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1:30 PM ET, September 14, 2012

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Martin H. Simon / ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE - Romney on Debates: Obama Will 'Say Things That Aren't True'  —  With the first presidential debate less than three weeks away, Mitt Romney is spending lots of time getting ready behind closed doors.  In his first comments on that debate prep, he told me that Sen. Rob Portman …
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Martin H. Simon / ABCNEWS:
Full Transcript: George Stephanopoulos and Mitt Romney  —  The following is a full transcript of my interview with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.  —  GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Governor, thank you for doing this.  —  MITT ROMNEY: Thank you, George.  —  STEPHANOPOULOS: Boy …
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Romney team sharpens attack on Obama's foreign policy  —  Advisers to Mitt Romney on Thursday defended his sharp criticism of President Obama and said that the deadly protests sweeping the Middle East would not have happened if the Republican nominee were president.
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Romney owes an apology  —  To a certain extent, no one should be surprised by Mitt Romney's decision to seize on — actually, make that exploit — the attack on U.S. diplomatic outposts in Egypt and Libya as ammunition in the presidential campaign.  —  After all, the Republican presidential nominee wrote …
Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Poll: Obama Holds Narrow Edge Over Romney  —  President Obama holds a narrow three-point advantage over Mitt Romney among Americans most likely to vote in November, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.  —  With their back-to-back political conventions behind …
Katie Glueck / Reuters:
Mitt Romney: Barack Obama may lie in debates
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Benjy Sarlin / Talking Points Memo:
Mitt Romney Condemns Anti-Muslim Film, Echoing White House Position
Discussion: The Maddow Blog
Martin H. Simon / ABCNEWS:
Romney on Iran: Share Same ‘Red Line’ As Obama
Michael Falcone / ABCNEWS:
Mitt Romney And The Art Of The Double-Down (The Note)
Discussion: NationalJournal.com and First Read
Robert Wright / The Atlantic Online:
The Muslim Protests: Two Myths Down, Three to Go  —  Here is the narrative that pretty much everyone was buying into 36 hours ago: Crude anti-Islam film made by Israeli-American and funded by Jews leads to Muslim protests that boil over, causing four American deaths in Libya.
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David Gordon Smith / Spiegel Online:
'Obama's Middle East Policy Is in Ruins'  —  US embassies in the Muslim world were on high alert Friday following days of violent protests against an anti-Islam film.  Germany, too, closed several embassies in fear of attacks.  Some German commentators argue that the violence shows that Obama's Middle East policies have failed.
Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
Carney: Global Protests Directed At Offensive Video, Not U.S. Policy Or The Obama Administration  —  On Friday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney weighed in on the ongoing protests spreading across the Muslim world that ignited on 9/11/12.  Those protests resulted in the breaching …
John Hudson / The Atlantic Wire:
A Map of Muslim Protests Around the World
Discussion: BBC, emptywheel and Via Meadia
Cliff Owen / ABCNEWS:
Secretary Clinton Delivers Powerful Religion Speech After Middle East Embassy Attacks
Discussion: Althouse and Taylor Marsh
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Shariah vs. the Constitution
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
‘Fan in Chief’ Obama honors Olympians at the White House
Discussion: Politico
Kim Sengupta / The Independent:
Revealed: inside story of US envoy's assassination  —  Exclusive: America ‘was warned of embassy attack but did nothing’  —  NOTE: WE DO NOT STORE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS(ES) BUT YOUR IP ADDRESS WILL BE LOGGED TO PREVENT ABUSE OF THIS FEATURE.  PLEASE READ OUR LEGAL TERMS & POLICIES
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Bloody Hand Prints at Consulate Reveal Americans Were Dragged From Building Before Their Death  —  The attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi came in two waves on the night of 9-11.  —  Four Americans were murdered in a coordinated attack by reportedly 400 Islamists.  —  It was a highly coordinated attack.
Beth Stebner / Daily Mail:
Bloody hand prints, stolen documents and shocking security failings: Harrowing pictures inside …
Jackie Vega / KXAN-TV:
University of Texas classes canceled  —  All other activities will resume at 5 p.m. Friday  —  AUSTIN (KXAN) - Classes at the University of Texas are canceled for Friday following a bomb threat from a caller claiming to be with al-Qaida who said he placed bombs all over campus.
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Doug Stanglin / USA Today:
Bomb threats clear Texas, N. Dakota State campuses  —  The University of Texas at Austin and North Dakota State University have ordered campus buildings evacuated because of bomb threats.  —  “Immediately evacuate ALL buildings and get as far away as possible,” the University of Texas at Austin says on its website.
Talking Points Memo:
Kansas Goes Birther: State Board Considers Removing Obama From Ballot  —  Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, an informal advisor to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, said on Thursday he and his fellow members of a state board were considering removing President Barack Obama from the Kansas ballot this November.
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Tara Palmeri / New York Post:
Samuel's prez ad: Wake the f@#k up!  —  They picked the perfect actor for a political ad loaded with f-bombs.  —  Samuel L. Jackson will film a provocative spot supporting President Obama's re-election bid as early as tomorrow — telling voters to “Wake the f—k up, Vote for Obama.”
This Just In:
Nigerian forces fire shots to disperse protesters  —  Editor's note: Several protests stemming at least in part from an anti-Islam film produced in the United States are unfolding outside U.S. embassies around the world.  Friday's protests follow ones Tuesday at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo …
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Wall Street Journal:
The Obama Street Journal  —  The President takes our name in vain to make a false tax claim.  —  President Obama is running another ad pretending Mitt Romney has a secret plan to raise taxes on the middle class, which Freudians would call projection.  We're not sure what they'd call …
Discussion: Politico and Mediaite
ThinkProgress:
In Meetings With Anti-Pornography Group, Romney Campaign Promised To Prosecute Porn  —  WASHINGTON, DC — Mitt Romney's campaign told a leading anti-pornography group that the Republican nominee will pursue and prosecute pornography if elected president.  —  Three months ago …
Brian Doherty / Hit & Run:
The Badgering of Bob Dylan, Or, Tell Us You Love Obama, Bob!  Please!  —  Rolling Stone features another of its many mega-cover story interviews with Bob Dylan—a character always valuable, or at least amusing, to listen to.  (The interview is not yet online, but appears in the Sept 27 issue …
Discussion: Mediaite and Althouse
Agence France Presse:
Kuwaitis stage anti-US demo, wave Qaeda flag  —  KUWAIT CITY — About 500 demonstrators gathered Thursday near the US embassy in Kuwait waving a black Al-Qaeda flag in protest at a film mocking Islam.  —  President Barack “Obama, we are all Osama,” they chanted referring …
Discussion: Jihad Watch and Weasel Zippers
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Sept. 13: After Convention Bounce, Holding Obama's Polls to a Higher Standard  —  On Thursday at 6:30 p.m. Eastern time, there was a deluge of comments in my Twitter feed when NBC News and Marist University released poll results showing President Obama with clear leads in three swing states.
David Taintor / Talking Points Memo:
Glenn Beck, Eliot Spitzer ‘Weigh In’ For Head-To-Head October Debate  —  Oh, how the mighty have fallen.  —  During an ostentatious, boxing-themed promotional event Thursday, the satellite television provider Dish announced that Glenn Beck and Eliot Spitzer will face off in a head-to-head debate …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Mediaite
Los Angeles Times:
Christian charity, ex-con linked to film on Islam  —  Joseph Nassralla Abdelmasih of Media for Christ in Duarte and Nakoula Basseley Nakoula of Cerritos emerge as forces behind ‘Innocence of Muslims,’ the film whose trailer has incited violence across the Arab world.
 
 
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