"No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices." - Edward R. Murrow

Democrats won both national elections last night, giving them even more votes for health care reform. The GOP won..what, exactly?

It ought to be obvious that the Republican party, being in such dire straits, is going to exaggerate any win they can find in order to prop up their damaged image, and to give themselves a desperate sense of hope for 2010. Any party would do that.

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Special Comment: Busting the myth of American opposition to government-run healthcare

From time to time I get requests that my comments be posted as articles, or on the rare occasion that one gets deleted in violation of Newsvine policies on moderation, I will publish them in my column as an article. This is one of those comments.

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House Republicans protest frivolous Dem bills; introduce frivolous GOP bill celebrating Fox News D.C. protests, cite inflated crowd sizes

Every day I think conservatives have finally reached some plateau of ridiculousness in making a mockery of themselves and their country, and then something like this happens, reminding me that GOP stupidity is apparently boundless.

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More fraud: Georgia GOP sends out fake census survey

It would seem that Republicans in Georgia are challenging the Republicans in Connecticut to a contest to see who can pull off the larger fraud on American voters without landing in jail as a result.

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Republican Fraud Ring in Connecticut Caught Impersonating Dozens of Democrats Online

In what seems like it should be a national news story – but never is because of who the offenders are – a group of state Republicans in Connecticut were caught by Twitter impersonating dozens of their fellow Democratic counterparts sending out GOP-friendly messages under the  …

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Special Comment: There is literally nothing that neo-conservative Republicans aren't wrong about when it comes to Israel

From time to time I'll post a comment as an article, either by request, or because something happened and made the comment unavailable.

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The real boobs here belong to the Republican party, not Meghan McCain

I have no significant sympathy for Meghan McCain or anybody like her, and I wasn't snowed over by her a few months back when she criticized the Republican party and for a short time became Public Enemy #1.

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Rolling Stone: health care town hall protests tightly orchestrated by corporate funded "right-wing groups", health care lobbyists

I was just pointed to a story in Rolling Stone from last week confirming virtually everything that progressives have been saying about the fake health care town hall protests over the summer.

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Neo-con intelligence officials brazenly demand President interfere with, stop criminal investigation

Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic wrote a post a few hours ago about a letter written to President Obama, signed by seven former intelligence officials – virtually all of them neo-conservatives and many from the Bush administration – complaining about DoJ investigations into tort …

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Conservatives pretend statement on record Obama inauguration crowd size was actually about 9/12 protests

The story I wrote about the right dishonestly inflating the size of their large, but rather ordinary protest in Washington D.C. this past Saturday did better than I expected.

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Surprise: far right lies about size of D.C. teaparty protests, inflates size by over *66 times*

I first picked up on this from NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen on Twitter. As has been the case with virtually every teabagger protest since the astroturf gatherings were founded, this march on D.C.

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Fox's greed and political bias cost it the ratings race last night

Fox's greed and distaste for the American public has finally caught up with it; the network fell to second place last night airing original – and typically well viewed – reality programming, with NBC taking home the ratings crown by airing a rare Presidential speech addressin …

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Fox becomes more like biased FNC every day: refuses to air third Obama presser in a row

The last time I called Fox unpatriotic -- even though it was an ironic gesture to make a point about how absurd it is to say something like this when coming from the right -- my story was censored by conservatives that cannot and will not tolerate political dissent in any form.

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Republican gubernatorial candidate yells "We hate America" and "I hate that flag".

I guess this started around the beginning of the Iraq war. A little before, or a little after, it doesn't really matter. A news anchor from one of the 24/7 cable networks had just finished introducing his guest as a former chief weapons inspector for the United Nations.

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It's time to push back, and push back hard. It's time for single-payer.

We've played this game long enough, liberals have gone beyond compromise well into capitulation.

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Dumb People Don't Deserve Health Care Reform

My subconscious has been slowly digesting developments in the health care reform non-debate and contemplating a way to crystallize it, and now that I think I've got my head wrapped around this, allow me to summarize thusly: dumb people don't deserve health care reform.

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47% of Republicans don't think North America and Africa were once a part of the same continent (Pangea), another 29% aren't sure

A new Research 2000 poll has found that nearly half of all Republicans don't accept the scientific fact that North America and Africa were both once a part of the same continent, called Pangea. Another 29% said they were not sure.

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Keith Olbermann confirms censorship scandal of NBC News/MSNBC by GE, and of Fox News by News Corp.

The story I wrote two days ago (mostly repeating the great commentary by Glenn Greenwald) regarding a deal struck between the corporate parents of MSNBC and Fox News seems to have widened last night with direct confirmation from MSNBC's Keith Olbermann.

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If Democrats had guts, they'd tell Kennedy and Byrd to hit the road

I've been meaning to say something about this since the beginning of the year but other things have kept getting in the way. Ted Kennedy is a great person with a fine legacy, and if he can recover, he could continue serving his state and his country well for many years to come.

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House of Rep. *unanimously* affirms Obama's birth in Hawaii (Updated)

The United States House of Representatives amusingly and unanimously affirmed that President Barack Obama was indeed born in the state of Hawaii yesterday, in a strong bipartisan rebuke to the "birther" movement.

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Cable Internet sector will not rescue Hollywood

I'd love nothing more than to be able to link to this transcript (after reading it myself) so that I could give better context to this post, but the only reference I found for it was on Deadline Hollywood, so you'll have to settle for mostly out-of-context quotes for the time be …

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