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12:40 PM ET, August 9, 2012

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Josh Tyrangiel / Business Week:
Exclusive Romney Interview: On Humility and Tax Returns  —  Much of the case you make to voters is that you're a successful entrepreneur and a successful executive, and thus you'll make a successful president.  Why were you so successful as a businessman?  —  Well, I had the privilege …
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Super-PAC founder defends controversial Romney attack ad  —  The founder of the pro-Obama super-PAC Priorities USA Action defended the group's controversial ad that links Mitt Romney to the death of woman who couldn't afford cancer treatments.  —  “The point of this ad is that — you know …
Investor's Business Daily:
Obama's Campaign of Lies Reaches Despicable Low  —  Politics: Unable to run on his record, President Hope-and-Change has built a campaign based entirely on scurrilous lies about Mitt Romney.  But the latest reaches a historic, despicable low.  —  That ad features a man claiming …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Romney on not releasing more tax returns: 'I'm not a business'
Discussion: GOP 12 and The Hinterland Gazette
Wall Street Journal:
Why Not Paul Ryan?  —  Romney can win a big election over big issues.  He'll lose a small one.  —  The whispering over Mitt Romney's choice of a running mate is getting louder, and along with it we are being treated to the sotto voce angst of the GOP establishment: Whatever else Mitt does …
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Why do conservatives want Paul Ryan to be vice president?  —  The Wall Street Journal editorial page has joined the growing movement of influential conservatives uniting behind hero wonk Paul Ryan for vice president.  “The larger strategic point,” they counsel, “is that Mr. Romney's best chance …
Jonathan D. Salant / Bloomberg:   Goldman Sachs Leads Split With Obama, As GE Jilts Him Too
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Coulter Explodes At Romney Spokeswoman For Response To Priorities USA Ad: She Needs To Be Fired  —  Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity strongly condemned the ad released by the pro-Obama Super PAC Priorities USA that basically accused Mitt Romney of a steelworker's wife dying of cancer.
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Reid J. Epstein / Reuters:
The disappearing undecided voter
Discussion: Politico, CNN, ABCNEWS and First Read
Erick Erickson / RedState:
The Moment All the Doubts About Romney Resurfaced on the Right
New York Post:
City officials pull the plug on vibrator giveaway, leaving thousands dissatisfied  —  They must have rubbed Mayor Bloomberg the wrong way.  —  City officials pulled the plug on a vibrator giveaway by the Trojan condom company yesterday, disappointing potentially thousands of pleasure-seeking women …
Paul A. Rahe / Ricochet Conversations Feed:
Landslide on the Horizon  —  When I read Nate Silver, Sean Trende, Charlie Cook, Jay Cost, and the others who make a profession of political prognostication, I pay close attention to their attempts to dissect the polling data and predict what is to come.  But I also take everything that they say with a considerable grain of salt.
Discussion: Power Line and The Glittering Eye
Washington Post:
The Komen Foundation's very big leadership shake-up  —  Top officials at Susan G. Komen for the Cure stepped down Wednesday, months after the the breast cancer charity found itself embroiled in controversy when it halted grants to Planned Parenthood affiliates.
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KING-TV:
Susan G. Komen for the Cure announces change in leadership
Discussion: Daily Kos, U.S. News and Balloon Juice
Daily Mail:
Man who claimed he was beaten for being gay admits he made it all up after police receive video of him hitting HIS OWN head after back-flipping off a curb  —  A young man who told police he was beaten up in a would-be hate crime appeared in court today admitting that he made the entire incident up.
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Romney Campaign Carefully Chooses Speakers for Convention  —  TAMPA, Fla. — Newt Gingrich hoped to get a coveted speaking slot at the Republican National Convention.  Instead the Romney campaign will have him teach a series of workshops they have nicknamed Newt University.
