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Florida man Rep. Matt Gaetz went on Newsmax Wednesday night to spin Donald Trump’s win in Monday’s Iowa’s Republican caucuses. After arguing that Trump’s victory was even biglier because the weather in Iowa was so bad, Gaetz addressed the nagging...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Jan 18, 2024 at 10:10 AM PST
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Before Donald Trump officially made his plan to skip the first Republican presidential debate, he promised that one way or another his campaign would be sending lots of surrogates to Wisconsin to ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Aug 24, 2023 at 11:02 AM PDT
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I just saw/heard an argument for TV cameras for the Trump's attempted coup case from Glenn Kirschner that I had not heard before. The� fourth charge �speaks to Trump's attempt to deny the exercise ...
by Dem
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on Fri Aug 04, 2023 at 03:03 PM PDT
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Rabbi Arnstein is about peace. Peace of the soul. This article is about pushing your fear button. Local conservative online news puts out an article about the FBI holding nuclear drills in Houston. Nuclear attack drills start in Houston under the FBI...
by iarnstein
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on Wed May 03, 2023 at 05:10 PM PDT
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I understand that CNN has a new boss who wants to make the cable network “non-partisan”. The problem is, CNN was already non-partisan. Now, they have to pretend that both sides of the aisle are equal in order to appear non-partisan.
by Perlinator
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on Wed Sep 14, 2022 at 08:09 PM PDT
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Republicans have coordinated daily talking points. Often generated by expert communicators like the odious Frank Luntz, and poll or focus tested. Their opinions, and often their lies, penetrate deeply into the public consciousness. Progressives...
by this is only a test
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on Mon Jan 25, 2021 at 08:07 AM PST
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You might think that after helping to incite a violent attempt to overthrow the government of a country that used to be the Shining Beacon on the Hill, Fox News might (at least temporarily) display a little shame. As ever, you would be wrong. Fox Story...
by Huntress77
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on Sat Jan 09, 2021 at 11:29 PM PST
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Last Saturday morning, I woke up a bit earlier than usual and wound up hearing quite a bit of NPR’s Weekend Edition radio show. What I heard sounded like it had been written by the writers of Fox and Friends (on the Fox “news” network). There was a...
by shivashankar
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on Sat Feb 22, 2020 at 02:00 PM PST
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Dear Citizens and Elected Officials: Well, it’s past noon on the day after the Iowa caucuses, and in the wealthiest nation in the world, which has led the entire globe down the path of IT, AI and all the other meanings of “automation,” the nation’s...
by billofrights
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on Tue Feb 04, 2020 at 09:33 AM PST
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I never post, presuming others are better qualified. But I might be in a somewhat unique position to report an odd event. Last Saturday night, as I was watching tv, an intense piece from FOX was inserted into an otherwise peaceful evening. I tried...
by zeroooo
28 comments
on Mon Oct 14, 2019 at 08:47 AM PDT
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Hey there, cherished Community! It’s somehow Saturday again, which means it’s time for Picks of the Week, wherein we showcase stories that stuck with the Daily Kos staff over the last seven days. (Find more about our selection criteria here.) This...
by Jessica Sutherland
10 comments
on Sat Apr 20, 2019 at 02:29 PM PDT
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Someone recently defined spin as, “Presenting bad facts in the best possible light.” Mostly, it’s merely putting lipstick on a pig so that when people look at the pig, it’s not as off-putting. But Republicans have mastered spin to the point that when...
by wjl45
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on Tue Feb 19, 2019 at 09:52 AM PST
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What planet do we actually live on? Start with this fact: the last four years -- 2015, 2016, 2017, and (it seems a sure thing)...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Dec 06, 2018 at 01:03 PM PST
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Kevin Drum at Mother Jones has 15 Reasons for Democrats to be happy. Tuesday’s results continue to unfold as final ballot counts are slowly emerging and projected results get replaced by actual results. Lots of other things have followed from that....
by xaxnar
26 comments
on Fri Nov 09, 2018 at 07:13 PM PST
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How is the press covering what’s at stake in the midterms? This piece from the AP is not encouraging.
Trump presidency faces high stakes in midterm elections.
Here’s some samples:
...A knot of investigations. Partisan gridlock. A warning...
by xaxnar
24 comments
on Sun Nov 04, 2018 at 10:53 AM PST
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The lightbulb in my mind went off as to why Trump and Ghoulianni keep casting Mueller’s inquiry as a Democratic endeavor. Besides the obvious “No puppet, no puppet, your’e the puppet” ploy, they see where this could go. The indictment says a...
by Dretutz
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on Fri Jul 13, 2018 at 03:25 PM PDT
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I was in Thailand on holiday for Mr NY Brit Expat’s birthday. While we were there, there were local elections in England (yes, we did postal votes). Trying to find out what was happening as I was using wifi to follow both The Guardian and the BBC as...
by NY brit expat
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on Sun May 13, 2018 at 03:00 PM PDT
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Let’s start with this:
By nearly all accounts, Joy Reid’s claims that her blog was hacked — and that the homophobic posts attributed to her blog were posted by some nefarious force seeking to undermine her — are not true. It’s a story she made up...
by Bob Johnson
488 comments
on Fri Apr 27, 2018 at 09:30 PM PDT
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I’m so sick and tired of the NY Times providing cover for the Republican nonsense and then later saying, “Oops, I guess we made a mistake”.
Here is their latest take/spin on the Kushner espionage — Kushner Is Said to Have Discussed a Secret Channel...
by According to Fish
38 comments
on Sat May 27, 2017 at 08:17 AM PDT
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The following
Is taken verbatim from an email I got supposedly from the White House. A few graphic elements were removed, but that's it.
Seriously, how dumb do they think we are? The Big Lie technique rolls on.
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by xaxnar
4 comments
on Tue May 23, 2017 at 12:43 PM PDT
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