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Green News Report - September 8, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Right Wing Media, Green Jobs, Van Jones, Swine Flu, Right Wing, Green News Report, Energy Policy, Energy Efficiency, California Wildfires, Big Oil, Water, Electric Cars, Jaws, Green News, Wildfires, Fox News, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Glenn Beck, Toxic Waste, Astroturf, Great White Sharks, H1n1, Solar Power, Global Warming, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

In today's report: the rising cost of fighting wildfires, and is Jaws back?

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President Must Keep It Simple, Hold On To Public Option Tonight

Scott Foval | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Speech, Blanche Lincoln, Blue Dogs, Max Baucus, Scottsbigmouth, Congress, Health Care Reform, K.I.S.S., Right Wing, Chuck Grassley, Barack Obama, Politics News
Scott Foval

It is time for the Congress to actually deliver real health care coverage for poor, low income, and the uninsured. We must take care of our people, period.

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How to Think

Terrance Heath | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ignorance, Far Right, President Obama, Right Wing, Conservatism, Barack Obama, Education, Critical Thinking, Intelligence, Obama Speech, Conservatives, Obama Education, Anti-Intellectualism, Republican Party, Free Market Ideology, Republicans, Politics News
Terrance Heath

One of our political parties now embraces that what one believes is more important than what one knows, and is where critical thought has been banished and"facts" are founded in belief.

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Crunch Time for the Democrats

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, 2010 Elections, Liberals, Progressives, President Obama, Congress, Right Wing, Democratic Party, Democrats, Barack Obama, Talk Radio, Protest, Health Care Reform, Republicans, Republican Party, Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, Tea Party, Right-Wing Extremism, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Hoyt Hilsman

Leaders of the liberal wing of the party -- not necessarily the elected leadership of the House -- must use their powers of persuasion and their skills in compromise to sway the debate in favor of change, most critically with progressive voters.

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Just Listen -- Obama's Education Speech to Children

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 11.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Obama Speech, Education, Mark Goulston, Education Reform, Barack Obama, Communism, President Obama, Blazing Saddles, Fearmonger, Right Wing, Capitalism, Town Hall Meetings, Living News
Mark Goulston, M.D.

Over and over again, we see the right wing steadfastly digging their heels in before gathering, listening to and evaluating all the facts regarding going to war, education and health reform.

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The Loyal Opposition

August J. Pollak | Posted 11.08.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Environment, Right Wing, Health Care, Barack Obama, Obama School Speech, Republicans, Comedy News
August J. Pollak

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Abortion, Health Care and the Soul

Stephen Gyllenhaal | Posted 10.21.2009 | Home

Read More: Abortion, Health Care, Born Again, Right Wing, Soul, Plato, Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Enlightenment, Home News
Stephen Gyllenhaal

How many of us would give up much of anything in an attempt to save our souls? I mean this seriously -- really -- how much would we be willing to sacrifice?

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What's Wrong With This Country?

Joanne Bamberger | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fox News, Right Wing, Education, Conservatives, Barack Obama, Back to School, Politics News
Joanne Bamberger

Somehow, right wingers have turned an innocuous speech by the President into an evil effort to brainwash and indoctrinate our children that *GASP* they should stay in school and work hard!

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WATCH: President Obama's Video Address To Our Schoolchildren

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 10.20.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Fearmongering, Video, Van Jones, Crazy, Hypnosis, President Obama, Right Wing, Obama, Michelle Malkin, Barack Obama, School Children, Obama Speech, Glenn Beck Van Jones, Rightwingers, Kids, Satire, Glenn Beck, Political Satire, Obama Kids, Adolf Hitler, Comedy News
Matthew Filipowicz

We have obtained "leaked footage" of President Obama's speech to our nation's children. Take a look. But be warned, it may shock and horrify you.

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Right Like Me

Steven Weber | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Town Halls, Right Wing, Town Hall Meetings, Republicans, Politics News
Steven Weber

I used the unnaturally plentiful gifts that made me arguably the greatest actor in modern times, gifts which propelled me to the highest level of achievement, to assume the guise of a Right Winger.

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Schoolyard Bullies

Chez Pazienza | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Right Wing, Media, Obama-Address-to-Students, 2008 Election, John Kennedy, Politics News
Chez Pazienza

That's really what it's all about -- Barack Obama's political enemies don't actually accept him as president. They consider his presidency some kind of sham, regardless of the overwhelming majority he won.

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Conservative Argument for Healthcare Reform: Part 3: St. Matthew is on our side.

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 10.16.2009 | Home

Read More: Public Option, Teddy Kennedy, Obama, Conservative, Catholic, Health Insurance, Democrats, Joe the Nerd, Religion, Politics, Ted Kennedy Funeral, Health Care Reform, Single Payer, Christianity, Religion and Politics, Health Care, Right Wing, Right Wing Radio, Sestak, Home News
Joe The Nerd Ferraro

The Gospel reading at Kennedy's funeral was a sharp stick in the eye of the Congresspeople sitting in the pews.

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Ted Kennedy's Foreign Policy Idealism

Taylor Marsh | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ireland, Edward Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Bangladesh, Barack Obama, Right-Wing, Africa, Politics News
Taylor Marsh

Domestic issues pervaded Teddy's mission, but also his image at home. However, he was intensely interested and engaged in world matters.

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Reading The Pictures: .38 More Ways to Counter the Teabaggers?

