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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (412087)	2/21/2011 3:54:15 PM
From: goldworldnet	6 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794266

From Pamala Geller at Atlas Shrugs PLEASE SHEPARD SMITH OUT THE DOOR! atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com * * *

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (412087)	2/24/2011 11:02:33 AM
From: DMaA	2 Recommendations Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 794266

Here’s Rachel Maddow on Tuesday night with Jay Leno: JAY LENO: How about what's going on in Wisconsin?... RACHEL MADDOW: If you look at the last election cycle, of the top ten people donating money in that election, seven of them were giving to Republicans, those were all corporate interests and Right-wing PACs and stuff. Seven of the ten were all Right-wing, and the only three that weren't were unions. So, if Republicans can get rid of the unions, particularly these public sector unions, they can run the table in every election from here on out. Now here’s Shepard Smith interviewing Juan Williams Wednesday: SHEPARD SMITH: Can you explain Wisconsin?...Have you looked at the list of the top ten donors to political campaigns, the top ten highest? Seven of those ten donate to Republicans. The other three that remain of those top ten, they all donate to Democrats and they’re all unions. Bust the unions, and it’s over. Hmm, is Shep a Rachel Maddow fan? She cites some stats and draws a conclusion from them, and the next day Shep cites the same stats using similar language--and draws the same conclusion. Now if Rachel Maddow’s stats were general public knowledge this could be a coincidence. But after spotting Noel Sheppard’s analysis of her comments, we followed his lead and went to Open Secrets to see for ourselves. As Mr Sheppard noted the watchdog website contradicts Maddow’s claims. Neither the top ten overall donors nor the top ten individual donors lists shows seven of them leaning Republican. In fact, in both cases there were more Democrat-leaning donors in the top ten than Republicans! So now we have not just similar language leading to the same conclusion, but also identical stats that may have been made up by Rachel Maddow...and repeated by Shep Smith the next day! A Shep-Maddow connection? We report, you decide. johnnydollar.us