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The tea party protests continued last week, as Congresswoman Michele Bachmann held an anti-health-care-reform rally on the steps of the Capitol. While she estimated that 20,000-45,000 people attended the event, the Washington Post reported it was actually more like 10,000. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Sean Hannity Uses Glenn Beck's Protest Footage www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis Still, that is a sizable number of Americans exercising their right to free speech and assembly, and that warrants news coverage. But Sean Hannity and his team did more than cover the event. They not only inflated the number in attendance with their words, but actually used footage from a heavily-attended protest this summer to make this health care rally appear more popular. Hannity even pointed out that this was a huge crowd for a Thursday, when the protest footage they used was from a Saturday. HANNITY'S DAMAGE CONTROL “…the ...

So wrong - so horrible and so profoundly sad. By JENNIFER FERMINO The young Iranian woman whose gruesome killing has become a rallying cry for the nation's opposition movement eerily predicted her violent death by gunfire -- but was determined to protest against "the injustice of it all," a friend said yesterday. As the violence continues to escalate on the streets of the embattled Middle Eastern nation, the beautiful philosophy student, Neda Agha-Soltan, 26, who had been engaged to be married, is being hailed as Iran's Joan of Arc. The government yesterday blocked a wake for her in a central Tehran mosque for fear that the outpouring of grief would lead to more anti-regime protests, her fiancé, Caspian Makan, told the BBC. "The authorities are aware that everybody in Iran and throughout the whole world knows about her story," Makan said. "They were afraid that lots of people could turn up." The 40-second video of Neda's death has not been aire...

The Anti- Family Planning Movement by Cristina Page Like lawn ornaments in summer, protesters outside the local abortion clinic are fixtures in many places in the United States today. Their presence and message have long been so predictable that, without looking or listening, people believe they understand the point. And so you might not notice that the protest taking place outside your local clinic today has fundamentally changed. It is no longer about abortion. June 7 is the anniversary of Griswold v Connecticut, the 1965 Supreme Court decision that granted married people the right to use contraception. To mark the day, anti-abortion groups are taking to their normal posts outside clinic entrances not to convince Americans to oppose abortion but rather to stop using contraception. The national campaign is called "Protest the Pill Day 08' " and it is organized by several leading anti-choice groups including the American Life League and Pharmacists for Life. The groups...

Truth or convenient excuse? Only Hasbro P.R. & Marketing knows for sure! A mid-level employee with Hasbro Inc. decided on her own to eliminate the word ''Israel'' after the name ''Jerusalem'' in an online contest to select names for a new, global Monopoly board game after pro-Palestinian groups and bloggers complained, the company said Thursday. Her decision sparked even more protests - this time from the other side - prompting the company to apologize a day later and pull all country names from cities listed on the site. ''It was a bad decision, one that we rectified relatively quickly,'' Hasbro spokesman Wayne Charness said. ''This is a game. We never wanted to enter into any political debate. We apologize to our Monopoly fans.'' The issue has been a sensitive one for decades: Israel captured the eastern part of Jerusalem _ home to Jewish, Muslim and Christian holy sites _ in the 1967 Mideast war and annexed it. The...

EXCUSE ME, GOD? YOU'VE BEEN SERVED. This state senator is trying to make a point. But will anyone care? Wonder if Hashem has a good lawyer or corroborating documents or witnesses? Create some maybe? I understand this is in protest of one wrong-headed judge barring the words "rape" and "victim" from a sexual assault trial! How ridiculous that the victim (sorry) in this case cannot state the facts as they are in her case. Maybe this other suit will get everyone's attention to overturn that harmful and idiotic ruling. By the way, would the process server be so kind as to let me know where they found the Almighty to serve him? I need to see Him myself. Nebraska State Senator Sues... God Injunction sought against Him for allegedly causing deaths, making threats The defendant in a state senator’s lawsuit is accused of causing untold death and horror and threatening to cause more still. He can be sued in Douglas County, the legislator claims, because He’s ev...