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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAl Sharpton is discussing Groundswell
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! ReTHUGs are shameless.
David Corn on right fugging now
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Al Sharpton is discussing Groundswell (Original Post)
malaise
Jul 2013
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Peacetrain
(22,877 posts)1. Ah Yep!
does it get any better
malaise
(269,004 posts)2. Only if we explain what they're up to the way they repeat Benghazi
i.e. every hour on the hour
Peacetrain
(22,877 posts)4. From your lips to Gods ears
if only we could keep our nose to the grindstone on things like that.. we say it once and then assume everyone has heard it.. I swear peoples memories are locked up on their hard drives anymore..
malaise
(269,004 posts)6. That's Dems biggest problem
ReTHUGs repeat their own lies over and over until their base believes them.
think
(11,641 posts)3. Watching!
malaise
(269,004 posts)5. Ginny Thomas is the wife who should be the target of investigations
Weiner's wife. Her husband is a scumbag on steroids.
Peacetrain
(22,877 posts)7. Frederick Douglass Republicans??
tell me they are not actually going there and doing that.. holy cow
malaise
(269,004 posts)9. Nothing on this planet shocks me anymore
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/07/groundswell-secret-tape-boehner-issa-benghazi
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As Mother Jones revealed last week, Groundswell, the hush-hush right-wing strategy group partly led by Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, wanted to hype the Benghazi tragedy into a full-fledged scandal for the Obama administration, as part of its "30 front war" on the president and progressives. A secret audio tape of one of Groundswell's weekly meetings shows that prominent members of the group pressed House Speaker John Boehner and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the chair of the House oversight committee, to expand the Benghazi investigation and make this supposed scandal a top-priority for congressional Republicans. This recording indicates Groundswell's mission extends beyond message coordination to scandal-stoking.
The tape has been posted at Crooks and Liars, a progressive web site, and it captured the first 20 minutes of Groundswell's May 8 meeting. (The site does not say how the recording was obtained.) The meeting opened with a prayer ("Father, we thank you for the opportunity to gather here as free Americans" , and a roll call was taken. Among those present were former GOP Rep. Allen West, Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy, Jerry Boykin of the Family Research Council, Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch, Stephen Bannon of Breitbart News, and Ginni Thomas. Catherine Engelbrecht, a founder of True the Vote, led the meeting, and the first order of business was a report on the Benghazi controversy from Boykin and Gaffney.
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Gaffney had links to that anti-Muslim video that was spread across Muslim countries the same day of the attack in Libya.
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As Mother Jones revealed last week, Groundswell, the hush-hush right-wing strategy group partly led by Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, wanted to hype the Benghazi tragedy into a full-fledged scandal for the Obama administration, as part of its "30 front war" on the president and progressives. A secret audio tape of one of Groundswell's weekly meetings shows that prominent members of the group pressed House Speaker John Boehner and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the chair of the House oversight committee, to expand the Benghazi investigation and make this supposed scandal a top-priority for congressional Republicans. This recording indicates Groundswell's mission extends beyond message coordination to scandal-stoking.
The tape has been posted at Crooks and Liars, a progressive web site, and it captured the first 20 minutes of Groundswell's May 8 meeting. (The site does not say how the recording was obtained.) The meeting opened with a prayer ("Father, we thank you for the opportunity to gather here as free Americans" , and a roll call was taken. Among those present were former GOP Rep. Allen West, Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy, Jerry Boykin of the Family Research Council, Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch, Stephen Bannon of Breitbart News, and Ginni Thomas. Catherine Engelbrecht, a founder of True the Vote, led the meeting, and the first order of business was a report on the Benghazi controversy from Boykin and Gaffney.
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Gaffney had links to that anti-Muslim video that was spread across Muslim countries the same day of the attack in Libya.
Vashta Nerada
(3,922 posts)10. Yeah I found that to be quite ridiculous as well.
Cha
(297,240 posts)11. thank goodness David Corn got documents and
a tape. Does anyone know how that happened.
And, Al Sharpton is talking about it!
mahalo malaise
Corn gets everything these days. Love it!