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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.
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Ryan Mauro / Breitbart:
Clinton VP Pick Tim Kaine's Islamist Ties — Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's newly-announced running mate, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, has a history of embracing Islamists. He appointed a Hamas supporter to a state immigration commission; spoke at a dinner honoring …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
KNOWING Kaine — EXCLUSIVE: Republicans for Hillary interview — WEEKEND READS! — B'DAY: David Brock
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Listen To Tim Kaine's “I'm Conservative” Radio Ads From 2005
Listen To Tim Kaine's “I'm Conservative” Radio Ads From 2005
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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 …
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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.
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Trump: Cruz is ‘lucky’ that I walked in on his speech — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump — from being “ripped” off the stage during his speech at the Republican National Convention. — When it became apparent during Cruz's speech last week that he would not be endorsing Trump …
Mark Halperin / Bloomberg.com:
Trump Would Fund Super-PACs Aimed at Taking Down Cruz, Kasich
Trump Would Fund Super-PACs Aimed at Taking Down Cruz, Kasich
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BizPac Review, Patterico's Pontifications, Hullabaloo, neo-neocon and Bloomberg
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.
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The Right Scoop, The Moderate Voice and Independent Journal Review
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
Democrats grapple with intraparty divisions two days before convention opens
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
NOTE TO SANDERS SUPPORTERS: Bernie Would Have Won If Not for Super Delegate System!
Kristinn Taylor / The Gateway Pundit:
BIG MOTHER: Hillary Clinton Demanded Passwords to Every Social Media Account of Veep Candidates' Family Members — Presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who used a secret unsecured private email server to conduct government business during her entire tenure …
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Inside the VP hunt: How Clinton picked Kaine
Inside the VP hunt: How Clinton picked Kaine
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
How Clinton proposed to Tim Kaine
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.
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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.
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Daily Mail, Power Line, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Last Refuge, Informed Comment, ThinkProgress, BBC and Hullabaloo
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Harriet Alexander / Telegraph:
Live Munich shooting: Teenage killer Ali Sonboly 'inspired by far-right terrorist Anders Breivik …
Live Munich shooting: Teenage killer Ali Sonboly 'inspired by far-right terrorist Anders Breivik …
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Mirror.co.uk, Salon, Pamela Geller, The Gateway Pundit, Jihad Watch, RT and BBC
John R. Schindler / The New York Observer:
Lack of Faith in Merkel Spreads With Bavaria's Bloody Week of Mayhem
Lack of Faith in Merkel Spreads With Bavaria's Bloody Week of Mayhem
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Eric Heisig / Plain Dealer:
Donald Trump calls, thanks Cleveland police chief personally for keeping RNC safe (video) — Donald Trump places phone call to Cleveland police chief — CLEVELAND, Ohio — Presidential candidate Donald Trump called Cleveland police Chief Calvin Williams on Friday afternoon to thank …
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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.
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Politicus USA, Marginal REVOLUTION and Arkansas Blog, Arkansas 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 …
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