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12:10 PM ET, August 14, 2009

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New York Times:
False ‘Death Panel’ Rumor Has Some Familiar Roots  —  WASHINGTON — The stubborn yet false rumor that President Obama's health care proposals would create government-sponsored “death panels” to decide which patients were worthy of living seemed to arise from nowhere in recent weeks.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THE EVOLUTION OF A LIE.... Earlier this year, Tom Daschle hosted some public discussions on health care, and would occasionally be confronted with questions about “forced euthanasia.”  In general, he was delighted.  “Almost automatically you have most of the audience on your side,” Daschle said.
Chris Kelly / The Huffington Post:
Sarah Palin Wins
Discussion: protein wisdom
James Fallows:
The NYT says “false.” Good.
Discussion: Brendan Nyhan
Amy Sullivan / Swampland:
Oh, Those Death Panels
Discussion: The Plum Line
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Republican Death Trip  —  “I am in this race because I don't want to see us spend the next year re-fighting the Washington battles of the 1990s.  I don't want to pit Blue America against Red America; I want to lead a United States of America.”  So declared Barack Obama in November 2007 …
Bloomberg:
Climate Change Measure Should Be Set Aside, U.S. Senators Say  —  Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Senate should abandon efforts to pass legislation curbing greenhouse-gas emissions this year and concentrate on a narrower bill to require use of renewable energy, four Democratic lawmakers say.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
GOP thinks the unthinkable: Victory in 2010  —  It's a possibility many Republicans speak of only in whispers and Democrats are just now beginning to face.  After passionate and contentious fights over health care, the environment, and taxes, could Democrats lose big — really big — in next year's elections?
Discussion: Pajamas Media and Redhot
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Learfield / Radio Iowa:
Boswell: Obama willing to be one-term president  —  Congressman Leonard Boswell (D-Des Moines, Iowa) held a town hall meeting in Sigourney this afternoon.  Despite one group's ad which “thanks Boswell for his support” of health care reform, Boswell told the crowd he may vote against it.
Monica Potts / Stamford Advocate:
Stamford Marriott claims woman was negligent in her own rape  —  STAMFORD — A downtown hotel being sued by a woman raped at gunpoint in its parking garage is claiming she was careless, negligent and “failed to exercise due care for her own safety and the safety of her children and proper use …
Discussion: Liberty Street, Jezebel and On Deadline
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Host Loses Some Sponsors After an Obama Remark  —  ABOUT a dozen companies have withdrawn their commercials from “Glenn Beck,” the Fox News Channel program, after Glenn Beck, the person, said late last month that President Obama was a racist with a “deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.”
Jeanne Cummings / The Politico:
Newt's advice for Palin comeback  —  If Sarah Palin wants to make a 2012 political comeback, she'll need three types of speeches, some serious television face time, a credible organization and a bucket load of sheer determination.  —  Oh, and she might want to get a place outside of Alaska, somewhere in the lower 48.
Anne Flaherty / Associated Press:
E-mails from public overload House Web site  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - Amid a boisterous debate on health care reform, people flooded members of Congress on Thursday with so many e-mails that they overloaded the House's primary Web site.  —  Jeff Ventura, a spokesman for the House's chief administrative officer …
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Lane Hudson / Firedoglake:
Why I Interrupted Bill Clinton's Speech at Netroots Nation  —  I love Bill Clinton, but we all make mistakes.  Sometimes we even are forced to do things we don't want to.  That's why I was prepared to ask Bill Clinton a tough question last night as he delivered the opening keynote address at Netroots Nation 2009.
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The Huffington Post:
Clinton Urges Progressive Push On Health Care, Shoots Down Euthanasia Myth
Discussion: On Deadline
WRAL-TV:
Sources: Edwards to admit paternity of ex-mistress' child  —  RALEIGH, N.C. — Sources have told WRAL News that they expect former U.S. Sen. John Edwards to admit that he is the father of his former mistress' 18-month-old daughter.  —  Edwards, a two-time Democratic presidential candidate …
Ari Levy / Bloomberg:
Toxic Loans Topping 5% May Push 150 Banks to Point of No Return  —  Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) — More than 150 publicly traded U.S. lenders own nonperforming loans that equal 5 percent or more of their holdings, a level that former regulators say can wipe out a bank's equity and threaten its survival.
