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1:05 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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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:
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.
Associated Press:
Obama heckled by GOP during speech to Congress  —  WASHINGTON — The nastiness of August reached from the nation's town halls into the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday as President Barack Obama tried to move his health care plan forward.  —  South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson shouted …
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:
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.
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?
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 …
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:
Alexandra Gutierrez / American Prospect:
If Only There Were Truth to Wilson's Heckling.
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Michelle Malkin:
Unruly moment, manufactured outrage
Discussion: TalkLeft
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Obama: I used to say 47 million uninsured. Now, it's 30 million.
John / Power Line:
Obama's Speech: Did It Help Him?
Associated Press:
FACT CHECK: Obama uses iffy math on deficit pledge
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and A Blog For All
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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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 …
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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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Lewis Krauskopf / Reuters:
HMO shares rise after Obama health reform speech  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of U.S. health insurers climbed on Thursday as analysts said President Barack Obama's highly anticipated speech urging Congress to act on health reform revealed no “game changers.”
Discussion: Newshoggers.com
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The Hill:
Analysis: Obama speech to Congress unlikely to be game changer
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 and Commentary
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 …
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 …
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