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On Thursday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, host Joe Scarborough said, “There is always a strain of anti-Semitism” that exists at rallies for Texas Rep. Ron Paul. (more)

“The Kids Are All Right” actress, Julianne Moore will portray former vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin in HBO’s upcoming film, “Game Change,” reports The Wrap. (more)

A high-ranking radio executive is caught on tape making potentially anti-Semitic and other disparaging remarks about large groups of Americans — never mind his station is getting federal money. That might seem noteworthy, especially in this age of toning down the discourse. (more)

Perhaps “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski’s take on Joe Scarborough’s conservatism as being elegant, articulate and non-aggressive isn’t as spot on as she thought, but it is entertaining to see the former Florida Republican congressman get fired up on his MSNBC program. (more)

New York magazine’s John Heilemann writes in his latest cover story that Sarah Palin could put the White House back into Republican hands in 2012, given the right circumstances. But he assumes that Republicans put enough stock in Palin to nominate her in the first place. Palin is to Republicans what the U.S. invasion of Iraq is to Democrats: she had no right to be here in the first place and her presence has been a disaster. That’s clear to some now — Peter Beinart calls her “the Republicans’ George McGovern” — and might be to more after the midterms. (more)

I’ve always been convinced that Hillary Clinton would find her way back to the Oval Office one way or another. (more)

These days the left isn’t all too happy with President Obama. (more)

Joe Biden was tapped as vice president with the role of attack dog in mind. That was one of the less explosive revelations from Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s book “Game Change.” As the nation will recall, the then-senator took his duty in an ironic direction. Yes, he was an attack dog of sorts, but the only leg he sank his teeth into was that of his running mate. (more)

Reason number 105,001 Nevada voters need to replace Senator Harry Reid: He still thinks it’s1950 and light-skinned Negroes can pass as long as they check their ghetto dialect at the door. The aging statesman’s racially charged remarks recently revealed in the new book “Game Change,” by journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, may have consumed the cable talk show circuit but whether you agree or disagree that Reid’s remarks are racist is almost irrelevant. (more)

The first signs of abandonment from within Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid‘s own party emerged Sunday, as some Democrats said his racially charged comments about President Obama have placed his already perilous reelection prospects on the precipice. (more)

Bill Clinton has been embroiled in fresh controversy after it was claimed he made a disparaging remark about Barack Obama in a conversation with Senator Ted Kennedy. (more)