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Re: Morning Awful: CPAC Kulturkampf
02/10/12 7:31 am
Now Fatherland, Fatherland show us the sign... (Do you still think you can control them, GOP Establishment?)Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 9:35 pm
I can't remember if I tweeted you this link but it's to an article by a Professor of Moral Theology at the Jesuit Marquette University. I h...Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 8:26 pm
The six Republican Senators who sponsored the contraception mandate consist of two women who now have Stockholm Syndrome, a man who was driv...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 11:14 am
The essence of culture war is a marching-backwards. Glenn Beck made "Leave it to Beaver" noises because his target audience is cognitively s...Re: Morning Awful: Catholic Birth Control Contention
02/08/12 10:51 am
Notice how a lot of so-called liberal Catholic MEN, like E J Dionne and Chris Matthews, are making this all about religious freedom. Bullpuc...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 10:46 am
I was six years old and in parochial school when John Kennedy ran for President. I remember my parents and family being pleased when he won,...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/08/12 2:15 am
You've seen them before at the 2009 G-20 meeting and the Battle of Seattle in 1999.Re: Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina
02/07/12 3:17 pm
It takes an advanced degree in cognitive dissonance to deny these laws have any object other than making it harder for minorities & the ...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/07/12 7:07 am
I checked out on OWS months ago so I never heard of Black Bloc. Wow. Good to know.
Category Archives: astroturf politics
Movement Failures and the Debt Ceiling Crisis
So far, Common Cause is the only liberal organization that has brought the power of civil disobedience to bear on the 112th Congress in this time of manufactured debt limit crisis. Eleven clergy were arrested in a demo under the … Continue reading
Morning Awful: National Right To Starve Committee
There ought to be truth-in-political advertising laws. I spotted an ad on my site last night for this bunch (link is wearing a condom): With new pro-Right to Work Congressmen and Senators forced to wait until January to be sworn … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Koch’s Suckers
Via Digby, the circle closes. The Kochs can no longer pretend they’re not behind the tea party “phenomenon.”
American Seniors Association Update
Remember that barely-disguised Republican Party front group that managed to grab some network airtime during the health care debate last year? Befitting the zeitgeist of monetized revolution, the American Seniors Association has transitioned to a fully for-profit organization: The American … Continue reading
FreedomWorks Sponsors Beck
It had to happen; Beck was running out of potential sponsors. Via Karoli at C&L: Actually, it surprises me that it took this long for the astroturf front organization to just go ahead and sponsor their biggest booster on Faux … Continue reading
Astroturfing
Guess who invented the tea party astroturf formula? Karoli quote: Abramoff and Scanlon created a turnkey PR grassroots/grasstops formula they could apply to any situation where they sought to influence the outcome. It could be an election such as the … Continue reading
Calling Out The Tea Party
Eugene Robinson: As those of you who read this morning’s column already know, I think the state’s draconian new immigration law, which mandates racial profiling, is an abomination. I wish some of the Tea Party folks would join me in … Continue reading
TIMEOUT
Did I mention I am working on video of 300 tea party patriots assembled under this today? They are working hard to transform the country in their image. They mean to destroy the Constitution in order to save it. End-times … Continue reading
Zombie Sequel
Maddow notes the zombie overlords’ renewed vigor:
Most Wanted Hack
My Ten Most Wanted list of shills, hacks, and mixed nuts has a new member: Patrick Michaels, pictured on the right, is the energy industry’s go-to “climatologist.” Mother Jones has a thorough disposal here. My favorite section is the part … Continue reading
Scammy Smell Smites Silly Sophist
I’ve been forecasting this meltdown since last April. From Alan Colmes’s Liberaland, we learn that tea party panjandrum Erick Erickson will not attend the astroturfers convention in Nashville because it “smells scammy:” I am afraid Sarah Palin is going to … Continue reading
