Did Obama's banking comments sink the Dow?

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Sunday January 24, 2010 · 9:33 AM PST

2010/01/24 · 09:33

We've all heard it- Obama's bank comments sank the Dow for three straight days, right? That's the popular meme this week, repeated ad infinitum on right wing blogs, Fox News and by a distressing fraction of legitimate news sources.

But is it true? Below the fold we take a quick look at the evidence

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Thursday October 15, 2009 · 3:16 PM PDT

2009/10/15 · 15:16

...or so says an editorial to run in the Washington Post tomorrow, written by Ronald D. Rotunda and J. Peter Pham.

But not surprisingly, it's mostly misdirection and bunk.

More below the fold.

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Monday November 03, 2008 · 3:27 PM PST

2008/11/03 · 15:27

No, I'm not off my rocker- just sampling the wingnutosphere today. While most of the right is in a glum and sour America-is-going-to-hell-in-a-handbasket mood, there are still a few who are cheerily insisting the old guy and his wacky sidekick will stun us all and take the day tomorrow.

We'll take a tour of such sunny spots after the break, and at the end look at the only way McCain can win.

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Friday October 31, 2008 · 8:26 AM PDT

2008/10/31 · 08:26

This has been diaried or mentioned before by others, here, here, and here. However, I think it deserves another diary, because the others were submitted late last night and frankly, didn't get as much attention as they deserved.

The fact is, the local news organizations are barely touching this story, given it's explosive allegations and the proximity to the election. Coleman's campaign is trying to make it quietly go away, at least until the election is over, and it looks like they may succeed.

I've aggregated what we know about this story so far below the fold.

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Tuesday September 30, 2008 · 6:35 PM PDT

2008/09/30 · 18:35

Well, that's what John Hinderaker said 3 years ago, during the height of the build-up. And he was sure enough to excoriate Paul Krugman for saying there was.

Let's go into the way-back machine...err...the not-so-way-back machine and savor the wisdom and foresight of the right wing as the crisis was set in motion...

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Friday September 26, 2008 · 1:22 PM PDT

2008/09/26 · 13:22

I can't but have a sense of deja vu when I hear the latest murmurings about the bailout proposal:

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Monday September 22, 2008 · 9:15 AM PDT

2008/09/22 · 09:15

This is so great, I just had to share it, and it's a little too long for a comment, I think.

I found it here.

Now call your Representative and Senators and tell them we don't need no steeenkin' bailout...

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Wednesday September 17, 2008 · 3:22 PM PDT

2008/09/17 · 15:22

Remember Gabe Schwartz, the RNC Romeo that got taken for $120,000 after calling for "Less taxes, more war"? He's in the news again today, back to put his foot into his mouth one more time.

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Monday September 01, 2008 · 7:40 PM PDT

2008/09/01 · 19:40

I understand people hearing about tear gas and the like may be outraged, but I thought I would give a first-hand report of what I saw today in Saint Paul.

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Thursday July 05, 2007 · 10:13 AM PDT

2007/07/05 · 10:13

Abigail Taylor is a six year old Minnesota kid who was playing in a wading pool this week when she became trapped by the powerful suction of a single pool drain lacking a protective cover. Horrifically,this suction pulled much of her intestines out through her rectum. Doctors said it was a miracle that she survived, but that she may need to be fed intravenously for the rest of her life.

Unbelievably, it's not the first time this has happened.

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Monday January 22, 2007 · 7:09 PM PST

2007/01/22 · 19:09

Haven't seen this elsewhere, and I think it's worth noting.

Paul Craig Roberts has some solid conservative credentials: he was an assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Reagan, an associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, the author of The Supply Side Revolution, and was a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institute (I wonder if he knows Dinesh?)

...and he's jumping off the ship, big time.

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Tuesday November 07, 2006 · 10:53 PM PST

2006/11/07 · 22:53

Okay, folks- we've voted, we've volunteered, we've done everything we can possibly do. While we wait for the results to come in, I thought it might be pleasantly distracting to prognosticate on the POST-election future. My predictions about Scooter, Rumsfeld, and Iraq are below the fold. Read More

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