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Deceptive Big Bank Ads Will be Key to Election 2010

by Mary Bottari — February 22, 2010 - 8:15am
  • Topics: Left Wing, Corporate Campaigns, Right Wing, Banking, BanksterUSA, Politics, Propaganda, Public Relations, Real Economy Project

    • Even before a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision blew the lid off corporate campaign spending, it was clear that the big banks would be key players in the 2010 election cycle.

    Unemployment will remain high, and so will resentment against the banks -- a volatile combination that will encourage savvy members of Congress to continue to fight for meaningful reform of the financial sector.

    Sarah Palin Gets a Hand Up

    by Anne Landman — February 8, 2010 - 1:45pm

    Ex-Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is becoming more vocal and visible in recent days, and indications are that the upswing will continue.

    Main Source: 
    New York Times, February 6, 2010

    The Right Wing Media's Lie Machine

    by Anne Landman — February 6, 2010 - 3:41pm
  • Topics: Right Wing, Media, Politics

    • In a video posted on YouTube on February 3, House Representative Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) explains how the right wing media machine creates and spreads disinformation in an effort to smear the left. "Disinformation" should not be confused with "misinformation," the unintentional form of wrong information. Disinformation is produced by people who intend to mislead their audience.

    Step 1: Fabricate the Lie

    Frank tells how John Fund, an editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal, told a lie about him in November of last year: In a speech at a conservative function in Florida called "Restoration Weekend," Fund claimed that, after losing the special election in Massachusetts, Democrats Chuck Schumer and Barney Frank were going to propose a bill to create universal voter registration. Fund further stated that Democrats were going to add all welfare recipients and unemployed people to the voter rolls, and he called it "felon re-enfranchisement."

    In reality, Frank explains, there was no such bill.

    Boehner: "Prolonged Health Bill Debate Hurts the Economy" (Leaves Out GOP's Strategy to Stall it)

    by Anne Landman — February 4, 2010 - 10:56am

    House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) suggested on Fox News that the drawn-out process of passing health reform legislation is hurting the economy. Boehner told Fox News, “It’s the policies that are coming out of this administration and liberals here in Congress that are holding back employers ...

    Main Source: 
    Washington Independent, February 4, 2010

    GOP Sends Out Fake "Census" Forms

    by Anne Landman — January 26, 2010 - 11:08pm

    The Republican National Committee (RNC) has sent out fund raising mailers that mimic the appearance of the 2010 U.S. Census forms, which started going out this week. The letters are sent in plain white envelopes bearing the words "2010 Congressional District Census" and "Do Not Destroy, Official Document." The word "census" is spelled with a capital "C," the same as the U.S. Census Bureau.

    Main Source: 
    Washington Post, January 25, 2010

    Tea Party Money-Bomb Elects Scott Brown, Blows-Up Obamacare

    by John Stauber — January 19, 2010 - 10:28pm
  • Topics: Left Wing, Activism, Right Wing, U.S. Congress, Politics

    • Six months ago, the vocal factions of the Tea Party revolt organized among anti-Obama right wingers were mostly an annoyance to the Democratic Party. Today, the Congressional Democrats are scared for their political lives after Scott Brown, with the help of a Tea Party-organized online "money bomb" and get-out-the-vote campaign, won back for Republicans Ted Kennedy's former Massachusetts senate seat. The "money bomb" is a tactic borrowed from MoveOn and the liberal netroots movement through which the Tea Party activists raised way over one million dollars online in 24 hours for Scott Brown. Even though the Republicans have only reduced the still large fifty-nine member Democratic senate majority by one person, the fact that Brown ran an uphill campaign that came from nowhere and steamrolled to victory means that all the Congressional Democrats are now looking over their right shoulders, fearing a similar populist attack as the 2010 electoral season heats up.

    The Tea Party money bomb has also blown up Obamacare, the President's muddled health care reform plan. While many pundits point to local issues that helped Brown win, the fact is that Brown ran hardest against Obama's health care bill, and won despite personal appearances in Massachusetts by Obama and Bill Clinton, and despite a desperate but failed Democratic effort to beat back the insurgency.

    PR First, Country Second: A McCain Campaign Retrospective

    by Anne Landman — January 14, 2010 - 5:06pm
  • Topics: Right Wing, Election 2008, Politics

    • On her January 12 show, Rachel Maddow of MSNBC reviewed a portion of the new book about the 2008 Presidential election, Game Change, by political reporters John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. The section was about Sarah Palin. The authors discuss Palin's prep and tutoring for the campaign trail, and conclude that "her grasp of rudimentary facts and concepts was minimal." They allege Palin didn't know why North and South Korea were separate nations, didn't know what the Fed does, and couldn't explain who her son, Track, was going to fight in Iraq. Maddow played a video clip of Palin, taped during her appearance on the Bill O'Reilly show shortly before Maddow's show that same night, in which Palin admitted that she didn't know who perpetrated the 9-11 terror attacks against the U.S. In another clip, Palin was giving a speech to American troops as they prepared to ship off to Iraq. In her speech, Palin suggested Saddam Hussein was behind 9-11, even though her campaign prep team had carefully explained to her the day before her speech that Iraq was not involved in planning or perpetrating 9-11.

    Tea Party Convention Squeezes Fans

    by Anne Landman — January 14, 2010 - 2:06pm

    The Tea Party movement is putting on its "First National Tea Party Convention" next month in Nashville, Tennessee, but the event is drawing the wrath of some Teabaggers.

    Main Source: 
    Creative Loafing, January 12, 2010

    Help Us Keep an Eye on Sarah Palin's Spin

    by Anne Landman — January 12, 2010 - 1:47pm

    A bus tour, a book, a new contract with Fox News Channel, her famous "death panels" rumor being voted PolitiFact.com's "Lie of the Year" ... what did we miss?

    Main Source: 
    SourceWatch

    Sarah Palin, FOXey Lady

    by John Stauber — January 11, 2010 - 4:43pm

    Mark Greenbaum of the Christian Science Monitor looks at Sarah Palin's new job being a celebrity pundit on Fox News Channel: "Palin is a true, Hollywood-type celebrity with a bestselling book and millions of adoring fans. She may have designs on the presidency, but she evidently wants to soak up the perks and adulation of her celebrity first, and she has done that with gusto. ...

    Main Source: 
    Christian Science Monitor, January 11, 2010
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