Day: February 16, 2012

More Lies from Breitbart: Charges of Rape by Occupiers Debunked

Jon Ponder

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Keith Olbermann condemns right-wing blogger Andrew Breitbart for promoting an inaccurate roundup of 17 alleged rapes at Occupy protests on his websites. The list, which fails to mention that the legitimate rape victims were Occupy supporters, comes on the heels of Breitbart screaming, “Stop raping people!” to a group of Occupy protestors at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference last weekend. “What Mr. Breitbart and his fellow propagandists have done, in fact, is to take at least eight women — eight members of Occupy who were raped or otherwise assaulted — and blame them for being raped,” says Keith.

Palin Ready to Step in as Candidate at Brokered Convention

Buck Banks

If one of the nominees, one of the GOPers, doesn’t get enough delegates, it could go to a brokered convention. If it does get to that, and someone said, ‘Governor, would you be interested,’ would you be interested? For one, I think that it could get to that… If it had to be closed up today, the whole nominating process, then we could be looking at a brokered convention… Nobody is quite there yet, so I think that months from now, if that is the case, all bets are off as to who it will be, willing to offer up themselves up in their name in service to their country.

— Sarah Palin, telling Fox Business that a brokered Republican presidential convention was a possibility and if it happened she “would do whatever I could to help.”

Right-Wing Author of ‘The Bell Curve’ Changes Mind, Now Supports Gay Marriage

Jon Ponder

I’ve changed my mind on [marriage equality] … the fact is that my wife and I know many same-sex couples and they have great marriages.

– Charles Murray, coauthor of “The Bell Curve,” which critics said supported scientific racism, and whom Andrew Sullivan described today as “perhaps the most important conservative/libertarian thinker of the last two decades” and a leader of the “conservative intelligentsia.”

Witness Panel for House Republicans’ Hearing on Contraceptives Is Men Only

Jon Ponder

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“What I want to know is, where are the women?” asked Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) shortly before she walked out of House oversight committee hearing on insurance coverage for contraceptives. “I look at this panel [of witnesses], and I don’t see one single individual representing the tens of millions of women across the country who want and need insurance coverage for basic preventive health care services, including family planning.”

Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa called five witnesses who opposed a rule floated and then quickly rescinded by the Obama administration last week that would have required church-owned businesses to cover the cost of contraceptives for their employees. All five Republican witnesses were men.

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