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Obama’s Women Supporters and
the ‘Marriage Gap’ Wild Card
Daily Beast, by Eleanor Clift
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Posted By:Pluperfect, 11/5/2012 4:42:37 AM
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| The gender gap is a familiar feature of American politics and one of the reasons why President Obama remains competitive for reelection despite the weak economy. But there's another factor at work: it’s called “the marriage gap,” and it helps explain the tightening of the polls after the first presidential debate when a Gallup survey found that Romney had erased the gender gap, pulling within one point nationally of Obama among likely women voters. Gallup’s findings prompted a swift response from Joel Benenson, the Obama campaign pollster, questioning the methodology, but other polls also found that Romney had substantially narrowed
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Spidey, 11/5/2012 6:00:23 AM (No. 8988628)
With 40% of children being born out of wedlock,you have to believe most of them are Obama supporters.The thing is,I think married women are more committed to vote.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Ray_Stoddard, 11/5/2012 7:52:09 AM (No. 8988775)
Sorry, I saw the article was written by Eleanor Clift so I didn't read it. Can't stand that harridan.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
mickturn, 11/5/2012 8:57:19 AM (No. 8988947)
Only the morons and moochers, but I repeat myself, fit into this tight little group of misfits.
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The IRS and AP controversies spell
trouble for Obama and Democrats
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Guardian [UK], by Harry J. Enten
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/14/2013 5:59:40 AM
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The Justice Department has "secretly obtained" two months of conversations between Associated Press (AP) officials in a move called "unprecedented". The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Cincinnati office singled out new conservative groups for extra scrutiny over the past couple of years. One of these controversies alone would have caused a headache for the Obama administration, but the two of them together could spell big trouble for the Democrats in the 2014 midterm elections. Historically speaking, trust in government has been tied very closely to how people view
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Congress Put Pressure on
the IRS to Investigate
Conservative Tax-Exempt Groups
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Atlantic, by Garance Franke-Ruta
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/14/2013 5:41:05 AM
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A report in Roll Call in March 2012 revealed that leading members of Congress not only were aware that the Internal Revenue Service had begun investigating the political activity of would-be 501(c)4 Tea Party groups that winter, but showed to what an extent members of Congress had been actively putting pressure on the agency to take a closer look at tax-exempt conservative organizations in the wake of the Supreme Court´s Citizens United ruling. Reported Janie Lorber in 2012: Tea party outrage over a spate of IRS letters to conservative groups has revived a long-standing dispute
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Alaska Senate Poll: Far,
Far Less Than Meets the Eye
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Roll Call, by Stuart Rothenberg
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/14/2013 5:11:36 AM
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A Harper Polling survey conducted for the Tea Party Leadership Fund, an obscure conservative group that has supported Georgia Republican Rep. Paul Broun and Kentucky GOP Senator Rand Paul, is one of those polls probably meant for fundraising and little else. Though writing about the poll and the polling memo automatically gives them more attention than they deserve, those of us in the media can’t merely ignore these kinds of questionable polls conducted for groups which seem more interested in fundraising than in impacting elections. The May 6-7 IVR survey of 379 respondents tested
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President Obama waited 3 days
to address the IRS scandal. Why?
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Washington Post, by Chris Cillizza
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/14/2013 5:06:50 AM
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On Monday, President Obama called the singling out of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service “outrageous”, adding: “I have no patience with it. I will not tolerate it.” Obama’s strong condemnation of the growing scandal came amid similar denunciations from Democratic elected officials. Montana Sen. Max Baucus called it an “outrageous abuse of power and a breach of the public’s trust.” West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin described the IRS’ actions as “unacceptable and un-American.” You get the idea. The question being asked in the political world today is whether the condemnations are too little, too late.
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Obama on Benghazi:
´There´s No There There´
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Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/13/2013 12:29:43 PM
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At a press conference today at the White House, President Obama said "There´s no there there" on criticism of how his administration handled the Benghazi terror attack:(Snip for video)"And suddenly three days ago this gets spun up as if there´s something new to the story," Obama said in response to a question about Benghazi. "There´s no there there." The president continued, "Keep in mind by the way these so-called talking points that were prepared for Susan Rice, five, six days after the event occurred, pretty much matched the assessments that I was receiving at that time
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West EMT "let go" after explosion
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KPRC [Houston, TX], by Robert Arnold
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/12/2013 11:49:40 AM
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Local 2 Investigates learned an Emergency Medical Technician arrested Friday on federal charges had been "let go" from the West EMS department just days after the explosion, according to state health officials. Bryce Ashley Reed, an EMT who responded to the explosion at the West fertilizer company, currently faces federal charges of possession of a destructive device. However, investigators said they have found no connection between Reed and the explosion. "We removed him from the roster for West EMS (Friday) after receiving notice that he was let go from there," Carrie Williams with the Texas Department of State
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Mom´s texts raised flags
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Boston Herald, by Erin Smith
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/12/2013 11:44:46 AM
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Russian agents intercepted text messages showing Tamerlan Tsarnaev wanted to join up with militant jihadists, according to a new report — a revelation that could have put the Boston bomber under closer federal watch, experts say, if it was shared with U.S. officials. “That could have been the trigger that put him under surveillance,” said Cedric Leighton, former deputy director of training at the National Security Agency. “Although in and of itself each text message may not have shown anything, it’s still important to put all the pieces together. Some little snippet of information could make all the difference.”
