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3:55 PM ET, May 3, 2012

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BuzzFeed:
After A Twitter Win, Romney Meets The Online Right  —  A united front against Obama and the liberal media.  But: Huffington Post broke news of the meeting.  —  At the Republican National Committee yesterday, conservative online writers and bloggers who arrived to meet with Romney were also shown …
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Mitt Romney Meets With Conservative Media Off The Record … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Video, Ann Romney, Daily Caller, National Review, Washington Examiner, Conservative Media, Media News, Mitt Romney 2012, Powerline, Reince Priebus, Right Wing News …
New York Times:
Behind Richard Grenell's Departure, a Right-Wing Storm  —  It was the biggest moment yet for Mitt Romney's foreign policy team: a conference call last Thursday, dialed into by dozens of news outlets from around the globe, to dissect and denounce President's Obama record on national security.
Ali Gharib / ThinkProgress:
EXPOSED: Romney Campaign Silenced Gay Spokesman To Avoid Confronting Hate Groups, Misled Reporters  —  When presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney's openly gay foreign policy spokesman resigned under pressure from right-wing anti-gay groups, the campaign sought to minimize …
Andrew Restuccia / Ballot Box:
Romney turns focus to energy in Virginia
Discussion: CNN
Politico:
The dangerous new Obama book  —  Months before Barack Obama knew Mitt Romney would be his political opponent in 2012, the president knew the identity of his foremost literary challenger: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Maraniss, who had been reaching out to Obama's old friends, classmates and lovers for the past several years.
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David Harsanyi / Human Events:
Who the hell is “Julia” and why am I paying for her whole life?  —  In the new Barack Obama campaign piece The Life of Julia, voters can “Take a look at how President Obama's policies help one woman over her lifetime — and how Mitt Romney would change her story.”
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Barry's Imaginary Girlfriend
Combating Terrorism Center at West Point:
Letters from Abbottabad: Bin Ladin Sidelined?  —  Authors: Don Rassler, Gabriel Koehler-Derrick, Liam Collins, Muhammad al-Obaidi, Nelly Lahoud  —  This report is a study of 17 de-classified documents captured during the Abbottabad raid and released to the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC).
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Melinda Liu / The Daily Beast:
Activist Chen Guangcheng: Let Me Leave China on Hillary Clinton's Plane  —  In an exclusive interview with The Daily Beast's Melinda Liu, blind dissident Chen Guangcheng says he's been abandoned by American officials at a Chinese hospital and begs to leave the country on Hillary Clinton's plane.
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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Republicans rip Obama's handling of Chinese activist Chen
Discussion: CNN and p m carpenter's commentary
Walter Russell Mead / Via Meadia:
China Syndrome  —  No good deed goes unpunished; this must …
Discussion: Business Insider, Global Spin and CNN
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Horror!... Neo-Nazi #Occupy Phoenix Protester Goes On Shooting Rampage - 5 Dead  —  Back in October we reported that Neo-Nazi Jason Todd Ready was patrolling the #Occupy Phoenix camp with AR-15′s.  —  Neo-Nazi Jason Todd (J.T.) Ready pictured on left patrolling the Occupy Phoenix protest …
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Jim Treacher / The Daily Caller:   The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports: … Just because the Cleveland 5 …
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
CNN Feels Heat on Ratings  —  Cable Pioneer Rarely Beats Rivals Fox and MSNBC; Spotlight on Network Chief  —  The last time there was a presidential election, CNN made television history by beating every other network in the ratings on election night.  —  It is shaping up to be a different story this year.
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
CNN Ratings Decline Stirs Worries
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: The freaky quadruple deaky “tanning mom” clip  —  It's come to this.  —  Via Mediaite, I've been looking around all day for a palate cleanser.  And now, at last, I've found it.  Trust me: Whatever you have on your news palate right now, this'll clean it right out.  Doesn't matter how important it is.
Fox News:
Issa sends out draft contempt order against Holder, says ‘Furious’ response ‘cannot stand’  —  Republican Rep. Darrell Issa has circulated a lengthy pair of documents making the case for holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress over his “refusal” to cooperate in an investigation …
ABCNEWS:
Bachmann: 'He Can't Beat Obama ... Not Going to Happen'  —  Michele Bachmann has finally decided to endorse Mitt Romney - 119 days after she dropped out of the race.  —  The endorsement will come at a joint Romney-Bachmann appearance on Thursday.  No doubt Bachmann will talk about the importance …
Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite:
On Hannity, Michelle Malkin Tears Into Juan Williams' Comparing Occupy Violence To Tea Party ‘Racism’  —  Sean Hannity brought in Michelle Malkin and Juan Williams to discuss the Occupy movement on Wednesday night.  As Hannity and Malkin criticized the movement's violence, Williams defended it …
Discussion: Wake up America and Hot Air
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
WOW!... Michelle Malkin BLASTS Crank Juan Williams For Comparing “Poo-Flinging” #Occupy Terrorists to Tea Party (Video)
Discussion: Michelle Malkin and Nice Deb
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Mitt Romney Commissioned Pro-America Pins, Made Them In China  —  At a fundraiser in Virginia last night, Mitt Romney touted his experinece running the Salt Lake City Olympic Games in 2002 — a familiar refrain — but also introduced a new rhetorical line about something more specific: lapel pins.
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Sen. Kirk leaving rehab facility three months after suffering stroke  —  Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) is leaving the rehabilitation facility where he had most recently been recovering from a stroke he suffered in January.  —  He will continue his recovery at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago while living at home.
Discussion: Politico and CNN
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Jon Will's gift  —  When Jonathan Frederick Will was born 40 years ago — on May 4, 1972, his father's 31st birthday — the life expectancy for people with Down syndrome was about 20 years.  That is understandable.  —  The day after Jon was born, a doctor told Jon's parents that the first question …
Paul Wiseman / Associated Press:
AP survey: Steady job gains to sustain US recovery  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - Hiring through the rest of 2012 will lag the brisk pace set early this year.  But it will be strong enough to push the unemployment rate below 8 percent by Election Day.  —  That's the view that emerges …
The Commonwealth Fund Blog:
Explaining High Health Care Spending in the United States: An International Comparison of Supply, Utilization, Prices, and Quality  —  Contact: David A. Squires, M.A., Senior Research Associate, International Health Policy, The Commonwealth Fund, ds@cmwf.org  —  Overview
Discussion: Firedoglake and Ezra Klein
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Another Misleading Edit Costs Another NBC News Employee Her Job  —  Lilia Luciano, a Miami-based NBC News correspondent, is no longer working for the network, TVNewser has learned.  —  Luciano last reported for NBC News March 31.  Until that point, she had been reporting mainly on the Trayvon Martin story.
House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans:
EXAM ROOM: Obamacare Funnels Taxpayer Dollars to Grant Program that Funds Pet Neutering, Bike Clubs, and Lobbying Efforts to Increase Taxes  —  Bearing out the infamous declaration that we would have to pass the health care law to find out what was in it, Congress and the American people …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Weasel Zippers
 
 
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Amy Bingham / ABCNEWS:
Water Guns Banned, Handguns Allowed at GOP Convention
Discussion: Indecision Forever and Firedoglake
Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
Methodists Vote Against Ending Investments Tied to Israel
Linda Greenhouse / Opinionator:
The Lower Floor  —  I found last week's Supreme Court argument …
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Joke non-partisan effort turns out to be genuinely funny
Geneva Sands / The Hill:
Bill Clinton: Hillary ‘never said a word to me’ about bin Laden raid
Discussion: Politico
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Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Dubious donations (gangster government edition)
Discussion: National Review
Jim Treacher / The Daily Caller:
As I told you last week, some mischievous troublemaker created …
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Catholics' Presidential Pick Differs by Ethnicity, Religiosity
Politico:
GOPers flock to Ailes's Fox office
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Rebel Pundit / BREITBART.COM:
MAY DAY PROTESTORS CANNOT EXPLAIN THEIR SIGNS OR THEIR CAUSE
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
GOP strategy seeks to portray President Obama as nation's divider-in-chief