memeorandum: Michelle Goldberg Gets It (Andrew Sullivan/The Daily Dish)

2:25 PM ET, November 21, 2009

Top Items:

David Broder: Fears of health-reform cost are justifiable — It's simply not true that America is ambivalent about everything when it comes to the Obama health plan. — The day after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) gave its qualified blessing to the version of health reform produced …

Discussion: Ezra Klein, Firedoglake, The Hill, The Politico, TalkLeft, Prescriptions, The Caucus and The Corner on National …

Jordan Fabian / The Hill:

Crapo: Read the Senate health bill yourself — On the day of the Senate's first vote on healthcare reform legislation, Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) used the GOP's weekly address to urge people to read the 2,074-page bill before forming an opinion. — “Read the bill” has become a Republican rallying cry throughout the healthcare debate.

Discussion: The Politico and The Swamp

Chris Frates / The Politico:

What to watch for in today's debate — Two Saturdays ago, Pelosi passed health reform on a squeaker of a House vote. Today, Reid can't spare a single Democrat as the Senate decides whether to start debate. If not, President Barack Obama's reform hopes suffer immeasurable harm.

Discussion: The Note, The Moderate Voice, The Huffington Post, HorseRaceBlog, Hot Air, AmSpecBlog and NewsBusters.org

New York Times:
Democrats Press Ahead on Debate Before Health Vote

Discussion: Prescriptions

Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Sen. Reid: Opposition to health procedural vote is ‘Orwellian’

Discussion: The Hill

Ed Hornick / CNN:
What to expect in Senate's health care vote

Discussion: Breitbart.tv

James Delingpole / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:

Climategate: how the MSM reported the greatest scandal in modern science — Here's what the Times has had to say on the subject: … (Yep - definitely an improvement on their earlier, non-existent coverage; but not exactly pointing up the scandalousness of this scandal). — And the Independent:

Discussion: Scared Monkeys, Gateway Pundit, Tom Nelson, Townhall.com, Guardian and DeSmogBlog

Bishop Hill:

Climate cuttings 33 — Welcome Instapundit readers! Hope this is useful for you. — General reaction seems to be that the CRUgate emails are genuine, but with the caveat that there could be some less reliable stuff slipped in. — In the circumstances, here are some summaries of the CRUgate files.

Discussion: The Other McCain, Biased BBC, Andrew Bolt and Winds of Change.NET

Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:

Hackers steal electronic data from top climate research center — Scientists' e-mails deriding skeptics of warming become public — Hackers broke into the electronic files of one of the world's foremost climate research centers this week and posted an array of e-mails in which prominent scientists engaged …

Discussion: AmSpecBlog, Achenblog, Don Surber, Tom Nelson, Scholars and Rogues and Climate Progress

Andrew C. Revkin / New York Times:
Hacked E-Mails Fuel Climate Change Skeptics

Fox News:

‘Factor’ Debut, Part 2: Sarah Palin Discusses Obama, Iran, Afghanistan — This is a RUSH transcript from “The O'Reilly Factor,” November 20, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. — Watch “The O'Reilly Factor” weeknights at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET!

Discussion: MoJo Blog Posts and American Power

Bella DePaulo / The Huffington Post:
Sarah Palin and Her Lies (And Her Fans Who Attack Her Critics)

Discussion: American Power and NewsBusters.org

Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:

Michelle Goldberg Gets It — The lies of Sarah Palin are different from any other politicians'. They are different because they assert things that are demonstrably, empirically untrue; and they are different because once they have been deonstrated to the entire world that they are untrue …

Discussion: Althouse

Daily Mail:

It's Barbie in a burkha: World-famous doll gets a makeover to go under the hammer for 50th anniversary — One of the world's most famous children's toys, Barbie, has been given a makeover - wearing a burkha. — Wearing the traditional Islamic dress, the iconic doll is going undercover …

Discussion: Stop The ACLU, Riehl World View, Scared Monkeys, Weasel Zippers and JammieWearingFool

New York Times:

New Consensus Sees Stimulus Package as Worthy Step — WASHINGTON — Now that unemployment has topped 10 percent, some liberal-leaning economists see confirmation of their warnings that the $787 billion stimulus package President Obama signed into law last February was way too small.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Townhall.com, Econbrowser, The Caucus, NewsBusters.org, Prairie Weather, MyDD, Don Surber and Althouse

James Fallows:

Manufactured failure #2: the press, Obama, Asia — It's not just me. Two colleagues with different perspectives — from each other's, and sometimes from my own — marvel at how badly the mainstream American press distorted the picture of what happened during Barack Obama's just-ended tour of Asia.

Discussion: Washington Monthly and Associated Press

Jon Walker / Firedoglake:

Semi-liveblog Of The Debate To Allow Debate To Begin In The Senate — It is important to remember that this is not the debate about the Senate health care bill, the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.” This is a debate about whether to allow the bill to come to the floor where it can be debated and amended.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, The Gavel and TalkLeft

Allahpundit / Hot Air:

Surprise: Many San Francisco booksellers refusing to carry Palin's book; Update: Palin apologizes to those whose books weren't signed — Don't jump to conclusions. It's not that the retailers are closed-minded. It's their customers who are closed-minded. — Well, okay.

Discussion: GOP 12, Top of the Ticket, Don Surber, The Politico and Weasel Zippers