memeorandum: GOP Hawks Set to Ruin Rand Paul's Big Day (Josh Rogin/Bloomberg View)

10:10 AM ET, April 7, 2015

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Chip Somodevilla / National Review:

Rand Paul Is Running for the Republican Nomination, So Now the Party Is Ready to Attack Him — Welcome to the big leagues. That's the message several top GOP operatives say Rand Paul will get from the Republican establishment, and from the media, when he announces his candidacy for the presidency on Tuesday.

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Ashley Killough / CNN:

Rand Paul: ‘I am running for president’ — Louisville, Kentucky (CNN)For Rand Paul, it's all led to this moment. — Since riding the tea party wave into the Senate in 2010, Paul has carefully built a brand of mainstream libertarianism — dogged advocacy of civil liberties combined …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Talking Points Memo, CBS DC, Mediaite, Yahoo Politics and ImmigrationProf Blog

Josh Rogin / Bloomberg View:

GOP Hawks Set to Ruin Rand Paul's Big Day — In the first salvo of the 2016 Republican ad wars, a conservative group is about to unleash a seven-figure ad campaign targeting Senator Rand Paul for being out of step with the party on Iran, just as he launches his presidential campaign.

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Politico:
Rand Paul's decisive moment was 4 years coming

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Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Rand Paul has a daddy issue

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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Rand Paul readies 2016 launch

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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Ron Paul Is Expected to Play Little Role in Rand Paul's Campaign

Discussion: Hit & Run, Bloomberg Business, National Journal, The Daily Caller, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal

Vanity Fair:

The Inside Story of the Civil War For the Soul of NBC News — Brian Williams's fabrication was just the latest, and worst, of the debacles that have plagued NBC News since NBCUniversal was bought by Comcast in 2011. Who is to blame? — On the afternoon of Wednesday, February 4 …

Discussion: Liberaland, CNNMoney, Page Six, Washington Free Beacon, Business Insider, Ed Driscoll, “The Lid”, Politico and TVNewser, more at Mediagazer »

Burgess Everett / Politico:

Chuck Schumer bucks White House on Iran — The top Democrat throws his weight behind legislation to give Congress power to reject a deal. — Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer, one of Capitol Hill's most influential voices in the Iran nuclear debate, is strongly endorsing passage of a law opposed …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, The Times of Israel, Washington Post, The Hill, Common Dreams, Hot Air, New York Times, Israpundit, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Mahablog, JustOneMinute, Bloomberg View, Mediaite, Daily Kos and Business Insider

Bill Schneider / The Great Debate:

Party politics: Two small tents, with most Americans on the outside — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) (R) stands with Senator Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) after a White House meeting in Washington, October 10, 2013. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst — The big tents are shrinking.

Nick Gass / Politico:
‘Bees are good,’ Obama says as children scream

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Erin Dooley / ABC News:
White House Easter Egg Roll's 3 Unspeakably Cute Moments

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Domenico Montanaro / NPR:

Obama To Scott Walker: ‘Bone Up On Foreign Policy’ — Anyone who thinks President Obama will shy away from presidential politics in 2016, think again. — Obama scoffed at Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's suggestion that he would, on Day 1, revoke any nuclear agreement with Iran if he is elected president.

Discussion: NPR, JSOnline, OnPolitics, Political Wire, Washington Post and Outside the Beltway

Eyder Peralta / NPR:
Obama: ‘Misjudgment’ To Make Iran Deal Contingent On Recognizing Israel

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Josh Rogin / Bloomberg View:
Rick Perry's Plan to Kill Obama's Iran Deal

Discussion: The American Conservative and The Times of Israel

Megan McArdle / Bloomberg View:

Rolling Stone Can't Even Apologize Right — Rolling Stone got taken by a fabulist. — Sunday night, the Columbia Journalism Review released its exhaustive report on what went wrong with the magazine's blockbuster story about an alleged gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity that turned out to be substantially false.

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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Rolling Stone and the media's glass house

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Naomi Schaefer Riley / New York Post:

Facts matter: Left sticks to ‘narratives,’ evidence be damned — Ellen Pao unsuccessfully filed a discrimination lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. — The verdict's in on Rolling Stone. According to no less an authority than the Columbia Journalism Review …

Discussion: Brad R. Torgersen

Tim Devaney / The Hill:

Bill would pay gun owners to hand over assault weapons — Gun owners would receive tax breaks for voluntarily turning in high-powered assault rifles under new legislation proposed Monday. — The Support Assault Firearm Elimination and Education of our (SAFER) Streets Act expected …

Discussion: Scared Monkeys and Instapundit

Kelly O'Donnell / NBC News:

John McCain Will Run for Re-Election to the Senate in 2016 — John McCain is ready for a new fight. — “I have decided to run for re-election,” the Arizona senator told NBC News in an exclusive interview revealing his plans to pursue a sixth term on Capitol Hill. “I'm ready. I am more than ready.

Discussion: Arizona Republic, Washington Post, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, OnPolitics, Politico and Political Wire

Josh Feldman / Mediaite:

Bill O'Reilly: ‘I Think I Trust Iran More Than I Trust the American Press’ — Bill O'Reilly really doesn't trust the American mainstream media; so much so, he said tonight, that he actually might trust Iran more than he does the press. — O'Reilly and Brit Hume were talking …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and The Huffington Post

Peter Sullivan / The Hill:

ACLU sues over abortion access for immigrants — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing the Obama administration for documents it says will show religious organizations are restricting access to abortions for unaccompanied immigrant children. — The civil rights groups …

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Isabella Biedenharn / EW.com:

HUGO AWARD NOMINATIONS FALL VICTIM TO MISOGYNISTIC, RACIST VOTING CAMPAIGN — The Hugo Awards have fallen victim to a campaign in which misogynist groups lobbied to nominate only white males for the science fiction book awards. These groups, Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies …

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Sally Kohn / Talking Points Memo:

Hey, Christian Business Owners: The Government Isn't ‘Forcing’ You To Do Anything — You may have heard that the government is forcing businesses not to discriminate. It isn't. If you chose to run a business, you have to follow the laws. If you don't, that's a choice—and you choose to suffer the consequences.

Dustin Volz / National Journal:

Watch John Oliver Interview Edward Snowden About the NSA Spying on Your Nude Photos — “When your junk was passed by Gmail, the NSA caught a copy of that,” the fugitive leaker tells the HBO host. — Government surveillance is a confusing, jargon-laced topic that many Americans can find difficult to care about.

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