memeorandum: Tweeters pan Republican debaters, debate technology (Juana Summers/The Politico)

11:40 AM ET, September 23, 2011

Top Items:

Video: Perry's cringe-worthiest debate moment — This is a gimme. Seriously. — I mentioned Rick Perry's DREAM Act debate blunder in my round-up post. — It gets second place. — The cringe-worthiest moment, by a hair, was when Perry botched what should have been his most potent attack on Mitt Romney's chronic flip-flopping.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Fox News, Hot Air, Campaign 2012, WyBlog, Flower & Thistle, Mediaite, The Daily Dish, Conservatives4Palin, The Other McCain, Pundit & Pundette, AmSpecBlog, Riehl World View, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Right Scoop and National Review

Fox News:

TRANSCRIPT: Fox News-Google GOP Debate — This is a rush transcript from the Fox News-Google GOP Presidential debate on September 22, 2011 at the Orlando Convention Center in Orlando, Fla. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. — BRET BAIER, ANCHOR …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, The Atlantic Online, GOP 12, Don Surber, Top of the Ticket, Ballot Box, Lawyers, Guns & Money, PoliPundit.com, Rick Perry 2012 Campaign …, ImmigrationProf Blog and CNN

Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Romney: Opposing illegal immigration requires ‘a heart and a brain’

Discussion: CNN

John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Perry: “I Don't Think You Have a Heart” If You Oppose In-State Tuition for Children of Illegal Immigrants

Discussion: Mediaite, National Review, Hot Air, The Politico, No More Mister Nice Blog, Outside the Beltway, American Spectator, Michelle Malkin, Pajamas Media and Vox Popoli

Philip Klein / Campaign 2012:
Why I doubt Romney would repeal Obamacare

Discussion: Washington Post, Cold Fury, Hot Air and Weasel Zippers

New York Times:
Republican Presidential Candidates Debate

Discussion: Wall Street Journal and msnbc.com

Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
N.H. poll shocker: Perry falls, Romney surges as does Jon Huntsman

Discussion: JustOneMinute, The Caucus, Left Coast Rebel, Hit & Run, Campaign 2012 and Outside the Beltway

goproud.org:

Rick Santorum Owes Gay Soldier an Apology — For Immediate Release — Joint Statement of Christopher R. Barron, Chairman of the Board and Jimmy LaSalvia, Executive Director — (Washington, D.C.) - “Tonight, Rick Santorum disrespected our brave men and women in uniform, and he owes Stephen Hill …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Firedoglake, The Daily Dish, The Mahablog, Runnin' Scared, Outside the Beltway, Raw Replay, Crooks and Liars, Good As You, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Towleroad News #gay, American Power and Joe. My. God.

Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:

Audience Members Of GOP Debate Boo Steven Hill, Gay Soldier Serving In Iraq — At Thursday night's Fox News/Google Republican Presidential Debate, the crowd was once again the star of an ugly moment. Moderator Megyn Kelly introduced a question via Youtube from Stephen Hill, a soldier who's currently serving in Iraq.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Outside the Beltway, Hot Air and The Atlantic Online

Evan McMorris-Santoro / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:

TPM2012 — Audience Members At Fox News Debate Boo Gay Soldier (VIDEO) — ORLANDO, FL — Members of the crowd gathered for the Fox News/YouTube debate booed a video of a gay soldier in Iraq who asked if the nine presidential candidates on stage would work to “circumvent” the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell.

Discussion: democracyarsenal.org, Business Insider, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Harry's Place

Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:

Gay soldier booed at GOP debate, candidates stay mum — Some members of the GOP debate audience booed a gay soldier who asked via video whether the Republican candidates would reinstitute the recently repealed “don't ask, don't tell” policy of banning openly gay soldiers.

Discussion: The Politico

Russell Berman / The Hill:

House approves stopgap funding, Reid says Senate will block — The House early Friday narrowly approved a stopgap spending measure to keep the federal government running into October, as Republican leaders secured the votes of conservatives who rejected a similar bill a day earlier.

Discussion: Ballot Box, Reuters, ThinkProgress, Los Angeles Times, Don Surber, americanthinker.com and Michelle Malkin

Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:

Senate likely to reject House-passed spending bill; shutdown still possible — Washington lurched toward another potential government shutdown crisis Friday, as the House approved by a 219-203 vote a GOP-authored short-term funding measure designed to keep the government running through Nov. 18 …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, New York Times and msnbc.com

Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress:
Tea Party House Republicans Sell Their Principles For Gimmicky $100 Million Cut

Discussion: Firedoglake, The Politico, US Politics and The Huffington Post

Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
GOP Ups Ante Big Time In Government Shutdown Fight

Discussion: Hullabaloo, Daily Kos and Firedoglake

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Rush Limbaugh On Gary Johnson Joke: 'Guess I've Become Show Prep For The GOP Debates' … NEW YORK — Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson brought down the house at Thursday night's Fox News/ Google debate when he joked about how his “next-door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration.”

