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To: Alighieri who wrote (577144)	7/20/2010 12:06:06 PM
From: Bill	Respond to of 1571403

We get the government we deserve. If the mindless masses vote for the ridiculously stupid and evil Democrats again, the nation's sure destruction will be a deserved event.

To: Alighieri who wrote (577144)	7/20/2010 1:32:05 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1571403

First Ad Linking Dem to Obama Runs in Missouri breitbart.tv

To: Alighieri who wrote (577144)	7/20/2010 2:33:42 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1571403

Democrats Jump Into Six-Point Lead on Generic Ballot It's bound to happen...the party of zero ideas is counting its hens before they hatch...and the left base will come back to some level of excitement as the prospect of the country falling in the hands of these worst than useless GOPers looms larger. Yup. Rs want to repeal bank reform and health care, and extend the Bush tax cuts to the rich. How's that for a populist platform?

To: Alighieri who wrote (577144)	7/20/2010 2:39:58 PM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1571403

Racism at Tea Party Event, From a Latino Counter-Protester: ‘You’re Too White To Be American, Go Back To Europe’ breitbart.tv

To: Alighieri who wrote (577144)	7/20/2010 2:41:19 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571403

The GOP Choice: Tea Parties or Independents? — By Kevin Drum \| Mon Jul. 19, 2010 10:39 PM PDT At the risk of embarrassing myself badly if someone points out an obvious mistake, I've stitched together an interesting pair of charts for you to look at tonight. But first some background. As you may know, the latest Gallup generic poll shows a sudden surge of support for Democrats. Why? Gallup suggests it might be related to passage of the financial reform bill, but I'm skeptical of that. Democrats have gone from 2 percentage points down to 6 percentage points up in only two weeks, by far their biggest jump in the past four months. Could a complex and barely understood regulatory bill really have caused that? Maybe, but here's another possibility. It turns out that the Democratic surge is largely due to a sudden jump in support from independents. So what caused that? Well, I was struck by an unusual correspondence between two of Gallup's charts. It turns out that whenever enthusiasm goes up among registered Republicans, preference for Republicans goes down among independents. The pasted-together chart below — it's a little messy I'm afraid — shows five cases of a jump in Republican enthusiasm (top chart) along with the corresponding drop in Republican support among independents (bottom chart). It's not a perfect correlation, but it's a pretty good one. Anyway. Here's my guess: every time Republicans do something that gets the tea party base excited, it simultaneously turns off independents. I'm not quite sure what caused the latest jump (NBPP fever? tax cuts pay for themselves? unemployment compensation obstructionism?), but apparently it was something. So this is the GOP's big problem for November: they need to motivate their base, but their base is so stone crazy that the only way to pander to them is with tactics so outrageous that non-crazies start to turn away. So far this hasn't hurt them too badly because the independents tend to come back until a fresh provocation hits the airwaves a few weeks later, but eventually this might catch up to them. There's obviously no rigorous statistics involved here, just sort of a gut feel. Take it for what it's worth. motherjones.com

To: Alighieri who wrote (577144)	7/20/2010 2:55:57 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1571403

JournoList: …Yes, But the Reporters at Pravda Weren’t Such Insufferable Assholes by Andrew Breitbart Journalists love whistleblowers. Just not when the whistle is blown on them. Journalists love transparency. As long as they’re not the ones being exposed. No steadfast journalism rule is unbendable when it comes to justifying and protecting the racket that is modern journalism, specifically, political journalism in the United States today. The ends justify the means for the Democrat Media Complex. They lie when they claim to be objective. They lie when they claim to be unbiased, because these so called “truth seekers” are guilty of engaging in open political warfare. And when the whistle is blown, they simply double down. “Journolist” — like Media Matters, but more insidious, if that’s possible — is an attempt to put the genie back in the bottle, technology and “the masses” uncovered the conspiracy: Obama Press Talk radio and the Internet have allowed outsiders the ability to challenge a multiple generational shift from journalism being about the story, to journalism being crafted toward a partisan end. From Newsweek killing the Lewinsky story to the Swift Boat veterans (until the undermedia pressure got too big) to the Dan Rather implosion to the open attempt to keep the Al Gore masseuse story under wraps to the John Edwards/Rielle Hunter debacle to the Van Jones admission of missing the story to the networks ignoring the ACORN video footage to the media playing up trumped up charges of racism in the Tea Party — while ignoring exculpatory evidence — to the mother of all media-as-political weaponry: the non-vetting of candidate Obama, the mainstream media has shown that it is in an ideological death spiral. And the ground is right here. American journalism died a long time ago; today Tucker Carlson got around to running the obituary. What The Daily Caller has unearthed proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that most media organizations are either complicit by participation in the treachery that is Journolist, or are guilty of sitting back and watching Alinsky warfare being waged against all that challenged the progressive orthodoxy. The scandal predictably involves journalists posing as professors posing as experts. But dressed down they are nothing but street thugs. They deserve the deepest levels of public consternation. We must demand that they do. The only way that the media will recover from the horrifying discoveries found in the Journolist is to investigate and investigate until every guilty reporter, professor and institution is laid bare begging America for forgiveness. Will they do it? If the powers that be don’t comply with this demand, we can always call Jonathan Alter and Eric Alterman racists.*