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Obama Tag? Idaho GOP candidate jokes about assassinating president

A GOP candidate for Idaho governor is making jokes about assassinating President... more

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Town Hall Beat Down!

Health Care Town Halls are turning into bloodbaths across the nation. So we sent Ben... more

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Republican right wing terrorist - Democratic cash cow (Video)

The video of a Republican right wing terrorist is becoming a Democratic cash cow.... more

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GOP racism: Jenkins and 'Great White Hope'

U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins, a Kansas Republican, made a blatantly racist remark last week.... more

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SC Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer Calls for Gov. Mark “Appalachian Trail” Sanford to Resign

In a press conference today, Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer called on Gov. Mark Sanford to step... more

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Video of Congressman Wally Herger Praising a "proud right-wing terrorist"

The video speaks for itself. Despicable.

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GOP's Creative Health Care Fiction: Zombie Death Panels

After using the death panel and death book scare tactics, the only other talking point... more

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Aug. 22 health care reform rally in Murfreesboro, TN

Video of a health care reform rally off the town square in Murfreesboro, Tennessee on... more

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The Voices Of Reason On Health Care Reform

The debate over health care reform has gone viral. It's as though some kind of... more

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Top Ten Famous People Born August 20 | Socyberty

A look at some of the more famous and infamous people born on today’s date in... more

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Weiner Challenges the Republicans to Put-Up or Shut-Up on Healthcare

Anthony Weiner of New York has introduced a amendment for everyone in the Senate to... more

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Ron Paul: Bringing Transparency to the Federal Reserve

Ron Paul and two other guests discuss the Federal Reserve and take questions at the... more

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Quest For The Truth: Universal Health Scare

"No more. No more will the majority remain silent on the apparent lies told by... more

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Conservative media push 75-year-old "socialized medicine" smear against health car

In discussing health care reform this year, conservative media figures have revived the "socialized medicine" smear to undermine the efforts of President Obama and congressional Democrats, most recently by promoting Ronald Reagan's 1961 attacks on a legislative precursor to Medicare. In light of this trend, Media Matters for America is updating and republishing its March 5 report documenting that health care reform opponents have baselessly smeared at least 16 previous progressive reform proposals as "socialized medicine" over the last 75 years.

"Socialized medicine" smear is false
Progressive reform is not socialized medicine. The Urban Institute wrote in an April 2008 analysis that "socialized medicine involves government financing and direct provision of health care services," and explained that recent progressive health care reform proposals do not "fit this description." The analysis also noted, "Similar rhetoric was used to defeat national health care reform proposals in the 1990s and, with less success, to argue against the creation of Medicare in the 1960s."

Obama has not proposed socialized medicine, single payer, or nationalized health care. As PolitiFact.com noted in a March 5 post, "Obama's plan leaves in place the private health care system, but seeks to expand it to the uninsured," and "the plan is very different from some European-style health systems where the government owns health clinics and employs doctors." And during a March 26 online town hall, Obama explicitly rejected the notion of implementing a health care system "the way European countries do or Canada does," explaining that what "we should do is to build on the [employer-based] system that we have."

Congressional Budget Office: More enrollees in employer-provided insurance under House, Senate legislation than under current law. In both its July 26 analysis of the House tri-committee draft bill and its July 2 preliminary score of the Senate health committee bill, CBO found that more people would be enrolled in employer-based insurance under the bills than under current law in every year CBO examined following the legislation's implementation.

Conservative media predictably cry "socialized medicine" about 2009 reform

Conservatives cite Reagan's anti-"socialized medicine" recording to fearmonger about health reform. On August 14, the Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, and O'Reilly Factor guest host Laura Ingraham featured a recording of Ronald Reagan speaking in 1961 against "socialized medicine" for the American Medical Association's "Operation Coffeecup" campaign. Neither Drudge, nor Limbaugh, nor Ingraham, however, noted that Reagan was speaking out against a legislative precursor to Medicare, which has become very popular since it was enacted 44 years ago, or that Reagan's dire predictions of curtailments of freedom were never realized.

