memeorandum: Lawmaker in Twitter Case Assails Reporters (Anahad O'Connor/New York Times)

11:15 AM ET, June 1, 2011

Top Items:

Anthony Weiner Is Not Doing Himself Any Favors — We won't pretend to know the truth behind Weinergate — whether Weiner was the victim of a hacker or prankster or conservative conspiracy, or whether he was personally responsible for sending a college girl a photo of a man's bulge over Twitter.

Discussion: NY Daily News, The Daily Caller, TPMDC, The Reaction, JammieWearingFool, New York Post, No More Mister Nice Blog, Confederate Yankee, FishbowlDC, Right Pundits, JustOneMinute, Taylor Marsh, CNN, National Review, POWIP and Ace of Spades HQ

New York Post:

Weiner's tweet-hearts — By S.A. MILLER in Washington and PERRY CHIARAMONTE AND CHUCK BENNETT in NY — It takes a certain type of woman to set his heart a-Twitter. — Rep. Anthony Weiner follows only a select 198 of his nearly 49,000 Twitter fans — and a surprising number of them are total babes.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Salon, The Political Commentator, Althouse and Fox Nation

Anahad O'Connor / New York Times:
Lawmaker in Twitter Case Assails Reporters

Discussion: The Other McCain, The Note, Capital Tonight and PolitickerNY

Mark Joyella / Mediaite:
Rep. Weiner Has Angry Exchange With Capitol Hill Reporters Over Twitter Scandal

Discussion: Big Government, Connecting.the.Dots, The Other McCain, Doug Ross, minx.cc, Verum Serum, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, National Review, The Camp Of The Saints, Pajamas Media, Maggie's Notebook and Washington Post

Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
Congressman says #Weinergate cybersecurity investigation vital in order to ‘ensure our national security’

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Washington Post, Little Green Footballs, Patterico's Pontifications, Ironic Surrealism, Weasel Zippers, iOwnTheWorld.com, The Daley Gator and Pajamas Media

Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
WeinerGate OMFG! @RepWeiner Gives Worst Press Conference EVAH! (Video)

Discussion: Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Datechguy's Blog, Nice Deb, Conservative Hideout 2.0, REPUBLICAN REDEFINED, Outside the Beltway, American Power and Pajamas Media

Michelle Malkin:
Weighing in on Weiner; Update: Getting testy with MSM reporters, calls one a “jackass”

Discussion: The Note, It's A Free Blog, Ace of Spades HQ, GayPatriot, Washington Examiner, Washington Post, Proof Positive, Hot Air, Fox News, American Power and The Lonely Conservative

Alex Fitzsimmons / NewsBusters.org:

Martin Bashir: Sarah Palin's Bus Tour ‘Breach of Federal Law’ — MSNBC's Martin Bashir on May 31 insisted that Sarah Palin's bus tour amounts to a “breach of a federal law.” — Anchoring his eponymous program, Bashir scolded, “In fact, the whole thing could be in breach of a federal law …

Discussion: Right Wing News

blogs.abcnews.com:
Sarah Palin, Donald Trump Meet In New York City Tuesday Night, Eat Pizza

Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Palin embraces unconventional strategy ahead of possible 2012 bid

Discussion: The Politico

Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Sarah Palin plays the media like a violin: Her turn now

Discussion: National Review, Rumproast, The Camp Of The Saints, CBS News, The Impolitic, Big Journalism and Associated Press

Kendra Marr / The Politico:
Sarah Palin: Bus tour 'isn't about me'

Discussion: The Note

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:

Sen. DeMint mulls White House bid — Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) says he is considering running for president after frustrated conservative activists have pleaded with him to run. — DeMint told The Hill that he has discussed a White House bid with his wife and will pray on the question …

Discussion: Mother Jones, TPMDC, p m carpenter's commentary, Maggie's Notebook, Weasel Zippers, GOP 12, msnbc.com, The Daily Caller, New York Magazine and Washington Post

Keith Laing / The Hill:

Critics of Boeing lawsuit slam Obama Commerce secretary pick — Critics of the National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) lawsuit against airplane manufacturer Boeing denounced President Obama's choice of a member of the airline's board of directors to be secretary of Commerce.

Discussion: Marathon Pundit, AmSpecBlog and The Hill

Scott Conroy / Real Clear Politics:

Palin to Visit S.C. as Part of Early-State Trifecta — JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will visit the first-in-the-South primary state of South Carolina later this month as part of her nationwide bus tour, RealClearPolitics has learned. — According to well-informed sources …

Discussion: GOP 12

New Jersey Online:

Gov. Christie arrives at son's high school baseball game in State Police helicopter — TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie arrived at his son's baseball game this afternoon aboard a State Police helicopter. — Right before the lineup cards were being exchanged on the field …

Discussion: Firedoglake, The Moderate Voice, Ben Smith's Blog, The Note, The Raw Story, AmSpecBlog and City Room

Jennifer Jacobs / Iowa Caucuses:
Chris Christie won't run for president, but he'll visit Iowa this summer

Discussion: The Hill, USA Today, GOP 12, New York Times and The Huffington Post

Walter Shapiro / The New Republic:

Glass Ceiling — Why Obama can't assume Republicans will ever make a deal on the debt ceiling. — For all the patriotic prattle about American exceptionalism, last night was a moment when our national politics seemed borrowed from the comic-opera irrelevance of Berlusconi's Italy.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, msnbc.com and PERRspectives

Jake Sherman / The Politico:

