Fox News’ Lead Story on Election Eve? A “Voter Fraud” Warning

by progressivepen on November 5, 2012

Normally, I make a point to avoid exposing myself to the alternate reality at Fox News.

But tomorrow is election day. With the polling data pointing towards Obama’s reelection, I figured, “Why not take a peek at how Fox News is spinning things?”

Here is a screen capture from the Fox News website, taken at 7:30 pm EST:

As you can see, the front page of the Fox News website is dominated by a headline that warns of “Election Day Voter Fraud.”

Never mind that Steve Schmidt, a senior senior strategist for John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, admitted earlier today that voter fraud “doesn’t really exist.”

People living in the Fox News universe actually expect Mitt Romney to win. But he won’t. That’s why Fox News is busy pushing the false “voter fraud” narrative; it’s a ready-made excuse to explain Romney’s impending defeat.

UPDATE – 1 week later

https://twitter.com/brithume/status/268178317411229696

The Founding

by progressivepen on August 8, 2012

The Huffington Post has an article out today discussing the founding of Bain Capital — specifically, the firm’s initial funding.

In 1983, Bill Bain asked Mitt Romney to launch Bain Capital, a private equity offshoot of the successful consulting firm Bain & Company. After some initial reluctance, Romney agreed. When Romney struggled to raise funds from other traditional sources, he and his partners started thinking outside the box.

You can read the rest of the story here.

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The JPMorgan Chase Primary

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Via Progress Mass: Once again, it must be pointed out that, no, there is not a bar missing from this bar chart.  To date, Republican Scott Brown has received $54,155 from JPMorgan Chase’s PAC, executives, staff, and lobbyists, while Democrat Elizabeth Warren has received $0.

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Obama on the Debt Limit — December 2010

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Paul Krugman reminds us of Obama’s remarks during his press conference held last December, to announce his capitulation to the GOP on tax cuts. Q Mr. President, thank you. How do these negotiations affect negotiations or talks with Republicans about raising the debt limit? Because it would seem that they have a significant amount of [...]

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Greg Mankiw Repeats Zombie Lie

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In a blog post titled “Why there is no budget deal,” and Greg Mankiw writes: Keith Hennessey says that the reason Republicans are rejecting the President’s budget proposal is that it is distinctly to the left of the one recommended by the bipartisan Bowles-Simpson commission. How can Obama’s budget proposal be “to the left of [...]

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Will Obama Stand up to House Republicans?

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Or will the president give in to Republican hostage-takers’ demands on the debt limit, just like he did on tax cuts last year? Paul Krugman writes: According to Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, Mr. Obama has told Democrats not to draw any “line in the sand” in debt negotiations. Well, count me among those [...]

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Obama’s Plan: Not a Good Starting Point

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In assessing today’s debt reduction speech by Pres. Obama, Paul Krugman concludes: Overall, way better than the rumors and trial balloons. I can live with this. But how likely are we to actually see legislation resembling Obama’s plan?  As I asked Krugman on his blog: practically speaking, isn’t Obama’s plan simply a starting point for negotiations [...]

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Paul Ryan: Charlatan and Crank

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Paul Ryan is a charlatan and a crank. This assertion is based on the standard outlined by Republican economist Gregory Mankiw, Chairman of George W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers, and author of the world’s best-selling economics textbook. Ryan’s budget proposal relies on economic forecasting from The Heritage Foundation, rather than the CBO. According to [...]

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