Last week, I finally had the chance to see “11/4/08,” Jeff Deutchman’s documentary about the day Barack Obama was elected President. It was made by dozens of amateur videographers and professional filmmakers, myself included, who captured the tense hours building up to that joyous and cathartic moment when Obama was elected — strangers hugging strangers, spontaneous crowds dancing in the streets.

As time passes, the arguments on both sides of the health care debate are becoming increasingly cloudy and dramatic. And here’s yet another sign that America is getting a little too groggy to think coherently on this: a Newsweek story suggesting that the American health care system should more closely resemble the veterinary business. (Headline: “Treat People Like Dogs.”)

Through a letter addressed to Henry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb is requesting that all “important negotiations” in reconciling the differences between the House and be opened up to C-SPAN’s cameras. Update – White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was asked about this today; view video of his response after the jump:

Yesterday was an exciting — and momentous — day on the House floor as the Health Care reform legislation was furiously debated. But you wouldn’t know it by much of last night’s television programming. On Twitter though — just like the debate in the House — it went on into the night, serving as a bastion of discussion, dissent and celebration.

In what may turn out to be the cruelest irony of the year, the death of Senator Edward Kennedy may have papered over a CNN video clip poised to change the dynamic of the national healthcare debate: footage of a desperate woman crying “We need help!” because she lost health insurance after her husband suffered a brain injury.

How do you deal with a summer news slump? Engage in an ongoing debate about semantics with another TV Anchor in hopes that a respected media critic will cover it, then report on said critic taking the bait? If this sounds confusing, we’ll explain out Jon Stewart, Howard Kurtz and Bill O’Reilly all teamed up to set, what we feel to be, an all-time record for media navel gazing. Kudos!

In honor light of all the coverage health care town hall meetings are getting, Mediaite decided to hold a town hall of its own. We wanted to know what New York had to say about the proposed health care bill. Alas, New York has not been one of the states blessed with an exciting Town Hall (and New Jersey doesn’t count). So, we did what we could.

Watching a few hours of Fox News these days amounts to a non-stop infomercial opposing the Obama Administration’s effort to reform Health Care. While there is always room for a healthy debate on the issues, please don’t look to FNC for a measured discourse – they rarely, if ever, present a constructive solution to the current health care problems (though there is the occasional admission that there is need for reform.) No single entity seems more entrenched in the opposition to the health care reform than Fox News.