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Mike Papantonio

Obama Is "Bush Light"

Mike Papantonio | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Air America, Pap Attack, Flip Flop, Tim Geithner, David Axelrod, Mike Papantonio, GoLeft.Tv, Golefttv, Stanford University, Ken Salazar, Policy, Ring of Fire, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Politics News
Mike Papantonio

The engine driving the impending train wreck for Obama and his spineless advisors is that he made promises that turned out millions of supporters. That promise was that we were going to see "change." Soon we began to see "Bush Lite."

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Wall Street's Designer-Dressed Thieves

Mike Papantonio | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Citigroup, Feinberg, Air America, Pap Attack, Czar, Salary, Mike Papantonio, Bonus, Golefttv, GoLeft.Tv, Bank of America, Aig, Wall Street, Pay, Ceo, Ring of Fire, Business News
Mike Papantonio

Open the phonebook and randomly pick the name of a stockbroker or a bank president. Call that person and ask them to explain to you how a synthetic or a derivative actually works.

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Our Frenzied Focus on Fox

Mike Papantonio | Posted 11.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Conservative, Abc, Air America, Pap Attack, Lies, Mike Papantonio, Bias, Fox News, Nbc, GoLeft.Tv, Golefttv, Roger Ailes, Ring of Fire, Republican, Slant, Media News
Mike Papantonio

Roger Ailes understands what other TV executives miss. He remembers that P.T. Barnum built his business around high-wire acts and circus freaks.

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GOP: Poor People Get What They Deserve

Mike Papantonio | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Just World Hypothesis, Gop, Air America, Pap Attack, Mike Papantonio, Fear, Victim Blame, GoLeft.Tv, Golefttv, Ring of Fire, Republican, Politics News
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Conservative political policies have been built around the manipulation of that ugly quality called victim blame. They are brilliant in that they have freed us from the responsibility of being our brother's keeper.

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The Hysteria Factor: Obama and the Swine Flu

Mike Papantonio | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vaccine, Air America, Pap Attack, Swine Flu, Civil Liberties, Mike Papantonio, Fear, Kathleen Sebelius, GoLeft.Tv, Golefttv, Pandemic, Panic, Ring of Fire, Politics News
Mike Papantonio

Napolitano can't afford to understate the seriousness of the swine flu, even though America has been abused by politically motivated scare tactics for eight years.

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Jon Voight's New Political Prostitute Role

Mike Papantonio | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Prostitute, Air America, Pap Attack, Hollywood Squares, Mike Papantonio, Bo Derrick, Midnight Cowboy, Spokesman, Golefttv, Ring of Fire, Jon Voight, Barack Obama, Republican, Dennis Miller, Politics News
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Where do washed up celebrities go once they realize that their career is in the tank? They become celebrity spokesmen for the Republican National Committee.

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Silence is Golden

Mike Papantonio | Posted 09.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Gop, Air America, Orly Taitz, President Obama, Mike Papantonio, Death Panel, Town Hall, Sarah Palin, Fox News, GoLeft TV, Viral Video, Health Care, Self Destruction, Birthers, Glenn Beck, Silence, Ring of Fire, Media News
Mike Papantonio

Democrats have made progress with their leadership management skills. Here is what they have figured out: When your opposition is burning down, don't get involved.

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The Family's Ties

Mike Papantonio | Posted 09.03.2009 | Home

Read More: Mark Sanford, Air America, Golefttv, GoLeft.Tv, Jeff Sharlet, The Fellowship, Religion, Marriage, The Family, John Ensign, Mike Papantonio, Pap Attack, Affair, Infedility, C Street, Ring of Fire, Home News
Mike Papantonio

Since 1935, an organization calling itself "The Family" has been able to operate unnoticed in the Beltway. But that invisibility is disappearing because of the sensational sex lives of Mark Sanford and John Ensign.

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Birther Conspiracy Reaches the Mainstream

Mike Papantonio | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Birther, Air America, Birth Certificate, Pap Attack, Ufo, Mike Papantonio, Lou Dobbs, Bigfoot, GoLeft.Tv, Golefttv, Barack Obama, Elvis, Alien, Autopsy, Ring of Fire, Lawsuit, Alive, Politics News
Mike Papantonio

Fringe Democrats looked ridiculous when they suggested McCain wasn't eligible to be president because he was born in Panama. The grown-ups in Democratic leadership put a quick end to that.

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Big Pharma's Free Ride

Mike Papantonio | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: House, Pap Attack, Glaxosmithkline, John Dillinger Movie, Senate, Pharmaceutical Industry, Merck, Ring of Fire, Golefttv, Mike Papantonio, Pfizer, Air America Radio, Max Baucus, Healthcare Reform, Politics News
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There will be no serious health care reform until the drug companies, the hospital corporations and the HMO industry are forced to pay their share of the bill.

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Swooning for Saudis

Mike Papantonio | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Air America, Pap Attack, Mike Papantonio, 9/11, GoLeft.Tv, Golefttv, Terrorist, Oil, Barack Obama, Royal Family, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, George W Bush, Attack, Terrorism, Foreign Policy, Ring of Fire, Lawsuit, Politics News
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U.S. relations with the Saudi royal family trumped the importance of 3,000 9-11 murders. That was the opinion of the U.S. State Department during the...

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Right Wing Hate Getting Out of Control

Mike Papantonio | Posted 07.31.2009 | Media

Read More: Tiller, Gop, Air America, Murder, Donnie Baker, Mike Papantonio, Right Wing, GoLeft.Tv, Golefttv, Barack Obama, Immigrant, Conservative, Muslim, Abortion, Hate Talk, Latino, David Neiwert, Joshua Cartwright, Republicans, Ring of Fire, Media News
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About an hour's drive from where I live, a miserable 60-year old man by the name of Donnie Baker murdered two Chilean college students and wounded fiv...

