memeorandum: Kimberlin's Cronies Go After The Lid (Jeff Dunetz/“The Lid”)

11:25 PM ET, June 8, 2012

Top Items:

David Weigel / Slate:

The Private Sector is Doing Fine. The Political Press? Eh... - Obama Blames Europe, Asia, and Everyone Else for America's Economic Woes — Stop Laughing About the LinkedIn Security Breach. It's More Serious Than You Think. - Prometheus Is Deep but Not Very Smart …

Discussion: The Daily Dish, The Moderate Voice, Talking Points Memo, News Desk and US Politics

RealClearPolitics Video Log:

Obama: “The Private Sector Is Doing Fine” — Question: What about the Republicans saying that you're blaming the Europeans for the failures of your own policies? — President Obama: The truth of the matter is that, as I said, we created 4.3 million jobs over the last 27 months, over 800,000 just this year alone.

Discussion: Hit & Run, The Caucus, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Lonely Conservative, Ricochet Conversations Feed, Mediaite, Questions and Observations, Grim's Hall, The Enterprise Blog, Weasel Zippers, Sister Toldjah, protein wisdom and GOP 12

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:

Mitt Romney: We don't need more cops, firefighters or teachers — When Republicans attack public workers, they often take care to exempt cops and firefighters, because they are culturally sympathetic figures, and muddle the message that government workers are parasites who are destroying the economic conditions of ordinary Americans.

Discussion: Balloon Juice, ThinkProgress, The Maddow Blog, The New Civil Rights Movement, CNN and The New Republic

Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:

President Obama Clarifies “Private Sector Is Doing Fine” Remarks — With Republicans seizing upon remarks he made earlier in the day that “the private sector is doing fine” - arguing that they show a president out of touch with an ailing economy — President Obama sought to clarify his remarks Friday afternoon.

Discussion: Daily Kos, Weasel Zippers, 2012 Decoded and Hot Air

Justin Sink / The Hill:

Romney: Obama ‘doing fine’ comment will ‘go down in history’ as ‘extraordinary miscalculation’ — Mitt Romney blasted President Obama for comments during a press conference Friday in which the president suggested the private sector was “doing fine.” — “He said the private sector is doing fine.

Discussion: sisu, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and Little Green Footballs

BuzzFeed:

Mitt Romney Struggles To Identify A Donut — “Can you see that one of those chocolate, um, uh, chocolate goodies finds its way to our ride?” — McKay Coppins — an hour ago — 20 responses

Discussion: New York Magazine, TheBlaze.com and Wonkette

Rand Paul / CNN:

Would be ‘an honor’ to be Romney's VP — (CNN) - A day after endorsing Mitt Romney, Sen. Rand Paul said it would be an honor to run alongside the presumptive GOP presidential nominee. — “A year, year and a half ago, I was a physician in a small town,” Paul, the junior Republican senator from Kentucky, told CNN's Don Lemon.

Discussion: GOP 12

John Hinderaker / Power Line:

Obama's Most Clueless Moment Yet? — President Obama's seemingly-bizarre claim that “the private sector is doing fine” is echoing across the country. When I first saw the quote, I thought it must be a momentary gaffe, or perhaps taken out of context. But no: Obama really did say …

Discussion: small dead animals

Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama walks back comment about private economy ‘doing fine’

Discussion: Race 4 2012

Ezra Klein:
Obama's press conference: The public sector isn't fine

Discussion: Business Insider and msnbc.com

James Pethokoukis / The Enterprise Blog:
Obama is wrong. The private sector isn't ‘doing fine’

Discussion: The Caucus, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, nation.foxnews.com, Ed Driscoll, Vodkapundit, Wake up America, The Lonely Conservative and Daily Pundit

Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Scott Walker: Obama's Comments Reflect a Fundamental Misunderstanding of the Economy

Discussion: Ed Driscoll

BuzzFeed: Obama's “Fundamentals Of The Economy” Moment

Michael O'Brien / msnbc.com:
Obama: ‘It is absolutely clear that the economy is not doing fine’

Discussion: BuzzFeed, Indecision Forever and Business Insider

Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
President Obama Says The Private Sector Is Doing Fine

Discussion: Politico, Swampland, The Week and ABCNEWS

BuzzFeed:
Obama: “The Private Sector Is Doing Fine”

Discussion: Washington Post, New York Magazine, Mother Jones, Associated Press, The Page and Taylor Marsh

Peter Baker / New York Times:

E-Mails Highlight Extent of Obama's Deal With Industry on Health Care — WASHINGTON — After weeks of talks, drug industry lobbyists were growing nervous. To cut a deal with the White House on overhauling health care, they needed to be sure that President Obama would stop a proposal intended to bring down medicine prices.

