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11:35 PM ET, July 16, 2012

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David Frum / CNN:

Mitt Romney's painfully bad week — Editor's note: David Frum is a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast and a CNN contributor. He is the author of seven books, including a new novel, “Patriots.” — (CNN) — By any measure, the Mitt Romney for president campaign has had a painfully bad week.

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, The Moderate Voice, This Just In, Michelle Malkin, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Daily Dish, American Power and Marbury

Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:

Mitt Romney Ad Taken Down Over Copyright Claim … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Video, Election 2012, Romney Campaign, Mitt Romney 2012, Mitt Romney Ad, Mitt Romney Singing Ad, Mitt Romney Web Ad, Obama Singing, Politics News

Discussion: The Caucus, Mediaite, Washington Post and The Moderate Voice

Washington Examiner:

Romney's new foe: Batman's ‘Bane’ … This summer's much-anticipated Hollywood blockbuster, “The Dark Knight Rises,” is getting an unusual boost from Democrats and other foes of Mitt Romney who are eager to tie the Gotham crushing villain to the GOP presidential candidate.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit and The Hinterland Gazette

Hillary Clinton / CNN:

TRENDING: Hillary Clinton: Romney ads featuring her a ‘waste of money’ — (CNN) - She's been featured in two negative television ads from Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, but Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday the spots would have little effect on voters who already know the story of the 2008 Democratic primaries.

Discussion: Politico and The Hinterland Gazette

Mitt Romney for President of the United States …:

Memorandum — Location — To: Interested Parties — From: Neil Newhouse - Romney Campaign Pollster — Re: The State Of The Race: Ballot Narrowing Despite Obama Attack Ads — Four years ago today, candidate Barack Obama led John …

Discussion: Daily Kos, American Power, Weekly Standard and National Review

Matt Negrin / ABCNEWS: Dems Keep Up Romney Bain Attacks

Rob Portman / CNN:
Portman slams president for ‘personal’ attacks

Discussion: Politico, The New Republic, Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit and Washington Examiner

David Corn / Mother Jones:
Romney's Account of His Departure From Bain Undercut By...Romney Testimony

Discussion: PERRspectives, The Daily Dish, Mother Jones, Daily Kos, Bloomberg, TBogg and Firedoglake

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Politifact: Mitt Romney's companies sent jobs overseas

Discussion: The Daily Dish

CNN:
Facts don't support Obama's charges against Romney

Discussion: The Daily Dish, Fortune, American Power, Hit & Run, Daily Kos, Crooks and Liars, Guardian, The Caucus, Wake up America, National Review and Balloon Juice

John Cassidy / News Desk:
Why Won't Romney Release More Tax Returns?

Discussion: Firedoglake, Bloomberg, 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com, The Daily Caller, Outside the Beltway, Liberal Info, msnbc.com, The Moderate Voice, The Daily Dish and The Hinterland Gazette

Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
The Bain Quatrain

Discussion: Red Alert Politics, The New Republic, The Maddow Blog and Alan Colmes' Liberaland

Jake Sherman / Politico:

Dick Cheney to talk sequester with House GOP — Former Vice President Dick Cheney is flying to Washington from Wyoming to talk to top House Republicans about automatic cuts to defense spending, according to senior GOP sources. — Cheney will speak to Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy's (Calif.) …

Discussion: CNN

Humberto Sanchez / Roll Call:
Democrats Want Leverage From Sequester

Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Suburban Guerrilla

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Latest Word on the Trail? I Take It Back

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Kevin Robillard / Politico:

Rush Limbaugh: Obama ‘hates this country’ — President Barack Obama “hates this country,” and his philosophy appeals to “people with miserable, meaningless lives” and “people who don't count,” Rush Limbaugh said Monday. — “I think it can now be said, without equivocation …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Scared Monkeys, ThinkProgress, The Hinterland Gazette, Rush Limbaugh and The Maddow Blog

Rush Limbaugh:
Barack Obama Hates This Country

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Frank Newport / Gallup:

Republicans Turn Against John Roberts, U.S. Supreme Court — Democrats now positive about both — PRINCETON, NJ — Americans' opinions of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts are now much more negative than they were seven years ago, with the most recent reading coming soon …

Discussion: The Hill, Politico, Weasel Zippers and Business Insider

Jay Nordlinger / National Review:
Against Growth! — In today's Impromptus, I have some comments …

Discussion: Gawker, Wonkette, Little Green Footballs, Angry Black Lady Chronicles and The Raw Story

