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Attachment 16519
Papantonio: Obama's First Step: REPLACE ERIC HOLDER

Mike Papantonio appears on RT America to discuss the causes of the mortgage fraud scams, points a finger at those responsible, and tells us how we can prevent predatory lenders from taking advantage of American consumers again.

• RingOfFireRadio.com

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Attachment 16521
Papantonio: GOP's "Hate Everything Strategy" Backfires

The Republicans' campaign tactics this year can be summed up with one word: Hate. As a party, they launched attacks on African Americans, Latinos, College Students, Women, and Unions, and the GOP honestly believed that this strategy would put Mitt Romney in the White House. And the Tea Party has only pushed the Republicans further into the hateful, right wing fringe of politics that could easily destroy the party if they continue down this path. Mike Papantonio talks about the overwhelming amount of hatred that the right wing spewed during this campaign with Adele Stan, the Washington correspondent for Alternet.org.

• Alternet.org
• RingOfFireRadio.com

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Attachment 16536
Papantonio: Extremist GOP No Longer Relevant In Politics

Mike Papantonio talks with Ed Schultz about the failures of the GOP and how their shift to the far right [[thanks to the Tea Party) has made the party completely irrelevant to voters today.

• WeGotEd.com
• RingOfFireRadio.com

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Attachment 16545
Papantonio: GOP Gerrymandering Keeps Them In Power

Mike Papantonio appears on The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann to discuss the GOP's House victories -- which were the result of their extensive gerrymandering tactics.

• Why Americans Actually Voted For A Democratic House
• RingOfFireRadio.com

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Attachment 16574
Papantonio: GOP Won't Abandon Voter Suppression Tactics

When you look at the areas of the country that experienced the most severe voting problems, you'll start to see a pattern developing -- you'll find that the problems were emerging in lower income, minority-heavy, democratic precincts across the country. This wasn't a coincidence; this was exactly what the GOP had been planning for the last two years. They created confusion, chaos, and frustration for voters as they were forced to wait in line for 6 or 7 hours just to be able to cast a vote. Mike Papantonio talks about the GOP's efforts to make voting a hassle for democrats and minorities with Adele Stan, the Washington correspondent for Alternet.

• Alternet.org
• RingOfFireRadio.com

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Attachment 16575
Papantonio: Obama -- Reward Your Base and Prosper

Over the course of the next few months GOP leadership will be meeting in secret in an attempt to make sense of the obvious: The not-so-Grand, very Old Tea Party Republicans will be meeting to try to understand what anyone who believes in equality for classes, gender, and race has already known for decades.

• RingOfFireRadio.com

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Attachment 16588
Papantonio: Texas Schools Ban Critical Thinking

If you saw an article on the Internet telling you that schools in Texas were trying to ban the teaching of critical thinking, you'd probably think it was an article written by The Onion. But the sad and scary truth is that Republicans in Texas are actually writing laws that would ban school teachers from teaching their students how to look at facts, analyze data, and form conclusions based on observations. Essentially -- they are trying to prevent children from developing critical thinking skills. Mike Papantonio talks about the dark ages mentality of Texas Republicans with Danny Weil, an investigative journalist with Truthout.

• Texas GOP Declares: "No More Teaching of 'Critical Thinking Skills' in Texas Public Schools"
• Truth-Out.org
• RingOfFireRadio.com

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Attachment 16593
Papantonio: Corporate Media Trying To Kill Progressive Radio

Mike Papantonio and Ed Schultz discuss the ongoing assault on progressive talk radio, which has resulted in the loss of a major progressive radio station in Portland.

• RingOfFireRadio.com

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Attachment 16605
Papantonio: Obama Can End Banker-Assisted Suicides

Mike Papantonio appears on The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann to talk about the suicides taking place by people facing foreclosure and why Obama has allowed an anti-government, anti-consumer bureaucrat named Edward DeMarco to run the housing authority that could ease the country's pain.

