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Romney Diversion Backfires and Brings More Attention to Botched Foreign Tour
The truth is Romney, and not the media, is diverting attention from the disastrous PR failure of his fundraising tour.
Tagged Media
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As Our Institutions Fail, Will Americans Get Angry or Apathetic?
We need to believe in the competence of our public institutions for our society to function. When they don’t function, how should we react?
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The Medical Debt of Colorado Shooting Victims Cries out for Healthcare Reform
Many victims of the Colorado shootings are facing ruinous financial debt due to expensive surgeries and rehabilitation for their wounds.
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Cantor’s Defense of Bachmann Reveals the Hypocrisy of his Embrace of Diversity
CBS’ Charlie Rose asked Cantor how his views on tolerance squared with Bachmann’s attack on Huma Abedin. Cantor’s response was illuminating
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Republicans Are Embarrassingly Wrong About Climate Change and We’re Paying the Price
Agriculture is being threatened by the worst drought in memory. Ranchers are selling their herds and still no effective climate change bills are being passed.
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The War Agenda of the Dark NeoCon Army Behind Mitt Romney
When you hear the phrase this is going to be an American century you need to beware. If Mitt Romney wins, there will be a war against Iran.
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Ezra Klein Presents The Do Less Than the Do-Nothing Congress
Ezra Klein, filling in for Rachel Maddow, gave the GOP no respite as he labeled this Congress the “do less than the do-nothing Congress” of 1947
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Fox Business Analyst Neil Cavuto Says Answer to Record Heat is to Drill More
Neil Cavuto thinks if we drill our record heat will be a problem of the past and that while our economy is sucky the climate is just ducky
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Colbert Nails it: ‘None of the Above’ is a Better Choice Than Romney for Republicans
Republicans have discovered that the candidate they got is not the candidate they wanted, or needed. Nevada’s ballot offers a solution
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The GOP’s Wacky One-Way Religious Freedom (We Got it, You Don’t)
Conservative Christians love to talk about religious freedom, never quite getting that something isn’t freedom unless everyone enjoys it
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Lawrence O’Donnell Pokes Fun at Right Wing Fanatic Buster Wilson’s Meat
The AFA’s Buster Wilson said a Google boycott would put his meat to the test but it was MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell who really tested his meat
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Rush Limbaugh Thinks African Americans are as Dumb as His Listeners
Rush Limbaugh claimed to be speaking for black America on his show, saying that African Americans feel Obama has abandoned them and Romney will win if Obama loses the “black vote”.
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How the Koch Brothers Infiltrated Wisconsin’s Media
A conservative-funded, Tea Party-leaning affiliate staffed with Koch brother affiliates has been supplying local papers and TV news with their free coverage of the local news.
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Crazy Conservatives Think They’ve Found Obama’s ‘Missing Years’!
Warning: You will soon run into conservatives screaming about Obama’s ‘missing year’ at Columbia. They think he may have been a CIA agent.
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The Right’s Warped Racism: The Firing of Joe Williams
Hypocrisy: It’s okay for conservatives to call Joe Williams a racist, but it’s not okay for him to say that Mitt Romney is very comfortable around white people.
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The Response To Stir Up Extremists in Kansas City
After underwhelming Houston, Iowa, South Carolina and Florida, The Response is bringing its brand of extremist Christianity to Kansas City just before Election Day
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Conservatives Spend the 4th of July Lying About President Obama
Conservatives are running wild with the lie that the President is spending July 4th in Paris, France to raise money for his campaign.
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Obama and Radical Islam: The Ultimate Obama Hater’s Conference
If you have very low expectations and care nothing for facts and hate Obama, Cliff Kincaid of America’s Survival, Inc. has something for you
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Desperate Corporations Push ALEC Written Legislation to Nullify ObamaCare
Many state legislatures will be asked by corporate interests to nullify the recent Supreme Court health care decision, and ALEC written model legislation is at the ready.
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From Blaming God to Epilepsy: the Right Wing’s Obamacare Armageddon Meltdown
The Right is in total meltdown mode; from claiming that Justice Roberts is suffering from “cognitive dissociation” to blaming God for ruling against them.
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Justice Thomas’ Health Care Dissent Gets the Last Word, but it Falls on Deaf Ears
Justice Thomas literally got the last word, and this is interesting in light of comments I heard Justice Thomas make at a reception I attended in February.
