Top Items:
Josh Tyrangiel / Business Week:
Exclusive Romney Interview: On Humility and Tax Returns — Much of the case you make to voters is that you're a successful entrepreneur and a successful executive, and thus you'll make a successful president. Why were you so successful as a businessman? — Well, I had the privilege …
Discussion:
CNN, The Hill, Althouse, Daily Kos, First Read, The Raw Story, New York Magazine and Wonkette
RELATED:
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Super-PAC founder defends controversial Romney attack ad — The founder of the pro-Obama super-PAC Priorities USA Action defended the group's controversial ad that links Mitt Romney to the death of woman who couldn't afford cancer treatments. — “The point of this ad is that — you know …
Discussion:
Connecting.the.Dots, The Democratic Daily, Taylor Marsh and Jammie Wearing Fools
Investor's Business Daily:
Obama's Campaign of Lies Reaches Despicable Low — Politics: Unable to run on his record, President Hope-and-Change has built a campaign based entirely on scurrilous lies about Mitt Romney. But the latest reaches a historic, despicable low. — That ad features a man claiming …
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Coulter Explodes At Romney Spokeswoman For Response To Priorities USA Ad: She Needs To Be Fired — Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity strongly condemned the ad released by the pro-Obama Super PAC Priorities USA that basically accused Mitt Romney of a steelworker's wife dying of cancer.
Discussion:
Hot Air, The Daily Caller, RedState, Angry Black Lady Chronicles, The Daily Beast and Politico
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Debate over dead woman is clarifying moment in prez race
Debate over dead woman is clarifying moment in prez race
Discussion:
Firedoglake, Los Angeles Times, The Daily Caller, The New Republic, CBS DC, Newsy, Daily Kos, ABCNEWS, The Daily Dish, Crooks and Liars and Washington Examiner
Olivier Knox / Yahoo! News:
Obama camp denies knowledge of cancer tale it told in May
Obama camp denies knowledge of cancer tale it told in May
Discussion:
Ricochet Conversations Feed, CNN, New York Magazine, Riehl World View, Hot Air and Politico
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Romney on not releasing more tax returns: 'I'm not a business'
Romney on not releasing more tax returns: 'I'm not a business'
Discussion:
GOP 12 and The Hinterland Gazette
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
OMG!... Joe Soptic, the Anti-Romney Cancer Ad Steelworker, Admits Bain Capital Offered Him a Buyout (Video)
OMG!... Joe Soptic, the Anti-Romney Cancer Ad Steelworker, Admits Bain Capital Offered Him a Buyout (Video)
Discussion:
Ace of Spades HQ, Wall Street Journal, Power Line, Scared Monkeys, The Virginian, American Power and Ed Driscoll
Erick Erickson / RedState:
The Moment All the Doubts About Romney Resurfaced on the Right
The Moment All the Doubts About Romney Resurfaced on the Right
Discussion:
American Prospect, Washington Post, The Week, Hit & Run, The Huffington Post, USA Today, 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com, Left In Alabama, No More Mister Nice Blog, The New Republic, The Gateway Pundit, Mother Jones, National Review, Right Wing News, Crooks and Liars, Booman Tribune, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, American Power, Associated Press, The Hinterland Gazette, Rumproast, CNN, Riehl World View, The Page, The Raw Story, The Other McCain, The PJ Tatler and Smartypants
Wall Street Journal:
Why Not Paul Ryan? — Romney can win a big election over big issues. He'll lose a small one. — The whispering over Mitt Romney's choice of a running mate is getting louder, and along with it we are being treated to the sotto voce angst of the GOP establishment: Whatever else Mitt does …
Discussion:
Firedoglake, American Prospect, First Read, CNN, Politico, ABCNEWS, Daily Kos, Outside the Beltway, USA Today, JSOnline, ABCNEWS, No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Post, Hot Air and GOP 12
RELATED:
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Why do conservatives want Paul Ryan to be vice president? — The Wall Street Journal editorial page has joined the growing movement of influential conservatives uniting behind hero wonk Paul Ryan for vice president. “The larger strategic point,” they counsel, “is that Mr. Romney's best chance …
Discussion:
American Spectator, Politico and The Daily Caller
Jonathan D. Salant / Bloomberg:
Goldman Sachs Leads Split With Obama, As GE Jilts Him Too
New York Post:
City officials pull the plug on vibrator giveaway, leaving thousands dissatisfied — They must have rubbed Mayor Bloomberg the wrong way. — City officials pulled the plug on a vibrator giveaway by the Trojan condom company yesterday, disappointing potentially thousands of pleasure-seeking women …
Discussion:
Gothamist, Runnin' Scared, Capital New York, Taylor Marsh, New York Magazine and The Raw Story
Paul A. Rahe / Ricochet Conversations Feed:
Landslide on the Horizon — When I read Nate Silver, Sean Trende, Charlie Cook, Jay Cost, and the others who make a profession of political prognostication, I pay close attention to their attempts to dissect the polling data and predict what is to come. But I also take everything that they say with a considerable grain of salt.
Discussion:
Power Line and The Glittering Eye
Daily Mail:
Man who claimed he was beaten for being gay admits he made it all up after police receive video of him hitting HIS OWN head after back-flipping off a curb — A young man who told police he was beaten up in a would-be hate crime appeared in court today admitting that he made the entire incident up.
