Author: Trish

Who Said What When Regarding Libyan Attacks

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Obama on Wednesday, Sept. 12: 'Make no mistake. Justice will be done.'

Here is the the series of events concerning the attacks on Americans in the Middle East, in chronological order.

For the tea partiers out there, “chronological” is a big word that means in the order in which things happened, starting with the first thing and moving through time to the most recent thing.

For Republicans, it means that your version is a lie.

  • Moronic publicity whore Pastor Terry Jones, not content to have caused the death of 12 people by threatening to hold a public Koran burning, promotes a new YouTube video further baiting Muslims. The film, made by Sam Bacile, a 52-year-old Israeli-American real-estate developer who lives in California, depicts the Prophet Muhammad as a pedophile and womanizer, and shows him having sex. It was posted online in July but was dubbed in Arabic on Sept. 4. Since then, a trailer for the film was heavily reported in Egypt.

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Even FOX Is Beginning to Demand Specifics From Romney

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Romney seems to have internalized the Mormon culture of secrecy

Apparently we have a better chance of seeing Mitt Romney’s tax returns than we do of knowing his plans for balancing the budget through changes in the tax code, which is how he says he would do it. You know that when even FOX News (although I don’t think Gregg Jarrett is one of the most egregious Republican tools who anchor shows on the network) is trying to pin down Romney and his policy wonks, there is some serious evasion going on.

Romney’s platform up to now has been for us to trust him, but he keeps too many secrets to allow it. For example, along with those tax returns, there are the records he sealed as he left the office of governor of Massachusetts. Good luck glimpsing those.

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North Carolina Republicans Delusional Over Osama Bin Laden

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North Carolina Republicans that answered the question, “Who do you think deserves more credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden: Barack Obama or Mitt Romney?” with Mitt Romney. Another 56% of Republicans told Public Policy Polling (PPP) they weren’t sure, while only 29% could bring themselves to admit that Pres. Obama should get more credit. While the president is enjoying a post convention bounce nationwide, he moved up only one point in the battleground state, from 48-48 the week before the event to 49-48 immediately after.

Pat Robertson, Fresh Off the Campaign Trail with Mitt, Advises a Man to Beat His Wife

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Keep in mind as you watch Pat Robertson advise a man whose wife insults him that he needs to move to Saudi Arabia so he can “become a Muslim and beat her,” that Mitt campaigned this weekend with Pat at his side. Make no mistake about the “conservative” attitude toward women: we are to submit to male authority and if we don’t, well a man’s got to do what a man’s got to do.

Nice try by the CBN host to save Pat from saying more, and to laugh off his comments, but we get it. It’s called the Republican War on Women, and it just keeps escalating.

Update: Someone on Facebook reminded us that Vice Pres. Joe Biden was the author of the Violence Against Women Act, and that our choice in November couldn’t be clearer.

H/T to MBH

#RomneyHardships Shows Life for a Rich Corporate Raider is Harder Than You Think

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It's not as easy as it looks

A new hashtag is lighting up on Twitter: #RomneyHardships. Among those listed:

  • So many connecting flights to get to your Swiss banks
  • “I can’t hire illegals, I’m running for President for Pete’s sake.”
  • So annoying that they won’t just let me buy Twitter outright…
  • Nobody ever has change for a $10,000 bill.
  • Car elevator becomes stuck between Bentley and Ferrari floors
  • Having to pretend the greatest achievement of your time as Mass. governor never happened
  • Not being able to “retroactively retire” from this miserable loser of a race
  • Fact-checkers
  • Trying to avoid situations where he’ll have to admit he thinks his mormon god lives on the planet Kolob

A promoted tweet from Paul Ryan appears at the top of the search: “Our economy runs on freedom, not government. It’s time we put our faith back in the American people #BelieveInAmerica #RomneyRyan2012”

In addition, there are a few tweets of support for Romney, including these completely not angry contributions:

  • Having to deal with the tremendous amount of morons who think 4yrs of failure isn’t enough…#fail
  • Paying $4,000,000.00 in taxes in one year, only to have zero-paying recipients whine he’s not paying his “fair share”

Obama Passes Romney in August Fund Raising

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$114 million

Amount raised by the Obama campaign during August, outstripping the Romney campaign (by $3 million) for the first time since April. Adding Rep. Paul Ryan to the ticket and holding the Republican convention during August didn’t push Romney’s donations for the month past Obama’s, which came from 1.1 million people giving an average of $52 each. Romney’s money came from 820,000 donors giving about $250 each. The Republicans, of course, are still blocking out the sun with super PAC donations.

Fact or Fiction? With Joe Biden on the Campaign Trail, It’s Hard to Know

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That this picture appeared in our Twitter feed immediately after viewing a video from The Onion on Vice Pres. Biden’s hitchhiking journey to the Democratic National Convention* is pretty odd timing.

Quoting truckers and others who gave Jokin’ Joe rides and spotted him in low places along the route, the video suggests that the Veep parties pretty hard — harder, it would seem from the real-life photo, than some bikers. The one to Biden’s left looks as if he is considering how best to break up the discussion between Joe and the lady biker in this lap.

Here’s the video.

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AP Mixes Up Facts and Opinions, Even As AP Reporters Get President’s Name Wrong

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Meanwhile, it looks like the AP could stand to do more fact checking of its own.

“It would be more appropriate to make its complaint against CBO than against President Obama’s speech.”

— Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, in a post titled, “AP Factcheck Should be Billed to Romney Campaign.” Baker takes issue with Associated Press “fact checkers” who claim there would be no peace dividend from winding down the war in Afghanistan.

President Obama is working off a baseline set by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that assumes war spending continues over the next decade. If he doesn’t intend to continue this spending then he is freeing up money relative to this baseline. AP may not like this method of scoring, but it is absolutely standard in Washington policy debates. Changes are measured against a baseline.

Baker joins others who suggest that the AP’s analysis might have been more correctly classified as an editorial than as fact checking.

H/T to The Nation