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Administration Relying on Shoddy
Benghazi Report to Absolve Itself of Blame
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Weekly Standard, by Victoria Toensing
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/12/2013 11:42:56 AM
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The White House has touted the Accountability Review Board (ARB) investigation of the Benghazi massacre as a review “led by two men of unimpeachable expertise and credibility that oversaw a process that was rigorous and unsparing.” In fact, the report was purposefully incomplete and willfully misleading. The two men in charge of the ARB, Ambassador Thomas Pickering and Admiral Thomas Mullen, a diplomat and military man respectively, have no meaningful investigative experience. Instead of letting the facts lead the direction of the investigation, the report appears designed to protect the interests of Hillary Clinton, the State Department higher ups,
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ABC: Petraeus called final Benghazi
talking points “useless” the day
before Rice’s full Ginsburg
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Hot Air, by Ed Morrissey
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/12/2013 11:36:57 AM
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One of the mysteries in the Benghazi scandal has been the role of David Petraeus, who was then the Director of the CIA but was forced to resign in a personal scandal shortly thereafter. While the White House and State Department tried to cobble together talking points to explain away the terrorist attack that took four American lives, what did Petraeus do? According to new information reported for the first time by Jonathan Karl on ABC News’ This Week earlier this morning, Petraeus rejected the final version as “useless” —
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The Taxman vs. the Tea Party
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New York Times, by Ross Douthat
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/12/2013 11:33:04 AM
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AS a taxpayer and a conservative who hopes to remain on good terms with the Internal Revenue Service for many April 15ths to come, I don’t want to speculate too freely about the motives of the “low level” I.R.S. employees who decided to single out Tea Party groups for an inappropriate level of attention during the heat of the 2012 campaign. But I’m willing to guess this much: Even though an American Civil Liberties Union official described their excessive interest in right-wing groups as “about as constitutionally troubling as it gets,” the bureaucrats in question probably thought
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A Pulitzer the Times Doesn´t Want
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National Review Online, by John O´Sullivan
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/12/2013 11:29:23 AM
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Andrew Stuttaford has several times drawn attention to the decision of the Grey Lady to keep the Pulitzer Prize that was awarded to Walter Duranty for his reporting of Soviet Russia that praised Stalin, sugar-coated the crimes of the Soviet regime, and in particular denied the forced Ukrainian famine. (Snip)An opposite situation has now arisen. Both organizations are jointly resisting the posthumous award of a Pulitzer to Ed Kennedy, the Associated Press reporter, who broke the official 24-hour embargo on releasing news of the German surrender to the Allies at Reims on the Western front.
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Palin World Keeps
Distance from Senate Buzz
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National Review Online, by Robert Costa
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/12/2013 11:22:43 AM
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A group of tea-party activists — the Tea Party Leadership Fund — is trying to draft Sarah Palin to run for Senate in 2014, when incumbent Alaska Democrat Mark Begich is up for reelction. But don’t expect Palin to take the bait. In a statement, her adviser Tim Crawford throws cold water on the speculation. She appreciates the interest, but she doesn’t “support” the effort. Governor Palin is grateful and honored by those Americans who support her and her beliefs. However, the draft Sarah Palin for Senate fundraising campaign initiated by the Tea Party Leadership Fund is not authorized,
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IRS Scandal About
to Blow Wide Open?
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Power Line, by John Hinderaker
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/13/2013 11:39:47 PM
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To no one’s surprise, it is already evident that the Obama administration has been lying about the scope of the IRS’s harassment of conservative-leaning non-profits. The Washington Post has obtained documents that show the anti-conservative effort was directed from Washington, D.C., and was not a rogue operation out of the agency’s Cincinnati office, as the administration has claimed: Internal Revenue Service officials in Washington and at least two other offices were involved in the targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, making clear the effort reached well beyond the
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IRS targeted groups critical
of government, documents
from agency probe show
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Washington Post, by Juliet Eilperin
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/12/2013 10:35:53 PM
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At various points over the past two years, Internal Revenue Service officials singled out for scrutiny not only groups with “tea party” or “patriot” in their name but also nonprofit groups that criticized the government and sought to educate Americans about the U.S. Constitution, according to documents in an audit conducted by the agency’s inspector general. The documents, obtained by The Washington Post from a congressional aide with knowledge of the findings, show that the IRS field office in charge of evaluating applications for tax-exempt status decided to focus on groups making statements that “criticize
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Under sweeping subpoenas,
Justice Department obtained
AP phone records
in leak investigation
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Washington Post, by Sari Horwitz
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/13/2013 10:44:29 PM
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In a sweeping and unusual move, the Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of journalists working for the Associated Press as part of a year-long investigation into the disclosure of classified information about a failed al-Qaeda plot last year. The AP’s president said Monday that federal authorities obtained cell, office and home telephone records of individual reporters and an editor, AP general office numbers in Washington, New York and Hartford, and the main number for AP reporters covering Congress in what he called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion”
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Benghazi´s smoking guns
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Los Angeles Times, by Jonah Goldberg
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/14/2013 12:03:29 AM
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President Obama was asked about the metastasizing Benghazi scandal in a joint news conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday. Referring to the Americans who died in Benghazi, the president said, "We dishonor them when we turn things like this into a political circus." He added that "the whole issue of talking points, throughout this process, frankly, has been a sideshow.… There´s no there there." He´s half right. The talking points drafted by the State Department, the CIA and the White House and given to congressional Republicans and, most famously, to U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice
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My Medical Choice
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New York Times, by Angelina Jolie
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Posted By: earlybird- 5/14/2013 7:07:23 AM
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MY MOTHER fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was. We often speak of “Mommy’s mommy,”(Snip)the truth is I carry a “faulty” gene, BRCA1, which sharply increases my risk of developing breast cancer(Snip)I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy.
