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Fedaykin

(118 posts) Sat Feb 23, 2013, 03:22 AM Feb 2013

How Right-Wing Media Tricked Republicans into Fearing a Group that Doesn't Even Exist

Saw the Colbert report Thursday night, and he was classic with this segment...

'How Right-Wing Media Tricked Republicans into Fearing a Group that Doesn't Even Exist'
Stephen Colbert ridicules Republicans for believing Hagel had ties to nonexistent "Friends of Hamas" group
February 22, 2013

"On his show last night, Stephen Colbert ridiculed Republican lawmakers for believing conspiracy theories about Defense Secretary Nominee Chuck Hagel. Last week, Breitbart.com reported Hagel’s connection to “friends of Hamas,” a group “so sinister that it doesn’t even exist...” "
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/how-right-wing-media-tricked-republicans-fearing-group-doesnt-even-exist

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How Right-Wing Media Tricked Republicans into Fearing a Group that Doesn't Even Exist (Original Post) Fedaykin Feb 2013 OP

I thought this was going to be about ACORN Jim Lane Feb 2013 #1

Jim Lane

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1. I thought this was going to be about ACORN

Reply to Fedaykin (Original post)

Sat Feb 23, 2013, 02:48 PM

Feb 2013

Quite a few Republicans have been tricked into fearing ACORN even after it ceased to exist.

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