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11:20 AM ET, September 10, 2009

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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:
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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!”
Mere Rhetoric:
Video Flashback: Dems Shout And Boo At Bush During 2005 SOTU [Video]  —  The scrupulous FogCityJohn, member of the reality-based Daily Kos community, currently has a top post intriguingly titled “If Joe Wilson Were A Democrat.”  He muses thusly: … Remember the time when some deep-feeling member …
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 …
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 …
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.
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
BREAKING: The News in the Speech  —  Looks like there's some news in the speech after all.  Quite a bit.  —  On the policy front, President Obama tonight endorses, clearly and unambiguously, a requirement that everybody obtain insurance—that is, an individual mandate.  He has not done that before, not this explicitly.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
A voice from the floor on illegal immigrants: ‘Lie’  —  One of the most persistent conservative concerns about health care legislation is that it will provide health care to illegal immigrants — and the heated claim spilled onto the floor of President Obama's address to a joint session …
Tom Shales / Washington Post:
Obama, Pulling A Jimmy Stewart  —  Was it a mistake for Barack Obama — as political performer — to deliver his biggest speech yet on health-care reform to a joint session of Congress instead of as a fireside chat, or by some other mechanism that the president has at his disposal?
Gateway Pundit:
Stunner... AP Pummels Liar In Chief's Dishonest Speech  —  Here's a stunner.  —  After the campaign speech Barack Obama delivered to Congress tonight the state-run media reported that Dear Leader's talking points were not true.  —  They were being kind.  —  This made it past the editor's desk at the AP:
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.
John / Power Line:
Obama's Speech: Did It Help Him?
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere
Associated Press:
FACT CHECK: Obama uses iffy math on deficit pledge
Discussion: A Blog For All and NewsBusters.org
Gateway Pundit:
Congressman Yells “Liar” as Obama Spews Talking Points to Congress (Video)
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Librulz  —  If you have a chance to see Barney Frank on Maddow tonight do.
Michelle Malkin:
Unruly moment, manufactured outrage
Discussion: TalkLeft
Chris Reed / America's Finest Blog:   Sure, he was a rude jerk. But Rep. Joe Wilson has a point.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
JOE WILSON MAKES A NAME FOR HIMSELF.... Ostensibly …
Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
The guy who yelled “You lie!”
Discussion: Think Progress
Mark Blumenthal / Pollster.com:
Instant Reaction Polls: A Pre-Speech Primer
Discussion: Daily Kos
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
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 …
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William Kristol / PostPartisan:
The Real Public Option: Start Over
Jerry Seper / Washington Times:
EXCLUSIVE: Inquiry opened into New Black Panther case  —  The Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility has begun an inquiry into the dismissal in May of a civil complaint against the New Black Panther Party and two of its members who disrupted a Philadelphia polling place during last year's presidential elections.
Discussion: Michelle Malkin
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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