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Election Day: Palin's Panic and the Right-Wing's Big Freak-out.

Conservatives are already trying to thwart the progressive agenda of a potential Obama presidency ... Fox news tries to rekindle Ayers controversy.


Conservatives spread lies and propaganda about EFCA.

Conservatives are already thinking up ways to obstruct a progressive agenda should Obama win today. Jane Hamsher at Firedoglake reports on the blatant misinformation being spread about the Employee Free Choice Act by conservative commentators:


Fred Barnes in the WSJ this morning is talking about "the 'card check' proposal to end secret ballots in union elections." And Tom Troy of the Toledo Blade writes in an article on Arnold Schwarzenegger:

He also blasted Mr. Obama for his support of the Employee Free Choice Act, a union-backed measure that would abolish the secret ballot by which employees choose whether to be represented by a union.

No. Although Schwarzennegger is acting the stooge for union busters too, The Employee Free Choice Act does not "abolish secret ballot."

Obama was one of the Senate sponsors of the Employee Free Choice Act, and he has said that passing it will be one of the priorities of his administration. Lisa Vorderbrueggen of the Contra Costa Times gets it right in an article about a hit piece on George Miller:

The TV ad appears to be part of a national campaign by business interests to defeat a controversial bill called the Employee Free Choice Act. The act would add a second method under which employees could form a union.

The claim that the bill will "abolish secret ballots" is a lie, plain and simple. The Employee Free Choice Act, which is supported by almost every single Democrat and several Republicans in Congress, gives employees the choice to form unions. The Employee Free Choice Act is based on a simple democratic principle: if a majority of employees say they want a union, they should get a union.

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Fox News Stalks Bill Ayers

Fox found a way to smarmily remind voters of the William Ayers controversy this morning, combining footage of Ayers exiting a polling station with a non-too-subtle commentary painting the now-college professor as a dangerous criminal and linking him to Obama. In the course of the 50 second segment, the anchor manages to make it sound as if Ayers is stealing an old lady's purse instead of exercising his right to vote, and finds at least two different ways to connect Obama and Ayers:


"From Bill Clinton to a very different Obama supporter, and that is William Ayers, who showed up and got caught on camera going into the polling station today. One of the reporters, I believe it was a Newsweek reporter, shouted out to him ... "Mr. Ayers, who did you vote for". Apparently he did not respond. I think that may be his wife, Bernadette Dohrn, who also helped him found the Weather Underground, a domestic terrorist group, showing up to vote at the same polling station that Barack Obama votes at, because they live in the same neighborhood, as Obama said in that debate ... "


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The ugly tactics of the panicked McCain camp and their surrogates in the conservative media and blogosphere are likely to get even nastier and more desperate on election day. AlterNet will have ongoing, updated coverage of the misinformation and Orwellian double-speak bound to spew forth from the right wing in their final, desperate attempt to hold on to power. Here's a taste of what's probably to come:

Palin defends singer who accuses Obama of hating national anthem

At a Palin rally today singer Hank Williams Jr. invited the audience to join him in "our national -- you know, that song that, uh, Mr. Obama's not real crazy about ... "

According to CBS News, Palin thanked the country singer for exercising his First Amendment rights (presumably the media didn't try to muzzle him):

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Yes, the EFCA would end secret ballot initiatives for union shops -- no ifs, ands or buts. Any student of organized labor knows that the labor lords can be as corrupt as any robber baron of the Gilded Age, especially when the labor bosses allied with the mafia.

While ambush journalism is offensive, its exactly the same tactics used by 60 Minutes for most of their early years -- liberals loved it then and hate it when its used against them -- hypocrites. I especially approve when used against child molesters and their enablers.

Yeah, old Bocephus is following a family tradition, ie, in is daddy's footsteps. Still sings well!

Bringing up a 30 year old affair, JJP must be delirious over something.

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