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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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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 …
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 …
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 …
New York Times:
Obama's Health Care Speech to Congress — Following is the prepared text of President Obama's speech to Congress on the need to overhaul health care in the United States, as released by the White House. — Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress, and the American people:
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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.
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
The House Bill Does Cover Illegals — During Barack Obama's speech tonight, Obama said it was untrue that “the reforms I am proposing” cover illegal aliens. Someone in the audience, reportedly South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson, yelled out “liar.” — Now this isn't the British parliament, so I don't agree with shouting out.
CNN:
Wilson apologizes: ‘I let my emotions get the best of me’ — WASHINGTON (CNN) — GOP Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina issued a statement Wednesday night apologizing for his outburst during President Obama's speech to Congress:
WhiteHouse.gov Blog:
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT TO A JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS ON HEALTH CARE — Washington, D.C. — THE PRESIDENT: Madam Speaker, Vice President Biden, members of Congress, and the American people: — When I spoke here last winter, this nation was facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
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The Hill:
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,” …
Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:The press can't even get the “You Lie!” story right
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The Hill:Analysis: Obama speech to Congress unlikely to be game changer
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Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars: Facts Have A Liberal Bias: Illegal Immigrants Not Covered By Health Care Reform.
Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:Cantor Unable To Name Any ‘Compromises’ …
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Rachel Weiner / The Huffington Post:Clyburn: Joe Wilson “Ought To Man Up” And Apologize In Person (AUDIO)
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:A voice from the floor on illegal immigrants: ‘Lie’
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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.”
Telegraph:
Army anger as soldier killed saving journalist who ignored Taliban warning — Senior Army figures have expressed disquiet over the death of a British soldier killed helping to free a reporter who had been kidnapped in Afghanistan after ignoring security advice against entering a Taliban stronghold.
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Sarah Ebner / Times of London:Negotiators shocked by special forces rescue raid on Taleban
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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 …
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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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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 …
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 …
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 …
Matt Welch / Reason:
Obama's Lies Matter, Too — On Wednesday night a broad chunk of the American left, and an overlapping circle of media commentators, got what they'd been aching for since the beginning of August: A presidential bitch-slap of the lying liars who've been, in the words of stereotypical L …
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Robert Seidman / TVbytheNumbers:
Updated TV Ratings: SYTYCD vs. POTUS and Glee premieres nicely … 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. — From 8pm-9pm the president averaged 21.2 million just on ABC …
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Big Political Gamble — Red-state Democrats are being asked to risk their seats. — Printer — Friendly — Millions of Americans watched President Barack Obama's speech last night to a joint session of Congress. Much of it was familiar, having been delivered in at least 111 speeches …
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Palin Invokes 9/11 To Attack Obama — Sarah Palin, private citizen, responded to Obama's speech on her Facebook page late last night with the usual mix of bluster and aggrievement, claiming Obama's rebuttal of her “death panel” falsehood demonstrated a lack of “civility.”
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