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Kafkatrapping Trump: Using frustrated reaction to false Russia collusion investigation as proof of guilt
We first wrote about Kafkatrapping in September 2013:
Bernie Sanders attacks Cherokee author for criticizing Elizabeth Warren’s false Cherokee claim
Elizabeth Warren is struggling in fundraising and in the polls (even in Massachusetts). While her campaign is not over, she is being left in the dust by the old school (Sanders, Biden) and the new school (Buttigieg, Beto, Harris).
Coalition of left-wing activist groups calls on big tech to censor online speech
While you were focused on the midterm elections, the Kavanaugh hearings, and other media firestorms, a coalition of left-wing activist groups, including some that actively attack conservatives, has moved forward with efforts to get big tech companies to censor online speech.
The problem of big tech companies acting as speech gatekeepers has...
Think Progress Editor: Trump China Ambassador from “landlocked state full of white people”
President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Iowa Governor Terry Branstad as Ambassador to China, who has a strong relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Ian Millhiser at Think Progress took a shot at the decision because, you know, no matter what Trump does the liberals will hate it.
Millhiser responded to Trump’s pick...
Soros-funded groups fight scrutiny of Keith Ellison’s Nation of Islam past
Keith Ellison, Democratic Congressman from Minnesota, is the favorite to become Chair of the Democratic National Committee.
He has the support of big names like Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Harry Reid, among others.
Yet for years there have been questions about Ellison’s past association with Louis Farrakhan and the Nation...
Progressive Killjoys: How to discuss climate change at Christmas Dinner
On Christmas Day 2011, as part of our “Open” post, we noted the following:
What a bunch of kill joys, How to Discuss Climate Change With Your Uncle During the Holidays (because after racist relatives, climate change deniers are the biggest problem at family Christmas dinners).
The advice was from a guest contributor at ...
Team Hillary already lashing out at critics
Hillary is supposed to announce her presidential run at 3 p.m. Eastern today.
In the run up, the notorious Clinton smear machine already is lashing out at critics.
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, a progressive, made a reasonable statement that he wanted to hear more about her vision before he formally endorsed her:
The...
Think Progress: The Army deserted Bowe Bergdahl
This is what happens when a Center for American Progess Vice President guest blogs at CAP’s captive media organ, Think Progess.
Did Sergeant Bergdahl Desert The Army Or Did The Army Desert Him? (emphasis added):
“Deserter” might be the appropriate label for SGT Bowe Bergdahl, America’s only prisoner of war until he was...
Rachel Maddow’s come undone with Koch Derangement Syndrome
We have addressed Koch Derangement Syndrome before. One of the most obsessive purveyors was Think Progress.
Center for American Progress completes takeover of White House
The news of the day is that John Podesta, the founder and head of The Center for American Progress, is becoming a White House advisor. The NY Times reports, Ex-Cl...
Attacking the messenger to preserve the Matthew Shepard Hate Crime Narrative
Stephen Jimenez is the author of “The Book of Matt,” a book that calls into question the deeply ingrained narrative that the murder of Matthew Shepard was an anti-gay hate crime. The extensively researched book reveals that the Shepard anti-gay hate crime narrative may be all wrong.
Jimenez, who is gay himself, has been praised by...
NY Times Jim Rutenberg uses blowtorch against Free Beacon while defending Think Progress
Michael Goldfarb declined to be interviewed “in person” for the article about him being written by Jim Rutenberg of The New York Times.
There’s no sense in cooperating with people who are out to get you, and Rutenberg was out to get Goldfarb. When the NY Times profiles a conservative in general,...
In the beginning, Madison protesters wanted to walk like Egyptians
Remember when the Madison protesters compared their plight to the protesters in Tahrir Square?
They wanted to walk like Egyptians
Think Progress was giddy at the comparison:
According to pro-labor protesters in Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker (R) may be taking a page from former Egyptian Dictator Hosni Mubarak and cutting off internet access to...
Bill Maher reaping what Media Matters has sown
We live in a world where groups like Media Matters and Think Progress monitor and record every word uttered by any conservative of prominence in the media, hoping to find something “insensitive” with which to mount a campaign to silence the speaker through intimidation of advertisers.
So what goes around come around, and...
Maybe the readers are right, and sunshine is not enough
There’s something Bill Maher understands. What goes around comes around.
Media Matters and Think Progress can organize a campaign to attack Rush Limbaugh’s advertisers as a means — they hope — of forcing him off the air. But what goes around comes around.
And it will.
So Maher has come to Limbaugh’s defense not on...
Christmas 2009 – The Undie Bomber
On Christmas Day 2009, Abdul Farouk Umar Abdulmutallab attempted to detonate exposives contained in his underwear on a flight arriving in Detroit. Abdulmutallab unexpectedly
