newsbusters.org - 14 days ago
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Newsweek's Evan Thomas regretted the Fort Hood mass murderer, Major Nidal Hasan, is a Muslim because of how that reality will be abused by conservatives. On this weekend's Inside Washington, Thomas, now Editor at Large with Newsweek after stints as Assistant Managing Editor and Washington ...
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 18 days ago
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Declaring that "this is our battle of Trenton,"
Tea Party activists are gearing up for a last
stand against the health-care reform effort they see as putting the country on a glide-path to socialism. With the House set to vote on reform as early ...
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Tea Partiers Get Set For Hectic Final Push Against ...
nicedeb.wordpress.com - 14 days ago
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This is just the sort of thing that
makes liberals like Evan Thomas “cringe”, because it “Inflames”
the right wing, but what can you do? Pretend it isn’t happening? Wingnut Rusty Shackleford says: Gloves are off ...
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American Jihadists Praise & Pray for Nidal Malik Hasan
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American Jihadists Praise & Pray for Nidal Malik Hasan
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... This is just the sort of thing that makes liberals like Evan Thomas “cringe”, because it “Inflames” the right wing, but what can you do? Pretend it isn’t happening? ...
On the Terror and the Terrorist at Fort Hood
The Wide Awake Cafe —
... Evan Thomas didn’t express his outrage over the domestic terrorism at Fort Hood, instead he was more concerned that the killer is a Muslim and the right wing will be inflamed. ...
Newsweek: Terrorist Attack on Fort Hood was bad because it will spark conservative hatred
Stop The ACLU —
Mark Twain’s Cat & The Threat Of Islamic Terrorism
Discriminations —
... What they are worried about, however, almost incomprehensibly, is not that real domestic threat. What they are worried about is that racist, right-wing teabaggers (usually referred by our elites, when they are on good behavior, as conservatives) will overreact, and say or do something that will cast aspersions on all the innocent, peace-loving Muslims. Here are a couple of good examples, quoted in Newsbusters: ...
The obligatory “Newsweek dumps all over Palin” post
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... | printer-friendly People on Twitter are nudging me to write about it, but what is there to say? The mainstream leftist take on Palin should be familiar to the point of utter banality by now; the only fresh element to Meacham’s and Thomas’s pieces is that they resist invoking Richard Hofstadter, which means they’re not even good drinking-game material . (That’s especially disappointing in the case of Thomas, who usually leaves no opportunity to demagogue the right untaken.) Andy Levy calls the two articles some of the laziest ...
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