Discussion: Mother Jones, DownWithTyranny!, Hot Air, Daily Kos, Hullabaloo, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and Politico

House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans:
Emails Show White House Helped Create Third-Party Advertising Initiative Behind Health Care Law …

Discussion: Washington Wire, Hit & Run, American Glob, Speaker Mobile, The Hill and Speaker.gov

Gregg Kilday / Hollywood Reporter:

Don Rickles Shocks Hollywood Crowd With Racial Obama Joke — The 86-year-old comic brought his shtick to the AFI's Shirley MacLaine tribute; likened the president to a janitor. — Don Rickles nearly hijacked the American Film Institute's tribute to Shirley MacLaine on Thursday night …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Mediaite

Jason Clayworth / Des Moines Register:

Romney heckler and a Biz owner in Council Bluffs: We were disrespected — Council Bluffs, Ia. — A 62-year-old Vietnam veteran who continuously disrupted Mitt Romney's event here today by screaming “liar” over a megaphone says he was disrespected by security and guests who shouted insults …

Discussion: Daily Kos

BuzzFeed:
Romney Visits Iowa Restaurant, Owners Feel Dissed

Discussion: Des Moines Register and Guardian

Josh Margolin / New York Post:

Booker's big mouth ruins relationship with Obama, Cabinet hopes — It's bye-bye, Beltway for Cory Booker. — Newark's mayor, who was gunning for a spot in President Obama's Cabinet, lost the chance after he shot his mouth off during a blunderingly honest TV appearance last month, sources told The Post.

Discussion: Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, RealClearPolitics Video Log, BuzzFeed, Mediaite, iOwnTheWorld.com, Political Insider, The Lonely Conservative, Pirate's Cove, The Daily Caller and Washington Post

Mike Lupica / NY Daily News:
The silent issue that could doom President Obama in 2012 election

Discussion: Mediaite, The Daley Gator and Weasel Zippers

Anne Sorock / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:

Elizabeth Warren dodges questions at Netroots Nation - security guards block me — I returned to Netroots Nation today. — At lunch, I went to listen to Elizabeth Warren's speech and panel discussion. I wanted to ask her a few questions after her panel, which was entitled “2012 and the War on (and for) Women.”

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and American Power

William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Breitbart lives in the heads of Netroots Nation protectors of Elizabeth Warren

Discussion: American Power and The Gateway Pundit

Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:

'Schindler's List' Producer Claims Graduation Speech Censorship — A controversy erupted in a small Montana town after a high school principal prevented Oscar winner Gerald Molen from delivering his planned speech because he's “a right-wing conservative.” — Gerald Molen won a best picture Oscar …

Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy, Clayton Cramer's Blog, The PJ Tatler and Campaign 2012

Colleen McCain Nelson / Wall Street Journal:

Absence Makes the Vote Grow Bigger for GOP — The Play: Getting out the absentee vote — The Strategy: As Mr. Walker, Wisconsin's Republican governor, tried to fend off an effort to recall him from office over his law limiting union power, Republicans rolled out a program to encourage less …

Jeff Dunetz / “The Lid”:

Kimberlin's Cronies Go After The Lid — As I mentioned earlier this week today has been declared a national day of blogger silence/action to protect blogger freedom of speech. Since Ace suggested we use today to urge congress protect free speech the day has taken on more significance to me personally, yesterday

Discussion: The Camp Of The Saints, EBL, Liberty Chick, The Conservatory, CANNONFIRE, BobGriggs.com, The Other McCain, The Moderate Voice, The Lonely Conservative, American Power, The Jawa Report and Nice Deb

Agoldberg / The Smoking Gun:

Koran-Hating Pastor Hangs Barack Obama In Effigy In Florida Church's Front Yard — The Florida pastor who ignited an international furor by threatening to burn a pile of Korans has applied his subtle touch to the 2012 presidential campaign by constructing a gallows from which a likeness of President Barack Obama now hangs in effigy.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Towleroad News #gay

Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:

NPR: Criticism of President Coming from ‘GOP Dope’ — National Public Radio has a blog post about President Obama's statement this morning on the private sector—and how conservatives reacted to the president's assertion that"the private sector is doing fine." The title of the post?

Discussion: National Review

Josh Gerstein / Politico:

Eric Holder unaware that court visitors must show ID — Due to a recent work assignment, I had the opportunity to enter a federal courthouse about 200 times in the past six weeks or so. Each and every time, I was asked for a photo ID, which the court security officer looked at and then allowed me to put away in my wallet.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers

Rene Stutzman / Orlando Sentinel:

Orlando man with Zimmerman's old phone number slammed by threatening calls — At age 49, Junior Alexander Guy got his first cell phone last month. The calls started immediately. — Strangers called at all hours. Some were insulting. Others angry. Sometimes, they threatened him.

Discussion: The Daily Caller, msnbc.com, Business Insider and TheBlaze.com

Washington Post:

Woodward and Bernstein: 40 years after Watergate, Nixon was far worse than we thought — As Sen. Sam Ervin completed his 20-year Senate career in 1974 and issued his final report as chairman of the Senate Watergate committee, he posed the question: “What was Watergate?”

Discussion: Washington Monthly