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Chomsky & Zinn: On Voting for Obama

The Real News Network has released two election themed interviews with people’s historian Howard Zinn and prolific political critic Noam Chomsky. In being consistent with his position in 2004, Chomsky offers the suggestion of voting for the Democratic candidate in swing states. He also follows by stating that anyone who votes for Obama should [...]

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The Privilege of Being "Folksy"

The latest news in the ongoing publicity stunt that is Sarah Palin came when she was recently introduced to a Philadelphia Flyers home game as “the best known hockey mom in the United States.” Fortunately, she was met with a strong competing chorus of boos! Despite the encouraging boo birds at the game, the construct [...]

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Listen to the New Nuremburg Night!

After whipping up increasingly hateful rhetoric, it looks as if John McCain is losing control of his own mob. With Sarah Palin saying that Barack Obama “pals around with terrorists,” and with a constant influx of ignorant bigoted racist rumors circulating around the right-wing blogosphere, things are really heating up. After Palin’s initial remarks, there [...]

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Bullshit Alert! Pre-Debate Primer

With exactly four weeks to go in the 2008 Presidential race, and less than three hours before round 2 of McCain vs. Obama, I offer this pre-date primer. The Media Matters Action Network emailed me a memorandum of lies viewers should be expected to hear tonight and with the McCain campaign signaling that the gloves [...]

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Third Party VP Candidates Debate (Sort of)

In case people need a reminder, the real winner of last Thursday’s Vice Presidential debate was the two party duopoly of the United States of America. No matter how many times Republican Sarah Palin winked at the camera or Democrat Joe Biden offered his seasoned opinions, this is the essential and often overlooked fact. Thankfully, [...]

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