memeorandum: A Supreme fetish (New York Post)

10:25 AM ET, October 3, 2010

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Here's Your Enthusiasm Gap: One Nation Rally Draws More Attendees Than Beck's “Whitestock” — Enthusiasm gap, schmenthusiasm gap. Without the benefit of months and months of advertising and promotion on Fox News Channel (in fact, I'm only aware of Ed Schultz on MSNBC doing any kind of TV promotion) …

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Directorblue / Doug Ross:

15 Photos From the #OneNation Rally You'll Never See In Legacy Media — The SEIU arrives, courtesy of your tax dollars, one would presume. — Child abuse. Apparently Mom never learned about the Soviet Union. Or Cuba. Or Zimbabwe. Or North Korea. — Note the guy in the American …

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Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:

Figures. CSPAN Uses Tea Party Rally Crowd Shot for Leftist “One Nation” Rally Article — CSPAN is airing the leftist “One Nation” rally today in Washington DC. — Unfortunately, they didn't have a good crowd shot of the turnout... So they used a photo from a Glenn Beck tea party rally.

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Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:

Liberal Groups Rally, Challenging Tea Party — WASHINGTON — Tens of thousands of union members, environmentalists and peace activists rallied at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday, seeking to carry on the message of jobs and justice that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. trumpeted at a rally at the same site 47 years ago.

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Washington Post:

Tens of thousands attend progressive ‘One Nation Working Together’ rally in Washington — A wide array of progressive groups drew tens of thousands of activists to the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday for a rally aimed at firing up their members and showcasing the diversity of their movement.

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Frances Martel / Mediaite:
‘One Nation Working Together’ Rally Claims Bigger Numbers Than ‘Restoring Honor’

Discussion: The Political Carnival and Raw Story

Philip Elliott / Associated Press:
Thousands gather in DC in support of Dems agenda

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Philip Elliott / Associated Press:
Thousands gather for ‘One Nation’ rally in D.C.

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Frank Rich / New York Times:

The Very Useful Idiocy of Christine O'Donnell — ALL it took was some 30,000 Republican primary voters in a tiny state to turn Christine O'Donnell into the brightest all-American media meteor since Balloon Boy. For embattled liberals, not to mention the axis of Comedy Central …

Discussion: Prairie Weather and The Mahablog

ABCNEWS:

Exclusive: Concern That Terror Teams Have Selected Targets, Ready to Strike — U.S. Weighs Travel Alert For Europe Because of Threat of Terror Attacks — Strong concerns that terrorist teams in Europe have selected their targets, completed their surveillance, eluded capture and are now ready …

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Fox News:
U.S. May Issue Travel Alert to Americans in Europe, Officials Say

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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:

Third Party Rising — A friend in the U.S. military sent me an e-mail last week with a quote from the historian Lewis Mumford's book, “The Condition of Man,” about the development of civilization. Mumford was describing Rome's decline: “Everyone aimed at security: no one accepted responsibility.

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New York Post:

A Supreme fetish — Tweet — Imagine the Supreme Court was wiped out in an asteroid strike, or maybe ate some re ally bad clams. Whatever. With the court temporarily out of the picture, could Congress and the White House ignore the Constitution, locking up Tea Partiers or ACLU members?

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David Barrett / Telegraph:

British schools where girls must wear the Islamic veil — Hundreds of girls are bring forced by British schools to wear the Islamic veil in a move which has been heavily criticised by mainstream Muslims. — Islamic schools have introduced uniform policies which force girls to wear the burka …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Atlas Shrugs and msnbc.com

Juliet Williams / ABCNEWS:

GOP's Whitman Blames Opponent for Housekeeper Flap — GOP's Whitman blames opponent for controversy over former housekeeper's immigration status — GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman accused Democratic rival Jerry Brown on Saturday of orchestrating a scandal over her former illegal …

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Jordan Fabian / Ballot Box:
Whitman, Brown spar over housekeeper controversy

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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:

Bill Maher Calls Republicans ‘A Deadly Enemy’ — After telling his audience that his job isn't to “carry water for this or any administration,” Bill Maher on Friday closed his show with a campaign speech begging viewers to support Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections.

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