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1:30 AM ET, August 4, 2009

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KTLA:
Obama ‘Joker’ Poster Causing a Stir in L.A.  —  Obama “Joker” Poster  —  What do you think?  —  When you're taking flak... ÃÂyou know you're over the target,and the person who made this poster is shining the light of truth on the Obama administration.
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Steven Mikulan / LA Daily:
New Anti-Obama ‘Joker’ Poster  —  A new poster depicting President Obama as a version of Heath Ledger's Joker character in The Dark Knight has appeared in Los Angeles, according to rightwing sources.  Blog posters to such online sites as American Thinker and Tammy Bruce are predictably in the throes of political orgasm.
Hideaki Tailor / Weekly World News:
OBAMA JOKER POSTER  —  LOS ANGELES, CA - A poster depicting President Obama as Batman's The Joker has begun appearing around Los Angeles.  —  Someone has been creating posters of President Obama in the famous face paint of The Dark Knight's Joker, famously depicted by Heath Ledger.
Lee Fang / Think Progress:
Durbin Responds To Lobbyist-Run Efforts To Harass Town Halls: We 'Won't Fall For A Sucker-Punch Like This'  —  ThinkProgress reported today on the growing number of angry right-wing activists viciously harassing Democratic, as well as moderate Republican, members of Congress on health care reform.
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Martin Kady II / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
Doggett calls protesters a ‘mob’  —  Rep. Lloyd Doggett's office is calling the protesters who swarmed him in Austin over the weekend a “mob,” and blaming the chaos on the local libertarian and Republican activists.  —  The Doggett protests also appear to be part of a larger organizing effort …
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Doggett says he's more resolved than ever to pass a health-care plan
Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:
Angry right harasses Rep. Lloyd Doggett with anti-health care chants.
David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Is This the Source of the Forged ‘Kenyan Birth Certificate?’  —  [Update: Credit where it's due—my source tipped me off to this in the Politijab web forums, which have become a good site for “birther” debunking.]  —  One of my friends in the small community of Obama “birther” …
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Blue-State Blues  —  We know because he said so, in the first of many famous speeches, that Barack Obama doesn't see Red America or Blue America — he only sees the United States of America.  But as the president contemplates his faltering poll numbers and his stalling health-care push …
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Ezra Klein:
Should We Envy Texas?  —  Ross Douthat has a strange column today arguing that Texas — yes, Texas — represents the sort of “model” economy that Barack Obama promised but can't quite seem to achieve.  “The president wants to govern America like a blue state,” writes Douthat.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Obama Administration Weighs in on State Secrets, Raising Concern on the Left  —  A Supreme Court filing from the Obama administration last month has set off alarm bells on the left.  —  The filing was a friend-of-the-court brief, and it mostly dealt with an excruciatingly technical question about the attorney-client privilege.
Discussion: AMERICAblog News
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Hotline On Call:
McCain To Vote “No” On Sotomayor
Discussion: Hot Air and Wonkette
Kathy Kiely / USA Today:
Republican support for Sotomayor looks paltry
Discussion: The Page
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Are Democrats In For An August Slaughter?  —  Democrats know the rulebook.  The tactics being used against them by Republican and conservative groups were perfected by the party when it set out to defeat President Bush's Social Security privatization proposals.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:   Ambinder  —  Marc Ambinder seems to think the tea-bagger effort …
Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
5 things to watch during recess  —  House Minority Leader John Boehner has predicted a “very, very hot summer.”  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is bracing for what she calls “the fight of our lives.”  —  Sleepy, sweltering August, typically a month for congressional beach getaways …
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Weekly Standard:
And That's the Way It Wasn't  —  From the Scrapbook.  —  It seems somehow oddly appropriate that the passing of TV news giant Walter Cronkite should have produced in turn a gigantic correction in the New York Times, which we reproduce here for your delectation:
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Wall Street Journal:
Geithner Vents as Overhaul Stumbles  —  WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner blasted top U.S. financial regulators in an expletive-laced critique last Friday as frustration grows over the Obama administration's faltering plan to overhaul U.S. financial regulation, according to people familiar with the meeting.
