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2:50 AM ET, October 11, 2011

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Conservatives launch “We are the 53 percent” to criticize 99 percenters — Conservative activists have created a Tumblr called “We are the 53 percent” that's meant to be a counterpunch to the viral “We are the 99 percent” site that's become a prominent symbol for the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Discussion: The Lonely Conservative, Balloon Juice, Grasping Reality … and Suburban Guerrilla

Helen Kennedy / NY Daily News:

Occupy Wall Street protesters plan ‘Millionaires March’ to Rupert Murdoch's, tycoons' NYC homes — The Occupy Wall Street protesters are planning to get in the face of some of New York's richest tycoons on Tuesday. — A “Millionaires March” will visit the homes - or, more realistically …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Philly.com, The Lonely Conservative and JammieWearingFool

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

AHEM: Wall Street “Protester” Says He's Getting Paid $22 An Hour (Plus Overtime) To “Protest” — Not sure if the video below is real or not—perhaps it was created to make the Wall Street protesters look bad—but this Chicago “protester” says that he's getting paid $22 an hour plus overtime to complain about corporate greed.

Discussion: Fire Andrea Mitchell! and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS

Michael Howard Saul / Metropolis:

Bloomberg: Occupy Wall Street Can Stay Indefinitely … Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Monday that he'll allow the Wall Street protesters to stay indefinitely, provided they abide by the law, marking his strongest statement to date on the city's willingness to let demonstrators occupy a park in Lower Manhattan.

Discussion: Don Surber, PolitickerNY, Just An Earth-Bound Misfit, I, Hot Air, The Other McCain, Weasel Zippers, The Politico, Runnin' Scared, Gothamist, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Raw Story and New York Magazine

John Cook / Gawker:

Is James O'Keefe a Fugitive? — As we mentioned earlier, right-wing hitman James O'Keefe was spotted lurking at the Occupy Wall Street protest in Manhattan's Liberty Plaza today. That might not be good news for O'Keefe, since he's on probation and requires the permission of a federal magistrate judge …

Discussion: Gothamist, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo and Dependable Renegade, more at Mediagazer »

Matthew Vadum / Big Government:

BREAKING: Operation #OccupyWallStreeters-SEIU's Stephen Lerner Leaks Plan to Terrorize Corporate Executives — Radical labor organizer Stephen Lerner of SEIU intends to terrorize the families of bank executives in their homes as part of the Occupy Wall Street protests. — Stephen Lerner

Discussion: Sister Toldjah and The Lonely Conservative

Mike Lillis / The Hill:

Dems aggressively counter Republican attacks on anti-Wall Street protests — Democratic leaders are pushing back aggressively against Republican attacks on the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York and Washington. — They say the conservative criticism of the rallies is evidence …

NY Daily News:
Lupica: Pol shows he's phony with protest jab

Discussion: Washington Post, Don Surber and Lance Mannion

Pam Martens / CounterPunch:
Financial Giants Put New York City Cops On Their Payroll

Discussion: naked capitalism

New York Post: Aimless Obama walks alone

Adrian Chen / Gawker:
Here's Video of James O'Keefe Scheming at Occupy Wall Street

Discussion: Gothamist, The Gateway Pundit, The Political Carnival, The Atlantic Online, Guardian, New York Magazine, The Week Magazine and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »

Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Democratic Party Going All-In on Occupy Wall Street

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Bloomberg, Michelle Malkin, iOwnTheWorld.com, New York Post, Hot Air, Pat Dollard, Weasel Zippers, Verum Serum, Wake up America and The Lonely Conservative

New York Post:
Sex, drugs and hiding from the law at Wall Street protests

Discussion: Daily Mail, CNN, Pat Dollard, Mediaite, Gawker, Fire Andrea Mitchell!, The Jawa Report, JammieWearingFool, The Gateway Pundit, Moe Lane and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion

Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Help wanted — Reader Greg Farrell writes to point out what he found on Craigslist.

Discussion: neo-neocon, Runnin' Scared, Hot Air, Moe Lane and Bookworm Room

Rick Klein / ABCNEWS:
Democrats Seek to Own ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Movement

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, Hot Air, Power Line and CBS News

Lydia Saad / Gallup:

Cain Surges, Nearly Ties Romney for Lead in GOP Preferences — Romney and Cain closely matched near 20%, with Perry at 15% — PRINCETON, NJ — Republicans' support for Herman Cain has surged to 18%, their support for Rick Perry has sagged to 15%, and their support for Mitt Romney remains relatively stable at 20%.

Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:

Gallup: Obama Hits All-Time Low Among Blacks as Cain Surges Among Republicans — (CNSNews.com) - Gallup released new polling data today that showed African American presidential candidate Herman Cain's support was surging among Republicans even as President Barack Obama's job approval hit an all-time low among blacks.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller and Fire Andrea Mitchell!

Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:

Religious bigotry on display — Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex., who has a knack for stacking the crowd and the vote, won the Values Voter Summit this weekend with 37 percent of those casting ballots. Herman Cain (who delivered a stemwinder on Friday night) came in second.

Discussion: Evangelicals for Mitt, Taylor Marsh, PolitickerNY, Don Surber and The Politico

Journalistdee / CNN:
Poverty ambassadors blast Herman Cain's views on racism

Discussion: The Politico and Weasel Zippers

Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
As poll numbers drop, Perry pushed to side of debate stage

Discussion: New York Magazine, The New Republic, CNN, Trail Blazers Blog and The Hill

Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Romney: Vote for me or Cain

Discussion: Hot Air and Verum Serum

Harvard University Institute of Politics:
NEW POLL FROM INSTITUTES OF POLITICS AT HARVARD, SAINT ANSELM FINDS ROMNEY LEADING NH PRIMARY FIELD BY 18 POINTS

Discussion: Washington Post, Hot Air, FiveThirtyEight, The Other McCain, Mediaite, The Raw Story, The Politico, Taegan Goddard's …, Lynn Sweet, National Review, CNN, GOP 12, American Power and The Hill

Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Santorum targets Romney, Perry and Cain with new ad

Discussion: The Daily Caller, PolitickerNY, CBS News, American Spectator, Hot Air and Washington Wire

Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
New poll shows Obama losing to ... Herman Cain

Discussion: The Crawdad Hole and Poll Position

Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:

Warren raises $3.15M; Brown raises $1.55M — Elizabeth Warren raised more than $3 million in a little more than six weeks to fund her Senate bid in Massachusetts — more than twice the figure pulled in by incumbent Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.). — The astounding figure anchors the notion …

Discussion: Booman Tribune, CNN, The Daily Caller, Blue Mass Group, Taylor Marsh, The Moderate Voice and The Raw Story

Paul Krugman:

Sign Of The Times — Macro in the park. — It's not centrist when Democrats do it. — Go Princeton! (And NYU) — All hail the new laureates. — Financial Romanticism — Laissez-faire won't work. — October 09 — Was Failure Inevitable? — Maybe, but trying couldn't and can't hurt.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers

A.Killough / CNN:

Axelrod memo tries to rally support for jobs act — (CNN) - As the Senate prepares to vote on President Obama's jobs bill, the Obama campaign released a memo by senior strategist David Axelrod that seems designed to give wavering senators reason to vote for the bill: it makes the case that …

Discussion: The Page

Jason Ukman / Washington Post:

Al-Qaeda joins those questioning legality of U.S. killing of citizen Anwar al-Awlaki — (Associated Press via SITE Intelligence Group) Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen has confirmed the deaths of American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, the young American propagandist killed alongside …

Discussion: Burnt Orange Report, Political Mojo, Hot Air, The Moderate Voice, Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller, Patterico's Pontifications, Salon.com, Hit & Run and Instapundit

James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:

Capitalist Tool — Meet Jesse LaGreca, Disney's Audio-Animatronic revolutionary. — “I'm the only working-class person you're going to see on Sunday news, political news,” declared Jesse LaGreca on “This Week With Christiane Amanpour” yesterday. “Maybe ever.”

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Pajamas Media, NewsBusters.org blogs, US Politics and Sense of Events

Frances Martel / Mediaite:

Harry Belafonte To Joy Behar: Herman Cain Is A ‘Totally False’ ‘Bad Apple’ In The Black Community — Weird things come in threes, and today the final chapter of “Legendary Crooners Make Surprisingly Bold Political Statements” arrived today with an exclusive Joy Behar interview with Harry Belafonte …

Discussion: We are respectable negroes and The Raw Story

Scott Bauer / Associated Press:

Effort to recall Wis. Gov. Walker to start Nov. 15 — MADISON, Wis.—An effort to recall Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker over his contentious union rights law will begin Nov. 15, Democrats announced Monday, meaning an election could be held as early as next spring.

Discussion: Chippewa Falls Herald and Alan Colmes' Liberaland

Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:

Karl Rove vs. the Koch brothers — Karl Rove's team and the Koch brothers' operatives quietly coordinated millions of dollars in political spending in 2010, but that alliance, which has flown largely under the radar, is showing signs of fraying. — And with each network planning to dwarf its 2010 effort …

Discussion: DownWithTyranny! and Ben Smith's Blog

Herman Cain / KWTX-TV:

God Told Me To Run … GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain said Monday he didn't want to run for president, but God called him to join the race. — The Republican candidate told CBN News that's why he believes “God's been in this from the beginning.” — Cain said that when he felt God calling …

Discussion: Little Green Footballs