Lila Shapiro / The Huffington Post:
Edie Windsor vs. DOMA: 83-Year-Old Lesbian Petitions U.S. Supreme Court To Hear Case

Discussion: BuzzFeed, Firedoglake, Towleroad News #gay and ThinkProgress

Andy Campbell / The Huffington Post:

Jonah Falcon, Man With World's Largest Penis, Frisked By TSA At California Airport … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Anatomical Wonders, TSA, Video, 13.5 Inches, Jonah Falcon, San Francisco International Airport, Stop And Frisk, X-Ray Body Scanners, Airport Screening, Largest Penis …

Discussion: Mediaite, Gawker, Gothamist, The Raw Story and Riehl World View

Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:

Obama Cites Campaign Donor as ‘Non-Partisan Economist’ — At a speech earlier today in Cincinnati, Ohio, President Obama cited economic analysis conducted by one of his campaign donors, Kimberly Clausing, and called her a “non-partisan economist.” Clausing, a college professor from Reed College …

Discussion: Hot Air and The Lonely Conservative

James Hohmann / Politico:
Bain not going away—Kucinich launching PAC—Bush 43 unveiling book tomorrow—Gillespie …

Discussion: The Daily Beast and Tampa Bay Times

PBS:

His Man in Macau: Inside the Investigation Into Sheldon Adelson's Empire — A decade ago gambling magnate and leading Republican donor Sheldon Adelson looked at a desolate spit of land in Macau and imagined a glittering strip of casinos, hotels and malls. — Where competitors saw obstacles …

Discussion: The Hinterland Gazette, msnbc.com, Hullabaloo and Influence Alley

Ali Gharib / ThinkProgress:
REPORT: Biggest Donor To Romney And GOP Did Business With Chinese Mob

Discussion: The Raw Story and The Reality-Based Community

DealBook:

A Yahoo Search Calls Up a Chief From Google — Updated — Marissa Mayer, one of the top executives at Google, will be the next chief of Yahoo, making her one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley and corporate America. — The appointment of Ms. Mayer is consider a coup for Yahoo …

Discussion: BuzzFeed, Business Insider, TechCrunch, New York Magazine, Online NewsHour, Jezebel, Gawker, The Loop and ThinkProgress, more at Mediagazer »

Orlando Sentinel:

‘Witness 9’ tells prosecutors Zimmerman molested her for years — A woman told authorities that while they were children, murder suspect George Zimmerman sexually molested her for a decade, according to prosecution records released today. — The woman, identified only as “witness 9,” …

Discussion: CBS News, New York Times, McClatchy Washington Bureau, Daily Kos, JOSHUAPUNDIT, Mediaite, ThinkProgress, theGrio, msnbc.com, New York Magazine and Balloon Juice

Bloomberg:

Hardheaded Socialism Makes Canada Richer Than U.S. — On July 1, Canada Day, Canadians awoke to a startling, if pleasant, piece of news: For the first time in recent history, the average Canadian is richer than the average American. — According to data from Environics Analytics WealthScapes published …

Discussion: CANNONFIRE and AEIdeas

Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:

Pawlenty Looked at as Romney Running Mate — EAGAN, Minn. — It was four years ago this summer, when Tim Pawlenty ranked high on the list of John McCain's potential running mates, and Mr. Pawlenty and his wife, Mary, were plowing through a voluminous questionnaire probing deep into their finances …

Tammie Fields / Tampa Bay Fl News:

Lt. Governor speaks out about sex scandal accusations — Lt. Governor Carroll made the comments Saturday in Orange Park, at the opening of a campaign office for Mitt Romney. — Carletha Cole claims she walked in on a sexual encounter between Carroll and Carroll's travel aide, Beatriz Ramos.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Advocate, Jezebel, The Other McCain, Wonkette, The Raw Story, theGrio and Towleroad News #gay

Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:

Romney Suggests Releasing Additional Tax Returns Could Be Politically Damaging — Mitt Romney appeared on Fox & Friends Monday morning to respond to the growing number of conservatives who are calling on the former Massachusetts governor to release more of his tax returns.

Discussion: Wonkette, The Hinterland Gazette, The Raw Story, ABCNEWS, The Maddow Blog and FreakOutNation

Alex Carp / News Desk:

Writing With Antonin Scalia, Grammar Nerd — The first time Bryan A. Garner, a lawyer and writer, met Antonin Scalia—over breakfast at the Washington, D.C., Four Seasons, in 2006—the Justice spent the early part of their conversation praising a magazine essay he had recently read on English grammar and usage.

Discussion: Althouse