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The Media Stovepipe

Matt Osborne | Posted 11.10.2009 | Media

We've seen this pattern before. A non-sourced, anonymous story enters the right-wing blogosphere and gets picked up by mainstream media, allowing the right to stovepipe their insanity.

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Obama Swiftboats Van Jones

Linda Milazzo | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

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Van Jones' resignation isn't a testament to the frenetic dry-drunk tirades of a delusional Fox employee. It is due to the Obama administration's failure to rightfully and necessarily defend a valuable member of its team.

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Passion and Anger Are Potent Weapons in the Hands of the Calm and Collected

Trey Ellis | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

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The most corrosive effect of Democratic passivity in response to lunatic right wing charges is to the masses. It's like watching your big, strapping dad get beat up by your scrawny weasel of a next-door neighbor.

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Swiftboating

Norman Horowitz | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics

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Wikipedia defines this word as: "... American political jargon that is used as a strong pejorative description of some kind of attack that the speaker...

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The Silly Season In Politics

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

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"Silly season" refers to late summer, when governments go on massive taxpayer-funded vacations all over the world. This year's season could produce a bumper crop of silly.

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FOX Attacks Obama Just Like Kerry

Robert Greenwald | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

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Did you see Barack Obama go on The O'Reilly Factor last night—right into the belly of the beast? While we didn't want Obama to a...

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Unlike 2004, Mainstream Media -- Even AP -- Hit Back at New"Swiftboat" Book

Greg Mitchell | Posted 09.15.2008 | Media

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Among the Corsi pieces this week one stands out. It appeared Thursday night via The AP, written by one of its top political reporters, Nedra Pickler -- a journalist the liberal blogosphere has frequently criticized.

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Jerome Corsi: Obama Camp Fighting Swiftboat Attack

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Weiner | Posted 09.14.2008 | Politics

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Talking Points Memo reports that Jerome Corsi's smear book on Barack Obama, "The Obama Nation," will stay on the top of the New York Times' bestseller...

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Reading The Pictures: Swiftboating A Facial Expression

Michael Shaw | Posted 09.14.2008 | Media

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What makes a meme effective -- be it verbal, visual or the combination -- is repetition.

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Friday Talking Points [42] -- Get Up, Stand Up, Barack

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics

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I have to assume if you're reading this that you're sick of the Olympics already. Wow, that was fast. Is NBC's coverage going to be twice as bad as ...

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Reading The Pictures: McCain's War Cred Goes Belly Up

Michael Shaw | Posted 07.10.2008 | Media

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Until Sunday, this well-known October 1967 image of McCain being pulled from a lake near Hanoi was used to convey heroism and elicit admiration and empathy.

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Yes We Can Talk About McCain's Service

Ari Melber | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

Republicans have been twisting Wes Clark's mundane observation that McCain's experience "getting shot down" in a fighter plane is not a "qualification to be president."

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Lack Of Money Hobbling GOP Attack Machine

McClatchy | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

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Democrats and the media have used the term so much that it's almost an article of faith. But the so-called "Republican attack machine" waiting with pi...

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Vets Fighting To Reclaim "Swift Boat" Name

New York Times | KATE ZERNIKE | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics

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Years ago, when William Miller talked about being in the Vietnam War -- if he talked about being in the Vietnam War -- he would tell people he served ...

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Obama Must Accept McCain's Town Hall Challenge

Paul Peete | Posted 06.24.2008 | Home

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The only modern way to combat this powerful, entrenched, well-financed conservative cabal is to create public outrage. After sleeping through the bloodless coup the 2000 elections turned out to be, Americans have tuned into the battle between Hillary and Barack that kept us listening, talking and taking sides. Obama must re-ignite that excitement by engaging McCain in the most democratic of forums.

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Friday Talking Points [35] -- Tim Russert Memorial Edition

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.21.2008 | Politics

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Nobody seriously annoyed me this week, but I will launch a pre-emptive finger-wagging, to anyone on the left who can't resist the urge to be disrespectful of Tim Russert's memory right now.

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Swift Boat Vets' PR Firm Now Pushing Abstinence-Only Campaign

Think Progress | Posted 06.11.2008 | Living

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On Sunday, the Washington Post reported that the National Abstinence Education Association (NAEA) is launching a $1 million "Parents for Truth" campai...

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Obama Files F.E.C. Complaint Against Pro-Clinton "Swiftboat" Group

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 05.08.2008 | Home

In filing the FEC complaint, the Obama camp is sending a message that "Swiftboat"-style groups will not be free to ignore the revised laws governing such groups as the general election heats up.

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Pro-Clinton Group Swiftboating Obama In Indiana

Beverly Davis | Posted 05.07.2008 | Home

"This ad violates the FCC standards. It's modeled after the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth ads. It is being supported by the Clinton campaign and the consequences are going to be severe."

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Obama: Swiftboating Can't Stop Me

CBS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Sen. Barack Obama could withstand any last-minute "swift-boat" attacks from Republicans on his race or past drug use because winning the grueling cont...

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Barack Obama: "They Will Try To Swiftboat Me

CNN | Jessica Yellin and Peter Hamby | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Barack Obama's starting to talk about his fall campaign as a matter of when, not if - and so are some of his potential general election opponents. O...

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