Americans for Prosperity is up with a new ad ripping Senator Landrieu over Obamacare. It features a number of people lamenting lost coverage and higher premiums. But as ABC News reports, all those folks were actors.
That would be par for the course — lots of political ads feature
actors — but for one thing. The Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity is also planning to lobby state legislators hard to oppose the Medicaid expansion,
which is supported by Senator Landrieu and will be debated by the state
legislature this spring. Supporters say it could expand coverage to up
to 300,000 people.
In short, Americans for Prosperity is up with a major TV ad buy
featuring fake victims of Obamacare, while planning a major lobbying
effort to block Obamacare’s benefits from reaching untold numbers of
real people... >more
Peter Hart writes at FAIR Blog:
During his interview with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (11/3/13), NBC Meet the Press host David Gregory offered up this fanciful account of the Tea Party movement's origins during a discussion about internal GOP fights:
Look, the reason there is a Tea Party right now goes back to
President Bush. I actually think it goes back to the beginning of a more
robust security state after 9/11; the government expands to deal with
security. There's also Medicare Part D. There's a lot of government
spending, and then there's ultimately the bailouts, which conservatives
start to rebel against. And then President Obama continues that.
This is the kind of rhetoric Tea Party figures like to trot out when
critics note that a movement that claims to be concerned about
government spending was sure quiet (or nonexistent) during the Bush
years... >more
We all know Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann is a totally insane, scary-assed example of Batshit Crazy People Conservatives Think Are Fit To Govern.
She is their Evangelical Pin-Up Girl.
So what’s she up to now?
Oh, just declaring her love of the government shutdown, declaring her belief that these are indeed the End Times, and announcing that Obama can change laws just by Tweeting.
Libertarian activist and radio host, Adam Kokesh plans to lead an armed march on Washington, D.C. this Independence Day.
Launched as a group on Facebook, the "Open Carry March on Washington" hopes to get 1,000 supporters to march into the nation's capital with loaded rifles.
The group plans to meet at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
From there, they will march across the Memorial Bridge into Washington,
D.C. and continue down Independence Avenue.
While Virginia permits open carry, Washington, D.C. does not issue any permit/licenses to carry a firearm.
The Facebook page states: "This is an act of civil disobedience, not a permitted event. We
will march with rifles loaded & slung across our backs to put the
government on notice that we will not be intimidated & cower in
submission to tyranny."
The event is said to be non-violent and states that if the group is met with physical resistance, they will turn back.
...in other words, they will, in fact, be intimidated.
Now, here's a blast from your past: the "Alarm And Muster" event at the Washington Monument and Gravelly Point State Park, Virginia, on April 19, 2010:
Claim Rightist Crank Network "Isn't Fair And Balanced Enough"; Brains Explode At Offices Of TW
David Freedlander reports at The Daily Beast:
Is Fox News going soft?
That
is what a number of Tea Party activists are saying and they are
organizing a boycott to protest the conservative station’s coverage,
especially what they view as the network’s relative silence in
investigating the attacks on a diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.
File photo: Tea Party members in Montgomery, Ala., 2013; Sean Hannity, 2011. (Dave Martin/AP; John Amis/AP)
“Particularly
after the election, Fox keeps turning to the left,” said Stan Hjerlied,
75, of Fort Collins, Colo., and a participant in the boycott. He
pointed to an interview Fox News CEO Roger Ailes gave after the election
in which he said that the Republican Party and Fox News need to
modernize, especially around immigration. “So we are really losing our
only conservative network.”
The
three-day boycott lasted Thursday morning through Sunday morning, and
is the second time this group of activists have gone Fox-free in an
effort to steer the coverage. Organizers say a two-day boycott earlier
this month knocked 20 percent off of the network’s regular viewership.
(A Daily Beast analysis of the same data showed that the boycott had
little effect.)
A spokeswoman for Fox News did not respond to a request for comment.
A leader of the boycott, Kathy Amidon, of Nashville, declined an interview, instead directing The Daily Beast to a website, Benghazi-Truth.
The website, a single-page, 23,000-word manifesto complete with
multicolored fonts, supposedly incriminating videos of Fox News’s
complicity in a coverup, and communist propaganda photographs, is kept
by someone who identifies himself online as “Proe Graphique,” and who
other members of boycott described as someone who works “in New York
media...” >more
In Rare Moment of Civil Discourse On Gun Control, "Infowars" Crank Invokes "New World Order", Claims "1776 Will Commence Again", Calls CNN's Piers Morgan A "Redcoat", Mocks His British Accent, Challenges Him to Fight
Alex Jones Meltdown, part 1:
Alex Jones Meltdown, part 2:
Josh Levs and Ben Brumfield report at CNN.com: Was it a debate? A berating? A surreal televised "stunt"? No matter what you call radio host Alex Jones' appearance on "Piers Morgan Tonight," one thing is certain: It's generating a great deal of social media buzz.
On Tuesday morning, Jones was a top-trending topic on Twitter as people read about the interview, watched clips online or shared their thoughts after watching Monday night's fiery exchange live.
The man behind a petition to deport Morgan back to the UK for expressing his views on gun control went on the attack, calling the CNN host "a hatchet man of the new world order."
"1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms!" Jones yelled. "It doesn't matter how many lemmings (mindless followers) you get out on the street begging for them to have their guns taken! We will not relinquish them! Do you understand?" ...>more