• RingOfFireRadio.com

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Attachment 16625
Papantonio: President Obama -- Get Tough Against GOP Obstruction

Last week, Progressives across the country were put into positions of power in Washington, sending a message to conservatives that their reign of terror was over. Mike Papantonio spoke with Katrina Vanden Heuvel, editor and part owner of The Nation Magazine, about what Obama can do with his progressive surge to overcome the obstruction of the right wing.

• A Progressive Surge
• The Nation
• RingOfFireRadio.com

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Attachment 16642
Papantonio: Labor Movement Deserves Credit For Obama Victory

On election night Karl Rove threw a legendary temper tantrum over the results of Ohio and he refused, along with the Romney campaign, to concede the state to Obama. And Romney came close to winning the state and likely would have won it had it not been for massive get out the vote efforts by groups like the Amalgamated Transit Union. Mike Papantonio recently spoke with ATU president Larry Hanley about how unions helped deliver the state of Ohio for the president and what the unions are hoping to see from a second term Obama presidency.

• ATU.org
• RingOfFireRadio.com

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Attachment 16887
Papantonio: How Republicans Alienated The General Public

Earlier this year the GOP made the disastrous decision to declare a war on half the population and that was their war on women. The GOP honestly believed that women were longing for the days when a man would tell them how to live, what to do with their bodies, and how to vote. But the Republicans didn't seem to realize that American women weren't looking to return to the gender roles of the 1930s, and the votes this year showed that women were fed up with the GOP. Mike Papantonio talks about the female voter revolt against the Republican Party with Nancy Cohen, author of the book "Delirium."

• RingOfFireRadio.com

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Attachment 16897
Papantonio: Federalize National Voting Standards Now

Mike Papantonio appears on The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann to talk about the ongoing assault on voting rights being carried out by Republicans in preparation for the 2014 midterm elections.

• RingOfFireRadio.com

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Attachment 16977
Papantonio: Deadly Chemicals Hiding in Our Waters

More than 30 years ago the government banned the production and use of chemicals known as PCBs because they were causing serious illnesses in both humans and our environment. And even though PCBs have been off the market for 3 decades, they are still hanging out in waterways, in the air we breathe, and in our soil -- causing cancers and other illnesses in people all over America. But recently, state governments decided that it was time to finally take action on the issue. Mike Papantonio recently spoke with Spokane Riverkeeper Bart Mihailovich about what is being done to remove these toxic chemicals from our environment.

• Spokane Riverkeeper
• RingOfFireRadio.com

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Attachment 17013
Papantonio: GOP Leadership Crisis Destroying The Party

The Republican Party is falling apart -- there's no other way to say it. Right now there is a fight taking place within the party between the Koch Brothers and their Tea Party, against the old guard leaders like Steve Schmidt and Grover Norquist. Intelligent Republicans understand that their party has completely gotten away from them because of the far right push that the billionaire inheritance babies have given the GOP and they understand that it was that push that caused them to lose this year's election. Mike Papantonio talks about the GOP's civil war with Gaius Publius, a contributing writer for America Blog.

• “Shut down” Limbaugh and Trump, GOP’s Steve Schmidt tells “party leaders”
• RingOfFireRadio.com

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Attachment 17048
Papantonio: GOP's War On Voters Hasn't Ended

Progressives, civil liberties groups, and journalists did a great job this year shining a spotlight on the GOP's efforts to disenfranchise millions of voters so they could steal the election. The same thing happened in 2008 but since Obama won in 2008, Democrats acted like the problem was no big deal and moved on. If they do the same thing this year, the GOP will be able to steal elections for a generation. Progressives have to continue to highlight the Republican voter suppression scams because they aren't going to go away. Mike Papantonio recently spoke with ColorLines.com journalist Brentin Mock about what we've learned about these scams, and what we can do to stop them before the next election.