GOP heads to W.H. debt talks — House Republicans will head to the White House Wednesday for their first conference meeting with President Barack Obama, as Congress gears up for a battle over raising the nation's borrowing limit. — The meeting, which will take place in the White House's …

Discussion: The Agonist

Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Fail: House defeats Obama request to raise the debt ceiling, 318-97

Discussion: Washington Monthly, CNN, The Hill, americanthinker.com, Wall Street Journal, RedState, theblogprof, Felix Salmon, REPUBLICAN REDEFINED, The Lonely Conservative, American Glob and WyBlog

Kathleen Madigan / Wall Street Journal:

Private Jobs Post Tepid Rise — Private businesses barely added jobs in May as large companies cut workers, according to a report released Wednesday. The news is sure to raise further fears about the second-quarter U.S. economy. — Private-sector jobs in the U.S. rose by just 38,000 last month …

Discussion: Pajamas Media

Timothy R. Homan / Bloomberg:
ADP: U.S. Added Fewer Workers in May

Discussion: Outside the Beltway

CNNMoney.com: Job growth slows in May

The White House:

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION — The story of America's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community is the story of our fathers and sons, our mothers and daughters, and our friends and neighbors who continue the task of making our country a more perfect Union.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, Bark Bark Woof Woof and Balloon Juice

Robert Dreyfuss / American Prospect:
Get Off the Warpath

Discussion: Rethink Afghanistan War Blog

Chris Geidner / Poliglot:
Obama Issues Pride Proclamation — With No Mention of Relationship Recognition

Discussion: AMERICAblog Gay

Jon Huntsman / Wall Street Journal:

Our Current Time for Choosing — Anyone who disagrees with Paul Ryan's Medicare reforms has a moral obligation to propose an alternative. — This year marks the centennial anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth—and America finds itself at a crossroads that brings to mind the title …

Discussion: msnbc.com, Washington Monthly, TPMDC, Booman Tribune, Public Policy Polling, Washington Post, Mother Jones, The Hill, Real Clear Politics, Hotline On Call and Marathon Pundit

Sarah Anne Hughes / Washington Post:

Ku Klux Klan protests Westboro Baptist Church (Video) — Members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan. (Michael S. Williamson - THE WASHINGTON POST) As President Obama honored fallen soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, three members of the Westboro Baptist Church protested …

Discussion: Cold Fury, Religion Dispatches and TBD All News

Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:

77,000 fed employees paid more than governors — Government salaries put under scrutiny — ** FILE ** A congressional study revealed that 7,283 federal employees in Maryland made more than Gov. Martin O'Malley's $150,000 salary in 2009. (Associated Press)

Discussion: americanthinker.com, Right Pundits, The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers and The Lonely Conservative

Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:

Rand Paul, Supposed Defender Of Civil Liberties, Calls For Jailing People Who Attend ‘Radical Political Speeches’ — Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) made headlines last week for single-handedly obstructing the renewal of the Patriot Act, calling the law an unconstitutional infringement on civil liberties.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Barefoot and Progressive, United Liberty, Paul Krugman, Lisa Graas, Hullabaloo and Alan Colmes' Liberaland

New York Times:

S.E.C. Case Stands Out Because It Stands Alone — At the height of the housing boom, the 26th floor of Goldman Sachs's former headquarters on Broad Street in Lower Manhattan was the nerve center of Goldman's fast-growing mortgage trading business. — Hundreds of employees worked closely in teams …

Discussion: Felix Salmon, The Awl, Law Blog, Prairie Weather and DealBook, more at Mediagazer »

Ben Geman / The Hill:

New York AG sues feds over gas ‘fracking’ — New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman opened a new front Tuesday in battles over controversial natural-gas drilling projects with a lawsuit alleging that federal agencies are shirking environmental review of dangerous development techniques.

Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy

Gavyn Davies:

The classical view of the global recession — The disappointing economic data on US activity in recent months has brought a key policy debate back into focus. Is there a chronic shortage of growth in the developed world, and if so what should be done about it?

Discussion: Paul Krugman and Grasping Reality …

Ashley Halsey III / Washington Post:

Airplane annoyance leads to brouhaha in the skies over D.C. — Before things got out of hand, it was a typical annoyance that happens once a flight gets airborne: A passenger hit the recline button and sent his seat intimately close to the lap of the guy sitting behind him.

Discussion: USA Today, Gawker, msnbc.com, NBC Washington and Outside the Beltway

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:

Wisconsin Dems 6. Wisconsin Republicans 0. — Conservatives and some political observers are making a big deal out of the fact that the Dem candidate in the closely watched state Supreme Court race in Wisconsin finally conceded defeat today, as had long been expected.

Discussion: host.madison.com, Don Surber, americanthinker.com, Daily Kos, JSOnline, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, Firedoglake, Taegan Goddard's …, The Impolitic, The Mahablog, The Lonely Conservative, TPMDC and Crooks and Liars

Alex Pareene / Salon:

Matt Drudge's disgusting race war awareness campaign — Matt Drudge's non-political obsessions used to be harmless things like “extreme weather” and “pictures of Olympic wrestlers.” Since the election of Barack Obama, though, Drudge — the proto-blogger and reclusive creator of the noted Courier …

Discussion: pandagon.net and Gawker

Stars & Stripes:

Army Ranger to be awarded Medal of Honor — WASHINGTON — An Army Ranger who lost his right hand and suffered shrapnel wounds after throwing an armed grenade away from his fellow Soldiers will be the second living Medal of Honor Recipient from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Discussion: UrbanGrounds and SWJ Blog