Borowitz: ROMNEY SETS NEW PERSONAL BEST FOR FAKING EMPATHY HEMPSTEAD, NY (The Borowitz Report)—Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney set a new personal record tonight by pretending to care about average Americans for nearly … [Read more...]
Archives for October 19, 2012
Will People’s Pledge Win This For Warren?
Why have deadlocked polls tilted towards Elizabeth Warren? Hard to know. Many moving parts. But a defining aspect has been: a. Heavy ad buy seems to coincide with down-tick in Brown numbers. b. Without Superpac money to buy … [Read more...]
One of Scott Brown’s asbestos ads features a guy who thinks Obama is a Muslim (and that’s not all)
[Post's title has been edited for clarity. -ed.] If you can judge people by the company they keep, Scott Brown's in trouble. Huffington Post reports that a local construction worker who appeared in Brown recent campaign ad about -- what … [Read more...]
Where’s Scotto?
[Cross-posted from the ProgressMass blog. Like ProgressMass on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.] While Republican Scott Brown does show up to make dishonest attacks against his opponent, Democrat Elizabeth Warren, and her supporters, … [Read more...]
Howard Zinn: (A) anti-war activist and historian or (B) extremist?
By Raquel Ronzone, ACLU of Massachusetts communications content specialist Boston Police say (B), according to records the ACLU of Massachusetts and National Lawyers Guild Massachusetts Chapter obtained and released yesterday. Thanks … [Read more...]
BP Seeks Sweetheart Oil Spill Deal
I spent weeks covering the Gulf oil disaster for the National Wildlife Federation, so to hear that BP thinks it can bully the Justice Department into giving it a sweetheart settlement deal? What's the word I'm looking for? Malarkey. I … [Read more...]
Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime?
The soup kitchen where veep nom Paul Ryan staged his faux cleanup photo op, against, it appears, the wishes and policy of said soup kitchen, is seeing backlash (it appears to be Republican in nature...for what, embarrassing Paul Ryan who … [Read more...]