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7:05 PM ET, September 14, 2009

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James O'Keefe / Big Government:
ACORN Video: Prostitution Scandal in New York, NY … So, we headed up to New York...  [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed.  Visit the blog entry to see the video.]  —  [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed.  Visit the blog entry to see the video.]
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Washington Post:
Opposition to Obama's Health-Reform Plan Is High, but Easing  —  President Obama continues to face significant public resistance to his drive to initiate far-reaching changes to the country's health-care system, with widespread skepticism about central tenets of his plan, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
House Dems: We Will Condemn Wilson For “Breach Of Decorum,” Not For “Speech”  —  The House Dem leadership has decided that it must condemn Joe Wilson for his “you lie,” outburst, and is likely to decry his “conduct” and his “breach of decorum” as early as tomorrow, rather than censure him for …
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Michael Kinsley / Washington Post:
Democrats Need to Stop the Umbrage Game on Rep. Joe Wilson
Discussion: Commentary
Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
Boehner will vote “no” on anti-Wilson resolution
Discussion: Townhall.com
WhiteHouse.gov Blog:
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON FINANCIAL RESCUE AND REFORM  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much.  It is wonderful to be back in New York after having just been here last week.  It is a beautiful day and we have some extraordinary guests here in the Hall today.  I just want to mention a few.
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Two in Three Americans Oppose Rep. Joe Wilson's Outburst
Discussion: The Swamp and Washington Wire
Simon Parry / Daily Mail:
Revealed: The ghost fleet of the recession  —  The biggest and most secretive gathering of ships in maritime history lies at anchor east of Singapore.  Never before photographed, it is bigger than the U.S. and British navies combined but has no crew, no cargo and no destination …
Adam Nagourney / The Caucus:
Obama May Do Back-to-Back TV Interviews Sunday  —  It's going to be awfully hard to avoid President Obama on television this Sunday.  —  The president is going to appear on five Sunday talk shows - five - to press his case for health care, White House officials disclosed.  That is a presidential record.
Peter Wallsten / Los Angeles Times:
Some fear GOP is being carried to the extreme  —  The Republican establishment hopes cooler heads will prevail over strongly anti-Obama parts of the conservative base.  —  Reporting from Washington - Amid a rebirth of conservative activism that could help Republicans win elections next year …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Unamplified, Beck's Voice Still Carries  —  Establishment Outlets Missed Van Jones Story  —  It has become a familiar chain reaction: Talk-show hosts whip up a noisy controversy, which hits higher decibels as it spreads to the establishment media, which costs some unfortunate soul his job.
ColorOfChange.org:
Ad Boycott Costs Glenn Beck Over 50% of Ad Dollars  —  62 Companies Refusing to Advertise with Beck Cost Fox  —  Nearly $600k Per Week  —  OAKLAND, Calif. — The advertising boycott of Glenn Beck has cost the controversial host over half of his estimated advertising revenue since it was launched by ColorOfChange.org a month ago.
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People-Press.org:
Press Accuracy Rating Hits Two Decade Low  —  Public Evaluations of the News Media: 1985-2009  —  The public's assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now at its lowest level in more than two decades of Pew Research surveys, and Americans' views of media bias and independence now match previous lows.
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Does Health Care Reform Debate Carry Risks For The GOP, Too?  —  One point that hasn't gotten the attention it deserves: When it comes to health care, Dems are not the only major American political party courting serious political risk.  —  The vast majority of commentary, understandably …
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Warning Signs for GOP in Health Care Poll
Josh Rogin / The Cable:
Murtha to Obama: No more troops  —  House defense spending cardinal John Murtha, an early bellwether of congressional opposition to the Iraq war, has made his strongest comments yet opposing more U.S. troops for the war in Afghanistan.  —  The Pennsylvania lawmaker and Vietnam veteran …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Creeping Birtherism at WaPo?  —  I think this must be just really hasty or poor word choice ('native' for ‘ancestral’?).  But TPM Reader AH just flagged for us that in his column today Howie Kurtz refers to Kenya as President Obama's “native country.” … Late Update: As I suspected, poor word choice.
