Posted: May 13, 2015 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Humor, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Amtrak, Aviva Shen, Global Panic, Marxism, media, news, Opportunism, Philadelphia, Progressivism, propaganda, satire, Socialism, ThinkProgress, Train Derailment |

ThinkFailure
Posted: March 13, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Humor, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Crystal Pepsi, Hydraulic fracturing, Lower court, ThinkProgress, Trade secret, Twitter, Wyoming, Wyoming Supreme Court |

Twitchy’s got it: Drillers in Wyoming are reportedly one step closer to disclosing what’s in fracking fluid, as the state’s supreme court sends a fracking fluids disclosure case back to a lower court for substantive review.
Until then, the helpful folks of Twitter are happy to sate ThinkProgress’ curiosity. Just what is in fracking fluid anyway?
Mud. 😱😱😱 RT @thinkprogress: In Wyoming, drillers are one step closer to disclosing what’s in fracking fluid.—
Jason B. Whitman (@JasonBWhitman) March 14, 2014
That plane. RT @thinkprogress: In Wyoming, drillers are one step closer to disclosing what’s in fracking fluid—
Cuffé (@CuffyMeh) March 14, 2014
Crystal Pepsi MT @thinkprogress: In Wyoming, drillers are one step closer to disclosing what’s in fracking fluid—
(@Rschrim) March 14, 2014
Vermouth “@thinkprogress: In Wyoming, drillers are one step closer to disclosing what’s in fracking fluid thkpr.gs/1fB11HJ”—
Mary Magdalen (@Gr8LakesCzarina) March 14, 2014
Salty tears of libs. RT @thinkprogress: Drillers are one step closer to disclosing what’s in fracking fluid thkpr.gs/1fB11HJ—
Razor (@hale_razor) March 14, 2014
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Posted: March 11, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Mediasphere, Think Tank, U.S. News, White House | Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Center for American Progress, Democratic Party, RT (TV network), ThinkProgress, War in Afghanistan (2001–present), White House |

For The Volokh Conspiracy, Jonathan H. Alder writes: Blogger Zaid Jilani has a post claiming that when he worked for ThinkProgress at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, he was pressured to toe the White House line, even when that conflicted with the positions his organization was supposedly advancing.
One of the controversial topics that was very constrained in our writing at ThinkProgress in 2009 was Afghanistan. CAP had decided not to protest Obama’s surge, so most our writing on the topic was simply neutral — we weren’t supposed to take a strong stand. . . . Flash forward a couple years, and the Democratic Party’s lawmakers in Congress were in open revolt over the Afghanistan policy. Our writing at ThinkProgress had opened up a lot on the issue, and I was writing really critical stuff. . . . But then phone calls from the White House started pouring in, berating my bosses for being critical of Obama on this policy. . . .
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Posted: March 9, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Censorship, Mediasphere, White House | Tags: Barack Obama, Center for American Progress, Daily Caller, RT (TV network), ThinkProgress, United States, War in Afghanistan (2001–present), White House |

The Daily Caller‘s Brendan Bordelon reports: Zaid Jilani, a former blogger with the left-wing think tank Center for American Progress, explained this week how the Obama administration frequently tries to censor the progressive organization’s content when it departs from the White House’s agenda.
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Jiliani was reacting to two on-air protests by journalists opposed to Russia’s invasion of southern Ukraine. The two worked for Russia Today (RT) — an English-speaking media outlet funded directly by Moscow — and felt their bosses were trying to censor their opinions
“Essentially, they were doing the same thing to us RT America is telling its American producers to do now — align with your boss, who is the president of the country.”
In a post titled, ”How Working in Washington Taught Me We’re All A Little Like RT America,” Jilani explained how the White House frequently played the part of the Kremlin — leaning on management to push their writers in a particular direction, and punishing them if they strayed from the party line.
“Phone calls from the White House started pouring in,” Jilani claimed, “berating my bosses for being critical of Obama on this policy…”
“I’m writing this post to explain how working in Washington taught me we’re all a little bit like the good folks who work at RT America,” Jilani explained, “struggling against editorial censors, doing our best to follow our conscience despite sometimes suffocating pressures from our publishers and sponsors.” Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: February 20, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Law & Justice, Politics, Self Defense | Tags: Andrew Sullivan, Foreign Policy, Gun rights, Political science, Second Amendment, Self-defense, ThinkProgress, U.S. Constitution, Zack Beauchamp |
Charles Cooke‘s link takes you to Zack Beauchamp’s bright idea:
Ban the Second Amendment
Meet Zack Beauchamp, self-appointed constitutional expert. Zack’s photo and resume says it all:
Zack Beauchamp is a Reporter/Blogger for ThinkProgress. He previously contributed to Andrew Sullivan’s The Dish at Newsweek/Daily Beast, and has also written for Foreign Policy and Tabletmagazines. Zack holds B.A.s in Philosophy and Political Science from Brown University and an M.Sc in International Relations from the London School of Economics.
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