memeorandum: Taking Aim at ‘Washington Machine,’ Rand Paul Begins 2016 Presidential Campaign (David Weigel/Bloomberg Business)

10:35 AM ET, April 7, 2015

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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: Weekly Standard, JSOnline, Political Wire, OnPolitics and Washington Post

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 …

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NPR:

Transcript: President Obama's Full NPR Interview On Iran Nuclear Deal — NPR's Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep interviews President Obama at the White House on Monday. — NPR's interview with President Obama focuses on the pact the U.S. and allied nations recently negotiated with Iran.

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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:

Obama's advice to Walker: ‘Bone up on foreign policy’ — President Obama has sharp words for Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wis.) over the 2016 White House hopeful's criticism of the multilateral deal on Iran's nuclear program, telling him to “bone up” on foreign policy.

Discussion: Politico, Hot Air and Outside the Beltway

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.

NPR.org:

Obama: ‘Misjudgment’ To Make Iran Deal Contingent On Recognizing Israel — NPR's Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep interviews President Obama at the White House on Monday. — President Obama says it would be a “fundamental misjudgment” to condition a nuclear deal with Iran on the country's recognition of Israel.

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

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

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

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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 …

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David Weigel / Bloomberg Business:

Taking Aim at ‘Washington Machine,’ Rand Paul Begins 2016 Presidential Campaign — LOUISVILLE—Kentucky Senator Rand Paul formally began his presidential campaign on Tuesday, writing on his website that he is “running for President of the United States of America because I want to defeat the Washington machine.”

Discussion: Politico, fox13now.com, Business Insider and Yahoo Politics

Glenn Thrush / Politico:

Rand Paul Has a Daddy Issue — The irony of the Kentucky senator's rise: His father, Ron, made it all possible, but now he needs to go away. — Lead image by Getty. — There's probably no easier layup in Republican politics, no bigger no-brainer to utter without fear of consequence …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, CNN, New York Magazine, USA Today, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg Business

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

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

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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

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

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: Hit & Run, Scared Monkeys and Instapundit

Associated Press:

Don McLean's ‘American Pie’ could bring $1.5M at auction — Tthe original manuscript for singer Don McLean's “American Pie” is at Christie's auction house in New York. The original manuscript, which contains the lyrics to the iconic song written between 1970 and 1971 will be auctioned off Tuesday.

Discussion: Liberaland and FOX News Radio

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

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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