Invoking Wellstone: Candidate Ads From AL-5

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Monday April 19, 2010 · 4:42 PM PDT

2010/04/19 · 16:42

Reporting from the top of Alabama: last quarter, turncoat Parker Griffith spent $300,000 more than he brought in -- mostly on ads designed to invoke a fear-response about EVIL LIBERALS in Washington. That's because opposition to the "liberal Obama Pelosi agenda" is the sum total of his achievements in office; he can't say he's helped the district. Nor can he promise to do much more than keep opposing the dreaded liberals. So rather than post his ads themselves, here's a remix:

Much more after the jump!

Matt Osborne

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Monday April 12, 2010 · 2:30 PM PDT

2010/04/12 · 14:30

The reason Beck doesn't get debunked more often is that his insanity is cumulative. It's never just one thing with Beck; it's an accumulation of so many disparate threads into one big ball of crazy that most progressives can't keep up. And that is the point: Beck sells his viewers a whole world, not just a single story. It's the classic confidence game of right-wing hucksters from Father Coughlin on down.

Here, then, is one of Beck's lowest moments: the time he tried to manufacture a secret army of Obama goons out of a Farrakhan speech, two Black Panthers, and a high school step dance video. For more information on this incident, click here.

Tea Party Express...to the Moon

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Tuesday April 06, 2010 · 12:23 AM PDT

2010/04/06 · 00:23

On April 4, 2010, the Tea Party Express arrived in Huntsville, Alabama to celebrate a movement against big government...under a monument to big government. It was either a brilliant piece of surrealist theatre, or a massive exercise in cognitive dissonance.

Apologies for the smudged lens. The afternoon sun was so bright I couldn't see it on the LCD screen.

RKBA: All Flags Flying

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Wednesday March 24, 2010 · 2:14 AM PDT

2010/03/24 · 02:14

RKBA is a DKos group of second amendment supporters who also have progressive and liberal values. We don't think that being a liberal means one has to be anti-gun. Some of us are extreme in our second amendment views (no licensing, no restrictions on small arms) and some of us are more moderate (licensing, restrictions on small arms.) Moderate or extreme, we hold one common belief: more gun control equals lost elections. We don't want a repeat of 1994. We are an inclusive group: if you see the Second Amendment as safeguarding our right to keep and bear arms individually, then come join us in our conversation. If you are against the right to keep and bear arms, come join our conversation. We look forward to seeing you, as long as you engage in a civil discussion. RKBA stands for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

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The first duty of a citizen is to defend the state. Democracy was born in the cauldron of war and the state is its bulwark.

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Wednesday March 17, 2010 · 8:46 PM PDT

2010/03/17 · 20:46

Warning: music is appropriately modern, angry, and loud. If you don't want to hear a raging viking you will still enjoy this with the sound off.

Justice would be James O'Keefe sentenced to community service at an ACORN Housing office -- along with mandatory African-American Studies classes for Beck.

H/t to the inestimable Brad Friedman

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Parker Griffith CAN Lose

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Saturday March 13, 2010 · 4:53 PM PST

2010/03/13 · 16:53

Parker Griffith is throwing lots of ads at his district, especially on Fox affiliates. I'll let you watch an ad from one of his primary opponents while you get over that surprise:

More after the jump!

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Tuesday February 09, 2010 · 3:27 AM PST

2010/02/09 · 03:27

What happens when you tell the Tea Party Convention's media liaison that you blog for liberal websites? I'll tell you after the video:

Matt Osborne

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Friday February 05, 2010 · 2:16 AM PST

2010/02/05 · 02:16

With the death of Air America, Head On Radio became the last all-liberal talk network in America. (Pacifica doesn't reach me in Alabama and it's not "all liberal.") Hosts Bob Kincaid and James Guy were in DC last Thursday when they learned the news, but they were too busy to mourn a failed experiment in left-wing talk media supported by a right-wing revenue format.

An entirely listener-supported experiment in internet broadcasting, practically the entire resources of H.O.R.N. were at the Families USA Conference interviewing advocates for patients' rights and medical issues. They spoke to Representative De Lauro of Connecticut, Anthony Wiener, and other health care reform advocates on a broad range of issues. It was a two day marathon of musical chairs-interviews.

And they might have caught the most important and unheralded aspect of the current reform: an end to means testing for Medicaid. Here's Jennifer Sullivan, Senior Health Policy Analyst for Families USA:

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The Course Of Human Events

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Thursday January 28, 2010 · 4:19 PM PST

2010/01/28 · 16:19

Political science and headbanging may seem an odd mix, but they have Evan Clayton in common. Now front man for the band Séance Fiction, Evan asked me to help him come up with a lyric. The finished song is a statement about the near-impossibility of reform: parliamentary rules stifle innovation while the forces of reaction invoke the politics of division. There are many songs about revolution, but not many about revolution deferred by powerful interests.

The only thing left for me to do was make a video:

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Parker Griffith CAN Lose

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Health Care Bill Will End Medicaid Means Testing

The Course Of Human Events