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I sent the following e-mail off to Audi a week after seeing this commercial. I'm not sure what they were thinking, but I'm sure that many were offended .I still have not recieved a response. I'm sure one will be along sooner or later. Maybe I should have attached the video too.Audi of America, Inc.2200 Ferdinand Porche DriveHerndon, VA. 20171USA1-800-822-2834 (AUDI)To Whom It May Concern:I am writing to you in regards to the most offensive television commercial that I have ever seen. Many com... Read Full Story
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This morning on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace selectively quoted the Congressional Budget Office analysis of the merged Senate legislation to suggest that the Senate health legislation would increase government outlays on health care over 20 years and bend the cost-cure upward:WALLACE: According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, federal outlays for health care would increase during the 2010-2019 period and the government-run health insurance plan would typically have premi... Read Full Story
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"The American People"I have forever been weary of people that preface a sentance with "the bible says" and I am now adding the preface "the American people want" or "the Amercian People believe" to that list or worrisome prefaces.Tonight after listening to Sen. Blanche Lincoln give a well structured speech on the floor of the Senate about not caring about re-election or the legacy of a president, but rather her constituants. Arkansans who are without healthcare and those that do have healthca... Read Full Story
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Oprah Winfrey is taking her act to cable.The talk show diva who has ruled daytime TV for almost a quarter of a century is pulling the plug when her current deal expires in the fall of 2011. She will likely resurface on OWN, the cable network she is starting with Discovery Communications.The move was not entirely unexpected. Once Winfrey agreed to partner with Discovery on the Oprah Winfrey Network, there was a general assumption that she would ultimately focus all her creative efforts there. ... Read Full Story
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Earlier this month, News Corp. president Rupert Murdoch said that President Obama made "a very racist comment" when Obama inserted himself into the July spat between Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Officer Jim Crowley. Murdoch also said Fox News host Glenn Beck "was right" to say Obama is a "racist" with a "deep-seated hatred for white people." Today on Capitol Hill, Media Matters’ staffers asked Murdoch to be more specific about what "racist" comments Obama allegedly made, but Murdoch denie... Read Full Story
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Back in July, ChicoBrisbane.Com raised the question if Lou Dobbs sudden departure from reality was in any way a subliminalscreen test for The Fox News Channel. I think that the departure of Lou Dobbs from CNN is not as much of a loss as it will be made out to be. Chico Brisbane has held a boycott of CNN since the election of Barack Obama and it is really the respectible journalist like Cooper Anderson that I enjoy, but haven't seen for more then a year because CNN refused to fire Lou Dobbs. I... Read Full Story
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Sean Hannity helps Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) turn her TupperWear Party sized rally into a Tea Party Sized rally by using old file footage of Glenn Becks 9/12 Tea Party Protest. They claim the crowd size to be as high as 45,000, which is probably what the crowd size really was back on 9/12. Not the 1.7 million then Beck claimed. Fox News and its's on-air personalities have a Sarah Palin type disconnect with the truth.
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Lt. Col Ralph Peters is The Fox News Channels idea of a military analyst, yet every appearance is completely void of any analyitcal substance regarding the issue at hand.What Peters offers in lieu of analysis, is a breathtaking soliloquy of incindiary rhetoric without fail. The video that I have edited below is based on his “analysis” of the tragic sghooting at Ft. Hood by Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan during his appearance in a segment with Bill O’Reilly.Instead of asking a question, O’Reilly ... Read Full Story
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For anyone in the military command to be surprised by the actions of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is an insult. We now know that Hasan shouted "Allahu Akbar" before he allegedly opened fire in the shooting spree at Fort Hood Thursday. Make no mistake, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is a terrorist. His name appears on numerous radical jihadist websites, he's been counciled by the military for encounters with fellow soldiers regarding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now after Maj. Hisan has shot and killed... Read Full Story
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Via Raw Story. Actor/comedian Andy Cobb once did ads for Blue Cross in Florida. And now CIGNA's Wendell Potter has someone to talk to:Teaming with the liberal Brave New Films, a former Blue Cross pitchman is now pitching against Blue Cross.Andy Cobb, who once tried to sell Floridians on a Blue Cross health insurance plan, says he's fed up with the industry."I was a spokesman for BlueCross and Blueshield of Florida," Cobb says. "Call me a spokesjerk. People who make money for buying things you... Read Full Story





