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A few seemingly remarkable items coming in via our Twitter feed today, all fueled by folks on the Right who are hoaxed into giving their hard-earned dollars to con-men…<\/p>\nA few seemingly remarkable items coming in via our Twitter feed today, all fueled by folks on the Right who are hoaxed into giving their hard-earned dollars to con-men…<\/p>\n
• The crew at the pretend “news” site, Breitbart.com<\/b> (specifically, Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro<\/b>) have successfully pushed a story about “Friends of Hamas” supporting SecDef-nominee, Sen. Chuck Hagel<\/b> (R) somehow into the mainstream Rightwing media. The problem with the story — which is meant to help target the first Presidential cabinet nominee in history to ever be filibustered (much less by his own party!) — is that “Friends of Hamas”, the “scary-sounding pro-Hagel group”, doesn’t actually seem to exist, according to Slate’s Dave Weigel<\/a>.<\/p>\n
• George Zimmerman<\/b>, the Florida “hero” who claimed that he was just “standing his ground” after having stalked and shot unarmed African-American teen Trayvon Martin<\/b> last year has a) Reportedly burned through $300,000 in donated legal defense funds and is now considering asking the court to declare him “indigent”, so the state would have to pay for his defense and b) Gained some 105 pounds since his arrest last year, according to ThinkProgress today<\/a>. (Yes, that is what Zimmerman looks like now, at the top of this article.)<\/p>\n