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9:10 PM ET, September 10, 2009

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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.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Wilson regularly took caffeine pills in 2007  —  Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), who shouted “you lie!” at President Obama during his Wednesday night address to Congress, admitted to regularly consuming caffeine pills in 2007.  —  It is unknown if Wilson still takes NoDoz, a brand of pill …
Discussion: Hot Air and Townhall.com
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 …
David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
Obama heckler Joe Wilson a member of neo-Confederate SCV, fought to keep Dixie flag flying in South Carolina  —  [Members of the James Younger Camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans in 2006.]  —  Looking into the background of Rep. Joe Wilson, R-South Carolina, after his heckling of President Obama last night, I came across this:
Dan / Riehl World View:
Interview: Rep. Joe Wilson (R) SC  —  Just wrapped up an interview with pro-legal immigration, former immigration lawyer turned politician Representative Joe Wilson (R) SC.  Having posted on Wilson's “You lie” comment to Obama during Obama's speech, I wanted to understand the full context of the remark.
PolitiFact.com statements:
Joe Wilson: “You lie!” …
Peter Hamby / CNN:
(Updated): Wilson's opponent raises $200K
Discussion: TPMDC, The Plum Line and Mediaite
Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
The press can't even get the “You Lie!” story right
Discussion: Daily Kos
Good Lt / The Jawa Report:
HORRIFIC BOMBSHELL: Joe Wilson Took NoDoz Caffiene Pills in 2007 Or Something
Discussion: RBO
Domenico Montanaro / msnbc.com:
THE JOE WILSON CIRCUS
Discussion: The Hill and LiveWire
Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
Reid called Bush “liar,” stood by comment UPDATE
Discussion: CityLife Blogs and Flopping Aces
Blue Texan / Firedoglake:
South Carolina Congressman Who Screamed at President Obama Fought …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
In Lawmaker's Outburst, a Rare Breach of Protocol
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Washington Sketch: Republicans Behaving Badly at Obama Speech
Brendan Nyhan:
“You lie!” in comparative perspective
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Specter pushes censure
Discussion: Glenn Thrush's Blog and Open Left
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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James Rucker / Firedoglake:
A Line in the Sand Against Beck
Discussion: The Huffington Post
ColorOfChange.org:
Six New Companies, Including the USPS, Humana Pledge Not to Run …
Discussion: DownWithTyranny!
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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John Stossel / John Stossel's Take:
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.
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Shimkus walked on Obama: ‘Frustrated’  —  Rep. Joe Wilson, the South Carolina Republican who yelled at President Barack Obama during his address to Congress this week, wasn't the only one unhappy with what he heard.  —  Rep. John Shimkus, a Republican from Illinois, walked out.
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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.”
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
STEELE BLASTS KENNEDY LETTER IN SPEECH.... In his speech last night, President Obama noted there are countless Americans who've “shared their stories” with policymakers “at town halls, in e-mails, and in letters.”  One of those letters, the president said, came from Ted Kennedy, who had …
Discussion: WhiteHouse.gov Blog
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Guardian:
Al-Qaida faces recruitment crisis - anti-terror experts  —  Eight years after 9/11, Osama bin Laden is still at large but willing fighters and ideological support are in short supply  —  Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida is under heavy pressure in its strongholds in Pakistan's remote tribal areas …
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.
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 …
Discussion: TPMDC, Open Left and Hullabaloo
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 …
Adam Fogle / The Palmetto Scoop:
SCGOP calls for Sanford's resignation  —  OVER 2/3 OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE SAID DISGRACED GOVERNOR SHOULD GO  —  The tide of support from his own Republican Party officially turned against disgraced Gov. Mark Sanford Thursday as the South Carolina GOP called for his resignation.
Discussion: MyDD, D-Day and TPMMuckraker
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 …
Discussion: The Plum Line, Firedoglake and D-Day
David A. Fahrenthold / Capitol Briefing:
House Unearths a 14th Forged Letter from a Lobbyist  —  Congressional investigators today said they have turned up a 14th forged letter that was sent to a Congressional office criticizing the House's climate change bill, this one appearing to come from an American Legion post in Rocky Mount, Va.
 
 
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Tim Graham / NewsBusters.org:
Unanimous on The View: GOP ‘Incredibly Disrespectful’ to Obama
Discussion: Hot Air
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Obama: I'm Spending Too Much on the Troops
Ezra Klein:
What Obama Should Have Said on the Public Option
Nick Gillespie / Reason:
Where's the Paying Customer?
Discussion: Hot Air
Nielsen Wire:
32.1 Million Watch President Obama's Health Care Address to Congress on TV
Discussion: Hot Air
Associated Press:
Ahmadinejad to be barred from NY event
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The British Counter-Example
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
HRC pushing to repeal marriage act
 Earlier Items: 
Christopher N. Osher / Denver Post:
Romanoff files paperwork to explore Senate bid
Discussion: The Hill and The Latest Word
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Hatch: GOP senators won't support Baucus bill
The Daily Beast:
A Man on His Way to Bitterness
Discussion: Hot Air and The Opinionator
John Bolton / New York Post:
Did O drop the ball?  —  Mystery of al-Megrahi release
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs
Rasmussen Reports:
44% Favor President's Health Care Plan, 53% Oppose
Discussion: The Greenroom and NewsBusters.org
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK
 
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