memeorandum: NYTimes Fails to Disclose Clinton Paid for Interviews About Administration (Daniel Halper/Weekly Standard)

9:40 AM ET, December 7, 2014

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James Hohmann / Politico:

Dems' final insult: Landrieu crushed — Cassidy trounces incumbent with Republicans set to control 54 Senate seats in the next Congress. — AP Photo — In the final insult of a devastating 2014 election for Democrats, Sen. Mary Landrieu, the party's last remaining statewide officeholder …

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Alexandra Jaffe / CNN:

New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) — Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu lost her Senate runoff race Saturday night, felled by the red tide that's swept the South and ties to an unpopular President that she couldn't shake. — CNN called the race for her Republican opponent Rep. Bill Cassidy a little over a half hour after the polls closed.

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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:

GOP Senate majority grows as Cassidy crushes Landrieu — Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) easily ousted incumbent Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) in their Senate runoff on Saturday, capping off a dominating midterm election for Republicans. — The GOP's victory in the final race of the 2014 cycle cements …

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Associated Press:

LAST OF SENATE'S DEEP SOUTH DEMOCRATS DEFEATED — BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy has denied Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana a fourth term, calling his Senate victory “the exclamation point” on midterm elections that put Republicans in charge on Capitol Hill …

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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:

GOP group seizes on Landrieu's ‘I did not vote for Obama’ remark — Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) slipped and told a conservative radio host on Friday that she did not vote for President Obama. — It was a heated exchange and a source close to the Landrieu campaign said the Louisiana Democrat meant …

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Melinda Deslatte / Associated Press:
Louisiana's Senate Race Down to Runoff Saturday

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Julia Horowitz / Politico:

Why we believed Jackie's rape story — Because it rang true for so many of us on the University of Virginia campus. — CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.— It was a near-unanimous reaction: shock, but not surprise. Disgust, but not doubt. Those were the feelings that characterized the endless conversations …

Discussion: The College Fix

Olga Khazan / The Atlantic Online:

The Rolling Stone Fiasco Is Terrible News for Rape Survivors — For the sake of Rolling Stone's reputation, wrote Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple in a recent column, reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely, the author of an explosive piece about a rape that allegedly took place at the University …

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Zerlina Maxwell / Washington Post:
No matter what Jackie said, we should generally believe rape claims.

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Bernie Becker / The Hill:

US to keep 1,000 more troops than planned in Afghanistan — The U.S. will keep as many as a 1,000 extra troops in Afghanistan early next year, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Saturday. — Speaking in Kabul, Hagel said as many as 10,800 troops would be in Afghanistan for the first part of 2015, according to the Associated Press.

Phil Stewart / Reuters:
U.S. to keep more troops in Afghanistan as violence spikes

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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:

NYTimes Fails to Disclose Clinton Paid for Interviews About Administration — In a five year span, the William J Clinton Foundation gave five grants totaling $851,250 to the University of Virginia's Miller Center. One year in particular, 2007, the Clinton gift was specifically marked: “Oral history project of Clinton presidency.”

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New York Times:
Hillary Clinton's History as First Lady: Powerful, but Not Always Deft

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Ross Douthat / New York Times:

What the Fate of The New Republic Reveals — SOMETIMES media events synchronize almost too neatly. Last weekend, the entity known as Vox Media, whose array of properties includes this year's big liberal-journalism start-up, Vox.com, announced that its latest round of investment had raised …

Discussion: Vox Popoli and National Review

Cassandra Rules / The Free Thought Project:

Arizona Cop Caught on Cam Brutally Attacking Teen Girl While Mother Begs Them to Stop — Mesa, AZ- A video was uploaded to Facebook on Friday of a Mesa, Arizona police officer repeatedly punching and attacking a 15 year old girl as her mother begged them to stop.

Discussion: Raw Story and Addicting Info

Alan Pyke / ThinkProgress:

Los Angeles Police Shoot, Kill Man Amid Crowd Of Tourists On Hollywood Walk Of Fame — Police taped off the scene of a fatal shooting on Los Angeles' Walk of Fame on Friday night. — CREDIT: KTLA — Los Angeles police officers shot and killed a man Friday night at a busy intersection …

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Jim Dalrymple II / BuzzFeed:
Police Shoot Man In Front Of Tourists On Busy Hollywood Street Corner

Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Raw Story

Darlene Superville / Associated Press:

Acid reflux causing Obama's sore throat — 2 photos — BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — Acid reflux is responsible for the sore throat President Barack Obama has complained about for the past couple of weeks, the White House said Saturday, shortly after the president returned from undergoing diagnostic tests at a nearby military hospital.

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The White House:

Statement by the President on the Death of Luke Somers — The United States strongly condemns the barbaric murder of Luke Somers at the hands of Al-Qa'ida terrorists during a rescue operation conducted by U.S. forces in Yemen in partnership with the Yemeni government.