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9:00 PM ET, April 13, 2015

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Marco Rubio Is the Most Disingenuous Republican Running for President — He's not a reformer. He's a fraud. — Most of the Republican Party's primary candidates have internalized something that was blindingly obvious to everyone who watched the 2012 elections unfold.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Taylor Marsh, Washington Post, National Review, Jay Bookman, Booman Tribune, The National Memo, Bloomberg View and Hot Air

Nate Cohn / New York Times:

Marco Rubio Is a Polished Performer, but He's Out of Position — Marco Rubio, who announced his bid for the presidency on Monday in a call to donors, has been called the “best communicator” in the Republican Party. Over and over and over again. — But he has little to show for it.

Discussion: The Reaction, Advocate and Hot Air

Arlette Saenz / ABC News:

Marco Rubio Running For President in 2016: ‘I Can Lead This Country’ (EXCLUSIVE) … Republican Sen. Marco Rubio is running for president in 2016, the Florida senator told ABC News' Chief Anchor and “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos in an exclusive interview in West Miami on Monday.

Discussion: Bloomberg Business, The Atlantic Online, Weekly Standard, CNN, PoliticusUSA, BuzzFeed and Shakesville

Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:

The Official 2016 GOP Field Gets Its First Real Contender: Marco Rubio — Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's campaign, which officially kicks off Monday, has so far attracted paltry support from Republican voters, according to polls in Iowa and New Hampshire, as well as nationally. He's down near Chris Christie!

Discussion: Liberaland, The Atlantic Online, Business Insider, SaintPetersBlog, New York Magazine and Phantom Public

Bloomberg Business:
Will the GOP Get Behind Marco Rubio's Immigration Evolution?

Discussion: ABC News and ThinkProgress

Chris Good / ABC News:
Marco Rubio Would Reopen Gitmo, Reverse Obama Foreign Policy

Discussion: Bloomberg Business, mrctv.org/videos and Associated Press

New York Times:
Marco Rubio Announces 2016 Presidential Bid

Discussion: Washington Post, CNN, Politico, Advocate, Hot Air, Rhode Island Public Radio, Outside the Beltway, NPR and Denny Burk

Associated Press:
RUBIO TELLS DONORS HE IS RUNNING FOR WHITE HOUSE

Discussion: Daily Kos, Post On Politics, Mediaite, Washington Post, CBS DC, The Week, The Daily Caller and Chicago

Catalina Camia / USA Today:
Marco Rubio set to launch 2016 bid

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Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
Marco Rubio: Hillary Clinton's Ideas ‘Will Not Help Everyday Americans’

Discussion: Raw Story, Politico, Washington Monthly and SaintPetersBlog

Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Rubio jumps into White House race with jab at Hillary Clinton

Discussion: Associated Press, The Gateway Pundit, SaintPetersBlog, Talking Points Memo and Business Insider

Hillary Clinton / Salon:

Dangers of a Hillary Clinton campaign: The disastrous centrism she desperately needs to avoid — With the Big Announcement yesterday, Hillary Clinton officially entered the race that everyone assumes she's already won. Can you feel the excitement? No? Well, this shouldn't come as a shock …

Discussion: Campaign for America's Future

BuzzFeed:
This Kid Is Devastated Hillary Clinton Is Running For President Because He Wanted To

Discussion: Mediaite and New York Magazine

Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
An Unabashedly Liberal Hillary Clinton

Discussion: Liberal Values, Washington Post, New York Times and Reuters

Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama won't automatically endorse Hillary

Discussion: Politico

Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
Meet the gay couple in Clinton campaign video

Discussion: Politico, Raw Story, ABC News, LGBTQ Nation, Business Insider, Out Magazine, New York Times, Towleroad News #gay, The Huffington Post and Advocate

Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Strategist: I Don't Need Hillary ‘To Drown Me In Estrogen’ (VIDEO)

Discussion: Political Wire

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
What Hillary Clinton's campaign announcement video tells us

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Heather / Crooks and Liars:
Bill Kristol: If They Get To Nominate Hillary Clinton, Why Don't We Get To Nominate Dick Cheney?

Discussion: Daily Kos, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Addicting Info

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Nate Silver to Vox: Stop stealing our charts! … FiveThirtyEight founder and statistics guru Nate Silver has accused Ezra Klein's Vox.com of stealing other people's charts without attribution. — “Yo, @voxdotcom: Y'all should probably stop stealing people's charts without proper attribution,” he tweeted Monday.

