Teacher Confronted On YouTube Arrested On Sexual Abuse Charges

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On Monday, former educator Andrea Cardosa was arrested and charged with 16 counts of abuse, including five counts of aggravated sexual assault on a child, in Riverside County, Calif.

Cardosa, 40, was confronted about her past by Jamie Carrillo, 28, in a YouTube video posted on Jan. 17. (The original video, which received more than 1.2 million views, appears to have been taken down. A re-uploaded version is available here.)

“I was only 12 years old when I met you,” Carrillo tells Cardosa in the video. “You realize you brainwashed me and you manipulated me? And that what you did was wrong?”

“Yes,” Cardosa responds. “And I regret it.”

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On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that Cardosa has already confessed to police to having a sexual relationship with Carrillo when Carrillo was a teenager.

“During the interview, Cardosa admitted to having sexual relationship with Jane Doe #1,” Riverside police detective Roberta Hopewell wrote in the papers filed in Riverside County Superior Court seeking Cardosa's arrest.

Carrillo later said Cardosa was her basketball coach in middle school, and that the abuse began when she 12 and lasted until she was 20.

A second alleged victim came forward to CBS Los Angeles on Jan. 22, saying “our stories are exactly, extremely, extremely alike.”

According to the district attorney's office, Cardosa's 16 charges stem from interactions she had with just the two women. Fifteen charges pertain to Carrillo, while one pertains to the second anonymous victim.

Cardosa could serve life in prison if found guilty of the five aggravated sexual assault charges.

Prior to her arrest, the district attorney had issued a $5 million arrest warrant for Cardosa, who resigned as assistant principal of Alhambra High School shortly after the video began going viral.

Read more: http://buzzfeed.com/jtes/california-teacher-confronted-on-youtube-charged-with-sexual

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Watch Another Glenn Beck Theory Implode Before Your Very Eyes

Last night, terror expert Steve Emerson told Fox News host Sean Hannity that Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi, the Saudi national who was a “person of interest” in connection to the Boston Marathon bombings, would be deported on Tuesday.

Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=TU73EZmYjF4.

This morning, Glenn Beck's news network TheBlaze got on the case - aggressively.

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Citing sources, Beck reported on his radio show Thursday morning that Ali Alharbi was connected to an important Saudi family and was being deported for “security and related grounds.”

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Beck, dismayed by the lack of mainstream media pickup of their story, urged listeners to spread it on social media while they kept after government officials for more information.

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#Boston Saudi student suspect Obama is HELPING to leave country HAS REOCRD Of being deported as HAVING TERRORIST TIES. Listen @glennbeck

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RT @DRUDGE_REPORT: REPORT: Saudi Student - 'Person of Interest' in Boston Bombings - To Be Deported… http://t.co/4fhhtqfVFd

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Hello MSM? @theblaze and @worldnetdaily only ones covering huge story that Saudi person of interest may be deported http://t.co/LtjUdoXvAq

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Total shock. Saudi student hurt in Boston bombing not being deported http://t.co/XQa1hvFySQ @RepJeffDuncan @TheBlaze @PamelaGeller #p2 #tcot

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Lying lies & lying #LIARS @DHSgov @DOJgov @BarackObama @WhiteHouse! #Saudi National To Be Deported on 'Security' http://t.co/oi8ZyPUEyN #sgp

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Then, at around 10:45 a.m., Cheatwood announced on the air that one of his reporters had told him that the government was now considering not deporting Ali Alharbi. Beck declared victory:

“Hopefull, we've just shut the engines down on a jet. That didn't happen after 9-11. We've learned since 9-11. The government, apparently, hasn't.”

Video available at: http://buzzfeed-video1.s3.amazonaws.com/video/2013/04/18/becksaudi-480×254.mp4.

Unfortunately for Beck and The Blaze, to story was inaccurate. First, a senior law enforcement official told BuzzFeed that the rumor was false.

“We do have a Saudi in ICE custody…He is not related in any way to the investigation into the bombing. He's not in any way related to this investigation.”

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As of 3:53 p.m. the rumor was still The Blaze's top story, but it had a sidebar headline that read, ICE OFFICIAL RESPONDS TO BLAZE REPORT: 'CATEGORICALLY FALSE'

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The Hill then confirmed with administration officials that the rumor was false, as did CNN's Jake Tapper.

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Just speculation, but this GIF probably represents most of TheBlaze employees right now:

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What To Watch On Netflix Now: Vampires!

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If you're in the mood for a campy horror hoot with a bunch of old pros at the tops of their games: The Comedy of Terrors (1963, Jacques Tourneur)

Check this cast list: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, and Basil Rathbone. A lot of genre heavy-hitters show up for Jacques Tourneur's ghoulishly cheerful black joke The Comedy of Terrors. So there's something irresistibly cheeky about a film with this kind of firepower giving a starring credit to a cat.

