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News Press Releases Ted Cruz Reproductive Rights Friday, Mar 22 2024

Ted Cruz’s Response to Alabama’s IVF Case Is a Lie. Shocking.

News Press Releases Chris Christie No Labels Thursday, Mar 21 2024

BREAKING: Chris Christie Flip-Flops, Says He Is Open to Joining the No Labels Spoiler Ticket

News Press Releases Thursday, Mar 21 2024

BREAKING: Oppo Research Giant American Bridge Launches Anti-GOP U.S. House Program

News Press Releases The Oppo Dump Greg Gianforte Matt Rosendale Tim Sheehy Reproductive Rights Thursday, Mar 21 2024

MT Republican Candidates Sheehy and Gianforte Need to Respond to Anti-IVF Rosendale Letter

News Tuesday, Nov 1 2011

Discussing #Occupy Movement, Rick Perry Repeats Fake Quote From Canadian Satirical Article

On October 31, 2011, Mediaite reported on a humorous trend in the conservative blogosphere: bloggers citing fake quotes from a satirical column in Canada's Globe and Mail.

Over the last week, bloggers, emailers, commenters, and posters have shared the words of a 38 year-old slacker Toronto resident named Jeremy, who took part in the Occupy Toronto protests:
“It’s weird protesting on Bay Street. You get there at 9 a.m. and the rich bankers who you want to hurl insults at and change their worldview have been at work for two hours already. And then when it’s time to go, they’re still there. I guess that’s why they call them the one per cent. I mean, who wants to work those kinds of hours? That’s the power of greed.”
What they don’t realize is that the quote was one of many featured in a satirical piece by The Toronto Globe and Mail’s Mark Schatzker. 38 year-old Jeremy doesn’t exist. It turns out that bloggers weren't the only ones duped. During a radio interview on October 28, Rick Perry cited this very same 38-year-old "Jeremy." American Bridge caught it on tape. Take a look:

AB Leadership Tuesday, Nov 1 2011

WSJ: Satire on Occupy Wall Street Trips Up Rick Perry

On November 1, 2011, the Wall Street Journal reported:

"Satire may not be Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s thing. Last Friday, at the swanky Barley House tavern in Concord, N.H., Mr. Perry took a little jab at the Occupy Wall Street crowd, referencing an amusing quote his son had sent him from a protester occupying Toronto..."

News Saturday, Oct 29 2011

The Atlantic: A Tour of Mitt Romney's New Hampshire Mansion

On October 28, 2011, the Atlantic reported: Autumn is in the air in New Hampshire, which means the political rhetoric…

News Climate Change Environment Saturday, Oct 29 2011

CBS News: Mitt Romney's shifting views on climate change

On October 28, 20111, CBS News reported:

The longer he runs for president, the more doubts Republican front-runner Mitt Romney seems to have about the science behind global climate change...

News Saturday, Oct 29 2011

Paul Ryan Townhall – 10/28/11

The following video was recorded at a Paul Ryan townhall event in Wisconsin on October 28, 2011.

News Energy Friday, Oct 28 2011

AP: State issues can be tricky for presidential field

On October 27, 2011, the Associated Press reported:

Mitt Romney gingerly distanced himself from a labor issue on the Ohio ballot one day. The next, he embraced the initiative "110 percent."
The equivocation not only highlighted his record of shifting positions but also underscored the local political minefields national candidates often confront in their state-by-state path to the presidency.

News Friday, Oct 28 2011

VIDEO: Scott Brown: Tea Party Patriarch

As you surely saw yesterday, Scott Brown's allies released a video titled "Matriarch of Mayhem" seeking to tie Elizabeth Warren to the most extreme elements of the Occupy Wall Street protests.

If Massachusetts Republicans believe speaking approvingly about a large movement's underlying values ties someone to that movement's most extreme elements, they should have no problem with this video we just put together.

Here is American Bridge's newest video: "Scott Brown: Tea Party Patriarch."

AB Leadership Friday, Oct 28 2011

Boston Globe: Senator Scott Brown branded ‘Tea Party Patriarch’ by liberal group

On October 28, 2011, the Boston Globe reported:

"A day after a Republican video mocked Democratic US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren as the “Matriarch of Mayhem” for claiming significant credit for the Occupy Wall Street movement, a Democratic leaning political action committee has released “Scott Brown: Tea Party Patriarch.” The liberal video uses similar production techniques as the conservative video -- splicing images of Brown, a Republican senator, making sympathetic comments about the Tea Party movement, with footage of the movement’s most radical elements played over ominous music. [...] The video is being released by American Bridge 21st Century. It’s president, Rodell Mollineau, said in a statement that the video is “a warning that unfair, inflammatory, and inaccurate attacks will not go unanswered.”

News Friday, Oct 28 2011

AP: Going Off-The-Cuff, Romney Does Himself Few Favors

On October 28, 2011, the Associated Press reported:

"Mitt Romney may need a censor. For himself. In the last few weeks in Nevada, the man who owns several homes told the state hit tough by the housing crisis: "Don't try and stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom." At one point in Iowa, earlier this year, the former venture capitalist uttered, "Corporations are people," with the country in the midst of a debate over Wall Street vs. Main Street. At an event in economically suffering Florida, the retiree — who is a multimillionaire many times over — told out-of-work voters, "I'm also unemployed." Over the past year, the Republican presidential candidate has amassed a collection of off-the-cuff comments that expose his vulnerabilities and, taken together, cast him as out-of-touch with Americans who face staggering unemployment, widespread foreclosures and a dire outlook on the economy..."

News Taxes Thursday, Oct 27 2011

AP: Flat tax renews fight on ‘trickle-down economics’

On October 26, 2011, the Associated Press reported:

The flat tax is making a comeback among Republican presidential candidates. But it faces tough opposition in Congress because it tends to favor the rich at the expense of other taxpayers, renewing an old debate about “trickle-down economics.’’ Most of the top GOP contenders — Mitt Romney’s an exception — offer a variation of the tax plan in which everyone pays the same rate. Businessman Herman Cain has his 9-9-9 proposal, and Texas Gov. Rick Perry unveiled a 20 percent flat tax on income this week. Even Romney foresees a flatter tax system in the future, though he favors something closer to the current setup in the short term...

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