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A Liberal Infiltrates a GOP Town Hall of Full of Paranoid Fast and Furious Propaganda
A brave liberal correspondent ventures into an unpublicized town hall meeting rife with right wing propaganda and Fast and Furious paranoia hand delivered to the crowd by two House Republicans.
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Says the GOP Proverb, Dickishness is Next to Thuggishness
Republicans Allen West and Grover Norquist have proved an old truth of totalitarianism, that dickishness is next to thuggishness
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The Tea Party May Think it Runs the Country, but They are Wrong
Citizens may think the ultra right tea party has all the power in the U.S. In truth, they have almost none. A few people control America.
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CNN’s Fareed Zakaria Asks Discredited Political Scientist to Game Global Warming
You’d expect an interview with a climate scientist; you get an interview with a political scientist instead, one well paid by the denialists
Behind Enemy Lines: Being Democratic Poll Worker In a Very Red State
Tuesday, June 12, I worked as a Poll Manager for the South Carolina Primary Election. It was an enlightening experience for a deep south dem
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Dr. James Dobson: Another Presidential Campaign, Another Chance to Hate Obama
Dr. James Dobson is an Obama-basher of long standing, and his behavior demonstrates why this country can never compromise the separation of church and state.
Fox News Betrayed by Their Own Obama Supporting Poll
Fox and Friends were flabbergasted that Americans trust President Obama more on foreign policy, education, terrorism, and unity.
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Saving You From Socialist Light Bulbs by Saving You From Pesky Facts
Republicans are fighting light bulb socialism, trying to save the old fashioned light bulb without mentioning a single relevant fact
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Conservatism Looks More Like an Online MMORPG Every Day
You have to wonder the degree to which conservatives are even aware any more of reality as they indulge in increasingly twisted fantasies
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Fair and Balanced Hypocrisy: Fox Supports Birthers Until They Target Jindal and Rubio
Alleged news anchor Bret Baier of Fox News is confused regarding Obama’s eligibility, but he schooled birthers targeting Jindal and Rubio.
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Elizabeth Warren a Communist Because She Supports Everything Conservatives Hate
Hate group president Brian Carmenker says that Elizabeth Warren is a communist because she supports everything conservatives hate
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Mitt Romney May Now Begin His Cross Country Campaign of Homophobia and Dollar Chasing
Mitt Romney prefers right wing casino dollars to voters, and Donald Trump’s bad haired birtherism to gay haired high school kids.
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Sure, the Christian Right Champions Religious Freedom – For Themselves
The Christian Right pretends to be champions of religious freedom; but the only freedom they care about is their freedom to ignore ours
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Romney to Speak at Ralph Reed’s 2012 FFC Conference & Strategy Briefing
Ralph Reed wants to play Kingmaker like he did in 1994 and he has Mitt Romney lined up to slobber over his ring this year in Washington, DC
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Fox News Blames Poor Children for Romney’s Bad Poll Numbers
While looking for someone to blame for Mitt Romney’s poll numbers, Fox News found the perfect excuse. Poor children are the reason why Romney isn’t polling well.
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Obama: Mitt Romney is the Opposite of Robin Hood
While attending the NATO summit in Chicago, President Obama kept up the pressure on Romney and his self-enrichment record at Bain Capital
Boycott Stress Causes Rush Limbaugh To Launch Half Baked War on Vegetarians
As the boycott takes its psychological toll, Rush Limbaugh said liberal vegetarians want to control what everyone else eats just like they want to control radio shows.
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Daring to Speak the Truth About Job Creation Gets Venture Capitalist Shunned
It wasn’t just what Nick Hanauer said that made his TED talk controversial, it was that he dared challenge conservative assumptions.
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Painting President Obama as a Culture Warrior
Ross Douthat, in an op-ed for the New York Times, paints President Obama as a culture warrior who ignores the economy to his own detriment
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The Factors Behind Dick Lugar’s Defeat and the Democrats Opportunity
Dick Lugar lost to his Tea Party opponent in Indiana’s GOP primary. Is this a victory for Tea Party extremism or is it an opportunity for Hoosier Democrats?
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Fundamentalists to Wear Condom to Protect Against Romney Mormonism
Christian fundamentalists are engaging in paroxysms of verbal acrobatics to account for Mitt Romney’s Mormonism, donning a virtual condom to protect themselves
Corporate Sugar Daddies Shower Their Kept Candidates with Money
Have you ever wondered why most polls reflect a decidedly liberal issue tilt and yet state and national elections fill seats with Republicans, and rather radical ones at that?
