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Considering how fast Twitter has self-propagated, and thanks to the Internet and our constant news cycles, might Swine Flu be the Twitter of viruses?
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Swine Flu A Mexican Immigrant Conspiracy: Conservative Media (VIDEO)
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.31.2009 | Media
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As near as anyone knows, the recent outbreaks of swine flu in the United States have been the result of Americans, returning to America, from Mexico, ...
Scritti Politti: April 9, 2009
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics
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Hello. Please to enjoy the following remix of the NOM "Gathering Storm Of Gay Marriage" commercial! MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: Meghan McCain's media s...
Rick Sanchez: Fox News Contributing To Gun Violence (VIDEO) (UPDATED)
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.09.2009 | Media
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[UPDATED, below.] So, in case you haven't noticed, people have lately been going around killing people, indiscriminately. Is this because Fox News i...
Republican Caller Tells Limbaugh: "You're A Brainwashed Nazi" (AUDIO)
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics
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Media Monitor Cathy Talbot tipped us off to an on-air smackdown that transpired today between Rush Limbaugh and one of his callers, who criticized the...
Glenn Beck: "Nutjob" In Pittsburgh Not My Fault, I'm Just A "Flight Attendant"
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.08.2009 | Media
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Hey, blogs! Fox News' Glenn Beck has heard what you've been saying about him -- how his brand of crazyfaced paranoid fearmongering is just the sort o...
Scritti Politti: April 1, 2009
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics
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Eat The Press Operative Karla sends us the awesome cover of the April edition of D Magazine, featuring George W. Bush cold-chillin' in some Photoshopp...
Major Conservative Site Decries Obama Birth Certificate Conspiracy Theory
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics
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Just in time for April Fool's Day Andrew Walden has a post up, beseeching at long last his fellow travelers to cease promulgating one of the more ornate and insane conspiracy theories about Obama.
Colbert Takes Glenn Beck's End Times Scenarios To The 'Doom Bunker' (VIDEO)
Huffington Post | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.09.2009 | Comedy
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Surely someone out there is getting ready to honor Stephen Colbert for his pants-wettingly hysterical parody of the Glenn Beck Show.
What's Hot At CPAC? Questioning Obama's Citizenship
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics
As Sam Stein reported earlier, bonkers author Jerome Corsi - credited correctly with having managed a "brief campaign stir" - has been walking around ...
"Impeach Obama" Stickers Now On Sale
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.23.2009 | Politics
So, it's been a month since Inauguration Day. What do you suppose the over/under was on "number of days" before the appearance of the first "Impeach ...
President Obama's Rejection of American Cowardice
Bob Cesca | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics
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President Obama has made it clear that America is no longer in the business of selling out the legacy of our Founders and the mandates of the Constitution for the sake of a little bit of extra security.
Selling Hope Instead of Fear: Redefining Activism
Christiana Wyly | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics
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We need to follow Obama's example of reaching across the barriers that divide us as a people. We must learn how to reach into our hearts and truly meet another human being exactly where they are.
Right-Wing Fear Machine
Lt. General Robert G. Gard Jr. (USA, Ret.) | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics
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This video comes courtesy of the unabashed hawks at the right-wing Heritage Foundation. Watch it for yourself, but you might want to put the kids to bed first.
Separation of Church and Hate
Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 12.18.2008 | Living
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May I respectfully request that anyone who is truly spiritual, and who understands that all humans deserve love, begin to pray for the separation of church and hate?
Too Much Fear
Sophia Carroll | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics
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Fear of a McCain-Palin administration one of the main reasons I'm supporting Obama. How did we let this happen? Can a people remain democratic and self-reliant when its choices are dictated by fear?
Campbell Brown Hits Back On Maligning Arabs, Muslims (VIDEO)
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics
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Campbell Brown's own brand of "special commentary" doesn't quite draw the fanfare of those offered by other media figures. So it should be noted that ...
Times Exposes Anti-Semitic Obama Slanderer, Finally
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics
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During this long election season, one of the things that the candidates have had to confront are smear merchants, peddling the most vicious and hatefu...
Republican Jewish Coalition Gets In On The Guilt By Association Game
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics
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Everybody else is playing the Guilt-by-Tenuous-Association game (ages 6 and down) so why not the Republican Jewish Coalition, whoever that is? Ari at...
John McCain And GOP Say Most Americans Are Cowards
Bob Geiger | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics
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A new poll reveals who, between Obama and McCain, we would rather watch a football game with and, as a slightly more dignified follow-up, who would we choose to be our child's teacher.
How I didn't end up being a criminal
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics
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The imagery on the cover of the New Yorker represents the quality of conversation on race and religion in this country: mixed messages, nothing decoded.
Don't Run it Up the Flagpole
Bob Franken | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
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Can we just stipulate that each of the candidates devoutly loves this country, since there's no way to disprove otherwise? Slimy rumormongering just won't cut it.
The Sleep of Monsters Produces Reason
Steven Weber | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
While we are relishing our Obasm, we must be aware of the forces who peer jealously across the widening breach, who are becoming even more determined to prevent this movement from succeeding.
Nothing to Be Afraid of but Fear Itself
Bob Ostertag | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics
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Add to the list of America's "big fear" moments when an ex-President and his wife went off the deep end and became the ugliest force in American politics.
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