memeorandum: MSNBC Cancels The Cycle, Now with Alex Wagner, and The Ed Show (UPDATED) (Josh Feldman/Mediaite)

10:30 PM ET, July 30, 2015

Top Items:

Trump Tops Republican Pack By Wide Margin, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; But Dems Trump Trump In General Election — With 20 percent of Republican voters, Donald Trump is the clear leader in the crowded Republican presidential primary field, but he trails any of three leading …

Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:

Rand Paul attributes Trump's rise to a ‘loss of sanity’ — Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) is attributing GOP rival Donald Trump's rise in the polls to a momentary “loss of sanity.” — “I think this is a temporary sort of loss of sanity, but we're going to come back to our senses and look …

Discussion: Liberaland and ABC News

Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump lowers expectations for debate

Discussion: ABC News and Raw Story

Jon WardSenior / Yahoo Politics:
Donald Trump offered access to the Republican National Committee's voter file

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Addicting Info, Washington Post and EcoWatch

Natalie Andrews / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Winning Facebook by a Landslide

Discussion: Politico, Business Insider, Sun-Times National, Fox News, OnPolitics and Political Wire

Alan Rappeport / New York Times: Donald Trump Appeals for the Sarah Palin Vote

David Daleiden / The Center for Medical Progress:

Planned Parenthood VP Says Fetuses May Come Out Intact, Agrees Payments Specific to the Specimen — #PPSellsBabyParts PLANNED PARENTHOOD VP SAYS FETUSES MAY COME OUT INTACT, AGREES PAYMENTS SPECIFIC TO THE SPECIMEN — Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountains VP & Medical Director Savita Ginde …

Discussion: CNN, National Review, RH Reality Check, The Daily Caller, Fox News, Washington Free Beacon, The PJ Tatler, Moonbattery, Sun-Times National and The Federalist

Sarah Rumpf / BREITBART.COM:
Planned Parenthood's ‘Hacked’ Website Looks Like PR Stunt

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Young Conservatives, BizzyBlog and Mediaite

Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com:
4th Video Catches Planned Parenthood VP Discussing How to Break the Law to Sell Aborted Babies

Discussion: Politico, The Gateway Pundit, BREITBART.COM and MichelleMalkin.com

Burgess Everett / Politico:
How Planned Parenthood could shut down the government

Discussion: NBC News, Washington Post, Daily Kos, LifeNews.com, RH Reality Check, Slantpoint, Common Dreams, PoliticusUSA, Reuters, Talking Points Memo, US News, Hit & Run, Hot Air and CNN

Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Fourth video on Planned Parenthood released

Discussion: Addicting Info, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Free Beacon, The Daily Signal, RH Reality Check and No More Mister Nice Blog

Sean Davis / The Federalist:
Planned Parenthood “Hacking” Sure Looks Like An Orchestrated PR Stunt

Discussion: CNN, LifeNews.com, Truth Revolt, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, The NonProfit Times, Talking Points Memo, The Right Scoop and Addicting Info

Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:

Star Of Bloomberg's Trump Supporter Vid: Wait, I'm No Trump Supporter! — Bloomberg Politics' “With All Due Respect” won the morning Thursday with a boffo focus group of New Hampshire Trump supporters singing The Donald's praises as a “classy” commander-in-chief in waiting who is definitely …

Discussion: Bloomberg Business and Raw Story

David Knowles / Bloomberg Business:
New Hampshire Voters Explain the Appeal of Donald Trump

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, SaintPetersBlog, Progress Pond, Shakesville, Balloon Juice and Raw Story

Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump's immigration plan: Deport the undocumented, ‘legal status’ for some

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Opposing Views, Liberaland, Washington Post, Daily Kos, America's Voice, Hot Air and Hullabaloo

Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Bring on the Cattle Cars, the Police State!

Discussion: CNN and America's Voice

Dylan Byers / Politico:

MSNBC cancels three shows amid transition — MSNBC has formally decided to cancel three programs — “The Cycle,” “Now with Alex Wagner” and “The Ed Show” — as part of a larger effort to shift its daytime lineup away from opinion programming, network sources told the On Media blog on Thursday.

Discussion: PoliticusUSA and The Daily Caller, more at Mediagazer »

Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
MSNBC Cancels The Cycle, Now with Alex Wagner, and The Ed Show (UPDATED)

Discussion: SOOPERMEXICAN and Washington Free Beacon

Ken Goldstein / Bloomberg Business:

Many Republican Polls Are Measuring a Unicorn Electorate — Recent elections around the world have not been kind to pollsters. In contests in Israel and Britain, and in a referendum in Scotland, pre-election polls all showed tight races that ended up being, well, not so tight.

