memeorandum: Most Brutal Debate Video and Tweets Ever (William A. Jacobson/Le·gal …)

10:35 AM ET, November 10, 2011

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Allahpundit / Hot Air:

Video: Perry implodes; Update: Campaign is over, says top fundraiser — Via Business Insider. A few choice quotes. Larry Sabato: … Rich Lowry: … Mona Charen: … He's down to 4.9 percent now on InTrade; before the debate he was at 9.3 percent.

Discussion: American Prospect, Rick Perry 2012 Campaign …, Mediaite, Pundit & Pundette, Maggie's Farm, GOP 12, The Moderate Voice, Fire Andrea Mitchell!, Weasel Zippers, The Page and Taylor Marsh

Alexander Burns / The Politico:

Rick Perry crashes, Cain cheered at GOP debate — ROCHESTER, Mich. - The Rick Perry comeback hit a potentially disastrous snag Wednesday night, as the Texas governor again froze on the debate stage — this time, while attempting to list three federal agencies he'd eliminate as president.

Discussion: CNN, The Caucus, Media Decoder, Washington Post, No More Mister Nice Blog, Connecting.the.Dots, Pat Dollard, Michelle Malkin, The Page, Gawker, The Lonely Conservative and Althouse

William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:

Most Brutal Debate Video and Tweets Ever — Full report on CNBC debate here. The only part that will be remembered is Rick Perry's freeze on stage. He was having a reasonable debate until that point. I feel sorry for him. One freeze on stage should not end a campaign …

Discussion: Say Anything and JustOneMinute

Zeke Miller / Business Insider:

PERRY DEBATE DISASTER: This Is The Moment That Officially Killed His Campaign — For Good — At today's CNBC debate Texas Gov. Rick Perry was asked a question about his tax and spending plan — but completely blew an otherwise strong answer by looking like a complete fool.

Discussion: zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml, Gawker, Pirate's Cove, thump and whip, Outside the Beltway, Towleroad News #gay, blogs.telegraph.co.uk and Campaign 2012

Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Perry struggles to name third government agency he promised to close

Discussion: CNN

ESPN:

Joe Paterno, Graham Spanier out — Both football coach Joe Paterno and president Graham Spanier are out at Penn State in the wake of a disturbing child sex abuse scandal involving a former assistant coach. — Paterno said in a statement Wednesday he would retire after the season …

Discussion: Fox Sports, UrbanGrounds, Balloon Juice, The Moderate Voice, Scared Monkeys and NBC Philadelphia

Nate Schweber / New York Times:

Penn State Students Clash With Police in Unrest After Announcement — STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — After top Penn State officials announced that they had fired Joe Paterno on Wednesday night, thousands of students stormed the downtown area to display their anger and frustration, chanting the former coach's name …

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, Gothamist, Gawker, Rod Dreher, CBS Chicago and Balloon Juice

Mark Viera / New York Times:

Penn State Coach Joe Paterno Is Fired — STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Graham B. Spanier, one of the longest-serving and highest-paid university presidents in the nation, who has helped raise the academic profile of Penn State during his tenure, stepped down Wednesday night in the wake …

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, LA Times Sports Blog, Jezebel, Maggie's Notebook, Clayton Cramer's Blog and Sky Dancing

CBS News:
Paterno fired over Penn St. child abuse scandal

Discussion: Mediaite, CBS Boston, The Daily Dish, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Crooks and Liars, Political Mojo and ESPN

Sports Illustrated:
The Penn State scandal echoes a hockey horror

Discussion: Rod Dreher, Salon.com, The Huffington Post and Ed Driscoll

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Personal Foul at Penn State

Discussion: ThinkProgress, ESPN, PennLive.com, American Spectator, Booman Tribune, Mediaite, Don Surber and Althouse

James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:

Ford. Quayle. Stockdale. Now, Poor Rick Perry — In the long annals of presidential-campaign debating, there had until this evening been three famous-disaster moments: — 1) 1976, Gerald Ford and Poland. This one wasn't quite fair. Ford was trying to make a reasonable point …

Discussion: blogs.telegraph.co.uk

Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:

The ‘oops’ heard 'round the world — Some debate screw-ups are so memorable, they practically become iconic. Gerald Ford claiming there was “no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe,” Dan Quayle comparing himself to JFK, and James Stockdale asking who he is and what he's doing there were all pretty unforgettable.

Discussion: Washington Post, The Maddow Blog, The Hinterland Gazette, The Atlantic Online and The Reality-Based Community

ABCNEWS:
Rick Perry on His ‘Oops’: There's No ‘Perfect Candidate’

Discussion: Washington Wire, The Politico, Campaign 2012 and Wonkette

Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Abolishing The Department Of Energy

Discussion: Washington Post

Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:

In the Perry camp, sad — A prominent Perry supporter emails: — Original Message— From: — Sent: Wed 11/9/2011 9:21 PM — To: Ben Smith — Subject: i'm sad — stuck a fork in himself — can't decide which is worse Dean scream or Perry oops — bourbon for me, i think

Discussion: New York Magazine, The Raw Story and US Politics

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Is Perry Toast? — Almost immediately after what will probably …

Discussion: Washington Post, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, Slate, Iowa Caucuses, Rick Perry 2012 Campaign …, Daily Kos, Prairie Weather and Associated Press

The Politico:
Romney rivals continue to implode

Discussion: msnbc.com, Washington Post, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog and CNN

Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
Debate crowd cheers Cain in face of sexual harassment claims

Discussion: CNN

Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:

The Financial Folly of Fairness — When I was a young and naive economics writer, I used to write about developing countries a fair amount. Time and again they would make these bizarre and pointless moves, like suddenly and for no apparent reason defaulting on a bunch of debt.

