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Jon Stewart taking Fox “News” to task for picking and choosing their Constitutional amendments is textbook evisceration of a right-wing propaganda machine.

Watch it and share it.

Which is not to say that the movement kept up with the times. Because conservatives, by and large, are an older set than liberals, the conservative viral content medium of choice has remained email forwards as liberals moved on to Tumblr.

GOP thinks imitating BuzzFeed to raise money is WIN! - Salon

GOP leader thinks Will McAvoy is a real news anchor

JIMROMENESKO: He deleted his tweet after someone pointed out that McAvoy is a fictitious anchor.

Mr. Christie’s failure to be invited [to CPAC] is not a mere oversight; virtually every other prominent Republican who might be a plausible nominee in 2016 has been asked to participate. … Now that he’s been “outed” as a moderate, it may be hard to close the closet door.

Mr. Christie, meanwhile, will need to consider whether to compete for the Republican nomination in 2016. While the mainstream media tends to chronically overrate the likelihood of a viable independent bid for the presidency, Mr. Christie would be better positioned to seek one than most, with very high favorability ratings among independent voters and the access to money and news media attention that comes from being a prominent politician in the Northeast.

Nate Silver, Christie’s Honeymoon With Conservatives Is Over - NYTimes

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Ryan Speech to Focus on the Economy, With Shots at Obama | NY Times

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They want Hurricane Isaac to hit New Orleans, and they want disaster. They want floods. They want homelessness. They want despair. They want human misery, so they can contrast that with the Republican convention. They want to split screen it, and that’s the key.

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Not Just Todd Akin: The 10 worst political gaffes of the past decade

Here’s the final entry in our weekly summer post series, “The Pitch.” (We’ll bring this back at some point, we promise!) This post, written and research by Matthew Keys, examines what we’re calling the ten most-prominent political gaffes of the last decade or so. Follow Matthew on Twitter here.

From zero to infamy in 30 seconds: Before last week, Missouri Senate candidate and current Rep. Todd Akin didn’t have a national profile. He looked like he might take down Claire McCaskill thanks in part to changing demographics in the state. But thanks to a half-minute comment on the nature of abortion, Akin is down as much as ten points in a recent poll. He felt the wrath of the gaffe. And he’s not alone. Gaffes have taken on a life of their own in modern political coverage. So with that in mind, SFB contributor Matthew Keys (who you might know from his epic Twitter account) has thrown together a list of the worst gaffes of the past ten years. Which is the worst? Find out after the jump.

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