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YESTERDAY'S STORY FOR BACKGROUND Well, it could have gone better. Judge Aurelio Munoz has set a hearing on the merits for the anti-SLAPP motion being used by David Kendall to try to have Hillary Rodham Clinton removed from Peter Paul's historic civil suit. Kendall both failed to file the motion in a timely manner and failed to have it served and put on calendar in a timely manner. Nevertheless, Munoz used his discretion to essentially say no harm, no foul. It had been hoped that Munoz would allow limited discovery in the case to proceed immediately and get her...

...Terry McAuliffe called the program "an illegal in-kind contribution" to the Bush campaign and said the Democratic National Committee is filing a complaint with the Federal Election Commission. Over at the FCC, Democratic Commissioner Michael Copps interrupted his Columbus Day holiday to dub the broadcast "an abuse of the public trust." More ominously, Kerry adviser Chad Clanton told Fox News yesterday that "I think they (Sinclair) are going to regret doing this, and they better hope we don't win." ...It wasn't the intention of the Founders to give elected officials veto power over press reports.... The excuse for such broadcast...