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05 Dec 09

YouTube - 6. Climate Change -- Those hacked e-mails

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01 Dec 09

Rush Limbaugh - Salon.com

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By a wide margin, Americans consider Rush Limbaugh the nation's most influential conservative voice.
The radio host was picked by 26 percent of those who responded, followed by Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck at 11 percent. Actual politicians -- former Vice President Dick Cheney and former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin -- were the choice of 10 percent each.
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- Kennedy polled 29 percent, with Ronald Reagan second at 20 percent.
- 26 percent of those who responded said they felt confident explaining the "public option" to someone who didn't know about it.

21 Nov 09

YouTube - Why Are So Many Media Conservatives So Obsessed With Rape?

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02 Nov 09

A Bad Day for Rachel Maddow • VideoSift: Online Video *Quality Control

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01 Nov 09

Fox Gives Rush Limbaugh 30 Minutes To Tee Off On Obama (VIDEO)

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On Sunday they handed over the first half of their hour-long Sunday show to an interview with bombastic radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh

28 Oct 09

Limbaugh: "So We Stand By The Fabricated Quote..." • VideoSift: Online Video *Quality Control

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27 Oct 09

What Obama's Doing With Fox News « Whatever

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The White House is in fact delighted that Fox News and its merry cast of commentators exists.
Fox News isn’t the number one cable news channel because it has a broad spectrum of viewers or because the quality of its news reportage is better than those of other cable news networks or organizations. It’s the number one cable news network because it’s explicitly conservative in viewpoint where other news networks and organizations are not. Fox News garners the viewers for whom ideology trumps news; every other news organization splits the rest of the viewers.
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- But it’s also good for the White House, because at the end of the day, Fox News’ nightly audience in the third quarter of this year was 2.25 million viewers in primetime (source).
- Even with Fox News’ ratings going through the roof because of its little war with Obama, the actual number of viewers is minuscule. Or to put it otherwise, 2.5 million Americans watch Fox News, which means that 297.5 million Americans don’t.
- Obama, on the other hand, is picking a fight with a small conservative entity and is essentially forcing it to do what he wants — make conservatism (and by extension the GOP) look like an extreme political position — by adding to what it needs to survive: an audience. But it’s a small-scale audience comprised of people already opposed to the president and his policies (ie., no great political loss)
- The conservative war on the media was Clausewitz; the Obama war on the media is Sun Tzu.
- The White House has already run this play before — it used Rush Limbaugh as a foil earlier in the year, to good effect. Limbaugh loved it, because it was good for him and his ratings; it wasn’t so great for the GOP.

PolitiFact | Obama's Columbia 'thesis' is all fiction, dreamed up by blogger

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When we last spoke with Matthew Avitabile, a grad student in upstate New York who writes a blog called Jumping in Pools, he had stirred up a hornet's nest with a satirical posting that claimed President Barack Obama wanted soldiers to stop taking an oath to the Constitution and instead pledge their loyalty to the president himself.

That put some conservative bloggers into a tizzy. "Good g*d -- Obama is an egomaniac like we've never seen before. Another Hitler on the rise. This guy is just trashing everything the Consitution stands for," wrote someone named Kitty on the blog Tree of Liberty. The report kept spreading, getting picked up by other bloggers and circulating as a chain e-mail. It earned a Pants on Fire from our Truth-O-Meter.

24 Oct 09

Shocker for conservatives: Obama may not hate the Constitution - War Room - Salon.com

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[T]he Constitution allows for many things, but what it does not allow is the most revealing. The so-called Founders did not allow for economic freedom. While political freedom is supposedly a cornerstone of the document, the distribution of wealth is not even mentioned. While many believed that the new Constitution gave them liberty, it instead fitted them with the shackles of hypocrisy.
As a bit of basic research would have shown Limbaugh, Obama didn't technically write a thesis at Columbia -- at the time, Columbia didn't really have senior theses -- though he did write a thesis-length paper. But it was on Soviet nuclear disarmament, not the Constitution.
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- Limbaugh and many others -- including Fox News' FoxNation.com -- fell for a hoax, believing that a post put up by a conservative blogger in August as satire was the truth.
- Limbaugh noted later on in his show that it seemed the excerpts were fake, though he said he didn't care, both because of a series of quotes falsely attributed to him recently and because, "I know Obama thinks it."
- Update: Ledeen has put up a post noting that the excerpt is a fake, and that he fell for a satire.