memeorandum: Oscar's Diversity Panic (Kyle Smith/National Review)

10:10 AM ET, February 10, 2020

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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:

How the Iowa Caucuses Became an Epic Fiasco for Democrats — The problems that beset the Democratic Party's first state caucus of the presidential race ran far deeper and wider than one bad app. — DES MOINES — The first signs of trouble came early. — As the smartphone app for reporting …

Discussion: Bleeding Heartland, No More Mister Nice Blog and Bad News, more at Mediagazer »

Ezra Klein / Vox:

Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and America's politics of epiphany — Former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg during the Democratic presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa, on January 14, 2020. Scott Olson/Getty Images

Byron York / Washington Examiner:

Centrist voters cut Biden out of the picture — DOVER, New Hampshire — The Democratic presidential race in New Hampshire appears to be changing too quickly for the polls to keep up. The stories that hit the news on Sunday focusing on Joe Biden's difficulties might actually have understated the former vice president's problems.

Washington Post:
New Hampshire primary updates: Democrats barnstorm; Trump will rally in N.H. tonight

Discussion: Joe.My.God.

CBS Boston:
Exclusive NH Primary Tracking Poll: Sanders First, Buttigieg Second, Surging Klobuchar Third

Discussion: The Hill

Politico:
Iowa Democrats: Buttigieg edges Sanders for delegates

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Fox News, Daily Kos, The Week, Vox, electionlawblog.org, Associated Press, The Gateway Pundit, Wolfie's Words, The Daily Caller and Townhall

Washington Post:
Top Democrats turn on each other after Iowa, threatening the party's chances against Trump

Discussion: NBC News

Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Pete Buttigieg calls for deficit reduction, swiping Bernie Sanders

Discussion: The Dispatch, Reason, Balloon Juice, CNN, Washington Post, Common Dreams and Axios

Jason Sattler / USA Today: Moderate Democrats have a duty to consider Sanders. He has a clear path to beating Trump.

BuzzFeed News:
Joe Biden Is Preparing For The Worst In New Hampshire

Discussion: NBC News, WBUR, Joe.My.God. and Townhall

Politico:
Sanders glides toward primary day as moderates brawl

Discussion: ABC News, Breitbart and The Hill

Jonathan Swan / Axios:

Behind the scenes of Michael Bloomberg's “be boring” campaign — Mike Bloomberg's campaign feels corporate. It's calm, orderly and punctual. His audiences clap politely, and you can't walk two steps without running into a paid staffer with talking points. Nobody whoops or yells.

Gabby Orr / Politico:

Trump's ‘dream scenario’ unfolds: Dem disarray ahead of 2020 — Inside Donald Trump's reelection campaign, Joe Biden is a shadow of the past. — Once his chief rival in the 2020 Democratic presidential field, and the cause of so much presidential angst that Trump mounted a pressure campaign …

Discussion: Raw Story and The Guardian

Russell Berman / The Atlantic:

Bernie Sanders's Secret Weapon — If Senator Bernie Sanders wins the Democratic primary in New Hampshire on Tuesday, it'll likely be thanks to voters who are—like him—not actually Democrats. — The Vermont senator's lead in several public polls is bolstered by his strong support among independent …

Discussion: The American Spectator

Kyle Smith / New York Post:

Political correctness at 2020 Oscars exposes Hollywood's hypocrisy — And you thought Hollywood was the sacred land of John Wayne. Marilyn Monroe. Humphrey Bogart. — Nah, that's not it at all. “We have gathered on the ancestral lands of the Tongva, Tataviam and the Chumash,” …

Discussion: Page Six

Kyle Smith / National Review: Oscar's Diversity Panic

Nihar Kabinittal / ABC News:

Oscars 2020 recap: ‘Parasite’ breaks barriers, Eminem's unexpected performance — “Parasite” won best picture and best directing. — via — “Parasite” was the breakout star of this year's Oscars by breaking barriers: the film became the first non-English movie to win best picture.

