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9:40 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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Jeffrey Goldberg:
What is the McCain Camp Hiding?  —  If Sarah Palin becomes vice president, she will presumably have meetings with people who are scarier than Michael Cooper, the Times reporter who seems to have the misfortune of covering her today.  I know Michael Cooper; he's a good reporter, but not very mean at all.
Discussion: News Hounds
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
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
A cluster in Midtown  —  Attempts to shield Palin from questions …
Discussion: Newshoggers.com
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: Stop The ACLU, Hot Air and Slog
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:
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Ali / Think Progress:
Paulson: I Didn't Suggest Oversight In The Bailout Plan Because That Would Be ‘Presumptuous’  —  This morning, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson testified before the Senate Banking Committee on the current financial crisis.  Nearly every senator on the panel criticized the $700 billion bailout …
Chris Bowers / Open Left:
There Is No Crisis—Summary  —  Things are getting a little suspicious about this “crisis.”  — Why did the Bush administration suddenly declare a “crisis” during the final two weeks when Congress would be in session during his presidency?  Is it maybe because, after the election …
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Gingrich urges vote against ‘stupid’ Paulson plan
Discussion: Daily Kos
SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:
Chuck Schumer to Sec. Paulson: Why $700 billion?  Why not $150 billion?
Discussion: The RBC
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.
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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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Biden: ‘No coal plants here in America’
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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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 …
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Andy Glass / The Crypt's Blogs:
Gingrich: McCain should make bailout ‘Obama-Bush’ plan
Discussion: The Swamp
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
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LobeLog.com:
Abrams as McCain's Top Foreign Policy Aide?  —  Not terribly surprising, but I have it from a reliable source that Elliott Abrams, currently Deputy National Security Adviser for Global Democracy Strategy who also heads the NSC's Near East office, is regularly briefing the McCain campaign …
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
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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: Newshoggers.com and The Raw Story
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.
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 …
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
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 …
Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:
Stephanopoulos: McCain Holds Key to Administration's Bailout Passage on Capitol Hill  —  ABC News' George Stephanopoulos reports: If Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain doesn't vote for the Bush administration's $700 billion economic bailout plan, some Republican …
Discussion: Hot Air and Hullabaloo
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.
 
 
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Michael Markarian / Animals & Politics:
Humane Society Legislative Fund Endorses Obama-Biden
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Monica Mercer / Chattanooga Times Free Press:
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Michelle Malkin:
Michelle Obama thanks me
Discussion: Stop The ACLU
Scarecrow / Firedoglake:
Obama: The Bailout Just Ate Universal Health Care, Energy Policy, College . . .
ACLU Blog:
Court Orders Release of Detainee Abuse Photos
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Media Matters for America:
Time 's Carney claimed new McCain ad …
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 Earlier Items: 
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Obama Dramatically Ramping Up Overall Ad Spending; Now Outgunning McCain
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
Donald Luskin / National Review:
Of Interventions and Conservative Principles
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Hard Landing for the Golden Parachute