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6:30 AM ET, May 2, 2012

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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
EXCLUSIVE: Richard Grenell hounded from Romney campaign by anti-gay conservatives  —  Richard Grenell, the openly gay spokesman recently hired to sharpen the foreign policy message of Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, has resigned in the wake of a full-court press by anti-gay conservatives.
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BuzzFeed:
In Romney's Gay Rights Mess, Silence Wasn't An Option  —  The candidate stayed mum while his gay aide was being blasted by the right.  Now gay rights groups blame Romney, whose aides say it was never about sexuality.  —  (AP / Henny Ray Abrams)  —  With the departure of his openly gay …
Kyle Mantyla / rightwingwatch.org:
Fischer: Grenell Resignation a ‘Huge Win’ for the Religious Right  —  It was just last week that Bryan Fischer was declaring that if Mitt Romney wants to win in November, he'd “better start listening to me.”  And the first thing that Romney needed to do was fire Richard Grenell …
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Richard Grenell, Mitt Romney spokesman, resigns  —  Richard Grenell is resigning from Mitt Romney's presidential campaign less than two weeks after being hired.  —  The foreign policy spokesman came under fire for some crude (and since deleted) tweets about women.
Discussion: MLive.com
Arlette Saenz / ABCNEWS:
Richard Grenell, Openly Gay Romney Spokesman, Resigns From Post
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Romney's Openly-Gay Spokesperson Resigns After Facing Pressure From Anti-Gay Right Wing
Discussion: The Impolitic and Mediaite
BuzzFeed:
How The White House Smothered The News Of Obama's Trip To Afghanistan  —  How the White House played whack-a-mole, and why I deleted my tweet.  Drudge wouldn't budge.  —  Shortly before 9:19 a.m. this morning the Afghanistan-based 24-hour broadcast news station TOLONews tweeted that President Barack Obama had landed in Afghanistan.
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Obama Signs Pact in Kabul, Turning Page in Afghan War  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — President Obama, speaking to an American television audience on Tuesday night from an American air base here, declared that he had traveled here to herald a new era in the relationship between the United States and Afghanistan …
CNN:
New Obama Campaign Video: Gingrich v Romney in His own Words  —  (CNN) - The Obama campaign is out with a new web video featuring some of Newt Gingrich's fiercest attacks on Mitt Romney, the same day Gingrich is expected to show support for Romney's candidacy.
Discussion: ABCNEWS
Jim Inhofe / CNN:
Inhofe fires off on Obama over trip  —  (CNN) - Longtime Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma criticized President Barack Obama over the president's surprise trip to Afghanistan Tuesday, describing the visit as “campaign related” and an “attempt to shore up his national security credentials.”
BuzzFeed:   Obama Looks To End Of Afghanistan War
CNN:
Excerpts of president's Afghanistan speech released
Discussion: Politico, The Stranger … and ABCNEWS
Olivier Knox / Yahoo! News:
Obama to make televised speech from Afghanistan at 7:30 p.m.
Discussion: ABCNEWS and Yahoo! Politics!
Wbastone / The Smoking Gun:
“Occupy” Movement Was Infiltrated By FBI Informant In Cleveland Bridge Bombing Probe  —  Buster  —  The federal probe that resulted last night in the arrest of five purported anarchists for allegedly plotting to bomb an Ohio bridge began last year at an Occupy Wall Street rally in Cleveland …
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Jason Ryan / ABCNEWS:
Anarchists Wanted to Attack NATO, Republican Convention: Feds
Discussion: Rush Limbaugh and HotAirPundit
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Romney heckled at event with Giuliani  —  Mitt Romney was heckled Tuesday at a New York City event marking the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death.  —  Romney was campaigning with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani at an event at the firehouse where the city of New York set …
Discussion: New York Magazine and Gothamist
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Joel Siegel / ABCNEWS:
Giuliani Marks OBL Anniversary With Romney at NY Firehouse
Katy Hall / The Huffington Post:
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Adam Davidson / New York Times:
The Purpose of Spectacular Wealth, According to a Spectacularly Wealthy Guy  —  Ever since the financial crisis started, we've heard plenty from the 1 percent.  We've heard them giving defensive testimony in Congressional hearings or issuing anodyne statements flanked by lawyers and image consultants.
CREW:
CREW Calls for FCC to Revoke Murdoch's Broadcast Licenses  —  Requests for Investigation, Federal Agencies, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), News, News Corp. , Press Releases, Rupert Murdoch  —  Washington, D.C. - Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama leads in Virginia  —  Barack Obama continues to look like the favorite to win Virginia this fall.  He has a 51-43 lead over Mitt Romney in the state.  We have consistently found Obama leading in Virginia by margins similar to his 6 point victory there in 2008- he led Romney by 6 in December …
G-A-Y / Good As You:
Video: Amendment 1 pastor gives parents ‘special dispensation’ to use violence against LGBT kids!!!  —  “Crack that wrist!”  —  “Give 'em a good punch!”  —  “Vote for Amendment 1!” … Uhm—"Praise Jesus"?  —  **EARLIER: Video: Amendment 1 pastor warns same-sex marriage could cause Muslims to ‘take over us’
Luisita Lopez Torregrosa / IHT Rendezvous:
Cuba May Be the Most Feminist Country in Latin America  —  NEW YORK — Cuba may just be the most feminist country in Latin America.  —  It ranks No. 3 in the world when it comes to the political participation of women in Parliament, according to a United Nations survey on women in politics.
Hillary Chabot / Boston Herald:
Elizabeth Warren's embattled campaign: Cherokee tie found 5 generations ago  —  Cherokee tie found 5 generations ago  —  Desperately scrambling to validate Democrat Elizabeth Warren's Native American heritage amid questions about whether she used her minority status to further her career …
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Noah Bierman / Boston Globe:
Genealogist says Warren may be able to claim Cherokee heritage; Brown and Warren campaigns continue to trade barbs
 
 
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Warfare or Courtship in 2012?  —  What sort of thing is a presidential campaign?
Rachel Rose Hartman / ABCNEWS:
Chris Christie: Wisconsin is the center of the political universe
Discussion: CNN, The Reaction and Philly.com
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
DAILY COMMENT  —  As the legal and political worlds await …
Discussion: Hit & Run and The Huffington Post
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Rubio faces credit card, Rivera, mortgage questions
Discussion: Washington Post
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Right-Wing Claims Obama's New Campaign Slogan Reveals His Secret Communist And/Or Fascist Allegiances
Charles Mahtesianand Jim Vandehei / Politico:
Congress: It's going to get worse
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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