I’m starting The Rat List - a collection of Twitter users disseminating incorrect or blatantly propagandistic information.
Telling it like it is, by Andrew Sullivan:
Consider this hypothetical. It’s November 2008. A young Pakistani Muslim is watching television and sees that this man—Barack Hussein Obama—is the new face of America. In one simple image, America’s soft power has been ratcheted up not a notch, but a logarithm. A brown-skinned man whose father was [...]
Years from now, it is unlikely that anyone other than people like me (re: people with a professional interest in terrorism) will care much about this example of backfired fear-mongering, but I think it is incredibly salient to the Right’s totally ridiculous assertions about how Obama is a secret Muslim terrorist. McCain and Palin raise [...]
I can barely believe what I’ve just seen. John McCain, more or less, seethed and blinked his way to certain political ignominy. John McCain wanted to get Hillary Clinton’s voters the whole time, and tonight he blew that apart with his meltdown - and totally ghoulish - response on abortion and women’s health. He [...]
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