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Editorial Of The Day

From the New York Times: President Obama’s statement of outrage and his vow to bring the killers to justice received bipartisan support, including from politicians otherwise committed to partisan warfare, like the House speaker, John Boehner, and the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, who rarely misses a chance to attack Mr. Obama. But not from Mitt Romney, who wants Americans …

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Conspiracy Plots Thicken

As the media questions the true identity of the filmmaker whose work is now inflaming much of the Middle East, Right Wing Watch reports on the man whose Arabic blog post first brought the film to attention among Islamic radicals. Morris Sadek, an Egyptian-American anti-Muslim activist, managed in one week’s time to take an overlooked YouTube video featuring a lame …

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Suspicions Grow Over True Identity Of Anti-Islam Filmmaker “Sam Bacile”

While many news outlets quickly corrected initial reports to point out that crackpot Florida Pastor Terry Jones “only” had a hand in promoting the anti-Islam film now inciting violence across the Middle East, the man that many publications then named as film’s producer does not exist. The mysterious “Sam Bacile” supposedly spoke to The Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal …

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Todd Akin NOT To Speak At FRC Event

UPDATE: I’ve inserted a big NOT into the above headline: Just minutes after Family Research Council President Tony Perkins told reporters and C-SPAN cameras that Rep. Todd Akin would attend the Values Voter Summit this weekend, officials from the FRC and the Akin campaign told TPM that’s actually not the case. Akin will not be at the Values Voter Summit, …

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