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Susan Page / USA Today:
Poll: Health care views take sympathetic tilt — WASHINGTON — The raucous protests at congressional town-hall-style meetings have succeeded in fueling opposition to proposed health care bills among some Americans, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds — particularly among the independents who tend to be at the center of political debates.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Oh my: New Gallup poll shows town hall protests winning over independents? — Either indies have suddenly developed a taste for Nazi mobs of political terrorists or the Democrats' message war on ObamaCare opponents is a rather epic fail. — Given the left's monopoly on wisdom and virtue, I must reluctantly conclude it's the former.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Dianne Feinstein's Office Gripes To White House About OFA-Inspired Constituent Visits — A rare bit of friction between Dems and Obama's political operation, Organizing for America: — Aides to Senator Dianne Feinstein have complained to the White House about a deluge of visits to her offices …
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Steele laughs at Specter — Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele burst out laughing Wednesday after watching a clip of Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) insisting that the town hall protesters are “not necessarily representative of America.” — Asked to respond to the clip during …
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Lisa Demer / Anchorage Daily News:
Murkowski: Don't tell lies about the health-care reform bill — HOT TOPIC: Some things in the legislation are already bad enough, she says at civic center. — ldemer@adn.com — U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Tuesday told an Anchorage crowd that critics of health care reform …
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The Huffington Post:
Grassley Endorses “Death Panel” Rumor: “You Have Every Right To Fear” — One of the three Republican senators working on a bipartisan health care bill perpetuated a particularly outrageous untruth about the legislation on Wednesday. — Appearing at a town hall in his home state of Iowa …
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Fox News:
White House Says Girl With Campaign Ties Chosen at ‘Random’ to Speak at Obama Town Hall — The White House acknowledged Wednesday that many audience members were friendly, but said the president chose questions at random and didn't know his questioners. — FOXNews.com
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Patterico's Pontifications:
Roxana Mayer: I'm Not a Doctor But I Play One at Town Hall Meetings — It took some work to get the admission, but I got it. — I wrote Roxana Mayer at her University of Houston e-mail address today and said: … Mayer responded, from a different e-mail address that was associated with her name:
Jim Shella / WISH-TV:
GOP demanding apology from Baron Hill — INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Indiana Congressman Baron Hill is on the hot seat in the health care reform debate. — Hill is a leader of the so-called Blue Dog Democrats, Moderates and Conservatives who recently won a health care compromise.
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Raleigh News & Observer:
Survey finds Obama birthplace still an issue in N. Carolina — Barely half of N.C. voters believe President Obama was born in the United States, according to a poll released Tuesday. — Public Policy Polling surveyed 749 North Carolina voters Aug. 4-10, and found that 54 percent believe that Obama was born in the United States.
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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Video: Democrats Bring Obama-As-Hitler Signs to Town Halls — Last week, Think Progress produced four pictures of protesters linking Obama or his health-care plan to Nazism. — The left-wing blog's work was dutifully reproduced by The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan to refute my contention …
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Seton Motley / NewsBusters.org:
NBC, CNN and MSNBC All Assign Communist LaRouche's Obama-Hitler Poster …
NBC, CNN and MSNBC All Assign Communist LaRouche's Obama-Hitler Poster …
theblogprof:
BUSTED!: “Obama As Hitler” Poster Was A Democrat/Union Plant …
BUSTED!: “Obama As Hitler” Poster Was A Democrat/Union Plant …
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Peter Hamby / CNN:
Sanford: It's ‘hard’ living alone in governor's mansion — (CNN) - South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford opened up about the state of his family on Wednesday — the first time he has done so since his wife, Jenny, moved out of the governor's mansion last week. — Asked during a radio interview …
Carol E. Lee / The Politico:
Says he flubbed stats — Before presenting tennis legend Billie Jean King with the Medal of Freedom Wednesday, President Obama ticked off some ... ... of her accomplishments: 12 Grand Slam titles, 101 doubles titles, 67 singles titles. — “Pretty good, Billie Jean,” he quipped.
John Mackey / Wall Street Journal:
The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare — Eight things we can do to improve health care without adding to the deficit. — Printer — Friendly — “The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out — of other people's money. —Margaret Thatcher
Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
Yale Press Bans Images of Muhammad in New Book — It's not all that surprising that Yale University Press would be wary of reprinting notoriously controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a forthcoming book. After all, when the 12 caricatures were first published by a Danish newspaper …
Jeffrey Gettleman / New York Times:
Clinton's Flash of Pique in Congo — ABUJA, Nigeria — It was hot. She was tired. And it had been a long day in Africa. — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was onstage in Kinshasa, Congo's shabby capital, in an auditorium packed with Congolese students.
CNN:
CNN Poll: Favorable view of Palin dipping — WASHINGTON (CNN) - Americans appear to be souring on Sarah Palin, according to a new national poll. — Thirty-nine percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday have a favorable opinion …
Bill Sammon / Fox News:
Analysis: Press Largely Ignored Incendiary Rhetoric at Bush Protest — News outlets that are focusing on the incendiary rhetoric of conservatives outside President Obama's town hall meeting Tuesday ignored the incendiary rhetoric — and even violence — of liberals outside an appearance by former President George W. Bush in 2002.
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Brian Barber / Tulsa World:
Falling says putting Christian creationism display in the Tulsa Zoo is top priority — Republican mayoral candidate Anna Falling said Tuesday that putting a Christian creationism display in the Tulsa Zoo is No. 1 in importance among city issues that include violent crime, budget woes and bumpy streets.
Pam Spaulding / Pam's House Blend:
Low-life teabagger protestor tears up poster of Rosa Parks at health care town hall — Wow. Just. Wow. All I know is if this is the path these people are taking, the darkest days are ahead. Exclusive video from an incident at Senator McCaskill's town hall in eastern Missouri:
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Zachary Roth / TPMMuckraker:
Leaked Email: CNBC Went To Tea Partiers Looking for Angry Protests — CNBC approached Tea Party activists, looking for angry protest events that would make good television, according to a leaked email from a Tea Party discussion group. And one Tea Bagger responded by flagging an upcoming event that …
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New York Times:
A Window Into C.I.A.'s Embrace of Secret Jails — WASHINGTON — In March 2003, two C.I.A. officials surprised Kyle D. Foggo, then the chief of the agency's main European supply base, with an unusual request. They wanted his help building secret prisons to hold some of the world's most threatening terrorists.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
For immediate release — Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in June suggests that economic activity is leveling out. Conditions in financial markets have improved further in recent weeks. Household spending has continued to show signs of stabilizing …
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Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
Michigan madness — Things are pretty bad in my native state of Michigan, which has the nation's highest unemployment rate and is the headquarters of government- and union-owned General Motors and Chrysler. Conditions are so bad that they seen to have sent some Michiganians …
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Michael Scherer / Time:
Ezekiel Emanuel, Obama's ‘Deadly Doctor,’ Strikes Back — Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, special advisor for health care at the Office of Management and Budget, speaks March 11 at the American Medical Association's annual conference in Washington — Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the medical ethicist …
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David Stout / New York Times:
For Lawmakers, Health-Plan Anger Keeps Coming — WASHINGTON — Lawmakers ran into fresh anger and skepticism on Wednesday as they fielded questions from constituents worried about changes in the health care system, and about a lot of other things having to do with government.
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