October 30, 2012
Romney Supporters, What Does Your Candidate Stand For?
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October 26, 2012
UnSkewed Polls: Romney’s Got This One In The Bag
If you need a chuckle to close out your work week, why not go with a bit of right-wing nonsense by checking out this presidential election map from the conservative hack website UnSkewed Polls.
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October 24, 2012
The Political Brain: That Corrupt, No Good, Son Of A…
I posted a Facebook status the other day that read:
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October 12, 2012
VIDEO: Hardball with Chris Matthews: Woman Calls Obama A Communist
On Hardball, hours before the vice presidential debate, a woman tells Chris Matthews that President Obama is a communist. I can’t help but think this woman might show more clarity of thought if instead of right-wing propaganda, she was under the influence of drugs:
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October 5, 2012
Jack Welch And The ‘Unemployment Truthers’
After the Labor Department released the September job numbers, revealing the unemployment rate dropped to 7.8% (below 8% for the first time during Obama’s presidency), the right-wing lunatic asylum kicked into full-bore conspiracy mode. First we had “9/11 truthers, ” then we had “birth certificate truthers (birthers),” then just last week we had “poll truthers,” and now this week we have “unemployment truthers,” led by former GE CEO Jack Welch.
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October 1, 2012
The conservative “go it alone” approach is incompatible with reality
On a hot and crowded planet, the conservative “go it alone” approach is fundamentally flawed.
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October 1, 2012
Left and Right: Do Both Sides Engage in Equal Efforts to Delegitimize?
Both sides do it. That’s the common refrain. You typically hear it from pundits on CNN attempting to appear non-partisan. But when it comes to efforts to delegitimize a sitting president, do both sides play the same game?
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September 30, 2012
Poll Truthers: The Paranoid Delusions Of The Right
Why is everything a conspiracy to conservatives? Now the new paranoid delusion of the right is coming from “poll truthers.” It’s a segment of the right that believes the polls are rigged against Mitt Romney, or are sympathetic to the idea.
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September 26, 2012
Romney’s Biggest Problem Is Romney, He Is Unable To Evoke Emotion
Mitt Romney’s biggest problem is that he has not demonstrated genuine empathy with the electorate. He is either unwilling or unable to effectively use real-life examples of people struggling to get by while providing examples of how he will help. Mitt Romney may simply be incapable of making this emotional connection, and that could be the missing element that sinks his candidacy. Robert Lehrman writes in his book, (“The Political Speechwriter’s Companion”):
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September 20, 2012
PA Rep. Daryl Metcalfe: People are “Too Lazy” to get the “ID They Need”
Pennsylvania Representative Daryl Metcalfe (R), sponsor of PA’s voter ID law, says a lot of people are “too lazy to get up and get out there and get the ID they need.” Just as they [Republicans] have no proof of widespread voter fraud, they also have no proof that “a lot of people” are lazy. It’s simply an invented narrative, and it is pervasive on the Right.
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