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Fox News Finds Another Poll To Distort - Its Own: Broadcaster Downplays Finding That If Election Were Held Today, Obama Would Win

Fox News is attempting to downplay and discredit its own poll, which found that if the election were held today, voters would re-elect President Obama by a 7-point margin. This is hardly the first time Fox has tried to distort poll findings to advance a certain narrative. Fox  …

U.S. News - Trayvon Martin killed by single gunshot fired from 'intermediate range,' autopsy shows

Florida teenager Trayvon Martin died from a single gunshot wound to the chest fired from “intermediate range,” according to an autopsy report reviewed Wednesday by NBC News. The official report, prepared by the medical examiner in Volusia County, Fla., also found t …

How badly has fracking polluted drinking water in Dimock, Pennsylvania

The trouble started in 2008, when the wells used by several Dimock families were contaminated with methane. In 2009, fracking firm Cabot Oil & Gas was fined by state regulators for contaminating the wells with methane while fracking underground. Cabot routinely denies cau …

Actors Studio’s James Lipton offers Romney tips on ‘how to act human’

Several weeks ago, a cartoon strip by New York magazine cartoonist Brian McFadden offered helpful tips for former Massachusetts governor and presumptive Republican candidate for president Mitt Romney (R) on how to be a more successful candidate. It offered such sage advice as &ld …

JaVale McGee's Crusade for Investigative Journalism and Non-Speculative, Facts-Based Reporting - The Triangle Blog - Grantland

We assumed we were talking behind this guy's back, but apparently JaVale has had the Internet this entire time and eventually began to understand how he's perceived in the media. So what does JaVale do to teach us all a lesson for the borderline cyber-bullying? He lofts those o …

The Real Fraud: Second 'Non-Citizen' In James O'Keefe Voter Fraud Video Naturalized In 2011

In conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe’s latest video, he features two “non-citizens” who have supposedly committed voter fraud in North Carolina. As ThinkProgress reported yesterday, one of the men, Zbigniew Gorzkowski, has actually been an American ci …

James O'Keefe's "Dead" NC Voter Isn't Dead

In his newest video, conservative videographer James O'Keefe claims that during his organization's latest inept voter fraud sting in North Carolina, "we found ballots being offered out in the name of the dead." Unfortunately for O'Keefe, the person whose ballot his operative so …

President Obama's Wealth Level Makes Him One of the Elite 1%

President Barack Obama has $500,001 to $1 million in a JPMorgan Chase private client asset management checking account.  "This is a checking account used by the president and the first lady," said White House spokeswoman Amy Brundage. The president's other principal assets …

Facebook Unfriends Uncle Sam: Mark Zuckerberg's Plan To Avoid Taxes

The right-wing has been lauding Facebook co-founder Edward Saverin for his decision to renounce his U.S. citizenship in order to avoid taxes. But he isn’t the only one who’s going to slash his tax bill in the wake of Facebook’s upcoming initial public offering …

Fox News Panelist: Obama 'Threw Black Community Under Bus' For The Gay Community's Money

That comment came from conservative author Deneen Borelli, a catchy attack which she actually said twice during the brief segment. Borelli charged the President with being “on the wrong side of the issue” (personally, I’d much rather be on the wrong side of an …

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