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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Cheat Sheet - The Press Rolls Over for Obama … Again

Today: Bachmann Not Running for Reelection , Hurricane Season Is Starting, and Projections Are Higher Than Average , U.S. Drone Strike Kills Six
Cheat Sheet: Morning

May 29, 2013
A BAD RELATIONSHIP

As the scandals pile up, the press keeps finding excuses for the president, writes The Daily Beast's Stuart Stevens.

QUEEN OF RAGE

It's the end of an era. Michele Bachmann announced early Wednesday morning in a YouTube video on her campaign Web site (taking a cue from Anthony Weiner?) that she would not be running for reelection to the House of Representatives in 2014. Bachmann insisted her decision had nothing to do with the "recent inquiries into the activities of my presidential campaign," but she did not address the recent congressional ethics investigation. She also said her decision "was not influenced by any concerns about being reelected," despite her narrowest victory yet in 2012 against Democrat Jim Graves, who has already announced he is running in 2014. Never one to let her opposition to Obamacare go unmentioned, Bachmann said she will spend her last 18 months in Congress opposing the health-care law.

GET READY

Memories of a chilly Memorial Day weekend may still be fresh for the Northeast, but the Atlantic hurricane season is almost upon us—and it looks like a doozy. The Daily Beast's Eliza Shapiro reports.

DIDN'T OBAMA SAY...

Weren't the stricter policies about drone strikes announced just last week? A U.S. drone strike killed six suspected militants in Pakistan on Wednesday—the first attack since President Obama's speech last week that outlined the administration's new policy to use drones only to prevent an imminent attack. Two others were wounded in the attack in the village of Chasma in the Taliban stronghold of North Waziristan. Not only was Wednesday's strike the first since Obama's policy speech last week, but also the first since the May 11 election in Pakistan, where the drone strikes are incredibly unpopular.

BAD NEWS

Is Britain taking cues from the U.S. here or something? Please note: President Obama has vowed to shut down Guantánamo Bay, so please don't start your own version. British Defense Secretary Philip Hammond confirmed that between 80 to 90 Afghans have been held for at least 14 months at an army base in Afghanistan—without being charged. Hammond defended the detentions at Camp Baston, saying the detainees are considered too dangerous to be released and "exceptional circumstances" allows them to be held. Afghan President Hamid Karzai called for the prisoners to be released into Afghanistan's custody, but Britain has not handed over any prisoners since allegations last November that detainees were being abused.


RADICAL
Suspect Confesses to Stabbing French Soldier
Police say he was acting on "religious ideology."
YIKES
Chinese Baby's Mom Present During Rescue
Is the one who called for help.
NOT ON A PIG
Obama Jokes About Lipstick on Collar
"I do not want to get in trouble with Michelle."
EXCUSEZ-MOI?
James Lipton: I Was a Pimp
In Paris in the 1960s.
TEN TOO MANY
Depardieu: I Was Too Drunk to Understand Charges
When he fell his moped in Paris.
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