Discussion: Political Mojo

Simon Nixon / Wall Street Journal:
Don't Bank on ECB Rescuing Italy

Discussion: New Economic Perspectives and naked capitalism

Paul Krugman:
This Is The Way The Euro Ends

Discussion: emptywheel, Brad DeLong, Financial Times, Donklephant, New York Times, Felix Salmon, Outside the Beltway, Firedoglake, US Politics, New Atlanticist and Balloon Juice

Mike Paluska / CBS Atlanta 46:

Investigator: Herman Cain innocent of sexual advances — Private investigator TJ Ward said presidential hopeful Herman Cain was not lying at a news conference on Tuesday in Phoenix. — Cain denied making any sexual actions towards Sharon Bialek and vowed to take a polygraph test if necessary to prove his innocence.

Discussion: Herman Cain PAC, Doug Ross and PoliPundit.com

Quinnipiac University:

Obama, Romney Tied In Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll Finds; Cain, Romney Duel For Gop Lead In All Three States — One year before the presidential election, President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney are running neck and neck in Florida …

Discussion: GOP 12, The Strata-Sphere, The Politico, Naked Politics and Taegan Goddard's …

Craig Whitlockand Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:

Remains of war dead dumped in landfill — The Dover Air Force Base mortuary for years disposed of some dead troops' body parts by burning them and dumping the ashes in a Virginia landfill, a practice that officials have since abandoned in favor of burying the remains at sea.

Discussion: Hot Air, ABCNEWS, Outside the Beltway, Pat Dollard, Mediaite and US Politics

Farhad Manjoo / Slate:

Google+ Is Dead — The search behemoth might not realize it yet, but its chance to compete with Facebook has come and gone. — Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt didn't post his first Google+ message until three months after it went live — AFP/Getty Images.

Discussion: Rod Dreher

Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:

Reggie Love, Obama ‘body man,’ to leave White House by year's end — Reggie Love, a key member of the Obama entourage, is planning to leave the White House by the end of the year, people close to the administration said. — Love, 30, is a popular, gregarious figure in the White House.

Discussion: ABCNEWS and The Page

Stuart Tomlinson / Oregonian:

Police arrest man at Occupy Portland camp for throwing Molotov cocktail into stairwell at World Trade Center — A 29-year-old man was arrested this morning inside the Occupy Portland encampment, police said, on suspicion of throwing a Molotov cocktail onto a staircase at the World Trade Center last night.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Jammie Wearing Fools

Bill Graves / Oregonian:

Basic Rights Oregon will not put same-sex marriage on 2012 ballot — After a three-year campaign to build support for legalizing same-sex marriage, Oregon's largest gay rights group has decided against putting the issue up for a vote in 2012. — Feedback from an online survey of over 1,000 people …

Discussion: On Top Magazine Headlines

Frank Newport / Gallup:

Obama Back to Even With “Generic” Republican Candidate — Independents now evenly split after previously favoring the Republican — PRINCETON, NJ — President Obama now essentially ties, 43% to 42%, a “generic” Republican candidate when U.S. registered voters are asked whom they are more likely …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Business Insider and The Page

Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:

CNBC Debate Anchor Challenges Herman Cain Over ‘Princess Nancy’ Comment Given Recent Scandal — After Wednesday night's GOP debate on CNBC, candidate Herman Cain was asked about the booing that took place when he was asked about the allegations against him, as well as his decision to refer to Nancy Pelosi as “Princess Nancy.”

Felicity Barringer / New York Times:

Parks Chief Blocked Plan for Grand Canyon Bottle Ban — Weary of plastic litter, Grand Canyon National Park officials were in the final stages of imposing a ban on the sale of disposable water bottles in the Grand Canyon late last year when the nation's parks chief abruptly blocked the plan …

Discussion: ABCNEWS

Elmo Roper / CJR:

A Plea for the Polls — ‘The press seems to behave as if it were operating in a simpler yesterday’ … It may be human to err, but to err time and time again, in precisely the same way, is folly of divine dimensions. — I am talking about journalists—when they tackle the job of predicting elections.

Discussion: American Prospect

New York Times:

Back to Common Sense at the Polls — It might have been “too much too soon,” a chastened Gov. John Kasich of Ohio admitted on Tuesday night, after his state's voters overwhelmingly rejected his attempt to break public employee unions. He certainly was right about “too much,” …

Discussion: Balloon Juice, Washington Post, The Caucus and Gothamist