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3:25 PM ET, July 20, 2012

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Pierre Thomas / ABCNEWS:
Aurora ‘Dark Knight’ Shooting Suspect Identified: James Holmes  —  The young man who is in custody after allegedly gunning down 12 people in a mass shooting spree overnight in Aurora, Colorado has been identified as local resident James Holmes, according to federal authorities.
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Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM:
THE USUAL SUSPECTS: ABC'S ROSS, STEPHANOLPOULOS POINT TO TEA PARTY IN DARK KNIGHT SHOOTING  —  On Good Morning America, ABC News' Brian Ross and George Stephanolpoulos suggested that the Tea Party might be connected to the mass shootings early this morning in an Aurora, CO theater during …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
ABC News apologizes for ‘incorrect’ Tea party report  —  ABC News and Brian Ross are apologizing for an “incorrect” report that James Holmes, the suspect in the Colorado theater shooting, may have had connections to the Tea Party.  —  “An earlier ABC News broadcast report suggested …
Dennis de Groot / Twitchy:
Left blames Aurora shooting on Rush Limbaugh … Some Twitter users are speculating that the Aurora, Colo., shooter was inspired by comments made by Rush Limbaugh.  The shooting occurred at a midnight premiere of the movie, “The Dark Knight Rises.”  On Tuesday July 17, Limbaugh …
Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
Louie Gohmert: Aurora Shootings Result Of ‘Ongoing Attacks On Judeo-Christian Beliefs’ … FOLLOW:  —  Denver News, Aurora Shooting, Colorado Shooting, Dark Knight Shooting, James Holmes, Louie Gohmert, Aurora, Aurora News, Aurora Shooting 2012, Aurora Shootings, Aurora Theater Shooting …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
ABC draws possible Tea Party connection with alleged Aurora shooter  —  ABC News has suggested that James Holmes — the suspect in today's shooting in Aurora, Colorado — may have a connection to the Tea Party.  —  ABC's Brian Ross reported this morning that there is “a Jim Holmes of Aurora …
Denver Post:
AURORA — A gunman burst into the emergency exit door of a theater and shot 71 people, killing at least 12 of them, at a midnight premiere of the new Batman movie Friday, creating a chaotic, smoke-filled scene that had bloody moviegoers dragging each other outside.
Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM:
EXCLUSIVE: CONTRA ABC NEWS, DARK KNIGHT AURORA, CO SHOOTING SUSPECT JAMES HOLMES COULD BE REGISTERED DEMOCRAT  —  James Holmes, the suspect arrested in connection with the mass shootings at a screening of the new Batman movie early this morning in Aurora, CO, could be a registered Democrat …
Skschust / CBS New York:
Kelly: Colorado Movie Theater Shooting Suspect Claimed To Be Batman Nemesis ‘The Joker’  —  NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) - New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the gunman suspected of attacking a crowded movie theater in Aurora, Colorado resembled Batman's arch-villain “The Joker” at the time of the shocking attack.
Michael Pearson / CNN:
Gunman kills 12 in Colorado movie theater  —  (CNN) — A heavily armed gunman attacked an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater early Friday, tossing tear gas before opening fire on the terrified audience and killing 12 and wounding 38, authorities said.  The theater was showing the new Batman movie, “The Dark Knight Rises.”
Michael Grunwald / Swampland:
The Aurora Shooting: Sometimes There's Nothing Wrong With Politicizing a Tragedy
Adam Gopnik / News Desk:
One More Massacre  —  The murders—it dignifies them to call them a …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Why the Aurora shootings won't likely change the gun control debate
Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
ABC Corrects Report: ABC News' Brian Ross Links Colorado Shooter To Local Tea Party
Discussion: Hit & Run and TVNewser
BuzzFeed:   Obama On Aurora Shooting: “Our Time Here Is Limited And Precious”
CBS News:   Colo. shooting suspect James Holmes' apartment booby trapped, police say
Doug Stanglin / USA Today:
Liveblog: 24-year-old suspect ID'd in ‘Dark Knight’ shooting
Jim Davis / Boston Globe:
Romney kept reins, bargained hard on severance  —  Shortly after Mitt Romney took a leave of absence from Bain Capital to run the Olympics in February 1999, he made a trip to Palm Beach, Fla. The firm Romney founded was meeting to celebrate its 15th anniversary as well as the men he had helped make extraordinarily wealthy.
Discussion: msnbc.com, Daily Kos and The Mahablog
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Pathos of the Plutocrat
Aurora Shooting / The Huffington Post:
Mitt Romney Avoided Major Tax Hit By Shifting Stock Of Offshoring Firm
Discussion: Start Making Sense
Daily Mail:
Teenager shouts ‘Allah is great’ in Arabic as he tries to grab the Olympic flame from hands of terrified torch bearer  — Boy runs from crowd and attempts to wrestle flame from torch bearer shouting Arabic for ‘God is Great’  — Kent police say the relay continued ‘without disruption’ as Ms Skora passes torch on to next bearer
Wall Street Journal:
Noonan: A Remedial Communication Class  —  Lessons from three recent failures, at the Olympics and on the campaign trail.  —  Thoughts on three recent failures to communicate:  —  In the controversy surrounding the uniforms of the 2012 U.S. Olympic team, the problem isn't China.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate Dems growing cool to extending payroll tax holiday  —  The emerging consensus in the Senate Democratic Conference is that the payroll tax holiday should not be extended for another year, even though the economy is slowing.  —  While job creation has fallen below 100,000 new jobs …
Discussion: Firedoglake and Influence Alley
David Weigel / Slate:
Say the Magic Word  —  How partisans gave special meaning to Obama's words, “you didn't build that.”  —  President Obama speaking in Roanoke, Va. on July 13.  In the following days, conservatives jumped on his remarks.  —  Why did it take so long for Mitt Romney's campaign to realize …
Bloomberg:
How the Elites Built America's Economic Wall  —  For a century, incomes became increasingly equal across the U.S., as poor states such as Alabama caught up to rich places like California.  —  Economists have long taught this history to their undergraduates as an illustration of the growth theory …
Discussion: Hit & Run and Washington Wire
 
 
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CNN:
Campaigns pull ads after shooting
Fredreka Schouten / USA Today:
Presidential campaign fundraising surpasses $1 billion
David Brooks / New York Times:
Where Obama Shines  —  It won't help him win many votes this year …
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Morning Jay: Are the Polls Skewed Toward Obama?
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