memeorandum: Gingrich Calls Obama Comments on Trayvon Martin Shooting ‘Disgraceful’ (Matthew Shelley/NationalJournal.com)

2:30 PM ET, March 24, 2012

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Maggie Haberman / Politico:

Newt calls Obama's Trayvon Martin comments ‘disgraceful’ — Per POLITICO's Ginger Gibson, Newt Gingrich accused President Obama of playing race: … Obama has gotten some criticism for discussing a pending legal matter. But the question of whether Martin's race was a factor in his death …

Discussion: JustOneMinute, Taylor Marsh, Dallas Morning News, Booman Tribune, The Moderate Voice, Fox News, Mediaite, Balloon Juice, CNN, Weasel Zippers, Little Green Footballs and Michelle Malkin

Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:

Trayvon Martin and the End of Excuses — We have become a nation in which children have become expendable. Trayvon Martin is just the most recent example. — We executed children in this country until long after the rest of the world — except Iran — thought that was a good idea.

Discussion: msnbc.com, ThinkProgress, The Mahablog, Media Matters for America and CNN

Beth Stebner / Associated Press:

Now witness claims TRAYVON attacked Zimmerman: Anonymous onlooker told police neighbourhood watch captain was provoked... as friends insist teen was not violent and protests mount — Trayvon Martin may have attacked a Neighborhood Watch captain before the man shot dead the unarmed teen …

Discussion: Riehl World View, American Power and Instapundit

Matthew Shelley / NationalJournal.com:

Gingrich Calls Obama Comments on Trayvon Martin Shooting ‘Disgraceful’ — Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich — Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich harshly criticized President Obama for commenting on Trayvon Martin's race as he extended condolences to the 17-year-old shooting victim's parents on Friday.

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Little Green Footballs, BuzzFeed and The Raw Story

Rene Lynch / Los Angeles Times:
Trayvon Martin case: ‘Blacks are under attack,’ says Jesse Jackson

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, White House Dossier, americanthinker.com and The Right Scoop

Stephanie Condon / CBS News:
Obama: “If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon”

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, The Huffington Post, Associated Press, Truthdig and Corrente

Jerusalem Post:

'French teacher asked minute's silence for Merah' — French education minister calls for English teacher's suspension after she called Toulouse killer a “victim.” — By REUTERS/France 2 Television — France's education minister called for disciplinary proceedings against a teacher …

Discussion: americanthinker.com, Scared Monkeys, Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch

Chuck Bennett / New York Post:
Horror movies — The Muslim fanatic who killed seven people …

Discussion: PJ Media, Weasel Zippers and Atlas Shrugs

Ben Geman / The Hill:

White House was all-hands-on-deck as Solyndra collapse neared — Several key White House offices were involved with the Obama administration's messaging plans and other preparations as the collapse of the taxpayer-backed solar company Solyndra was imminent, newly released documents show.

Discussion: Hot Air, Michelle Malkin, White House Dossier, Left Coast Rebel, Weasel Zippers, Ed Driscoll, americanthinker.com and The PJ Tatler

Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:

Danish TV Host Mocks Obama for His Rhetoric — “Maybe the copy key got stuck on the presidential speechwriter's keyboard.” — Thomas Buch-Andersen, host of the Danish TV show Detektor, mocked President Obama's political rhetoric in a recent episode. “Obama used a metaphor from boxing …

Discussion: The Right Scoop, americanthinker.com and Conservatives4Palin

BuzzFeed:
Obama Uses The Same Patronizing Line On Many, Many Foreign Leaders

Discussion: Mediaite, Hot Air, BuzzFeed and FP Passport

Paul Conner / The Daily Caller:

Conservatives hijack #ILikeObamacare hashtag on Twitter — Conservatives on Twitter today quickly hijacked the #ILikeObamacare hashtag, which had been launched by President Barack Obama's campaign to highlight supporters of the Democrats' signature health care reform law.

Discussion: Wake up America, Washington Wire and The Caucus

New York Times:

Maher's Attacks on Women — To the Editor: — Re “Please Stop Apologizing,” by Bill Maher (Op-Ed, March 22): — We're both women who have worked in Democratic politics and the media for decades and find Bill Maher's misogynist treatment of women candidates deeply disturbing.

Discussion: Mediaite, Conservatives4Palin and The Loyal Opposition

James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:

Contempt of Court — How to lose friends and alienate justices. — (Best of the tube this weekend: Watch us preview the ObamaCare cases on “The Journal Editorial Report,” Saturday at 2 and 11 p.m. ET on Fox News Channel.) — Yesterday we noted that Linda Greenhouse of the New York Times …

Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy and msnbc.com

CNN:
CNN's GUT CHECK for March 23, 2012

Discussion: Whiskey Fire, JustOneMinute, Politico and Reuters

Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic: If Medicare Is OK, Obamacare Should Be Too

David Maraniss / Washington Post:

Clinton and Obama: Presidential parallels — David Maraniss, an associate editor of The Post, is the author of “First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton” and the forthcoming “Barack Obama: The Story.” This is the second column in an occasional series on the 2012 presidential candidates' political lives.

Discussion: The Political Carnival

Washington Post:

Mexico's middle class is becoming its majority — QUERETARO, Mexico — A wary but tenacious middle class is fast becoming the majority in Mexico, breaking down the rich-poor divide in a profound demographic transformation that has far-reaching implications here and in the United States.

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Telegraph:

Woman died after Muslim nurse refused to help as he was praying — An elderly woman was left on the floor at a care home for up to ten minutes because a nurse was praying, an inquest heard. — Alzheimer's sufferer Dorothy Griffiths, 87, was found sitting down after staff heard a bang …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch