Tea Party Not a Factor in Tuesday's Elections

From all the media attention they have garnered for the last year, it seems the reality is that the teabagger movement is not as powerful as they try to make themselves out to be. Sarah Palin is getting herself in trouble with the teabaggers. She just endorsed the Republican Senatorial candidate in California, Carli Fiorina and the teabaggers are pisses at her. None of the teabag party candidates won on Tuesday's House and Senate primaries. All the incumbents won.

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The ACORN scandal was completely made up

The right wing in this country went crazy with the James O'Keefe video of him and his girlfriend dressed as a pimp and a whore showed up and they claimed that employees of ACORN were going to help them set up a child prostitution ring. The only problem with their claims, they were all lies. The really sad part is that the lies and the resultant media frenzy actually succeeded in driving ACORN out of business.

This is a long-standing organization that helped poor people in this country, so it's a really sad event that ACORN was forced to declare bankruptcy and close its doors, especially when the allegations that caused this were completely fabricated by low life James O'Keefe and helped along by Fox "News" and other right wing media organizations.

Democrats, Listen Up!

Michael Moore, appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show last night urging Democrats in Congress to do something. Take a stand! Moore brought up when Republicans come to town, they drive down the street in the Hummer and knock over anyone that gets in their way. The Democrats could learn a lesson from the Republicans in this respect. It's time to stand up for the American people, Democrats. Republicans are not going to vote with us, no matter what. All they want to do is destroy President Obama, hoping they can improve their chances to regain power in November.

How can we best avoid that result? Pass health care reform and do the things that the American people sent you to Washington to do.

Man-Made Climate Change for Dummies

There is a big push to try to get the story out through conservative blogs and media, primarily Fox "News" that man-made climate change is a hoax. They're trying to make the case that because of the big snow storms on the east coast that climate change can't be real because it's cold and it's snowing more than usual. This is a completely ridiculous argument. NASA recently announced a study that shows that 2009 was the second warmest year in history.

But conservatives want to try to use their typical short-term thinking to make Americans believe because it's cold and snowing in winter, climate change is a hoax. They are the ones that are being taken for a ride though, in some cases by scientists that have been bribed by the oil companies, to try to refute the irrefutable. Rachel Maddow last night put it in terms I hope even conservatives can understand.

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Dylan Ratigan took a few minutes to explain man-made climate change to Fox Noise buffoon, Glenn Beck.

The most despicable health care ad

Last night on The Rachel Maddow Show, Rachel discussed an ad created by conservative filmmaker Ray Griggs. I guess the title of it is, "I Guess I'm Racist." I guess the point of the ad is that people who are against President Obama's health care push are racists. I'm not sure there was a direct correlation between race and people's opposition to health care, but there is.

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The Case That Fox is NOT News

I've long made this argument that Fox just makes things up. They don't report news. They make things up, sometimes out of whole cloth, then move the "news" into their opinion shows, like Sean Hannity, Fox and Friends, then what happens is that real news stations pick up the story and before you know it, the entire country is being misinformed about any particular topic.

So, I say good on the White House for calling out Fox "News" in their quest to misinform America.

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