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Too bad, so sad, Dinesh:

Wow, @DineshDSouza deleted his Trayvon/Obama tweets. The Internet doesn't forget. http://t.co/J2gxK5G6za

— AdamSerwer (@AdamSerwer) November 26, 2013

That has to go down as one of the most offensive tweets in the history of the social network.

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Obama will probably do better tonight than two weeks ago in the "debate" or glorified press conference or whatever you want to call it. His worst trait is his narcissism and thinking his ideas are better than everybody else's and disregards any criticism. He isn't a Joe Biden and doesn't have to prep much at all because he is knowledgeable. Obama just isn't that bright or has the ability to think quickly on his feet.

I can't argue with the criticism by the WSWS. Everything Obama did on the economy was to benefit the financial elites, NOT the masses.
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Obituary: Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodian leader, died at the age of 89.

From another report:

A pre-eminent figure in Cambodia's history for seven decades, Sihanouk however will also be remembered as a puppet kept by the Khmer Rouge during their 1970s reign of terror that killed almost a quarter of the Cambodian population.

The quixotic ruler held considerable power in the 1950s and 1960s when the young, flamboyant leader came to symbolize Cambodia's liberation from French rule in what is now seen as a golden age for an impoverished country long scarred by war.

His close aide, Prince Sisowath Thomico, said Sihanouk had died of heart failure.

"This is not just mourning by the royal family but for all Cambodians. He is the father of the nation," he said.

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Dinesh: 2012:

D’Souza’s speech earned him a standing ovation and a long line at the book-signing table immediately afterward. Although D’Souza has been married for 20 years to his wife, Dixie, in South Carolina he was with a young woman, Denise Odie Joseph II, and introduced her to at least three people as his fiancée.

Finally, near 11 p.m., event organizer Tony Beam escorted D’Souza and Joseph to the nearby Comfort Suites. Beam noted that they checked in together and were apparently sharing a room for the night in the sold-out hotel. The next morning, around 6 a.m., Beam arrived back at the hotel and called up to D’Souza’s room. “We’ll be down in 10 minutes,” D’Souza told Beam. D’Souza and Joseph came down together, and Beam took them to the airport.

The next day another conference organizer, Alex McFarland, distressed by D’Souza’s behavior, confronted him in a telephone conversation. D’Souza admitted he shared a room with his fiancée but said “nothing happened.” When I called D’Souza, he confirmed that he was indeed engaged to Joseph, but did not explain how he could be engaged to one woman while still married to another. When asked when he had filed for divorce from his wife, Dixie, D’Souza answered, “Recently.”

Dinesh filed for divorce a few days ago.

I will say one thing about him: Even though he is politically full of shit, he is polite.
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It's called highway robbery:

By the time he completes his packing and blows town, Jean-Claude Brizard, the undercompetent and overpaid (we said it a long time ago here, but it's worth repeating) will have taken Chicago for a million dollars himself for less than 18 months of servitude to Rahm Emanuel's scripted dog-and-pony shows and left behind about $10 million in patronage flunkies (also, mercenaries) now perched atop the nation's third largest school system. Yet to read the Chicago newspapers on October 14, 2012, you'd think that Chicago has just gone from one triumph to another, thanks to the Miracle Man at City Hall, Rahm Emanuel.

Failed administrators always do better than ever.
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How the hell do professional liars like Dinesh D'Souza get away with it?

Apparently there is a market for outrageous propaganda like his new flick on Obama despite there being numerous and intentional errors.
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Yet another southern Oregon person has won a major contest, or, in this case, sweepstakes.

This guy won the Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes where the top prize was $5,000 a week for life PLUS $5,000 a week for life for another person.

I wish him the best of luck. I wish I could get something like that, but I probably can never do it.
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Phyllis Schlafly, close to 90 years old, is still out there raising a ruckus. This time she is furious over a hypothetical "joke" Republican operative Karl Rove told about Todd Akin being murdered. The "joke" was a reference to all kinds of conspiracy theories especially popular among Democrats that Karl Rove was involved in this or that even if he wasn't.

Schlafly called on Rove to resign over his Akin remarks. Presumably she is referring to Rove resigning from his PAC.
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Dinesh D'Souza, a think tank right-winger who has a new movie out about the "real Obama," gets skewered royal.

Dinesh pulls all kinds of nonsense out of his ass. It's laughable because Obama probably is closer in ideology to Dinesh than to traditional Democratic ideals.
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So how did Clint do it? Or, more to the point, how in the hell did the Romney campaign allow Clint to get up there on national television and make a fool out of himself?

Behind the scenes, Mr. Eastwood’s convention cameo was cleared by Mr. Romney’s top message mavens, Russ Schriefer and Stuart Stevens, who drew up talking points that Mr. Eastwood included, in his own way. They gave him a time limit and flashed a blinking red light that told him his time was up. He ignored both. The actor’s decision to use a chair as a prop was last-minute, and his own.

“The prop person probably thought he was going to sit in it,” a baffled senior aide said on Thursday night.

Mr. Eastwood’s rambling and off-color appearance just moments before the biggest speech of Mr. Romney’s life instantly became a Twitter and cable-news sensation, which drowned out much of the usual postconvention analysis that his campaign had hoped to bask in.

It also startled and unsettled Mr. Romney’s top advisers and prompted a blame game among them. “Not me,” an exasperated-looking senior adviser said when asked who was responsible for Mr. Eastwood’s speech. In interviews, aides called the speech “strange” and “weird.” One described it as “theater of the absurd.”

That's putting it mildly.