Discussion: Clusterstock and zero hedge
Paul Krugman:
In defense of Michelle Malkin  —  No, really.  She's been getting a lot of grief from progressive bloggers for saying that extended unemployment benefits cause higher unemployment, and attributing that view to Larry Katz, who has gone to some pains to say that he believes no such thing.
Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street Journal:
White House Cybersecurity Chief Quits  —  WASHINGTON — The White House's acting cybersecurity czar announced her resignation Monday, in a setback to the Obama administration's efforts to better protect the computer networks critical to national security and the global economy.
Discussion: Danger Room, Emptywheel and On Deadline
David Paul Kuhn / Real Clear Politics:
Both Parties Have Their Fanatics  —  Fully 35 percent of Democrats believe George W. Bush had advance knowledge of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.  Fully 28 percent of Republicans believe Barack Obama wasn't born in the United States.  —  Meet the fanatical third.
New York Times:
Bill Clinton in North Korea to Seek Release of U.S. Reporters  —  WASHINGTON — Former President Bill Clinton went to North Korea on Monday to negotiate the release of two American television journalists who were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for illegally entering North Korean territory …
Michelle Malkin:
Into the lion's den: My encounter with The View; Vid link added  —  Just finished up on The View, where I sparred with the ladies about Culture of Corruption.  —  You can watch a bit of it at RCP and I'm sure Hot Air will have highlights up soon.  —  Best part: Every single member of the audience got a copy of the book!
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The scope — and dangers — of GE's control of NBC and MSNBC  —  (updated below - Update II - Update III)  —  I want to return to the subject of GE's silencing of Keith Olbermann both because there are new facts I've obtained that shed light on what happened here and because this is one of …
Wyatt Andrews / CBS News:
Protesters Trash Health Care Reform  —  Democrats Met With Anger over Prospect of Higher Taxes, Government-Run “Obama-Care” on Eve of August Recess  —  (CBS) The debate over health care reform has been raging in Washington for weeks.  But outside the nation's capital, this healthy discourse has grown loud with vocal protests.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Kevin Helliker / Wall Street Journal:
Killer App for Clunkers Spurs Market  —  Rebate Program Prescribes Chemical to Stop Car Engines — for Good; Mechanics 'Can't Wait'  —  Robert Mueller deals in chemicals for a living — things that can unstick glue, thin paint, make plastic — but he'd never seen an order like the one he got for sodium silicate.
Discussion: Clusterstock
The Hill:
Tax trial balloon pops  —  The Obama administration on Monday quickly shot down a trial balloon it floated over the weekend that opened the possibility of new taxes on the middle class after the idea came under heavy fire from labor unions, liberal leaders and Republicans.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
And for the Blue Team?  —  We spent most of Monday reporting on these tea-bagging crowds going to Democratic health care town hall meetings to shout down the hosts and shut the events down.  It's classic agitprop, very akin to the ‘Brooks Brothers riot’ down in Florida during the recount.
Chris Good / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
GOP Polling Charts Galore  —  For anyone who enjoys a) charts and b) speculating about who will win the Republican presidential primary in 2012, Pollster.com has just greatly improved your life: the site is now tracking favorability ratings for Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, as well as Sarah Palin.
Dion Lefler / Kansas City Star:
Kansas casino partner linked to son's sex scandal  —  A Washington sex scandal involving a Nevada senator could become a problem for a Sumner County casino.  —  Kansas Lottery officials and state legislators say they're concerned about casino proponent Michael Ensign's role in making $96,000 …
Laura A. Munson / New York Times:
Those Aren't Fighting Words, Dear  —  LET'S say you have what you believe to be a healthy marriage.  You're still friends and lovers after spending more than half of your lives together.  The dreams you set out to achieve in your 20s — gazing into each other's eyes in candlelit city bistros …
Discussion: Vox Popoli
James Grimmelmann / The Laboratorium:
The AP Will Sell You a “License” to Words It Doesn't Own  —  The Associated Press has become so deranged, so disconnected from reality, that it will sell you a “license” to quote words it didn't write and doesn't own.  Here, check it out:  —  I paid $12 for this “license.”
 
 
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As ‘Clunker’ Rebates Help Ford, Aid May Be Extended
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Murphy hears it from both sides of issue
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The Note:
‘Top Line’ — Liberals Pressed on Public Option
Daily Mail:
Three policewomen spend full day dressed in Muslim burkhas …
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