Zaid Jilani / Think Progress:
Boortz compares President Obama to a child molester.  —  Today, on the one-year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, President Obama will speak on Wall Street to “try to breathe new life into efforts to overhaul the financial regulatory system.”  Hate radio host Neal Boortz used …
Miriam Raftery / East County Magazine:
SONIC WEAPONS USED IN IRAQ POSITIONED AT CONGRESSIONAL TOWNHALL MEETINGS IN SAN DIEGO COUNTY  —  A Joint Investigative Report by East County Magazine and Liberty One Radio  —  “Long-range acoustic devices [LRADs] for crowd control can be extremely dangerous.  These are used in Iraq to control insurgents.
Discussion: Firedoglake and Danger Room
Charlie Martin / Pajamas Media:
March on Washington: How Big Was the Crowd?  —  Our attempt to calculate the true size of the 9/12 march.  —  “How big is it?” is certainly one of the world's most dreaded questions.  —  In fact, after the Million Man March in 1995, Congress restricted the National Park Service …
Walter Olson / Wall Street Journal:
A Destructive Toy Story Made in Washington  —  A dubious safety law is hammering small business, but Congress refuses to fix the mess it created in 2008.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  Last Thursday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee finally held a hearing on the highly controversial …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Who are the undeserving “others” benefiting from expanded government actions?  —  The New York Times' Ross Douthat argues, uncontroversially, that the tea-party protests, townhall outbursts and related appendages aren't about specific health care proposals but, instead, are motivated …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
A Simple Request  —  The Atlantic has done me the honor of putting my open letter to George W. Bush on torture on the cover.  Commercially, this is not exactly an easy call (although the magazine did alternate a few newsstand editions with a more sellable cover of Jon Stewart).
Political Punch:
RIP, Jody Powell  —  ABC News has learned that former White House press secretary Jody Powell has died.  —  This afternoon at his house on the Eastern Shore in Maryland, Powell had an apparent heart attack, a family friend said.  —  The former press secretary for President Jimmy Carter was the CEO of the PR firm Powell Tate.
Daniel W. Drezner:
I'm setting the protectionist threat level to safety orange  —  When the Obama administraton announced the decision to slap a 35% tariff on Chinese tire imports, I was pretty sure that free traders would be incensed.  And I haven't been disappointed — even the financial markets are freaking out over this one.
BBC:
Aceh passes adultery stoning law  —  Indonesia's province of Aceh has passed a new law making adultery punishable by stoning to death, a member of the province's parliament has said.  —  The law was passed unanimously by Aceh's regional legislature, said assembly member Bahrom Rasjid.
Discussion: TalkLeft
Paul Krugman:
Freshwater rage  —  I'm still on the road, with only sporadic internet access.  So I've missed out on much of the outpouring of rage over my magazine article.  I gather, though, that the usual suspects are utterly outraged at my suggestion that freshwater macro has spent several decades heading down the wrong path.
ABCNEWS:
Official: NYC Raids Disrupted Possible Terror Attack  —  Al Qaeda Suspect Tracked to New York Over the Weekend, Met with Possible Followers  —  Authorities raided properties in New York City today in an effort that was intended to disrupt the plans of a terror suspect whose travels …
News24:
Media barred from Palin speech  —  Hong Kong - The first keynote speech outside North America by former US vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin will be closed to the media, organisers of the Hong Kong event said on Monday.  —  Palin, mocked during last year's presidential campaign for her lack …
 
 
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Michelle Malkin:
Senate votes on Johanns amendment to cut off ACORN housing funds …
Shailagh Murray / Capitol Briefing:
Baucus Remains Hopeful That Republicans Will Like Committee's Health Bill
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John Distaso / UnionLeader.com:
RNC member may seek Gregg's Senate seat
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The Case for Killing Granny
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
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Obama's Anger Weakens Him, and Us
Discussion: Firedoglake
Tim Jones / Breitbart.tv:
ALTERCATION ENSUES OVER ACORN CREW SELLING GADSDEN 'DON'T TREAD …
Forbes:
The Price Of A Scoop: Two Dead
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Silver Lining Of The Right's Apoplexy
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