memeorandum: Man accused of tossing gator into Wendy's drive-thru window (WPTV)

5:50 PM ET, February 9, 2016

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Fox News accidentally reports Donald Trump as the winner in New Hampshire — Donald Trump won the New Hampshire primary Tuesday — according to a premature Fox News report. — Citing every precinct reporting, Fox News' website accidentally published election results declaring Trump …

Discussion: Mock Paper Scissors, TVNewser and Mediaite

CBS News:

CBS News announces Republican debate criteria — CBS News is announcing the criteria for the ninth Republican presidential debate, which will take place at the Peace Center in Greenville, South Carolina on Saturday, Feb. 13. — In order to qualify for this debate, candidates will have to meet one of the following criteria:

Discussion: CNN, Politico, Mediaite and Washington Post

Bloomberg Business:
Home-Field Advantage Is Only Part of Sanders's Appeal in New Hampshire

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Donald Trump / WND:
Trump to Savage: Maybe Obama doesn't want to defeat ISIS

Discussion: Salon, Hullabaloo and The Last Tradition

Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Carson to skip his own New Hampshire primary party

Discussion: The Daily Caller and RedState

Jess Bidgood / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Prevails and G.O.P. Has 3-Way Tie as 3 New Hampshire Towns Vote

Discussion: Telegraph, NBC News and Vox

Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Whoops! Fox News Accidentally Declares Trump The Winner In NH

Discussion: The PolitiStick, Political Wire and The Week

New York Times:
Winnowing Out in New Hampshire

Discussion: The Slot, Telegraph, The Daily Beast and Salon

Monica Alba / NBC News:

Bill Stumping for Hillary Clinton: 'Sometimes ... I Wish We Weren't Married' — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton embrace during a campaign stop Monday, Feb. 8, 2016, in Hudson, N.H. Matt Rourke / AP — HUDSON, N.H. — In his last appearance …

Discussion: NBC News, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, AOL, MichelleMalkin.com, Politico and Althouse

Pete Williams / MSNBC:

FBI formally confirms its investigation of Hillary Clinton's email server — In a letter disclosed Monday in a federal court filing, the FBI confirms one of the world's worst-kept secrets: It is looking into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server. — Why say this at all, since it was widely known to be true?

Discussion: The Week, Washington Free Beacon, Scared Monkeys, Washington Post, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Resurgent, Marco Rubio and Politico

Amy Chozick / New York Times:

Hillary Clinton Puzzled by the Phrase ‘Went Viral’ — Hillary Clinton has mastered the art of the selfie on the campaign trail, but she may still have something to learn when it comes to social media lingo. — When a voter approached her at a polling station at Parker Varney School in Manchester …

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Annie Lowrey / New York Magazine:
Hillary Clinton Is Still a Revolutionary Candidate, Even If Her Surrogates Keep Screwing Up Her Message

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Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Bill Clinton's ‘Bimbos’ Flock to Team Trump

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Michelle Hackman / Vox:

Donald Trump called Ted Cruz a “pussy” — and the media won't repeat it — There's no way to skirt the word used to describe Ted Cruz at a Donald Trump rally last night: pussy. — Trump was criticizing the Texas senator's unwillingness to support widespread uses of torture when a woman …

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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Cruz blocks nominees to the State Department for a third time

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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Cruz seeks to raise expectations for Rubio

Discussion: Yahoo Politics, The Hill, neo-neocon and AMERICAblog NewsAMERICAblog …

Washington Post: Donald Trump defends repeating that vulgar word: ‘It was like a retweet.’

