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8:15 AM ET, September 13, 2009

Top Items:

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: TVNewser

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.

Discussion: American Power, QandO, Another Black Conservative, Stop The ACLU, Pundit & Pundette, Pajamas Media, Don Surber, Erick's blog, Associated Press, Confederate Yankee, Big Government, Wizbang, GayPatriot and The Rhetorican

Michelle Malkin:

Celebrating the 9/12 rallies; Turnout estimated at 2 million; Update: How many? ; FreedomWorks in error — Scroll for updates... Twitpic via Brooks Bayne — Twitpic via Prisminc — I can't make it to Washington DC today for the national 9/12 march, but I'm with all the marchers in spirit.

Think Progress:

Radical, Racist Signs Featured At 9/12 March — This morning on ABC's Good Morning America, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) embraced the protesters at today's 9/12 March in Washington, DC, saying that he was “glad they're here to take back their country.” He characterized the attendees as nonpartisan …

Discussion: At-Largely, Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog! and Washington Post

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

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: Dr. Melissa Clouthier, The Political Carnival and Freedom's Lighthouse

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

Discussion: Chicago Boyz, Pajamas Media, The Rhetorican, Commentary, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and Gateway Pundit

Washington Post:
Tens of Thousands Protest Obama Initiatives at Capitol

Discussion: AMERICAblog News, Talking Points Memo, The Corner on National …, The Hill, The Political Carnival and TPMCafe

Stephen Green / Pajamas Media:
They Will Be Heard [UPDATED PRETTY CONSTANTLY]

Discussion: The Other McCain, capitalist coffee, Atlas Shrugs, Instapundit, Nice Deb, Weasel Zippers, American Power, The Sundries Shack and GayPatriot

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

Discussion: Fox News, CNN, Reason, Associated Press, The Politico, Hot Air, Verum Serum and Scared Monkeys

Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Thousands Rally in Capital to Protest Big Government

Discussion: The BRAD BLOG, RBO, theblogprof, The Hill, NewsBusters.org, Townhall.com, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, Right Wing Nut House, The Page, Political Byline, The Reaction, JammieWearingFool, And So it Goes in Shreveport, skippy the bush kangaroo and Wake up America

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

Discussion: Don Surber, The Moderate Voice, Matthew Yglesias and Washington Monthly

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

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

Alan Colmes' Liberaland:
The GOP Corporate Push Behind The 9/12 Teabaggers

Discussion: The Washington Independent, Think Progress, The Other McCain and At-Largely

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 talking dog and NewsBusters.org

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: The Reality-Based Community and The Reaction

Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:

More Reason From the Right — Or: why I am not a tea-partier: — The kid holding it, according to the reader who took this picture, was maybe 16. Obama is a communist and a fascist and a traitor! Then this: — The above protestor is comparing an attempt to privately ensure millions …

Discussion: Feministe

Looking at the Left:

Conservative Woodstock Rocks the Capital — Patriotic anti-big-government taxpayers blast through the 2 million protester mark. — September 12, 2009, Washington, D.C. — ABC News reports that two million Americans flooded D.C. in what people in the crowd were calling “a conservative Woodstock” …

Discussion: Don Surber, Bob McCarty Writes, Atlas Shrugs and The Rhetorican

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

Justin Gillis / New York Times:

Norman Borlaug, 95, Dies; Led Green Revolution — Norman E. Borlaug, the plant scientist who did more than anyone else in the 20th century to teach the world to feed itself and whose work was credited with saving hundreds of millions of lives, died Saturday night. He was 95 and lived in Dallas.

Discussion: Cafe Hayek