On November 7, 2009, the US House of Representatives passed HR3961, its version of comprehensive health care reform. The late Saturday night vote came after an all day debate which played out for the American people on C-Span. For C-Span this was like the first game of the World Series. The very next morning on [...]
Entries Tagged as 'press'
Reliable Snark
November 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · The Press Always Gets it Wrong, US House, US Senate, politics
ACORN Counterattack
October 7th, 2009 · No Comments · politics, rachel maddow show
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy News about the ACORN Act which is different from the defund ACORN Act. Goes with the Rachel Maddow Show continuing series about the war against ACORN Posted by Gypsy Chief
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The War Against ACORN – Take 5
October 7th, 2009 · No Comments · politics
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy This is episode five in a continuing series from the Rachel Maddow Show. Washington ‘gunslingers’ are available to say anything if you will pay them. Meet Rick Berman Posted by Gypsy Chief
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The War Against ACORN – Take 4
October 7th, 2009 · No Comments · politics
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Will the next target for the right wing smear machine be SEIU? Episode four in a continuing series from the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC Posted by Gypsy Chief
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The War Against ACORN – Take 3
September 30th, 2009 · No Comments · politics
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy The truth about voter registration fraud vs. actual vote fraud. Fired US Attorney David Iglesias is interviewed. This is episode three in a continuing series from the Rachel Maddow Show. Posted by Gypsy Chief
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The War Against ACORN – Take 2
September 30th, 2009 · No Comments · politics
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Watch the video for news about how Congress stripped all Federal funding from ACORN. Now if they would just do the same thing wrt KBR, Halliburton, etc. This is episode two in a continuing series from the Rachel Maddow Show. Posted by [...]
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The War Against ACORN – Take 1
September 30th, 2009 · No Comments · politics
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy See the video for news about how the mainstream media got it wrong about ACORN. This is part of a continuing series on the Rachel Maddow Show. Posted by Gypsy Chief
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How to Beat the Death Panels
August 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments · The Press Always Gets it Wrong, US House, US Senate
Dog days, mid August. Congress is out, health care reform is a hot topic. This is a great time to scare seniors with talk of death panels and euthanasia. These imaginary death panels seem to be the work of Betsy McCaughey, a thinktanker at the right-leaning Hudson Institute. There is a provision in one of [...]
The Press Always Gets It Wrong – VNN&VGS
June 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · The Press Always Gets it Wrong
For years and years, decades actually the Van Nuys News and Valley Green Sheet ran a story that said monorail was coming to the San Fernando Valley. It was supposed to come over Cahuenga Pass from Hollywood to Van Nuys. This story ran again and again, about every two weeks, essentially unchanged from the early [...]
Does Yahoo! Hate Lesbians?
April 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment · The Press Always Gets it Wrong, corporations
OK, I admit it. My so-called guy friends give me tons of grief when I tell them that I like the Sacramento Monarchs and watch their games. “You actually watch that?”, one friend asked. “What’s wrong with the Monarchs?” “Well, they are a bunch of lesbians”, was the best he could come up with. My [...]