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​Trig's Crew is really freaking pissed. Yesterday, we noted the growing outrage directed at the very often hilarious politics blog Wonkette and writer Jack Stuef, who perhaps took it too far when he wrote a relentlessly mean, but still satirical post about Sarah Palin's son Trig, born with Down Syndrome, on his birthday, calling him "the greatest prop in world political history." Stuef didn't stop there, though, riffing endlessly on Trig's disability. A poem by a Palin supporter to Trig ended, "Dream on little boy as the Angels stand guard," and Stuef responded, "What's he dreaming about? Nothing. He's retarded." The whole thing was pretty dark. Now it's been disappeared from Wonkette, an apology in his place, but the angry mob is only growing, calling for all advertisers to abandon the site. Let's talk more about it in Press Clips, our daily media column.

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​Doesn't it seem like everyone's writing about relationship politics these days? Not that that's any different from ever before. Now we've got this: an article arguing that although 20-something men are mainly slobs in dirty sweatpants watching Onion Sports Dome, they still have the upper hand in sexual relationships with women their age, who are statistically more successful and together than they are. Wow, shocker. Men have the upper hand in sex? Or at least, they're perceived to have the upper hand?

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​Only one item today: Why didn't the New York Observer's new media writer disclose any potential conflicts of interest with his first cover story for the paper, on Slate? Feels like he should've. Why? Press Clips, Day 19, Late Disclosure edition, right here. UPDATED.

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​On Saturday, the Wall Street Journal released its first issue of the revamped weekend paper, WSJ Weekend, with the hope of competing directly with the New York Times. One difference is that if you Google "WSJ Weekend" the first result reads "The Wall Street Journal Weekend Edition" and if you click on it, it asks you for your payment information. That doesn't happen at the Times yet. But if you have the money to purchase the Journal, chances are you will like what you see!

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​"Spewing racism in public since 1974," reads the bio for a new Twitter account based on New Republic editor Marty Peretz. The account is carefully marked "parody," doubtlessly in an attempt not to be deleted, and started about three hours ago with this inaugural message: "My twitter was born today, but my racism was born decades ago." In the hours since, the Peretz parody has picked up a few followers, most notably MJ Rosenberg of Media Matters, and taken a first-person whirlwind tour through Peretz's fraught history with people of color, especially Muslims. The thing is, so far it's almost all verifiable quotes (some sourced!), which makes it more aggregation than parody. Could this latest push against Peretz be one that finally sticks?

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