The Lie Machine

Rolling Stone by Tim Dickinson | Oct. 10, 2009 (Special Report)
GOP operatives are running a secret campaign to kill health care reform, and it's based on Karl Rove's old playbook

Far from representing a spontaneous upwelling of populist rage, the protests were tightly orchestrated from the top down by corporate-funded front groups as well as top lobbyists for the health care industry. Full Story »

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Jack Dinkmeyer
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 by Jack Dinkmeyer - Oct. 11, 2009

Finally! Real journalism! A story which names the four culprit organizations organizing and financing those outrageous anti-healthcare “spontaneous” demonstrations. If all the news media practiced this kind of investigative journalism—and they should—rather than their 24/7 coverage of the NO-NOs, America would end up being first in quality healthcare, rather than thirty-ninth. As has been the case since 2000, big money and special interests win; Real Americans lose.

With right-wing lying, distorting ,hooligan scoundrels in our midst, why are we worried about foreign terrorists?

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