Wall Street Journal:
From ‘Yes, We Can,’ to 'No!  Don't!'  —  Obama turns out to be brilliant at becoming, not being, president.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  Don't strain the system.  Don't add to the national stress level.  Don't pierce when you can envelop.  Don't show even understandable indignation when you can show legitimate regard.
BBC:
Iran inmates ‘tortured to death’  —  One of Iran's defeated opposition presidential candidates has said some protesters held after July's disputed poll were tortured to death in prison.  —  The claim by Mehdi Karroubi comes days after he said a number of prisoners, both male and female, had been raped.
Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Senior Moment  —  Why the elderly are right to worry when the government rations medical care.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  Elderly Americans are turning out in droves to fight ObamaCare, and President Obama is arguing back that they have nothing to worry about.  Allow us to referee.
ABCNEWS:
Fear for Obama's Safety Grows as Hate Groups Thrive on Racial Backlash  —  Violent Signs, Gun, Standoff Latest in Emerging Anger Towards the President  —  Experts who track hate groups across the U.S. are growing increasingly concerned over violent rhetoric targeted at President Obama …
Discussion: Lone Star Times
Jeff Poor / NewsBusters.org:
Vermont Senator Rips Fox: ‘Nothing More Than An Arm of the Republican Party’; Demands Progressive TV Network  —  It's not enough that much of the mainstream media cheered on Barack Obama to the presidency in 2008 or browbeat former President George W. Bush on Iraq and Afghanistan to force Republicans from control of Congress.
Discussion: Don Surber
CNN:
‘Squeaky’ Fromme released from prison  —  (CNN) — Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme was released from federal custody Friday, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons said.  —  Fromme was convicted in 1975 of pointing a gun at then-President Gerald Ford in Sacramento, California.
Jack Schofield / Guardian:
Ørsted gets Google Doodled  —  Thanks to Google, hundreds of millions of people are today celebrating Hans Christian Ørsted's birthday without having much of a clue who he is ... so who exactly was he?  —  Probably not even the physics geeks remember much about Hans Christian Ørsted …
Discussion: Althouse and Pharyngula
Associated Press:
Obama visits Mountain West, knowing vulnerability  —  DENVER (AP) - Perhaps no region of the country better illustrates Barack Obama's political vulnerabilities than the mountain West, a region traditionally wary of the federal government.  —  He's hoping to ease some of those concerns …
Bill Barrow / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
NEW ORLEANS HEALTH & FITNESS  —  The latest updates on heath and healthy Living in New Orleans  —  U.S. Rep. Ahn ‘Joseph’ Cao says he's ‘leaning’ toward House Democrats' health plan … In a public forum defined as much by passionate declarations on abortion as by statements …
Discussion: Think Progress and TPMDC
Judson Berger / Fox News:
‘Town Halls’ a Chance for the President, Not the Public, to Vent  —  A look at President Obama's health care “town hall” Tuesday in Portsmouth, N.H., shows the president out-spoke his audience by a margin of nearly 9-to-1 — hardly the kind of even-handed exchange of ideas that marked the town meetings of colonial America.
Pew Global Attitudes Project:
Growing Concerns about Extremism, Continuing Discontent with U.S.  —  Overview  —  Pakistanis see their country in crisis.  They give their national government lower ratings than at any time in this decade, and almost no one is satisfied with national conditions.
Tucker Reals Updated / CBS News:
Reporter, 11, Grants Obama Homeboy Status  —  Damon Weaver made his name in journalism with a campaign-time interview of then-Vice Presidential wannabe Joe Biden.  Now, a veteran reporter at the age of 11, the Florida boy sat down at the White House to pepper the President himself on issues important to American kids.
Discussion: The Politico, Jezebel and The Page
 
 
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Paul Cullum / Blogs and Stories:
The Banned ‘Family Guy’ Episode
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Bloomberg:
Six Lobbyists Per Lawmaker Work to Shape Health-Care Overhaul
Discussion: The Foundry and Raw Story
Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
Hardball: Lawrence O'Donnell Exposes Clueless Town Hall Protester