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12:05 AM ET, July 24, 2016

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Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:

Holy Crap, Tim Kaine Just Killed It In His First Speech With Clinton — He spoke Spanish to the cheering crowds and delivered a healthy dose of humility in a diseased election year. In other words, Tim Kaine just took America by storm. — Holy crap. He killed it. — I'm not trying to spin you.

Discussion: miamiherald and alan.com

Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:

Inside the VP hunt: How Clinton picked Kaine — They had to turn over every password for every social media account for every member of their families. — They had to list every piece of property they'd ever owned, and copies of every résumé that they'd put out for the past 10 years.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Washington Post

Daniel Lippman / Politico:

KNOWING Kaine — EXCLUSIVE: Republicans for Hillary interview — WEEKEND READS! — B'DAY: David Brock — Happy Saturday! The Democratic convention kicks off Monday — but the soft beginning is tomorrow, when Sunday shows broadcast from Philly. CBS's John Dickerson …

Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed: Listen To Tim Kaine's “I'm Conservative” Radio Ads From 2005

Karen Tumulty / Washington Post: How Clinton proposed to Tim Kaine

Lowell Feld / The Hill:
Why Kaine is the right choice for Clinton

Discussion: The Nation, Daily Kos, Vox and Washington Post

Associated Press:
The Latest: Effort to Eliminate Superdelegates Fails

Discussion: ABC News and Politico

Slate:
WHAT WOMEN REALLY THINK — After months of speculation …

Discussion: The Nation, Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times, Politico, Vox, The American Conservative, National Review, STAT, The Week and BizPac Review

Associated Press: Kaine liberal appeal muted by energy ties, abortion concerns

MaryAlice Parks / ABC News:

Bernie Sanders Campaign Chief Says Someone Must Be ‘Accountable’ for What DNC Emails Show — Bernie Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver said his team was “disappointed” by the emails from the Democratic National Committee leaked through WikiLeaks, which seemed to reveal staff in the party working to support Hillary Clinton.

Discussion: The Right Scoop, The Moderate Voice, Independent Journal Review, Scared Monkeys, WCTX-TV and Associated Press

Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:

NOTE TO SANDERS SUPPORTERS: Bernie Would Have Won If Not for Super Delegate System! — The Democrat National Convention (DNC) starts this week. By the end of the week Hillary Clinton will be crowned the Democrat Candidate for President in spite of the many scandals surrounding her and her husband.

David Weigel / Washington Post: Democrats grapple with intraparty divisions two days before convention opens

Rudy Takala / Washington Examiner:
Twitter accused of suppressing DNC Wikileaks story

Discussion: The Right Scoop, CNN, RedState and The Next Web, more at Mediagazer »

Kevin Cirilli / Bloomberg:

Trump Says He Prevented Cruz Being ‘Ripped’ Off Stage in Cleveland — The Republican presidential nominee gives his first interview since the Republican National Convention. — kevcirilli — In his first interview since the Republican National Convention, Donald Trump said he prevented Ted Cruz …

Discussion: SOOPERMEXICAN, Politico, The Right Scoop, Hot Air and Business Insider

Maggie Haberman / New York Times:

Influential Donors Criticize Ted Cruz for His G.O.P. Convention Speech — In an extraordinary public rebuke, two influential donors who were among the biggest supporters of Senator Ted Cruz's presidential campaign excoriated Mr. Cruz on Saturday for his decision not to endorse Donald J. Trump at the Republican National Convention.

Discussion: The Last Refuge and Independent Journal Review

Mark Halperin / Bloomberg.com:
Trump Would Fund Super-PACs Aimed at Taking Down Cruz, Kasich

Discussion: Patterico's Pontifications, Hullabaloo, The Daily Caller, neo-neocon, Business Insider, electionlawblog.org and Bloomberg

New York Times:

At Fox News, Kisses, Innuendo, Propositions and Fears of Reprisal — In 2006, after nearly a decade at CNN, Rudi Bakhtiar came to the Fox News Channel's headquarters in New York with a command of foreign policy, an appealing personality and a delivery that easily switched between light and serious.

Discussion: Raw Story, Media Matters for America, Jezebel and Praxis, more at Mediagazer »

Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:

How Fox News Fired and Silenced a Female Reporter Who Alleged Sexual Harassment — <span>Ailes is finished at Fox, but sexual-harassment claims are following him out the door.</span> — The Murdochs may have ousted Fox News chief Roger Ailes, but he is still working to cover up claims of sexual harassment at the network.

Raheem Kassam / Breitbart:

BBC Scrubs ‘Ali’ From Munich Killer's Name On TV, In Articles, AND On Social Media — The BBC has unilaterally chosen not to report the Munich attacker's full name, in what appears to be an attempt to scrub any Muslim or Islamic heritage link to its coverage of the incident.

Discussion: Daily Mail, Power Line, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The Last Refuge

Harriet Alexander / Telegraph:
Live Munich shooting: Teenage killer Ali Sonboly 'inspired by far-right terrorist Anders Breivik …

Discussion: Mirror.co.uk, Allen B. West, Fox News, The Gateway Pundit, Jihad Watch, RT and BBC

BBC:
Munich gunman ‘obsessed with mass shootings’

Discussion: New York Times, Pamela Geller, ThinkProgress, Hullabaloo and Joe.My.God.

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

Trump & Putin. Yes, It's Really a Thing — Over the last year there has been a recurrent refrain about the seeming bromance between Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. More seriously, but relatedly, many believe Trump is an admirer and would-be emulator of Putin's increasingly autocratic and illiberal rule.

Discussion: Politicus USA, Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times and Marginal REVOLUTION

According To Hoyt:

The Inevitable Guilt — Years back, when an obscure film maker of a you tube video got arrested for ...well, objectively for being a perfect scape goat. — I watched my husband and his sister go the full rounds with Dan saying “If they arrested him for anything, it was for making a movie against Islam …

Discussion: The Arts Mechanical and Vox Popoli

Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:

Donald Trump Is Crazy, and So Is the GOP for Embracing Him — The Republican nominee opens his mouth and removes all doubt. — Trump's foreign policy speech, at Washington's Mayflower Hotel — Cleveland — Yes, Donald Trump is crazy. And, yes, the Republican party owns his insanity.

Discussion: The Atlantic, Power Line and New York Times

Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:

Is Donald Trump a Racist? — HAS the party of Lincoln just nominated a racist to be president? We shouldn't toss around such accusations lightly, so I've looked back over more than 40 years of Donald Trump's career to see what the record says. — One early red flag arose in 1973 …

Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog and Human Rights Campaign