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Liberals: Sign-up For The Teaparty Town Halls In Washington

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Please do sign-up for this…

So you get all the hilarity of their planning missives, as Michael P. Leahy lures all the suckers into one big marketing tent for his goofy Saul Alinsky books with their make-believe history.

Oh, and it may also help screw up AFP/David Koch's bus-buying and booking plans for the big event, too.

From March 9 through March 31 Freedom Loving Tea Party activists
will be traveling to Washington DC to HELP STOP Obamacare.
We need YOUR HELP. If you would like more information, please
fill out the form below and we will be in touch ASAP about how
you can help. THANK YOU! — Michael P. Leahy (#tcot Founder)

Take the Town Halls to Washington.

 

I can't wait to see all 85 gazillion billion trillion Teapartiers all assembled on one block.

Narrative Authority: Can Institutional Respect Be Crowd-Sourced?

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Who Says: Narrative Authority In a Fragmented World

Jay Rosen tweeted this seminal post by Megan Garber, articulating what the web and digital media are doing to authority memes and journalism's role in this bizarre new world.

Since the need to manage the tangled and competing taxonomic hierarchies of such a Narrative Big Brother has been my professional fascination for years, I couldn't help but notice.  

I think it's required reading for every journalist, citizen, media theorist, media guru, social media consultant, politician, educator, and student. Ok, ok….make that everyone that can fucking read.

Transparency needs to be about fostering conversation rather than ending it.

Megan Garber

Read: Who Says : CJR.

Reconciliation at a Glance

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Sunlight Foundation comes through again with another great data exhibit. This time one that demonstrates just how much, how often, and how intensely the Republican party will lie about anything to control the narratives, no matter how evident and easily discoverable are the facts. 

Look at all the red bars (#GOP) moving past 50 votes in the Yea column, each time THEY used this process to "ram through" their vicious, selfish agendas. How dare those democrats use the same process to give all Americans—at least better—access to health care.

It's just shameful that Fox, Beck, Rush and the #GOP have helped lower our bullshit threshold this far, to where a simple dataset could be so telling of the viciousness and shamelessness of the lying being done in this Health Care reform fight to do the right thing.

 

 

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