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I can't believe this hasn't been posted here before, at least I haven't seen it. We are screwed I tell ya, screwed! As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone. In fact, they may be...

Link: Steady Economic Growth | Transport Topics Online | Trucking, Freight Transportation and Logistics News This Editorial appears in the Oct. 4 print edition of Transport Topics. The latest economic reports continue to show steady growth in the domestic economy, and fleets are buying...

Allow me to preface this thread with this. I am no fan of MSNBC and I view them in the same light as Fox News. Except for one thing, which is pointed out below, open debate. So I am offering up the same challenge to those of you in the Soapbox: Link: Breitbart's Big Journalism proves our...

Or so she thought in 2006. Another day, another dug up story of Christine O'Donnell saying something sort of nutty—specifically, that China was plotting to take over the US. The AP reports that in a debate during Delaware's 2006 Senate primary, O'Donnell said China had a "carefully thought...

Mormon Prophecy Behind Glenn Beck's Message Dana Milbank Posted: October 5, 2010 08:58 AM Link: Dana Milbank: Mormon Prophecy Behind Glenn Beck's Message In one of his first appearances on Fox News, Glenn Beck sent a coded message to the nation's six million Mormons -- or at least...

Walter Cronkite, “honest news outlets,” and persistent falsehoods October 06, 2010 1:12 pm ET by Jamison Foser Vanity Fair’s Todd Purdum writes that Washington is broken, a proposition with which I am not inclined to disagree. I do, however, want to follow-up on one passage: While Purdum...

Beck resets the clock on the Hindenburg Omen October 06, 2010 11:09 am ET by Jocelyn Fong Link: Beck resets the clock on the Hindenburg Omen | Media Matters for America At some point, Fox News' host who cried wolf will have to explain why the apocalypse he's forecasted never came to...

Link: Fox Falls For Phony Jetpack Story | Media Matters for America Fox Falls For Phony Jetpack Story October 06, 2010 10:30 am ET by Joe Strupp Fox News didn't help its credibility when it fell for a false story about the Los Angeles Police Department spending $1 billion on jetpacks for...

Link: Beck disapproves of how One Nation rally attendees said the Pledge of Allegiance | Media Matters for America Beck disapproves of how One Nation rally attendees said the Pledge of Allegiance To be honest, I'm not sure if the founding fathers would even approve of a Pledge of...

Link to site: So wait, it's the GOP's fault the Dow was down yesterday? | Media Matters for America September 28, 2010 9:17 am ET by Eric Boehlert That must be the case, because the recent conservative media talking point has been about how the recent Dow Jones stock market movement has...

Hoft also ran with the absolutely absurd and baseless smear that alleged Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad was a "registered Democrat" (though he later updated his headline to claim that Shahzad was merely a "Bush hater"). Hoft also ran with the absolutely absurd and baseless smear that...

The smear that Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf "threatened" the U.S.: Dick Morris' subsequently-retracted fable about Janet Reno attempting to blackmail Bill Clinton over Waco: The utterly false story that Michelle Obama stocked the White House library with socialist books: During a March...

No filter, no standards, much embarrassment At this point, you might be thinking, "where does Hoft come up with all of this crap?" With disturbing frequency, the answer to that question seems to be either "he saw it on Free Republic," or "someone emailed it to him and he didn't bother looking...

Link: Jim Hoft: Dumbest Man on the Internet? | Media Matters for America A lot of the examples given will no doubtedly sound familiar to those in the Soapbox. Jim Hoft: Dumbest Man on the Internet? September 21, 2010 2:44 pm ET by Ben Dimiero With a few exceptions, the upper echelon of...

"Our tax rates are lower now than they were under Ronald Reagan. They're much lower than they were under Dwight Eisenhower." Barack Obama on Monday, September 20th, 2010 in a televised town hall Barack Obama says taxes are lower today than under Reagan, Eisenhower

ACORN "could get up to $8.5 billion more tax dollars despite being under investigation for voter registration fraud in a dozen states." Michele Bachmann, Wednesday, May 6th, 2009. In the 1970s, "the swine flu broke out . . . under another Democrat, President Jimmy Carter." Michele...

Page 92 of the House health care bill "says specifically that people can't purchase private health insurance after a date certain." Michele Bachmann, Friday, October 30th, 2009. Ezekiel Emanuel, one of President Obama's key health care advisers, "says medical care should be reserved for...

The reason I am posting this, is because a lot of what she has said in the public arena are the things that we regularly see repeated here in the soapbox, conservative radio and Fox News. These are pretty important issues she speaks about and continually rates no higher than a False rating...

When I first read this response, I have to admit, I was somewhat perplexed by it but since then and watching what has transpired since this post, I now understand what he was saying and trying to do.

Rational people will gather on the National Mall in DC to spread a timeless message -- take it down a notch for America. Rally to Restore Sanity - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 9/16/2010 - Video Clip | Comedy Central