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SORRY!! I GOT A COPYRIGHTS CLIAM AND HAD TO DO AN AUDIOSWAP… New Music is : artist: 009 Sound System song: With A Spirit it’s on YOUTUBE AUDIOSWAP Spoof of the Democratic race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. This is a hilarious music video set to the tune of “Umbrella” by Rihanna.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama musically argue it out over who is the better candidate in this song satirizing “Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better.”

Washington DC – September 28 – Secretary Hillary Clinton spoke at a food security event co-hosted with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon during the UN General Assembly. To read her remarks, CLICK HERE

It’ll be Clinton vs. Clinton in this week’s Sunday show race.

“Meet the Press” has former President Bill Clinton booked on NBC, and “Face the Nation” just announced that CBS too will have a Clinton… Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Bob Schieffer will also be joined by Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC).

New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Reuters – The United States will pursue deeper engagement with Myanmar’s military rulers to try to spur democratic reform but will not ease sanctions for now, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday.

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Happy Birthday to CNN’s Brianna Keilar! What know and what we’re reading this Tuesday morning…

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TV

In her new CBSNews.com show @katiecouric, the CBS Evening News anchor sat down with Fox News host Glenn Beck. Beck, who has been one of Pres. Obama’s fiercest and most vocal critics, says last year’s GOP nominee, John McCain, “would have been worse.”

MSNBC’s “Morning Joe’s” roundtables yesterday and today voiced that they thought President Obama should have done Fox News Sunday.

After her interview with Ted Kennedy, Jr., “60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl says she was “left with the impression Ted Jr. would run for public office someday.”

ONLINE

Ask and you shall receive… NYT: Blogs are often criticized for helping to kill print media. Last week, though, the prominent political blogger Andrew Sullivan used his forum on TheAtlantic.com to tell readers to subscribe to the print edition of the magazine. It worked. Within two days after last Monday’s post, Mr. Sullivan’s appeal pulled in 75 percent of the subscriptions that the Web site draws in a typical month, the magazine’s publisher, Jay Lauf, said.

BOOKS

Page Six previews “Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage” by Christopher Andersen, which hits shelves Tuesday. (h/t Click)

NEWS NOTES

The FCC is endorsing network neutrality.

Wedding Crashers: How did Rush Limbaugh end up at the wedding of a Hillary Clinton staffer?

WEST WING REPORTAGE

In an interview with MTP’s David Gregory this weekend, President Obama called race “catnip” to the media. Salon’s Joan Walsh examines.

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New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

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Happy Birthday to Kiki Ryan, on her first day at Politico with Click! What know and what we’re reading this Monday morning…

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NEWSPAPERS

WaPo interviews Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

WaPo ombudsman Andrew Alexander examines the paper’s ACORN coverage after they were flooded with angry callers prompted by Fox News’ Glenn Beck. “It’s tempting to dismiss such gimmicks. Fox News, joined by right-leaning talk radio and bloggers, often hypes stories to apocalyptic proportions while casting competitors as too liberal or too lazy to report the truth. But they’re also occasionally pumping legitimate stories. I thought that was the case with ACORN…”

TV

Tom DeLay makes his debut on “Dancing with the Stars” this fine evening.

“So you’re trying to ambush the ambusher?” Friday at the Values Voter Summit, a ThinkProgress.org staffer caught up with FNC producer Jesse Watters, known for his ambush interviews which end up on “The O’Reilly Factor.” TVNewser has the video.

NYT’s Brian Stelter caught up with CBS’ Katie Couric, who says she’s staying in the anchor chair, and also will start hosting a weekly interview webcast on CBSNews.com, beginning tomorrow. Her first guest will be Glenn Beck.

The night after he hosts the President, David Letterman will have a second President, when Bill Clinton joins him on “The Late Show” Tuesday. Obama tapes “The Late Show” today around 4pm.

ONLINE

A study by the University of Maryland reveals, shockingly, that the vast majority of politicians’ tweets are about themselves.

MAGAZINES

Bloomberg has submitted its bid for BusinessWeek mag.

Esquire named its 75 Best People in the World- journos whos make the cut include Fox News’ Shepard Smith, CBS’ Lara Logan, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Pat Buchanan, NBC’s Lester Holt and Rupert Murdoch.

NEWS NOTES

Journos are losing jobs at three times the rate of average workers.

WaPo: The Federal Communications Commission’s proposal of new rules to prevent companies such as AT&T, Verizon and Comcast from deliberately blocking or slowing certain Web traffic is expected to advance with three votes out of the five-member agency, according to sources.

Reliable Source noticed a documentary film crew following Van Jones this weekend.

WEST WING REPORTAGE

The pool reported yesterday that NYT’s Tom Friedman played a round of golf with President Obama yesterday, prompting all sorts of “the green is flat” jokes in our Twitterverse.

IN MEMORIAM

WaPo: Irving Kristol, 89, a forceful essayist, editor and university professor who became the leading architect of neoconservatism, which he called a political and intellectual movement for disaffected ex-liberals, like himself, who had been “mugged by reality,” died Friday.

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New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

What we almost missed today…

• Above, reporters, including MSNBC’s Brian Mooar, were not welcome with open arms at the Values Voters Summit today.

• Ahead of the UN General Assembly meeting next week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will sit down with PBS’ Margaret Warner for an interview to air on Monday’s “The Newshour with Jim Lehrer.” And Bill Clinton will be Larry King’s guest for the full hour on CNN Monday.

• US News & World Report’s Washington Whispers columnist Nikki Schwab made her TV debut today.

New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Reuters – A fund-raiser for Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other Democrats who was charged last month with defrauding Citigroup Inc is being sued by HSBC for deceiving it into lending him $100 million.

AP – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the State Department are being sued by a diplomat who claims she was discriminated against because of her age.