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4:10 PM ET, September 25, 2012

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WCVB.com:
Sen. Scott Brown staffers caught on video chanting Indian war whoops, making tomahawk chops  —  Rally video surfaces after campaigns release ads about Warren's heritage  —  Staffers for Sen. Scott Brown chanted Indian “war whoops” and made “tomahawk chops” during a rally for the Republican senator this week in Boston.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Really, Scott Brown?  —  I've been wondering about this for a few days.
Discussion: Blue Mass Group
Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
Racial Politics: Scott Brown Staffers Mock Warren With ‘Tomahawk Chop’ And ‘War Whoop’
Discussion: Mediaite and Election 2012
Michael Levenson / Boston Globe:
Dems: GOP staffers mocked Warren with chants, ‘chops’
Charley-On-The-Mta / Blue Mass Group:
Scott Brown staffers do “Indian war whoop”, “tomahawk chop” - YouTube
Alicia Cohn / The Hill:
Ryan criticizes refs for call in disputed Green Bay Packers game  —  GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan on Tuesday criticized the replacement referees who made a disputed call that caused the Green Bay Packers to lose the Monday Night Football game.  —  “You guys watch that Packer game last night?”
Discussion: CNN and Politico
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Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
Paul Ryan Demands Return Of Unionized NFL Referees: ‘It Is Time To Get The Real Refs’
Discussion: The Raw Story and The Stranger …
Scott Bauer / Associated Press:   Union-buster Walker calls for return of union refs
Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
Union-Busting GOP Governor Scott Walker Demands Return Of Unionized NFL Referees
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Bill Clinton: NFL refs blew the call!
Steve Benen / Associated Press:
Scott Walker discovers the value of union workers
Washington Post:
Washington Post polls: Obama lead in Ohio, edge in Fla. hamper Romney path to victory  —  President Obama has grabbed a significant lead over former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney in Ohio and holds a slender edge in Florida, according to two new polls by The Washington Post.
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Romney's problem: Ohio, Ohio, Ohio  —  Of all the hurdles in Mitt Romney's path, there is none as daunting - or as alarming to other members of his party - as the state of Ohio.  —  This morning's Washington Post poll found Obama leading Romney by 8 points in the Buckeye State.
BuzzFeed:
Romney Campaign Challenges The Polls  —  Adviser says internal polling says the race is much tighter than the public polls suggests.  “We are, by any stretch, within the margin of error in Ohio,” says Beeson.  —  Image by Brian Snyder / Reuters  —  DAYTON, Ohio — Amid a flurry …
Discussion: The Fix, Election 2012 and CANNONFIRE
Peter Kirsanow / National Review:
Why Isn't Romney Up by Ten Points?
New York Times:
Obama's Speech to the United Nations General Assembly — Text  —  Following is a text of President Obama's speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, as released by the White House:  —  Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, fellow delegates, ladies and gentleman …
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Washington Post:
President Obama's 2012 address to U.N. General Assembly (Full text)  —  Video: President Obama addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York Tuesday, urging leaders to condemn the violence over an anti-Muslim film in the Middle East that led to the death of U.S. ambassador to Libya.
Congressman Allen West / Facebook:
The President continues to offer up apologies....When tolerance becomes a one way street it leads to cultural suicide...
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Conservative Mind  —  When I joined the staff of National Review as a lowly associate in 1984, the magazine, and the conservative movement itself, was a fusion of two different mentalities.  —  On the one side, there were the economic conservatives.  These were people that anybody …
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Brooks Misses the Boat  —  David Brooks' latest critique of the conservative movement (which reads an awful lot like the first draft of a post-election thumb-sucker on What Went Wrong) covers a lot of familiar ground for anyone familiar with intra-conservative debate over the years.
Emily Goodin / The Hill:
Madonna strips for Obama, offers profanity-laced endorsement  —  Madonna offered a profanity-laced endorsement of President Obama at her concert Monday night, which involved the singer stripping down to her underwear to reveal the president's name written on her body.
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Kia Makarechi / The Huffington Post:
Madonna: Obama Is ‘A Black Muslim In The White House,’ Deserves Votes (VIDEO) … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Madonna, Video, Madonna MDNA Tour, Political Hollywood, Madonna Barack Obama, Madonna Obama, Madonna Obama Black Muslim, Madonna Obama Endorsement, Madonna Obama Muslim, Madonna Obama Tattoo, Mdna, Mdna Tour, Entertainment News
Associated Press:
Police: Teen admits vandalizing NYC pol's office  —  NEW YORK — Police say a teenager has admitted vandalizing the campaign office of New York Congressman Michael Grimm.  —  NYPD spokesman Paul Browne says the eighth grader told a school counselor that he and a friend had broken a window …
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
NEWS FLASH  —  RYAN: PREVENTING GAY PEOPLE FROM MARRYING IS A ‘UNIVERSAL HUMAN’ VALUE |  Paul Ryan reiterated his opposition to marriage equality, during a town hall in Cincinnati, Ohio on Tuesday.  “The things you talk about like traditional marriage and family and entrepreneurship.
Thomas Burr / Salt Lake Tribune:
Harry Reid: Mitt Romney is not the face of Mormonism  —  • Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he agrees with a fellow Mormon who wrote recently that Mitt Romney has “sullied” the LDS faith and that the GOP presidential candidate is “not the face of Mormonism.”
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Reid: I agree Romney has ‘sullied’ Mormonism
Discussion: New York Magazine
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
GOP takes aim at ‘skewed’ polls  —  The Romney campaign and other Republicans say polls showing President Obama with a significant lead over their candidate are inaccurate.  —  They argue many mainstream polls skew in Obama's favor because of sample sizes that base 2012 turnout projections on 2008 …
Discussion: msnbc.com and Daily Kos
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Steven Shepard / NationalJournal.com:
Republicans to Pollsters: Too Many Democrats In Your Surveys
David Weigel / Slate:
Defining Wonkishness Down  —  I'm noticing a pattern in coverage of Paul Ryan.  Yesterday's NYT and WaPo gripe-collecters on how conservatives wanted to “unleash” the candidate were a taster.  The next wave of Ryan story is the “the wonk is loosed” piece.  When you see just how the “wonkishness” is being defined, it's fairly amusing.
Alex Pareene / Salon:
The website where Mitt Romney's winning in a landslide  —  At UnSkewed Polls, “liberal media bias” is removed from every survey that shows Obama ahead.  Guess who wins?  —  I present UnSkewedPolls.com, the best new website on the political Internet.  UnSkewed Polls finally removes the …
Dan Amira / New York Magazine:
Mitt Romney Was Joking About Airplane Windows  —  The internet was tickled silly yesterday when it learned that Mitt Romney lacks an even basic understanding of the airplanes he has flown on probably thousands of times at this point in his 65-year life.  It seemed almost unthinkable that a guy …
Tiffany Hsu / Los Angeles Times:
Bacon, pork shortage ‘now unavoidable,’ industry group says  —  LA Times Columnist David Lazarus discusses details of the U.S. bacon shortage  —  Might want to get your fill of ham this year, because “a world shortage of pork and bacon next year is now unavoidable,” according to an industry trade group.
 
 
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Herald-Tribune runs seriously ugly and false anti-Obama ad
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Ralph Nader: Obama's a ‘war criminal’
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‘Ending Our War on Schedule’
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
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