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Lou Dobbs Accuses ThinkProgress Of Conspiring With The White House To Carry Out ‘Insidious And Sordid Attacks’ - Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Last night, CNN anchor Lou Dobbs abruptly announced that he was leaving the network, effective immediately. TPM notes that in the weeks preceding his departure, Dobbs told GQ that the White House had been conspiring with a number of groups, including ThinkProgress, to wage “insidious and sordid attacks” against him with the goal of intimidating [...]

Court rules that KBR employee’s gang rape wasn’t a personal injury ‘arising in the workplace.’ - Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones was gang-raped by her co-workers while she was working for Halliburton/KBR in Baghdad. In an apparent attempt to cover up the incident, the company then put her in a shipping container for at least 24 hours without food, water, or a bed, and “warned her that if she left [...]

Rove Lies: Obama Is Encouraging Students To Write To Him Personally For ‘Political Utility’ - Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

Before President Obama delivered his speech to America’s schoolchildren today, emphasizing to them the value of “persisting and succeeding in school,” former Bush adviser Karl Rove fearmongered about the speech by making up provisions in the “classroom activities” that the Department of Education has suggested teachers could use to supplement the speech.
Last week, when conservatives [...]

Bill Kristol And Dennis Miller Think That Conservatives Should ‘Plant A Flag On The Phrase Progressive’ - Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

While interviewing Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol on his radio show yesterday, Dennis Miller suggested that conservatives ought to consider commandeering the term “progressive” for their cause. “If I was Republicans right now or conservatives, whatever way you want to look at it — I would plant a flag on the phrase progressive,” said Miller. [...]

Whitehouse: Climate deniers are taken seriously only at ExxonMobil and in the Senate. - Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

In the first Senate hearing today on clean energy legislation supported by President Barack Obama, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) compared the Senate to the “ExxonMobil board room.” Whitehouse expressed his concern that the United States would be left behind in the clean energy race, saying, “I do not want to see American industries at the [...]

Far Right’s New Talking Point: Obama’s Remarks In Europe Prove He Hates America - Monday, April 6th, 2009

Speaking in Strasbourg, France, last Friday, President Obama sought to turn the page on the American-Europe relationship. He admitted that in the past, America had “shown arrogance” and had “been dismissive, even derisive” of Europe. He also said that Europe’s rampant anti-Americanism was “insidious.” Neither attitude, he said, was “wise,” nor do they “represent the [...]

Warren Buffett Comes Out Against Employee Free Choice Act: ‘I’m Against Card Check’ - Monday, March 9th, 2009

This morning on CNBC, billionaire investor Warren Buffett — who is a progressive on many economic issues — struck a decidedly non-progressive stance on the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA):
CNBC: Some say that EFCA and card check would narrow the disparity [between the haves and have-nots]. In other words, having unions have more of a [...]

Rep. McCotter Votes For SCHIP, Loses His ‘Soul’ - Thursday, January 15th, 2009

Yesterday, the House voted 289 to 139 to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. The bill would “provide health insurance to an additional 4.1 million children and parents, including legal immigrant children and pregnant women, who currently must wait five years before becoming eligible for the program.” President Bush blocked a similar piece [...]

Gibson: WH deserves a medal for outing Plame. - Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

In his “My Word” segment this afternoon, Fox News pundit John Gibson applauded the White House’s decision to blow the identity of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame. “I’m the guy who said a long, long time ago that whoever outed Valerie Plame should get a medal,” Gibson said. “And if it was Karl Rove, I’d [...]

O’Reilly Lets Loose: Says WH Reporters Need To Be ‘Wiped Out,’ Calls CNN ‘The Pagan Throne’ - Saturday, October 6th, 2007

In an interview with Bill O’Reilly last night, former White House press secretary Tony Snow said that his future career plans may include writing a book on cancer and possibly returning to Fox News.
When Snow revealed his plans to write a book on how to deal with cancer, O’Reilly responded:
O’REILLY: You know what you can [...]

Supreme Court limits discrimination claim. - Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

“Workers can’t sue under a federal job-bias law to claim they are underpaid because of gender or race discrimination that occurred years earlier, a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled. The justices, voting 5-4, rejected a $360,000 award to Lilly Ledbetter, an Alabama Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. worker who said that almost two decades of [...]

Boehner: Protecting People Against Hate Crimes ‘Takes Us Down A Path That Is Very Scary’ - Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

Today, the House is voting on the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, a bipartisan bill that would enable federal officials to work with state and local officials to investigate and prosecute hate crimes.
Radical right-wing groups have lobbied aggressively against this bill. Focus on the Family founder James Dobson called it “insidious legislation” that [...]

Defense Trust Hails Libby As ‘Loyal Soldier In The War On Terror’ - Saturday, February 24th, 2007

National Journal’s Hotline reports that a recent fundraising letter issued by Scooter Libby’s Legal Defense Trust includes the following quote from former Cheney aide Mary Matalin:
This loyal soldier in the War on Terror doesn’t have to go at it alone.
Scooter Libby knowingly exposed the cover of a CIA operative. He did it to exact political [...]

Cavuto: America’s #1 Movie, Happy Feet, Is ‘Offensive,’ ‘An Animated Inconvenient Truth’ - Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

The #1 movie in the country, the animated film “Happy Feet,” is “an entertaining story about a young bird’s journey toward self-acceptance.” But to Fox News’ Neil Cavuto it’s insidious “far left” political propaganda.
Cavuto saw the movie with his sons and found it “offensive.” Cavuto objected to the fact that penguins in the movie [...]

Think Progress Indictment Resources - Monday, October 24th, 2005

Think Progress will continue to put out research on Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation into the leak of Valerie Plame’s identity and any ensuing indictments. Keep checking back at this site for updates.
Think Progress Resources
Documents
23 Administration Officials Involved In Plame Leak [Link]
Right-Wing Myths About The Leak Investigation [Link]
Why Wilson Was Smeared [Link]
Bush Administration Pledged The Highest [...]

Right-Wing Myths About Leak Investigation, Debunked - Wednesday, October 19th, 2005

Although special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has yet to lay out the facts in the CIA leak probe, the right-wing has already begun engaging in a spin campaign to deflect blame away from the White House.
Think Progress has put together a fact sheet debunking the right-wing myths about the leak investigation. It contains everything you need [...]

Right-Wing Myths About The Leak Investigation - Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

Patrick Fitzgerald hasn’t even concluded his investigation, but the right-wing is already spinning the truth in anticipation of indictments. This document provides the facts to set the record straight.
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CLAIM — FITZGERALD WAS SUPPOSED TO BE INVESTIGATING THE INTELLIGENCE IDENTITIES PROTECTION ACT (IIDA): “On July 30, the CIA referred to [...]

VIDEO: Bush I Calls Leakers “Most Insidious of Traitors” - Thursday, July 28th, 2005

GEORGE H.W. BUSH: “I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors.” [Speech at CIA, 4/26/99]

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Is Karl Rove Getting Lonely? - Thursday, July 7th, 2005

As the focus of the investigation regarding who in the White House leaked the identity of an undercover CIA agent begins to narrow in on Karl Rove, he may soon be finding that his list of friends starts to dwindle. Here are a number of close Rove associates who have spoken out harshly against the [...]

Free Market Discrimination - Thursday, March 17th, 2005

Low-paying businesses can be counted on to oppose any minimum wage increase on the grounds that it distorts the “free market” for labor. But what would such a “free” market look like? Cato Institute scholar Walter E. Williams offers a surprisingly candid peek:
A more insidious effect of minimum wages, as racists everywhere know, [...]