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4:20 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

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 …

Daniel Lippman / Politico: KNOWING Kaine — EXCLUSIVE: Republicans for Hillary interview — WEEKEND READS! — B'DAY: David Brock

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

Discussion: USA Today, Daily Kos, The Nation, Blue Virginia, Vox and Washington Post

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

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

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

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

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: The Right Scoop, Politico, Hot Air and RedState, more at Mediagazer »

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

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

Discussion: Patterico's Pontifications, Hullabaloo, The Daily Caller and AOL

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, Independent Journal Review and The Moderate Voice

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

Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
Emails released by Wikileaks raise questions of DNC's impartiality

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, NPR, BuzzFeed, Scared Monkeys, Washington Examiner, Mediaite, ThinkProgress, BizPac Review, Associated Press, Fox News Insider, The New York Observer, WTVR-TV, The Next Web, Hot Air, The Daily Caller and Vox, more at Mediagazer »

Associated Press:
The Latest: Cheers Greet Tim Kaine on Return to Richmond

Discussion: ABC News and Politico

Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Clinton VP pick could face liberal ire

Discussion: Washington Post, Politico, Instapundit, Clayton Cramer and Bloomberg

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.

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: New York Daily News, Raw Story, Jezebel, Media Matters for America and New York Magazine, more at Mediagazer »

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, The Last Refuge, ThinkProgress, BBC and Hullabaloo

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

Discussion: Mirror.co.uk, Salon, The Gateway Pundit, Pamela Geller, Jihad Watch, RT and BBC

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

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

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: Vox Popoli