SHOCKER! Matt Yglesias describes when #FakeNews can be ‘effective’ (just guess)

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There’s been lots of talk about “fake news” this last year, but Vox’s Matt Yglesias is laying down a marker about when fake news isn’t a bad thing: An uncomfortable lesson: Fake news wrongly blaming Ryan for the Speakers Lobby dress code was effective at producing much-needed change. — Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) July 13, 2017 […]

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‘Another FINE CNN employee’: Sally Kohn jumps the shark with violent AHCA Paul Ryan meme

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Wasn’t it Sally Kohn who just last week was calling for people to tone down the rhetoric? Guess she only meant people on the right. This. #resist #NoAHCA pic.twitter.com/UKvILpuMe9 — Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) June 27, 2017 Because posting something like this WON’T set off some other lunatic and inspire him to open fire on a […]

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‘NothingGate’: WaPo’s new ‘exclusive’ Trump-Russia scoop comes up short

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Kevin McCarthy, Ill bet you cant make Louise Menschs head explode.Challenge accepted! — jimgeraghty (@jimgeraghty) May 17, 2017 The Washington Post is out tonight with another bombshell “exclusive”: EXCLUSIVE House majority leader to colleagues in 2016: I think Putin pays Trump https://t.co/cGkuW8OAhR — Post Politics (@postpolitics) May 17, 2017 Wow. This sounds pretty bad, doesn’t […]

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Paul Ryan posts picture from goat milking contest, liberals outraged

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http://twitter.com/#!/PRyan/status/493547155290742785 http://twitter.com/#!/bacicchetti/status/493550167606296577 Because they always politicize everything, right? http://twitter.com/#!/RobbieSherwood/status/493552048173236225 http://twitter.com/#!/MARKT11/status/493552944063602688 It’s utterly shocking that a Wisconsin agricultural event wouldn’t be more diverse.   Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/07/27/paul-ryan-posts-picture-from-goat-milking-contest-liberals-outraged/

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Demented lib comments on rape culture by depicting Paul Ryan as rapist [pic]

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http://twitter.com/#!/wupton/status/448554751131926528 Earlier today, Ebony and Feministing writer Zerlina Maxwell launched #RapeCultureIsWhen: http://twitter.com/#!/ZerlinaMaxwell/status/448485370465091584 The hashtag has been trending on Twitter throughout the day, and it has afforded at least one rabid prog the opportunity to tweet something horrifically stupid: http://twitter.com/#!/nschim/status/448542386830843905 Rep. Ryan’s crime? Co-sponsoring the Sanctity of Human Life Act. If “Serenity” had bothered to actually read the bill, she’d […]

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