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New York Times:
G.O.P. ‘Super PAC’ Weighs Hard-Line Attack on Obama — WASHINGTON — A group of high-profile Republican strategists is working with a conservative billionaire on a proposal to mount one of the most provocative campaigns of the “super PAC” era and attack President Obama in ways that Republicans have so far shied away from.
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Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
EXCLUSIVE: Romney ‘Repudiates’ Conservative Group's Planned Rev. Wright Attacks — In an exclusive interview with Townhall, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney rebuked a conservative group that is reportedly planning to assail President Obama over his 20-year relationship …
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Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Mitt Romney On His Reverend Wright Attack: ‘I Stand By What I Said, Whatever It Was’ — Mitt Romney's campaign is apparently worried about being associated with a Republican proposal, first reported by the New York Times today, to run $10 million worth of racially-tinged ads attacking President Obama …
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ABCNEWS, Liberal Values, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Politico, New York Times and Mediaite
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
GOP struggles to banish ghost of Jeremiah Wright — In a statement, Romney campaign manager Matt Rhoades repudiates the plan being hatched by GOP operatives for an ad campaign tying Obama to Reverend Wright: … And that's good. The problem, though, is that it turns out that Romney himself attacked Obama …
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Washington Monthly, New York Times, GOP 12, Mother Jones and The Maddow Blog
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Statement: Ricketts rejects ‘Ricketts plan’
Statement: Ricketts rejects ‘Ricketts plan’
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nation.foxnews.com, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and New York Magazine
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney stands by invocation of Rev. Wright
Mitt Romney stands by invocation of Rev. Wright
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BuzzFeed and Hullabaloo
New York Times:
‘Super PAC’ Plan to Link Obama to Rev. Wright
‘Super PAC’ Plan to Link Obama to Rev. Wright
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The Huffington Post, msnbc.com, Daily Kos, Washington Post, Business Insider, Guardian, Mother Jones and The Stranger …
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Romney invoked Wright with Hannity in the primary
Romney invoked Wright with Hannity in the primary
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ABCNEWS, Washington Wire, Business Insider, msnbc.com and The Daily Caller
Jim Rutenberg / The Caucus:
Billionaire Rejects Proposal to Revive Jeremiah Wright Controversy
Billionaire Rejects Proposal to Revive Jeremiah Wright Controversy
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ABCNEWS, The New Republic, Washington Post, Politico, Towleroad News #gay, The Impolitic and Mediaite
Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM:
THE VETTING - EXCLUSIVE - OBAMA'S LITERARY AGENT IN 1991 BOOKLET: ‘BORN IN KENYA AND RAISED IN INDONESIA AND HAWAII’ — Note from Senior Management: — Andrew Breitbart was never a “Birther,” and Breitbart News is a site that has never advocated the narrative of “Birtherism.”
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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Literary Agent Says 1991 Booklet was a Mistake — Breitbart News reports on a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama's then-literary agency which describes the author as “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.” — Miriam Goderich issued the following statement to Political Wire:
CNN:
Autopsy: Drug THC found in Trayvon Martin's system — (CNN) — Trayvon Martin had drugs in his system when he was fatally shot earlier this year by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida, according to autopsy results released Thursday. — Martin's blood contained THC, which is the psychoactive ingredient …
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msnbc.com, Orlando Sentinel, JustOneMinute and Sky Dancing
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TMZ.com:
Donna Summer Dead — Disco Legend Dies After Battle with Lung Cancer — DEAD AT 63 — EXCLUSIVE — 9:27 AM PST- TMZ has learned ... Donna died from lung cancer. Several sources are telling us Donna believed she contracted it by inhaling toxic particles after the 9/11 attack in New York City.
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The Huffington Post, Mediaite, Los Angeles Times, Gawker and GLAAD
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TEDChris:
TED and inequality: The real story — Today TED was subject to a story so misleading it would be funny... except it successfully launched an aggressive online campaign against us. — The National Journal alleged we had censored a talk because we considered the issue of inequality “too hot to handle.”
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Taylor Marsh, Gawker, The Stranger … and Business Insider
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Jim Tankersley / NationalJournal.com:
Too Hot for TED: Income Inequality
Too Hot for TED: Income Inequality
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The Huffington Post, Ezra Klein, Restoration Roundtable, Wonkette, Truthdig, Mother Jones, The Raw Story and The Stranger …
Ryan Cooper / The Orbital:
TED and Economic Inequality
TED and Economic Inequality
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Restoration Roundtable, Firedoglake, Business Insider and Hullabaloo
Caitlin McDevitt / Politico:
Ben Stein: Obama's not very smart — Is President Obama smart? Ben Stein wouldn't put his money on it. — During an appearance on Fox News, the economist and actor said he doesn't consider the president to be very intelligent. — “Barack Obama is a smart man, you would say that, right?” host Bill O'Reilly asked.
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Lippmann's Ghost
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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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Biden Calls Himself ‘Middle Class Joe,’ Owns Mansion — Joe Biden, speaking in Ohio today, said that he is “tired of being called a ‘Middle Class Joe.’” — While it's not clear who actually calls the vice president that, it is clear that his house and finances tell a different story.
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Weasel Zippers
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Joe Biden / CNN:
Biden to eastern Ohio: I'm just like you
Kyle Clark / KUSA-TV:
Rep. Mike Coffman: Obama in his heart ‘not an American’ — “I don't know whether Barack Obama was born in the United States of America. I don't know that,” Coffman said. “But I do know this, that in his heart, he's not an American. He's just not an American.”
Philip Klein / Campaign 2012:
Ryan: GOP won't offer Obamacare substitute in 2012 — House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., on Thursday said Congressional Republicans would not unite around specific legislation to replace President Obama's national health care law this year, but would instead present an alternative market-based “vision.”
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Politico, ThinkProgress, Speaker.gov, The Apothecary, Balloon Juice, National Review, New York Magazine, Hit & Run and Daily Kos
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Sam Baker / The Hill:
Boehner: Keeping any parts of Obama health law ‘unacceptable’
Boehner: Keeping any parts of Obama health law ‘unacceptable’
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protein wisdom, Associated Press and Ezra Klein
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Romney Registers Personal Best 50% Favorable Rating — Up from 39% in February, but one of lowest for a presumptive nominee — PRINCETON, NJ — Fifty percent of Americans now have a favorable opinion of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, up from 39% in February and his highest by 10 percentage points.
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Power Line, Business Insider, Firedoglake, Campaign 2012, GOP 12 and Indecision Forever
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Movement among black North Carolinians on gay marriage —There's been a noticeable shift in the attitudes of African Americans in North Carolina toward rights for gay couples in the wake of President Obama's announcement last week that he supports gay marriage.
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Firedoglake, Politico, Advocate and ThinkProgress
ABCNEWS:
Senators to Unveil the ‘Ex-Patriot Act’ to Respond to Facebook's Saverin's Tax ‘Scheme’ — Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has a status update for Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin: Stop attempting to dodge your taxes by renouncing your U.S. citizenship or never come to back to the U.S. again.
DealBook:
Facebook Raises $16 Billion in I.P.O. — Facebook pulled it off. — As investors raced to get shares, the sprawling social network raised $16 billion on Thursday, in an initial public offering that valued Facebook at $104 billion. — The I.P.O. signals a rapid evolution for the company.
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Truthdig and American Spectator