O'Donnell Fraudulently Accepted Grad Fellowship w/o Bachelor's Degree (UPDATED)

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Monday September 20, 2010 · 7:25 AM PDT

2010/09/20 · 07:25

UPDATE: It seems that Ms. O'Donnell is not guilty of fraud, but rather simple lying. It turns out that Ms. O'Donnell is the only person who calls it a graduate fellowship. Claremont itself just calls it the Lincoln Fellowship.
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We all know that Christine O'Donnell is an extremist and more than a little bit nutty. But apparently she is also guilty of the outright fraud of accepting a graduate fellowship before she graduated college.

See below for the details:

JoelBloom

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Wednesday January 30, 2008 · 10:18 AM PST

2008/01/30 · 10:18

Our dear friend, Jonah Goldberg is over at the National Review Online encouraging their readers to go to the web page of Ralph Nader's exploratory committee and sign up here. (I think we can actually expect Mr. Nader to receive a great deal of financial support from right-wing Republicans this time around; he sure isn't getting much support from the left.)

UPDATE: John Aravosis links to this story from ABC with more background.

I don't want to get into the details of how deeply f**ked it is that Ralph Nader is contemplating giving the Republicans another shot at the White House. I think we're probably all on the same page there. But on the very slight off-chance that he and his supporters actually care what anyone thinks, please do go to his web page, but instead of signing up, tell him what your really think.

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What Did Edwards In?

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What Did Edwards In?

Being the White Guy running against Obama and Clinton

61 votes

His decision to accept matching funds

10 votes

Hate from the So-Called Liberal Media

24 votes

Neglect from the So-Called Liberal Media

104 votes

His policies weren't appealing enough

6 votes

His personality wasn't appealing enough

19 votes

John: I love you, but try not to blink 500 times a minute!

6 votes

Torture Lou Dobbs (Updated 2x)

JoelBloom

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Tuesday October 30, 2007 · 6:58 AM PDT

2007/10/30 · 06:58

I always used to love Atrios' "Torture Lou Dobbs" link and loved following it and seeing how Eschaton readers messed with Lou's idiotic poll questions.

But Lou found a way around the attentions of Atrios readers -- he shifted away from questions that were at least half-way reasonably worded and started writing questions in such a way that no sane person could possibly choose either response. (This did not present a problem for the vast majority of regular visitors to Dobbs' site, or of course to Lou himself.) So Duncan eventually left Lou to his own devices.

Anyway, today's question is one that sane people actually can and should respond to. It is "Do you believe states giving away drivers' licenses to illegal aliens is simply an attempt to expedite massive voter fraud?" And right now it's running 94% in favor of paranoid racist demagoguery. [Update: a new question is up now.]

I know this isn't the most important issue of the day, and it's certainly not the most important diary. But, hey, just for old times' sake, let's TORTURE LOU DOBBS!

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Who is the biggest racist at CNN?

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Who is the biggest racist at CNN?

Lou Dobbs

4 votes

Glenn Beck

45 votes

Both

49 votes

They Voted to Continue Debate, So Debate Until it Hurts! [Updated]

JoelBloom

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Wednesday September 19, 2007 · 8:58 AM PDT

2007/09/19 · 08:58

The solution to the Republicans' abuse of the filibuster to stop every single bill with which they disagree is very simple. It is the way these things worked all through U.S. history. A "yes" vote on cloture is a vote to cut off debate on a bill and allow a vote on it. A "no" vote is a vote to continue debating. Historically, when cloture vote fails to receive the necessary super-majority (currently 60 votes) this means precisely what it says it means. Debate continues on the bill in question until cloture is called again.

If Republicans want to use the filibuster for every single bill they are welcome to try. But it is political suicide for Democrats to accede to it by simply saying "OK, you win, we don't have the 60 votes, we'll be nice and move on to the next bill." They don't have to move on to the next bill and they must not move on to the next bill.

The filibuster is an important tool for minority parties to act in extraordinary situations to protect their values on matters of the utmost importance to them. But in the entire history of the United States no minority party has ever attempted to use it on everything as Republicans are currently doing.

[More below the fold.]

JoelBloom

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Wednesday January 24, 2007 · 6:40 AM PST

2007/01/24 · 06:40

Remember way back when Tom Friedman shredded liberals because we allegedly don't think Arabs are capable of Democracy?

I’m really sorry. Next time...I promise, I really promise, I’ll be a better liberal....I will view the prospect of Arabs forging a democracy as utterly impossible. They’re incapable of democracy.

Oh, yeah, it was last week. (Thinkprogress has the audio).

So what's he saying today, six whole days later?

If Arab Muslims can summon the will to protest only against the insults of "the foreigner" but never the injuries inflicted by their own on their own, how can they ever generate a modern society or democracy -- which is all about respecting and protecting minority voices and unorthodox views? And if Sunnis and Shiites can never form a social contract to rule themselves -- and will always require an iron-fisted dictator -- decent government will forever elude them.

JoelBloom

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Thursday January 04, 2007 · 10:48 AM PST

2007/01/04 · 10:48

Update: You have all convinced me. Kerry is Smart. I am stupid. Happy New Year!

-- Joel

~~It appears that our former presidential nominee really is as stupid as the Republicans say. The latest? According tothe Washington Post:~~

The senator from Massachusetts and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, sent out 75,000 Christmas cards with pictures of trees at each season. The Kerrys gushed over their "gratitude for the beauty of these trees and the life they represent."

But it didn't end there.