BuzzFeed:
Leading LGBT Group Weighs In On Gambling Fight  —  National Gay and Lesbian Task Force claims a political synergy.  “Opponents of the gambling expansion are clearly using the marriage issue for their own political gain,” says Levin.  —  A top LGBT civil rights group jumped unexpctedly …
Susan Saulny / New York Times:
Young in G.O.P. Erase the Lines on Social Issues  —  CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Matt Hoagland, the county leader of a group of young North Carolina Republicans, is busy trying to ramp up enthusiasm for Mitt Romney at the grass-roots level.  So there are a few things he avoids mentioning …
Rebecca Keegan / Los Angeles Times:
Jason Sudeikis might bolt ‘Saturday Night Live’  —  His movie career is on upswing with ‘The Campaign’ and 'We're the Millers' with Jennifer Aniston.  More chances to spoof Mitt Romney might not be enough.  —  Jason Sudeikis stars in the new movie, “The Campaign.”  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
Discussion: Reuters and Rolling Stone
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Was Romneycare A War On Religion?  —  Mitt Romney continues to attack President Obama for policies he supported as governor of Massachusetts with a new ad Thursday morning that accuses the administration of waging “a war on religion.”  —  The commercial claims that an Affordable Care Act …
Cincinnati.com:
Deli owner: Take my store out of Obama ad  —  Krause's will lose business, she says  —  The owner of Krause's at Findlay Market said she was misled about the filming of an Obama TV ad.  / The Enquirer/Jane Prendergast  —  The owner of a specialty deli at Findlay Market wants …
Discussion: Politico and USA Today
alliancedefendingfreedom.org:
JACKSON V. ABERCROMBIE RESOURCE PAGE  —  To book an interview, click on the “Book an Interview” button on any page at ADFmedia.org.  —  MARRIAGE REMAINS PROTECTED IN HAWAII  —  Alliance Defending Freedom represented Hawaii Family Forum in defense of state's marriage law, constitutional amendment
Discussion: National Review
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Editor Fired Following Harassment Accusation  —  CONWAY, Ark. — The gathering, Marc Smirnoff said, was intended as a morale-boosting retreat for his staff at The Oxford American magazine, a July 4 overnight party at a mountain cabin that would fuel the creative intellect.
NY Daily News:
Cop shot in both legs in Queens  —  Sgt. Craig Bier is 10th NYPD officer wounded by gunfire this year  —  A highly decorated NYPD sergeant was shot in both legs late Wednesday during a gunfight with a suspect fleeing down a Queens alleyway, police said.  —  Sgt. Craig Bier …
Discussion: New York Magazine
Bloomberg:
Blink!  U.S. Debt Just Grew by $11 Trillion  —  By Laurence Kotlikoff and Scott Burns 2012-08-08T22:30:26Z  —  Republicans and Democrats spent last summer battling how best to save $2.1 trillion over the next decade.  They are spending this summer battling how best to not save $2.1 trillion over the next decade.
Discussion: Hot Air and americanthinker.com
Stephen Marche / Esquire:
The Contempt of Women  —  The rise of men.  And the whining of girls.  —  In the constantly progressing and deteriorating and rapidly revolving kaleidoscope of misunderstanding and disgust and hunger that constitutes gender relations in the twenty-first century, a new gesture has emerged to define us …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Shakesville
Eric Scheiner / CNSNews:
Pelosi ‘Swears’ Spirit of Susan B. Anthony Spoke to Her in White House  —  (CNSNews.com)- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) told a recent gathering of the Women's Political Committee that the spirits of suffragists Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Alice Paul spoke to her at the White House.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
GLENN GREENWALD  —  Mark Halperin of Time provides some important insight into the behavior of his colleagues  —  Few media behaviors are more pitiful than the intense fixation over the “Veepstakes”: a word that is at once nauseatingly vapid and yet incomparably valuable as a symbol of our nation's pointless, juvenile political media.
Discussion: Unqualified Offerings
 
 
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David Lauter / Los Angeles Times:
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Dawson Bell / Detroit Free Press:
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
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