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ProSense

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4. The MSM discovered
Thu Nov 29, 2012, 10:19 AM
Nov 2012

a new trick, creating an alternate reality. They simply make claims and attributions that benefit the GOP, and then repeat them often. They even go so far as to attribute it to different Dems.

They did it with Mitt, and they're trying to do it with the President's appointments and tax negotiations.

The OP is a perfect example of pushing back. Unspin the bullshit. I mean, how is it that these groups walked away with a completely different take than the WSJ is reporting?

“It’s a weird thing that Democratic leaders like Dick Durbin and Chris Van Hollen appear to be embracing the ideas that progressives are pushing,” Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, told TPM. “I read Dick Durbin’s speech and it’s actually beautiful.”

That's not what the WSJ is reporting.

Wait, ProSense Nov 2012 #1
good news bigtree Nov 2012 #2
The MSM discovered ProSense Nov 2012 #4
Who has ever said.. 99Forever Nov 2012 #3
Desperate much? ProSense Nov 2012 #5
So no one has said it. 99Forever Nov 2012 #6
You're too brilliant for words. ProSense Nov 2012 #7
So you've got nothing... 99Forever Nov 2012 #9
Oh, and while you're ProSense Nov 2012 #8
The "point" of ... 99Forever Nov 2012 #11
Good news for all of us. longship Nov 2012 #10
Plouffe must not have gotten the memo! forestpath Nov 2012 #12
How will we be helped? woo me with science Nov 2012 #13
Bingo zipplewrath Nov 2012 #15
"All the rhetoric is being set up to praise the President" ProSense Nov 2012 #17
What, was a poll taken or something? MadHound Nov 2012 #14
Not just cave. More like push. denverbill Nov 2012 #16
"My gut feeling is that it probably didn't matter who won the election ProSense Nov 2012 #19
"Frankly I think a lot of liberals are in a wait and see mode." ProSense Nov 2012 #18
I think we can determine Obama's next four years Hutzpa Nov 2012 #20
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