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2:45 AM ET, September 29, 2012

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Talking Points Memo:
Todd Akin Suggests Employers Should Be Able To Pay Women Less  —  Todd Akin appeared to endorse allowing employers to pay women less than men at a town hall on Thursday.  —  Gender discrimination in compensation has been illegal in the United States since the passage of the 1963 Equal Pay Act.
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Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Akin consultant compares his fortitude to cult-leader David Koresh  —  • BY KEVIN McDERMOTT > kmcdermott@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8268  —  UPDATE 1:48 p.m.: Akin spokesman Ryan Hite has responded with a one-line written statement: “It was a stupid comment to make.”
Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
GOP Senate Candidate Akin: ‘Free Enterprise’ Means Being Allowed To Deny Equal Pay To Women  —  Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) has struggled with a well-established woman problem in his Senate campaign, ever since he claimed women could not get pregnant from “legitimate rape.”
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
BuzzFeed:
“Morning Joe” Mocks Romney For Something That Didn't Happen  —  A misleading subtitle leads to a viral clip making fun of Romney.  A frustrated Scarborough defends the clip on Twitter, says he will “take note” of all those who note the mistake.  —  On Wednesday, MSNBC's Morning Joe kicked off …
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Becket Adams / TheBlaze.com:
ANOTHER MSNBC SCANDAL? …
Greg Hengler / Townhall.com:
MSNBC Caught Doctoring Clip From Romney/Ryan Rally
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Sept. 27: The Impact of the ‘47 Percent’  —  After a secretly-recorded videotape was released on Sept. 17, showing Mitt Romney making unflattering comments about the “47 percent” of Americans whom he said had become dependent on government benefits, I suggested on Twitter that the political impact …
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.
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Bobby Cervantes / Politico:
Peter King calls for Susan Rice's resignation  —  Rep. Peter King called for the resignation Friday of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice for initially saying that the deadly Sept. 11 assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was spontaneous.
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Huckabee Suggests Obama Should Be Impeached Over Libya Incident
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and The Hill
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Jim Webb on ‘Givers’ and ‘Takers’  —  I have known, respected, and come very much to like Jim Webb over the course of more than 30 years.  We originally met because of deep disagreements about the Vietnam War.  He went to Annapolis, served with distinction and bravery as Marine officer …
Discussion: The Daily Dish and Politico
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Shifting Reports on Libya Killings May Cost Obama  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration's shifting accounts of the fatal attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, have left President Obama suddenly exposed on the national security and foreign policy issues …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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CNN:
Romney, Obama speak with Netanyahu
Jared A. Favole / Washington Wire:   Obama, Netanyahu Discuss Iran in Phone Call
Henry Payne / Detroit News:
Dearborn Muslims rally against the First Amendment  —  Led by a newspaper publisher, Muslim activists will call for putting limits on American free speech at a Dearborn rally this evening.  You can't make this stuff up.  —  Nearly a decade after Dearborn's streets celebrated America …
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Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:   Muslims in Michigan to Rally Against First Amendment
Steve Ralls / Immigration Equality:
Immigration Equality Praises Obama Administration for New, Written Guidance Providing Discretionary Relief to LGBT Immigrant Families  —  For Immediate Release  —  (202) 347-7007 / sralls@immigrationequality.org  —  Immigration Equality Praises Obama Administration for New …
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Miranda Leitsinger / U.S. News:
US immigration chief: Same-sex ties are family ties
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:   Napolitano Orders Same-Sex Couples' Immigration Rights To Be Put In Writing
Michelle Goldberg / The Daily Beast:
With ‘Dreams From My Real Father,’ Have Obama Haters Hit Rock Bottom?  —  A pseudo-documentary that slimes Ann Dunham, the president's late mother, is being mailed to swing-state voters.  A look at the film and Dinesh D'Souza's book, Obama's America.  —  So this is what it's come to.
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Obama and Romney are basically tied in Virginia  —  I've received plenty of emails from readers in Northern Virginia expressing skepticism about polls that have Obama leading Romney in Virginia by a significant wide margin.  And with good reason; it is difficult to believe that Obama …
Discussion: GOP 12 and Battleground Watch
David Taintor / Talking Points Memo:
Meet Dean Chambers, The Virginia Republican Who Is ‘Unskewing’ The Polls  —  With Republicans up in arms over poll after poll showing President Obama ahead, conservatives have latched on to a new polling site that promises to “unskew” the data, correcting what the site believes are polling samples with too many darn Democrats.
Los Angeles Times:
Suspicious voter registration forms found in 10 Florida counties  —  A Republican Party volunteer standing next to a cardboard cutout of President Ronald Reagan solicits newly naturalized U.S. citizens to register to vote.  (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images / August 23, 2012)
Ben Grant / Portland Press-Herald:
Maine Voices: Asking Dill to step aside assumes King is lying about his true intentions  —  In their recent columns, both Greg Kesich and Alan Caron laid the outcome of the U.S. Senate race at the feet of the Democrats by urging U.S. Senate candidate Cynthia Dill to step aside in order for Angus King to win.
Bob Dole / Washington Post:
Bob Dole on life after losing the 1996 presidential election  —  In eulogizing Gerald Ford at his Grand Rapids, Mich., funeral in January 2007, Jimmy Carter described a New Yorker cartoon that both men had found amusing.  In it a small boy informs his mother, “When I grow up, I want to be a former president.”
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
ABCNEWS:
Dems Pump Cash Into ME Senate Race, but for Whom?  —  The Democratic Senate Campaign Committee is buying $410,000 worth of TV advertising in the U.S. Senate race in Maine, but it's not clear for whom.  —  Executive Director Guy Cecil suggested Friday that the money will be used to fight …
Discussion: Politico
Wall Street Journal:
France Raises Taxes in Tough Budget  —  PARIS—The French Socialist government on Friday unveiled the country's toughest budget in decades, hiking taxes for the rich and big business in a bid to slash its deficit while facing a stalled economy.  —  President François Hollande …
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Sjones / CNSNews:
Katie Couric Voted ‘The Worst Reporter in History of Man’  —  (CNSNews.com) - At the Media Research Center's 25th Anniversary Gala in Washington, D.C., on Thursday night, former CBS News anchor Katie Couric was voted “The Worst Reporter in the History of Man.”  —  Couric barely edged out fellow former CBS News anchor Dan Rather.
Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:
Romney's Plan to Win Virginia: Lyme Disease  —  On Thursday evening, Anahita Nemat, a conservative PR specialist living in Northern Virginia, tweeted out this photo, with the description: “Received my first mailer from @MittRomney & @PaulRyanVP today.  It talks about Lyme Disease.  Huh?  I'm confused!
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Inside The Planning Of A James O'Keefe “Sting”  —  The conservative provocateur planned a sting of SEIU in 2010 — based off information from a source of John Fund's, with Foster Friess as a potential investor.  It didn't end up working out.  (Updated below)  —  Source: images.politico.com
Discussion: Daily Kos
 
 
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Julia Preston / New York Times:
A Flood of Applications, With a Trickle of Approvals
Andy Newman / City Room:
Sick Dolphin, Stranded in Queens, Dies on Arrival at Rescue Center
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Henry Samuel / Telegraph:
Couples who share the housework are more likely to divorce, study finds
Alina Selyukh / Reuters:
Billionaire Soros pledges $1.5 mln to Democratic ‘Super PACs’
Los Angeles Times:
Art stolen from Jeffrey Gundlach is recovered; 2 arrested
David J. Lynch / Bloomberg:
Wealthy Americans Gain Even as Republicans Decry Redistribution
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