Why do attacks on Jim Webb always have factual errors?

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Tuesday October 20, 2015 · 8:09 AM PDT

2015/10/20 · 08:09

I'd like to re-post a couple of things in my diary today. First, I'd still like to see Jim Webb on the Colbert show, and people can sign a petition for that here:

https://www.change.org/...

Also, I noticed several factual errors in the following article, which somehow was at the top of the Kos page this morning:

http://www.dailykos.com/...

I'm going to re-post my comments, because I'm tired of the Webb-bashing that's been going on by supporters of "whoever":

A lot of this article is factually incorrect. I have no idea how it made it to the top of the Kos page. Quite an embarrassment. Webb has been pro-choice and pro-gay rights since he ran for office in '06 in Virginia, and probably forever because that's the way Reagan Republicans/Democrats were back then. And when it comes to affirmative action, he's only slightly different -- he actually gave statistical breakdowns in one of his many books, showing that some groups like Asians actually outperformed whites and therefore don't really need help in the form of preference.

I could go on about some of the other errors in this article but I'd rather say that Jim Webb has been a very important asset of the Democratic Party since 2006. We couldn't have taken back the Senate as early as we did without him, we never would have had the New GI Bill because that was 100% his idea and his work passing that major legislation -- nobody else on stage at the Democratic debate had done anything that big on their own. It was Webb who gave the Democrats credibility with Veterans, Webb who gave us credibility with southern Democrats who are pro-gun (just try running a gun control candidate in Virginia), Webb who delivered the strongest rebuttal to Romney's 47% percent remark with the givers-and-takers speech, Webb who went to Burma to free Yettaw and encouraged new elections there, and I could go on for another 5 or 10 minutes on his accomplishments just since '06, if you'd like.

Next time, please do more research and get your facts straight. I also hope you'll reconsider alienating some of the best talent that the Democratic Party has acquired.

Will Webb run as independent?

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Monday October 19, 2015 · 3:29 PM PDT

2015/10/19 · 15:29

Well, now internet rumors say Webb is considering an independent run:

http://time.com/...

Webb has done a lot for the Democratic party -- trouncing George "Macaca" Allen, helping us to take back the Senate under Bush Jr. when we needed it most, the New GI Bill, reminding Obama to set a withdrawal date for Iraq, questioning multiple tours of duty and an all-around voice in the Senate for Veterans, rescuing John Yettaw in Burma eventually leading to elections there, even pro tem session duty to prevent recess appointments under Bush the 2nd. It's too bad that the press seemed to have amnesia about who this man is. He was given no respect.

I still hope people will vote in the change.org petition to get him on the Colbert show (the audience of this petition is apparently Stephen Colbert):

https://www.change.org/...

Petition to put Jim on Colbert show

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Monday October 19, 2015 · 2:11 PM PDT

2015/10/19 · 14:11

Someone started this petition to put Jim Webb on the Colbert show:

https://www.change.org/...

I can't believe that he hasn't been on already. I remember Colbert trying to get him to announce on the Colbert Report before he moved to the Late Show.

This petition is apparently targeted at Stephen Colbert.

That Scott Walker as Koch puppet artwork

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Friday April 11, 2014 · 6:38 PM PDT

2014/04/11 · 18:38

I noticed that the Scott-Walker-as-Koch-Industries-puppet artwork made it into a Kos article, here:

http://www.dailykos.com/...

Although it may have come from the artist of the original puppet, I suspect it was taken from this photojournalist's report, with the background cleaned up to the plain white standard:

http://www.pamrotella.com/...

The original has a lot of fun Scott Walker art if you click the links to the photo gallery, some better than the puppet graphic. These are from the recall movement.

My favorites are the Walker Care sign, and Walker on the toy phone responding to the famous crank phone call.

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Thanks to Daily Kos readers!

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Wednesday September 11, 2013 · 9:09 AM PDT

2013/09/11 · 09:09

Thanks to Daily Kos readers for their support of this petition:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/...

I posted a diary entry that we needed a few more signatures to reach the 150 signatures level for WhiteHouse.gov to run it on its page of open petitions. (I'm sure that threshold requirement prevents a lot of good petitions from becoming available to the general public.) And Daily Kos readers responded! We had the petition over 150 signatures on the same day!

I know it was Daily Kos readers because I'd been posting the petition link on various boards all over the internet, and we'd get a signature here, a signature there, but never such a big bump as when I posted it on Kos!

That threshold is so hard to reach. Both the author of the petition and I have huge e-mail lists, but only a few people from those lists actually took the few minutes to sign it. That's despite the lists being full of anti-war and anti-Bush activists. The author has run for Congress before as a Democrat, by the way.

Now the petition needs 100k signatures to get a response from the Obama administration, but few petitions make it that far, and I certainly don't have the marketing power for something that big. But it was great to have it on the petitions page for the general public to decide.

Thanks again, DAILY KOS READERS!!!

Petition against Bush/Cheney immunity has almost reached its 150 threshold!

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Wednesday September 04, 2013 · 5:44 PM PDT

2013/09/04 · 17:44

This petition against immunity for Bush/Cheney has almost reached its threshold of 150 to be posted on the open petitions page of WhiteHouse.gov. If anyone can add their signature, maybe we make it available to the American public by tomorrow:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/...

"Reverse the decision to grant immunity to George W Bush and the members of his administration who planned the Iraq War"

Petition - Reverse war crimes immunity for Bush/ Cheney

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Wednesday September 04, 2013 · 12:35 PM PDT

2013/09/04 · 12:35

There is a petition on WhiteHouse.gov that people can sign, "Reverse the decision to grant immunity to George W Bush and the members of his administration who planned the Iraq War". See link:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/...

Proof that McCain dropped Napalm

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Monday October 27, 2008 · 3:03 PM PDT

2008/10/27 · 15:03

I recently came across this article on Daily Kos claiming that McCain indeed was involved in napalm runs in Vietnam. The author quoted an old New York Times article that was summarized in another work:

http://www.dailykos.com/...

Well, I tried to find the original article in the New York Times archives. I was unable to post a comment to the Kos article for some reason, so I'm starting a new post here for people to see.

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