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5:40 PM ET, August 7, 2009

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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:
RAW VIDEO!!.....TEA PARTY PROTESTERS ATTACKED— 1 Black Conservative Seriously Hurt in St. Louis!... 6 Arrested Including SEIU Members  —  ** RAW VIDEO from Missourah blog:  —  A black conservative was attacked by the Carnahan-supporting mob.  —  At least one SEIU member is arrested by St. Louis police in this video:
Dana Loesch / thedanashow.wordpress.com:
BREAKING: Carnahan staffer admits to causing trouble?
Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Town Halls Turning Into Town Brawls
Discussion: Think Progress and Ezra Klein
K. Daniel Glover / Accuracy in Media:
The Media Take Aim At ‘The Mob’
Adam Smith / St. Petersburg Times:
Protesters drown out Tampa health care summit
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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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.
Wall Street Journal:
‘You Are Terrifying Us’  —  Voters send a message to Washington, and get an ugly response.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  We have entered uncharted territory in the fight over national health care.  There's a new tone in the debate, and it's ugly.  At the moment the Democrats are looking …
Blue Texan / Firedoglake:
Peggy Noonan: Health Care Protests Haven't “Gotten Out of Hand” …
Discussion: Facing South
CNN:
First on the CNN Ticker: Florida senator to resign seat  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Florida, will announce that he is resigning his seat, three GOP sources tell CNN.  —  The sources said that Martinez will officially announce his intention to step down on Friday.
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Josh Kraushaar / Scorecard's Blog:
Mel Martinez resigning  —  Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) will be resigning from the Senate, according to several senior Republican sources familiar with his thinking.  —  He made the announcement at a morning staff meeting, where he said he will not be returning to the Senate after the August recess.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
FL-Senate: Martinez to Resign
The Campaign Spot:
Mel Martinez, Leaving Office a Little Early?  (UPDATED)
Rasmussen Reports:
41% View Town Hall Protesters Favorably, 35% Don't  —  Forty-one percent (41%) of U.S. voters have a favorable opinion of the people opposing health care reform at town hall meetings now being conducted by members of Congress, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
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Hartford Courant:   The Tea Baggers Are Back — Crazy as Ever
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 …
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Daniel Indiviglio / The Atlantic Business Channel:
Did The Unemployment Rate Really Go Down?  —  As Derek wrote …
New York Times:
Taliban Leader in Pakistan Is Reportedly Killed  —  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Baitullah Mehsud, the main leader of Pakistan's fearsome Taliban movement, was killed Wednesday in a C.I.A. drone missile strike, two Taliban fighters said Friday, though American and Pakistani officials could not confirm the reports.
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Juan Cole / Informed Comment:
Pakistani Taliban Leader Possibly Killed Supreme Court Challenges …
Discussion: democracyarsenal.org
Fox News:
White House Move to Collect ‘Fishy’ Info May Be Illegal, Critics Say  —  The White House has been under fire since posting a blog on Tuesday that asks supporters to e-mail any “fishy” information seen on the Web or received electronically.  —  FOXNews.com  —  The White House strategy …
David Harsanyi / Denver Post:
Presenting new rules for radicals  —  If you're a virtuous and patriotic American, you may find this column either offensive or misleading.  If so, please forward it to White House authorities at the Department of Fishy Activity.  (E-mail the good people at flag@whitehouse.gov.)
Discussion: Dr. Helen
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Reactions to Rush Limbaugh's Obama/Hitler comparison  —  [updated below (ADL) - Update II (Simon Wiesenthal Center) - Update III]  —  As I noted yesterday, the comparison of an anonymous person in the 2004 MoveOn.org ad contest of Bush to Hitler generated a massive media firestorm for a full week …
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 sitewide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites on Thursday, according to a Facebook executive.
Bill Maher / The Huffington Post:
New Rule: Smart President ≠ Smart Country  —  New Rule: Just because a country elects a smart president doesn't make it a smart country.  A few weeks ago I was asked by Wolf Blitzer if I thought Sarah Palin could get elected president, and I said I hope not, but I wouldn't put anything past this stupid country.
Discussion: Pajamas Media
Abf / We'll Know When We Get There:
Sincerely, John Hughes  —  I was babysitting for my mom's friend Kathleen's daughter the night I wrote that first fan letter to John Hughes.  I can literally remember the yellow grid paper, the blue ball point pen and sitting alone in the dim light in the living room, the baby having gone to bed.
Felix Salmon:
Ben Stein finally Expelled from NY Times  —  You'll forgive me if I take some small measure of credit for this one: after something in the region of 35,000 words of the Ben Stein Watch, the world's worst financial columnist has finally been fired from the New York Times.  And I couldn't be happier.
Discussion: Gawker and Mediaite
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
SEIU Gets Threatening Phone Call: “You're Gonna Come Up Against The Second Amendment”  —  An official with SEIU, which has been sending members to town halls to counterbalance the Tea Party brigade, sends over this audio of a phone call the union says it received on its central voicemail system …
Jonathan D. Glater / New York Times:
Another Hurdle for the Jobless: Credit Inquiries  —  Digging out of debt keeps getting harder for the unemployed as more companies use detailed credit checks to screen job prospects.  —  Out of work since December, Juan Ochoa was delighted when a staffing firm recently responded to his posting …
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
A Better Plan for Health-Care Reform  —  In 1986, Ronald Reagan and Bill Bradley created a legislative miracle.  They fashioned a tax reform that stripped loopholes, political favors, payoffs, patronage and other corruptions out of the tax system.  With the resulting savings, they lowered tax rates across the board.
 
 
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