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8:30 PM ET, September 11, 2012

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Tamim Elyan / Reuters:
Egyptians angry at film scale U.S. embassy walls  —  (Reuters) - Egyptian protesters scaled the walls of the U.S. embassy on Tuesday, tore down the American flag and burned it during a protest over what they said was a film being produced in the United States that insulted Prophet Mohammad.
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egypt.usembassy.gov:
U.S. Embassy Condemns Religious Incitement  —  The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims - as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions.  Today, the 11th anniversary of the September 11 …
CNN:
Protesters storm U.S. Embassy in Cairo  —  Protesters pull down a U.S. flag during a protest in front of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo on Tuesday, September 11.  Islamists, angered by a film they say defames the prophet Mohammed, scaled the walls of the embassy to tear down the U.S. flag and raise …
BBC:
American dies in Libya protests  —  Rallies were also held outside the US embassy in the Egyptian capital, Cairo  —  A US official has been killed and others wounded after militiamen stormed the US consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi, security officials say.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
BBC:
Egyptians protest at US embassy over ‘insulting’ film
Discussion: Hit & Run
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
How Mitt Romney Is Losing The Debate Expectations Game  —  He's practicing hard, his aides say!  Obama's camp pretends to panic.  —  Romney with Senator Rob Portman, who is playing President Barack Obama in debate prep, earlier this month.  —  Image by Brian Snyder / Reuters
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Josh Glasstetter / rightwingwatch.org:
Ann Romney Booked for Gay-Bashing Conference?  —  Ann Romney, the person tasked with humanizing her husband Mitt, is apparently scheduled to address a conference that dehumanizes others.  I'm talking about the Values Voter Summit, which is hosted and sponsored by three Southern Poverty Law …
Jim VandeHei / Reuters:
GOP to Mitt Romney: You're so vague  —  Leading conservatives are offering blunt advice to Mitt Romney: Quit ducking details, start engaging in a real and specific war of ideas with President Barack Obama — or lose.  —  Here's just a sampling of the past 24 hours:
Reuters:
The Kerry-ization of Mitt Romney  —  Mitt Romney is getting the full John Kerry treatment on national security — and some top Republicans are alarmed by what they see as his ham-handed response to it.  —  Romney — whose convention speech didn't include a salute to the troops or a reference to Afghanistan …
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
LGBT Allies Discourage Lawmakers From Participating In Values Voters Conference
Discussion: BuzzFeed, Good As You and Advocate
Brent Budowsky / Pundits Blog:
Romney's Osama bin Laden problem
Kara Spak / Chicago Sun Times:
Poll: 47% of Chicago registered voters support teachers in strike  —  Just under half of Chicago's registered voters support the Chicago Public Teachers strike in a 500 person poll taken Monday, and nearly three-quarters of those polled say Mayor Rahm Emanuel is doing an average, below average or poor job in handing the labor dispute.
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ABCNEWS:
Paul Ryan on Chicago Teachers' Strike: ‘We Stand with Mayor Rahm Emanuel’
Vanity Fair:
MSNBC's Hot Ticket  —  By Douglas Brinkley Photograph by Mark Seliger  —  Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, photographed at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, in New York City.  —  Five years ago this month, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski began co-hosting MSNBC's savvy, caffeinated Morning Joe …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Scarborough: ‘I have no plans to run in 2016’
Washington Post:
Among likely voters, Obama-Romney close  —  Last week's Democratic National Convention helped President Obama improve his standing against Republican Mitt Romney, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, but did little to reduce voter concern about his handling of the economy.
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Brad Plumer / Washington Post:
Ten takeaways from the new Post/ABC poll
Discussion: New York Magazine and Examiner
BuzzFeed:
Romney Has Given Two Version Of His 9/11 Experience  —  Romney's description of his 9/11 experience in a speech today differs in one detail from his recollection in his 2002 memoir.  A Romney spokesman did not respond to a BuzzFeed request of clarification of how Romney learned of the attacks.
Kurt Eichenwald / New York Times:
Op-Ed Contributor: The Bush White House Was Deaf to 9/11 Warnings  —  IT was perhaps the most famous presidential briefing in history.  —  On Aug. 6, 2001, President George W. Bush received a classified review of the threats posed by Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network, Al Qaeda.
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Zack Beauchamp / ThinkProgress:
Cheney Smears Obama On 9/11, Claims He Took ‘Sole Credit’ For Bin Laden's Death
Jamie Weinstein / The Daily Caller:
Cheney responds to Obama's reportedly poor intelligence briefings attendance
Margot Roosevelt / Reuters:
Southern whites troubled by Romney's wealth, religion  —  (Reuters) - Sheryl Harris, a voluble 52-year-old with a Virginia drawl, voted twice for George W. Bush.  Raised Baptist, she is convinced — despite all evidence to the contrary — that President Barack Obama, a practicing Christian, is Muslim.
Brian Bakst / Associated Press:
GOP'S RYAN TO GO UP WITH TV ADS _ FOR HOUSE SEAT  —  HUDSON, Wis. (AP) — Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan plans to begin airing ads in Wisconsin as he asks voters to elect him to an eighth House term that he hopes to never serve.  —  Contracts formalized Tuesday with at least …
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Janet Hook / Washington Wire:   Ryan Asks Wisconsin to Vote for Him, Twice
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner ‘not confident’ that Congress, Obama will strike debt deal  —  House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Tuesday said he was “not confident at all” that Congress and the White House could strike a major debt deal, hours after Moody's threatened a credit downgrade next year absent an agreement.
Discussion: Politico and CNN
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Richard Cowan / Reuters:
House Speaker Boehner says not confident about fiscal cliff
Discussion: Politico and Firedoglake
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Moody's issues ‘fiscal cliff’ warning
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
The economy (slightly) favors Obama, not Romney  —  “It is becoming clear that if President Obama is reelected, it will be despite the economy and because of his campaign,” writes Charlie Cook.  “If Mitt Romney wins, it will be because of the economy and despite his campaign.”
New York Times:
Israeli Leader Sharpens Call on U.S. to Set Limits on Iran  —  JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel harshly criticized the Obama administration on Tuesday over recent statements that the United States would not set deadlines or draw “red lines” for Iran …
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Raphael Ahren / The Times of Israel:
In harsh rebuttal to Clinton, PM says those who don't set red lines for Iran have no right to keep Israel from attacking
Marc Caputo / Naked Politics:
Dolphins-dissing President Obama chats Pitbull, Medicare with ‘Pimp with the Limp’ DJ Laz  —  President Obama continues reaching out to non-traditional media to spread the campaign word, appearing in a pre-recorded interview that aired this morning on 106.7 FM with DJ Laz AKA “the pimp with the limp …
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
NBC's ‘Today’ Skips 9/11 Moment Of Silence For Kardashian Interview  —  At 8:46 AM, in New York City and at the White House in Washington DC, there was a moment of silence to remember when the first plane hit the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.  In New York, the NYPD, FDNY …
 
 
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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Record Partisan Gap in Views of Economic News
William La Jeunesse / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: Long-awaited ‘Furious’ report places blame on ATF, Justice
Ben Pershing / Washington Post:
Md. Democrats will run write-in candidate to replace Wendy Rosen
Discussion: The Raw Story
Nate Cohn / The New Republic:
Why Romney's Money Advantage is No Game-Changer
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
U.S. Economic Confidence Surged 11 Points Last Week
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Chris Brown Tattoos An Image of a Battered Woman On His Neck
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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Biden recalls own loss while marking ‘bittersweet’ 9/11 anniversary
 

 
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