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            <title><![CDATA[Bringing Down Bachmann]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The far right's star House member just hit the headlines with a rowdy health-care rally on Capitol Hill. Benjamin Sarlin reports on the Democrats lining up in Minnesota to send Michele Bachmann into early retirement.
Michele Bachmann took her...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Plot to Purge GOP Moderates]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A sect of hard-right Republicans is celebrating their loss in a New York House race-but that's just the beginning of a plan to purge moderates. Benjamin Sarlin speaks to the ringleader.
Insurgent conservatives have declared all-out war on the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Battle for the GOP's Soul]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Republicans will test their strength in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York today. But will the party's conservative base or the alienated independents prevail? Plus, 6 hot races to watch today.
It's been a year since the Republican Party was blown out...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Real War on Fox]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The White House may be in a cold war with Fox News. But Media Matters is on the front lines. Benjamin Sarlin on the latest ways David Brock's group has hit the right's house network-and aided the White House counterattacks.
The White House's war on...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ghostbusters Is Real!]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Seriously. Just ask Dan Aykroyd and his father, Peter, whose real-life family history with the supernatural inspired Ghostbusters. The two talk to Benjamin Sarlin about the science behind the paranormal.
Peter Aykroyd, father of the famed comic actor...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:30:56 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[New Jersey's Jesse Ventura]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  Disgusted with Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine and his GOP foe, New Jersey voters are giving upstart Chris Daggett a hard look. Can he wrestle the statehouse from Democratic hands?
New Jersey's gubernatorial election has been playing to the state's...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Anti-War Left's Big Gun]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As Obama continues to debate a troop surge, liberals who want the U.S. out of Afghanistan are turning up the heat. Benjamin Sarlin on Alan Grayson-yes, that loudmouth on health care-the freshman congressman who's leading the charge.
If you think Alan...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Texas Republican Smackdown]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Gov. Rick Perry is under fire over a suspicious execution-and his secessionist talk this spring. Can his more moderate GOP rival take him down? The national GOP is watching.
A battle for the soul of the Republican Party is under way in Texas and the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Beck's Show Weathers Blow]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  Advertisers have deserted The Glenn Beck Show in droves, outraged by his race-baiting remarks. But the exodus won't slow the conservative juggernaut.
Progressive blogs have been atwitter this week with the news that Glenn Beck's program is...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bill Ayers Punks Conservative Blogger]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The far-right fever swamps have been fantasizing for weeks that Bill Ayers wrote President Obama's memoirs. According to Ayers, they're living the "twilight zone."
Let's put this one to bed right now.
Far-right sites have been spreading a post...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Ugliest Health-Care Debate]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[You think the political jousting in the Senate Finance Committee is rough? Wait until you see the right's rumor machine, Betsy McCaughey, square off with big-government lover Anthony Weiner.
If you like partisan combat, the New York University/Langone...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Democrats' Joe Wilson?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Alan Grayson's anti-GOP rant on health care made the Florida congressman a liberal hero-and the right's favorite new whipping boy. Is this a ticket to stardom-or political suicide?
Is Alan Grayson the Democrats' Joe Wilson? After stirring up a media...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Death of Death Panels]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As the health-care debate heats up, the summer's canards have been replaced by concern about sick people. Benjamin Sarlin on why those with pre-existing conditions have fresh hope.
Watching President Obama deliver his speech on health care earlier...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Brad Pitt, in Katrina's Wake]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The actor stole the show at CGI Thursday,  showing how his charity is rebuilding New Orleans' 9th Ward. Benjamin Sarlin reports on Pitt's architectural chops-and rumors he might run for mayor. 
The Clinton Global Initiative featured a range of A-list...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:07:09 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[13 Best Moments From Bill's Bash]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Power players from Barack Obama to Carlos Slim hit New York for Clinton's annual brainstorming session this week. The Daily Beast's Benjamin Sarlin on the biggest names and best ideas.
Four days. Dozens of panel discussions. Big names, and bigger...]]></description>
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