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Gateway Pundit Must Resign
I wonder what the rest of our far-flung right-wing correspondents have been… ABOVE: A prodigious font of Der Report: API Will Release Michelle Obama “White Racists” Tape The API is not backing down. Dear God, we must never wonder such things aloud. African ...
Great Moments in Election-Year Blogging
Great Moments in Election-Year Blogging
jonswift.blogspot.com — No matter what happens in this year’s election, the conservative blogosphere deserves to win a collective Pulitzer... Prize for its election-year coverage. While the mainstream media has given Americans a very distorted picture of Barack Obama, ... (more) Great Moments in Election-Year Blogging
Obama Campaign Says Michelle Obama ‘Interview’ on ‘African Press’ Website is 100% Bogus
blogs.abcnews.com — The conservative blogs are all atwitter about a bizarre interview allegedly with Michelle Obama on a website... called "African Press International." “My husband was born in Hawaii and adopted by his step father, does that make him unpatriotic," she ... (more) Obama Campaign Says Michelle Obama ‘Interview’ on ...
That Michelle Obama Report
corner.nationalreview.com — I'm sure a lot of you have seen references this morning to statements allegedly made by Michelle... Obama in an interview with an organization called African Press International. I just asked the Obama campaign whether Michelle Obama did in fact speak ... (more) That Michelle Obama Report
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Crooks and Liars — P.M. Carpenter: John McCain still battling common sense and mental health Booman Tribune: Oh those respectful Republicans. They've rolled out Ayers robo-calls, "he kills babies" robocalls, and a transparently phony news org 'exclusive' being flogged by rightie sewage workers. I wish our lazy press corps were as vigilant as David Letterman World-O-Crap: Abortion bans are Affirmative Action for unwanted mulattoes Instaputz: Whacking wingnuts daily d r i f t g l a s s: In ...

Sex and Cigarettes
I Am TRex — ... for the McCain myth, which she seems to cling to like a junkie to her habit, or the ever gormless Right Wing blogging coalition and their willingness to bite down hard and swallow the hook of absolutely any old anti-Obama smear that comes down the pike, and yet every time I try to get the blogging ball down the field, I get hit with insanely powerful cravings for a smoke.  No lie, my mouth actually waters thinking about a Marlboro red. ...

Strangers with e-Candy
Firedoglake — ... these days. I mean, for example, it's not like you can represent yourself as an African News Agency on the internet and get just anyone to believe you. You have to have to have a bulletproof cover story in order to insinuate yourself into people's lives and get them to spill their most innermost secrets so that you can later humiliate them in a very public way. ...

Great Moments in Election-Year Blogging
Jon Swift — ... , conservative bloggers are very patient and understanding and just hope that API can work everything out before the election. “We will know soon enough,” writes Gateway Pundit. “It is amazing how the media will believe a hoax that some Republican yelled ‘kill him’ at a Palin rally with no evidence but will disregard a harsh story on Michelle Obama from the start. It's interesting how that works.” It is funny how that works, Gateway Pundit. ...

Beaten to the punch
Nitpicker — Sadly, No! commenter Tom's Cousin Blader reads my mind and posts this take on the ongoing "Whitey Tape" travesty still playing out on the right blogosphere. I AM HOLDING THE TAPE BUT NOT ITS PASSWORD, AS THE REPRESENTATIVE OF AN INDIVIDUAL IN KINSASHA, CURRENTLY UNDER HOUSE ARREST AND WHO IS THE ONLY INDIVIDUAL WHO KNOWS THIS PASSWORD. GIVEN THE TENUOUS POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT IN OUR CAPITAL, FOR OBVIOUS REASONS, HE MUST REMAIN ANONYMOUS. MY OWN CREDENTIALS ARE EASILY VERIFIED, SINCE I AM A CIVIL SERVANT WORKING FOR THE NIGERIAN ...

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