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Stephen Colbert’s SuperPac attacks Mitt Romney as a Serial Killer

Shoq — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:52:46 +0000

Maybe we should have comedy writers do all our attack ads. The choice of Lithgow for the voice over was pure win.

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Mitt Romney: The Lyin’ King… of Bain Capital

Shoq — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:57:04 +0000

Here's the trailer seen around the world, wherein a Newt Gingrich superpac almost destroys Romney in just under two minutes. The full 30 minute video is said to nail the coffin shut on his candidacy. See it below the trailer.

See: The Full Video "The King of Bain (30 Minutes)

Proof that Mitt Romney will have a major impact on women voters

Shoq — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:22:48 +0000

Ok, that was all in good fun.

But now look at what a REAL vampire Mitt Romney has been for his entire career.

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Melissa Harris-Perry to Host New Show on @MSNBC. Got A Good Name For It?

Shoq — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:53:47 +0000

In cased you missed the news, Melissa Harris-Perry will be the latest addition to the new, post-Olbermann line-up at @MSNBC. Her new two hour weekend show starts February 4th at 10am.

After seeing her tweet this heap of hilarity last night…

I’ve known Melissa since she first came on Twitter. My mother still chuckles that she

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Sometimes You @GottaLaff… Until You Just Can’t Anymore

Shoq — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:31:17 +0000

Goto: Latest Updates and Responses (last in: 11/16/20111 @ 11:04 pm)

Summary

Recently, an attack website appeared, publishing an April email exchange I had with blog-radio host Nicole Sandler. It was a low-rent attempt to smear me, trying to “out” what they think is my real name (which I
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Like Him or Not, This Ain’t The Same Old David Frum

Shoq — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:09:04 +0000

Three weeks ago, I tweeted this:

@shoq: Somewhere, deep inside @DavidFrum, there’s a useful progressive yearning to be free: j.mp/tcQXDr #p2

I was being a bit glib about it, but I was trying to express an intuition about a sense I’ve had about a slow and sometimes erratic transformation

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COURAGE! Journalist Goldie Taylor outs a predator after 26 years.

Shoq — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:03:49 +0000

See update below

Last night…

journalist and commentator, GoldieTaylor told a remarkable story to @CNN’s Don Lemon. She was inspired to tell it by the grotesque story of accused predator, former Penn State football coach, Jerry Sandusky.

She not only told of the horror of her own abuse, and that of other high school cheerleader

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An Extended Definition Of “Emo Progressive,” And Why It Matters

Shoq — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:27:23 +0000

Update: This term has been recast as “Puritopian.” Emo Progressive was never coined by either Joy Ann Reid or myself. It had already gotten traction before we came together and tried to give it greater definition. We succeeded, perhaps too well. Like others, we were never comfortable with it because it was far too disparaging

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Short List of Progressive Achievements by The Obama Administration

Shoq — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:37:04 +0000

In a pointed essay about how wrong some libertarian bloggers masquerading as progressives can be, Booman Tribune (@booMan23) outlines a very good summary of just some of the major progressive achievements of the Obama adminstration. Despite the incessant and destructive doom and gloom whining of a professional left that profits from all the

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Grey Parker Educates Breitbart’s Dana Loesch: Because Someone Had To

Shoq — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 13:55:05 +0000

Grey Parker is one of those bloggers you stumble upon when someone in your stream says "you gotta read this." I did that some months ago, and ever since, I eagerly snap at his posts like a Venus Fly Trap that just got lucky. Today, Grey decided to respond to the execrable new Tokyo Rose

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