Mitch Perry Report 9.8.11

Everyone's got an opinion about last night's GOP debate in SoCal. This morning we focus on one part of the debate that is supposedly going to doom President Obama next year (and we're not talking about the economy).

The Washington Post's Dana Priest has just written Top Secret America, an expose on how large (and bloated) our national security state has become over the past decade. Some of the areas where new secret government operations were created was right here in the Tampa Bay area.

Michael Moore's been away from the public spotlight for the past couple of years, working on a new memoir which will be published next week. In an article in Newsweek, Moore raps President Obama and gives some love to Jon Huntsman.

And a pissing contest between spokespeople with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and Publix continues on...

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