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6:35 PM ET, April 12, 2012

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Hilary Rosen / The Huffington Post:
Ann Romney and Working Moms  —  My Twitter feed was on fire after an appearance last night on CNN's AC360, where I said that I thought it was wrong for Mitt Romney to be using his wife as his guide to women's economic struggles when she “had never worked a day in her life.”
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CNN:
Rosen apologizes over comments against Ann Romney  —  (CNN) - Hilary Rosen offered an apology Thursday after her comments about Ann Romney sparked an uproar and a debate over women and the economy.  —  “I apologize to Ann Romney and anyone else who was offended,” Rosen …
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Conservatives Attack Hilary Rosen For Raising Children As A Lesbian  —  Hilary Rosen with her former partner Elizabeth Birch and kids Jacob and Anna.  —  No one is arguing that raising children isn't work.  Democratic strategist and CAP Action board member Hilary Rosen is a single mother …
ABCNEWS:
Obama Rejects Rosen's Comments on Ann Romney  —  President Obama strongly disagreed with Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen's controversial comment about Ann Romney, saying today that “there's no tougher job than being a mom.”  —  “Anybody who would argue otherwise, I think …
Greta Van Susteren / Gretawire:
My friend Hilary Rosen  —  I am rushing to draft this — I have a flight to South Sudan in hours — but I wanted to briefly weigh in on this latest storm.  If I indelicately draft this, cut me some slack since I am rushing and have little time (none?) to spare which I would use to proof read …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The Hilary Rosen controversy is absurd  —  The Romney campaign and the Republican National Committee are attacking President Obama over the fact that Dem strategist and CNN contributor Hilary Rosen said that Ann Romney “hasn't worked a day in her life.”  —  Romney campaign officials …
Discussion: The Hill, GOP 12 and Weasel Zippers
ABCNEWS:
Ann Romney Fights Back: Debuts on Twitter to Counter DNC Advisor's Insult  —  PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Ann Romney's debut on Twitter couldn't have come at a more opportune time.  —  Ann's first tweet came just moments after Democratic strategist and DNC adviser Hilary Rosen lobbed an insult at Ann Romney …
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Hilary Rosen, Frequent White House Visitor  —  A Democrat consultant with ties to the Obama administration sneering that Ann Romney “never worked a day in her life” is an opportunity for the Romney campaign, but a small problem in the big picture.  In the big picture, women who are unable …
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Hilary Rosen: No apology
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
This Is What A Twitter Firestorm Looks Like
Discussion: Politico
Catalina Camia / USA Today:
Democrat apologizes for swipe at Ann Romney
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Attacking Ann Romney — yeah, that's the ticket!
BuzzFeed:
Team Romney To Obama: You Started The War Over Women
Discussion: Daily Kos
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Ann Romney discusses Hilary Rosen controversy
Discussion: Mediaite and LifeNews.com
Amy Bingham / ABCNEWS:
Hilary Rosen Apologizes For Attacking Ann Romney As a Stay-At-Home Mom
Ann Romney / CNN:
Democrat's comment about Ann Romney creates firestorm on Twitter
Liz Goodwin / Yahoo! News:
Ann Romney responds to claim she has ‘never worked a day in her life’
Discussion: Yahoo! Politics!
Orlando Sentinel:
Trayvon's mom says ‘shooting was accident,’ Zimmerman to face judge  —  George Zimmerman woke up in a Seminole County jail cell this morning as the mother of Trayvon Martin, the teen he killed, revealed on national television that she thinks the shooting was an accident.
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Trayvon Martin:
George Zimmerman arraignment set for May 29; Trayvon Martin's mother says encounter ‘an accident’  —  George Zimmerman remains in jail while awaiting formal arraignment scheduled for May 29.  —  DCHANG@MIAMIHERALD.COM  —  JACKSONVILLE — The neighborhood watchman who shot …
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Semi-Props To Ms. Alvarez of the NY Times; Mockery For Their Editors
Discussion: New York Times and Daily Kos
Scott Conroy / Real Clear Politics:
Gingrich Unloads on FOX News in Private Meeting  —  DOVER, Del. — During a meeting with 18 Delaware Tea Party leaders here on Wednesday, Newt Gingrich lambasted FOX News Channel, accusing the cable network of having been in the tank for Mitt Romney from the beginning of the Republican presidential fight.
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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
The ‘Fox News Mole’ Only Cost Gawker $5,000  —  What's the going rate for inducing someone to commit career suicide?  Apparently you can do it for five grand, as long as that person has a sufficiently large ax to grind against his employer.  —  Gawker's John Cook tells …
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
White House Bombarded With Questions About Why Obama Punted On Issuing Anti-Discrimination Order  —  White House spokesperson Jay Carney sought to explain the administration's decision to punt on issuing an executive order that would have prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation …
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Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Won't Issue Ban on Gay Discrimination
Tom Scocca / Slate:
Death to Word  —  It's time to give up on Microsoft's word processor.  —  Nearly two decades and several text-handling paradigms ago, I was an editorial assistant at a weekly newspaper, where a few freelancers still submitted their work on typewritten pages.  Stories would come in over the fax machine.
Discussion: Mother Jones
Kevin Gosztola / Firedoglake:
The Sexual Sadism of the Michigan Department of Corrections  —  Screen shot from video produced by ACLU on the strip-search procedure (photo: ACLU)  —  A consortium of civil liberties, religious and health organizations, and experts including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) …
Brian Tashman / rightwingwatch.org:
Religious Right Marks Anniversary of Titanic's Sinking by Exposing the ‘Iceberg’ of the ‘Radical Homosexual Agenda’  —  The anniversary of the Titanic's sinking and release of ‘Titanic 3D’ has apparently inspired Truth in Action Ministries, formerly Coral Ridge Ministries …
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Why American Food Used to Be So Bad and Other Lessons From Tyler Cowen  —  For the past four years, I've been ordering the most unappatizing sounding item on the menu when I eat at nice restaurants.  This counterintuitive advice from Tyler Cowen's 2007 book Discover Your Inner Economist has worked surprisingly well.
Discussion: Marginal Revolution
Ryan J. Reilly / Livewire:
U.S. Indicts 1st Anti-Gay Hate Crime  —  For the first time in history, the United States has issued an indictment in hate crime case involving a crime against an individual based on their sexual orientation, the Justice Department said Thursday: … The two defendants allegedly kidnapped …
 
 
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Charles McGrath / New York Times:
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Paul Krugman:
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Paramount says it expects its merger with Skydance to close on August 7; the new company will trade on Nasdaq as PSKY

Sara Fischer / Axios:
Meta will no longer accept political, election, or social issue ads in the EU from October, like Google, with both citing incoming regulation

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