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Fox News:
Ex-Clinton volunteer slammed, loses job, after swipe at widow of fallen SEAL — A former Hillary Clinton volunteer drew swift condemnation — and lost his job — after mocking the widow of a fallen Navy SEAL who was honored by the president during his congressional address Tuesday night.
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
The pundits are wrong. Trump's handling of the Ryan Owens affair was contemptibly cynical. — After President Trump's first address to Congress last night, journalists and pundits were effusive in their praise of one particular moment, when Trump talked about Ryan Owens …
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Talking Points Memo, Axios, Slate, Faithwire, New York Times, Western Journalism, Daily Wire, Hot Air, IJR, Fox News Insider, New York Magazine, The Atlantic, American Prospect and Power Line
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
What the emotional moment with a Navy SEAL's widow proves about President Trump — There was one moment in President Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night that people will remember for a very long time. It came when Trump honored the wife of Navy SEAL Ryan Owens, who was killed in a raid in Yemen last month.
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The Atlantic, The Moderate Voice, Daily Wire, The Concourse, No More Mister Nice Blog, Hot Air and Politico
Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
Trump's Use of Navy SEAL's Wife Highlights All the Key Ingredients of U.S. War Propaganda
Trump's Use of Navy SEAL's Wife Highlights All the Key Ingredients of U.S. War Propaganda
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Breitbart, BizPac Review, The Daily Beast, FEE, IJR, Washington Free Beacon, CNN and twitchy.com
Jason Kurtz / CNN:
Van Jones on Trump: ‘He became President of the United States in that moment, period’
Van Jones on Trump: ‘He became President of the United States in that moment, period’
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Derek Hunter / The Daily Caller:
Liberals Attack SEAL's Widow, President Trump Over Tribute
Liberals Attack SEAL's Widow, President Trump Over Tribute
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twitchy.com, RedState and Infowars
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
House Republicans Announce Only Republicans Are Allowed to See New Health-Care Plan — Yesterday, House Speaker Paul Ryan boasted that his party would follow a deliberate, transparent process to repeal and replace Obamacare. “This is how the legislative process is supposed to be designed …
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Washington Examiner and ACASignups.net
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Bloomberg:
Republicans Hide New Obamacare Draft Under Shroud of Secrecy — GOP House Energy and Commerce members to see draft Thursday — Panel said to use special viewing room to guard against leaks — House Republican leaders have a new version of their major Obamacare repeal and replacement bill.
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Vox and Politicus USA
Cynthia Cox / kff.org:
How Affordable Care Act Repeal and Replace Plans Might Shift Health Insurance Tax Credits
How Affordable Care Act Repeal and Replace Plans Might Shift Health Insurance Tax Credits
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
House panel to markup ObamaCare repeal bill next week, lawmaker says
House panel to markup ObamaCare repeal bill next week, lawmaker says
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Axios
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
The Worst Performance of Trump's Presidency Now Belongs to the Press Corps — The media's reaction to his speech to Congress was shameful. — By the time Mitt Romney selected him to be his running mate in 2012, Paul Ryan (then chairman of the House Budget Committee) had already cultivated …
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Liberal Values and Vox, more at Mediagazer »
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Alex Pareene / The Concourse:
You Cretins Are Going To Get Thousands Of People Killed — Here's what you have to understand about the sort of people who become anchors, nonpartisan pundits, centrist columnists, and cable news political correspondents: They didn't sign up to be the resistance. They don't want Donald Trump to fail.
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ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES and The Moderate Voice
Media Matters for America:
CNN Reports That It Got Played On Its Not-So-Anonymous Immigration Scoop From Trump — SARA MURRAY: Let's just change gears entirely and talk about the bait and switch that the president pulled when it came to immigration yesterday. He had this meeting with the anchors, he talked about a path to legal status.
