By Eric Boehlert Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– From his recent Salon column, Joe Conason details what former Massachusetts AG Scott Harshbarger discovered about the undercover ACORN videos made by James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles. The discovery came as part of Harshbarger’s larger, and often critical, review of ACORN’s practices. (Read the report here.) Conason[Read More…]
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Congress Lifts Ban On D.C. Medical Marijuana Law
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 13, 2009. The U.S. Senate today passed historic legislation to end the decade-long ban on implementing a medical marijuana law in Washington, D.C. This marks the first time in history Congress has changed a marijuana law for the better. Only Obama’s signature is needed for the change to[Read More…]
Anti-Gay ‘Hate Group’ Massresistance is Source for Right-Wing Media Attacks on Jennings
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Right-wing media outlets have relied on false or misleading claims by MassResistance, a Massachusetts-based anti-gay group, in advancing several recent attacks on Department of Education official Kevin Jennings. The founder of MassResistance — a group the Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled a "hate group" — reportedly denied[Read More…]
The Persecution of Sarah Palin: Teflon in Convenient Book Form
Commentary By Terry Krepel Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Weekly Standard associate editor Matthew Continetti’s book The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star lives up to its name — the author does indeed paint his subject as the victim of persecution by the "feral[Read More…]
The Washington Post’s Tiger Beat
Commentary By Jamison Foser There are important things going on in the world — climate change talks in Copenhagen, health care reform nearing its endgame, President Obama sending more troops to Afghanistan (and receiving the Nobel Peace Prize), and continued economic uncertainty, just to name a few. And yet The[Read More…]
Glenn Beck’s Climate Czar Called for Quarantining AIDS Patients ‘For Life’
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Media Matters Action Network, our partner organization, has unearthed a 1987 American Spectator article (available here) in which Lord Christopher Monckton — one of the right’s favorite global warming deniers — advocates requiring the entire population to undergo monthly HIV tests and forcibly quarantining "for life" those who test positive. You[Read More…]
With ‘Climategate’ and Jennings Smears, the Right Goes Guerilla
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– The conservative reaction to President Obama’s election is turning downright Faustian. As the rhetoric on the right has grown increasingly shrill, a few conservatives have raised their voices in alarm, counseling their ideological kin to step back from the abyss. Former Bush speechwriter David Frum wrote in August[Read More…]
SEIU: Hatch/Nelson Amendment Would Take Healthcare Away from Our Mothers, Sisters and Daughters
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 8, 2009. Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger released the following statement calling on Senators to reject the amendment offered by Senators Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) that restricts a woman’s access to healthcare. Said Burger, “For too long, our healthcare system has left[Read More…]
As Climate Talks Kick Off, Countries Begin to Show Their Cards and Work Towards a Deal
WASHINGTON, DC and COPENHAGEN–(ENEWSPF)–December 7, 2009 – As 192 nations convene in Copenhagen today to negotiate a new global climate deal, the prospects of reaching a successful outcome have never been greater following major announcements over the past week by the US, China, India and South Africa, said officials from[Read More…]
Washington Times Continues Anti-Gay War on Kevin Jennings, ‘Obama’s Buggery Czar’
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– The Washington Times continued its anti-gay war on Department of Education official Kevin Jennings in a December 8 editorial entitled "Obama’s buggery czar," the paper’s ninth editorial smearing Jennings since late September. The Times editorial advanced several false and misleading claims in order to paint Jennings as a[Read More…]
