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2:35 PM ET, August 11, 2009

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CNN:
Specter faces angry crowd at town hall meeting  —  LEBANON, Pennsylvania (CNN) — A hostile crowd shouted questions and made angry statements Tuesday at a town hall meeting on health care led by Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter.  —  At one point, Specter shouted into his microphone …
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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
How Conservatives Are Blowing Their Chance  —  President Obama is on his way to Portsmouth, New Hampshire at this hour for a town hall meeting on health care.  At this same hour last week, several of the President's top political advisers were meeting in a White House conference room to discuss …
Discussion: Liberal Values and Newshoggers.com
Dorothy Rabinowitz / Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Tone-Deaf Health Campaign  —  The president shouldn't worry about the protestors disrupting town hall meetings.  He should worry about the Americans who have been sitting at home listening to him.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  It didn't take chaotic town-hall meetings …
Andy Barr / The Politico:
Specter faces fury: ‘You work for us!’  —  Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) fired back Tuesday at a raucous town hall audience that booed and jeered him for more than an hour.  —  Specter immediately tried to temper the rough crowd, which started booing him before the question-and-answer session even began …
The Hill:
Obama to enter town hall fray
Discussion: Instapundit
Ezra Klein:
Is the Government Going to Euthanize your Grandmother?  An Interview With Sen. Johnny Isakson.  —  Sarah Palin's belief that the House health-care reform bill would create “death panels” might be particularly extreme, but she's hardly the only person to wildly misunderstand the section …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
ABC RUNS SOLID FACT-CHECKING SEGMENT.... For all the complaining I do about news outlets struggling to sort out fact from fiction, it's only fair to point to a good example of the media actually informing the public about a controversy in a fair and accurate way.
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
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Beth Fouhy / Associated Press:
GOP govs sidestep Palin ‘death panel’ comments
Discussion: Washington Wire and Facing South
Political Punch:
Lost in Translation: Clinton Says She, Not Bill, is the Secretary of State  —  ABC News' Kirit Radia reports: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost her cool Monday after a Congolese student, speaking through a translator, asked her what “Mr. Clinton” thought about a Chinese trade deal …
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Was Hillary jetlagged? …
Megan Garber / CJR:
Andrea Mitchell Attributes Clinton's “Lost in Translation” …
Discussion: The Confluence
Rasmussen Reports:
Support for Congressional Health Care Reform Falls to New Low  —  Public support for the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats has fallen to a new low as just 42% of U.S. voters now favor the plan.  That's down five points from two weeks ago and down eight points from six weeks ago.
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Rasmussen Reports:
32% Favor Single-Payer Health Care, 57% Oppose
Niall Ferguson / Financial Times:
A runaway deficit may soon test Obama's luck  —  Felix the Cat, the wonderful, wonderful cat!  Whenever he gets in a fix, he reaches into his bag of tricks!  —  President Barack Obama reminds me of Felix the Cat.  One of the best-loved cartoon characters of the 1920s, Felix was not only black.
RADAR:
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO INTERVIEW: Sarah Palin Resigned Due To Marital Troubles, Says Levi Johnston  —  Sarah Palin's marriage has been in trouble from the beginning, says Levi Johnston, the father of their grandson Tripp and ex-fiance of daughter Bristol.  —  What's more Levi told RadarOnline.com …
Carla Baranauckas / New York Times:
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Founder of Special Olympics, Dies at 88  —  Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a member of one of the most prominent families in American politics and a trailblazer in the effort to improve the lives of people with intellectual disabilities, died early Tuesday morning at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Mass. She was 88.
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Associated Press:
Obama pitching health care plan to the insured  —  The president prepares for possible New Hampshire town hall disruptions  —  WASHINGTON - His approval ratings slipping, President Barack Obama is retooling his message on health care overhaul, aiming to win over Americans who already have insurance.
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Ben Armbruster / Think Progress:
Dingell says town hall mobs remind him of the Ku Klux Klan.  —  Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), currently the longest serving member of the House of Representatives, has been on the receiving end of some rowdy town hall meetings recently.  People in attendance have displayed signs comparing President Obama …
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Washington Post:
White House Decries Physicians Committee's Poster, Which Mentions Obama Girls  —  The posters went up last week, 14 in Union Station.  On each of the large displays, a thought bubble rises up from a picture of a beautiful 8-year-old: “President Obama's daughters get healthy school lunches.
Benjamin Spillman / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Poll: Reid would lose if Lowden were to run  —  Republican Sue Lowden would defeat incumbent Democratic Sen. Harry Reid by 6 percentage points in a head-to-head matchup, according to a poll of likely Nevada voters.  —  Unfortunately for Reid-bashers, Lowden isn't running — at least not yet.
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
Armed and Dangerous?  —  MSNBC just aired footage of the crowd gathering at the Obama town hall meeting on health care that's supposed to start later today in New Hampshire and pointed out one man in a group holding protest signs with a gun in a holster on his hip.  Apparently not a law officer, but a civilian.
Discussion: New York Magazine and The Mahablog
psychologytoday.com:
Kiss my APA!  —  I've always been interested in really smart people who are cocksure about really dumb ideas.  Drew Westen's recent presentation at this year's American Psychological Association Conference in Toronto helped me explore this phenomenon even further.  <!—break—>
Discussion: Moonbattery and theblogprof
Michael Lind / Salon:
Are liberals seceding from sanity?  —  The left is crazy to insult white Southerners as a group  —  Back in the 1960s, Seymour Martin Lipset and Richard Hofstadter and other liberal sociologists, historians and political scientists, puzzled that anyone could support Barry Goldwater rather …
Discussion: American Power, pandagon.net and Reason
Ed Koch / Real Clear Politics:
Falling Out of Love with Barack Obama  —  I continue to be a supporter of President Barack Obama.  He has had several outstanding successes.  The major one has been a positive change in the economy due primarily, I believe, to his hand-picked team of economic advisers who, from all indications …
Discussion: RIGHTWINGSPARKLE
 
 
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Michelle Malkin:
Obama Kabuki theater in Portsmouth; crowd chants “YES, WE CAN!; …
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