Discussion:
The Gateway Pundit and The Virginian
Stephen Marche / Esquire:
The Contempt of Women — The rise of men. And the whining of girls. — In the constantly progressing and deteriorating and rapidly revolving kaleidoscope of misunderstanding and disgust and hunger that constitutes gender relations in the twenty-first century, a new gesture has emerged to define us …
Discussion:
ThinkProgress and Shakesville
Washington Post:
The Komen Foundation's very big leadership shake-up — Top officials at Susan G. Komen for the Cure stepped down Wednesday, months after the the breast cancer charity found itself embroiled in controversy when it halted grants to Planned Parenthood affiliates.
Discussion:
ThinkProgress, The Hill, TechPresident and Angry Black Lady Chronicles
RELATED:
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
For Romney, Even Means Ahead — After absorbing three months of negative ads from President Obama, the GOP challenger is raising his game in time for the nominating convention. — Wednesday's Gallup poll had President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney essentially tied, with Mr. Obama at 47% and Mr. Romney at 46%.
RELATED:
David Martosko / The Daily Caller:
New Urban Dictionary entry pegs Harry Reid as child molester
New Urban Dictionary entry pegs Harry Reid as child molester
Discussion:
Smartypants and Swampland
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Romney Campaign Carefully Chooses Speakers for Convention — TAMPA, Fla. — Newt Gingrich hoped to get a coveted speaking slot at the Republican National Convention. Instead the Romney campaign will have him teach a series of workshops they have nicknamed Newt University.
Discussion:
Booman Tribune, Media Decoder, CNN, Politico and New York Magazine
Susan Saulny / New York Times:
Young in G.O.P. Erase the Lines on Social Issues — CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Matt Hoagland, the county leader of a group of young North Carolina Republicans, is busy trying to ramp up enthusiasm for Mitt Romney at the grass-roots level. So there are a few things he avoids mentioning …
Discussion:
Washington Wire, National Review and Towleroad News #gay
BuzzFeed:
Leading LGBT Group Weighs In On Gambling Fight — National Gay and Lesbian Task Force claims a political synergy. “Opponents of the gambling expansion are clearly using the marriage issue for their own political gain,” says Levin. — A top LGBT civil rights group jumped unexpctedly …
Discussion:
Towleroad News #gay and Joe. My. God.
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Editor Fired Following Harassment Accusation — CONWAY, Ark. — The gathering, Marc Smirnoff said, was intended as a morale-boosting retreat for his staff at The Oxford American magazine, a July 4 overnight party at a mountain cabin that would fuel the creative intellect.
Discussion:
Capital New York, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Inside Higher Ed
Rebecca Keegan / Los Angeles Times:
Jason Sudeikis might bolt ‘Saturday Night Live’ — His movie career is on upswing with ‘The Campaign’ and 'We're the Millers' with Jennifer Aniston. More chances to spoof Mitt Romney might not be enough. — Jason Sudeikis stars in the new movie, “The Campaign.” (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
Discussion:
Reuters and Rolling Stone
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Was Romneycare A War On Religion? — Mitt Romney continues to attack President Obama for policies he supported as governor of Massachusetts with a new ad Thursday morning that accuses the administration of waging “a war on religion.” — The commercial claims that an Affordable Care Act …
Discussion:
Alan Colmes' Liberaland, NationalJournal.com and The Maddow Blog
Cincinnati.com:
Deli owner: Take my store out of Obama ad — Krause's will lose business, she says — The owner of Krause's at Findlay Market said she was misled about the filming of an Obama TV ad. / The Enquirer/Jane Prendergast — The owner of a specialty deli at Findlay Market wants …
Bloomberg:
Blink! U.S. Debt Just Grew by $11 Trillion — By Laurence Kotlikoff and Scott Burns 2012-08-08T22:30:26Z — Republicans and Democrats spent last summer battling how best to save $2.1 trillion over the next decade. They are spending this summer battling how best to not save $2.1 trillion over the next decade.
Discussion:
Hot Air and americanthinker.com
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
GLENN GREENWALD — Mark Halperin of Time provides some important insight into the behavior of his colleagues — Few media behaviors are more pitiful than the intense fixation over the “Veepstakes”: a word that is at once nauseatingly vapid and yet incomparably valuable as a symbol of our nation's pointless, juvenile political media.
Discussion:
Unqualified Offerings
Evan Soltas:
The Recession and Its Causes — In a post today, Matt Yglesias borrows Brad deLong's graph to show that “the back-and-forth swing of business investment has been the main motor of the recession...But the chart also shows us that contrary to a lot of myth-making, the recession is not identical to the downturn in housing.”
Discussion:
Brad DeLong, TheMoneyIllusion and Marginal Revolution
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Groups' Campaign Spending Scrutinized in New York — Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman of New York is escalating his inquiry into the fastest-growing but darkest corner of the campaign world, requesting in recent weeks tax returns and other financial documents from dozens of tax-exempt groups …
Discussion:
Politico, Capital Tonight and Capital New York
BuzzFeed:
Romney: Japanese In Century-Long Decline Says U.S. doesn't have to go down that path. — NEW YORK — At a fundraiser this morning, Mitt Romney took a shot at Japan, saying that country's economic decline is not a path the United States will follow under his leadership.
Discussion:
FP Passport