From the category archives:

right-wing noise machine

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PatriotDEMs reminds us that the enemy of our enemy is not necessarily our friend.

The French feminist reaction to obama’s speech in Cairo, in which he said he would protect the freedom of islamic men to hold “their” women down [...]

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Why can’t there be an advertising firm that actually writes ads appealing to this sensibility:

I honestly think an advertising firm with this Sarah Haskins person as creative director could make millions. When advertisers try to capture the drudgery of housework they get it all wrong — they turn the WOMAN into the drudge not the [...]

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Today’s Winner of the Puma PAC

DAILY PIG
Howard Fineman!

Congratulations, you Handsome Devil, You!

MATTHEWS: What happened between those two?
FINEMAN: Uh, it was a lost weekend that didn’t go beyond the weekend. [LAUGHTER]
MATTHEWS: He thought she was something special [crosstalk] but she wasn’t the genuine article.
FINEMAN: You know what? He had no idea, with all due respect to [...]

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This is not the sort of headline that induces a sense of confidence in the propriety and integrity of our elected and public officials:

Amid N.Y.’s Budget Crisis, a Scramble to Spend Billions
ALBANY — Throughout the Capitol, from the vaulted Assembly chamber to the first-floor cubicles of the Budget Division, officials are frantically slashing budgets, trimming headcounts and freezing [...]

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Basically, what the “conscience rule” does is remove agency from the patient and give it, not to an individual doctor or pharmacist, but to an ideology — a fundamentalist Christian ideology. Because the only practitioners who want to deny medical services to pregnant women, lesbians, gay men, sexually active teenage girls, terrorized wives, etc. are those [...]

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This video has been viewed more than 22 MILLION times:

Happy Song!

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MEDIA INQUIRIES: 978-505-3933
Puma PAC Official Schedule of Events
Denver, Colorado
SUNDAY, AUGUST 24
PUMA PAC HQ, 1325 Delaware Street
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. – Meet and Greet
MEDIA AND DELEGATES WELCOME.
All Pumas, Hillary Supporters, and Friends of Puma PAC WELCOME! Come and meet all the Pumas from around the country who are gathering in Denver for the [...]

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DENVER UPDATE, July 3, 2008 at 12:35pm: TRAVEL UPDATE! Puma PAC will be providing buses from New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas, Jacksonville, and Washington DC to bring Pumas from all across the country to Denver, starting on August 24th. Please help pay for these buses. Many Pumas will find it difficult to pay for [...]

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David Axelrod and Barack Obama are showing us just how easy it is to manipulate American presidential elections by marrying tried and true crony tactics to 21st Century technology. Does the Obama Movement sometimes remind you of the American Idol craze? Me too. Do the emails you’ve received from the Obama for America front remind [...]

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