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McDonald's Responds To Campaign Against It

HuffingtonPost.com | Anna Staver | Posted 04.10.2012

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Under pressure from a progressive campaign to abandon the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), McDonald's is insisting that it left the contr...

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Victory! ColorOfChange Campaign Helps Drive Beck Off of Fox News

James Rucker | Posted 06.07.2011

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Beck's lack of advertisers made him a financial liability for Fox, and it's clear that this was a driving factor in his departure from Fox. This is an incredible and unprecedented victory.

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Accountability: Who Else Will Go the Way of Congressman Bobby Rush?

James Rucker | Posted 05.25.2011

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No member of Congress is beyond reproach. Every member of Congress should be open scrutiny of their record, and every member should be judged by his or her record. It's critical to an effective democracy.

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Civility -- and Why Bobby Rush Should Be the Ranking Communications Subcommittee Member

David Honig | Posted 05.25.2011

Congressman Bobby Rush has supported five of the six Open Internet principles, but he's quite properly concerned about the FCC's proposed economic non-discrimination principle on jobs.

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Victory -- ABC News Drops Andrew Breitbart

James Rucker | Posted 05.25.2011

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ABC News just announced that they've rescinded their invitation for Andrew Breitbart to be part of their election night coverage. The network had already said Breitbart won't be appearing on the air; now they've told him he's not welcome to appear online either.

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Google Goes "Evil"

Adam Green | Posted 05.25.2011

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Following a conference call with Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg I can now say that Google, a company that I've long admired and currently hold thousands of dollars of stock in, just "went evil."

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Tell President Obama to Reinstate Shirley Sherrod

James Rucker | Posted 05.25.2011

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This morning, we launched a petition calling President Obama to reinstate Shirley Sherrod at the USDA, and to stop caving to right-wing smear campaign...

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Demand the GOP Stop Inciting and Supporting Hate

James Rucker | Posted 05.25.2011

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The hateful acts that occurred at the tea party rally in Washington this weekend were not isolated incidents -- they are part of a growing pattern of violent rhetoric, racially charged imagery, and paranoid conspiracy theories emerging from the Republican party's grassroots supporters.

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Why the NFL and Corporate America Reject Limbaugh and Beck

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.25.2011

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Limbaugh last week learned the overdue lesson that there are real-world consequences for trafficking in hate speech.

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Time Magazine Gives Glenn Beck a Rave Review

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

David Von Drehle's article is a clinic for journalism students who wish to learn about faux balance, false equivalencies, straw men, and omissions of important facts.

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