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McCain’s new form of viral marketing — lies!

Who says that McCain doesn’t understand the Internet. Well, come to think of it, he doesn’t. But he seems to have found a new way to get free airplay for his political ads. Simply fill them with lies about your opponent! Then the liberal blog-o-sphere will endlessly analyze your ads, your opponent will have to […]

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Ohio Gov. Strickland speaking at McCain Economic Forum

From In One Ear… Out the Other

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Your vote has already been stolen

© Ted Rall Think this is just a comic? Check this out.

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Dumb Bush quotes get head start on 2008

Daniel Kurtzman has collected the top 5 dumb Bush quotes of 2008, and we’re only half way through the year! You can also vote on your top dumb Bush quote of all time there. “Thank you, your Holiness. Awesome speech!” –to Pope Benedict after he spoke at the White House, Washington, D.C., April 15, 2008 (too bad […]

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The Myth of Liberal Media

A new study confirms what most of us have known for a while — that conservative whining about “liberal bias” in the media is baseless.  It was always difficult to believe. After all, the mainstream media in this country is largely owned by large conservative corporations, and cable news channels like Fox News are little […]

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US believes the fiction that torture is OK

In the Fox TV show “24”, counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer tortures someone around 12 times a day. While Bauer’s use of torture magically always elicits the truth from its deserving victims, the lawyers who are designing our nation’s interrogation policies seem to be basing their opinions more on this fictional TV show than on either the poor […]

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Why they hate us

From the National Review: If Obama could go to Germany and give a speech in English and be not only understood but well-received, why does he say we all need to learn another language?

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Drain on the Economy

Another huge bank bailout, paid for by us, the taxpayers. Is this how markets work? © Matt Davies

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Wishin’ Accomplished

On June 11, 2003, on Fox News, Neil Cavuto said “… many argue the conflict isn’t over.” McCain responded, “Well, then why was there a banner that said mission accomplished on the aircraft carrier?” Thanks to TPM

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OMG! Germany associated with Hitler!

Fox News makes lemons out of lemonade (at 1:20 in the video), pointing out that there are monuments in Germany associated with Hitler! The whole video is hilarious, of course: UPDATE: The push to associate Obama with Hitler has turned even weirder, if not downright sinister. On Glenn Beck’s CNN show, guest Ben Stein said […]

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What do you do when you run out of enemies?

Makes it kinda hard to keep selling fear. © Tom Toles

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Obama & McCain – same planet, different universes

  Source    Obama    McCain LA Times On Monday, the Illinois senator was photographed in a helicopter touring Baghdad with Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, the U.S. military commander in Iraq. On Monday, the Arizona senator was seen on television riding in a golf cart with former President George H.W. Bush at Bush’s oceanfront estate in […]

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The ‘eductaion’ of Fox News

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McCain campaign cries over spilt oil?

You aren’t supposed to cry about spilt milk, but how about spilt oil? McCain has been on the attack recently because Obama wants to keep the current limits on offshore oil drilling. So today, while Obama was giving a speech to a crowd of over 200,000 people in Berlin, McCain decided to pull his own photo […]

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Obama feels the teutonic love

Even though she won’t meet Obama until Thursday morning, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in an interview “I would say that he is well-equipped — physically, mentally and politically.” In 2006, Merkel was famously given a quick backrub by President Bush, which was caught on camera. When asked if she expected more backrubs from the next […]

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