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Al Sharpton is discussing Groundswell (Original Post) malaise Jul 2013 OP
Ah Yep! Peacetrain Jul 2013 #1
Only if we explain what they're up to the way they repeat Benghazi malaise Jul 2013 #2
From your lips to Gods ears Peacetrain Jul 2013 #4
That's Dems biggest problem malaise Jul 2013 #6
+1000 Peacetrain Jul 2013 #8
Watching! think Jul 2013 #3
Ginny Thomas is the wife who should be the target of investigations malaise Jul 2013 #5
Frederick Douglass Republicans?? Peacetrain Jul 2013 #7
Nothing on this planet shocks me anymore malaise Jul 2013 #9
Yeah I found that to be quite ridiculous as well. Vashta Nerada Jul 2013 #10
thank goodness David Corn got documents and Cha Jul 2013 #11
Yep Cha malaise Jul 2013 #12

Peacetrain

(22,877 posts)
4. From your lips to Gods ears
Tue Jul 30, 2013, 06:55 PM
Jul 2013

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
Tue Jul 30, 2013, 06:57 PM
Jul 2013

ReTHUGs repeat their own lies over and over until their base believes them.

malaise

(269,004 posts)
5. Ginny Thomas is the wife who should be the target of investigations
Tue Jul 30, 2013, 06:56 PM
Jul 2013

Weiner's wife. Her husband is a scumbag on steroids.

malaise

(269,004 posts)
9. Nothing on this planet shocks me anymore
Tue Jul 30, 2013, 07:04 PM
Jul 2013
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&quot , 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.

Cha

(297,240 posts)
11. thank goodness David Corn got documents and
Tue Jul 30, 2013, 08:51 PM
Jul 2013

a tape. Does anyone know how that happened.

And, Al Sharpton is talking about it!

mahalo malaise

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