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Huckabee Letter: Obama Surrounds Himself “With Morally Repugnant Political Whores” — A letter sent by the group Citizens United, over Hucakbee's signature, says the day Obama was sworn into office is “the day the country started going to pot.” Huckabee demands the letter be “pulled,” …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Huckabee demands fundraising letter pulled — Mike Huckabee is firmly denying that he approved a fundraising letter which refers to President Obama's advisers as “morally repugnant political whores.” — “This was a complete surprise to me,” Gov. Huckabee said in a statement to POLITICO, sent via a spokesperson.
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Jim Romenesko:
[UPDATED] The joke that Jimmy Kimmel didn't tell at the WHCA dinner … UPDATE: Tapper confirms to Dylan Stableford that he helped Kimmel: — “I tried to help Jimmy with the temperature of the room. And yes, I thought that joke would cause the room to turn against him …
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Dylan Stableford / Associated Press:
Kimmel cut WHCD joke per Jake Tapper's advice — Jimmy Kimmel delivered a barrage of edgy jokes at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (WHCD) late last month in Washington. But after consulting with ABC News senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper, Kimmel decided several were too over-the-top to make the cut.
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Zimmerman Case - Keeping Hate Alive At The Times — The NY Times can't quite bring itself to report on the latest news in the Zimmerman case - Zimmerman's medical file shows he was banged up and Martin's autopsy showed bloody knuckles - so they hand the mike to the Ben Crump …
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Obama budget defeated 99-0 in Senate — President Obama's budget suffered a second embarrassing defeat Wednesday, when senators voted 99-0 to reject it. — Coupled with the House's rejection in March, 414-0, that means Mr. Obama's budget has failed to win a single vote in support this year.
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Senate Democrats Achieve a New Standard of Irresponsibility
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Jake Shermanand Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Health care reform: GOP preps plan for ruling on law — House Republican leaders are quietly hatching a plan of attack as they await a historic Supreme Court ruling on President Barack Obama's health care law. — If the law is upheld, Republicans will take to the floor to tear …
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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Obama, Boehner clash at White House meeting over raising debt ceiling
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JPMorgan's Trading Loss Is Said to Rise at Least 50% — The trading losses suffered by JPMorgan Chase have surged in recent days, surpassing the bank's initial $2 billion estimate by at least $1 billion, according to people with knowledge of the losses. — When Jamie Dimon …
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Quentin Hardy / New York Times:
A Facebook Co-Founder Reflects on the Path Forward — Eduardo Saverin can escape the United States, but he can't slip Facebook. — “Everything I do in my personal life, in my professional life, it's completely there,” said Mr. Saverin, a Facebook co-founder, in his first major interview.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Buh-Bye — Over recent days we've been following the story …
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Charles Franklin / Marquette Law School Poll:
Marquette Law School Poll shows Walker, Kleefisch lead in recall — Milwaukee, Wis. - A new Marquette Law School Poll shows that with three weeks to go until the recall election Governor Scott Walker has taken a six-percentage point lead over Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, 50-44 percent, among likely voters.
Politico:
Obama and Romney's common foe — Barack Obama and Mitt Romney spend a lot of time trumpeting their differences, but they do share at least one common conviction: disdain for a political news media they see as eager to vaporize them for the sheer sport of it.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Hot Air interview with Mitt Romney
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
No media love for asymmetric polarization — “Polarization also has affected the two parties differently. The Republican Party has drifted much farther to the right than the Democratic Party has drifted to the left.... In other words, the story of the past few decades is asymmetric polarization.”
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Daily Kos and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Pvictorwins / CBS New York:
Robert F. Kennedy's Estranged Wife Found Dead In Westchester Home — BEDFORD, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — The estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was found dead inside her Westchester County home on Wednesday. — Photos: Notable Deaths 2012 — Mary Kennedy, 52, was discovered …
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Charles Mahtesian / Associated Press:
Mary Kennedy, RFK Jr.'s estranged wife, found dead
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Sam Ser / The Times of Israel:
Did a WikiLeaks document doom Iranian ‘Mossad agent’? — Leaked diplomatic cable apparently pointed to Majid Fashi, who was hanged in Tehran on Tuesday for allegedly killing a nuclear scientist — W — ikiLeaks may have been responsible for exposing Majid Jamali Fashi …
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The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers and Israel Matzav
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News poll: Obama pulls ahead of Romney as presidential race heats up — President Obama tops Republican Mitt Romney in a head-to-head matchup, according to the latest Fox News poll, which finds American voters feeling more positive about the economy. — Obama would have an advantage …
Neil King Jr / Washington Wire:
Warning Signs in Wisconsin for Obama — In a potentially ominous sign for the Obama campaign, a new poll has declared Wisconsin a true tossup state, finding President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney locked in a 46%-46% tie among likely voters. — As the Obama team eyes potential paths to victory in November …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How Mitt Romney gets away with his lying — Yesterday, Mitt Romney gave a big speech in which he accused Obama of lighting a “prairie fire of debt.” It's a good line, and it has received widespread media coverage. — Romney's speech has already been dissected by Jonathan Chait and Steve Benen.
Alex Weprin / mediabistro.com:
CNN Hits Lowest Primetime Demo Rating at 9 PM In 15 Years — Last night was a typical, boring Tuesday, with little earth-shattering news to drive TV viewers to cable news. It was also May sweeps, with the season finale of “NCIS: LA,” “America's Got Talent” on NBC and “Dancing With the Stars” …
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Ed Driscoll, NewsBusters.org and The PJ Tatler
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Democrats' Odds of Retaining Senate Improve — When we last took an overview of Senate races in December, Republicans appeared to be slight favorites to take control from Democrats, with a net gain of four to five seats representing the most likely outcome.
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Washington Post, A plain blog about politics and The Caucus
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
WASHINGTON — After years of speculation, estimates and projections, the Census Bureau has made it official: White births are no longer a majority in the United States. — Non-Hispanic whites accounted for 49.6 percent of all births in the 12-month period that ended last July …
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Vox Popoli and Gawker
Craig Gilbert / JSOnline:
Walker speeds release of positive jobs data — By Craig Gilbert and John Schmid of the Journal Sentinel — In an unusual effort to rebut bad news on the jobs front, the Walker administration is speeding up release of new numbers showing job gains rather than job losses in Wisconsin last year.
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2012.talkingpointsmemo.com, Econbrowser, Weekly Standard, Daily Kos and The Political Environment
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Tim Jones / Bloomberg:
Walker Dislikes Job Numbers, So He'll Put Out His Own
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ABCNEWS:
Dinner for 2? Romney Spox Throws a Question at Biden at Dinner Run-In — JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — One of Mitt Romney's spokesmen, in Ohio to attend Vice President's Joe Biden's speech today in nearby Youngstown, Ohio, got some unexpected one-on-one time with the veep tonight when he was seated next …
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Ryan J. Reilly / tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMMuckraker — Batty ‘Birther’ Movie Divides Conspiracy Diehards — “Birthers” are flipping their tinfoil hats over a new film that claims President Barack Obama's father was not a Kenyan goat herder but rather a communist journalist nearly four decades older than his mother. The problem?
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