Discussion: Townhall, The Daily Caller, Breitbart, Variety, Page Six, NewsOne, The Wrap, New York Post, Deadline, Mediaite, Vanity Fair, UPI and Associated Press

Gabriel Schoenfeld / USA Today:

Sanders has a bizarre radical past that Trump and Republicans would use to destroy him — Sanders has radical fringe skeletons dangling in closets without doors. He's destined to fail in a general election, perhaps in a 49-state rout. — The Iowa Democratic caucuses might have ended in fiasco …

YouTube:

Rudy Giuliani lays out the Biden's corruption in Ukraine … Rudy Giuliani joins “Sunday Morning Futures” to discuss the Biden's actions in Ukraine. — FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct …

Discussion: The Daily Beast

Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Reviewing Information From Giuliani on the Bidens, Graham Says

Discussion: Vox, New York Post and Fox News

Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Lindsey Graham says DOJ is handling information from Giuliani on Bidens

Discussion: Raw Story, The Hill, Breitbart, Slate and The Daily Caller

Bojan Pancevski / Wall Street Journal:

Merkel's Succession Plan Unravels as Protégée Ends Leadership Bid — Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer to step down as chairwoman of Germany's CDU — BERLIN—Angela Merkel's handpicked successor as head of Germany's conservatives has abandoned her ambition to become chancellor …

Marianne LeVine / Politico:

Schumer asks inspectors general to investigate whistleblower retaliation after Vindman firing — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is asking that every agency inspector general investigate retaliation against whistleblowers who report presidential misconduct, after the firing …

Discussion: CNN, The Independent, Common Dreams, Joe.My.God. and Raw Story

David Streitfeld / New York Times:

In Amazon's Bookstore, No Second Chances for the Third Reich — The retailer once said it would sell “the good, the bad and the ugly.” Now it has banished objectionable volumes — and agreed to erasing the swastikas from a photo book about a Nazi takeover. — SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon is quietly canceling its Nazis.

Laura Meckler / Washington Post:

Girl chosen by Trump to symbolize failing schools attends a popular charter program — The Philadelphia fourth-grader whom President Trump singled out during his State of the Union address as one of thousands of students “trapped in failing government schools” actually attends a sought-after charter school.

Discussion: The Root

Haaretz:

App Used by Netanyahu's Likud Leaks Israel's Entire Voter Registry — Names, identification numbers and addresses of over 6 million voters were leaked through the unsecured Elector app — The Likud has uploaded the full register of Israeli voters to an application, causing the leak of personal data on 6,453,254 citizens.

Discussion: News of the Jews and Palestine DeepDive, more at Techmeme »

Emma Tucker / The Daily Beast: App Used by Netanyahu's Party Leaks Personal Data of Over 6 Million Israelis

Stef W. Kight / Axios:

The evolution of Trump's Muslim ban — Donald Trump's campaign call for all Muslims to be barred from entering the United States has morphed over the past three years into a complex web of travel and immigration restrictions placed, to varying degrees, on 7% of the world's population.

Washington Post: Trump administration considers suspending humanitarian assistance to Yemen amid new rebel restrictions

Matthew Dessem / Slate:

Joe Biden Just Called a Woman at One of His Events a “Lying, Dog-Faced Pony Soldier.” What? — At a campaign event in Hampton, New Hampshire on Sunday, presidential candidate Joe Biden jokingly referred to a young woman who asked him a question as a “lying, dog-faced pony soldier,” according to the Washington Post.

Discussion: Power Line, HuffPost, BizPac Review, The Week, NBC News and Reason, more at Mediagazer »

Joe Jervis / Joe.My.God.:

Schlapp: Romney Wouldn't Be “Physically Safe” At CPAC — “We won't credential him as a conservative. I suppose if he wants to come as a non-conservative and debate an issue with us, maybe in the future we would have him come. This year, I'd actually be afraid for his physical safety, people are so mad at him.

Discussion: HuffPost, Palmer Report and NBC News

Reuters:

How a New Hampshire family spent Andrew Yang's ‘Freedom Dividend’ — GOFFSTOWN, N.H. (Reuters) - A New Hampshire family that received a $1,000-a-month “freedom dividend” for a year from the campaign of Democratic presidential contender Andrew Yang spent most of the money on college bills …

Washington Post:

Trump budget plan would fail to eliminate deficit over 10 years, briefing document shows — After initially seeking to eliminate the fiscal gap over a decade, the White House has found that target too elusive — The White House is preparing to propose a budget that would fail to eliminate …

Discussion: Raw Story and CNN