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8:35 AM ET, December 5, 2013

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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:

Martin Bashir Resigns From MSNBC — Just over two weeks ago, MSNBC host Martin Bashir delivered a harsh piece of commentary that culminated in the suggestion that someone should “s-h-i-t” in former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's (R-AK) mouth. Bashir offered an abject apology on his next broadcast …

Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Martin Bashir Resigns From MSNBC Following Sarah Palin Comments

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter, addictinginfo.org, Mediaite, The Moderate Voice, The Immoral Minority, Little Green Footballs, Talking Points Memo, The PJ Tatler and The Daily Caller

Dylan Byers / Politico:
Martin Bashir resigns from MSNBC

Discussion: BREITBART.COM, Mediaite and The Other McCain

Geoffrey Dickens / Author Feed:
Networks That Skipped Bashir's Gross Attack on Palin Were Outraged By Limbaugh Fluke Joke

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, Erik Wemple, NewsBusters blogs and Mediaite

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Martin Bashir Out at MSNBC

Discussion: PoliticusUSA and Weasel Zippers

The White House:

Remarks by the President on Economic Mobility — Washington, D.C. — THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you, everybody. Thank you so much. Please, please have a seat. Thank you so much. Well, thank you, Neera, for the wonderful introduction and sharing a story that resonated with me.

Discussion: White House.gov Blog, PoliticusUSA and Washington Post

Justin Sink / The Hill:

Obama: ‘Profoundly unequal’ economy a ‘fundamental threat’ — President Obama on Wednesday declared that addressing income inequality would be the focus of “all” of the White House's efforts “for the rest of my presidency.” — In a sweeping address that touched on raising the minimum wage …

Discussion: p m carpenter's commentary

Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:

The best speech Obama has given on the economy — The speech President Obama delivered this morning at THEARC in D.C. is perhaps the single best economic speech of his presidency. That's in part because it exists for no other reason than to lay out Obama's view of the economy.

Discussion: The Week, About.com Conservative … and Cafe Hayek

Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Inequality is ‘the defining issue of our time’

Discussion: ≠ Inequality Matters, Hullabaloo, ThinkProgress and Washington Monthly

Washington Post:
Full transcript: President Obama's December 4 remarks on the economy

Discussion: Campaign for America's Future, ThinkProgress, Guardian, Crooks and Liars, Hullabaloo, Shakesville and CNN

Washington Post:

NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show — The National Security Agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world, according to top-secret documents and interviews with U.S. intelligence officials …

Discussion: New York Times, Liberaland, emptywheel, Informed Comment, Firedoglake, The Switch, Guardian, Engadget, Business Insider, The Verge, Hit & Run and Talking Points Memo

Washington Post:
How the NSA is tracking people right now

Discussion: The Daily Caller, emptywheel, Prairie Weather, National Review, NPR, Gawker and The Gateway Pundit

Elise Viebeck / The Hill:

Young invincibles spurn O-Care — Mounting opposition to ObamaCare among young adults is creating a new crisis for the White House. — While the federal enrollment website HealthCare.gov appears to be improving by the day, polls show the “young invincibles” key to making the law work are becoming less likely to enroll.

Discussion: Politico, Talking Points Memo and CNN

Vince Coglianese / The Daily Caller:
NOT A JOKE: Video called ‘Forget About The Price Tag’ wins HHS grand prize for promoting Obamacare

Discussion: americanthinker.com, Hot Air, National Review and Hit & Run

Carrie Budoff Brown / Politico:
Source: Enrollment surge on HealthCare.gov

Discussion: CNN, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, PostPartisan, Business Insider, Daily Kos, NewsBusters blogs, The Dish, Hot Air, Wonkblog, ThinkProgress and ProPublica

Carl Zimmer / New York Times:

Baffling 400,000-Year-Old Clue to Human Origins — Scientists have found the oldest DNA evidence yet of humans' biological history. But instead of neatly clarifying human evolution, the finding is adding new mysteries. — In a paper in the journal Nature, scientists reported Wednesday …

Discussion: ProfessorBainbridge.com, NBCNews, The Verge, Vox Popoli and Outside the Beltway

Wall Street Journal:

A China Mobile deal would let Apple access a subscriber base seven times that of Verizon — China Mobile signed a long-awaited deal with Apple to offer iPhones on its network, an arrangement that would give the U.S. technology giant a big boost in the world's largest mobile market.

Discussion: Guardian, Forbes, TechCrunch, Mashable and AllThingsD

Richard Weir / Boston Herald:

Elizabeth Warren pledges she won't run for president in 2016 — By: — U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren pledged today she will not run for president in 2016 and will finish her term. — The Bay State senior senator has been mentioned in the preliminary talk about the presidential race, but Hillary Clinton has generated the most buzz.

Discussion: Politico, CNN, Washington Wire, The Fix, Post Politics, The Boston Globe, Taylor Marsh, Talking Points Memo, Taegan Goddard's …, ABC News, Hot Air, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and The Raw Story

Politico:

GOP men tutored in running against women — Of course, these Democratic women challengers will have to surmount all the hurdles that anyone seeking to knock of an incumbent always face: lack of name ID; challenges in getting press coverage; and most of all — the single biggest issue - a huge fundraising gap.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:

Brooklyn Politician Blames ‘Jewish Success’ For ‘Knock Out Game’ — Laurie Cumbo, a councilwoman-elect in Brooklyn, N.Y., believes alleged “Knock Out Game” attacks against Jews in the Crown Heights neighborhood may have been fueled by “resentment” against the Jewish community.

Discussion: DNAinfo.com New York, The Daily Caller and Liberaland

ctvnews.ca:

Ford may have tried to buy crack video: court documents — Text: — Tamara Cherry, CTV Toronto — Mayor Rob Ford may have tried to buy the alleged video of himself smoking crack cocaine two months before news of the video first broke, court documents released today allege.

Discussion: Toronto Star, Business Insider, Talking Points Memo, Gawker and Blazing Cat Fur

Chris Lingebach / CBS DC:
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford to Appear on ‘The Sports Junkies’

Discussion: City Desk, NBCNews, Talking Points Memo and Poynter

Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:

FBI executes search warrant, takes computers from Kent Sorenson's home — FBI officials executed a search warrant at former state Sen. Kent Sorenson's home two weeks ago and confiscated computers and other materials connected to presidential campaign politics, his lawyer told The Des Moines Register today.

Discussion: The Fix, Talking Points Memo and Liberaland

Cameron Joseph / The Hill:

Cotton campaign rips ‘offensive’ NRSC attack on Mark Pryor's Bible ad — Rep. Tom Cotton's (R-Ark.) Senate campaign on Wednesday denounced a “bizarre and offensive” attack on Sen. Mark Pryor's faith by the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC). — Pryor, an Arkansas Democrat …

Discussion: Politico, Riehl World News, CNN, NRSC, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos and Hullabaloo

Neil King Jr / Washington Wire:
Rubio PAC Jumps In Big to Aid Tom Cotton in Arkansas

Discussion: Politico

Jose Pagliery / CNNMoney.com:

2 million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords stolen in massive hack — Hackers have stolen usernames and passwords for nearly two million accounts at Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo and others, according to a report released this week. — The massive data breach was a result …

Discussion: Liberaland, Mashable, The Verge, CBS DC, NBCNews, PandoDaily, The Daily Caller and Business Insider

Ana Marie Cox / Guardian:

Remember all those Obamacare horror stories? Not looking so bad now — Inflammatory personal testimony has been a staple of bad debating since humans first started arguing with each other — Statisticians dismiss the practice of using personal stories to argue about an objective reality as …

Discussion: VodkaPundit