“With regard to the initial media coverage of the resignation of USDA official Shirley Sherrod, we have come to the conclusion we were snookered by Fox News and Tea Party Activist Andrew Breitbart into believing she had harmed white farmers because of racial bias.”
NAACP: ‘We were snookered’
continue reading… POLITICO
“…I looked at your statement, when I first saw the news coverage of it and I said, what? he doesn’t support the Civil Rights Act? I mean that is how it was portrayed. And you clearly laid out just the opposite…”
Sean Hannity interviewing Rand Paul
Sorry, I have no idea what was said next because my head exploded.
“I never intended to get in a battle of wits with Glenn Beck. As you know, he comes only half-prepared to that battle.”
Rep. Anthony Weiner, on his investigation of the gold market
Weiner with Olbermann - Watch entire segment here. Go right to above quote here.
Here is that O’Donnell piece I tried to to link directly to on the lying healthcare IRS nonsense (the embed wouldn’t work). Great job by O’Donnell (as usual) check it out.
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[(R) Sen. Orrin] Hatch said that reconciliation should not be used for “substantive legislation” unless the legislation has “significant bipartisan support.” But surely the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts, which were passed under reconciliation and increased the deficit by $1.7 trillion during his presidency, were “substantive legislation.” The 2003 dividends tax cut could muster only 50 votes. Vice President Dick Cheney had to break the tie. Talk about “ramming through.”
The underlying “principle” here seems to be that it’s fine to pass tax cuts for the wealthy on narrow votes but an outrage to use reconciliation to help middle-income and poor people get health insurance.
”Congressman Anthony Weiner Calls FOX & Friends LIARS! to their face.
“He (President Obama) and his administration have used what I call voodoo economics. The reason I call it voodoo economics is because you have to be a dead man walking around with no soul to believe the economic parameters of the economic issues that they put in place. But this, this Obamacare raises taxes and will raise taxes on virtually everybody.” - Rep. Broun (R-GA)
“If you think that Beck shills for the Republican party, you’re out of your mind!”
Bill O’Reilly told Jon Stewart just 2 weeks ago
Hey BillO, how many nonpartisans (uumm non-shills) give the Keynote Speech at CPAC? Isn’t Beck as O’Reilly calls him, an everyman, an ordinary Joe just sorta sittin’ on a bar stool giving his opinion? He doesn’t have a dog in this fight. Good ol’ boy Beck is one of the “folks” who just happens to be speaking at the most partisan convention the Republicans hold. Sorry my bad.
“We are in a war with the jihadists. The Obama administration does not say that, with the exception of the State of the Union, but it’s the truth. And I believe truth is a powerful weapon in defeating the Islamic killers who are trying to destroy us.” - BillO The Liar
“We are at war. We are at war against al Qaeda, a far-reaching network of violence and hatred that attacked us on 9/11, that killed nearly 3,000 innocent people, and that is plotting to strike us again. And we will do whatever it takes to defeat them.” - President Obama ( January 7 press conference on the Underwear Bomber) just one of many times the President has said we at war with the terrorists.
BillO’s lying video and more at crooksandliars
after I posted this I noticed the crawl. what a complete joke this “news” organization is.
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GINGRICH: The American people doesn’t understand reading Miranda rights to terrorists in Detroit when its fairly obvious they’re terrorists. […]
STEWART: Didn’t they [the Bush administration] do the same with Richard Reid, the shoe bomber.
GINGRICH: Richard Reid was an American citizen.
”Jon Stewart took the extra step of returning after commercial break to correct Gingrich — Reid was a British citizen.
video here
more about Newt’s history of lying at thinkprogress.
