CNBC decides not to wait for the news

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Wednesday August 12, 2009 · 11:09 AM PDT

2009/08/12 · 11:09

Apparently the disturbances at Town Halls aren't occurring frequently enough or predictably enough for CNBC. So, rather than cover a bunch and wait for a disturbance, they've apparently decided to set one up - at least according to a report on TPM:

Yesterday, Tea Party Patriots national coordinator Jenny Beth Martin sent an email, obtained by TPMmuckraker, to a Tea Party google group. Martin told the group: "We have a media request for an event this week that will have lots of energy and lots of anger. This is for CNBC."

She then asked: "So, where are the big events this week and where can TPP best be represented on the news?"

Later that day, a Tea Bagger named Pat Wayman responded with a suggestion, also obtained by TPMmuckraker: "This one should be a riot! literally...." he wrote.

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Friday April 24, 2009 · 9:27 AM PDT

2009/04/24 · 09:27

Perhaps the most famous torture scene in popular culture comes from the movie "Marathon Man", when Laurence Olivier's character, Dr. Szell, attempts to find out from Dustin Hoffman's character Babe whether the bank in which his diamonds are being kept is being watched, or whether he can safely retrieve them.

Does anyone doubt that what is depicted in this scene is pure torture?

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Is It Safe?

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Is It Safe?

Yes, noone should be prosecuted for trampling our values to save our lives

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No, Bybee, Yoo, Addington and Bradbury should be in jail for a very long time

20 votes

Safe as pie!

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Rush Limbaugh Still A Big Fat Idiot

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Monday April 20, 2009 · 7:51 AM PDT

2009/04/20 · 07:51

It takes a special kind of douchebaggery to make yourself stand out in the parade of horrors that is today's Torture News Roundup. Of course, Limbaugh is capable of mindwarping feats of douchebaggery - perhaps he should be used as the benchmark scale.

The story that made me stop in the middle of a whole list of "WTF" stories, and think... "Really? WTF!" was a Think Progress post about Friday's Limbaugh Show, wherein Limbaugh claimed that John McCain being "broken" by the Vietnamese was proof that torture works.

Let's dissect this drive-by shooting of Limbaugh's own party's most recent Presidential nominee by yet another right-wing chickenhawk over the fold.

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Rush Limbaugh:

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Rush Limbaugh:

worse person in the world

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worser person in the world

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Worst Person... in... the World!

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The Krugmath - What Paul Krugman Didn't Say

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Tuesday March 24, 2009 · 6:06 AM PDT

2009/03/24 · 06:06

Yesterday on his blog, Paul Krugman put up a little arithmetic on his blog, explaining why the non-recourse loans in the Geithner plan are a subsidy.

He's right as far as he goes, but there's a striking thing about how he lays out the math that merits further explanation, which he does not give.

Let's investigate, over the fold.

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Friday December 19, 2008 · 9:10 AM PST

2008/12/19 · 09:10

I fully understand why the LGBT community is up in arms about the choice of Rick Warren to give the invocation at the inauguration.

Warren holds some horrific views and has expressed them in hate speech terms - terms that are close to actionable regardless of the passage of Prop. 8 which pretty obviously has no bearing whatsoever on whether language is hate speech or not.

So why did Obama choose him? A lot of people think it's straight politics, but if so, it's a bad choice: he infuriates his base considerably, but gains very little political capital amongst the right. I think there's another explanation.

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Saturday November 08, 2008 · 1:38 PM PST

2008/11/08 · 13:38

Yeah I know, I'm rather late to the party, but I was just reading yet another Lieberman blog posting, which looked into the lesser committees whose current chaircritters are less senior than Lieberman.

One stood out for me: Indian Affairs. I'll dig deeper over the fold

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What to do with Joe

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What to do with Joe

Musical chairs

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Leave him with nothing

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Eject him

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Kick him in the ass on the way out, and insult his mother

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Steal his pie

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Another day, another fundraising letter - DENIED!