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ThinkProgress, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Eschaton and RedState
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Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
REPORT: White House Lied to Journalists About Trump Speech in ‘Misdirection Play’ — CNN reported Wednesday on a senior administration official admitting that the White House intentionally misled reporters ahead of President Donald Trump's congressional address in order to get generate positive press coverage …
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twitchy.com and ABC News
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Beau Biden's widow having affair with his married brother — MORE FROM: — The widow of Joe Biden's late son Beau Biden has started a romantic relationship with her former brother-in-law, Hunter Biden, the former Vice President's younger son. — Hallie Biden, who was devastated …
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Washington Post, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller and AOL
Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
TV Ratings: Trump's Congress Address Pulls 43 Million Viewers, Far From Comparable Obama Speech — Up from recent State of the Union addresses, the event is still off a steep 17 percent from 2009. — President Donald Trump made his first big televised appearance from the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday night …
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The Daily Caller, The Slot, Politicus USA, TheBlaze, Business Insider and Towleroad
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CNN:
7 in 10 Speech-Watchers Say Trump Boosted Optimism
7 in 10 Speech-Watchers Say Trump Boosted Optimism
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Washington Examiner, The Hill, NPR, Politico, Washington Post, TheBlaze, The Gateway Pundit, Daily Wire, Daily Kos, RedState, The Resurgent, The Daily Caller, Taylor Marsh, AOL, New York Times, BizPac Review, Western Journalism, Washington Free Beacon, CANNONFIRE, Mediaite, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Washington Times, No More Mister Nice Blog, IJR, Scared Monkeys, Business Insider, The Last Tradition, Rasmussen Reports, The Week and Axios
Julia Edwards Ainsley / Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump administration has found only $20 million in existing funds for wall - document — President Donald Trump's promise to use existing funds to begin immediate construction of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border has hit a financial roadblock, according to a document seen by Reuters.
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Political Wire and Axios
Sarah Fowler / The Clarion Ledger:
Immigrant detained after press conference — Moments after an immigrant spoke out about her fears of deportation, she was detained by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. — Daniela Vargas, 22, was detained by ICE agents Wednesday, shortly after speaking at a news conference …
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Fusion, Associated Press, Raw Story, The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Caller
Alex Roarty / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Republican PAC pumps cash into Georgia to defend Tom Price seat — WASHINGTON — A Republican super PAC will spend $1.1 million on television ads against the Democrat trying to turn a special election in Georgia into America's first referendum on President Donald Trump.
Julia Ioffe / The Atlantic:
The State of Trump's State Department — The flags in the lobby of the State Department stood bathed in sunlight and silence on a recent afternoon. “It's normally so busy here,” marveled a State Department staffer as we stood watching the emptiness. “People are usually coming in for meetings …
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IJR, Raw Story, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Washington Monthly and Washington Post
Attitude Magazine:
World exclusive: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ set to make Disney history with gay character — Disney's live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast has quickly become one of the most eagerly anticipated movies in history, smashing records when its first trailer racked up more than 127 million views in just 24 hours last November.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
GOP lawmaker: ‘Poorly dressed’ Democratic women wore ‘bad-looking white pantsuits’ — A Republican congressman who is potentially eyeing a Senate run mocked Democratic women on Wednesday for wearing white at President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress.
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Joe.My.God. and Vox
Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
Will Disney's Bob Iger Run for President in 2020? Hollywood Friends Are Nudging — Iger told THR in June that “a lot of people have urged me to seek political office,” and now he's considering the prodding for him to lead the Democratic ticket. — Disney CEO Bob Iger already runs the world's most successful media company.
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Hot Air, Axios, AOL and TheBlaze, more at Mediagazer »
Alister Doyle / Reuters:
Antarctica hits record high temperature at balmy 63.5°F — An Argentine research base near the northern tip of the Antarctic peninsula has set a heat record at a balmy 63.5° Fahrenheit (17.5 degrees Celsius), the U.N. weather agency said on Wednesday.
