memeorandum: The Right-Wing Hate Machine (Cosmopolitan)

12:10 PM ET, August 21, 2015

Top Items:

Jonathan Allen / Reuters:

Exclusive: Dozens of Clinton emails were classified from the start, U.S. rules suggest — For months, the U.S. State Department has stood behind its former boss Hillary Clinton as she has repeatedly said she did not send or receive classified information on her unsecured, private email account, a practice the government forbids.

Discussion: Townhall.com, Bloomberg Business, Fox News, Hot Air, Guardian, Kyle Wingfield, National Review, The Daily Caller, Politico and Wall Street Journal

Jeff Greenfield / Politico:

Democratic blues — Barack Obama will leave his party in its worst shape since the Great Depression—even if Hillary wins. — SHARES — As historians begin to assess Barack Obama's record as president, there's at least one legacy he'll leave that will indeed be historic—but not in the way he would have hoped.

Discussion: Balloon Juice, The Week and Jay Bookman

Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge says Hillary Clinton's private emails violated policy

Discussion: Progressives Today, Scared Monkeys, Slate, The Daily Caller, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and WHAS-TV

Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Judge orders State to coordinate with FBI about Clinton server

Discussion: Liberal Values and Washington Free Beacon

Washington Post:

Inside the GOP field's new strategies to ride out the Trump tornado … The 2016 Republican primary has turned into a puzzle about how to deal with Donald Trump. — The new dynamic has come into focus this week as Trump's opponents debut strategies for engaging the white-hot front-runner whom they believe …

Discussion: Booman Tribune, Daily Kos, Politico and Los Angeles Times

Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:

Trump Goes Off At ABC Reporter Over Questions On Term ‘Anchor Babies’ — Donald Trump lashed out at ABC reporter Tom Llamas on Thursday after the network aired segments critical of the presidential candidate's use of the term “anchor babies” to describe the children of undocumented immigrants.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, New Republic, Outside the Beltway, The Hill and ABC News

Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:

Jeb Bush: ‘Anchor babies’ isn't offensive — KEENE, N.H. — A feistier, combative Jeb Bush said Thursday that he doesn't believe the term “anchor babies” is offensive and blamed Democrats for perpetuating the idea that it's a loaded term. — In one of his most aggressive exchanges with reporters to date …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, BREITBART.COM, CBS News, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Week and Fox News Insider

Candace Smith / ABC News:
Jeb Bush, Donald Trump Unapologetic for ‘Anchor Baby’ Language

Discussion: Hot Air

Shaun King / Daily Kos:

Race, love, hate, and me: A distinctly American story — Me. 14 years old. Sophomore in high school — Over the past 72 hours I have been attacked with lies by the conservative media, lies that have been picked up by the traditional media and spread further.

Discussion: Washington Post, BREITBART.COM, The Daily Caller, Daily Mail, Los Angeles Times, BPI Campus, Althouse, UPROXX, The Week, Raw Story, Politico and msnbc.com

Brent Budowsky / The Hill:

Hillary vs. media malpractice — The political coverage of the 2016 campaign has reached epic levels of sloppiness and shallowness, at a moment when public opinion toward major media has reached catastrophically low levels of trust, according to surveys from Gallup.

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

Debt Is Good — Rand Paul said something funny the other day. No, really — although of course it wasn't intentional. On his Twitter account he decried the irresponsibility of American fiscal policy, declaring, “The last time the United States was debt free was 1835.”

Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:

Trump: “A Lot” Of “Gang Members” In Ferguson, Baltimore, Chicago Are “Illegal Immigrants” — “We're gonna get them out so fast, out of this country. So fast.” — Matthew Busch / Getty Images — Donald Trump says many of the “gang members” in Chicago, Ferguson, and Baltimore are undocumented immigrants.

Discussion: Daily Kos, Washington Monthly and Raw Story

Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump moves rally to 50,000-capacity stadium

Discussion: WKRG-TV

J.B. Biunno / WKRG-TV:
Trump Rally Moved to Ladd-Peebles Stadium, Tens of Thousands Expected

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

Alison Flood / Guardian:

Jonathan Franzen ‘considered adopting Iraqi orphan to figure out young people’ — Novelist said the idea came to him as he felt he could not identify with ‘cynical and angry’ younger generation, but he was persuaded against it by his editor — In a setup that would not look out of place in fiction …

Discussion: Mediaite, Mashable and The Week

David Roberts / Vox:

Carly Fiorina did a 4-minute riff on climate change. Everything she said was wrong. — Katie Couric recently interviewed Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, and the subject of climate change came up. They discussed it for over four minutes, likely marking the longest …

Jason Horowitz / New York Times:

Bernie Sanders Draws Big Crowds to His ‘Political Revolution’ — DUBUQUE, Iowa — As 1,800 mad-as-hell supporters jumped out of their seats and pumped their fists last Sunday, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont delivered the message they had come to hear. — We will “give these guys an offer …

Discussion: The Week and PoliticusUSA

Sean Davis / The Federalist:

Now We Know Why Reporters Won't Cover The Planned Parenthood Videos — Earlier this week, a seventh video detailing Planned Parenthood's gruesome organ-trafficking operation was released. In it, a former procurement technician who worked with the organization described how Planned Parenthood harvested …

Discussion: RedState

Katie Yoder / NewsBusters:
16 Journalists Accept Planned Parenthood Awards - Despite Horrifying Abortion Videos!

Discussion: The Federalist, Fox News, LifeNews.com and Progressives Today

Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:

In Letter, Obama Tells Congress U.S. Will Still Press Iran — WASHINGTON — In his most comprehensive effort to assure wavering Democrats, President Obama wrote in a letter to Congress that the United States would unilaterally maintain economic pressure and deploy military options if needed …

Discussion: The Atlantic, Reuters, Defense One, Washington Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and The Week

Bloomberg Business:

Uniqlo to Try Out Four-Day Workweek — The popular clothing retailer wants to increase retention among even its lowest-skilled workers — Fast Retailing, the parent company of Uniqlo, Theory, and J Brand, will offer a four-day workweek to about a fifth of its workforce starting in October, the company confirmed to Bloomberg.

Discussion: The Atlantic, ThinkProgress and Mashable

CDFW News:

Photo Shows Wolf Pups in Northern California — Jordan Traverso, CDFW Communications, (916) 654-9937 — Matt Baun, USFWS Communications, (530) 841-3119 — The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has photographic evidence of five gray wolf pups and two adults in Northern California.

Discussion: Reuters, Slantpoint and Lawyers, Guns & Money

TIME:

Behind TIME's Cover Shoot with Donald Trump and an American Bald Eagle — Presidential candidate Donald Trump poses with the American symbol in this week's magazine — When Martin Schoeller scrolled through the 28 close-up portraits he had taken of Donald Trump, he was struck to see that they were all identical.