memeorandum: Plouffe denies administration leaked information (Reid J. Epstein/Politico)

11:45 AM ET, June 17, 2012

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Ben Geman / Ballot Box:

Immigration ruling ‘fully within’ Obama powers, says adviser Plouffe — Senior White House adviser David Plouffe insisted Sunday that President Obama's decision to defer deportation of certain illegal immigrants who came to the country as children was “fully within” the president's authority and not made with the 2012 election in mind.

Discussion: CNN and The Hill

Reid J. Epstein / Politico:

Plouffe denies administration leaked information — President Barack Obama and his top aides did not declassify national security information that leaked in recent news stories, White House senior adviser David Plouffe said on Sunday. — “No,” Plouffe said when host Chris Wallace pressed him on the issue on “Fox News Sunday.”.

Discussion: CNN

David Plouffe / CNN:
Immigration change not political, Plouffe asserts

Discussion: Politico

TMZ.com:

Rodney King Dead at 47 — DEAD AT 47 — EXCLUSIVE — Rodney King — the man who was at the center of the infamous Los Angeles riots — was found dead this morning. He was 47. — According to our sources, King's fiancée found him dead at the bottom of a pool.

Discussion: The Raw Story, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Gawker

Lindsey Boerma / CBS News:

Romney: Immigration needs long-term fix, not stop-gap — (CBS News) President Obama's new policy allowing qualified children of illegal immigrants to remain in the United States is a short-term solution to a long-term problem, and was driven in “large part” by politics …

Reid J. Epstein / Politico:

Romney dodges immigration questions — Mitt Romney refuses to say whether he'd repeal the Obama administration's decision to stop deporting certain undocumented immigrants. — In an interview with Bob Schieffer aired Sunday on CBS's “Face the Nation,” the presumptive Republican presidential …

William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:

Explain to me again why they are called “reporters”? — When Neil Munro shouted out a question to Obama yesterday as Obama was reading a statement in the Rose Garden about his unilateral thumbing of Congress and the American people in the eye, a firestorm of condemnation erupted among media-types on both the left and right.

Discussion: The Conservatory, The Daily Caller, NewsBusters.org blogs and Politico

Tim Mak / Politico:
Neil Munro bad, media worse, say conservative bloggers at RightOnline

Discussion: his vorpal sword, The Gateway Pundit, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and NewsBusters.org blogs

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Sam Donaldson Rejects Comparison To Reporter Who Interrupted Obama

Discussion: Datechguy's Blog, NewsBusters.org blogs, Weasel Zippers, The Moderate Voice, Little Green Footballs, PERRspectives, Mediaite and CNN, more at Mediagazer »

Nathaniel Popper / New York Times:

C.E.O. Pay Is Rising Despite the Din — YOU call this a revolution? — Probably the most-heard complaint about big business these days, one seemingly tailored for the 99 percent, is how much money corporate C.E.O.'s routinely pull down. Many ordinary Americans probably cheered when stockholders …

Discussion: Hullabaloo

Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress: Average CEO Pay At Largest Companies Grew Twice As Fast As Worker Wages In 2011, Rising To $14.5 Million

Tyler Cowen / New York Times:

Broken Trust Takes Time to Mend — PRESIDENT OBAMA caused a stir recently when he said that “the private sector is doing fine” and pinned many of the nation's economic troubles on a decline in public-sector employment. He cited some interesting numbers, but he didn't draw the right lesson …

Discussion: xpostfactoid and EconLog

Washington Examiner:

‘Angry’ money gives funding edge to GOP and Romney — Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event at the Cornwall Iron Furnace on June 16, 2012 in Cornwall, Pennsylvania. Mr. Romney continues hs campaign swing through battle ground states …

Discussion: Betsy's Page

Rachel L. Swarns / New York Times:

DNA Gives New Insights Into Michelle Obama's Roots — REX, Ga. — Joan Tribble held tightly to her cane as she ventured into the overgrown cemetery where her people were buried. There lay the pioneers who once populated north Georgia's rugged frontier, where striving white men planted corn and cotton …

Discussion: Althouse and Politico

Atrios / Eschaton:

Tom Friedman, The Musical! — I guess “Tommy” has already been used. Inspired somewhat by this, my long friendship with the man, and some suggests from the Twitter, here's what we have so far: — It's the tale of a wealthy white American who travels the world, blissfully unaware …

Mike Allen / Politico:

Playbook: Prankster Mitt leaves note — How ya doin', Knucklesnorts?" http://mi.tt/LS1tAU — ROMNEY TO SCHIEFFER: “Europe is capable of dealing with their banking crisis if they choose to do so” ... PLOUFFE TO STEPHANOPOULOS: “This is within the power of the Europeans to act”