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Lara Trump is asking the question Reagan used to great effect: “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” Chris Hayes promptly responded with a montage of news clips from just one day, March 13, 2020, to show just how badly we were off four...
by Dan K
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on Wed Mar 13, 2024 at 06:22 PM PDT
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House Republicans have revived the infamous Swiftboat lie strategy that helped defeat John Kerry in 2004. In essence, it involves relentlessly lying about a candidate and smearing his or her name and reputation in the hopes it’ll shave a few points off...
by thomhartmann
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on Mon Sep 18, 2023 at 08:20 AM PDT
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It's easy to forget that Tucker Carlson is still out there, poisoning minds while gleefully cackling at children’s skinned knees and the government’s latest feline leukemia statistics. When Fox News decided in April that it had had its fill of...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Thu Aug 31, 2023 at 03:00 PM PDT
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That is the headline from a NYU School of Law based Just Security analysis of what Trump and Giuliani are doing and they imply that if Joe waits like Kerry did it will work again. What’s worse is their allegations aren’t just false, they are in direct...
by Idontknowwhy
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on Wed Sep 25, 2019 at 02:05 AM PDT
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Thanksgiving just keeps on giving. Huffpost now reporting that dirtball Swiftboater and Hillary Slanderer and chummy chum chum of Roger Stone is now in the process of ratting out his fellow slimeballs. Jerome Corsi you son of a bitch it is time...
by Patrick Adams
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on Fri Nov 23, 2018 at 10:06 AM PST
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In 2015 Clinton’s poll numbers were amazing considering what the Republican’s and the MSM had thrown at her.
After spending million’s of dollars Clinton is cleared of wrong doing in Benghazi.
But the Republican’s used it for political...
by Cocob
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on Fri Nov 18, 2016 at 02:10 PM PST
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Sanders has a Communism problem that Republicans were drooling to exploit in the general election. This was a big blindspot that Sanders supporters still choose to ignore.
An online merchant has accused the Bernie Sanders campaign of “trademark...
by Jason Hackman
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on Tue Nov 15, 2016 at 12:28 PM PST
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All. Please ORDER FROM GRUBHUB this weekend and post to your social media accounts.
Right-wingers are calling for a GrubHub boycott because the CEO compassionately said he wouldn't support Trump-like intolerance at the company. He invited those who...
by dmitcha
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on Fri Nov 11, 2016 at 10:40 PM PST
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This is so disgusting... BUT WHEN IT COMES TO LIES AND DECEIT THE GOP WILL ALWAYS BE CHAMPION!!! ...
by thinkingblue
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on Wed Jul 22, 2015 at 06:19 AM PDT
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From Media Matters :
On April 23, ABC News explained that their independent review of the source material used for Clinton Cash "uncovered errors in the book, including an instance where paid and ...
by ericlewis0
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on Thu Apr 23, 2015 at 05:14 PM PDT
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The Saturday Night Round Table - aka Wink and RG's Lonely Hearts Club Jam - is on!
We're talkin' Obama's resurgence, Movies, Pop Culture and some News and Politics du jour.
Join the convo at 417-...
by winkk
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on Sat Feb 07, 2015 at 08:42 PM PST
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Somewhere along the way, that right-wing echo chamber that used to just help conservatives swiftboat John Kerry and so forth stopped being a tool for cynical manipulation and actually took over the ...
by I voted for Kodos
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on Thu Oct 10, 2013 at 11:50 AM PDT
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Littoral Combat Ship aka "Little Crappy Ship"
Littoral combat ships, known inside the Navy as little crappy ships, are too lightly armed to be effective on offense and too lightly armored to ...
by FishOutofWater
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on Thu Mar 28, 2013 at 11:55 AM PDT
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The Obama-hating Neocon Right is trying to Swift Boat the expected nomination of Chuck Hagel to be Secretary of Defense, by making up a fantasy scare story that Hagel, former U.S. Senator from ...
by Robert Naiman
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on Wed Dec 19, 2012 at 02:21 PM PST
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Uploaded with ImageShack.us First off, I hope all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and if you have today off as well, I hope you are enjoying it. So one of the top stories today on
by poopdogcomedy
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on Fri Nov 23, 2012 at 04:38 PM PST
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It's not terribly surprising, but Larry Bailey, the power and money behind the OPSEC "Swift Boating" of Obama, has come out as a birther. An article in Foreign Policy lays it all out:
"I have to ...
by gpk3
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on Fri Aug 17, 2012 at 02:47 PM PDT
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As I compiled video assets for this piece, I came across something unusual. I searched for a video of the Wolf Blitzer interview with Admiral McRaven that has been widely quoted here and by ...
by Zwoof
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on Thu Aug 16, 2012 at 07:14 PM PDT
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I do not have time to get into this, but last night I was searching out some music on YouTube and I was automatically diverted to an ad for "Dishonorable Disclosures", a "film" explaining how the ...
by stubhead
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on Thu Aug 16, 2012 at 07:59 AM PDT
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IMO, as a vet, you're kind of dishonoring your former profession. Putting your life on the line for your country and the members of your team -- and the personal sacrifice involved not just during ...
by monkeybox
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on Thu Aug 16, 2012 at 05:01 AM PDT
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First, let me say that I woke up to the same horrible news this morning as everyone else, and it weighs heavily on my soul. I am not religious, but I wish to express that my thoughts are with all ...
by dlh77489
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on Fri Jul 20, 2012 at 09:26 AM PDT
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