A good quick read on where the campaign stands. The TPM PollTracker Average shows President Obama leading Mitt Romney by a mere 1.1 percentage points. The President has a net approval rating of .1 percentage points.
FBI rounds up anarchists on the fringe of the Occupy movement who an informant organized into core of potential bridge bombers. After the crew couldn’t find anyone at the local Occupy protests.
“The men were wearing black or dark colored shirts, had black backpacks, carried anarchist flags and acted differently than the other people in attendance,” according to the FBI affidavit. They were soon joined by three other men and “appeared to be together and was constantly moving throughout the crowd expressing displeasure at the crowd’s unwillingness to act violently.”
When an organizer of the protest said they wanted to act peacefully, one of the men said “fuck that” and the whole group walked away, according to the FBI.
That’s when the Feds and their informant went into action.
Obama campaign celebrates first anniversary of President’s commando raid on Swiss Bank Accounts.
Mitt Romney just did a brief press availability with Rudy Giuliani in downtown New York to commemorate the death of Osama bin Laden and by reference the 9/11 attacks. It gave Romney an opportunity to answer questions on the topic of the day — would he have whacked bin Laden just like Obama did.
Watch the video.
The Fox News morning show Fox and Friends is a bottomless well of cable news ridiculousness. But on the morning a committee of the British Parliament released a report finding that Rupert Murdoch is not fit to lead a major international corporation, the disconnect from reality was particularly amusing. Watch.
The full News Corp. statement on today’s report from Parliament.
As David Taintor reports, those following the News Corp. phone-hacking scandal closely don’t think today’s report from Parliament gets us even to the halfway point of the still-unfolding saga.
How the right-wing noise machine led to the resignation of EPA regional administrator Al Armendariz.
After a day of rumors and a White House furiously trying to quash reports, it has now been confirmed that President Obama is in Afghanistan on an unannounced visit on the anniversary of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Obama will address the nation live this evening at 7:30 p.m. ET.
The 8 most damning conclusions of the British Parliament report on the News Corp. hacking scandal.