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An Old School Fundie Hater Rationalizes Love for Romney
James Robison, once God’s Angry Young Man, now rationalizes love for Mormon Mitt Romney while spewing hate for all things liberal, Obama included
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The Dimensions of Fundamentalist Christian Deceit
Did you ever stop to wonder why Throckmorton and Coulter’s Getting Jefferson Right is being favorably reviewed at a liberal news site and not at the Blaze?
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The Barton Lies: A Review of David Barton’s The Jefferson Lies
In the Jefferson Lies (2012), David Barton lets loose a barrage of lies and invents terms to turn Thomas Jefferson into a non-racist, clergy-loving Christian
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Female Republican Strategist to Head Atheist Organization
The Secular Coalition for America, an atheist advocacy group, has hired Edwina Rogers, a female Republican strategist and atheist as its new executive director
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Right Winger Sells Lies to Repurpose America’s Past for Conservative Agenda
David Barton’s fundamentalist culture war agenda colors all he does and all his attitudes and it is no surprise that historians are his ultimate bogeymen
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Murdoch is Unfit to Lead in UK, But What About Here?
The British House of Commons concluded in a report released today that Rupert Murdoch is unfit to lead a major company. He might lose his BSkyB deal, but what about his holdings here?
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Jon Stewart Dissects David Barton Who Responds by Lying
Unsurprisingly, David Barton did not stand up well to Jon Stewart’s questioning, dodging issues, misrepresenting facts and when necessary, outright lying
Watch the Arguments For the Bush Torture Program Self Destruct
If successful, torture would not produce results faster than methods that are more compatible with our values, morals and the law.
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The Media Ignores Facts to Parrot Republican Social Security Bad Mouthing
In the wake of the 2012 Trustee’s Report on Social Security, the right wing continues to have the media as an ally in circulating myths about the program.
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Once Again, Christians Mistake Removing a Special Privilege with Oppression
Fundamentalists are crying oppression because the U.S. Air Force has decided that as of Oct 1 the Bible is not a required item at lodging facilities on its bases
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Sean Hannity Trips Over His Own Ignorance and Creates an Epic Obama Insult Fail
Today while attempting to insult the President, little lost boy Sean Hannity tripped over his own limited knowledge of basic English as he whined that Obama is a “crybaby.â€
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GOP Women Still Embracing Mama Grizzly Chic
I am afraid, Mama Grizzly Chic is still the rage in the GOP’s harem culture, where conservative women are real women and just being mama grizzlies you betcha
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Media Bias Exposed: Romney Gets 3 Times More Positive Coverage than Obama
A new study from Pew’s Project For Excellence In Journalism has uncovered a serious case of media bias, as Mitt Romney is getting three times more positive media coverage than President Obama.
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CBN News Claims Media Matters is anti-Christian
In a world where saying “Happy Holidays!” makes you guilty of waging a war on Christmas, telling the truth about media bias means you’re anti-Christian!
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Neutering the Republican Penis
The Republican Party is eager to legislate on women’s use of their reproductive systems; they have so far shown no willingness at all to legislate use of their own
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The War on Women is No Joke, But The Denials of the Right Are
Matthew Continetti, founder of the Washington Free Beacon, thinks the Republican war on women is a joke without victims or perpetrators
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Trayvon Martin’s Family Preaches Love In the Face of Hate
This afternoon in a press conference with Trayvon’s parents, Al Sharpton urged supporters to be peaceful and non-violent, “This is not anti-anybody. There are whites, Latinos, who have marched with us. This is not a hate campaign. This is a love campaign… This is a love campaign, to pursue justice for an unarmed man who died.”
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The Republican War on the Girl Scouts
The Republican Party has gone to war with the Girl Scouts, accusing them training girls to be radicalized, anti-religious baby-killing feminazis
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Mo’ Money, No Personality: Watch Mitt Romney Get Palined
Saturday Night Live encapsulated and amplified Mitt Romney’s weakest points for posterity, and it’s as devastating as Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin was in 2008.
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As Obama Runs For a Second Term Racism Takes Center Stage
The hope for a post racial America has been crushed as racism is front and center in the recent news cycle.
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CNN’s Erick Erickson Makes a Fool Of Himself Attacking Obama over Augusta
CNN’s Erick Erickson made a fool of himself today with psychological and political projection, attacking the President for weighing in on the Augusta female discrimination issue.
