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The Latest Lie

The Latest Lie: “You Didn’t Build That”

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Did President Obama tell business owners they didn’t build their businesses. That’s what the entire right-wing media machine is saying he said. What did he really say?

Drudge Report headline: “Obama Goes Wild: ‘If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen’…”

The Latest Lie: Obama Stopping Military From Voting

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The Romney campaign is fabricating things again and the right’s media machine is again echoing the lie to the public. Repetition, repetition, repetition and soon the lie becomes a ‘truth.’ This one is absolutely preposterous, designed to distract attention from continuing calls for Romney to explain what he is hiding by not showing his tax returns.

The Latest Lie: Obama Cut Medicare

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There is a pattern to Romney’s campaign of lies: accuse President Obama of the very things candidate Romney is doing. This “I know you are but what am I” tactic, in PR-speak, “provides cover.” And this one is a big one, with Romney accusing Obama of cutting Medicare. Wow.

The Ryan Plan To Eliminate Medicare

The Latest Lie: “Obama Sympathizes With Muslim Rioters”

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In April, 2011 American pastor Terry Jones burned a Koran which set off days of riots in Afghanistan that killed 12 people, including four UN guards. Now Jones has released an online film mocking Islam and the Prophet Mohammed, depicting him having sex. This set off riots in Muslim countries including Libya and Egypt, where they later stormed US embassies. The U.S. ambassador to Libya, J.

Why Move Jobs From Democracies To Thugocracies

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“Free trade” treaties like NAFTA have wiped out entire regions of our country and left entire segments of our population without good-paying jobs — or in so many cases with no jobs at all. And they have had similar results with our trade “partners.” We can see that now. So why are we even talking [...]

What Free Trade Has Cost The World

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If you take a job away from someone who is paid a reasonable wage because they enjoy the protections and prosperity of democratic government, move it across a border, and give it to someone living under a thugocracy, forced to work for pennies with no protections whatsoever, it should be just plain obvious that the [...]