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Democrats, far-left praise Marco Rubio's immigration moves (NCLR; Sharry; IPC; Obama and Gutierrez spox) - 01/20/13
... Looks a Lot Like Obama's" in Mother Jones is authored by Adam Serwer (see his name's link) and has another Sharry quote ( peekURL.com/zBnvbRk ):
Rubio's immigration principles "are in line with [Democratic] principles," says Frank Sharry, director of the pro-immigration reform group America's Voice. "It's huge…We need conservatives to buy into the framework of a broad bill that simultaneously...
Stephanie Mencimer's flawed reporting on Mia Love and immigration (Mother Jones, Margaret Stock, Stuart Anderson) - 09/28/12
... catches Stephanie Mencimer of Mother Jones in flawed reporting. From [1]:
The controversy over how Utah Republican Congressional candidate Mia Love's family became lawful permanent residents may have another twist - Love may be right about how her family received their green cards, which allowed them to stay in America.
The magazine Mother Jones recently argued in an article [authored by...
GOP debate January 23, 2012 ("self-deport", Florida, NBC, Romney, Gingrich, Santorum, Ron Paul) - 01/23/12
UPDATE BELOW
The worthless GOP debates move to Florida tonight.
NETWORK: NBC News
CO-SPONSORS: National Journal and the Tampa Bay Times
MODERATOR: Brian Williams
PANELISTS: Beth Reinhard (see below) and Adam Smith (from the TB Times)
WHERE: University of South Florida in Tampa
PARTICIPANTS: Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, and Rick Santorum.
TRANSCRIPT: When available.
WHAT TO WATCH FOR: For...
David Axelrod, Stephanie Cutter of Obama campaign lie about Kris Kobach ("plague", immigration, Mitt Romney) - 01/11/12
... tweet: Clara Jeffery, co-editor of Mother Jones. None of those listed above have so far issued retractions, but I haven't alerted all of them to this post yet.
Is Marie Diamond clueless, deceptive, or what? (ThinkProgress, Herman Cain, border fence, alligators, moat, Andy Kroll) - 06/08/11
... immigration.
6/9/11 UPDATE: Andy Kroll of Mother Jones offers "Herman Cain's Immigration Plan: A Great Wall of China and an Alligator-Filled Moat", which is even worse than Diamond's post: it doesn't even mention Obama's earlier comments:
motherjones.com/mojo/2011/06/herman-cain-immigration-great-wall-alligators
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[1] thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/06/08/239145/herman-cain-great-...
Did Jonathan Stein reveal the Journolist "conspiracy"? - 07/22/10
... views.”
(Jonathan Stein, then of Mother Jones) loved the idea. "That's excellent! If enough people - people on this list? - write that the pick is sexist, you’ll have the networks debating it for days. And that negates the SINGLE thing Palin brings to the ticket,” he wrote.
As I read it, the point isn't that Stein was proposing how to attack Palin: he worked for a leftwing magazine (note: he's...
Barack Obama lies about Rush Limbaugh in Spanish-language ads - 09/17/08
The Barack Obama campaign has a new Spanish-language ad that features racial demagoguery and a distortion of Rush Limbaugh quotes. You can see the ad here:
"They want us to forget the insults we've put up with, the intolerance," the television ad's announcer says in Spanish as a picture of Rush Limbaugh appears onscreen with quotes of him saying, "Mexicans are stupid and unqualified" and "Shut...
Washington Post: America's finest source for bad reporting (Palin "slashed" funds story) - 09/02/08
The Washington Post recently published a blog post about Sarah Palin (in their words) "slash[ing]" funds to a non-profit group. Except, what they got from the state of Alaska alone was over three times what they got from all government sources combined in 2006. Let's take a look at the WaPo's "downstream", the three-eyed fish who gobble up what the WaPo sludges out.
First, there are several digg...
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