memeorandum: Ken Silverstein resigns from Pierre Omidyar's First Look Media, blasts ‘dishonest’ leadership (Jim Romenesko)

10:25 PM ET, February 22, 2015

Top Items:

Rudy Giuliani, American Soviet — The Russians believed in exceptionalism, too — Rudy Giuliani is giving me Soviet flashbacks. — With his bizarre foot-in-mouth rants about how Barack Obama doesn't love “America” the way “we” do, Rudy — and other “They hate us!” …

Discussion: Salon and The Mahablog

Rudolph Giuliani / Wall Street Journal:

Rudy Giuliani: My Bluntness Overshadowed My Message — Whether you agreed with me or not, I hope this can be the basis of a real conversation about national leadership. — There has been no shortage of news coverage—and criticism—regarding comments I made about President Obama at a political gathering last week in New York.

Discussion: Hinterland Gazette

Anomaly / FreakOutNation:

Darrell Issa Defends Giuliani: Obama ‘Views America Differently’ — On Sunday, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) ran to Rudy Giuliani's defense after the former mayor's controversial remarks about President Obama. — Giuliani claimed last week that the president was not “brought up to love this country.”

Discussion: Raw Story

Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Ex-Giuliani Staffer: He's ‘Lost the Throne’ of Being Called 'America's Mayor'

Discussion: FOX News Radio

Sen. Lindsey Graham / ABC News:

‘No Doubt’ President Obama Loves His Country, Says Sen. Lindsey Graham — Potential Republican presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham has “no doubt” that President Obama loves his country, refuting comments made by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani earlier this week.

Discussion: Yahoo! News, Washington Post and The Week

USA Today:
Homeland Security chief: Be ‘vigilant’ at malls

Discussion: Mediaite, Mashable and Chicago

Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Mall Of America Ups Security After Alleged Terrorist Threat

Discussion: FOX News Radio

ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript: DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson

Discussion: Bloomberg Business and Politico

Eric Bradner / CNN:
Johnson warns Mall of America patrons

Discussion: Reuters, Gawker, BuzzFeed, Hot Air, Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs, New York Magazine and The Week

ABC News: Mall of America Heightens Security After al-Shabaab Threat

NY Daily News:

Retired White Plains cop dead after killing two daughters, family dogs: officials — The high school in the small Westchester town shaken by a former police officer's murder of his two teenage daughters continued to come to grips with the unspeakable tragedy Sunday and was scheduled to open …

Discussion: New York's PIX11, Scared Monkeys, CBS New York, FreakOutNation, New York Magazine and Gawker

Sean Kelly / OpposingViews.com:
Retired Police Officer Shoots, Kills Two Teenage Daughters Before Taking His Own Life

Discussion: FOX News Radio

lohud.com:
Retired officer killed 2 daughters, self, sources say

Discussion: New York Post, Gothamist, Hinterland Gazette and New York Times

Jim Romenesko:

Ken Silverstein resigns from Pierre Omidyar's First Look Media, blasts ‘dishonest’ leadership — Investigative reporter Ken Silverstein has resigned from First Look Media's The Intercept after 14 months, saying he and others were hired “under what were essentially false pretenses [by being] …

Discussion: Politico, Raw Story, Mashable and PandoDaily, more at Mediagazer »

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:

Jeb Bush's Brainless Trust — WASHINGTON — I had been keeping an open mind on Jeb Bush. — I mean, sure, as Florida governor, he helped his brother snatch the 2000 election. And that led to two decade-long botched wars that cost tens of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars.

Discussion: Roger Ailes

Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:

Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly assails GOP establishment for trying to coronate Jeb Bush … Phyllis Schlafly has long argued that the American conservative movement's purpose is to influence, not echo, the Republican Party. — And still going strong at age 90 …

Discussion: FOX News Radio

New York Times:

Deeper Ties to Corporate Cash for Doubtful Climate Researcher — For years, politicians wanting to block legislation on climate change have bolstered their arguments by pointing to the work of a handful of scientists who claim that greenhouse gases pose little risk to humanity.

Discussion: Firedoglake, BostonGlobe.com, BREITBART.COM, The Climate Watchdog, MoveOn Petitions, Vocativ, ThinkProgress, The Verge, Washington Monthly, The Daily Caller, Gawker, Common Dreams, Gizmodo, Little Green Footballs, Liberaland, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Greg Laden's Blog

Suzanne Goldenberg / Guardian:
Work of prominent climate change denier was funded by energy industry

Discussion: New York Times, InsideClimate News, ThinkProgress and Liberaland

Heather / Latest from Crooks and Liars:

Former CBS Correspondent Takes Apart Bill O'Reilly's Argentina Story — CNN's Brian Stelter spoke to former CBS correspondent Eric Engberg about his recent post questioning Bill O'Reilly's version of events on his reporting in Argentina. Stelter asked Engberg at the end of the segment …

Discussion: CNNMoney, “The Lid”, Hinterland Gazette and Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »

Politico:

Homeland Security fight goes into crunch time — Senate Democrats will mount their fourth filibuster on the bill Monday afternoon. — Late Monday afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will force the fourth vote in three weeks on a bill to fund the massive agency that protects Americans …

Kevin Cirilli / The Hill:

Export-Import Bank critics pounce after bank yanks public data — Critics of the Export-Import Bank are seething over the removal from a government Web site of previously public data earlier they say helps them detect cronyism. — Between January 29 and February 13, officials …

Discussion: RedState