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The Daily Caller, The Week and Shakesville
Corky Siemaszko / NBC News:
Iowa Pol's Bio Changed After ‘Sizzler U’ Discrepancy Emerges — An Iowa lawmaker who is pushing a controversial bill that caps the number of Democrats that state universities can hire as professors claimed on a government web site that he got a “business degree” from the “Forbco Management school.”
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Raw Story
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Watch the hilarious ad that could doom the House Republican tax plan — Meet the “everything tax.” — Major retail chains have been grumbling for months about a House Republican proposal to replace the corporate income tax with a new kind of broad consumption tax, known to wonks …
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Politico
Wall Street Journal:
White House Explores Options, Including Use of Military Force, to Counter North Korean Threat — The strategy review comes as recent events have strained stability in Asia — An internal White House review of strategy on North Korea includes the possibility of military force or regime change …
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Political Wire and Infowars
The Huffington Post:
Trump Administration Sets Off Alarm Bells By Pulling Nominees To Regulatory Commissions — The deconstruction of the administrative state is underway. But expect Senate Republicans to push back. — WASHINGTON The Trump administration has begun pulling pending nominees …
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New York Magazine, Common Dreams and electionlawblog.org
Katie Hopkins / Daily Mail:
Where females fear to tread: KATIE HOPKINS reports from Sweden, the Scandi-lib paradise where terrified women have vanished from the streets and a conspiracy of silence and self-censorship on immigration buries the truth — By , KATIE HOPKINS FOR MAILONLINE — I didn't come to Sweden for the riots.
Heather Caygle / Politico:
House Democrats fire two IT staffers amid criminal investigation — Two House Democrats this week fired technology staffers linked to an ongoing criminal investigation, more than a month after the couple in question was barred from House computer networks. — Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) …
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Hot Air
Sebastian Gorka / National Review:
The Swamp Takes Aim at Seb Gorka — A series of hit pieces is part of an effort to take down the White House counterterrorism adviser. — They've taken down General Michael Flynn. The former Trump national-security adviser resigned under fire when a false narrative …
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RedState and Right Wing Watch
CNNMoney:
White House: Conway acted ‘without nefarious motive’ in Ivanka Trump plug — White House plugs Ivanka Trump's brand — The White House has concluded that Kellyanne Conway, a top adviser to President Trump, was acting “without nefarious motive” when she plugged Ivanka Trump's products in a TV interview …
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Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
CNN Chief Jeff Zucker Unveils Plan to Dominate Digital: New Shows, a $25M YouTuber and Donald Trump (Of Course) — Amid his feud with the president ("We all know the truth"), Zucker is taking his battle for TV news dominance online with a monthly audience of 100 million and a strategy …
Mike Hayes / BuzzFeed:
Bomb Threats To Jewish Centers Were Made Using “Spoofing” And Voice-Masking Technology — Investigators believe the perpetrators responsible for the latest wave of bomb threats targeting Jewish centers and schools around the US used sophisticated technology to shield their identity.
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Raw Story
Bill Nye / National Review:
Bill Nye's Embarrassing Face-off with Tucker Carlson on Climate Change — It didn't end well for the ‘Science Guy.’ — Climate-change alarmists who have been largely unchallenged by the media over the past decade have finally met their match in Fox News host Tucker Carlson. And it ain't pretty.
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TheBlaze
CBS Boston:
Rep. Stephen Lynch Says Media Has Treated President Trump Unfairly — BOSTON - Democratic Congressman Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts said President Donald Trump's address to Congress was a “significant shift” from previous rhetoric coming from the White House, adding also that the president …
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Mediaite, Washington Times and CBS Sacramento
Tampa Bay Times:
Rubio is asked to leave Tampa office over disruption from weekly protests — TAMPA — Vocal crowds of demonstrators making weekly visits to the Tampa office of U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio have gotten the Miami Republican booted from the building. — The owner of Bridgeport Center, a gleaming …
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Washington Post and Hot Air