Michael Shaw | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wingnuts, Health Care Protests, Teabaggers, .38 Revolver, Rep. Harry Mitchell, Protests, Health Care Reform, Right Wing Radicals, Radicals, Obama, Tpm, Right Wing, Health Care, Guns, Gun Toters, Politics News
Michael Shaw

2009-08-25-38_healthreform.jpgWe now have this example of a pro-reform demonstrator appearing at a weekend tea party protest packing heat.

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Show Time

Andrew Reinbach | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michele Bachmann, President Obama, Health Care Reform, Obama Administration, Right Wing, Right Wing Extremeism, Republican Party, Health Care, David Vitter, Politics News
Andrew Reinbach

At a rally, Michele Bachmann and David Vitter said that if states don't like the final health care bill, they just shouldn't enforce it. They claim the 10th Amendment backs them up.

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The Uninsured Has a Black Face -- White Ambivalence Is Obama's Struggle

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hate Mongers, President Obama, News, African American President, Hateful Acts, White Ambivalence, Obama, White Privilege, Hate Crimes, Racists, Hate Groups, Rosa Parks, John Dovidio, Liberal Racism, Great White Hope, African Americans, Post Racial Society, Politics, Right Wing, Blacks, Barack Obama, Reparations, Breaking News, Yale, Racism, Race, Healthcare Reform, Functional Racism, Whites, Prof. Dovidio, Health Care, Dr. John Dovidio, Hate, Dovidio, Politics News
Yvonne R. Davis

Yale professor, John Dovidio, does not feel the ongoing protests, name calling and Hitler labels by white protesters are hate, but a fight by whites struggling to defend and maintain their position and status.

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Health Care: I Hate Everyone, Part 1 in a Series

Nato Green | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Town Hall Debate, Mental Health, Nazis, John Kerry, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Right Wing, Adolf Hitler, Town Hall Meetings, Barack Obama, Politics News
Nato Green

The anti-health care stormtroopers demonstrate that you can get a long way with no argument if you sell it. It seems like the Town Hallers are all seeking revenge on an uninsured ex.

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The Republican Party Is Turning Into A Cult

Johann Hari | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Birthers, Religion, Johann Hari, Birther-Movement, Death Panels, Sarah Palin, Health Care Reform, Right Wing, Health Care, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News
Johann Hari

Since Obama's rise, the US right has been skipping frantically from one fantasy to another, like a person in the throes of a mental breakdown.

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Tom DeLay: I Can Dance And Stop Obama At The Same Time

The Daily Beast | Lloyd Grove | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Right Wing, Dancing With the Stars, Tom Delay, Barack Obama, Politics News

Right-wing activist Tom DeLay--who was known as The Hammer during his reign as House Republican whip and then majority leader--has no intention of let...

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Right Wing Rhetoric on Health Care: A Page from Last Century's Playbook

News Junkie Post | Leigh Ann Caldwell | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Right Wing, Conservatives, Rush Limbaugh, Barack Obama, Healthcare, Politics News

These days, Rush Limbaugh's talk compares Obama to Hitler, health care to Nazi Germany, Democrats to socialists. He has excited well organized followe...

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The Red Bottoms of Red-Staters: How Corporal Punishment Contributes to Right Wing Paranoia

Stephen Ducat | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Right Wing Authoritarians, Spanking, Right Wing Paranoia, Right Wing Media, Dick Armey, Acorn, Seiu, Corporal Punishment, Right Wing, Big Government, American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights Watch, Sarah Palin, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Corporal-Punishment-Schools, Right-Wing Extremism, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Stephen Ducat

No paranoid fantasy seems too bizarre, too implausible, or too disconnected from consensual reality to find a credulous audience among right wing true believers.

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Birthers, Town Hall Hecklers And The Return Of Right Wing Rage

Washington Post | Rick Perlstein | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Birther Movement, Rick Perlstein, Brithers, Town Halls, Right Wing, Right Wing Rage, Republicans GOP, Politics News

So the birthers, the anti-tax tea-partiers, the town hall hecklers -- these are "either" the genuine grass roots or evil conspirators staging scenes f...

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Who Would Jesus Insure? Tea Party Dispatch From San Francisco

Michael Krantz | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Slideshow, Tea Party Protests, Michael Krantz, Right Wing, Health Insurance, Tea Parties, Obama Health Care, Barack Obama, Tea Baggers, Conservatives, Obamacare, Obama Hitler, Health, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Healthcare Reform, Health Care, Tea Party, Healthcare, Tea Bagging, Politics News
Michael Krantz

I attended my local Tea Party the other day, and it clarified for me, well, nothing I didn't already know, or at least assume, or at least fear. The experience was, let us just say, disheartening.

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The Divider

Taylor Marsh | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Right Wing, Health Care, Sarah Palin, Health, Obama Health Care Reform, Politics News
Taylor Marsh

Sarah Palin doesn't care about dividing America, because in the world from where she hails Palin already sees America divided. It's also in her interest to keep it that way.

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Germany's Far Right Uses Internet To Spread Propoganda

Deutsche Welle | Posted 09.14.2009 | World

Read More: Germany's Far Right, Germany Far Right, Neo-Nazi, Nazi, Skin Heads, Hitler, Germany, Neo-Nazis, Neo Nazi, Right Wing, Nazi Germany, German, Right-Wing Propoganda, Germany Skin Heads, World News

The number of right-wing extremist websites in Germany is rising, with a group charged with youth protection warning that the internet has become the ...

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