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A Trip to Crazy Town: CNN’s Dana Loesch Calls Liberals Fascists
CNN’s Dana Loesch took to her radio show today to work herself into a lather where she accused Democrats of “using women as prostitutes for votes†before she called liberals “latter day fascists.”
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Mean Girl Down: Sarah Palin’s Pathetic Plummet to Today Irrelevance
Sarah Palin’s stint as Mean Girl getting petty revenge on Katie Couric on Today demonstrates just one more reason why Sarah Palin will never be politically relevant again.
The Catawampus State of 2012 America
The U.S. is catawampus; in short the country is a mess driven by a right-wing Supreme Court and the gun-nut red states.
The Poison Pen of Right-Wing Newspapers: Half-Truths and No Truths
A misleading headline about Harry Reid provides the perfect demonstration of just how far right wing newspapers or conservative editors are willing to go to poison the well.
From Obama to Trayvon Martin, the Consequences of Right Wing Race Baiting
There is a culturally relevant connection between the racial hatred ginned up by Republican leaders against President Obama and the shooting of Trayvan Martin.
How to Tell When a Federal Judge Is a Bush Appointee
When a judge hates President Obama because he is black, you better believe he was a Bush appointee.
The 2012 GOP Four Horseman Of The Apocalypse Invade An Indifferent Illinois
The GOOP primary process moves to Missouri, Illinois and Louisiana as final results would appear to be a wash with no real advantage to anybody.
Republicans Exploit 2 Murdered Border Agents To Attack Obama and Holder
The Republican Party is out to ‘get’ Barack Obama, and they are using Eric Holder and a bogus Fast & Furious investigation to do so.
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A Desperate Rush Limbaugh Tries To Win Advertisers Back With Female Callers
Rush Limbaugh claims the advertiser boycott isn’t hurting him, but today on his show he did a Female Appeasement Apologist Tour, of course without apologizing.
The 2 Week Chill: Rush Limbaugh Is Counting on Short Memories
Monday was a day of good news for people who are boycotting Rush Limbaugh’s sponsors. According to Radioinfo.com, all national advertising for the Limbaugh’s show will be suspended for two weeks. However, Tom Taylor of Radioinfo thinks Premiere’s hope is that after the two week chill, it will be business as usual for Rush Limbaugh. The…
Bill Maher’s Defense of the Indefensible
Bill Maher attempted to defend Rush Limbaugh’s freedom of speech but attacked our right to be to be offended, our right to speak in response to hate
Bill Maher Got It Wrong: Why We Must Keep The Pressure On Rush Limbaugh
Bill Maher thinks we should accept Rush Limbaugh’s apology, but here’s why we must pursue Limbaugh to a point where he pays an actual price and everyone in the business knows it.
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Sarah Palin Unveils 2012 Strategy: Insane Racism Redux
Sarah Palin was on Fox News’ Hannity last night lecturing Obama on how he needs to stop trying to take this county back to pre-Civil War times when people weren’t equal to work hard. We all know slaves never worked hard, and were glad when their long fight to gain equal standing to work hard…
Giving Limbaugh the Bum’s Rush
27 years of inflammatory speech have finally caught fire in a campaign that hopes to send Rush Limbaugh into retirement.
DOD Justifies Rush Limbaugh on American Forces Network as “Opinion”
Carl Levin, Democratic Senator and Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, is calling on the American Forces Network (AFN) to pull the hate. Levin told CNN, “I would hope the people that run it see just how offensive this is and drop it on their own volition,” Levin told CNN in an exclusive interview…
Primary Preview: The Nutbag Express Rolls Into Michigan and Arizona
ALL ABOARD! The Nutbag Express will be making stops in Michigan and Arizona tonight as Republican voters take another step towards determining who will get to lose to President Obama.
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Rick Santorum Announces He Doesn’t Believe In the Separation of Church and State
Mr. Rick Santorum was on ABC’s This Week today during which he announced that he doesn’t believe in the absolute separation of church and state.
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George Washington Couldn’t Lie and Rick Santorum Can’t Tell the Truth
Rick Santorum accuses Dutch doctors of euthanizing patients involuntarily. He basis information on a radical Website and distorts truth.
