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Posts tagged as “propaganda”

Rounds Responds, Pretends 5000+ EB-5 Job Claim Is Reported Fact

We have Mike Rounds's responses to the Government Operations and Audit Committee's questions about his Office of Economic Development's use of the EB-5 visa investment program. The answers are by turns combative (he accuses legislators of defamation) and evasive. Let…

Bosworth Blusters: Bad Press Means I’m Great! Keep Sending Money! Whee!

For today's reality-denial special, we have fake U.S. Senate candidate Annette Bosworth saying that the big takeaway from Jonathan Ellis's February 23 exposé of her serious financial troubles is not that she tricked South Dakotans out of their money with…

Why Nobody Believes Dakota War College Anymore

The South Dakota Democratic Party has called for a special prosecutor to investigate "the $550,000 theft of taxpayer funds by Northern Beef Packers and SDRC, Inc." The SDDP, like me, wonders why Attorney General Marty Jackley is declining to take…

Santorum Tells Rounds “Middle Class” Is Marxist Talk

South Dakota GOP Senate candidate Marion Michael Rounds went to Iowa last week to rub shoulders with Rick Santorum. The Displaced Plainsman notes that Rounds got to hear Santorum brand Ronald Reagan and every honest demographer in America a Marxist:…

TransCanada Screams “Terrorist!” at American Opponents of Keystone XL

Regular readers know I don't go for conspiracy theories. But give me three instances of the powers that be portraying anti-Keystone XL activists as terrorists, and I can't help thinking we face an orchestrated corporate PR campaign. First public officials…

School Terrorism Drill Brands Pipeline/Uranium Opponents as Terrorists

Has your government ever labelled you a potential terrorist? My state government may have just done that to me. Last Tuesday, May 14, five Black Hills school districts—Rapid City, Sturgis, Deadwood, Custer, and Hot Springs—participated in a terrorism response drill.…