Conservative media figures repeatedly invoke socialism in stating their opposition to health reform. Numerous conservative media figures have revived the "socialized medicine" smear or raised the specter of socialism in their discussions of Democratic health care reform proposals. Examples include:

In a May 8 Wall Street Journal op-ed headlined, "Republicans and ObamaCare," editorial board member Kimberley A. Strassel trotted out the falsehood that Obama is on a "drive to socialize health care." [The Wall Street Journal, 5/8/09]
During the July 18 edition of Fox News' Bulls & Bears, host Brenda Buttner asked if health care proposals take us "one step closer to United Socialist States of America." [Bulls & Bears, 7/18/09] During the July 21 edition of Glenn Beck's Fox News program, Beck claimed that health care reform is "good old socialism ... raping the pocketbooks of the rich to give to the poor." [Glenn Beck, 7/21/09] The July 23 edition of Sean Hannity's Fox News show -- billed as a "Universal Nightmare" special edition -- relied on distortions and falsehoods to raise the specter of "socialized medicine.In discussing health care reform this year, conservative media figures have revived... more

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Former Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist gets a new Prius through ‘cash for clunkers’

There isn't a better commercial for Obama's cash for clunkers stimulus... more

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Congressman Barney Frank Makes Republicans Look Stupid at Town Hall Meeting

Here stands a good man. This is what is needed. Just when you think Republicans... more

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Rachel Maddow Battles Dick Armey Over Health Care Reform (VIDEO) | Air America

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Democrat wont vote for health plan without gov run insurace to compete with private insurance

"Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York told CNN Monday that President Obama will have a... more

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Former Gov. Dean calls public option indispensable

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Mobs, Bullies and Fascists 101

Rush Limbaugh is the personification of a bully and a tyrant. He incites people to form mobs and do his dictate. I hope everyone will someday realize that Rush Limbaugh is not to be respected he should not be worshiped but abandoned and scorned.

There is only one reason for the fomenting of hatred in the Rush Limbaugh world and that is to rake in the dough. And goddammit lots and lots of moola go into Limbaugh's back pockets. The reason for this, well it's not rocket science? The whatfor is all around us... It's because there are too many weak-minded people in our midst. They may work hard and try to play by the rules; the trouble is they are too willing to obey those who scare the BEJESUS out of them.

I admit life is an eerie and hair-raising experience. There’s danger and peril all around waiting to pounce on any innocent who happens to wonder by. But we can't live our lives in a constant state of fear. We must venture out and take our chances in order to survive.

The shock-jocks like Limbaugh are out there in the shadows of their microphones waiting to make an attack on the innate fears of the populous. They exaggerate, amplify, blow out of proportion and hyperbolize everything and I mean EVERYTHING that may cause apprehension amongst those who are unaware of what the radio host real motive is (make ada BIG BUCKS!). In other words they prey upon the gullible for gain.

I wish these vulnerable people could become informed the old fashion way by reading and inquiring the many information outlets available (legitimate newspapers and educational library books) but that's too difficult for them, plus they may be too worn-out from the hard lives they are forced to lead, due to lack of information and education. It's just too easy to click a knob on the old TV or radio and tune into the shows that dumb down their audiences. Also, the Limbaugh's give them a punching bag to direct their pant-up anger at. It’s not only sad, it’s criminal. But we do live in a free country and because of that, we all possess the freedom to be irresponsible and that definitely is so irresponsible.

Please watch the video I made from the information I gathered from the Media Matters and Our Future websites. Thank goodness for sites like Media Matters and Our Future who inform and educate us on the misinformation floated out there by Right-Wing zealots who stand behind and protect big corporate interests. thinkingblue.blogspot.com

FOR 75 NAUSEATING LIMBAUGH INSANE STATEMENTS.(If you can stomach it.) CLICK LINK: http://mediamatters.org/limbaughwire/
Also on: http://www.thethinkingblue.com/limbaughinsanity.htmlRush Limbaugh is the personification of a bully and a tyrant. He incites people to... more

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