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		<title>Why Does Anyone Take Andrew Breitbart Seriously?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Breitbart has a job to do and he does it well. Breitbart&#8217;s job is to lie and distort the truth in order to advance a right-wing agenda, embarrass liberals, and undermine the Obama administration.
Breitbart is not a journalist, researcher, or pundit.  He is a propagandist.
Read the entire post by Peter Dreier and Christopher [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spitting, racial and gay slurs?  Just isolated instances of emotions running high</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the Saturday, March 20, the weekend of the historic health care vote in Congress, Tea Party protesters outside of the Capitol apparently spit on and hurled racial and gay slurs at Democratic lawmakers.  Republican Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Amy Kremer, coordinator of the Tea Party Express, both denounced the incidents, and characterized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tea Party &#8212; A Case in Unproportional News Coverage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seriously, 600 people showed up at the first-ever National Tea Party Convention at the Opryland complete in Nashville and this makes page A1 of the New York Times?  Four times as many paying people (2,435) attended my journalism educators convention in Boston last year, and I can tell you we didn&#8217;t get any mention in [...]]]></description>
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