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Republican Congressman Embraces Obama Hoax Email
Overtime, and pretty quickly now, it'll make sense to keep a list of stuff like this. On Friday night's Bill Maher show, Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) claimed that Barack Obama refuses to say the pledge of allegiance to the American flag. This along with other bogus claims about Obama come from the hoax emails circulating on the internet. If you see any local or national media outlets asking Kingston about this or if you get a word out of him, please let us know. Of course, last night, the Associated Press signed on to the Obama hoax email train.(close)Related info:
- Dates appearing:
- 02/24/2008
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Rep. Kingston Defends 3-Day Work Week, Claims Members Can ‘Keep In Touch’ With BlackBerrys (12/7/2006) 
Conservatives slam Obama over flag-less lapel (10/5/2007) 
Obama To Beat Clinton In Second Quarter Fundraising (6/7/2007) 
Obama Campaign Raising Money Off Hillary Official's Drug Use Comment (12/13/2007)
McCain Disputed On 1999 Meeting
Broadcaster Lowell "Bud" Paxson yesterday contradicted statements from Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign that the senator did not meet with Paxson or his lobbyist before sending two controversial letters to the Federal Communications Commission on Paxson's behalf.(close)Related info:
- Dates appearing:
- 02/23/2008
- 02/24/2008
- Rank of all stories in past 30 days:
- # 14
- Stories possibly related by context:
A Hole in McCain’s Defense? (2/22/2008) - Stories with possibly similar content:
McCain's Lying Problem (2/23/2008) 
It Gets Worse For McCain (2/22/2008) 
A Hole in McCain’s Defense? (2/23/2008) 
McCain’s Favors for Iseman Involved Helping Far Right-Wing Families to Sustain their Shell Companies (2/23/2008) - Additional stories related by date and content:
- McCain's Ties to Lobbyist Worried Aides (2/21/2008)
- Files and McCain Letter Show Effort to Keep Loophole (2/23/2008)
- McCain's FEC Problem (2/23/2008)
A Hole in McCain’s Defense?
An apparent contradiction in his response to lobbyist story.
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- Dates appearing:
- 02/22/2008
- 02/23/2008
- 02/24/2008
- Rank of all stories in past 30 days:
- # 15
- Stories possibly related by context:
McCain Disputed On 1999 Meeting (2/23/2008) - It Gets Worse For McCain (2/22/2008)
Exxon Oil Spill Case May Get Closure
When a federal jury in Alaska in 1994 ordered Exxon to pay $5 billion to thousands of people who had their lives disrupted by the massive Exxon Valdez oil spill, an appeal of the nation's largest punitive damages award was inevitable.
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- Dates appearing:
- 02/24/2008
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Exxon Mobil posts record annual profit (2/1/2007) - Leading Conservative Activist Seeks Punitive Damages (6/8/2007)
Exxon Cutting Ties to Global Warming Skeptics (1/15/2007)
From the Fact Check Desk: Obama's Army Anecdote
At last night's debate in Texas, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, told an anecdote about an Army captain that is causing a lot of chatter in the political world.
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- Dates appearing:
- 02/22/2008
- 02/23/2008
- 02/24/2008
- Rank of all stories in past 30 days:
- # 26
- Stories possibly related by context:
Pentagon questions Obama’s soldier story (2/23/2008) - Bush Pentagon (2/23/2008)
- Platoon (2/23/2008)
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Here We Go Again (2/23/2008) - Clinton: Obama untested, just like Bush was (2/24/2008)
¿Quién Es Less Macho?
The first serious female candidate for president was rejected by voters drawn to the more feminine management style of her male rival.Nader enters in boon to GOP
Third-party candidacy could be the Dems’ undoing if fall election turns out close. See also: HRC slams Nader's bid.
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- Dates appearing:
- 02/24/2008
- Stories with possibly similar content:
- Nader announces run for president (2/24/2008)
Hillary on the High Road?
I suspect that Senator Clinton’s biggest hurdle from the beginning was the unforgiving nature of time — the tides of history changing.Obama's Red-State Prospects Unclear
For Democrats desperate to reclaim the White House, the numbers have been tantalizing.Dispatch from Maryland
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, a supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton, spoke at St. Mary's college in Maryland last week and offered a very frank assessment of the state of the Clinton campaign. A Political Wire reader emails a summary: "Townsend said she expects Sen. Barack Obama to win the Democratic presidential nomination and that Clinton is finished. She believed that the Wisconsin results demonstrated that Clinton's coalition (voters over the age of 50 and those earning less than $50,000) had fallen apart.
