memeorandum: Clinton, Warren and a tale of two book titles (Dan Balz/Washington Post)

7:20 PM ET, April 27, 2014

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Kyle Wagner / Deadspin:

Exclusive: The Extended Donald Sterling Tape — Deadspin has acquired an extended, 15-minute version of the conversation between Clippers owner Donald Sterling and his then-girlfriend V. Stiviano. If the original nine-minute tape acquired by TMZ left any questions about Sterling's opinions …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, CBS Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, NY Daily News, Guardian, Hinterland Gazette, ThinkProgress, PoliticusUSA, Mediaite, Liberaland and TMZ.com

TMZ.com:

Clippers Owner Donald Sterling to GF — Don't Bring Black People to My Games ... Including Magic Johnson — L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling told his GF he does NOT want her bringing black people to his games ... including Magic Johnson ... and it's ALL on tape.

Adam Sneed / Politico:

Lorraine Miller: Sterling won't receive NAACP award — NAACP Interim President Lorraine Miller said Sunday the NAACP will not go forward with plans to give a lifetime achievement award to Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling. — Appearing on NBC's “Meet the Press,” …

Discussion: Scared Monkeys, Talking Points Memo, Hinterland Gazette, The Week and Outside the Beltway

CNN:

Obama responds to alleged racist comments by Clippers' Don Sterling — (CNN) — The racism controversy embroiling Don Sterling, the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, has reached half way around the world to Malaysia, where President Obama is on a diplomatic mission to Asia Pacific nations.

Discussion: BobCesca.com, ABC News, Talking Points Memo, USA Today, WTVR-TV, Maggie's Farm and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run:
Should NBA Clippers Owner Donald Sterling be Fired for Racist Remarks? Scheduled to Get NAACP Award on May 15

Discussion: Hot Air, Talking Points Memo, Deadspin and New York Times

New York Times:
N.B.A. Investigating Racial Remarks Tied to Clippers Owner

Discussion: TMZ.com, ESPN, Mashable, USA Today, NewsBusters and The Daily Caller

Matea Gold / Washington Post:

Tea party PACs reap money for midterms, but spend little on candidates — When the Tea Party Patriots threw its support last month behind Matt Bevin, the underdog conservative challenger trying to unseat top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell, President Jenny Beth Martin vowed the group would be “putting our money where our mouth is.”

Discussion: The Lonely Conservative, Outside the Beltway, Hot Air, Roger Ailes, American Power and The Reaction

Julian Hattem / The Hill:

Palin at NRA meeting: ‘Waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists’ — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) defended the controversial enhanced interrogation technique of waterboarding this weekend, and implied that the practice would still be commonplace “if I were in charge.”

Discussion: The Raw Story and Washington Monthly

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:

Slaves to Prejudice — WASHINGTON — WHEN a cranky anarchist in a cowboy hat starts a sentence saying “I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro,” you can be dang sure it's going downhill from there. — The unsettling thing about Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's ugly rant …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Daily Kos, Althouse, Washington Post and American Prospect

Dan Balz / Washington Post:

Clinton, Warren and a tale of two book titles — It's always been said that you can't tell a book by its cover. But sometimes book titles reveal something about authors. That's certainly the case for two notable Democrats, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Discussion: CNN

Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Warren hopes Hillary Clinton will run in 2016

Discussion: Outside the Beltway

Spokesman.com:

McMorris Rodgers says ACA likely to stay — Campaign talks cover health act, Air Force tankers, immigration — With the news this week that more than 600,000 Washington residents have acquired new health care plans through the state exchange, U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers said it's unlikely …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Wall Street Journal, The PJ Tatler and The Gateway Pundit

Wesley Lowery / Washington Post:

Bob Schieffer: Romney may consider 2016 run if Jeb Bush doesn't — Mitt Romney has said time and time again that he has no interest in running for president a third time. — But, on Sunday morning, CBS' Bob Schieffer said not to write off the idea of a 2016 campaign by Romney so quickly.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway

Washington Post:

‘Happy Days’ no more: Middle-class families squeezed as expenses soar, wages stall — On a routine drive to the beauty salon, Robin Johnson had one of those life-happens moments: Her 13-year-old Durango, with 200,000 miles on the odometer, overheated and started sputtering.

Tom Boggioni / The Raw Story:

Georgia man flaunts gun at local Little League field intimidating parents and children — A Georgia man panicked parents and children at a local park and baseball field by randomly walking around and displaying his gun to anyone he encountered in the parking lot.

Discussion: Hullabaloo