By David Swanson
According to an Associated Press story on Friday, more than a half-million people have toured the creationism museum in Kentucky since it opened in May 2007. However, at least one of those people was there to make fun of it with a video camera.
In fact, a lot of what Bill Maher’s new film, “Religulous”, does is make fun of people. But by no means does Maher single out fringe religious believers. He interviews one of the few top scientists in the world who
By David Swanson
The McCain-Palin campaign is running an advertisement “accusing ” Barack Obama of once training ACORN members in Chicago. Obama should be proud of that. I’ve done it myself and am proud of it. I trained Chicago ACORN members in how to talk to the media about the wonderful work they do.
What sort of work? Chicago ACORN has worked to improve local schools, reducing class sizes, providing teachers with mentors and assistants. Chicago ACORN has worked to prevent
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By David Swanson
Of the hundreds of corporate and independent media outlets that falsely claimed this week that ABC News had broken a story about NSA spying that I broke at AfterDowningStreet over a year ago, only the guys at McClatchy (formerly Knight Ridder, the same people who have done better reporting on Iraq than any other corporate journalists) have had the decency to put out a correction, and only the Sacramento Bee has posted (though probably not printed) it:
“A McClatchy Newspapers
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By David Swanson
While supporters of McCain and Palin generally appear to be a lily white mob of vicious imbeciles who shout things like Sit Down Boy! and Keep the White House white!, one black man, a radio host from Milwaukee whom I had never heard of before, James T. Harris, was given the microphone at a John McCain event and proceeded to lay the biggest wettest kiss possible on McCain’s flabby white butt, after which McCain struggled to produce a coherent response.
This disturbs me a little
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By David Swanson
1. WMD Lies
Adrienne Kinne describes an incident just prior to the invasion of Iraq in which a fax came into her office at Fort Gordon in Georgia that purported to provide information on the location of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. The fax came from the Iraqi National Congress, a group opposed to Saddam Hussein and favoring an invasion. The fax contained types of information that required that it be translated and transmitted to President Bush within 15 minutes. But Kinne
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By David Swanson
I think that’s a fair question. When Rood worked for TPMMuckraker he complained to CBS News about the life of a blogger.
When he got hired by the Disney Corporation (ABC News) he begin tackling such tasks as burying a story of war lies and war crimes in order to blog about phone sex.
Now he’s added a followup to the original story that still fails to note that I blogged the full story over a year ago, and still fails to tell most of the story.
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To: Interested Parties
From: Bertha Lewis and Steve Kest
Date: October 9, 2008
Re: The Truth About ACORN’s Voter Registration Drive
Election Day is less than a month away, and our efforts to make sure that low-income and minority voters have a voice and vote on November 4th are in full swing. Unfortunately, just as we’ve seen in previous election cycles, the more success we have in empowering these voters, the more attacks we have to fend off from partisan forces making unfounded accusations
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By David Swanson
From 2000 to 2003 I was the communications coordinator for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. I don’t know whether to be sorry or relieved that I don’t have my old job now.
ACORN has been through some scandals of its own making, but it is currently all over the news because of a pair of absolutely fraudulent and nationally coordinated attacks.
One of these attacks involves accusations of voter fraud. But, of course, “voter fraud”
ACORN Is Not the Nut Here Read More »
By David Swanson
On Thursday, ABC News reported a big new break in the story of illegal and unconstitutional spying that our government has engaged in for years now, except that there was nothing new in the story and the important parts were left out.
The ABC News announcer began the video report thus:
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By David Swanson
Here’s a typical example of how the news cycle works now that the blogosphere interacts (or doesn’t) with independent and corporate media:
July 1, 2007, AfterDowningStreet.org Breaks Story of NSA Whistleblower Adrienne Kinne
http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/24183
May 13, 2008, Democracy Now picks up the story of Kinne
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/5/13/fmr_military_intelligence_officer_…
May 19, 2008, AfterDowningStreet.org Breaks Story of NSA Whistleblower
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