The card came in an odd-looking envelope, one of those with a return-mail flap and instructions to send it to . . . well, to a recycling company, so "it can be made into new carpet tile."

Carpet tile?

We want a "world without waste . . . where every product either returns safely to the soil or becomes a new product."

So the card instructs: "1. Remove this panel and insert it along with the card into the envelope. 2. Expose adhesive strip and fold the flap over to seal the envelope. 3. Drop this mailer into any U.S. mailbox."

JoelBloom

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Wednesday December 20, 2006 · 1:29 PM PST

2006/12/20 · 13:29

If there's one thing we've learned about Karl Rove's MO it's that his job number one is to start by figuring out the poll-tested term that has the best chance of selling Bush's policies to the public and then job number two is making sure that that term is the one everyone in the media uses. Prominent examples include "social security reform" and "personal accounts" instead of "social security privatization" and "private accounts;" "sectarian violence" instead of "civil war;" "healthy forests" instead of "clear cuts;" you get the idea.

So I don't mean to chide anyone in particular for using the term "surge," since everyone else is doing it too. But why on earth is everyone calling it a "surge" when in any other combat situation in history the same shift on the ground would be called an "escalation?"

For examples of progressive blogs using the term, and a few closing thoughts, there's more below:

JoelBloom

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Saturday October 21, 2006 · 10:11 PM PDT

2006/10/21 · 22:11

The new RNC fear piece that tries to make us piss our pants and vote Republican has rightly been compared to Lyndon Johnson's infamous 1964 "Daisy Ad" in which a little girl counts flower petals, little suspecting that the Russians are about to drop a bomb on her (so whatever you do, don't vote for Goldwater!).

Our response should be modeled after another famous ad from four years later, in which the words "Spiro Agnew for Vice President?" appear on a television screen to a voice-over of hysterical laughter.

The idea that the Republicans can keep us safe from terrorism is laugh-out-loud funny. That's our response. Just a still shot from the asinine RNC ad on a TV screen, laughter, and the words (also from the 1968 Humphrey ad):

"This would be funny
If it weren't so serious..."

Lamont Beats Lieberman at TNR!! (w/ poll)

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Monday July 31, 2006 · 9:49 AM PDT

2006/07/31 · 09:49

Now I know Lieberman is going down!

Right now out of 59 postings in The New Republic's online straw poll, Lamont has 31 votes. And there are around 6 comments that can't be categorized as votes for either, which makes it roughly Lamont 31, Lieberman 22 among TNR Online members! (Poll in there's moresville.) Here's one classic quote from Lieberman supporter, bulbman1066:

A vote against Joe Lieberman is a vote for the anti-American, pro-Hizbollah, pro-Hamas, pro-UN, anti-Semitic wing of the Democratic Party. It is as simple as that.

Luckily, that's followed by this from dkoon:

Lieberman enables Bush on far too many fronts. American has too many right wing politicians enabling the destruction of this country. Joe is completely ineffective as a member of the opposition party and needs to be replaced by someone more effective.

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Chris Matthews Takes Another Cheap Shot

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Thursday February 23, 2006 · 11:31 AM PST

2006/02/23 · 11:31

Chris Matthews took another cheap shot at Democrats on national security last night.

Here's what he said:

"Here we have the president looking like a Democrat in this debate over war and security and the Democrats looking like security-conscious Republicans."

Nice, Chris -- I would have thought that your paycheck from G.E. would be big enough that you wouldn't have to moonlight for the RNC as well.

The transcript is right here (scroll down about half-way to the segment with Bob Shrum (who didn't challenge the cheap shot).

My letter to Matthews is below the fold, along with his e-mail address, in case you want to write him too. Read More

Progressives Don't Beat Their Children!!

JoelBloom

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Thursday February 09, 2006 · 10:04 AM PST

2006/02/09 · 10:04

I am absolutely floored by the results of the vote -- right here in the Kos Community -- on child beating. ~~Nearly~~ More than half of the responses were that it is sometimes OK to beat (spank) your child.

See it here after Cheers and Jeers:

I have three children, ages 2 to 7 and I have never once beaten any of them. Not only that, I have never once wanted to, never mind needed to.

Beating your children teaches them several things:

Bigger and stronger people get to beat up littler and weaker people.

Violence is the way adults solve their problems with other people.

Bigger and stronger people derive their authority over littler and weaker people solely from violence or threat of violence.

When I get big and strong I get to show littler and weaker people who is boss by beating them up.

When I get to be president, I'm going to start a war for no good reason.

Got it?

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Not a "Friend of Joe Lieberman" (and a "poll")

JoelBloom

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Tuesday January 03, 2006 · 11:45 AM PST

2006/01/03 · 11:45

A couple weeks ago I started getting e-mails from the Lieberman campaign, addressed to "Friends of Joe Lieberman." Nothing especially noteworthy in them -- just straightforward campaign crap. They must have gotten my name off of the Gore/Lieberman 2000 list or some other Democratic Party List.

Anyway, since I am only slightly happier right now to be thought of as a friend of J.L. as I would be, say, as a friend of Dick Cheney, I sent the following e-mail to the sender:

While I supported Joe in his run for the Vice Presidency (presumably how you got my e-mail), I have been increasingly disgusted by his behavior over the last several years. It seems that the Senator has missed no opportunity to either praise and support George W. Bush, or to criticize his fellow Democrats. Sorry, but there are enough shills for Bush in the Republican Party.
Not only am I no longer a "friend of Joe Lieberman"; I intend to contribute to anyone who challenges him in the primary. Needless to say, please take me off your list!
Thanks,
-- Joel Bloom

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