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12:15 PM ET, September 28, 2012

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Elspeth Reeve / The Atlantic Wire:
Just How Racist Is the ‘Obama Phone’ Video?  —  There was a video leading the Drudge Report on Thursday afternoon of a poor black woman with messed-up teeth saying she's voting for President Obama because he gave her a free phone, and perhaps you have some questions about it.  Questions like: Is this video racist?
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
The Truth About The Obama Phone  —  On Thursday, the Drudge Report splashed a video of an undentified woman who claims to have recieved a free “Obama Phone.”  —  The video has captured the attention of the right online, who see it as proof that Obama supporters are dependent on government.
Discussion: Rush Limbaugh
Politico:
In the end, it's Mitt  —  It isn't the chair or the ho-hum convention.  Or the leaked video.  Or Stuart Stevens.  Or the improving economy.  Or media bias.  Or distorted polls.  Or the message.  Or Mormonism.  —  It's Mitt.  —  With Republicans everywhere wondering what has happened …
Roger Simon / Politico:
Mitt Romney: King of comedy  —  It is time to cut Mitt Romney some slack.  It is wrong to criticize him until you've walked a mile in his living room.  —  That last line was a joke that someone posted on Twitter.  Jokes have power.  When a politician makes a joke, he can make a point …
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Obama campaign raises expectations for Romney in first debate
Discussion: National Review
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Go large, Mitt  —  In mid-September 2008, Lehman Brothers collapsed and the bottom fell out of the financial system.  Barack Obama handled it coolly.  John McCain did not.  Obama won the presidency.  (Given the country's condition, he would have won anyway.  But this sealed it.)
Rebel Pundit / BREITBART.COM:
NYC PROHIBITS CONTROVERSIAL SUBWAY ADS IN WAKE OF ISLAMIST'S VANDALISM  —  Just one day after an Islamic activist attempted to cover over private property in spray paint (and a woman who got in her way), the Metropolitan Transit Authority in New York has announced they will amend their rules …
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Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
M.T.A. Amends Rules After Pro-Israel Ads Draw Controversy
Eric Kleefeld / Talking Points Memo:
Allen West Attacks Dem Opponent For 2003 Bar-Fight, ‘Verbal Assault’ Of Policeman  —  Rep. Allen West (R-FL) launched a new television attack ad Friday against his Democratic opponent Patrick Murphy — going after a bar-fight in which Murphy was involved in 2003.
Discussion: Gawker, BuzzFeed and Business Insider
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Joshua Miller / Roll Call:
Florida: New Allen West Ad Blasts Patrick Murphy for Arrest
Stan Wilson / CNN:
Producer of inflammatory anti-Islam film arrested, ordered held without bail  —  Los Angeles (CNN) — Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the man allegedly behind the inflammatory film “Innocence of Muslims,” was ordered held without bail Thursday after being arrested in California and accused of violating his probation.
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Shelby Grad / L.A. NOW:
Jailed ‘Innocence of Muslims’ filmmaker faces 3 years in prison
Discussion: Macleans.ca
James Carroll / blogs.courier-journal.com:
Sen. John Cornyn says GOP is not going to spend money to help Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin  —  WASHINGTON - Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said on Thursday that he does not intend to put money into the race of controversial Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin.
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Reuters:
France taxes rich and business to slash deficit  —  (Reuters) - President Francois Hollande's Socialist government unveiled sharp tax hikes on business and the rich on Friday in a 2013 budget aimed at showing France has the fiscal rigor to remain at the core of the euro zone.
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Raphael Minder / New York Times:
Spain Unveils Sweeping Budget Cuts
Discussion: CFR.org and Calculated Risk
Charles Mahtesian / Politico:
Webb drops the hammer on Romney  —  Jim Webb's departures from party orthodoxy are frequent.  As recently as last November, the retiring Virginia Democratic senator was reluctant to commit to campaigning for President Barack Obama.  —  So Webb's bladework today on Mitt Romney was as unexpected as it was memorable.
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
The Million Wingnut March  —  There's been a steadily building discussion, albeit shrouded in some mystery, about the potential impact on Election Day (and to some extent, before it) of right-wing “volunteer poll watchers” who are promising to descend on minority neighborhood to make sure …
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Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times:
Tea party groups work to remove names from Ohio voter rolls
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Democrats to join call for more information on Libya terrorist attack  —  Senate Democrats on Thursday will join their Republican colleagues in pressing the administration for more information about the deadly attack that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi.
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice Skipped Netanyahu Speech  —  The woman who went on five different Sunday talk shows a week ago to lie to the American people about the attack in Libya on 9/11, saying it was a spontaneous protest when the administration knew it was in fact …
Discussion: Nice Deb and Hot Air
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
UN-Real... Obama UN Ambassador Rice Blew Off Netanyahu Speech Today Too (Video)
Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
Dems Darken Image of Black Republican House Candidate  —  A printed mailer sent out by the Utah Democratic party features what appears to be a darkened photo of Republican House candidate Mia Love.  Below is the image of the mailer:  —  Here's the original photograph, in color:
Emily Anne Epstein / Daily Mail:
Pictured: The ‘beautiful’ family slain hours after church by ‘mentally ill father tormented by the prospect of Obama winning the election’  — Albert, Kathleen, Mathew and Christopher Peterson were found dead Tuesday in their Herndon, Virginia home  — A friend of the family …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and LAWSONRY
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Shock Photos of Netanyahu at U.N. from AP, Reuters  —  Two shocking photos coming off the wire of Benjamin Netanyahu addressing the United Nations moments ago.  —  The first is from the Associated Press:  —  Associated PressAssociated Press  —  The second is from Reuters:  —  ReutersReuters
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Netanyahu, Romney to Speak Friday
Mjmontone / CBS New York:
N.J. High School Students Planning Cafeteria Boycott To Protest Obama Guidelines  —  PARSIPPANY, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — Students at Parsippany Hills High School held a strategy session on Thursday to discuss a potential lunch strike, on Friday, over what they have called inadequately sized meals.
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Fars News Agency:
Gallup Poll: Rural Whites Prefer Ahmadinejad to Obama  —  TEHRAN (FNA)- According to the results of a Gallup poll released Monday, the overwhelming majority of rural white Americans said they would rather vote for Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad than US President Barack Obama.
George Russell / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: As the UN opens its General Assembly session, it is already thinking up new global taxes  —  A 1 percent tax on billionaires around the world.  A tax on all currency trading in the U.S. dollar, the euro, the Japanese yen and the British pound sterling.
 
 
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BBC:
China's Bo Xilai expelled and accused of corruption
Discussion: Via Meadia and Macleans.ca
James Dao / New York Times:
Veterans Wait for U.S. Aid Amid Growing Backlog of Claims
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama eCard for Women: ‘Can I Borrow $18,000 to Help Pay for My Birth Control?’
Discussion: The American Mind and LifeNews.com
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Huntsman Documentary: Republicans “Disconnected From The Realities Of The World Stage”
Discussion: KUTV-TV and New York Magazine
 Earlier Items: 
First Read:
Polls: Obama leads in N.H., tighter in Nev., N.C.
Michael Falcone / ABCNEWS:
The Voters Are Voting (The Note)
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The Caucus
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Romney muddies his tax message
Yoel Goldman / The Times of Israel:
Explosion rocks Jewish community center in Malmo
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Europe's Austerity Madness
Discussion: Eschaton
Paul Krugman:
Not The Election They Were Expecting
Discussion: AMERICAblog and Balloon Juice
Michael Cooper / New York Times:
Obama Takes Advantage of Romney's Lack of Details
 

 
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