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Rep. Luis Gutierrez wants illegal aliens in healthcare exchange; emulate Blue Dogs for amnesty - 9/15/2009

... healthcare "exchange". Per ABC News (link), speaking in Spanish at a Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute function, he said:

ABC News gives Obama healthcare infomercial, refuses opposition ads (and what you can do) - 6/18/2009

Per this: ABC is refusing to air paid ads during its White House health care presentation, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned, including a paid-for alternative viewpoint! The development comes a day after the network denied a request by the Republican National Committee to feature a representative of the party's views during the Obama special. Needless to say, that's similar to the way things...

Angela Kelley/CAP, Gary Langer/ABC News admit: immigration "reform" is amnesty - 5/12/2009

... to the recent Washington Post/ABC News poll, she says (americanprogress.org/issues/2009/05/immigration_friends.html): In fact, in the poll a majority of Democrats, Republicans, Independents, moderates, and conservatives supported an Amnesty Program. "Seven in 10 liberals and 68 percent of Democrats support an amnesty program. But so do majorities of Republicans and independents (59 percent i...

Washington Post /ABC News poll shows 61% favor illegal alien legalization; didn't ask about citizenship - 5/12/2009

... month, the Washington Post and ABC News conducted a telephone poll that included this question (link): Would you support or oppose a program giving ILLEGAL immigrants now living in the United States the right to live here LEGALLY if they pay a fine and meet other requirements? 61% supported that vs. 35% against, up from 49/46, 51/44, and 52/44 in the second half of 2007. The uptick in support is ...

Jon Stewart "The Naturalized" on History Channel will be pro-massive immigration propaganda - 5/11/2009

This fall, a two-hour, Jon Stewart-produced show called "The Naturalized" will appear on the History Channel (link): [It] follows eight individuals through the bureaucratic morass of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The special will also include interviews with undocumented and deported illegal immigrants... It's a look at that process that is very much in Jon's t...

Perdue Farms refers eVerify questions to Tamar Jacoby - 5/09/2009

... fair report from Ned Potter of ABC News entitled "Illegal Immigration: Can Online Database Help?" (link) contains this curious bit: Few companies contacted by ABC News were willing to talk on the record about their experiences with E-Verify. For instance, the giant poultry company Perdue sent the following statement : "We are doing all that the law allows to verify each applicant&#...

John Stossel /ABC: "Bailouts, Big Spending, and Bull" (TV, libertarian, Drew Carey, Reason, cosmos, rainbows...) - 3/13/2009

... emerging from Galt's Gulch, ABC News host John Stossel will offer a segment called "Bailouts, Big Spending, and Bull" on tonight's 20/20 TV show airing at 10:00PM Eastern and Pacific. During the show he'll discuss various topics of interest to libertarians, such as pot, the stimulus plan, pot, did I mention pot?, and so on. And, he'll be joined by washed-up TV host D...

Justin Rood/ABC News misleads about Sarah Palin divestment from Sudan - 10/03/2008

... ready. Thus it is that Justin Rood of ABC News offers "Record Refutes Palin's Sudan Claim/Palin Administration Against Sudan Divestment Before It Was For It, Documents Show" (link). The main quote source in the article is Alaskan Democratic politician Les Gara, who's also the "validator" for a highly misleading "fact check" from the Barack Obama campaign...

Alternet intentionally misquotes Sarah Palin (Army "on a task that is from God") - 9/08/2008

Alternet is trying to start a smear that Sarah Palin thinks the U.S. Army is on a mission from God. Needless to say, trying to claim that a vice presidential candidate thinks our troops are literally on a crusade is extremely dangerous and those who do so are putting political concerns ahead of the interests of the country. But, Alternet is desperate enough to offer this (alternet.org/story/97907/...

Horrors: Jake Tapper says Sarah Palin was member of "fringe" party (Alaskan Independence Party) - 9/01/2008

On the one hand, it seems that the John McCain campaign didn't do their due diligence - in a GOP, mainstream sense - on vice presidential pick Sarah Palin. On the other hand, Jake Tapper's attempt to break news isn't as bad as the "news" recently coming from DailyKos, as he breathlessly lets us know that (link): Officials of the Alaskan Independence Party say that Palin w...

Jake Tapper "news" is two months old; ABC News deletes comment pointing that out - 6/11/2008

... June 10, 2008 Jake Tapper of ABC News posted an entry entitled "Dragged Kicking and Screaming, Tancredo Will Pull Lever for McCain". The reader might remember that from a couple months ago, yet Tapper posted it like it happened just recently and with no acknowledgement that it was old news (link). The Tancredo quote referencing Hillary Clinton as a contender should have been a clue, but...

SPLC's "The Year in Hate" misled about FBI hate crime statistics - 3/31/2008

... 3/18, link) * Scott Michels of ABC News ("Hate Crimes Tied to Immigration Debate?", 3/10, link) * Mark Bullock/WSFA ("SPLC Report: Immigration Debate Fueling Hate Groups", 3/28, link) * Sam Wood/Philadelphia Inquirer ("Study says number of U.S. hate groups rose", 3/11, link) * Unrelated to the current SPLC report, on 12/5/07, Amy Goodman hosted Mark Potok of the SPLC...

ABC News' Political Radar edits comments without notice - 11/19/2007

... (blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/11/huckabees-first.html) from ABC News' Political Radar: If I didn't know better, I'd say the ad was great. And, if I were promoting Huck for some reason, I'd say it was great too! If that doesn't sound like me or make much sense, it's because ABC News edited my comment without notice. Here's the version that I left; this...

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