Discussion: Poynter and FishbowlNY, more at Mediagazer »

Ezra Klein / Vox:

How Vox aggregates — I started as a blogger in the pre-social web, when the only way to build an audience was to have other sites quote or link to your work. Those links didn't drive a ton of traffic back to the original site, but they drove some, and sometimes you would get a new regular reader out of the deal.

Discussion: CNNMoney, Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »

Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Unlike Hillary Clinton, the entire GOP field is either obscure or unpopular

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Hit & Run and Caffeinated Thoughts

ABC News:

Hillary Clinton Makes Surprise Pit Stop at Chipotle in Ohio During Presidential Roadtrip … Hillary Clinton, who has embarked on a roughly 1,000 mile road trip after formally announcing her presidential bid on Sunday, was spotted at a Chipotle in Maumee, Ohio this afternoon.

Discussion: New York Magazine, Business Insider, Washington Post and New York Times

Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
On the Road, Hillary Clinton Stops for Lunch at Chipotle and Goes Unrecognized

Discussion: Washington Post

CNN:
First on CNN: Hillary Clinton takes road trip to Iowa

Jon Swaine / Guardian:

Walter Scott shooting: officer describes adrenaline rush in recording — Michael Slager appears to laugh nervously in audio recording as he discusses what will happen next with a senior officer — The police officer who killed Walter Scott in South Carolina said afterwards that he was experiencing …

Discussion: Mashable, The Last Refuge, Raw Story, Mediaite, Addicting Info, New York Times, The Free Thought Project and New York Magazine

Sundance / The Last Refuge:

Update* Game Changer OR Paradigm Shift ? - Walter Scott Shooting: Enhanced Video Shows Officer Slager With Taser Darts... On the first day we saw the North Charleston, South Carolina, shooting video of Walter Scott by Officer Michael Slager we were as shocked as everyone.

Discussion: The Jawa Report, The Gateway Pundit, No More Mister Nice Blog, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and New York Times

Alaska Airlines Blog:

Statement on Alaska Airlines flight 448 — Flight 448, bound for Los Angeles, returned to Seattle shortly after departure today after it was discovered that a ramp agent was still in the cargo hold. The aircraft was in the air for 9 minutes. — After landing, the agent …

Discussion: Mediaite, KFOR-TV, KTLA, FOX2now.com and NPR

Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:

Mark Kirk Says People Drive Faster Through Black Neighborhoods — WASHINGTON — In a little-noticed interview last week, Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) described African-American neighborhoods as areas that people in his state try to avoid. — The comment, with its racial undertones …

Discussion: Daily Kos and Chicago

Jenna Levy / Gallup:

In U.S., Uninsured Rate Dips to 11.9% in First Quarter — Story Highlights — WASHINGTON, D.C. — The uninsured rate among U.S. adults declined to 11.9% for the first quarter of 2015 — down one percentage point from the previous quarter and 5.2 points since the end of 2013, just before the Affordable Care Act went into effect.

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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:

CNN Host Asks Rand To Reconcile Libertarianism, View On Gay Marriage — CNN's Dana Bash on Sunday pushed presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on his views on same-sex marriage, asking him why, as a libertarian, he doesn't believe gay people should have the freedom to marry.

Discussion: Daily Kos

Detroit News:

Ben Carson to launch bid for presidency from Detroit — Detroit native Dr. Ben Carson will officially launch his presidential campaign in Detroit on May 4, officials said Monday. — The event at the Detroit Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts will be ticketed, though a time hasn't been set …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Washington Post and Political Wire

Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:

Everything We Know About The Oklahoma Law Enforcement Killing Of Eric Harris — A white reserve sheriff's deputy in Tulsa County, Oklahoma shot and killed a black man who was on the ground being arrested on April 2. Law enforcement initially said the reserve deputy had mistaken his own handgun …

Discussion: Tulsa World, Washington Post, New York Times and Balloon Juice

Washington Post:

Four Blackwater guards sentenced in Iraq shootings of 31 unarmed civilians — A federal judge in Washington handed down prison terms of 30 years to life behind bars to four Blackwater Worldwide guards convicted in a deadly 2007 shooting that killed 14 unarmed Iraqis and injured others in a Baghdad traffic circle.

Discussion: New York Times, FOX News Radio and The Week