Please help me explain this to my conspiracy loving "friends"

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Monday September 19, 2016 · 2:24 PM PDT

2016/09/19 · 14:24

Screen_Shot_2016-09-19_at_2.15.59_PM.png — Images on cellphone screens not matching stage area at Hillary's Greensboro rally

This will be short and perhaps demonstrates my naiveté, however this (virally spread) video appeared on my FB feed from a conservative “friend” questioning Hillary’s appearance in Greensboro. The reason? because none of the cellphone screens appear to show the colorful stage area.

Can someone explain or otherwise help me debunk this? This is the feed from C-Span, not doctored.

Romneybots make lemonade from lemon event

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Tuesday October 30, 2012 · 3:17 PM PDT

2012/10/30 · 15:17

I have a few dedicated GOP Facebook friends. Whenever we think Obama has done a great thing, they've got a negative spin for it. And when Romney blows it, they raise him up as a shining hero.
Latest gushing example:

My local paper needs a "Molly replacement"- Ideas?

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Thursday February 01, 2007 · 12:35 PM PST

2007/02/01 · 12:35

As if that were possible. Molly Ivins was one of the rare political writers who could make you laugh at the same time you were being skewered... or so Bill Clinton once said.

My local paper claims to be "fair and balanced" but then so does Fox News. They run David Broder (gag), George Wills, Thomas Sowell (double gag) and the unspeakably hateful Michelle Malkin. Occasionally we see Ellen Goodman, but now that Molly's regular Wednesday space is empty we need someone to hold up the left end of the paper every week.

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Thursday October 26, 2006 · 10:43 AM PDT

2006/10/26 · 10:43

In a radio interview Tuesday, US Vice President Dick Cheney confirmed that US interrogators have used a controversial technique know as waterboarding to interrogate senior Al Qaeda suspects. The interview was done by talk show host Scott Hennen of WDAY Radio in Fargo, N.D.

Although later back-pedalling comments from his staff try to pretend he wasn't really saying what he said, Cheney says he doesn't see waterboarding as torture, and that the use of it was "a no-brainer" for him. Follow me below the fold for the transcript from the White House website: Read More

Condi DID get briefed by Tenet !! NY Times just now

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Monday October 02, 2006 · 4:38 PM PDT

2006/10/02 · 16:38

Story just up on the New York Times website "Rice Received Qaeda Warning Before 9/11".

Seems that Condi does lie. Surprise surprise!

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Net Neutrality - NOW on Talk of the Nation NPR

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Monday July 24, 2006 · 12:05 PM PDT

2006/07/24 · 12:05

At noon PDT (now) the topic of Talk of the Nation is Net Neutrality. Tim Berners-Lee is a guest. You can call or email in. email: totn@npr.org Read More

Crashing THEIR Gate - McGavick Fundraiser in SW WA

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Friday July 14, 2006 · 10:03 AM PDT

2006/07/14 · 10:03

Taking inspiration from Maura in VA's visit to a Lieberman event, I've decided to make it a point to attend Republican town halls and fundraisers in my county whenever possible to ask the questions that they don't want to answer. I know I won't change Republican hearts and minds, but the press is usually there, and if the questions are good enough and the candidate's answers devious enough it will make the local paper.

Last night I crashed a fundraiser for ex-Safeco CEO Mike McGavick, who is hoping to unseat Senator Maria Cantwell. This morning I'm in the newspaper. The reporter was not kind to McGavick...
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What happened at your Dem County Convention?

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Sunday April 09, 2006 · 10:47 AM PDT

2006/04/09 · 10:47

I spent seven hours at our party convention in Clark County WA (suburb of Portland OR) yesterday as a precinct officer and precinct delegate. It was the best in memory for a lot of reasons, which I'll describe below the fold.

But as Democratic ACTIVISTS (we DO get out of our pajamas, don't we???) we should be curious about what happened at County Conventions around the country, because those are what feed delegates and resolutions to the state and national conventions. So, after I share the Clark County report, feel free to add yours in the comments.
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Thomas Kinkade, "Christian" painter in deep doo-doo

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Tuesday March 14, 2006 · 8:46 PM PST

2006/03/14 · 20:46

Christianity's reputation suffers another low blow. The so-called "painter of light" (gag) Thomas Kinkade, who creates those treacly idealized city and countryscapes that are sold for ridiculous sums in many malls across America, is in trouble.

He not only pretends to be an artist (IMHO), he also pretends to be a Christian. Sounds like he's a greedy crook instead.

Excerpts from the sordid story follow below the fold: Read More

Iraq War costing $100,000 per MINUTE !!

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Friday February 03, 2006 · 6:56 PM PST

2006/02/03 · 18:56

Just read this shocking figure in the Seattle Times (an LA Times story. I can only begin to imagine what could be done with an expenditure of a hundred thousand dollars a minute! on a project like universal health care or renewable energy sources or, or, or.

More details on the administration's BS about how the war wouldn't cost much and wouldn't last long in an excellent earlier post from pdq here but his/her story was buried so far down in the post that I was afraid folks wouldn't get to the details.

Some clips below.
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Gear up for 2006 with Toastmasters w/poll

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Tuesday January 31, 2006 · 1:27 PM PST

2006/01/31 · 13:27

Toastmasters?? That's so last century, you say...so middle America. But consider this:

Toastmasters, which has trained 4 million speakers all over the world since 1924, has a great deal to offer those of us who wish to get better at articulating our progressive values in the public square. Last summer a fellow Dem and I started a new TM club in Vancouver, WA (suburb of Portland, OR) Progressive Voices Toastmasters. Several of our local candidates and precinct officers are members and they've found it invaluable. Now we'd like to see other clubs get started around the country.

If John Kerry is any example of how candidates express themselves, heaven help us! Furthermore, the radical right is gearing up: at evangelical colleges they're getting their student debaters ready for what Jerry Falwell calls
"assault ministry" -- More below the fold:
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"Democrats should resist a turn to the left" w/poll

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Monday January 23, 2006 · 3:49 PM PST

2006/01/23 · 15:49

This was the title of an op-ed piece by Marc Hetherington picked up today by my local paper (sorry, no link). Hetherington is a professor of PoliSci at Vanderbilt and wrote Why Trust Matters: Declining Political Trust and the Demise of American Liberalism last year.

His thesis in a nutshell is that liberal policies are only appealing to the public when the public trusts government. He says that even though government distrust is high right now and is directed at a Republican administration, most Americans will not embrace liberal programs because too few trust the entire delivery system. If liberals turn the party to the left, they will be throwing Republicans a life preserver forever.

I'm just the messenger, and a very liberal one at that, so don't shoot me. Some quotes that support his thesis below the fold.
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