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Video Flashback: Dems Shout And Boo At Bush During 2005 SOTU [Video] — The scrupulous FogCityJohn, member of the reality-based Daily Kos community, currently has a top post intriguingly titled “If Joe Wilson Were A Democrat.” He muses thusly: … Remember the time when some deep-feeling member …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
In Lawmaker's Outburst, a Rare Breach of Protocol — WASHINGTON — It was a rare breach of the protocol that governs ritualistic events in the Capitol. — In an angry and very audible outburst, Representative Joe Wilson, Republican of South Carolina, interrupted President Obama's speech Wednesday night with a shout of “You lie!”
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Adam Fogle / The Palmetto Scoop:
Get your free 'I'm With Joe Wilson' t-shirt — TPS/MADE IN MULTIPLES GIVING AWAY SHIRTS TO SUPPORT CONGRESSMAN — Congressman Joe Wilson may not have picked the best moment to voice his constituent's complaints about President Barack Obama's attempts to socialize health care, but he did so nonetheless.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Washington Sketch: Republicans Behaving Badly at Obama Speech — As President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night, the nation's rapidly deteriorating discourse hit yet another low. — It happened at 8:40 pm, just after the president vowed to lawmakers …
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Joe Wilson: “You lie!” (in response to President Obama saying health reform would not insure illegal immigrants.) — Joe Wilson of South Carolina said Obama lied, but he didn't — We suspect it's rare that the president gets heckled during a speech to a joint session of Congress, but Rep. Joe Wilson didn't hold back.
Justin Elliott / LiveWire:
Flashback: Rep. Wilson Also Had To Apologize After Attacking Strom Thurmond's Illegitimate Daughter — Last night, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) issued an apology — “I let my emotions get the best of me when listening to the President's remarks” — and called the White House after heckling Obama during …
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Pelosi halts effort to sanction Wilson over ‘You lie!’ outburst — Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Democrats should cease efforts to sanction Rep. Joe Wilson for shouting “You lie!” during the president's address. — While she said the South Carolina Republican's action was “stunning,” …
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:The House Bill Does Cover Illegals
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Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:The press can't even get the “You Lie!” story right
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CNN:Wilson apologizes: ‘I let my emotions get the best of me’
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Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:Reid called Bush “liar,” stood by comment UPDATE
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The Huffington Post:Joe Wilson Apologizes For Shouting “You Lie!” At Obama
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Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:Facts Have A Liberal Bias: Illegal Immigrants Not Covered By Health Care Reform.
James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:Shouting ‘Liar’ in a Crowded Congress
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The Huffington Post:
Yosi Sergant, Obama Aide, Asked To Resign: Glenn Beck Strikes Again — Glenn Beck has struck again. — Yosi Sergant, who recently popped up on Beck's radar for his involvement in a conference call on national service, has been asked to resign as communications director by the National Endowment …
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John Nolte / Big Hollywood:
A Head Rolls at the NEA: Communications Director Asked to Resign — UPDATE: ‘Reassigned’ Not ‘Resigned’ — UPDATE: Wash. Times is reporting Sergant has not resigned from the NEA, but was reassigned. He “is no longer Director of Communications.” END UPDATE.
CNN:
CNN Poll: Double-digit post-speech jump for Obama plan — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Two out of three Americans who watched President Barack Obama's health care reform speech Wednesday night favor his health care plans — a 14-point gain among speech-watchers, according to a CNN/Opinion Research …
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The Hill:Analysis: Obama speech to Congress unlikely to be game changer
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Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:Cantor Unable To Name Any ‘Compromises’ …
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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
John Stossel Leaving ABC For Fox — First on TVNewser: John Stossel, the longtime ABC News correspondent and co-anchor of “20/20,” is leaving ABC to join Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network. TVNewser has learned Stossel will host a weekly, one-hour program for the 2-year-old business channel.
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I'm Moving to FOX — It's time for a change. — In one month, I leave ABC News. — In October, I will join the folks at Fox. — I plan to do a one hour prime time show every week on FBN, the Fox Business Channel, and contribute to various existing programs on Fox News Channel.
Fox News:
ACORN Officials Videotaped Telling ‘Pimp,’ ‘Prostitute’ How to Lie to IRS — Officials with the controversial community organizing group ACORN were secretly videotaped offering to assist two individuals posing as a pimp and a prostitute, encouraging them to lie to the Internal Revenue Service …
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James O'Keefe / Big Government:
Chaos for Glory: My Time With ACORN — A famous community organizer once said, “The only way to upset the power structure in your communities is to goad them, confuse them, irritate them and, most of all, make them live by their own rules. If you make them live by their own rules, you destroy them.”
Rasmussen Reports:
44% Favor President's Health Care Plan, 53% Oppose — Views of the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats remain largely unchanged since late July. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey conducted Tuesday and Wednesday nights finds that 44% favor the plan while 53% are opposed.
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Robert Seidman / TVbytheNumbers:
Updated TV Ratings: SYTYCD vs. POTUS and Glee premieres nicely … Update: The presidential address was seen by 31.8 million across 10 networks in the final numbers. — Update: September 10, 2009 9:32a PDT, updated with some notes from FOX. — FOX easily won the night dominating the adults 18-49 and adults 18-34 demos.
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
NBC calls the public option a “fetish” — The Villagers always find a way to attack progressives. Here's NBC's ‘First Read,’ that Chuck Todd is all about says this: … You will never hear anything like this said about conservatives. Passionately supporting a piece of legislation …
Sabato's Crystal Ball:
RED DAWN: GOP REVIVAL FOR 2010 HOUSE? — Republicans will pick up substantially, but fall short of full control — While the next slate of House elections does not occur until 2010, congressmen and their challengers certainly don't take off the “off-year.”
Political Punch:
Democratic Senators Summoned to White House — ABC News has learned that President Obama will be meeting with 16 Democratic senators (and one “Independent Democrat") this afternoon at the White House. — They are: Senators Mark Pryor and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, Mark Warner of Virginia …
Mike Duvall * State Assembly:
Assemblyman Duvall Denies Reports that he Had Affair — “I want to make it clear that my decision to resign is in no way an admission that I had an affair or affairs. My offense was engaging in inappropriate story-telling and I regret my language and choice of words.
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Watching the Supreme Court make its campaign finance jurisprudence disappear. — Early in this morning's special-edition September oral argument in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission—known far and wide as the Hillary: The Movie case—Justice Antonin Scalia stops newbie Solicitor …
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