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Mary Matalin "slaps" one on Sarah Palin
This morning my crazy thing locator pointed to this pro-Palin oped by Mary Matalin, who pooh-poohs complaints in Palin's book about the rough, nasty and foul-mouthed staffers inside the McCain campaign: Time is the most valuable commodity on a campaign and you just can't waste it thinking about how …
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C&L's Late Night Music Club With Devo
This Devo two-fer from 1980 is a hoot! Girl U Want is by far the strongest of the two songs, Devo at their best. Please forgive the video quality and the occasional audio glitch. I always felt that Devo was more influential than they really got credit for. They have been honored by plenty of ban …
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Fear Mongers Past - Martin Dies - 1939
DOWNLOADS: 53 PLAYS: 45 (Martin Dies, 1939 - managed to take the lunatic fringe to the lunatic edge) A few months ago I ran a piece on Martin Dies, and his infamous Dies Committee for Un-American Activitie …
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Thanks to CIGNA, A Six-Year-Old Girl May Never Hear Again. Each Day's Delay, Another Horror Story.
If they're already admitting to causing deaths, why should they care about a little girl's hearing? What more do we have to do to fight back against these horror stories? What will it take to get these insurance companies to see the inherent immorality of focusing on the bottom line to the exclusio …
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Alan Grayson: "Today was Waterloo for Fed secrecy"
Ryan Grim at Huffington Post has the details on the intrigue going on in the House yesterday with efforts to finally audit the Federal Reserve and find out where all those trillions of dollars are going. In an unprecedented defeat for the Federal Reserve, an amendment to audit the multi-trillion do …
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The Arsonists Who Lit The Economic Match Complain About The Fire Department.
Republicans blaming the Obama administration for this horrendous recession is like an arsonist blaming the fire department - and yet, there's a certain usefulness to their attacks. After all, liberals complaining about the administration's economic policies got us nowhere. Maybe they'll actually lis …
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Hasselbeck on KSM "They Chucked Some Water on Him"--Hannity "I'm Glad We Waterboarded Him"
DOWNLOADS: (78) PLAYS: (321) Anyone want to take bets on what the collective IQ of this pair is? Se …
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Dear Gary Susman
Your defense of Glenn Beck is touching on AOL, but it comes up very short and very sad. You claim that the big bad lefty meanie comedians are picking on Beck even when he is sick. Well, let's get something straight. Glenn Beck is inciting violence and helping legitimizing radical militia and white n …
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Students protest tuition hikes in California
DOWNLOADS: (224) PLAYS: (424) (h/t CSPANjunkie) It's hitting the fan in California as students p …
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Countdown on the 'Fearmonger in Chief': 'We cannot just dismiss him'
DOWNLOADS: (441) PLAYS: (2206) Every time we run a Glenn Beck post, someone trolls into the comme …
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Bernard Goldberg Responds to Jon Stewart Slamming Him for Down Syndrome Statement
DOWNLOADS: (568) PLAYS: (2732) After Bill O'Reilly only shows the portion of The Daily Show clip wh …
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Size Does Matter for Fox News and Conservatives
DOWNLOADS: (524) PLAYS: (502) The new talking point by Fox News and conservatives who are attacki …
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Why Do Right Wing Pundits Accuse Democrats of 'Raping' Americans?
Media Matters points out how conservative commentators such as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Michael Savage like to use rape metaphors when discussing progressives or progressive policies. Right-wing media are very quick to claim progressives are "raping" Americans: Beck: "People in New York, yo …
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Palin's dog ate her homework: She 'booted' response to Couric because Katie was snotty to her
DOWNLOADS: (834) PLAYS: (2420) Sarah Palin thinks she's got it covered now in explaining why she …
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Obama Appoints Loyal Bushie Dana Perino To Broadcasting Board Of Governors
Yep, I did a double take too. WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has tapped a former top aide of his predecessor George W. Bush to a key post on a board overseeing government-sponsored international broadcasting. Dana Perino, the first Republican woman to serve as White House press secretary, wa …
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Chris Matthews is Shocked at Poll Showing Republicans Believing ACORN Stole Presidential Election
DOWNLOADS: (1122) PLAYS: (2504) Chris Matthews cites a recent poll from Public Policy Polling which …
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Late Night Music Club with Phineas and the Ferbtones, featuring the Ferbettes
Title: Gitchy Gitchy Goo (extended version)Artist: Phineas and the FerbtonesNo, this is not an early April Fool's joke. Nicole Belle and I have chatted before about how Phineas and Ferb is one of the funniest shows on tee vee, and this is the number one most requested song from the show in a recent …
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Fred Thompson says the Afghanistan war is lost!
I'm totally against the Afghanistan war, as C&Lers know, and it was lost as soon as Bush and Cheney decided to attack Iraq. Any chance to stabilize that region was lost immediately thereafter. The world had rallied around Afghanistan in such a way that that country could have been reconstructed …
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Mission accomplished, dude: Glenn Beck 'perfectly fine' being remembered as 'a complete nutjob'
DOWNLOADS: (465) PLAYS: (1237) Glenn Beck, yesterday on his Fox News show: Beck: I'm sure that's …
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Gene Lyons: Why Is There Always Money For The Latest War?
Gene Lyons in Salon on the myriad forces that insist we can't afford health care, but just as strongly assure us that $6.73 trillion for the war in Afghanistan is perfectly doable. (That's $1 million per soldier, per year.) Go read the whole thing: For all its brutality, the Taliban rebellion is ma …
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