Discussion: Progress Pond, Washington Monthly and Outside the Beltway

Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:

The Fox News GOP Debate Could Draw the Biggest Audience in Cable News History — and Roger Ailes Is Making All the Rules — “Crazy stuff! You have a TV executive deciding who is in — and out — of a presidential debate! ” — Shares

Discussion: Politico, Poynter., Raw Story and UnionLeader.com

New York Times:
Stakes for Donald Trump in First G.O.P. Debate (in a Word): Huge

Discussion: Eschaton

Daily Mail:

Donald Trump: Number one with Hispanics and expecting to win — POLITICKING WITH COTTON CANDY: The early caucus state of Iowa's famed annual state fair turns into a political showcase every fourth year as candidates in party primaries vie for the kind of attention a helicopter can easily deliver

Discussion: WHOTV, The Gateway Pundit, Mashable, Mediaite, Des Moines Register, OnPolitics and Talking Points Memo

McClatchy Washington Bureau:

Facts in Clinton's ‘secret’ emails came from five intelligence agencies — Revelations put Clinton in the cross-hairs of a broadening inquiry into whether she mishandled classified information — Officials reviewed five classified emails and determined that they included information from five intelligence agencies

Discussion: Fox News, Guardian, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, American Spectator, Business Insider, Washington Free Beacon, Hot Air, Power Line and Politico

Rachael Bade / Politico:
Judge explodes over Hillary email delays

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Washington Free Beacon, Balloon Juice and BizPac Review

David Daley / Salon:

“Ted Cruz gives me the willies”: Camille Paglia analyzes the GOP field — and takes on Hillary Clinton — She dismisses Rubio, Jeb and Rand in part three of our interview, but warns Dems not to overlook Scott Walker — In the first two parts of Salon's conversation with Camille Paglia …

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Eric Morath / Wall Street Journal:

The Worst Expansion Since World War II Was Even Weaker … The economic expansion—already the worst on record since World War II—is weaker than previously thought, according to newly revised data. — From 2012 through 2014, the economy grew at an all-too-familiar rate of 2% annually …

Discussion: Daily Mail, Rush Limbaugh, BizzyBlog and The Gateway Pundit

Sho Chandra / Bloomberg Business:
U.S. GDP Rises 2.3% in Second Quarter; First Quarter Revised Upward

Discussion: Reuters, Hot Air, BizzyBlog and The Week

Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

James Woods Sues Twitter User for $10 Million Over “Cocaine Addict” Accusation — The actor files a defamation lawsuit against an individual who replied to his tweets about Barack Obama and Caitlyn Jenner. — Incivility on social media seems to be a regular occurrence …

Discussion: Mediaite, Guardian, BizPac Review and Mashable

Associated Press:

AP Investigation: Olympic teams to swim, boat in Rio's filth — 24 photos — RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Athletes in next year's Summer Olympics here will be swimming and boating in waters so contaminated with human feces that they risk becoming violently ill and unable to compete in the games …

Discussion: Mashable, NBC News, Business Insider, ThinkProgress, SBNation.com, Just Sayin' and Guardian

Associated Press:
AP Investigation: Filthy Rio water a threat at 2016 Olympics

Discussion: Tech Times, Sun-Times National and The Week

Macdonald Dzirutwe / Reuters:

‘What lion?’ Zimbabweans ask, amid global Cecil circus — As social media exploded with outrage this week at the killing of Cecil the lion, the untimely passing of the celebrated predator at the hands of an American dentist went largely unnoticed in the animal's native Zimbabwe.

Discussion: The PJ Tatler, Mediaite, petitions.whitehouse.gov, Joe. My. God., The Daily Caller and Althouse

Mercury News:

Santa Cruz: Disturbing details emerge about suspect, how Maddy Middleton died — SANTA CRUZ — When they first got word that he was a murder suspect, those who watched 15-year-old Adrian Jerry “A.J."Gonzalez grow up before their eyes at the Tannery Arts Center held out hope.

Discussion: KTLA, Los Angeles Times, Daily Mail, Washington Post, KFOR-TV, New York Times and KRON4.com

Emily Flitter / Reuters:

Harley an awkward ride for ‘union-busting’ Republican Walker — For Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, there's something awkward about the Harley-Davidson motorcycles that he has been posing on at presidential campaign stops: each one bears a sticker on its frame that reads “Union made in the USA.”

Discussion: The Daily Caller and Daily Kos

WSPA-TV:

Child Found Unresponsive in Feces Covered Home in Gray Court — The Laurens County Sheriff's Office has arrested 25-year-old Savanah Morgan of Gray Court after they found her child unresponsive in a feces filled home with dead animals. — Deputies responded to a residence on Martins Lake Road …

Discussion: Raw Story, The Daily Caller and CBS Atlanta

Ashe Schow / Washington Examiner:

Fraternity brothers sue Rolling Stone as top editor resigns — Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More — Three members of the fraternity accused in a now-retracted Rolling Stone article of facilitating a brutal gang rape are suing the magazine, its publisher and the author.

Discussion: Fox News, USA Today, The Other McCain, Truth Revolt and John Hawkins' Right Wing News