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Deriliction of Representation. Unreal Video.

Mike Stark | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Darryl Issa, Sen. Jim DeMint, Media, Health Care, Virginia Foxx, Joe Wilson, Steve King, Politics News
Mike Stark

I thought it would be interesting to see how much some of the most virulent opponents of health care reform knew about the people they are supposed to be representing. I came up with two simple questions.

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Sam Stein

Glenn Beck Compares Derailing Health Care To Preparing For 9/11

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

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The latest lunatic fringe talking point equates Democratic-led efforts at health care reform with the 9/11 terrorist attacks on American soil. During...

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Virginia Foxx: Health Care Reform Is A Bigger Threat Than "Any Terrorist Right Now In Any Country" (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

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Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) claimed on Monday that health care reform is a bigger threat than terrorism -- the latest incendiary comment from a Republ...

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Rep. Foxx Cites Fake Quote, Claims Obama Campaigned on Making the Country Worse

Matt Finkelstein | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Pied Piper, Obama Right-Wing Smears, Health Care Reform, North Carolina, Medicare, Virginia Foxx, Barack Obama, House Health Care Bill, Obama Smears, Politics News
Matt Finkelstein

During the health debate, Foxx quoted from an anti-Obama poem called "The Pied Piper" that doesn't appear to be real, which went viral in the right-wing blogosphere earlier this year.

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Bachmann: "Prayer And Fasting" Will Defeat Health Care Reform

Minnesota Independent | Paul Demko | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

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On Wednesday Rep. Michele Bachmann was part of a star-studded "teletownhall" meeting to discuss health-care reform. The event, billed "Keeping Faith w...

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Countering the Lies about Health Care Reform

Gerald McEntee | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Tom Cole, Virginia Foxx, Palin Death Panels, Palin Obama Death Panel, Rush Limbaugh, Death Panels, Politics News
Gerald McEntee

Let's make sure seniors and all Americans know the truth about health care reform and that lies are spread to block real progress.

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The Difference Between Criticism and Hate Speech

Larry Gellman | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

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Larry Gellman

They are whack jobs or hard-wired haters, but their influence and numbers are growing among what's left of the Republican party, the news media, and the former Confederacy.

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Comical Posturing on Israel

David A. Harris | Posted 09.02.2009 | Politics

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David A. Harris

Keep talking, Mr. Cantor. You're just helping to keep Jews pulling the lever for Democrats.

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Republicans Lying to Old People About Euthanasia, Robots

Bob Cesca | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Evan Bayh, Republican Lies, Public Option, Rush Limbaugh, John Boehner, Health Insurance, Mary Landrieu, Obama Health Care, Sean Hannity, Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Max Baucus, Joe Lieberman, Health Care, Robots, Virginia Foxx, Republicans, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Bob Cesca

Republicans would have you believe that all the debate about making health insurance more affordable is merely subterfuge in the White House's scheme to impose a final solution to the nation's elderly problem.

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Jason Linkins

Virginia Foxx Warns That Health Care Reform Will Involve Widespread Elder Murder

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.28.2009 | Media

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The contest to be the member of Congress saying the dumbest possible things about health care has just gotten ratcheted up about a thousand more notch...

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Obstructionist Lawmakers Harm Animals and the Economy

Michael Markarian | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Thad McCotter, Raul Grijalva, Nick Rahall, John Campbell, Tax Dollars, John Boehner, Wild Mustangs, Dan Burton, Wild Horses, Ed Whitfield, Virginia Foxx, Fiscal Responsibility, Elton Gallegly, Steve King, Politics News
Michael Markarian

If they were truly concerned about the economy, self-described fiscal conservatives like Boehner, Bishop, and King should have been the first to line up today in support of the mustang legislation.

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Virginia Foxx Sends Apology To Matthew Shephard's Mother

Winston-Salem Journal | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics

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U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx has written a letter of apology to the mother of Matthew Shepard, a gay Wyoming man whose name is on a bill adding sexual orie...

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The Truth About Miss USA, American Idol -- and Our Embrace of Illusion

Wes Isley | Posted 06.05.2009 | Style

Read More: Politics, Miss USA, Matthew Shepard, American Idol, Gay Marriage, Virginia Foxx, Truth, Culture, Carrie Prejean, Style News
Wes Isley

Television shows and beauty pageants are rather inconsequential in the grand scheme of things, but they reflect broad, underlying trends back to us.

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Jason Linkins

Judy Shepard Responds To "Hoax" Comments

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics

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Judy Shepard appeared on last night's edition of the Rachel Maddow Show to discuss the recent expansion of Federal hate crimes legislation and the rem...

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What An Ogress You Are, Congresswoman Foxx

Michael Rowe | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Hate Crimes, Judy Shepard, Virginia Foxx, Matthew Shepard, Laramie, Religious Right, Gay, U.S. House of Representatives, Republican Party, Barack Obama, North Carolina, Politics News
Michael Rowe

I'd like to imagine the feelings of Judy Shepard as the hate crimes bill named after her murdered son Matthew passed the house in the presence of the woman who attempted to besmirch his memory with ugly distortions.

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Ryan Grim

Virginia Foxx: Story of Matthew Shepard's Murder A "Hoax" (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hate Crimes Legislation, Virginia Foxx, Matthew Shepard, Politics News

As the House of Representatives debates an expansion of hate crimes legislation, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) has taken the rhetoric to a new level, cl...

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Cantor's Strategy: Ambushing Freshman Democrats

Politico | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics

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Peril awaits any first-term lawmaker who ventures to the House floor unprepared for a duel, but Ohio Democrat Mary Jo Kilroy had a particularly rough ...

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Openly Gay Newcomer Rises From Precinct Leader to Candidate for N.C. State Office

Wes Isley | Posted 12.01.2008 | Home

Read More: GLBT Vote, North Carolina, Obama Volunteers, Barack Obama, Hometown Heroes, Stokes County Board of Commissioners, Glbt, Chicago, Wake Forest Baptist Church, Gay and Lesbian Rights, Election 2008, Campaign 2008, Young Democrats, Virginia Foxx, North Carolina Obama, Home News
Wes Isley

Q&A with Wade Boyles For someone who had never volunteered for a political campaign until this year, Wade Boyles, 36, of Winston-Salem, N.C., hasn't ...

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