We've been watching the wave of rowdy hecklers at meetings across the nation, it was only a matter of time before they hit our state.

They obviously got the memo about being disruptive. Too bad they didn't get the memo that they've been bought and paid for by Washington lobbyists bent on keeping hardworking Americans under Big Business' thumb.

Amid heckling and boos Tuesday night, North Carolina held its first congressional health-care forum since the issue has become a national flash point.

Congressman G. K. Butterfield was continually interrupted by jeers as he voiced support for President Barack Obama's health-care plan that seems to have increasingly polarized the country in recent days. Tuesday's two-hour forum in a steamy Rocky Mount middle school gymnasium was marked by frequent sharp exchanges.

"Read it!" shouted one man, speaking of the House health-care reform.

"How do you know I haven't read it?" Butterfield shot back.

He was pummeled with questions about whether the health- care legislation would benefit illegal immigrants, about whether he would give up his own congressional health insurance plan, whether he would vote for something unconstitutional, and whether it would allow abortion.

Butterfield, a career judge, maintained his composure.

Read the rest of this Raleigh News and Observer article here.

Watch Rachel Maddow explain who is behind the order to disrupt town hall meetings:

We laugh about South Carolina and all of it's woes, but a recent poll shows that there are just as many idiots living in the Tar Heel State.

Barely half of N.C. voters believe President Obama was born in the United States, according to a poll released Tuesday.

Public Policy Polling surveyed 749 North Carolina voters Aug. 4-10, and found that 54 percent believe that Obama was born in the United States. Twenty-six percent of those surveyed said they do not believe Obama was born in the U.S., and 20 percent said they were not sure.

The survey found that only 24 percent of Republican voters in North Carolina believe Obama was born in the U.S.

The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.6 percentage points.

Conservative critics of Obama contend he is not a natural-born U.S. citizen and, therefore, not eligible to be president.

Let's be real, the only reason "conservatives" [read white folks] want to believe President Obama isn't US born is because they don't want a black president.

Hawaii is a state of this union and that is where President Barack Obama was born.

Are we truly to believe George W. Bush was a C-student in college when he couldn't pronounce nuclear? We believe Bush was taken by surprise on 9-11, but think that Obama was born in an African village?

Wake up North Carolina, Obama is the president and if you don't like it, the borders are open for you to leave.

Sen. John McCain's daughter, Meghan (aka McCainBloggette on Twitter and elsewhere) is tired of Conservative pundits, like Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter -- to name two -- telling her to shut up.

While Meghan's busy trying to draw more people into the Republican party, recognizing new ideas and the need for an infusion of young people and diversity in the aging, mostly white party of crank and grump, others are freaking out because she's speaking her mind. You know, exercising her Constitutional right to free speech afforded under the First Amendment.

Meghan is young, it's true. She's got the McCain party genes (in more ways than one). She's got a lot to learn. But, something else she has that many of her far-right comrades don't is common sense. For example, she writes stuff like this: "We will not get anywhere by continuing to sell hate and fear."

While the Republican party seems to want, more and more, to silence any opposition -- which is the opposite of what's needed in a democracy -- Meghan McCain is standing her ground and continuing to speak her mind.

Kudos to her. It's for that reason that she's a rising Republican star, whether the Republicans want her help or not.

Michelle Malkin, the conservative pundit and author of the recent book Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies, was asked during a live chat on Politico’s The Arena on Friday which conservative political figure or commentator needs to shut up. Guess who her answer was? Yeah, that’s right—yours truly.

So Michelle Malkin successfully rounds out the trifecta of extreme female conservative pundits, following Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter, who believe that I, and Republicans like me, need to shut up and get out of the party. Is this surprising? Not really, given my father’s complicated history with the extreme right of the GOP. But what confuses me is this: Malkin recently posted an item on her blog about how “drowning out opposing views is simply un-American.”

What do Malkin and the other conservative pundits hope to accomplish by arguing that people “like me” have no place within the Republican Party? And who exactly are people “like me”? Young people? Moderate people? Young female people? People with tattoos who go to biker rallies?

However, I am consistently asked why I would want to stay in a party that has members so angry about my involvement. It’s as simple as this: I idealistically believe in the Republican Party, and I also have an emotional connection to it. But if the party continues to demand that people leave, I guarantee you that they will. If you tell people there is no place for them, they aren’t going to fight for their right to stay. They are going to rush into the open arms of the other team.

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Watch Meghan hold her own on The Rachel Maddow Show: