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"submitted by reddit to blog." - Darryl

"Imagine you're a Fleet Street reporter at a British tabloid with a pocketful of cash. You meet a trusted source at a pub, a police officer who tells you about the royal family's confidential schedule in exchange for a small gratuity. You hand over a few quid and rush off with a photographer to stake out a health club where Camilla Parker-Bowles is toning her abs. Guess what: If you work for Rupert Murdoch, you may have violated U.S. law. What the government nails you for could depend on how you and your bosses account for the sketchy deal with the cop." - Darryl from Bookmarklet

"One piece of evidence it offered was the claim that a black person born into slavery “was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA’s first African-American president.”" - Darryl from Bookmarklet

"Comedy Central’s mock conservative pundit skewered the campaign finance system more effectively than any government watchdog or muckraking journalist by launching his own political “Super PAC’’ committee. The underlying backdrop: Citizens United, the landmark Supreme Court case that allows unlimited corporate and special interest money to flow directly to campaign advertising." - Darryl from Bookmarklet

"“The point that people don’t realize,” said Michael Harrison, founder and publisher of the talk media trade publication TALKERS Magazine, “is that (big time political talk show hosts) are radio personalities – they are in the same business that people like Casey Kasem are in – and what they do is no different than people who broadcast from used car lots or restaurants or who endorse the local roofer or gardener.”" - Darryl from Bookmarklet

"Herman Cain, who officially announced his candidacy for President on Saturday, was once the spokesperson for a highly controversial group that, among other things, suggested Democrats wanted to kill “black babies.”" - Darryl from Bookmarklet

"Sean Hannity falsely claimed that "no president" before Obama "has ever suggested" that borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps. In fact, Obama's comments are in line with those of President George W. Bush, who also supported a two-state plan based on pre-1967 borders." - Darryl from Bookmarklet

This has been the policy of the American government under several administrations and both political parties for decades. Sean Hannity is a fool who has been hired by Rupert Murdoch to push Likud propaganda. That is his function at Fox News. Hannity is essentially a hireling of the Israel lobby, as are many members of the US Congress. They've been bought and paid for. - Sean McBride

The chain of influence and control in play: Israel lobby > billionaires > mainstream media owners > Rupert Murdoch > News Corp. > Fox News > Sean Hannity > pro-Likud propaganda - Sean McBride

"The Tea Party of Tennessee wants to remove incidents of slavery and genocide from American textbooks for fear they would besmirch the image of the Founding Fathers" - Darryl from Bookmarklet

TX BoE needs to be trashed to begin with...and other states would do well to refuse the books that come out of those changes. My dad (history major of an older order) initially supported the TX BoE until I told him about specific changes (and provided supporting evidence to him). Conservative, he may be...ignorant to history, he is not...complacent to revisionism, he is definitely not. - Prosey BUTTONS!

"In one of his first interviews after announcing his 2012 bid yesterday morning, he called for eliminating FEMA, even as much of the country suffers from devastating natural disasters, suggesting that people who happen to be in the path of a tornado or wildfire are “dumb.”" - Darryl from Bookmarklet

By the same reasoning if you get in front of a criminals bullet or put your property out to be stolen you must be out and out stupid. - Todd Hoff

"“With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have realize what that implies,” the senator said. “It’s not an abstraction. I’m a physician. That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me.” “It means you believe in slavery,” Paul added. “It means that you’re going to enslave not only me, but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants who work in my office, the nurses.” “Basically, once you imply a belief in a right to someone’s services — do you have a right to plumbing? Do you have a right to water? Do you have right to food? — you’re basically saying you believe in slavery.”" - Darryl from Bookmarklet

He's comparing truly socialized healthcare to slavery. A type of socialized health care in which there'd be no private choices and in which providers would be conscripted against their will into participating. I don't think anyone is advocating any such program, so he's basically just tilting at invisible windmills. Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. - iTad

"On Tuesday, Kinzinger and 41 of his colleagues sent a letter to President Obama, asking him to rein in Democratic attacks on GOP members who voted for the House budget, which includes a plan to privatize Medicare and cap spending on the program." - Darryl from Bookmarklet

"One of the senators is a key decision-maker on national security issues. Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), the vice chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, said earlier today that he had seen a photo of a slain bin Laden, describing it in some detail without casting any doubt on its authenticity. But sure enough, he now admits he saw a fake" - Darryl from Bookmarklet

It is so unbelievably easy to fool most of the people most of the time. - Sean McBride

"The photos, taken by a Pakistani security official who entered the compound after the early morning raid on Monday, show two men dressed in traditional Pakistani garb and one in a t-shirt, with blood streaming from their ears, noses and mouths." - Darryl from Bookmarklet

"Just three days after the world learned President Obama ordered a daring special operations mission resulting in the death of Osama bin Laden, Sarah Palin has come around to claim he's "pussy-footing around" -- specifically by not immediately releasing photos of the deceased al Qaeda leader." - Darryl from Bookmarklet

She must mean it will scare managers of suicide terrorists. - Christopher Galtenberg

"On Sunday afternoon, President Obama and his commanders sat in the Situation Room, tensely monitoring a handful of SEALs stalking Osama Bin Laden half a world away. While much of the nation was snickering over birth certificate jokes or enjoying a sunny day, the President was in the White House basement, holding his breath." - Darryl from Bookmarklet

"A teacher who vowed nearly 10 years ago not to cut his beard until Osama bin Laden was captured or proven dead said he cried Sunday night upon hearing of the terrorist's death." - Darryl from Bookmarklet

"Oklahoma Republican Sally Kern apologized Thursday for statements she made against women and Black people during a debate on affirmative action." - Darryl from Bookmarklet

"All told, Obama-era choices account for about $1.7 trillion in new debt, according to a separate Washington Post analysis of CBO data over the past decade. Bush-era policies, meanwhile, account for more than $7 trillion and are a major contributor to the trillion-dollar annual budget deficits that are dominating the political debate." - Darryl from Bookmarklet

"entitlement costs" suggest SS, but if you split it up, SS is not _at all_ a major problem for future debt while Medicare and Medicaid are. (see http://friendfeed.com/us-poli... , http://friendfeed.com/us-poli... ) So why do entitlement cutters mostly talk about cutting SS? Because cutting SS is simple and cutting health care is much less so. - Andrew C (✓)

"Paul Ryan is flipping out that town hall attendees aren't going to follow his command to "play nice" in front of the media." - Darryl from Bookmarklet

"Last week, Southern California's Orange County showed why it's a haven for people who don't find the Old South racist enough." - Darryl from Bookmarklet

...I love how she deftly handles critique with this bit: "It was a joke. I have friends who are black." - .LAG liked that

"Professor Bradford Scharlott of Northern Kentucky University has looked into this story in detail and written a long academic article about it. He concludes two things: First, that the "conspiracy theory" is likely true—Sarah Palin staged a huge hoax, and, second, the American media is pathetic for not pursuing the story more aggressively." - Darryl from Bookmarklet

I am unclear why this site breathlessly reported a story that was told several times, back in 2008. Not one single new thing here. I can't wait until the cover the last election. - Anika from Android

The story is getting major play in some reputable media outlets, for instance: http://www.businessinsider.com/sarah-p... If the story is true, it would be a big story indeed, even today. - Sean McBride

"“The human toll here,” he declared, “looks to be much worse than the economic toll and we can be grateful for that.”" - Darryl from Bookmarklet

""I would also point out that if you emptied that house there ... if you left a computer there, or an iPad, or an iPhone, those are built in the United States of America," McCain said." - Darryl from Bookmarklet

Mine was built in China, it says so right on the iPhone, "Manufactured (or built can't remember) but designed in California" - sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!

These are our wise political leaders -- amazing stuff. Most of them seem to know very little about anything other than rustling up campaign donations. - Sean McBride

"A crowd estimated at more than 70,000 people on Saturday waved American flags, sang the national anthem and called for the defeat of a Wisconsin plan to curb public sector unions that has galvanized opposition from the American labor movement." - Darryl from Bookmarklet

@CNN actually mentioned 125,000 to 150,000 people. - Rene, Pro Button Pusher

"It's pretty amazing that someone he's never talked to before managed to get twenty minutes with him when Democratic legislators and union leaders have said he's not taking their calls. But of course Greta didn't ask him about that." - Darryl from Bookmarklet

"The Obama administration on Tuesday issued more than $45 million in new grants to various states for the implementation of the president's health care law -- some of which went to governors hostile both to the White House and the law itself" - Darryl from Bookmarklet

funny how that works, huh? - Joe The Sausage

"A huge share of the nation's economic growth over the past 30 years has gone to the top one-hundredth of one percent, who now make an average of $27 million per household. The average income for the bottom 90 percent of us? $31,244." - Darryl from Bookmarklet

"Beck has been very critical of Google in recent weeks, mostly stemming from the praise company executives have heaped on one of their employees, Wael Ghonim. The head of Middle East marketing for the technology giant, Ghonim played a big role in helping organize the Egyptian Revolution and the eventual ouster of President Hosni Mubarak by setting up protests through social networking sites." - Darryl from Bookmarklet

"The female student was in line to pick up scholarship money but couldn’t provide a driver’s license or other government ID to the clerk, O’Brien recalled. Yet the woman said she had driven to the college that day. “We could tell by looking at her that she was not originally from this country,” O’Brien said. Another lawmaker asked O’Brien how she could tell the woman wasn’t a legal citizen. O’Brien replied: “Well, she wasn’t black, she wasn’t Asian and she had the olive complexion.”" - Darryl from Bookmarklet

""The extreme right reporters and radio and TV have added to this problem, and I'm just hoping that will change," Maisch told Shepard Smith in her first television interview on Fox News on Sunday night. "That's my hope, is that the Republicans will stop naming bills in very hateful ways, like the job killing whatever the rest of that bill is, I think that the extreme right has just gone too far."" - Darryl from Bookmarklet