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10:20 PM ET, August 30, 2009

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Fox News:
RAW DATA: Transcript of Cheney on ‘FOX News Sunday’  —  The following is a transcript of former Vice President Dick Cheney on “FOX News Sunday.”  —  FOXNews.com  —  CHRIS WALLACE, HOST: Mr. Vice President, welcome back to “FOX News Sunday.”  —  RICHARD CHENEY, FORMER VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Chris Wallace, A Teenage Girl Interviewing The Jonas Brothers  —  Here are the tough and penetrating questions asked by Chris Wallace of a man whose critics accuse of war crimes, and whose administration presided over the death of over a hundred prisoners in interrogation …
Discussion: Emptywheel and Dennis the Peasant
Washington Post:
Ex-Intelligence Officials Cite Low Spirits at CIA
Ben Armbruster / Think Progress:
Wallace defends torture, snidely says it's ‘purely coincidental’ U.S …
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Carol E. Lee / The Politico:
Cheney digs in  —  Former Vice President Dick Cheney delivered …
Discussion: RedState
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
It's time to embrace American royalty
Discussion: Making Light
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Cheney: Torture probe ‘offends hell out of me’
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Shea-Porter has constituent arrested at town-hall forum  —  This is a curious re-election strategy, especially for a Representative who made her name by bird-dogging her former Congressman at his town-hall forums.  Consistency isn't Carol Shea-Porter's strong suit, apparently …
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Now! Hampshire:
Shea-Porter Instructs Security to Remove a Former Peace Officer from Town Hall  —  In four short years Carol Shea-Porter has evolved from a rabble-rousing, town hall disrupting anti-war activist who once had to be forcibly removed from a President George Bush event in Portsmouth to a Member …
The Texas Observer:
“We Hate the United States”: Secessionists rally at Capitol while Perry stays home  —  Perhaps the most notable thing about the “Sovereignty or Secession” rally at the state Capitol today was the absence of any remotely mainstream speakers.  That little problem in presentation did not escape …
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Former first daughter Jenna Bush joins ‘Today’  —  NEW YORK — NBC's “Today” show has hired someone with White House experience as a new correspondent — former first daughter Jenna Bush Hager.  —  Hager, a 27-year-old teacher in Baltimore, will contribute stories about once a month on issues …
Discussion: The Politico, Gawker and Mediaite
CNN:
Tea Party Express cruises through Nevada  —  ELY, Nevada (CNN) — Hundreds of people turned out for a series of weekend events as the Tea Party Express cruised across northern Nevada.  —  The caravan of tour buses, RVs, cargo trucks and SUVs kicked off a cross-country tour Friday in Sacramento …
Discussion: Firedoglake
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NPR:   ‘Tea Party Express’ Takes Protests Cross-Country
Rasmussen Reports:
57% Would Like to Replace Entire Congress  —  If they could vote to keep or replace the entire Congress, just 25% of voters nationwide would keep the current batch of legislators.  —  A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% would vote to replace the entire Congress and start all over again.
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Va. Candidate McDonnell Says Views Changed Since He Wrote Thesis  —  Va. GOP Candidate Wrote on Women, Marriage and Gays  —  At age 34, two years before his first election and two decades before he would run for governor of Virginia, Robert F. McDonnell submitted a master's thesis …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
MCCAIN ON THE TEEVEE.... When I saw that John McCain was going to be on “Face the Nation,” I assumed it was simply to reflect on Ted Kennedy's legacy in the Senate.  It wasn't. … It's a very weak argument, but it nevertheless offers us another chance to ask why John McCain is making yet another Sunday morning show appearance.
New York Times:
Majority Rule on Health Care Reform  —  The talk in Washington is that Senate Democrats are preparing to push through health care reforms using parliamentary procedures that will allow a simple majority to prevail in their chamber, as it does in the House, instead of the 60 votes needed …
 
 
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
S.C. GOP considers impeachment
Discussion: MyDD and New York Times
José M. Guardia / Barcepundit:
TED, WE HARDLY KNEW YE: Javier Rupérez — Spain's ambassador …
Martina Stewart / CNN:
Kennedy ‘expected more of us’ on health care, Dodd says
Los Angeles Times:
10,000 homes are threatened  —  Across the burning foothills, 1,000 are ordered to flee.
Discussion: On Deadline
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Mark Kleiman / The RBC:
Reforming regulatory benefit-cost analysis
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Paul Rosenberg / Open Left:
Who Could Have Foreseen The Housing Bubble Collapse? …
Micah Zenko / Los Angeles Times:
Israel has Iran in its sights
Discussion: Israel Matzav
Jesse Lee / WhiteHouse.gov Blog:
Eulogy for a Lion  —  Viewing this video requires Adobe Flash Player 8 or higher.
Discussion: Gothamist
New York Post:
LI ‘OBAMA CARE’ PLOY IN ROBBERY
Discussion: Don Surber and NY Daily News
 

 
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Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
The Atlantic is profitable, has 1M subscribers, and revenue grew 10% in 2023 thanks to a 50% price hike, a harder paywall, and a shift to in-depth reporting

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How MowPod, which sells podcast advertising tools, uses mobile game ads to incentivize gamers to follow shows on Apple Podcasts in order to earn in-game tokens

New York Times:
The NBC News-Ronna McDaniel saga highlights the perks and perils of partisan talk TV; a source says McDaniel is now seeking $600K+ for her two year deal

 
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