discussion: Wonkette
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Biden: ‘No coal plants here in America’
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Marc Ambinder:
Obama And Ayres  —  Associations can be fair game …
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Silent Running
Pew Research Center:
57% of Public Favors Wall Street Bailout  —  Obama Seen As Better Able to Address Crisis  —  By a margin of almost two-to-one the American public thinks the government is doing the right thing in investing billions of dollars to try to keep financial institutions and markets secure.
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The Charlotte Observer:   Financial sector: Bail it out or let it sink?
Ernest Luning / Colorado Independent:
Aurora fifth-grader suspended over anti-Obama T-shirt  —  UPDATE: Please read School District says suspended student's anti-Obama t-shirt caused ‘disruption’ for new information on the story.  —  The father of an Aurora fifth-grader said Monday he plans to sue after school officials suspended …
Discussion: Law Blog and Stop The ACLU
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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 …
Mark Krikorian / The Corner:
Credit Is Not a Civil Right  —  I have no way of judging whether the Wall Street bailout is a necessary evil or an impending disaster.  But we're in this mess, ultimately, because our political elites thought it was good social policy to encourage banks to give mortgages to uncreditworthy people …
Discussion: Salon
Cincinnati.com:
If Ohio polling looks like Chicago, ‘thank’ Brunner  —  Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has a reputation as the most partisan state official in Ohio.  And she works hard to earn it.  The Democrat's latest stunt rejected absentee ballots for thousands of Republicans.  —  But it's not her first rodeo.
Discussion: Riehl World View
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
McCain in Indiana?  [CORRECTED]  —  Two sources said McCain's ad campaign is set to extend to Indiana, a reliably Republican state where local polling has long showed Obama unexpectedly strong, and where Obama has been running a full-scale campaign.  —  UPDATE: A McCain spokesman …
Discussion: MyDD
Gawker:
Chris Rock To Bill Clinton: ‘Hillary Lost!’  —  As in his appearance on the View, Bill Clinton offered the most tepid support possible for Barack Obama's presidential ticket on David Letterman's Late Show last night.  After repeatedly invoking his vanquished wife Hillary …
Discussion: Open Left
Paul Krugman:
Getting real — and letting the cat out of the bag  —  Whoa — it seems that Ben Bernanke ditched his prepared testimony and, instead, let the cat at least partly out of the bag. … As I wrote earlier this morning, the whole “take these assets off the balance sheets” line is fundamentally disingenuous …
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Obama Dramatically Ramping Up Overall Ad Spending; Now Outgunning McCain  —  In a sign that the Obama campaign is getting serious about tapping his financial advantage over McCain with six weeks to go, Obama's overall spending on TV ads has jumped 50% in the last two weeks …
New York Times:
McCain Aide's Firm Was Paid by Freddie Mac  —  WASHINGTON— One of the giant mortgage companies at the heart of the credit crisis paid $15,000 a month to a firm owned by Senator John McCain's campaign manager from the end of 2005 through last month, according to two people with direct knowledge of the arrangement.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and TIME.com
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama Holds 3-Point Edge  —  Voter preferences similar to averages seen in post-primaries period  —  PRINCETON, NJ — U.S. voters are closely divided in their 2008 presidential preferences, with 47% favoring Barack Obama and 44% backing John McCain.
Brian Ross / ABCNEWS:
‘Grim’ Afghanistan Report To Be Kept Secret by US  —  “No Plans to Declassify” New National Intelligence Estimate for White House  —  US intelligence analysts are putting the final touches on a secret National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Afghanistan that reportedly describes the situation as …
Discussion: The Raw Story
 
 
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Heart-ache: Tiny terrorist gives Bush speech thumbs down at the UN …
Discussion: Political Radar
Johanna Neuman / The LA Times President Bush Blog:
Anti-war veterans unfurl ‘Arrest Bush/Cheney’ banner at National Archives
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:
Count me Out of the Bailout  —  Sorry for the radio silence.
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Obama's Michigan Attack
Discussion: Swampland
Spencer / Angry Bear:
Your Urgent Help Needed
Discussion: MarketBeat
Donald Luskin / National Review:
Of Interventions and Conservative Principles
 Earlier Items: 
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Hard Landing for the Golden Parachute
David Talbot / Salon:
Mean girl  —  Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in Detroit Sept. 5, 2008.
Discussion: TalkLeft and Daily Kos
Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
McCain sends press to cabbage class
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
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