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- Dates appearing:
- 02/24/2008
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- Clinton Will Close On Electability, Readies Contrast Ads Obama (12/12/2007)
- Clinton N.H. Official Warns Obama Will Be Attacked on Drug Use (12/12/2007)
- Bill Clinton: Race, gender key in S.C. (1/24/2008)
- Obama Camps Memo on Clintons Politicizing Race (1/14/2008)
- Additional stories related by date and content:
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- Soldiering On, but Somber as the Horizon Darkens (2/24/2008)
Nader announces run for president
Ralph Nader on Sunday announced a fresh bid for the White House, criticizing the top contenders as too close to big business and dismissing the possibility that his third-party candidacy could tip the election to Republicans.(close)Related info:
- Dates appearing:
- 02/24/2008
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- Nader running for president (2/24/2008)
- Nader leaves '08 door open, slams Hillary (2/5/2007)
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Files and McCain Letter Show Effort to Keep Loophole
Senator John McCain warned the head of the Federal Communications Commission in 1998 that he would attempt to overhaul the agency if it closed a broadcast ownership loophole.(close)Related info:
- Dates appearing:
- 02/23/2008
- 02/24/2008
- Stories with possibly similar content:
- McCain’s Favors for Iseman Involved Helping Far Right-Wing Families to Sustain their Shell Companies (2/23/2008)
- McCain Comments Distort FCC Matter (2/21/2008)
- It Gets Worse For McCain (2/22/2008)
- McCain Disputed On 1999 Meeting (2/23/2008)
What That McCain Article Didn’t Say
If a newspaper is going to suggest an improper sexual affair by a presidential candidate, it owes readers more proof than The Times was able to provide.White House backtracks on claims of lost intelligence
A day after warning that potentially critical terrorism intelligence was being lost because Congress had not finished work on a controversial espionage law, the U.S. attorney general and the national intelligence director said Saturday that the government was receiving the information -- at least temporarily.
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- Dates appearing:
- 02/24/2008
- Stories with possibly similar content:
- Spy Law Lapse Blamed for Lost Information (2/24/2008)
- CAUGHT ON TAPE: Bush Ignores Intelligence, Misleads Public On Impact of Iraq on Terrorism (9/26/2006)
- The Pied Piper of Crawford (9/20/2007)
Press Briefing by National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley (12/4/2007)
Ominous Signs Remain in City Run by Iraqis
An experiment with self-rule in Basra, Iraq’s second largest city, suggests to many that the country’s future remains dark.McConnell/Mukasey: Eavesdropping outside of FISA is "illegal"
The White House yesterday escalated its most brazen, Orwellian campaign of the last eight years -- shrilly accusing House Democrats of jeopardizing the nation's security by allowing the Protect America Act to expire even though it's the President and House Republicans who blocked any extensions of that law. As the Associated Press pointed out at the bottom of its story: McConnell acknowledged last week that the White House's refusal to extend the wiretapping law was meant to pressure Congress to pass the Senate bill.
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- Dates appearing:
- 02/23/2008
- 02/24/2008
- Stories possibly related by context:
- Spy Law Lapse Blamed for Lost Information (2/24/2008)
- Stories with possibly similar content:
- On the House Vote on FISA (2/14/2008)
Jihadis throw a wild bash over the Protect America Act (2/15/2008) - What's at stake today in the Senate's FISA filibuster vote (1/29/2008)
- The Specter bill much closer to being enacted today (9/13/2006)
Spy Law Lapse Blamed for Lost Information
The Bush administration said yesterday that the government "lost intelligence information" because House Democrats allowed a surveillance law to expire last week, causing some telecommunications companies to refuse to cooperate with terrorism-related wiretapping orders.
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- Dates appearing:
- 02/24/2008
- Stories possibly related by context:
- McConnell/Mukasey: Eavesdropping outside of FISA is "illegal" (2/23/2008)
- Stories with possibly similar content:
White House backtracks on claims of lost intelligence (2/24/2008) - Pelosi: ‘The President is Misrepresenting the Facts on Our Nation’s Electronic Surveillance Capabilities’ (2/15/2008)