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Fox News ‘Breitbarts’ President’s Purported ‘Enemies List’ – Falsely Asserts ‘Smear’ of Romney Finance Co-Chair

May 16, 2012November 11, 2014 Jon Ponder

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Andrew Breitbart may be dead but his practice of creating fake political scandals lives on at Fox News. The latest case involves Frank Vandersloot, the Romney campaign’s co-chair, who is apparently no relation to Joran Van Der Sloot, the accused murderer in the Natalie Holloway case. Rachel Maddow reported the facts beneath the fakery in the latest case last night. Here’s Media Matters’ take:

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O. On Down-Low

May 16, 2012 Buck Banks

The Family Research Institute’s never been good with facts,
And they’ll pretty much say anything to give Obama the axe.
Which led Pastor Paul Cameron to say
That although he’s not gay,
Obama has no doubt participated in “homosexual acts.”

Brooks: Obama Perfecting His Image of Manliness

May 16, 2012 Buck Banks

Obama has displayed a kind of ESPN masculinity: postfeminist in his values, but also thoroughly traditional in style — hypercompetitive, restrained, not given to self-doubt, rarely self-indulgent. Administrations are undone by scandal and moments when they look pathetic, but this administration, guarded in all things, has rarely had those moments … I’d say that Obama is a slight underdog this year: the scuffling economy will grind away at voters. But his leadership style is keeping him afloat. He has defined a version of manliness that is postboomer in policy but preboomer in manners and reticence.

— David Brooks, writing in the New York Times.

Biden Set to Hit Romney Hard Over Bain

May 16, 2012 Buck Banks

Romney made sure the guys on top got to play by a separate set of rules, he ran massive debts, and the middle class lost. And folks, he thinks this experience will help our economy.

— Vice President Joe Biden, quoted by Politico, from advance excerpts of a speech he’ll give later today taking aim at Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital.

Romney Worth Around $230 Million

May 16, 2012 Buck Banks

+/- $230 million

Forbes’ estimate of Mitt Romney’s wealth after an extensive analysis. Asked earlier this year for his own estimate, Romney told Univision that “It’s between $150 and about $200-and-some-odd million dollars.”

Majority of Teens Text While Driving

May 16, 2012 Buck Banks

61%

Of teens say they glace at their phone while driving and 61% also say they’ve seen friends read or send an email or text while driving, according to a recent AT&T Teen Driver Survey.

Day: May 16, 2012

Fox News ‘Breitbarts’ President’s Purported ‘Enemies List’ – Falsely Asserts ‘Smear’ of Romney Finance Co-Chair

O. On Down-Low

Brooks: Obama Perfecting His Image of Manliness

— David Brooks, writing in the New York Times.

Biden Set to Hit Romney Hard Over Bain

Romney made sure the guys on top got to play by a separate set of rules, he ran massive debts, and the middle class lost. And folks, he thinks this experience will help our economy.

— Vice President Joe Biden, quoted by Politico, from advance excerpts of a speech he’ll give later today taking aim at Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital.

Romney Worth Around $230 Million

+/- $230 million

Forbes’ estimate of Mitt Romney’s wealth after an extensive analysis. Asked earlier this year for his own estimate, Romney told Univision that “It’s between $150 and about $200-and-some-odd million dollars.”

Majority of Teens Text While Driving

61%

Of teens say they glace at their phone while driving and 61% also say they’ve seen friends read or send an email or text while driving, according to a recent AT&T Teen Driver Survey.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“The man is afraid of the voice of the people and that the people understand and know what he’s doing. He’s trying to stifle the ability of journalists to let the people of America know what’s really going on with their government.”

— “Kamala Harris called President Donald Trump’s ban of CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House ‘absolutely abhorrent,’” The Wrap reports.

“Not one of them is trained in technical skills. Not one research PhD, as opposed to China, where half the cabinet is science and technology PhDs. We’re led by grifters and fools.”

— Columbia professor Jeffrey Sachs, on X, on President Trump’s 35-person cabinet.

“Mr. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far… The same Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today.”

— Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL), breaking with President Trump in a direct-to-camera video.

Numerati

1,000

10%

“The unprecedented spate of mid-decade redistricting for the U.S. House has changed the congressional districts for one-tenth of Americans and significantly altered the makeup of at least one-fifth of districts, according to a new study,” the Associated Press reports.

71%

A new Fox News Poll finds 71% of voters think the Trump administration lacks a clear strategy for ending the Iran War, including 95% of Democrats, 83% of independents, and 43% of Republicans. Sixty percent say U.S. military action against Iran was the wrong decision, while just 37% say it was right.

$9.5 billion

“The Trump administration last year spent $9.5 billion on paid administrative leave for federal workers as part of its plan to shrink the government and save taxpayers money, according to a new estimate by a congressional watchdog,” CNN reports.

470

Reuters has documented at least 470 targets of retribution under Trump’s leadership – from federal employees and prosecutors to universities and media outlets. The list illuminates the sweeping effort by the president and his administration to punish dissent and reshape the government.