This is the only political article that I’ll post today. I believe it’s important to ponder the historical evidence of the contents of this video and draw your own conclusions. I also believe it might be a good conversation piece around the dinner table today.
Once again, Happy Thanksgiving and I hope you enjoy learning the following information as much as I did…
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Doug Schoen is not the only one trying to discredit Occupy Wall Street…
Yesterday, ThinkProgress revealed that pollster Doug Schoen grossly misrepresented his own polling data to smear Occupy Wall Street protesters. For example, he wrote that “radical redistribution of wealth” was one of the policies that “binds a large majority of the protesters together.” His actual poll found just 4 percent supported such a policy.
This afternoon on Fox, anchor Megyn Kelly confronted him about twisting the polling data:
KELLY: About this radical redistribution of wealth. Your data says only 4% said that they favor that. So how do you say, how do you apply that label to the entire group. You only surveyed 200. So what, 8 people support that and we are supposed to tar the whole movement with it.
Schoen fumbled through a response, admitting along the way that “radical redistribution of wealth… may not be their highest goal.” He’s right. In fact, of all the goals listed, it tied for last.
Watch it:
Schoen tried to save face by twisting his numbers in a new way: “21 percent of the people surveyed were for progressive values, single payer health care, dismantaling capitalism or redistributing wealth. So I think they are pretty hard core leftists.”
It’s true that his poll found a shocking 9 percent of protesters wanted to “engage and mobilize progressive.” But the other three goals Schoen listed were supported by just 4% of people who took the pool. To put that it perspective, his poll found that more protesters supported a flat tax (5 percent), a conservative policy not typically associated with “hard core leftists.”
Bottom line: Schoen misrepresented his data and his efforts to defend his actions are only making things worse.
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Mission accomplished, indeed. Now it’s up to Obama and his economic team to wrestle us out of this mess in the next 12 months.
It may have taken a few months for Republican economic policies to take effect, but when they finally did, SPLAT:
Gee, it feels like Bush all over again. Thanks for nothing, tea party!
Update: I added timeline labels to the chart. You can see the original chart here
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Filed under Economy, GOP Dirty Tricks, Tea Party
Republicans fine with increasing unemployment…and they don’t deny that it’s what they’re doing!
Rachel Maddow explains this as clearly as anyone I know:
Part 1
Part 2
We all know there was no “scheduling conflict” when the GOP leaders opted out of an invitation, scheduled for today, from the POTUS to sit down and have a talk about pressing issues that need to be legislated. What a bunch of idiots!
Daily Kos – by Jed Lewison
You know how John Boehner and the Republicans were too busy to meet with President Obama and Democrats to talk about tax cuts?
Well, here’s what caused their “scheduling conflict” — a press conference…at which Boehner demanded, among other things, that Democrats agree to extend all Bush tax cuts on income over $250,000.
I guess Boehner figured why bother sitting down with President Obama and the Democrats (who still met to discuss tax cuts today) when he could just as easily throw bombs form the sidelines?
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As I mentioned in this post yesterday, the GOP and Fox News have colluded together to get as many Obama Administration officials subpoenaed as possible.
Fox News is no longer hiding the fact that a) they are working with the GOP to b) make sure Obama does not get elected to a second term. Essentially, for the next two years, Fox news will broadcast every hearing and of course give the most negative spin possible.
It appears the 2012 campaign season has begun, courtesy of Fox News and the GOP led Congress of 2010.
Fox News figures are telling the incoming Republican House majority how to use its investigative authority, compiling a growing list of targets in the Obama administration.
Fox Nation highlights “GOP’s First 4 Potential Investigations of Obama.” Fox Nation trumpeted a November 3 BusinessInsider.com article that discusses four possible House investigations into “criticisms of administration officials and their decisions,” including the phony New Black Panthers scandal, conversations between the White House and Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) leading up to his Democratic Senate primary, funding of ACORN and its successor groups, and the administration’s response to the BP oil spill. Many of these investigations are based on phony scandals that have been aggressively promoted by Fox News. Continue reading…
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From People for the American Way.
The message here is: “Watch out for those newly elected senators and congressmen, they want to turn back the clock to the 50′s….”
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These people are absolutely insane. The lie that they are perpetuating has gone viral in right-wing online communities and the right-wing radio cabal.
Stung by huge losses at the polls, King Obama is taking a $2 billion Indian vacation with 3,000 guests on 40 planes. Or that’s what the Wingnuts would have us believe. John Avlon on the right’s latest conspiracy theory.
“A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes,” Mark Twain once famously said. In the Internet age, the speed of a politically motivated lie is even faster—case in point, the Wingnuts’ fact-free, post-election pile-on over President Obama’s trip to India.
The conspiracy theory du jour is an alleged $2 billion price tag for the president’s trip, which would be offensive and imperial indeed if it had any basis in fact. But (almost) needless to say, it doesn’t.
Rep. Michele Bachmann first brought up the India trip expenses two days ago in response to a question from CNN’s Anderson Cooper about what budget cuts she would support.
But specific policy plans aren’t as satisfying as demagoguery, so she pivoted to attack mode.
“The president of the United States will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day,” she said. “He’s taking 2,000 people with him. He will be renting out over 870 rooms in India. And these are five-star hotel rooms at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. This is the kind of over-the-top spending… it’s a very small example, Anderson. And I think this is an example of the massive overspending that we have seen, not only just in the last two years, really in the last four. That’s what we saw at the ballot box last evening.”
Soon Glenn Beck was calling the business investment outreach trip “a vacation where you needed 34 warships and $2 billion.” Michael Savage described it as “this incredible royalist visit.” The talk-radio circuit and right-wing blogosphere was burning with manufactured outrage.
A political rumor usually takes hold in people’s minds because it surfs off a pre-existing negative narrative. In this case, the initial impulse builds off accusations of fiscal irresponsibility. But they quickly turn to “King Obama” assignations, which in this White House occupant’s case are not just arrogant out-of-touch elitists or even wannabe Third World dictators. He feels entitled. Entitled, get it? Continue reading…
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