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Media Storm: Gosnell, Harpootlian, Mike Huckabee and Benghazi

IT’S happening everywhere in the media, anywhere you choose to read lately. Gosnell, Harpootlian, Mike Huckabee and Benghazi, all leading to the second term curse that’s lapping at the White House lawn. The media digging down to find an alternative narrative to balance just how whacky those right wing Republicans have gotten since Sarah Palin [...]

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Stephen Colbert Mocks Brad Paisley and LL Cool J’s “Accidental Racist” [Video]

The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,Video Archive IT’S BEEN a very rough week. So, I hope this video should makes you laugh. Stephen Colbert found a perfect way to appreciate Brad Paisley and LL Cool J’s awful song. Mock it! SNL did it last Saturday, but seeing Colbert with Alan [...]

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500 Years of Resistance [VIDEO]

Yesterday on Facebook I noticed a couple of posts making fun of the actions of Idle No More, a “worldwide indigenous movement,” and other groups acting in solidarity with INM. That came as I was thinking about what I’d read at Idle No More; at Roar Magazine, “A continuation of 500 years of indigenous resistance”; [...]

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Tarantino’s Epic “Django Unchained” and the Culture Nags [Spoiler Alert]

… 75 percent of everyone polled said it isn’t Congress’ or the president’s role to pressure Hollywood to make less-violent movies and TV shows. [...] Meanwhile, 68 percent of liberals say the NRA bears more blame than Hollywood, but 74 percent of conservatives blame Hollywood more than gun-ownership advocates. However, 60 percent of all respondents [...]

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The Sexist Confederate War on Susan Rice

THE CONFEDERACY lives in the 21st century Republican party and segments of the American right, which many progressives have argued for a long time; they may not be the largest contingent, but they’re the loudest and most troublesome for conservatives clawing their way to relevancy in the wake of the 2012 election. The confederate right [...]

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“LINCOLN,” A Golden Era Masterpiece in the 21st Century

THE WORDS that make up the script that tell the story of the 16th president’s efforts to get the 13th Amendment through the House evolve into a densely rich historical drama. The process at the heart of how history happened and the path provided to make it possible are subsequently spun into a riveting story [...]

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People of Color Come Into Paul Ryan’s View

EARTH TO Rep. Ryan, the loss in 2012 has been baked into the political cake for a very long time. But all of a sudden it’s the “urban vote” that did in the Romney-Ryan ticket: “The surprise was some of the turnout, some of the turnout especially in urban areas, which gave President Obama the [...]

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Tin Foil Hat Alert: Black Panthers and “Fraud” in Pennsylvania!

ON AN Election Day where the Republican candidate has to flood the voting zone with white voters to make up for the gaping maw left by people of color fleeing their zone, Sean Hannity is leading his troops into tin foil crazy land. Powerline’s John Hinderaker is glad to deliver online what Hannity is squealing [...]

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Romney Man John Sununu Plays Race Card on Powell Endorsement

CAMPAIGN SURROGATES can be a scourge. Well, I think when you have somebody of your own race that you’re proud of being president of the United States, I applaud Colin for standing with him. – John Sununu, on CNN with Piers Morgan The expected walk back was typical, but was nothing less than a lie [...]

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Romney Surrogate Mark “Appalachian Trail” Sanford: Obama “Will Throw A Lot of Spears”

IT’S A strong statement coming from a southerner, the video compliments of Mediaite. That Fox News anchor Shannon Bream ignored the statement is typical. Spears. Obama. Nothing to see here, move along. I wrote about Mark Sanford in a section in my book, The Hillary Effect [the excerpt], where I talk about “It’s All the [...]

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Smithsonian Magazine Excavates Thomas Jefferson’s Darkness

THE TEA Party era and uneducated fictionalists like Sean Hannity enjoy rewriting American history and hoisting on our founders qualities they don’t deserve. As a strong admirer of Jefferson’s mind and engineering genius, just visit Monticello some time, his evil racism was obviously a product of the era, but it is no less diabolical. The [...]

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Republicans Careening Over Daily Caller Obama Video

THE SPECTACLE of the Daily Caller-Drudge-Sean Hannity firestorm of stupid is taking air out of the room that Mitt Romney desperately needs. Don’t take my liberal word for it. “Mitt’s window to turn the economic debate around is [Wednesday.] And his alleged supporters just shit on it. An abysmally selfish and stupid event.” – Alex [...]

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The Epic Fail of Drudge, Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity

But when footage finally aired on Hannity’s Fox News program and on Carlson’s Daily Caller website at 9 p.m., following hours of aniticipation spurred by Drudge’s promise of controversy and Hannity’s promise of a “bombshell”, it fell flat. – Dylan Byers, Politico THE DAYS of Matt Drudge having influence beyond the Sean Hannity squealers is [...]

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Paul Ryan’s Remarks Beat Daily Caller’s 2007 Obama Tape [Video and Transcript]

TUCKER CARLSON’S Daily Caller, in an apparent move to be the conservative version of Mother Jones, has unloaded a 2007 video of Barack Obama that had Sean Hannity jumping out of his infotainment captain’s chair on Tuesday night, as he talked with Carlson. Juan Williams couldn’t get a word in during another segment with Hannity. [...]

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NoBama “Lynching” in Virginia, Obama Campaign Manager Depicted as Pedophile

THE RIGHT is getting desperate. Blue Virginia posted on the picture above, which is as virulent as it gets. In one shot over there you can clearly see a George Allen sign for Senate. Though there is no link whatsoever between the campaign and this scurrilous shot, it does draw up the memory of Allen’s [...]

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