Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
1:50 PM ET, August 14, 2016

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Violence erupts after officer-involved shooting  —  A standoff between police and an angry crowd turned violent Saturday night in the hours after a Milwaukee police officer shot and killed an armed suspect during a foot chase on the city's north side.  —  After an hours-long confrontation with officers …
RELATED:
CNN:
Milwaukee violence: Protests break out after officer-involved shooting
Discussion: WayneDupree.com
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump blames ‘disgusting’ media: ‘I would be beating Hillary by 20’  —  In a series of tweets Sunday, Donald Trump launched a new tirade against the media, calling it “disgusting” and blaming it for his drop in polls.  —  His latest tweet storm first targeted The New York Times …
RELATED:
Nicki Rossoll / ABC News:
Leon Panetta Says Americans Should ‘Move On’ From Clinton Emails  —  Clinton supporter and former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta called on the public to “move on” from Hillary Clinton's emails and instead focus on the “real issues.”  —  “It's been investigated, no action has been taken …
Discussion: Politico
RELATED:
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript: Sen. Jeff Sessions, Leon Panetta, and Evan McMullin
Discussion: Politicus USA
Colin Wilhelm / Politico:
Pence urges investigation into Clinton ‘pay-to-play’
Sarah Westwood / Washington Examiner:
Bill Clinton netted $1.6 million from for-profit colleges
Discussion: Hot Air
Rachel Axon / USA Today:
Ryan Lochte held up at gunpoint in Rio, mother says  —  RIO DE JANEIRO — Ryan Lochte and at least one of his U.S. teammates were held up at gunpoint early Sunday morning, according to the swimmer's mother.  —  Reached by USA TODAY Sports, Ileana Lochte confirmed a report that Lochte was robbed.
Carey Purcell / Politico:
I Survived ‘Trump’ Magazine—Barely  —  I had been at Trump magazine for only four months when my first paycheck bounced.  —  We'd heard rumors of the company's financial troubles, but I had no idea how bad it really was until my landlord called me one afternoon to tell me that my rent check hadn't cleared.
Discussion: Raw Story and alan.com
Robert P. Jones / The Atlantic:
How Trump Remixed the Republican ‘Southern Strategy’  —  Earlier this week, the Republican National Committee hired three new staffers to assist with African American outreach.  They will have their work cut out for them.  Donald Trump's average level of black support from four recent national polls …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Jeffrey H. Anderson / Weekly Standard:
All the Issues Favor Trump  —  Of course, he doesn't like to talk issues.  —  The Weekly Standard / Gary Locke  —  In the wake of the Democratic convention, some foot-in-mouth comments by Donald Trump, and a poll bounce for Hillary Clinton, much of the political class has decided that the presidential race is all but over.
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
RNC considers cutting cash to Trump  —  Publicly, Republican Party officials continue to stand by Donald Trump.  Privately, at the highest levels, party leaders have started talking about cutting off support to Trump in October and redirecting cash to save endangered congressional majorities.
Virginia Hale / Breitbart:
Islam Academic: Migrants Want Eurabia, Globalists Using Migrants to Destroy The West  —  A highly regarded researcher and academic has warned that Muslims in Europe view migration as the start of the Islamisation of the continent.  Prof. Abdessamad Belhaj also detailed how globalists …
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Hezbollah leader backs Trump's claim that Obama started ISIS  —  The leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group agreed with Donald Trump  —  when he said President Obama founded ISIS.  —  “This is an American presidential candidate who is saying this.  What he says is based on facts and documents …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
RELATED:
Joe Cunningham / RedState:
Finally SOMEONE Who Agrees With Trump Claim That Obama Founded ISIS
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
A Playboy for President  —  IN a different campaign or era, it would have been a race-altering moment; in this one, it was barely a scandal.  There was Melania Trump, the potential first lady of the United States, posing stark naked in '90s-era photos published by the New York Post …
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Hullabaloo
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Former Bush official: Clinton would make a ‘darn good’ president … would make a “darn good president” while Donald Trump  —  would take the U.S. back 50 years, a former George W. Bush administration official said Sunday.  —  Former U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez became …
Discussion: Politico
Jefferson Graham / USA Today:
App maker: Trump will win election  —  LOS ANGELES — Despite a majority of opinion polls showing the 2016 presidential election going to Democrat Hillary Clinton, a smartphone app developer says his data suggests challenger Donald Trump will be the victor.  —  “Based on the stats we see …
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Milwaukee Rioter: Rich People Got All This Money... 'Don't Give Us None' - So We Burn Gas Stations (Video)  —  Rioters Torched Several Milwaukee Businesses on Saturday Night-  —  The rioters also targeted white people for beatdowns.  —  One protester said rich people got all this money “and they not trying to give us none.”
Discussion: BizPac Review and twitchy.com
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
“Always Correct” Election Predictor Has Donald Trump Defeating Sickly Hillary 51% to 48%  —  Alan Abramowitz's “Crystal Ball” model has Trump defeating sickly Hillary Clinton 51% to 48%.  —  The model gives Trump a 66% chance of winning the election this year.  —  The Examiner reported:
RELATED:
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Always correct election forecast model predicts Trump win, 51%-48%
Discussion: CBS News and Hot Air
New York Post:
Imam killed execution-style walking from Queens mosque  —  A imam and a friend were gunned down execution-style in broad daylight Saturday afternoon as they walked home from prayers at a Queens mosque.  —  The imam, identified as Maulama Akonjee, 55, and his friend, Thara Uddin, 64, both died at Jamaica Hospital, police said.
Discussion: New York Magazine
RELATED:
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 1:50 PM ET, August 14, 2016.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Who's Hiring in Media? 
 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Eric H. Holder Jr / New York Times:
Eric Holder: We Can Have Shorter Sentences and Less Crime
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Giuliani: Trump makes ‘insensitive’ remarks because he's not a politician
James Delingpole / Breitbart:
‘Winter Is Coming’ Warns The Solar Physicist The Alarmists Tried To Silence
CBS North Carolina / WNCN:
No gunshots confirmed inside Crabtree Valley Mall, police say
Daily Mail:
Nancy Pelosi is flooded with ‘sick and obscene’ …
 Earlier Items: 
Joe Concha / The Hill:
NBC News covers Trump with ‘sarcastic’ tweet
Discussion: FOX40 and BizPac Review
Davida / Washington Monthly:
The Garland Pre-Compromise Is Already Sabotaging Clinton's First 100 Days
Discussion: Mother Jones
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
De Niro compares Trump to his ‘Taxi Driver’ character
Discussion: Associated Press
Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
How Trump And Pence Are Doing Their Rallies Is “Totally Unprecedented”
Discussion: alan.com
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Anja Karadeglija / The Canadian Press:
Meta clashes with Canada's CRTC over the Online News Act by declining to publicly release information about its measures to block news content on its platforms

Matthew Keys / The Desk:
DirecTV terminates its Dish acquisition after a group of Dish creditors rejected a modified bond exchange offer

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page