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Wednesday October 22, 2008 · 8:32 PM PDT

2008/10/22 · 20:32

I have no idea how I ended up on the McCain/Palin campaign mailing list. But I did.

Normally, I just write "Thanks but no thanks" and send it back, just to make sure they pay for the return postage and waste their time opening it.

The letters themselves are normally good to laugh at. This time, I couldn't take it any more, so I annotated the letter and sent that back with the fundraising slip. Maybe it'll demotivate a volunteer, or something. Or just make them waste time being angry - if they weren't already. Although it'll probably just be some paid bum.

Wanna see what I wrote? Of course you do (unless you're bandwidth restricted - it's scanned images)! So, hop over the fold.

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Wednesday October 15, 2008 · 4:59 PM PDT

2008/10/15 · 16:59

With the final Presidential debate less than two hours away, things are looking rosy for the good guys. The race has swung emphatically over the last month.

One month ago today was the day of the Lehman failure, which triggered the collapse in the finance sector, and the mirroring collapse in John McCain's poll numbers. On September 15th, McCain led national polling by roughly 2% and was a slight favorite in 538's electoral college simulations. Today, Obama leads by about 8% nationally, and 538 gives McCain less than a 5% chance of winning.

Knowing that McCain is somewhat superstitious, it's easy to imagine that right now he's cursing his luck.

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Tuesday October 07, 2008 · 9:44 AM PDT

2008/10/07 · 09:44

We all know the bailout bill passed and was signed into law on Friday, Oct. 3rd.

Why is it, then, that the Fed. was already injecting hundreds of billions of dollars into the system even before that? Doesn't that make yesterday's collapse truly frightening?

Apparently even with these hundreds of billions of federal paper in the system, credit markets are still frozen solid. What does this mean for the chances of the bailout succeeding?

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Thursday October 02, 2008 · 11:38 AM PDT

2008/10/02 · 11:38

The latest article on Factcheck.org examines duelling ads about the economic crisis.

First up is MoveOn.org's witty ad, saying McCain's friends caused it. This is where Factcheck gets it completely wrong. They totally screw up the votes, and they assume that just because whatever spokesperson at MoveOn they contacted couldn't explain the way in which Phil Gramm's deregulation acts helped cause the current crisis, that he can't be blamed.

I urge all of you to do what I did: email Editor@FactCheck.org and get them to fix their article. The email I sent is below the fold. Some of you no doubt have much better explanations of the ways in which Phil Gramm helped us get into this mess.

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What are you going to do?

I already emailed Factcheck

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I'm going to email Factcheck right now

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Nothing - Factcheck got it right

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Nothing - who cares?

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Eat pie

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Could Palin deliver Alaska... for Obama?

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Friday August 29, 2008 · 9:58 AM PDT

2008/08/29 · 09:58

Conventional wisdom has it that the choice of Vice President should help the ticket in the VP's home state. History casts some doubt on whether the CW's right, but there's no suggestion it could hurt.

I wonder if there's a possibility picking Palin could hurt McCain in Alaska, which I will explain over the fold.

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Palin as VP

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Palin as VP

helps McCain seal up AK's 3 EV

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opens the door for Obama to sweep the Pacific states

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DOJ Covers up Cheney/Stevens Link

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Tuesday August 26, 2008 · 9:35 AM PDT

2008/08/26 · 09:35

I just spotted an interesting story by Zachary Roth on TPM Muckraker.

Roth attempts to link a Newsweek report from the weekend wherein it is revealed that the FBI recorded a phone conversation from Stevens asking Cheney to help influence lawmakers to support a pipeline project that VECO exec. Bill Allen wanted. Roth quotes Newsweek:

Two days later, Newsweek notes, Cheney sent a letter to Alaska lawmakers urging them to pass the bill. Stevens told Newsweek that Cheney's letter had been sent at his urging.

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