memeorandum: Top GOP Pollster Makes Really Weird Joke About Bruce Jenner At 2016 Event (Igor Volsky/ThinkProgress)

7:05 PM ET, May 9, 2015

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Jeff Greenfield / The Daily Beast:

Why Character Attacks on Hillary Won't Work — Why the former first couple has always survived attacks on their character, and probably always will. — If you're Martin O'Malley, or one of the other potential Democrats pondering a race against Hillary Clinton, you've been presented …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, CANNONFIRE and New York Times

Karoli / Crooks and Liars:

National Media Reporter Admits ‘National Media Primed To Take Hillary Clinton Down’ — Dylan Byers over at the Charlie Pierce-dubbed Tiger Beat on the Potomac (aka Politico) spent a nanosecond thinking about how “inevitable” Hillary Clinton is, and then a nanosecond more inventing a couple of possible roadblocks.

Discussion: Politico and Hullabaloo

Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:

Top GOP Pollster Makes Really Weird Joke About Bruce Jenner At 2016 Event — A scene from Diane Sawyer's interview with Bruce Jenner. — CREDIT: YouTube/ABC News — GOP pollster Frank Luntz made an awkward joke about Bruce Jenner during a focus group at the South Carolina Freedom Summit on Saturday afternoon.

Discussion: Raw Story

Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:

King Blames Obama for Inciting Baltimore Riots — The Iowa firebrand takes his hot fire to South Carolina. — Representative Steve King was in his element at the South Carolina Freedom Summit on Saturday, saying after a speech to raucous conservatives that the fault for riots in Baltimore lies with President Barack Obama.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Associated Press:

In South Carolina, a Campaign Pitch for Every GOP Preference — Republicans making their pitch to be the party's 2016 presidential nominee aimed to out-do each other Saturday in arguing that President Barack Obama is a failed leader. — But hitting Obama with the usual critiques …

Discussion: Bloomberg Business and ABC News

Sheri Fink / New York Times:

Liberia Is Free of Ebola, World Health Organization Declares — The World Health Organization declared Liberia free of Ebola on Saturday, making it the first of the three hardest-hit West African countries to bring a formal end to the epidemic. — “The outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Liberia is over …

Discussion: The Atlantic, Outside the Beltway, The Verge, NPR and The Agonist

who.int:
Media centre — The Ebola outbreak in Liberia is over

Discussion: NBC News, Common Dreams and Mediaite

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

Triumph of the Unthinking — “Words,” wrote John Maynard Keynes, “ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.” I've always loved that quote, and have tried to apply it to my own writing. But I have to admit that in the long slump that followed …

Discussion: Frankly Curious and Zandar Versus The Stupid

Capper / Latest from Crooks and Liars:

Walker Shoots His Campaign In The Foot — On Sunday, Sergio Valencia del Toro was upset by an argument with his fiancee. He chose to deal with his pain and anger by going to a community setting with two hand guns and opening fire, killing three people - including an 11 year old girl - before taking his own life:

Discussion: Hullabaloo

Yahoo:

Why Obama is happy to fight Elizabeth Warren on the trade deal — “She's absolutely wrong,” Barack Obama said, before I could even get the question out of my mouth. — He was talking about Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts senator and populist crusader whom Obama helped elevate to national prominence.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Politico, Washington Monthly, msnbc.com and New York Times

Doug Stanglin / USA Today:

North Korea tests submarine ballistic missile — North Korea claims it launched a missile from a submarine. If true, the launch violates U.N. sanctions and makes the country more of a threat. Video provided by Newsy Newslook — Under the watchful eyes of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un …

Discussion: The Week and NPR

David Frum / The Atlantic:

What Republicans Can Learn From British Conservatives — Stephen Harper in Canada. Tony Abbott in Australia. John Key in New Zealand. And now, impressively re-elected, a second-term David Cameron in the United Kingdom. — Center-right leaders are in charge of every one of America's closest English-speaking allies.

Discussion: Instapundit, BBC and Washington Post

Bob Owens / Los Angeles Times:

Op-Ed Why the police shouldn't use Glocks — Timothy Stansbury died in a New York housing project stairwell in 2004 because he startled a police officer. The officer's surprise at encountering Stansbury caused the officer's hand to clench and his weapon to fire.

Discussion: Instapundit