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27 Nov 09
From Dollars To Death Panels: How Republicans Distorted Debates On Capitol Hill | TPMDC
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Number Five: Paul Ryan Draws Line On Graph
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23 Nov 09
A Talking Point Built Of Straw - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
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To see how false this claim is, all anyone ever had to was look at the Classified Information Procedures Act, a short and crystal clear 1980 law that not only permits, but requires, federal courts to undertake extreme measures to ensure the concealment of classified information, even including concealment from the defendant himself.
21 Nov 09
PolitiFact | Sarah Palin claims the campaign did not elaborate on Obama's association with ACORN
PolitiFact | Palin claims Reagan faced a worse recession than Obama
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VERDICT: Worse under Obama.
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VERDICT: Worse under Obama.
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Face Of The Day - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
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Phil Wolf, owner of Wolf Automotive used car dealership, stands in
front of a billboard on his auto lot on November 21, 2009 in Wheat
Ridge, Colorado. Wolf paid $2,500 to have the billboard painted, and it
has sparked controversy since it was put up the day before. Wolf, 57,
said the dealership received more than a thousand calls from throughout
the U.S. and Canada in a single day, both in support and against the
sign. 'We've had death threats. We had people call and say they were
going to firebomb the place last night,' he said, adding that local
police provided overnight security outside the dealership because of
the threats. Wolf, a supporter of the 'birther' movement, questions
President Obama's citizenship. 'We've got to recall our country, the
election,' he said. This guy (Obama), is illegal.' He also blamed the
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16 Nov 09
The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin XXXIII: Saturday Night Live - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
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On Oprah today, we are told that Palin says she desperately wanted to go on Saturday Night Live - "I thought it would be fun." She says that the campaign was terribly apprehensive about it and thought the appearance could be "atrocious." She also sticks by the transparently incredible story that she watched the priceless Tina Fey skits with the volume down.
Moreover, Palin insists that the campaign opposed the appearance but she wanted to do it because it would "neutralize some of the parody" she hadn't, by her own account, ever heard.
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We actually have emails from Steve Schmidt and Palin that provide contemporaneous evidence to allow us to judge this self-serving tale:
In one email thread, dated October 14, 2008, Palin says she is "not
thrilled" with the idea of going on Saturday Night Live as a way of
marginalizing the show's unflattering impersonations of her."Not after seeing clips of what they've been playing re: my family,"
Palin writes to campaign manager Steve Schmidt, as well as top
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Matthew Yglesias » WaPost Op-Ed Page Once Again Misleading Its Readers
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If Kay Bailey Hutchison wants to claim that “A few of them have formal titles, but most are simply known as ‘czars’” then fine. Maybe she’s ignorant, or maybe she’s a huge liar. Either way, Amanda Terkel points out that this is completely false. There are zero officials in the Obama administration who lack formal titles and are simply known as czars. She’s totally wrong. Completely and utterly.
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What I do care about is The Washington Post. This is a newspaper. They charge people money to buy it.
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13 Nov 09
McCain Adviser Denies Palin’s Claim She Granted Couric Interview Because She Pitied Couric’s Low Self Esteem | The Plum Line
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A McCain adviser I just spoke to adamantly denied the claim, and provided a counter story: Palin was repeatedly urged by McCain aides to prepare for the interview, but refused.
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“It’s not true,” the McCain adviser I just reached said, laughing heartily at the claim. “It’s ridiculous.”
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Glenn Beck Loses Claim Against Creator Of Web SiteGlennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com
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The parody site's founder, Isaac Eiland-Hall, created the site on the premise that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990, because after all, Beck never denied taking part in a non-existent attack (a clear dig on Beck's sometimes illogical rants and conspiracy theories).
08 Nov 09
Memo exposes Bush's new green strategy | Environment | The Guardian
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The memo, by the leading Republican consultant Frank Luntz, concedes the party has "lost the environmental communications battle" and urges its politicians to encourage the public in the view that there is no scientific consensus on the dangers of greenhouse gases.
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"The scientific debate is closing [against us] but not yet closed. There is still a window of opportunity to challenge the science," Mr Luntz writes in the memo, obtained by the Environmental Working Group, a Washington-based campaigning organisation.
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Boehner Misrepresents FactCheck.org’s Findings | FactCheck.org
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We never have said that seniors would suffer "massive cuts to Medicare benefits" under the pending House or Senate overhaul bills, and in fact have done our best to debunk claims to that effect. The only seniors who might see cuts are those enrolled in Medicare Advantage, about 22 percent of the Medicare population. Currently, many of those seniors receive a bit more in benefits than regular Medicare fee-for-service patients – perhaps a gym membership, a pair of eyeglasses, a reduced premium. But, as we’ve written, Medicare pays the private companies that administer Medicare Advantage about 14 percent more per beneficiary than it does for the rest of Medicare beneficiaries, who wind up subsidizing the program, according to government analysts.
The “Government-Run” Mantra | FactCheck.org
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The claim that the House bill would amount to "government-run health care" suffered a blow last week, when the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the so-called "public plan" in the revised bill wouldn’t offer much in the way of competition to private insurers. But that hasn’t stopped Republicans from repeating the claim.
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