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Soledad O´Brien: ´OK, white
person, this is a conversation you
clearly are uncomfortable with´
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Washington Examiner, by Paul Bedard
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/13/2013 2:14:38 PM
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Soledad O´Brien, recently yanked from her morning show "Starting Point" on CNN, plans to continue her focus on racial issues and is charging that whites are afraid of dealing with the nation´s black-white division. O´Brien, just named a distinguished visiting fellow at Harvard´s Graduate School of Education, told the school´s Institute of Politics that she´s often confronted by whites who want to take issue with her documentaries on race in America. "People would sometimes, when I give speeches, stand up and say, ´You know I think your black America documentaries (are) divisive.
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Gore: ´Our Very Way
of Life´ Is at Stake
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Cybercast News Service, by Elizabeth Harrington
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/14/2013 10:16:26 AM
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Former Vice President and environmental activist Al Gore said “our very way of life” is at stake because of “our recklessness” on climate change. Gore blogged on Friday that concentrations of carbon dioxide hit 400 parts per million in the Earth’s atmosphere, a warning that if Americans don’t change there will be dire consequences. “Now more than ever before, we are reaping the consequences of our recklessness,” Gore wrote. “From Superstorm Sandy, which crippled New York City and large areas of New Jersey, to a drought, which parched more than half of our nation;
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Sanford victory shows adultery,
lies can´t trump party loyalty
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Los Angeles Times, by Robin Abcarian
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Posted By: SoCalGal- 5/13/2013 12:01:45 AM
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It would be too easy to make fun of the good Christian voters of South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District who saw fit to return their disgraced former Gov. Mark Sanford to the office he once held. I won’t do it. Well, maybe just a little. Sanford, whose political rise was fueled by his conservative principles and focus on family values, did not stay true to his wife. But in the end, the voters in South Carolina’s 1st stayed true to him.(Snip)“Obviously, there´s a vulnerability to me now that people respond to," Sanford told
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House Republicans prefer
sabotage to real solutions
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The Hill [Washington, DC], by Juan Williams
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/13/2013 11:11:35 AM
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The GOP majority in the House is reaching for new heights of political absurdity this week with its 37th vote to kill all or part of the Affordable Care Act. Let us briefly turn to political reality. There is absolutely zero chance that ObamaCare will be repealed while Democrats control the Senate and President Obama is in the White House. Reality also compels some mention of the fact that the GOP has never held a vote on any alternative plan for dealing with the nation’s out-of-control healthcare spending. But reality is a nuisance to Congressional Republicans
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Eric Holder Recuses
Himself From Leak Investigation
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Townhall, by Katie Pavlich
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/14/2013 12:53:49 PM
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Attorney General Eric Holder has recused himself from the Associated Press leak investigation. He will officially announce his recusal at a press conference Tuesday afternoon. Fox News is reporting his recusal comes partially because Holder has testified about potential national security leaks surrounding a May 7, 2012 Associated Press story. Yesterday, the Associated Press revealed the Department of Justice had been secretly monitoring both the personal and work phones of numerous AP editors and reporters. DOJ responded to these revelations by releasing the following
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Is Rush Limbaugh still relevant?
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CNN, by Dean Obeidallah
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Posted By: SpinMaster- 5/14/2013 1:25:13 PM
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New York -- Is Rush Limbaugh becoming a relic, a human version of "Mad Men," except without the style or cool clothes? Has Limbaugh become as dated as Jazzercise or "Macarena?" All you need to do is look at the bottom line to see that Limbaugh is in trouble. Limbaugh once raked in the big bucks for his radio syndicator, Cumulus. But last week, Cumulus CEO Lew Dickey made it clear those days are over. Dickey reported that Cumulus had lost millions of dollars in ad sales because many advertisers no longer want to be associated with Limbaugh.
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Justice Department secretly accessed
Associated Press phone records
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/13/2013 5:13:06 PM
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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative´s top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news. The records obtained by the Justice Department listed incoming and outgoing calls, and the duration of each call, for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and the main number for AP reporters in the
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