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Bank of America, Car Thieves, and GOP Lies

Mike Papantonio | Posted 07.31.2009 | Business

Read More: Leadership, Gop, Air America, Pap Attack, Darrell Issa, Kenneth Lewis, Mike Papantonio, Federal Reserve, GoLeft.Tv, Golefttv, California, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, Henry Paulson, Ben Bernanke, Ring of Fire, Economy, Business News
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For months, Conservatives have been in search of an attack issue to rally around. They've also been desperately searching for someone credible to lead...

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Democrats Sell Out on Healthcare

Mike Papantonio | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Industry, Pap Attack, Air America Radio, Pharmaceutical, Profit, Mike Papantonio, Max Baucus, Golefttv, Reform, Chamber of Commerce, Healthcare, Ring of Fire, Politics News
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Drug companies showed a profit of 80 billion dollars last year while the health care industry collected 13 billion in profits. Life is good, and they are spreading all those billions around to the Democrats.

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Chevron Shareholders Ignore Company's Abuses

Mike Papantonio | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Human Rights, Pap Attack, Coal, Chevron, Sex, Scandal, Mike Papantonio, Department of Interior, Golefttv, Oil, Ring of Fire, Pollution, Green News
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As you read this column, court hearings in Ecuador are taking place where Chevron stands potentially responsible for $25 billion in damages to Ecuador's waterways and aquifers.

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Falwell's Legacy Haunts Liberty University

Mike Papantonio | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cult, Jerry Falwell, Pap Attack, Abortion, Gay Marriage, Mike Papantonio, Religious Right, Sun Myung Moon, Air America Media, Pro Life, Ring of Fire, Democrats, Liberty University, Debate, Moonie, Politics News
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You have to wonder why a group of teenage Democrats have been told that their kind are not welcome at Liberty, a campus that was built in part from the money of Sun Myung Moon.

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What the Hell Have We Become?

Mike Papantonio | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pap Attack, Susan Crawford, George W Bush, Ring of Fire, Al-Kahtani, Golefttv, Mike Papantonio, Interrogation, Air America, Guantanamo Bay, Torture Memos, Gitmo, Torture, Politics News
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Rather than two convictions, non-Gitmo prosecutors have had 148 successful trials and convictions of terrorists.

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The Real Tax Outrage

Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Joe the Plumber, Teabagger, Tea Party, Air America Radio, Tax Policy, Taxes, Mike Papantonio, Tax Day, Rick Santelli, Ring of Fire, Republican Party, Sarah Palin, Politics News
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If you were a California teabagger dressed up like Paul Revere you probably would have felt ridiculous once you learned that 11 billion in revenues left the state to places like the Cayman Islands.

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Immigration Control Starts with Drug Control

Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.15.2009 | World

Read More: Violence, Drugs, Air America Radio, Mike Papantonio, War, Mexico, Cartel, Immigration, Smuggler, Civil War, Tijuana, Ring of Fire, Ciudad JuáRez-Mexico, World News
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What is most frustrating about the Mexican drug war chaos is figuring out the truth about whether all that drug violence is moving across the borders.

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Justice Department Turns the Table on Political Prosecutions

Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ted Stevens, Air America Radio, Alberto Gonzalez, Paul Minor, Don Siegelman, Mike Papantonio, Michael Mukasey, Golefttv, Justice Department, Ring of Fire, Political Prosecution, Eric Holder, Politics News
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Ted Stevens never should have been prosecuted in 2008. Traditional media has done a pitiful job covering the many political prosecution stories that occurred during the Ashcroft/Gonzales years.

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Lessons from Darwin - We're Still Evolving

Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.02.2009 | Green

Read More: School, Gop, Origin of Species, Air America Radio, Creationism, Mike Papantonio, Charles Darwin, Pap Attack, Science, Galapagos, Ring of Fire, Evolution, Kansas, Green News
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Birds, sea lions, and iguanas take from their surroundings only what they need to live. On the other hand, the more evolved human is locus-like in the way they interact with their community.

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In Cramer We Trust?

Mike Papantonio | Posted 04.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Cnbc, Air America Radio, Journalism, Jon Stewart, Stock Market, Mike Papantonio, Larry Kudlow, Financial, The Daily Show, Ring of Fire, Crash, Housing Market, Jim Cramer, Pundit, Media News
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Most of the pundit misinformation occurred because investigative reporting in the news industry is dead. This new breed of financial TV pitchmen weren't paid to ask tough questions.

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Rooting for Rush

Mike Papantonio | Posted 04.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Michael Steele, Approval, Air America Radio, Rush Limbaugh, Mike Papantonio, Ratings, Gallup Poll, Ring of Fire, Barack Obama, Media News
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The analysis on Rush is easy. Historically, he has had zero impact on the outcome of elections. The truth is, Limbaugh's political influence is not vast at all.

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Slapped by the Invisible Hand

Mike Papantonio | Posted 04.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Markets, Ring of Fire, Chelsey-Sullenberger, Mike Papantonio, Industry, Airline Industry, Deregulation, American Airlines, Invisible Hand, Air America Radio, Delta, Pilot, Business News
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As Sullenberger continues to speak out, he should make it clear that all the pilots and crews who are still operating in the deregulated airline industry are truly heroes.

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Stimulus-Hating Governors Need Money More Than Others

Mike Papantonio | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mark Sanford, Health Care, Haley Barbour, Bobby Jindal, Stimulus Package, Mike Papantonio, Recession, Rick Perry, Sarah Palin, Economy, Economic Crisis, Politics News
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Mississippi has one of the highest poverty levels in America, and yet Gov. Haley Barbour has joined the ranks of GOP governors who say they don't want any of Obama's stimulus money.

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