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12:40 PM ET, September 14, 2009

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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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George Stephanopoulos / George's Bottom Line:
Obama Speech No Game-Changer  —  Our new ABC News/Washington Post poll out this morning shows that the President's joint session speech may have stopped his summer slide, but it doesn't appear to have been the “game-changer” Democrats were hoping for.  —  No doubt Obama's passionate …
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Obama to Address Wall Street as Health Care Support Slides
Tony Romm / The Hill:
GOP posts small gains in latest WaPo-ABC poll
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and Commentary
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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Jeremy Olshan / New York Post:
‘Pimp & hooker’ catch B'klyn staff
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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 …
Mark McDonald / New York Times:
New Message Reported From bin Laden  —  Two days after the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington, Osama bin Laden apparently released a new audiotape, entitled “An Address to the American People,” news agencies reported Monday.
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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.
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 …
Discussion: The Big Picture
Michael Kinsley / Washington Post:
Democrats Need to Stop the Umbrage Game on Rep. Joe Wilson  —  Rep. Joe Wilson, the Republican from South Carolina who shouted “You lie” during President Obama's health-care address to Congress, has already apologized at least twice: once in a statement issued by his office and once in a phone call to the White House.
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John Bresnahan / The Politico:
No more Wilson apologies
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.
Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone:
Kanye West Storms the VMAs Stage During Taylor Swift's Speech  —  Leave it to Kanye West to produce one of the most infamous moments in VMAs history before the 2009 show was even an hour old.  It happened after Taylor Swift's victory in the Best Female Video category for “You Belong With Me …
Maggie Haberman / New York Post:
Lazio to announce run for governor  —  Rick Lazio, the former Long Island congressman who tried to take on Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2000 for US Senate, will formally declare he's running for governor next Monday, The Post has learned.  —  Lazio's announcement, set for Albany next Monday …
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and The Page
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Erin Andrews / New York Post:
GOP pushing Sen. Giuliani
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 …
Discussion: Think Progress and The Hill
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Palin speech to be closed press
Robbie Brown / New York Times:
Ex-Mayor of Memphis Starts Bid for Congress, Invoking Race in Campaign  —  MEMPHIS — A Congressional race in Tennessee has become freighted with racial overtones almost a year before the election, with a prominent black politician saying the white incumbent cannot properly represent black voters.
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Joyce Purnick: Mayor Bloomberg spent big exploring a run for president — Obama: Wall Street must take responsibility — Sen. Kennedy: what Sen. Byrd said during a private gays-in-the-military meeting  —  BIRTHDAYS: Will Nichols, who turns 2 today, celebrated in style last night with dinner at Sushiko …
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
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CNN:
Key Senate Dem: There will be a public option  —  INDIANOLA, Iowa (CNN) — Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, a Democrat who recently filled the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's seat as chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said Sunday that a Senate health-care reform bill would include a …
Discussion: TPMDC, Taylor Marsh and msnbc.com
Tim Jones / Breitbart.tv:
Wall Street Journal:
China Strikes Back on Trade  —  Beijing Threatens U.S. Chicken, Car Parts After Washington Slaps Stiff Tariffs on Tires  —  BEIJING — China on Monday called for talks over the China-U.S. trade dispute in a sign the disagreement may be containable, as evidence emerged that the economic value …
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Forbes:
The Price Of A Scoop: Two Dead
Discussion: Wizbang
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Silver Lining Of The Right's Apoplexy
Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Traficant mulling another run for Congress
Discussion: The Hill
Rasmussen Reports:
Health Care Reform
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight and AmSpecBlog
Tony Romm / The Hill:
Blago mourns friend's death, compares himself to Gov. Crist
Jim Shelby / Knoxville News-Sentinel:
Federal health care will mimic IRS
Discussion: EconoPundit
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Dissent Of The Day  —  A reader writes: … Well, count me in, then.
 Earlier Items: 
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
WaPost Op-Ed Page Once Again Misleading Its Readers
Dan / Riehl World View:
Updated: 9/12 Attendance Issues Addressed