Charlie Spiering / Breitbart:
Marco Rubio Raises Expectations, Predicts Victory in New Hampshire

Discussion: RedState and WCVB

J.K. Trotter / Gawker:

This Is How Hillary Clinton Gets the Coverage She Wants — Hillary Clinton's supporters often argue that mainstream political reporters are incapable of covering her positively—or even fairly. While it may be true that the political press doesn't always write exactly what Clinton would like …

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WPTV:

Man accused of tossing gator into Wendy's drive-thru window — Tory Dunnan, WPTV Webteam — Gator wasn't on the menu but one did make an appearance inside a Wendy's just east of Loxahatchee in Royal Palm Beach. And it wasn't by choice. — A Jupiter man threw it through …

Discussion: MUNCHIESMUNCHIES, fox13now.com, WCMH-TV, CBS Miami, WNCN and New York's PIX11

Niraj Chokshi / Washington Post:
Assault with a deadly weapon: Florida man charged with throwing alligator into Wendy's

Discussion: KTLA, WPTV, RedState, The Daily Banter and Mediaite

Ben White / Politico:

What Clinton said in her paid speeches — NEW YORK — When Hillary Clinton spoke to Goldman Sachs executives and technology titans at a summit in Arizona in October of 2013, she spoke glowingly of the work the bank was doing raising capital and helping create jobs, according to people who saw her remarks.

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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton, Wall Street shill? Here are a few facts.

Discussion: Shakesville, Mother Jones and Real Clear Politics

David Brooks / New York Times:

I Miss Barack Obama — As this primary season has gone along, a strange sensation has come over me: I miss Barack Obama. Now, obviously I disagree with a lot of Obama's policy decisions. I've been disappointed by aspects of his presidency. I hope the next presidency is a philosophic departure.

Discussion: American Spectator, Vox, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, National Review and USA Today

Nancy LeTourneau / Washington Monthly: David Brooks: Early Adopter

Jeremy Tanner / New York's PIX11:

Rapper DMX found lying ‘lifeless’ in Yonkers hotel parking lot — YONKERS, New York - Rapper DMX is recovering after first responders found the rapper's lifeless body in a hotel parking lot Monday night and managed to revive him. — DMX, whose legal name is Earl Simmons …

Discussion: KFOR-TV

McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:

The Anxiety Of Being Marco Rubio — MANCHESTER, N.H. — Millions of people watched Marco Rubio's televised tailspin in the opening minutes of last weekend's Republican presidential debate — but what, exactly, they saw depended on the viewer. — To rivals, Rubio's reflexive retreat …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, New York Times, Hot Air, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos and Mother Jones

Eliza Collins / Politico:

Carson: Being Trump's VP a possibility — Ben Carson isn't ruling out being Donald Trump's running mate. — “I certainly would sit down and discuss it with him,” Carson said Tuesday when asked by Neil Cavuto on Fox Business Network if he would consider being Trump's vice president.

Discussion: Political Wire

Rebecca Savransky / The Hill: Carson: I'm open to being Trump's VP

Molly Ball / The Atlantic:

The Kids Are for Bernie — RINDGE, New Hampshire—Twenty-three minutes into his typically rambling, hourlong stump speech in the arena here, at a private liberal-arts college on the Massachusetts border—after he had decried the Koch brothers and the prescription-drug companies …

Discussion: Washington Monthly and Balloon Juice

Matthew Yglesias / Vox:

Bernie Sanders is the future of the Democratic Party — Whether or not Bernie Sanders wins in New Hampshire, or wins the Democratic nomination outright, he's already won in another, perhaps more important way: His brand of politics is the future of the Democratic Party.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Wonk Wire and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Bob Davis / Wall Street Journal:

The Thorny Economics of Illegal Immigration — Arizona's economy took a hit when many illegal immigrants left, but benefits also materialized — MARICOPA, Ariz.—After Arizona passed a series of tough anti-immigration laws, Rob Knorr couldn't find enough Mexican field hands to pick his jalapeño peppers.

Discussion: Mother Jones, National Review and PoliPundit.com

Jim Woods / The Columbus Dispatch:

Franklin Township man takes his life outside Statehouse — A Franklin Township man killed himself outside the front door of the Statehouse Downtown on Monday evening. — Authorities were called just after 6 p.m. to a shooting, which occurred up the steps and at the entrance to the Statehouse, on the S. High Street side.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Daily Caller, fox8.com and Associated Press

Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:

The Marco Rubio Robot Bull — Much of the political press leans left and has zero experience in politics. Perhaps they graduated Ivy League, did a tour or two at Salon or some lefty blog, then got in on the ground floor at a national media outlet covering politics.

Discussion: Washington Post, ThinkProgress, Mock Paper Scissors and No More Mister Nice Blog