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2:50 PM ET, September 10, 2009

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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
In Lawmaker's Outburst, a Rare Breach of Protocol  —  WASHINGTON — It was a rare breach of the protocol that governs ritualistic events in the Capitol.  —  In an angry and very audible outburst, Representative Joe Wilson, Republican of South Carolina, interrupted President Obama's speech Wednesday night with a shout of “You lie!”
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CNN:
CNN Poll: Double-digit post-speech jump for Obama plan  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Two out of three Americans who watched President Barack Obama's health care reform speech Wednesday night favor his health care plans — a 14-point gain among speech-watchers, according to a CNN/Opinion Research …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Washington Sketch: Republicans Behaving Badly at Obama Speech  —  As President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night, the nation's rapidly deteriorating discourse hit yet another low.  —  It happened at 8:40 pm, just after the president vowed to lawmakers …
New York Times:
Obama's Health Care Speech to Congress  —  Following is the prepared text of President Obama's speech to Congress on the need to overhaul health care in the United States, as released by the White House.  —  Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress, and the American people:
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
The House Bill Does Cover Illegals  —  During Barack Obama's speech tonight, Obama said it was untrue that “the reforms I am proposing” cover illegal aliens.  Someone in the audience, reportedly South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson, yelled out “liar.”  —  Now this isn't the British parliament, so I don't agree with shouting out.
CNN:
Wilson apologizes: ‘I let my emotions get the best of me’  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — GOP Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina issued a statement Wednesday night apologizing for his outburst during President Obama's speech to Congress:
PolitiFact.com statements:
Joe Wilson: “You lie!” (in response to President Obama saying health reform would not insure illegal immigrants.)  —  Joe Wilson of South Carolina said Obama lied, but he didn't  —  We suspect it's rare that the president gets heckled during a speech to a joint session of Congress, but Rep. Joe Wilson didn't hold back.
WhiteHouse.gov Blog:
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT TO A JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS ON HEALTH CARE  —  Washington, D.C.  —  THE PRESIDENT: Madam Speaker, Vice President Biden, members of Congress, and the American people:  —  When I spoke here last winter, this nation was facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
Justin Elliott / LiveWire:
Flashback: Rep. Wilson Also Had To Apologize After Attacking Strom Thurmond's Illegitimate Daughter  —  Last night, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) issued an apology — “I let my emotions get the best of me when listening to the President's remarks” — and called the White House after heckling Obama during …
Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
The press can't even get the “You Lie!” story right
Discussion: Daily Kos
Tom Shales / Washington Post:
Obama, Pulling A Jimmy Stewart
Discussion: New York Times and Don Surber
Peter Hamby / CNN:
(Updated): Wilson's opponent raises $200K
Discussion: TPMDC, The Plum Line and Mediaite
The Hill:
Pelosi halts effort to sanction Wilson over ‘You lie!’ outburst
Discussion: The Hill and The New Republic
Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Cantor Unable To Name Any ‘Compromises’ …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:   Facts Have A Liberal Bias: Illegal Immigrants Not Covered By Health Care Reform.
Alexandra Gutierrez / American Prospect:
If Only There Were Truth to Wilson's Heckling.
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Byron York / Washington Examiner:   Obama: I used to say 47 million uninsured. Now, it's 30 million.
Michelle Malkin:
Unruly moment, manufactured outrage
Discussion: theblogprof
Telegraph:
Army anger as soldier killed saving journalist who ignored Taliban warning  —  Senior Army figures have expressed disquiet over the death of a British soldier killed helping to free a reporter who had been kidnapped in Afghanistan after ignoring security advice against entering a Taliban stronghold.
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Stephen Farrell / At War:
The Reporter's Account: 4 Days With the Taliban
Discussion: Guardian and Telegraph
Sarah Ebner / Times of London:   Negotiators shocked by special forces rescue raid on Taleban
James O'Keefe / Big Government:
Chaos for Glory: My Time With ACORN  —  A famous community organizer once said, “The only way to upset the power structure in your communities is to goad them, confuse them, irritate them and, most of all, make them live by their own rules.  If you make them live by their own rules, you destroy them.”
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Fox News:
ACORN Officials Videotaped Telling ‘Pimp,’ ‘Prostitute’ How to Lie to IRS  —  Officials with the controversial community organizing group ACORN were secretly videotaped offering to assist two individuals posing as a pimp and a prostitute, encouraging them to lie to the Internal Revenue Service …
The Huffington Post:
Yosi Sergant, Obama Aide, Asked To Resign: Glenn Beck Strikes Again  —  Glenn Beck has struck again.  —  Yosi Sergant, who recently popped up on Beck's radar for his involvement in a conference call on national service, has been asked to resign as communications director by the National Endowment …
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John Nolte / Big Hollywood:
A Head Rolls at the NEA: Communications Director Asked to Resign …
Discussion: The Rhetorican
Bloomberg:
London Suicide Connects Lehman Lesson Missed by Hong Kong Woman  —  Sept. 10 (Bloomberg) — Yu Lia Chun, a retired hospital orderly in Hong Kong, never heard of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. before she got a call last September from her banker.  —  “He said, 'Did you hear the news?
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Bloomberg:
Sleep-At-Night-Money Lost in Lehman Lesson Missing $63 Billion
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
John Stossel Leaving ABC For Fox  —  First on TVNewser: John Stossel, the longtime ABC News correspondent and co-anchor of “20/20,” is leaving ABC to join Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network.  TVNewser has learned Stossel will host a weekly, one-hour program for the 2-year-old business channel.
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Political Punch:
Democratic Senators Summoned to White House  —  ABC News has learned that President Obama will be meeting with 16 Democratic senators (and one “Independent Democrat") this afternoon at the White House.  —  They are: Senators Mark Pryor and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, Mark Warner of Virginia …
Discussion: Open Left
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
NBC calls the public option a “fetish”  —  The Villagers always find a way to attack progressives.  Here's NBC's ‘First Read,’ that Chuck Todd is all about says this: … You will never hear anything like this said about conservatives.  Passionately supporting a piece of legislation …
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Watching the Supreme Court make its campaign finance jurisprudence disappear.  —  Early in this morning's special-edition September oral argument in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission—known far and wide as the Hillary: The Movie case—Justice Antonin Scalia stops newbie Solicitor …
Discussion: D-Day, Open Left and On Deadline
 
 
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