Exclusive: NYT’s Keller Admits 10th Anniversary Article on Getting Iraq-9/11 Connection Wrong Was Wrong About Iraq-9/11 Connection
In a lengthy piece in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, former Executive Editor, now opinion piece writer, Bill Keller attempted to come to terms with both his own, and his paper’s, major failures during the lead-up and follow-through in the U.S. invasion of Iraq. While Keller eventually comes around to admitting that both he and […]
Matthew Vadum, Master of Misinformation, Subverts the Truth With More Democratic ‘Voter Fraud’ Lies
Matthew Vadum will lie about anything he needs to in order to collect his wingnut welfare paychecks apparently. American values such as democracy be damned. It’s partisan politics (and paychecks) at all costs. Vadum has, of late, taken over from the disgraced Bush/Cheney general counsel turned fake “voting rights advocate” Thor Hearne of the fake […]
NYTimes Corrects One Error in Breitbart Story, But Not the Ones Regarding ACORN … Yet
The New York Times has issued one correction to Jeremy W. Peters’ error-ridden weekend puff-profile on Rightwing scam-artist Andrew Breitbart. They corrected the error where Peters reported, just as Breitbart lied to him, that members of the NAACP applauded when they heard now-former USDA official Shirley Sherrod discuss her initial reticence at helping a white […]
Still Wrong: No, NYTimes, ACORN Workers Didn’t Advise O’Keefe How to ‘Evade Taxes’ Either
How many times can the New York Times, the country’s so-called “Paper of Record,” misreport the very same story?! Even after being called out repeatedly on it? They seem to be working on breaking their very own previously set record at this point. In the yet another puff-piece on Rightwing scam-artist Andrew Breitbart, published over […]
Bribery Complaint Filed Against Sen. David Vitter
Guest blogged by Ernest A. Canning On Tuesday, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) submitted a complaint to the Senate Select Committee on Ethics [PDF] alleging that Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) violated a federal bribery statute when he submitted a May 23, 2011 letter to Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar threatening to […]
Mitt Romney Faces Voter Fraud Complaint as List of Apparent GOP Vote Fraudsters Continues to Swell
What is it about Mormon Republican Presidential candidates and their proclivity for committing voter fraud? For that matter, what is it about high-profile Republicans in general and their rapidly growing record of voter fraud, as we have two new reports today of two more very high profile Republicans who appear to have committed voter fraud? […]
Federal Judge Denies ‘First Amendment’ Defense by O’Keefe, Giles in ACORN Worker Law Suit
Rightwing activists and propagandists James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, employees of con-artist and propagandist Andrew Breitbart, may not use the First Amendment as an excuse for breaking the law in California, according to a federal judge’s ruling this week. Judge M. James Lorenz rejected the defendants’ argument and motion for summary judgment in federal court, […]
GOP Voter Suppression Shifts Into High Gear in State After State as ‘Tea Party’ Shell Game Exposed
Guest blogged by Ernest A. Canning “I don’t want everybody to vote,” Paul Weyrich, co-founder of the billionaire-funded Heritage Foundation and the Moral Majority, said while addressing a right-wing Christian audience in 1980. “[O]ur leverage in the elections goes up as the voting populace goes down,” he added after he denigrated those who seek “good […]
IOKIYAR: Possible 2012 GOP Presidential Hopeful ‘Pulls an Ann Coulter’ (Commits Voter Fraud)
The GOP voter fraud epidemic continues unabated. The latest alleged felon? Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to China, former Utah Governor — and potential 2012 GOP Presidential candidate — Jon Huntsman Jr. Teddy Partridge at FireDogLake charges (accurately) that Huntsman “Pulls a Coulter,” as The Salt Lake Tribune reports: Jon Huntsman Jr. is still registered to vote […]
Indiana’s New Republican Sec. of State Charged With Three Counts of Felony Voter Fraud
What do GOP superstar Ann Coulter, the head of the GOP’s California voter registration firm Mark Anthony Jacoby, and, as of yesterday, Indiana’s newly elected GOP Secretary of State Charlie White all have in common? Unlike the four-decade old community organization ACORN, each of the Republicans appear to have committed voter fraud and/or voter registration […]
Hannah Giles: James O’Keefe Did It, Not Me!
[Note: SD City Beat has now corrected their story as per our criticism in this article. See the UPDATE at bottom of this article for more details.] The story quoted below, detailing Hannah Giles’ attorneys tossing Rightwing hoaxster James O’Keefe “under the bus,” comes from San Diego City Beat this week. Please note, however, that […]
‘Bake Sales v. Billionaires: WI is an Existential Fight for Survival of the Democratic Party’
Dear TeaBaggers: Wondering what a real ‘tea party’, really fighting for real rights really being taken away by Big Government looks like? It looks like this… If you’re ready to join such a fight, we’re quite certain there are tens of thousands of freedom-loving Americans now rallying in Madison, Wisconsin this week who would welcome […]
Accidental Accountability, Or, a Few Minor Setbacks in the GOP War on America
[I’ll have a few assorted updates and follow-ups in the U.S. Chamber Plot debacle soon, but there have been a few items of note that I didn’t want to lose here entirely. This is one of them. – BF | UPDATE: I’ve now added an addendum to the bottom of this article.] If there’s anything […]
Report: Cheney To Be Indicted for Nigerian Bribery, Sought for Interpol Arrest, Extradition by U.S.
Just thought we should flag this one while Dick Cheney is still around (and while Obama is still in office). According to Business Week, the former CEO of Halliburton will soon be wanted for arrest on bribery charges by Nigeria, with whom the U.S. has a long-standing extradition treaty. As well, they may also be […]
Now That He’s Been Elected, KS Sec. of State-Elect Kris Kobach Can’t Find Any ‘Voter Fraud’
“Our campaign had an undeniable, unmistakable message,” he told his supporters during his victory speech on Election Night, “and that message could be summed up in three words, three words which were on every one of our 4 billion highway signs: ‘stop voter fraud.’” “And now that clear message becomes transformed into a clear mandate,” […]