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11:55 AM ET, September 13, 2009

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ABC News Was Misquoted on Crowd Size — ABC News Reported D.C. Rally Size in Tens of Thousands, Not 1M to 1.5M as Activist Said. — Conservative activists, who organized a march on the U.S. Capitol today in protest of the Obama administration's health care agenda and government spending …

Discussion: Outside The Beltway, Media Matters for America, Washington Monthly, Osborne Ink, TVNewser, At-Largely, The Raw Story, Firedoglake, Wizbang, The Mahablog, DISSENTING JUSTICE and Michelle Malkin

Daily Mail:

Up to two million march to US Capitol to protest against Obama's spending in ‘tea-party’ demonstration — Up to two million people marched to the U.S. Capitol today, carrying signs with slogans such as “Obamacare makes me sick” as they protested the president's health care plan and what they say is out-of-control spending.

Michelle Malkin:

Yes, the picture is real, nutroots — I was offline for most of the afternoon and early evening — and just learned that the nutroots are claiming that the screenshot of the 9/12 march in D.C. that I posted — taken from a livecam of the event that I linked to here — is somehow “fake.”

Discussion: Daily Kos, The Political Carnival, Hot Air, Dr. Melissa Clouthier, Freedom's Lighthouse, RBO, Sister Toldjah and Political Byline

Matt Welch / Reason:

Quick Impressions of the D.C. 9/12 Protest — I just came back from spending four-plus hours with the Don't-Tread-On-Me crowd at our nation's capitol. Expect a full Reason.tv report later, but my snap impressions: — * Big crowd. Do not believe any description that says “thousands.”

Discussion: The American Scene and New York Times

Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:

Tea Party Patriotism — I wouldn't want to tell you that the majority of the people I saw at this morning's tea party were such hard-core patriots that they felt the need to walk around waving flags of treason and slavery: — Still it did strike me as noteworthy that your basic tea party crowd …

Discussion: TBogg, The Reality-Based Community and The Reaction

Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:

ABC Denies It Ever Said Yesterday's Protest Rally Had 1 Million People — A slight discrepancy has broken out between a conservative activist, the new media and a member of the old media quoted as a source for some in the new media: it's only a matter of the whether the size of yesterday's protest …

Discussion: CBC News, Sky News and Jules Crittenden

Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:
HEADLINE: Up to two million march to US Capitol to protest …

Discussion: The Powers That Be, Pajamas Media, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, Commentary and Gateway Pundit

Think Progress:
Radical, Racist Signs Featured At 9/12 March

Discussion: Washington Monthly, At-Largely, The Washington Independent, Climate Progress, The Politico, Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog!, The Raw Story and Washington Post

Shannon Love / Chicago Boyz:
An Important Qualifier — Via Instapundit comes a major …

Discussion: The Rhetorican and Sadly, No!

Russell Goldman / ABCNEWS:
Thousands March to US Capitol to Protest Spending

Discussion: Reason, CNN, Wall Street Journal, Fox News, Associated Press, The BRAD BLOG, Hot Air, Verum Serum and Taylor Marsh

Washington Post:
Tens of Thousands Protest Obama Initiatives at Capitol

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Mark Hemingway / The Corner on National Review Online:
NRO at the 912 March — By: Mark Hemingway

Discussion: Power Line, Salon, The Rhetorican and Neptunus Lex

Kevin Drum / MoJo Blog Posts:
Quote of the Day — From Sen. Jim DeMint, commenting …

Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog, Don Surber, The Moderate Voice, Matthew Yglesias, Washington Monthly, New York Times and The Reaction

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:

Boy, Oh, Boy — The normally nonchalant Barack Obama looked nonplussed, as Nancy Pelosi glowered behind. — Surrounded by middle-aged white guys — a sepia snapshot of the days when such pols ran Washington like their own men's club — Joe Wilson yelled “You lie!” at a president who didn't.

Discussion: The Swamp, Kansas City Star, Politico Live's Blog, And So it Goes in Shreveport, Mediaite, NewsBusters.org, BuzzFlash.org, DownWithTyranny!, the talking dog and The Mahablog

Fox News:

Wilson Defends Outburst, Says He Will Not Apologize on House Floor — Rep. Joe Wilson says he will not apologize again for his outburst during President Obama's health care address. — FOXNews.com — Rep. Joe Wilson said Sunday that he will not apologize on the House floor …

Discussion: Stop The ACLU, Gateway Pundit, Taegan Goddard's … and POWIP

Manu Raju / Politico Live's Blog:

Wilson: 'I'm not going to apologize again' — Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) won't apologize in the well of the House after he shouted “You Lie!” during President Barack Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress. — “I am not going to apologize again,” Wilson said on “Fox News Sunday.”

Frank Rich / New York Times:

Obama's Squandered Summer — THE day before he gave his latest brilliant speech, Barack Obama repeated a well-worn mantra to a television interviewer: “My job is not to be distracted by the 24-hour news cycle.” The time has come for him to expand that job description.

Discussion: Prairie Weather

Media Matters for America:
Nets devote more coverage to Wilson's outburst than to Obama's speech

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Ronald Bailey / Reason:

Norman Borlaug: The Man Who Saved More Human Lives Than Any Other Has Died — Norman Borlaug, the man who saved more human lives than anyone else in history, has died at age 95. Borlaug was the Father of the Green Revolution, the dramatic improvement in agricultural productivity that swept the globe in the 1960s.

Discussion: Power Line, The Agitator, Betsy's Page, Moe Lane and The American Mind

Justin Gillis / New York Times:
Norman Borlaug, 95, Dies; Led Green Revolution

Discussion: Chicago Boyz and Cafe Hayek

Mark J. Konkol / Chicago Sun Times:

Key Blagojevich adviser Christopher Kelly dead — The man federal prosecutors pressured to cooperate in the corruption probe of ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich died of an apparent aspirin overdose on Saturday, law enforcement sources said. — Christopher Kelly, 51, of Burr Ridge …

Discussion: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS

Newsdesk / Clout St:
Christopher Kelly, key figure in Blagojevich corruption probe, is dead

Discussion: Associated Press, TalkLeft and Pajamas Media

Brandon Darby / Big Government:

Former Leftist Activist, Turned FBI Informant, Pulls Back the Curtain On ACORN — I first experienced ACORN in post-Katrina New Orleans. I was part of a relief organization, Common Ground Relief, which had been delivering much needed aid to the 9th Ward, an area that had been hit especially hard by the flood waters and by neglect.

Discussion: AmSpecBlog, The Rhetorican and Political Byline

Eric Schmitt / New York Times:

U.S. to Expand Review of Detainees in Afghan Prison — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration soon plans to issue new guidelines aimed at giving the hundreds of prisoners at an American detention center in Afghanistan significantly more ability to challenge their custody, Pentagon officials and detainee advocates say.

Discussion: ATTACKERMAN