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9:20 AM ET, August 7, 2009

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Adam Smith / St. Petersburg Times:
Protesters drown out Tampa health care summit  —  TAMPA - Bitter divisions over reforming America's health care system exploded Thursday night in Tampa amid cat calls, jeering and shoving at a town hall meeting.  —  “Tyranny!  Tyranny!  Tyranny!” dozens of people shouted as U.S …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Fist Fight(s?) at Tampa Townhall  —  The early reports are sketchy.  But apparently a mob of teabaggers began to riot after some were not able to get into a townhall meeting in Tampa.  —  “As the building filled to capacity, angry protesters stuck outside began to scream, yell, and chant,” reports local TV channel 10 in Tampa.
Discussion: The Impolitic
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Town Hall Mob  —  There's a famous Norman Rockwell painting titled “Freedom of Speech,” depicting an idealized American town meeting.  The painting, part of a series illustrating F.D.R.'s “Four Freedoms,” shows an ordinary citizen expressing an unpopular opinion.
John Lyon / Arkansas News:
Lincoln retracts description of health care protests as ‘un-American’  —  LITTLE ROCK — Efforts to disrupt town hall meetings on health care reform are un-American, U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., said today, though she later issued a statement retracting the remark.
William March / TBO.com:
Protests, passions roiling town hall meeting on health care
William March / TBO News Breaking:
Protests, passions roiling town hall meeting on health care
Discussion: Raw Story, Hot Air and American Power
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Blanche Lincoln to health-care protesters: Hey, sorry for calling you “un-American”
Discussion: The Plum Line and Kausfiles
MyFox Tampa Bay:
Tension at town hall meeting
Discussion: Erick's blog and American Power
Leah Thorsen / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Six people, including P-D reporter, arrested at Carnahan meeting  —  UPDATE: St. Louis County police say six people were arrested.  Two of those were arrested on suspicion of assault, one of resisting arrest and three on suspicion of committing peace disturbances.  Carnahan was gone when the ruckus started.
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Gateway Pundit:
SHOCK VIDEO— DEMS SNEAK UNION THUGS INTO CARNAHAN TOWN HALL— 1,000 Tea Party Taxpayers Locked Out!  —  Over 1,000 St. Louis Tea Party Taxpayers showed up at the Russ Carnahan town hall meeting in South St. Louis tonight.  —  They were Locked Out!  —  But... The Carnahan staff was sneaking …
St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Dueling protesters disrupt Carnahan forum on aging  —  In St. Louis and across the country, the debate over health care reform is growing louder.  —  On Thursday evening, a forum on aging called by Rep. Russ Carnahan, D-St. Louis, drew an overflow crowd of several hundred to Bernard Middle School gym in south St. Louis County.
Patterico's Pontifications:
Angry Mob of Racist Extremists Beats Black Man at Town Hall Meeting
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Steven Pearlstein / Washington Post:
Republicans Propagating Falsehoods in Attacks on Health-Care Reform  —  As a columnist who regularly dishes out sharp criticism, I try not to question the motives of people with whom I don't agree.  Today, I'm going to step over that line.  —  The recent attacks by Republican leaders …
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Attaturk / Firedoglake:
“The Other”  —  Now that a Democrat is in the White House,
Discussion: Daily Kos
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Sotomayor Faces Heavy Workload of Complex Cases  —  Now comes the hard part.  —  With the Senate's approval of Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court on Thursday, the new justice will soon take on one of the most demanding jobs in the land.
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Sotomayor Confirmed by Senate, 68-31  —  WASHINGTON — Voting largely along party lines, the Senate on Thursday confirmed Judge Sonia Sotomayor as the 111th justice of the Supreme Court.  She will be the first Hispanic and the third woman to serve on the court.
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Hispanic Votes Not Swaying GOP on Sotomayor
New York Times:
Taliban Leader in Pakistan Was Killed, His Aides Say  —  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of Pakistan's fearsome Taliban militia, was killed Wednesday in a C.I.A. missile strike, two Taliban fighters said Friday, adding that a meeting was taking place to determine which of his top deputies would replace him.
Discussion: Danger Room and The Page
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The Huffington Post:
Anti-Obama Protester Compares President To Nazi In Swastika Sign  —  In championing the protests being staged at Democratic town halls, the Republican Party faces the obvious danger of becoming defined by the crazier elements of the crowd.  So it's hard to imagine GOP higher-ups feeling …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Twitter, Facebook attack targeted one user  —  A Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial of service attack that led to the site-wide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites on Thursday, according to a Facebook executive.
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BBC:
Hackers hit Twitter and Facebook
Discussion: Democrats.com
Pat Saperstein / Variety:
Director John Hughes dies at 59  —  ‘Breakfast Club’ helmer died of a heart attack  —  John Hughes, who captured the zeitgeist of 1980s teen life as writer-director of “The Breakfast Club” and “Sixteen Candles” and produced and scripted family hits such as “Home Alone,” died Thursday of a heart attack in Manhattan while taking a walk.
Dana Loesch / thedanashow.wordpress.com:
Meet the Mob  —  You've heard a lot about this crazy, scary, vicious mob on some shadowy GOP payroll.  By the way the DNC, Rachel Maddow, and President Obama talk, you'd think it was a motley crue of Hell's Angels.  —  Let me introduce you to the mob:  —  I am the mob.  My kids are the mob.
Discussion: RedState and St. Louis Tea Party
Michelle Malkin:
SEIU and the “persuasion of power”  —  In May, I told you how the Service Employees International Union's $61 million investment in Barack Obama paid off with cabinet appointments, executive orders, key personnel slots, and legislative goodies.  —  Now, the SEIU thugs are looking out for The Boss.
Jack Healy / New York Times:
247,000 Jobs Lost in July; Rate Falls Slightly to 9.4%  —  The American economy lost 247,000 jobs in July, and in a reversal, the unemployment rate fell slightly, to 9.4 percent, the government reported Friday.  —  Although businesses are expected to keep cutting jobs through the rest of the year …
Little Green Footballs:
Punkin' the Nirthers  —  That “Kenyan birth certificate” promoted by World Net Daily, Orly Taitz, Free Republic, and quite a few bloggers turns out to have been a deliberate prank on the Nirthers.  They were well and truly punk'd.  —  The first words I wrote immediately after seeing the latest incarnation of the Nirth Certifikit:
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Rachel Slajda / Talking Points Memo:
CNN Anchor Rips Into Health Care CEO Who's Funding Anti-Reform Effort  —  A CNN anchor today tore down Rick Scott, the founder of an organization that's been funding anti-health care reform protests and the former CEO of a hospital company that, as Sanchez pointed out, paid $1.7 billion …
 
 
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Los Angeles Times:
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Michael Steele / CNN:
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Discussion: Jack & Jill Politics and The Swamp
New York Times:
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
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Discussion: The Politico and Firedoglake
Business Week:
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Discussion: Raw Story and unbossed.com
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Revolt against AARP in Dallas: “Do you work for us or do we work for you?”
Andy Barr / The Politico:
Ron Paul: Obama ‘deserves an F’
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