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Drop Dobbs: illegal activity-supporting racial power groups and far-left want Lou Dobbs off CNN - 9/17/2009

... Network * Netroots Nation (from Dailykos and others) * Voto Latino ---------- UPDATE: Janet Murguia of the NCLR says, among other things (huffingtonpost.com/janet-murguia/join-nclr-and-the-drop-do_b_290584.html): For two years, I have tried working behind the scenes with CNN to bring some fairness to the relentless bias of CNN programming due to Dobbs' show... The Drop Dobbs coalition is com...

Sarah Palin resigning as Alaskan governor; what supporters can do - 7/03/2009

... "Daily Kos" to the page at DailyKos, "Max Blumenthal" to [1], and so on. And, the post itself has the useless, uninformative title "Baseless Rumors". In other words, they aren't really costing those sites much in the way of credibility since they're mostly just an echo chamber. And, they're actually helping those sites by giving them valid links (I put...

Poll: 86% support immigration "reform" (as described). I.e., MSM lies are working, opponents need to work smarter (Kos, Frank Sharry) - 6/04/2009

Over at the DailyKos, Kos informs us [1] that Frank Sharry's "America's Voice" commissioned Benenson Strategy Group to conduct a poll about comprehensive immigration reform. According to them, 86% of respondents support "reform". The fact that their description of that "reform" is highly misleading doesn't make that number any less surprising. While I t...

Dennis Roddy /Pittsburgh PG, SPLC, LGF, HotAir, Kos use tragedy to smear opponents - 4/05/2009

... (link). UPDATE 3: Both RawStory and a DailyKos blogger have retracted Alex Jones-related smears (link). However, Sean Hamill of the New York Times and Eric Boehlert of Media Matters for America continue the smear (link, link).

H.R. 645: "National emergency centers" at military bases (FEMA, Alcee Hastings) - 1/28/2009

... fly" and his friends at DailyKos actually make some slight sense for a change, although they aren't alarmed enough and instead concentrate on making sure that the pillows will be fluffed at the centers (dailykos.com/story/2009/1/28/4037/79980).

Shock: Michael Chertoff used cleaning company that employed illegal aliens - 12/11/2008

... Chertoff and Bush are on their side: dailykos.com/story/2008/12/10/21400/312/533/671706 thinkprogress.org/2008/12/11/thinkfast-december-11-2008

Kos gets one thing right: the rightwing blogosphere is mostly just inept chatter - 11/19/2008

... Moulitsas Zuniga - the Kos in DailyKos - has finally got one thing right. From the article "Right-wing bloggers see their chance" (link): While conservative bloggers talk about making a difference for their party, they have yet to back up their talk with action, said Markos Moulitsas, the founder of the liberal Daily Kos blog. Moulitsas, also a columnist for The Hill, boasts about how ...

New smear: Palin didn't know Africa was a continent or the three countries in NAFTA - 11/05/2008

... HotAir linked above, ksh01 of DailyKos implicitly throws some cold water on this by discussing the palace intrigue aspects: dailykos.com/story/2008/11/5/194551/287/976/651932 10/20/09 UPDATE: The full story is still not known, but it appears that a real McCain staffer said the things listed above to Carl Cameron. Then, a prankster tried to glom onto the story, pretending that he was that staffer....

Dana Milbank/WaPo's dangerous smear of Sarah Palin, supporters - 10/06/2008

... from "BarbinMD" at dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/7/12422/0539/654/622785 UPDATE 3: There's a discussion of Milbank's smear here including a round-up of others who took his smear and ran with it. That also discusses two other MSM reports from the same rally that described a much more placid event than Milbank's invention.

Are you scared of Barack Obama's followers yet? (kids singing video) - 9/30/2008

... second video was embedded at DailyKos, but none of the pages shown as linking to the video exist anymore. Apparently it's not yet time. UPDATE: I don't know who did it, but it looks like "Bill Hawkins" - someone who is not me - posted the second video to BHO's site: my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/billhawkins If only I knew who "Bill Hawkins" was. U...

Sarah Palin rape kit smear: chronology (Mary Pemberton/AP, DailyKos, Americablog, Eric Croft, Obama campaign) - 9/29/2008

... PST by "Steven R" at DailyKos [3] and then by "Jo Fish" at FDL [4]. Other sites involved were Op Edna [5] and Dave Harding at ProgressOhio [6]. 9/09/08: it was picked up by Eric Schmeltzer at the Huffington Post [7]. 9/11/08: Mary Pemberton of the Associated Press moved the smear from bloggers to major newspapers, offering this: Former Democratic Rep. Eric Croft, who sponsored...

Barack Obama lies about Rush Limbaugh in Spanish-language ads - 9/17/2008

... shows the level of thinking at DailyKos by noting that Rush says the quotes were taken out of context... then using other quotes in an attempt to show that Rush is a racist and without dealing with the quotes in the ad. Whether that's an intentional attempt at distraction or an issue with the thinking processes of "shovelhood" isn't clear. Some commenters don't care about...

Seven reasons Kos (DailyKos) can't be trusted on immigration (+Quinnipiac University poll) - 3/27/2008

Can you trust Kos of DailyKos (Markos Moulitsas Zuniga) on immigration? No, you can't. For some of the reasons why, take a look at "The big immigration backlash in Connecticut" (dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/27/113830/115). 1. He fails to note that, before working for the city of New Haven, Kica Matos headed a group that is/was working with the Mexican government to pass out Matricu...

Ramos/Compean: who's on the Bush administration's side? - 2/08/2007

... (link) and smokeymonkey (link) at DailyKos * Patterico (link) he says he's not necessarily coming down on Sutton's side, but it seems quite clear to me * People for the American Way's Kyle Mantyla, January 31, 2007, "The Law and Order Border Crowd Backs Criminal Agents", link * Jeralyn Merritt, TChris, and hangers-on at TalkLeft (sample link) * the Associated Press and th...

They can't ban all of us - 4/02/2003

... banned from leaving comments at DailyKos. Since he hasn't responded to my email, I don't know the exact reason, but I can surmise it has something to do with the comments to this post. That post features a picture of a (supposed) Iraq girl injured by U.S. missiles in Baghdad. Kos claims that the picture comes from "the Al Jazeera." However, the link provided goes to the websit...

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