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Thursday, September 20, 2012

Drudge and GOP attack machine caught again

Posted by Max Brantley on Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:26 AM

It probably won't shock you to learn that the Drudge Report can be fed craftily edited bullshit and put it out for the Republican Party to counter damaging things like the Mitt Romney 47 percenter speech. It probably won't shock you to learn that as soon as Drudge spews, the Republican Party of Arkansas and other parts of the GOP organ can reliably be counted on to respew the dishonestly edited bullshit on Twitter and elsewhere

Happened again this week with the infamous 14-year-old 'redistribution' audio.

Politico explains. NBC bothered to get the entire videotape, where the full context presents a much different story than Drudge/GOP spin. (PS — As others have noted, Romney is a redistributionist at heart, too. Unless he's ready to disavow the graduated income tax, Social Security and Medicare.)

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Thursday, September 20, 2012

Drudge and GOP attack machine caught again

Posted by Max Brantley on Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:26 AM

Speaking of...

Remember Jon Hubbard, the former Republican legislator from Jonesboro whose views proved too extreme for voters in 2012, though not for the Republican Party of Arkansas? /more/

Imboden high school graduation is uneventful after flap over gay speaker. /more/

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Ross has said he would have opposed the recent legislative effort to strip funding from Planned Parenthood for sex education and other health programs (not abortion). /more/

Bill Clinton. Heard of him? /more/

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