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18Mar/100

Flogging the Scientists

A look at global climate change research and reporting; it is truly astonishing how scientific studies and interviews are twisted and manipulated to point in the polar opposite direction by the time they reach blogs and headlines:

(via pete)

16Sep/090

Tea Party Leader on Anderson Cooper

"Tea Party" leader Mark Williams was on CNN"s Anderson Cooper 360 yesterday:

You can see some of the offensive rally signs they are referring to on Huffington Post (which is a far-left blog, so expect heavy bias).

"Tea Party" people are confusing and frustrating to me. Maybe they have something interesting to say, or maybe they have some novel approach to the existing/looming health care problem. But I don't see anything at this protest except hate and willful ignorance.

Additional interviews/footage of the rally.

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14Aug/092

The Hypocrisy… It Burns, It Burns!

A Daily Show video about Glenn Beck, perhaps the most vitriolic and moronic commenter on the popular airwaves today, and the US Health Care system:

(via indecisionforever)

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12Aug/090

Jon Stewart: Crazy Town Hall People


Best quote:

I mean, all we're doing is enraging people with misleading information and then having them show up, at meetings, with the intent of shouting down the speakers and physically intimidating them. If that's what you call a mob, well, then I guess... Jesus... America... RUN!

(link to video on comedy central)

24Jan/092

Fox “News” Scared and Confused

Fox News Fear Imbalance
I don't understand people who watch Fox and swallow it's "news" whole. They are talking about the President of the United States... shouldn't they show some of the respect they claimed the office deserved before Tuesday?

It's a wonder that these "news" commentators don't choke on their own hypocrisy. Sometimes I wish they would.

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