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, New York Magazine, Brains and Eggs and Rick Perry 2012 Campaign …

Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:

New gaffe: Obama hails America's historic building of ‘the Intercontinental Railroad’ … That's what the president of the United States flat-out said Thursday during what was supposed to be a photo op to sell his jobs plan next to an allegedly deteriorating highway bridge. — A railroad between continents?

Discussion: Michelle Malkin, Weasel Zippers and Cold Fury

John Merline / Investor's Business Daily:
Obama Jobs Bill Might Not Help Touted Bridge

Discussion: Top of the Ticket, Outside the Beltway, Sense of Events, Hot Air, Pirate's Cove and Weasel Zippers

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

The Social Contract — This week President Obama said the obvious: that wealthy Americans, many of whom pay remarkably little in taxes, should bear part of the cost of reducing the long-run budget deficit. And Republicans like Representative Paul Ryan responded with shrieks of “class warfare.”

Discussion: JustOneMinute, Northern Reflections, Prairie Weather, Washington Post, Daily Kos, FrumForum and Booman Tribune

Lymari Morales / Gallup:

Majority in U.S. Continues to Distrust the Media, Perceive Bias — More perceive liberal bias than conservative bias — WASHINGTON, D.C. — The majority of Americans still do not have confidence in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly.

Discussion: Big Journalism, Questions and Observations, NewsBusters.org and Weasel Zippers

Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Press Widely Criticized, But Trusted More than Other Information Sources

Discussion: The Politico, NewsBusters.org and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »

The Politico:

Texas toast? Perry worries GOP — ORLANDO - The first line of Rick Perry's campaign obituary may have been drafted Thursday night: He got in too late. — It's not quite time for his camp to panic but in his third debate in a month - nearly as many as he's done in the entire decade he's served …

Discussion: New York Magazine and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Arlette Saenz / Politics:

HPV Vaccine Fact Check: Perry Misstated Relationship With Dying Woman — Although Rick Perry said at a debate on Thursday that he was “lobbied” by a 31-year-old woman suffering from cervical cancer to require young girls to receive the HPV vaccine, he did not meet the cancer patient until …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Washington Post, Rick Perry 2012 Campaign …, The Washington Independent, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Austin American-Statesman, New York Times, Washington Examiner, News Hounds and Trail Blazers Blog

The Daily Beast:

Obama Sold Israel Bunker-Buster Bombs — While Obama publicly pressured Israel to make concessions to the Palestinians over settlements, he secretly sold Jerusalem deep-penetrating bombs it had long sought. Eli Lake previews an exclusive story appearing in Monday's Newsweek.

Discussion: The Politico, ThinkProgress, Attackerman and New York Magazine

Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:

Obama offers some ‘No Child’ waivers — President Barack Obama on Friday pressed forward with the most significant change to No Child Left Behind since the Bush-era law overseeing elementary schools was enacted nearly a decade ago, outlining his plan to let states avoid some of the law's strictest provisions …

Discussion: CNN

Jacob Weisberg / Slate Magazine:

His book about Obama is as spurious as the ones he wrote about Bush. — As an editor, you develop a B.S. meter—an internal warning system that signals caution about journalism that doesn't feel trustworthy. Sometimes it's a quote or incident that's too perfect —a feeling I always …

Discussion: Politics and Business Insider

Jim Forsyth / Reuters:

Fancy last supper requests off the menu on Texas death row — (Reuters) - The Texas prison system abolished on Thursday the time-honored tradition of offering an opulent last meal to condemned inmates before their executions, saying they will get standard prison fare instead.

Discussion: Hullabaloo, Outside the Beltway, The Moderate Voice, New York Magazine and The Agonist

Hotline On Call:

Dem Poll: Obama Dragging Down His Own Party — One of the Democratic party's leading pollsters released a survey of 60 Republican-held battleground districts today painting an ominous picture for Congressional Democrats in 2012. The poll shows Democratic House candidates faring worse …

Discussion: RedState, Don Surber, Scared Monkeys, Weasel Zippers and The Politico

Tempie / Ranting Professor:

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Discussion: Northwest Massage Center

Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:

John Mearsheimer Endorses a Hitler Apologist and Holocaust Revisionist — Gilad Atzmon is a jazz saxophonist who lives in London and who has a side gig disseminating the wildest sort of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. He is an ex-Israeli and a self-proclaimed “self-hater” …

Discussion: Via Meadia and Harry's Place

Paul A. Gigot / Wall Street Journal:

Christie's Next Showcase — For a man who says he's not running for president, Chris Christie isn't keeping a low profile. — For a man who says he's not running for president, Chris Christie isn't keeping a low profile. The New Jersey governor will give presidential tea-leaf readers another chance …

Discussion: msnbc.com and Associated Press