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Public Policy Polling is out with their 3rd annual TV news trust poll. Among Republicans, as the chart on the right shows, the shape of the river is simple: they don't trust anyone except Fox News, who they adore.

...maybe this just means that trust in the media is really low these days? Nope. Democrats and Independents may not trust Fox, but they do trust everyone else. The percentages vary, with more skepticism toward some outlets than others, but what non-Republicans don't do is simply dismiss television news en masse as a bunch of lying corporate shills.

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[What. the fucking. fuck. -L]

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Here are the 12 takeaways on the topic from the [GOP] candidate's remarks: ...

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Though the database includes the 2009 murder of prominent abortion doctor George Tiller by an anti-abortion extremist, it is effectively whitewashed, making no reference to abortion in the entire entry. In the summary, Tiller is described merely as a "medical doctor," even though he and his clinic had been a target of anti-abortion activists for years. ...

The question of whether to include attacks on abortion providers is more than a matter of keeping score. As the conservative blow back over a 2009 Department of Homeland Security report warning of rising right-wing extremism illustrated, even talking about a link between certain ideologies and violence can cause politically problems.

The report, which did not specifically address anti-abortion groups, sparked a firestorm of protest from conservatives and veterans groups, which objected to the conclusion that extremist groups may try to recruit veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq.

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As an organization with 501 (c) (3) tax status, USCCB technically is not a lobbying organization and is barred by IRS from "attempt[ing] to influence legislation as a substantial part of its activities." However, advocates on both sides of the reproductive rights debate agree that the organization has significant political clout.

...The bishops are angered by the Obama administration's efforts to support family planning services domestically and abroad. The group has been particularly vocal in its opposition to HHS' proposed rule that would require health plans to cover contraceptive services without cost-sharing by policyholders. ...

Ninety-eight percent of sexually active Catholic women have used contraception, including 83% who attend Mass weekly, according to the 2008 National Survey of Family Growth.

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...set off criticism from the medical community and even some fellow conservatives by claiming that vaccine could lead to intellectual disabilities...

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...the crackpot outliers of two decades ago have become the vital center today...

It was this cast of characters and the pernicious ideas they represent that impelled me to end a nearly 30-year career as a professional staff member on Capitol Hill. A couple of months ago, I retired; but I could see as early as last November that the Republican Party would use the debt limit vote, an otherwise routine legislative procedure that has been used 87 times since the end of World War II, in order to concoct an entirely artificial fiscal crisis. ...

...the Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an apocalyptic cult... This trend has several implications, none of them pleasant. ...

The US Senate has more complex procedural rules than any other legislative body in the world...

The only thing that can keep the Senate functioning is collegiality and good faith.

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...stories from women who survived brutal experiences at religious homes that have operated with impunity in states such as Missouri, Louisiana and Texas — apparently with the blessings of politicians...

...schools that so clearly abuse young women — and, in other cases, young men. Joyce reports that officials in Missouri are prevented from “inspecting the homes or even keeping track of them.” Attempts to regulate the facilities are billed by the religious groups as “persecution.” ...

This is, by the way, an industry. The homes are not cheap. ...

What is happening at these homes is outright child abuse. At a recent raid at a home for boys in Alabama, authorities found leg irons, handcuffs, and guns.

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...Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) sent me a confidential email [link] ...

...[MRFF] have been exposed to information and situations that are complete and total violations of the U.S. Constitution by military personnel...in their relentless proselytizing of our armed forces personnel. Yet, this one really sent a wave of fear through me.

We were contacted by 29 out of 31 new missile officers in training who found the presentation about moral justification for pushing the button [to be] beyond a mere infraction ...

...thousands of armed forces personnel, who after attempting to seek resolution through their chain-of-command...end up coming to us desperate for assistance. As of this writing there are 23,353 clients on our list – 96% are Protestant...

...every time I write or speak about this I am inundated with hate mail, death threats from “Christian Patriots” ... It doesn’t matter that...the only thing I am “anti-” about is extremism.

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He does not bother to exclude cases of incest or rape, so apparently all that matters is that the man can claim he fertilized the egg. What Dr. Ablow is arguing for is a form of sexual slavery.

...Ablow has suggested that President Barack Obama’s appearances on “YouTube and the daytime talk shows” may have contributed to an increase in suicide rates.

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...the Tea Partiers themselves proudly posted the video of their invasion of the MoveOn picnic. ...it clearly documents how they effectively broke it up -- by threatening the attendees with intimidating speech and making it clear they wanted the group to clear out. ...[also] they followed these folks to someone's private home and tried to invade the gathering on private property...

This is the New McCartyhyism at work...

...obliteration-of-meaning-by-Newspeak... these people were hoping to provoke an angry response resulting in violence that they could then trot out as proof of liberal "thuggishness." (That's an old brownshirt tactic.)

Fortunately, this particular gathering of progressives was smart enough to avoid that trap. As we see more of these attempts to provoke violence, though, I'm not so sure that's going to continue happening.

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...this is the moment when loyalty is going to count the most. That's a hard sentence to write. Liberal politics is based on a non-regimented, all-inclusive approach to democracy. ...But certain harsh realities must be faced. ...

It was such a relief...when President Obama won in 2008 that we underestimated the debasing effect that two generations of right-wing indoctrination has had. ...

[The] victory [of the Civil War] was unfulfilled, followed by a reactionary period that destined America to a hundred more years of virulent racism.

...all of us who have taken advantage of our liberal heritage to question and criticize President Obama need to step back and consider the radical nature of the opposition, from the Supreme Court down to the local precinct. ...

If ever there was a time to stand behind the captain, this is it. ...like Churchill calling upon a coalition cabinet in the depth of the war years, it's paramount that we see the greater danger for what it is.

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Ed Schultz said he is worried about right-wing rhetoric after playing a clip of a talk-show host calling for the streets of Atlanta to be "littered" with "dead thugs."

Speaking on his Wednesday show, Schultz challenged conservative talk-show host Neal Boortz to appear on his MSNBC show and defend controversial comments he made about Atlanta on Monday.

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