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Projection TV: Real Americans Watch Fox News

Tom Sullivan | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

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Tom Sullivan

Conservatives -- or "Real Americans" -- are easily threatened, and view those outside their tribe with suspicion. Those outside their tribe don't deserve a lot: especially not the right to vote.

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Don Lemon & CNN: No to "Real Americans," Yes to Real Journalism!

Linda Milazzo | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media

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Linda Milazzo

Can anyone tell me of any wall to wall on-site coverage of peace movement events over the past six years where the corporate press offered extensive air-time to listen to progressive leaders? I don't recall that ever happening. Do you?

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Far Right Inaugurates Palin as "Their President"

Darin Murphy | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics

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Darin Murphy

In an unprecedented moment in history, Governor Sarah Palin was sworn in today by the far right wing of the Republican Party as the first female President of The Real America.

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Yes We Did! But There Is a Lot More to Do

Mitchell Bard | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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Mitchell Bard

Obama has not hit a home run; he has merely earned the right to step into the batter's box.

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New Yorkers Count Too

Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 12.04.2008 | Home

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Hanna Ingber Win

I was so close to not voting. I live in New York, it doesn't really matter anyway. But then the guilt built up inside of me. What would I say when my grandchildren asked about this historic election?

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Little Town, Big Town

Marcia DeSanctis | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics

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Marcia DeSanctis

There is no advantage in deliberately creating character divisions based on geography in a country where good and bad, and hard-worker, slacker -- and unemployed -- mean the same, everywhere.

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McCain's Smear Campaign Will Have an Impact Long After Election Day

Mitchell Bard | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics

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Mitchell Bard

McCain has gone "all in" with a strategy focusing exclusively on smearing and lying about Obama, win or lose, he has created a dangerous situation for November 5 and the four years to follow.

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World Series Fashion Trends and Their Presidential Parallels

Disgrasian | Posted 11.23.2008 | Style

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Disgrasian

Both World Series teams happen to be from two important swing states, Florida and Pennsylvania. Kinda puts a new spin on the idea of a state being "in play," doesn't it?

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Real Patriotism

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics

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Robert Schlesinger

There's been a lot of good stuff about the nutty comments coming from the right regarding "real America," pro-American parts of the country (read: sma...

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Sarcasm Month

Michael DeJong | Posted 11.22.2008 | Living

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Michael DeJong

There is no doubt that frightful things in current events make for sensational opportunities for sarcasm -- in these times, it's almost "trench humor" that helps us survive.

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Why this Election Actually is About Defining the "Real America"

Robert Creamer | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics

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Robert Creamer

Sarah Palin is right about one thing: this election is in fact a battle between the "real America" and a pretender. But it's not quite the battle she imagines.

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Excuse Me, But Didn't McCain and Palin Just Say That the Victims of 9/11 Weren't 'Real Americans'?

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics

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Richard (RJ) Eskow

The wives and husbands who continue to grieve, the parents who lost sons and daughters, the children whose healing is yet to come? They're not real Americans?

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