• Voting Rights Haven’t Gotten Such Attention Since 1965. What Did We Learn?
• The Brennan Center For Justice
• Demos
• Common Cause
• NAACP
• Lawyers' Committee For Civil Rights Under Law
• The Advancement Project
• ColorLines.com
• RingOfFireRadio.com

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Attachment 17070
Papantonio & Kennedy On The News Behind The News

Mike Papantonio and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. discuss some of the biggest stories of the past week that the traditional media either didn't get right or simply chose not to discuss.

• RingOfFireRadio.com

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Attachment 17077
Papantonio: Big Money for Politicians While The Planet Melts

Mike Papantonio appears on The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann to discuss the growing threat of global climate change and why both major U.S. Political parties have dragged their feet on the issue, destroying the planet for our children in the process.

• RingOfFireRadio.com

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Attachment 17188
Papantonio: Grover Norquist Driving GOP Over "Fiscal Cliff"

The traditional media keeps telling us that America is headed over the fiscal cliff if Democrats and Republicans can't work out a budget deal. The truth is much more complex than that -- and the American economy isn't going to be destroyed. But when you drill down to the heart of the fight, it leads right back to the Republicans' pledge to keep taxes low for millionaires and billionaires. And the biggest push for tax cuts is coming from GOP operative Grover Norquist. But Norquist's days might be numbered, as Republicans are beginning to turn their back on him. Mike Papantonio spoke with John Amato from Crooks and Liars recently about Norquist's last stand to preserve the costly tax breaks for the wealthy.

• Crooks and Liars
• RingOfFireRadio.com

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Attachment 17213
Papantonio: Sign The Petition to REQUIRE Texas To Secede

It's tough to shame or embarrass a Texas Tea Party Republican about how dull-witted they sound when they talk about something as idiotic as secession.

After all, one of the people who led the discussion years ago in Texas was none other than their goofy Gov. Rick Perry -- Most things in politics really do flow from the top.

• RingOfFireRadio.com

I've never before heard a Floridian mock a Texan accent. I didn't think it was possible but I was wrong.

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Attachment 17217
Papantonio: Wall Street's Role In "Fiscal Cliff" Missing From Media Coverage

Mike Papantonio appears on The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann to talk about the current debt talks being held in Washington between Democrats and Republicans and how the media has completely missed the role that Wall Street played in causing our current problems.

• RingOfFireRadio.com

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Attachment 17220
Papantonio: Corporations Trying To Patent Your Genes

Mike Papantonio appears on The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann to discuss the lawsuit that will be argued before the Supreme Court on whether or not corporations can patent human genes.

• RingOfFireRadio.com

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Attachment 17230
Papantonio: Teabaggers - The GOP Invasive Species

Mike Papantonio talks with Thom Hartmann on The Thom Hartmann Program about how the Tea Party is helping to destroy the Republican Party but also managing to destroy vital parts of our democracy.

• RingOfFireRadio.com

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Attachment 17245
Papantonio: Cut The Tea Party Cancer Out of USA

Secession petitions have now been filed in every single state in America but only a few states have managed to get enough petitions to actually warrant a response from the White House. Leading the pack is the state of Texas where even Republican governor Rick Perry has tossed out the idea of leaving the union. But when you really think about it, the United States might actually be better off without states like Texas and Alabama and Mississippi dragging us down to their level. Mike Papantonio spoke with investigative journalist Rick Outzen recently about whether or not we should bid farewell to the south.

• TheDailyBeast.com
• Secession Isn't a States' Right, It's Treason
• RingOfFireRadio.com

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Attachment 17262
Papantonio: Republican Lawmakers Sacrifice The Poor For The Wealthy

The Republicans in Washington have a plan that they say can help keep America from going over the fiscal cliff that they created. They tell us that by cutting social programs we can balance the budget and all live happily ever after. So what's going to happen when millions of Americans lose their insurance, their pensions, their Medicare, and their Social Security? Let's find out from Mike Papantonio and author Cliff Schecter.

• LibertasLLC
• Don't get fooled again
• RingOfFireRadio.com