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Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs, and prominent conservative bloggers followed the lead of conservative website Breitbart.tv after the site falsely claimed that an online video showed community organizers from the Gamaliel Foundation “pray[ing]” to President Obama. Breitbart.tv subsequently updated the original post with an editor’s note acknowledging that “there is a debate over what is actually [...]
In his September 29 New York Times column, Thomas Friedman compared the current U.S. political environment to that of Israel’s in the mid-1990s. Freidman argued that “[c]riticism from the far right has begun tipping over into delegitimation and creating the same kind of climate here that existed in Israel on the eve of the [then-Prime [...]
Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs, and prominent conservative bloggers followed the lead of conservative website Breitbart.tv after the site falsely claimed that an online video showed community organizers from the Gamaliel Foundation “pray[ing]” to President Obama. Breitbart.tv subsequently updated the original post with an editor’s note acknowledging that “there is a debate over what is actually [...]
Lou Dobbs has recently pushed a number of the same right-wing narratives that have been aggressively championed by Fox News’ Glenn Beck. Dobbs has defended Beck’s controversial remarks that President Obama is a “racist” with a “deep-seated hatred for white people.”
In recent weeks, Dobbs — like Beck — has called for a “rigorous investigation” of [...]
Today, Netroots Nation sent out the following email explaining why we need to Drop Dobbs:
“Comprehensive Immigration Reform is one of the issues coming into focus as a priority in 2010. We know the Right will use the same playbook they have during the health care debate and we need [...]
America’s Voice is launching a campaign to keep the pressure on CNN over their ongoing Lou Dobbs problem. They plan to air a new advertisement during Lou Dobbs Tonight calling out CNN for giving Dobbs 260 hours a year to broadcast his fact-free hate speech.
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Today, Netroots Nation sent out the following email explaining why we need to Drop Dobbs:
“Comprehensive Immigration Reform is one of the issues coming into focus as a priority in 2010. We know the Right will use the same playbook they have during the health care debate and we need to begin to frame the [...]
