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6:50 PM ET, September 16, 2016

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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Network pools refuse to cover Trump hotel tour  —  In a show of joint defiance, the major television networks collectively voted to pull a camera and erase video of Donald Trump giving a tour of his hotel, a protest of the campaign preventing any editorial presence on the tour.
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Trump Outsmarts the Press  —  Sometimes you really have to hand it to Donald Trump.  The press has been after him recently about whether he believes the Hillary Clinton campaign's claim that Barack Obama was not born in the U.S. For years, the press has obsessed on “birtherism,” …
New York Times:
Trump Drops False ‘Birther’ Theory, but Floats a New One: Clinton Started It  —  Donald J. Trump publicly retreated from his “birther” campaign on Friday, tersely acknowledging that President Obama was born in the United States and saying that he wanted to move on from the conspiracy theory that he has been clinging to for years.
Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:
Media Outraged After Trump Tricks Them To Cover Endorsements From Military Heroes
Discussion: alan.com
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Trump fanned a conspiracy about Obama's birthplace for years. Now he pretends Clinton started it.
Media Matters for America:
Seven Reasons The Media Shouldn't Let Trump Move On From Birtherism
NBC News:
First Read: Why Trump Can't Escape His ‘Birther’ Past
Media Matters for America:
As Trump Prepares To Discuss His Birtherism, Top Adviser Roger Stone Says Trump Still Has …
Discussion: Mediaite
Donald J Trump for President:
TRUMP CAMPAIGN STATEMENT
Commission on Presidential Debates:
CPD Invites Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump to Debate  —  Washington, D.C. (September 16, 2016) - The nonpartisan, non-profit Commission on Presidential Debates ("CPD") announced today that it has applied its Nonpartisan Candidate Selection Criteria for 2016 General Election Debate participation …
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Third-party candidates miss cut for first debate  —  The Commission on Presidential Debates announced on Friday that Hillary Clinton  —  and their running mates are the only candidates who will participate in the first debates.  —  This means Trump and Clinton will take part in the Sept. 26 debate …
Discussion: Political Wire and alan.com
Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal:
Gary Johnson, Jill Stein Fail to Qualify for First Presidential Debate
Discussion: The Atlantic and National Review
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Gary Johnson cuts into Clinton's lead
Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Hillary Clinton Campaign Manager Admits 2008 Birther Link  —  Patti Solis Doyle, who was Hillary Clinton's campaign manager in 2008 until the Iowa caucuses, admitted on Friday that a Clinton campaign staffer had, in fact, circulated the Birther conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was born outside …
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Democratic Senator Blasts Clinton Over “Basket Of Deplorables” Remark
David Sims / The Atlantic:
The Embarrassment of Jimmy Fallon  —  The Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, went on NBC's Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon yesterday.  Here, in chronological order, is every question Fallon asked his guest.  —This is getting real.  You still have time, do you still want to do this?
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Maxwell Strachan / The Huffington Post:
People Are Justifiably Infuriated With How Jimmy Fallon Handled Trump  —  “The Tonight Show” host humanized a dangerous man on Thursday night.  —  Jimmy Fallon had Donald Trump on “The Tonight Show” Thursday night, and all some people could talk about afterward was a head rub.
Dave Dormer / CBC News:
Student's Donald Trump hat stirs controversy at Calgary's Mount Royal University  —  Woman challenged man to remove ‘Make America Great Again’ hat, calling it racially charged  —  The issues of free speech and safe spaces erupted at Mount Royal University Thursday after video surfaced …
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Rubio leads by 2 in internal Murphy campaign poll  —  MIAMI — Sen. Marco Rubio is ahead of Democratic Rep. Patrick Murphy by 2 points in the U.S. Senate race, according to an internal poll of likely Florida voters that the challenger's campaign paid for and sent to donors.
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Jesse Singal / New York Magazine:
How Internet Trolls Won the 2016 Presidential Election  —  Last weekend, the Hillary Clinton campaign did something extremely controversial: It published an explainer devoted entirely to Pepe the frog.  Pepe, a popular cartoon frog who first showed up in a web comic by Matt Furie back in 2005 …
Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
Stop Whining About ‘False Balance’  —  Everyone wants to blame reporters for the rise of Donald Trump.  How about the media consumer?  —  All Stories »  —  News media outlets are increasingly coming under fire for the sin of “false balance” or “false equivalency.”
Sam Wang / Princeton Election Consortium:
Sometimes life comes at you fast  —  National polls currently show Clinton ahead by only 1.0 ± 0.6 % (median ± estimated SEM, 7 pollsters with at least some post-Phlegmghazi respondents).  However, our state poll-based analysis moves more slowly.
Discussion: Mother Jones, Vox and Politico
Raf Sanchez / Telegraph:
American commandos ‘forced to run away’ from US-backed Syrian rebels  —  Video footage appears to show US commandos fleeing a Syrian town under a barrage of abuse and insults hurled at them by fighters from the American-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebel group.
Allen Abel / Macleans.ca:
Why I'm voting for Donald Trump  —  These are Donald Trump's “deplorables,” as Hillary Clinton calls them—11 unashamed Trump-train riders from across the United States, writing in their own words.  —  To Clinton, they—or at least “half of them,” as the Democratic nominee chuckled last weekend …
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Introduced By A Birther At Event Where He Walked Back Birtherism  —  A birther supporter was among the Donald Trump backers who introduced the nominee at the Friday event where he attempted to walk back his birtherism.  —  Retired Air Force Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney …
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Fox Sues Netflix for Poaching Employees  —  The film and television studio seeks an injunction to prevent contractual interference.  —  21st Century Fox is accusing Netflix in a lawsuit of running a “brazen campaign to unlawfully target, recruit, and poach valuable Fox executives …
Matt Dixon / Politico:
Experts say Scott administration decision blocking McMullin from presidential ballot ‘unfair’  —  Decision appears to contradict 2011 ruling on third-party candidates  —  TALLAHASSEE — The decision by Gov. Rick Scott's administration to block Evan McMullin's presidential campaign …
Discussion: Hit & Run
 
 
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Elise Viebeck / Washington Post:
Harry Reid is giving Donald Trump a run for his money when it comes to insults
Discussion: CNN, Daily Kos and Right Wing Watch
Media Matters for America:
Trump Ally Alex Jones: Obama's Father Is Fake, His Mother Was A “Sex Operative” For The CIA
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Dirk VanderHart / Portland Mercury:
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