New Orleans Here’s what Mitt Romney didn’t learn at the country club and the millionaire’s ball: when you declare class war, you better have your troops in line. So sure when you talk to your buddies, as he did in the fundraiser video, about all of the moochers in the 47% or 99% or whatever, …
Category: Voting Rights
ACORN Ghost Hunters Smoking Dope on Corporate Trail
New Orleans In the typical rightwing kneejerk, the other day all of the bloggers circulated a so-called report with blaring headlines produced in some inexplicable, sloppy way by something called Cause for Action, calling themselves “advocates for government accountability.” The list was enjoyably ludicrous, but at the same time dangerously chilling. The report called itself …
Voting Wars: Masking Voter Suppression Under the Fog of War
Little Rock Back in the old days of the Cold War, one of the things we were frequently taught from classroom to scout den had to do with the nefarious tricks of the propaganda trade involving the so-called “Big Lie.” If one repeated a lie often enough, then people would start believing the lie and not …