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Republicans Set A World Record For Lies Told At CNN Arizona Debate
A special Politicus Radio post Republican debate program focuses on the 2012 Republican presidential candidates, and their love of lying about America, their own records, and President Obama. Jason Easley, Sarah Jones and George Sirios take on the CNN Republican debate, listen here: As Jason wrote for PoliticusUSA last night, the CNN Republican Debate was…
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The Republican Presidential Field Hits A New Low In Obama Hate
A general review of the debate lies and hateful Obama references of the three remaining viable GOP Presidential candidates.
David Koch Tries To Rehab His Image By Claiming Scott Walker’s Union Busting Is Working
David Koch is busy trying to rehab his tarnished media image so that he can continue the Koch game plan for manipulating American policies.
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Why Voters Should Have No Faith In Man Of Faith Rick Santorum
Even though Rick Santorum will soon come crashing back to earth, it’s instructive to look at this darling of the wing-nut vote and has a puncher’s chance of being the Republican nominee.
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Fox News Claims Clint Eastwood Ad Has Subliminal Pro Obama Messages
The paranoiacs at Fox News are super afraid that the Chrysler Super Bowl ad starring Clint Eastwood has subliminal pro-Obama messages in it.
Rick Santorum’s Clueless Message Stomps Mitt Romney’s Electability
Santorum surges in GOP races. My local newspaper headline pretty much captured the flavor of yesterday’s round of two Republican Presidential caucuses and one non-binding primary. It was definitely the flaming heterosexual’s day in the sun, though in the future there will be many more of those hotter than normal sunny days in all sections…
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Republicans Poised To Elevate Anybody But Mitt In Missouri And Minnesota
How time flies as the Republicans gift us with two more caucuses and a non-binding primary. The Missouri primary features presidential candidates from the two major parties and two minor ones. The votes count for the Democrats and the two little guys, but not for the Republicans. The Republican Party decided on a March 7th…
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This is TeaNN: Exploring The Dark Art Of Conservative Media Bias
Jason Easley and Sarah Jones discuss the dirty little secret that fuels the American corporate media’s profits, conservative media bias.
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The Problem with Republican Voters
The problem with Republican voters is that they are ill-informed. Worse, this ignorance seems to be a self-imposed state since they have access to the same information as Democratic voters.
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HBO’s 2008 McCain Palin Campaign ‘Game Change’ Is Must See TV
It’s coming…….. Game Change, the movie is heading your way on March 10th at 9PM on HBO. Did you read the book? If you missed it, this movie will be a bit of a shocker for you. Game Change was written by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann about the McCain campaign in 2008. Mark Halperin…
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Romney Wins Florida But Has To Descend To The Gutter To Do It
Mitt Romney wins the Florida primary after his campaign floods Florida TV outlets with 13,000 negative ads aimed at Mitt Romney.
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It is Time for the Mainstream Media to Talk Religion and Politics
The mainstream media’s reluctance to talk about religion and politics with regard to America’s problems and possible solutions is troubling
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Jon Stewart Calls GOP Primaries a Telethon for Electoral Dystrophy
Jon Stewart says of the endlessly repetitive debates that it’s like the republican primary’s become a telethon for electoral dystrophy
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When Will 61 Degrees in Minot ND Mean Global Warming is Real?
We can laugh at Sean Hannity every time he says cold weather in winter disproves global warming but what does 60 degrees in Minot tell us?
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Ralph Reed Wants You to Believe Evangelical Vote is a Myth
Ralph Reed, who was so instrumental in the Religious Right’s takeover of the GOP, now wants you to believe that the Evangelical vote is a myth
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Why Winning a Caucus in Iowa is a Loss Nationally
With the Iowa Caucus upon us we can see that the GOP has become trapped by its own extreme narrative, depriving any victor of national appeal
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Busted! Sarah Palin Exposed as a Teleprompter Using Fraud
Sometimes our life experiences come in handy. This is one of those times. Who can forget Ms Palin’s endless mocking of President Obama for using a teleprompter and her cutesy way of referring to her hand notes. Last night, as I was watching the latest episode, I saw the evil socialist machine staring me down, clear as day. So clear that I could read the logo. Autoscript teleprompters.
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Joe Scarborough Squeals Over Trickle-Down Con Man Chris Christie
“The day of reckoning is here!†Announces New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in a theatrical voice dripping with doom. Joe Scarborough loves him for it, squealing that Chris Christie makes him feel like a 14 year old girl at a Beatles concert. Nothing spells GOP recovery like a suffering American economy. And nothing says desperate party like pushing Chris Christie as the next great white hope.