Price takes the lead as Waldo Trumbull, a delightfully snide undertaker with a fondness for the drink and a poisonous contempt for everything else. Lorre is Felix Gillie, his long-suffering bumbler of an assistant, well-meaning yet terminally inept, and an amusingly addled Karloff plays Trumbull's father-in-law, an ancient man whose faculties are long gone yet his body refuses to shut down. The ensemble, rounded out by Joyce Jameson as Trumbull's wife, a ditzy would-be opera singer who bears the brunt of her husband's scorn, plays terrifically off each other - the majority of the early laughs come from watching these disparate personalities clash and bang together at odd angles, whether it's Price's exasperated declaration of, “I'm going out to drink myself into a state of stupefaction,” Lorre's meek pride in a hand-built coffin that crumbles at the merest touch or Karloff's yammering about the burial rituals of the ancient Egyptians (“…yank their brains out with a hook!”). A story eventually emerges, and in doing so it provides a framework for more slap-happy goings-on. (Rathbone's dying burlesque on “Macbeth” is killer stuff - a gag drawn out past all logic, past of the point of losing the joke and around to where it becomes funny again simply by duration.) The Comedy of Terrors is a macabre lark - a bit weightless, but grand fun anyway, if only to watch a bunch of big names compete over who can slice the most ham.

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If you're in the mood for vampires, panthers and malevolent dwarves: Vampire Circus (1972, Robert Young)

“One lust feeds the other…” Sex and death are often intertwined in the horror genre, rarely more effectively than in vampire movies. And if it's a strong shot of bloody perversity for which you're hankering, you could do a lot worse than Vampire Circus. This Hammer production leaps out of the gate with a vampire chowing down on an adorable little blonde girl, then sexing up the wife of one of the local villagers. The village doesn't take kindly to this and storms the castle, managing to slay the vamp after a bloody battle. With his dying breath, the vampire lays a curse on the town; cut to fifteen years later, and the plague is romping through the area, leaving the little village quarantined. It's about this time that a mysterious circus comes to town, featuring animals and acrobats and magic mirrors and all manner of unusual sights.

It's no secret what the circus is (hint: look at the title), and to the film's credit it's working more with the Hitchcockian definition of suspense rather than surprise - we're sitting waiting for the vampiric attacks to begin with bated breath. In the interim, the notion of the vampire as decadent, worldly sex fiend is contrasted against the good, upstanding villagers; it's an old, familiar formulation, but it's still fascinating to see how far Vampire Circus runs with it - past mere seduction into darker, stickier areas like incest and bestiality. (The tiger dance seen during the circus's first performance is one of the most sexually fucked up scenes of the '70s.) There's also the clear correlation of the swath of death cut through the town by the vampires and the similar path run by the plague. Stir in the gloomy atmosphere and the doom-laden score and the overall effect is one of a society rotting away from inside and fighting to keep the sickness at bay. All of which is to say that Vampire Circus takes its careful time setting up its conflicts and then lets the dominoes fall as they should in a creepy-cool explosion of vamp action. Wild cats eat people, evil clown-faced dwarves cackle and a good number of bodices are ripped. What's not to enjoy?

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If you're in the mood for total batshit insanity, plus boobs: Nude for Satan (1974, Luigi Batzella)

Like I need to write anything after that title.

Nude for Satan is a singularly daffy triumph of mood over logic. Luigi Batzella's bizarre object du cinema stars Rita Calderoni alongside a dude who looks like a Eurotrash Kirk Douglas and a big-haired creepy dude in a cape who, one presumes, is the Satan of the title. (At the very least, his ability to make Rita's clothes vanish by staring really hard is demonstrably demonic.) There's a car accident which leads the two protagonists to search for help inside a creepy mansion, where they meet their doubles and get unstuck in time and generally wander around wondering what the hell is going on - Eurotrash Kirk Douglas literally says at one point, “What is happening? I don't understand! And yet…”

And yet! Batzella isn't making a whole lot of sense, but then he's not trying to. Nude for Satan isn't exactly good in the traditional sense, but it has a mesmerizing sort of power about it - it's the atmospheric Eurohorror, with its nightmare logic and inexplicable flights of fancy, reduced to its barest elements and then reduced further until all that remains is colors, flames, wind, smoke and bare flesh, a series of images ties together by the faintest hint of a story. It's a film where the best course of action is to sit back and let yourself drift along with it, collecting sights and sounds. Sensation is the watchword here, and Nude for Satan has some serious ones for your senses.

The Netflix streaming library is vast and daunting and mostly filled with crap. Steve Carlson is the Netflix video clerk, and every week he hand-delivers three awesome movies you've never heard of before. He's been writing about movies in one form or another on the Internet since 2002 and co-hosts the Bad Idea Podcast. Someone once called him the lonely Magellan of exploitation cinema. He thinks that's the best compliment he's ever received.

Read more: http://buzzfeed.com/lcosgrove/what-to-watch-on-netflix-now-vampires

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How 15 Book Series And TV Shows You Never Actually Finished Ended

1. The Baby-sitters Club

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The Baby-sitters club enters a contest for baby-sitters of the year. Mary-Anne's house burns down and she loses everything except some of her jewelry. Her dad gets a job offer in Philadelphia and she realizes new beginnings can come from bad things.

2. Doug

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Doug finishes seventh grade and his voice is beginning to crack. Patti Mayonnaise's dad is marrying Ms. Krystal, the English teacher, and Principal White is performing the ceremony. The Sleech twins get dates. Cleopatra says her first word. Judy goes away to college. Patti asks Doug on a date-date. Doug reaches the last page of his journal.

3. Animorphs

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Everyone finds out about the Animorphs' true identity. The Andalites finally make it to Earth. Rachel dies while attacking a Yeerk-controlled Blade Ship. The Yeerks are defeated. The remaining Animorphs become rich and famous. A few years later, Jake, Tobias and Marco go on a mission to find Ax. The learn he's been assimilated into an entity called The One. They ram their space ship into The One's space ship and we're left on a cliffhanger.

4. Spider-Man

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Spider-Man is taken to different dimensions by Madame Web. He teams up with all the Spider-Men from different dimensions to stop Spider-Carnage from opening an inter-dimensional hole that will destroy everything. They stop Spider-Carnage. Spider-Man gets engaged to Gwen Stacy.

5. The Bailey School Kids

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There's three feet of snow, so the Bailey School kids have to stay in school overnight. A guy who they think is a mad scientist makes a snow sculpture they think might be alive.

6. Rocko's Modern Life

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Rocko's entry to the O-Town parade is rejected by Ed Bighead, who is the grand marshall. Rocko, Ed Bighead, Filburt and Heffer all tell their version of how O-Town was founded.

7. Goosebumps

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Evan, Andy, Kermit and Conan find blue monster blood behind a dumpster. This monster blood is different than all other monster blood because it's blue and it has eyes, lips and it multiplies when it drinks water. A scientist finds the kids trying to contain the monster blood and tells them it's a military experiment. Conan eats some blue candy and starts multiplying himself.

8. Rugrats

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The Rugrats go to a cabin. They watch old family movies and Stu and Drew wish they could be young again. Tommy takes the Rugrats to find the Fountain of Youth so they can help their parents be young again. Angelica tells them if their parents become kids, she'll end up being in charge.

9. Aaahh!!! Real Mosters

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Oblina, Ickis and Krumm get trapped in a garbage compactor. They have nothing to do but talk, and they reminisce about their first day at Monster Academy and how they met and became friends.

10. Sweet Valley High

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The weekend after prom, the Sweet Valley High junior class entered a countywide talent competition. Jessica Wakefield will do anything to make sure Sweet Valley wins, including getting involved in a massive fight with other schools, but then she remembers how Christen Gorman, the love of her life, died in a similar fight. She projects images of Christen surfing onto the auditorium as people are starting to fight, and everyone remembers him and then they stop fighting.

11. Gargoyles

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John Castaway and the Quarrymen lure the clan into a trap, but Xanatos predicted they would do it, so they clan were protected. The Quarrymen then try to send a train off a destroyed bridge, killing all the passengers, but the gargoyles save the train. The Quarrymen are defeated, and society finally accepts the gargoyles.

12. Kenan and Kel

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Kenan's family goes on vacation and Kel sneaks in the car. By the time they realize he's there, it's too late to turn around. There's something about a headless knight or something, and they drive off into the sunset as Kel sings “1,000,000 bottles of orange soda on the wall.”

13. Recess

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TJ and his friends try to infiltrate the Ashley's clubhouse, but it backfires. Gus sprains his ankle during the mission, and they all get detention. Their foiled mission cripples TJ's confidence, and says he's not going to lead his friends anymore. By the end of the episode, they restore his confidence.

14. The Magic School Bus

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Ms. Frizzle's class notices her old geography book looks different and they wonder why. Ms. Frizzle tells that it's because of global warming, so they go on a field trip to the North Pole.

15. X-Men

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The final six episodes were animated by a different company, so they look different. Henry Peter Gyrich attacks Professor X with a psychic energy disrupter. Magneto, who is living on Genosha, is preparing to wage war on humanity. The X-Men visit him to tell him Professor X is in critical condition and he decides postpone his war on the humans out of respect. All attempts to heal Professor X fail. The only thing that can save him is Shi'ar technology, so Lilandra comes to get him and takes him away to space forever.

Read more: http://buzzfeed.com/hunterschwarz/how-book-series-and-tv-shows-you-never-actually-finished-end

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Advertisers stand by Nickelodeon

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In the wake of Jason Biggs' misogynistic comments about Ann Romney and Janna Ryan, The Colorado Rockies announced yesterday that it has canceled “Nickelodeon Day.”  In response, thousands of Twitter users posted comments supporting The Rockies.

Major Nickelodeon advertisers, by strong contrast, have not taken any action to distance themselves from either Nickelodeon or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

This morning, Twitchy contacted Nickelodeon advertisers General Mills, Kellogg's, Sears, and Kraft Foods. All were familiar with the controversy.

None except Sears has condemned Jason Biggs' comments. None has decided to pull ads from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

A Kellogg's rep noted that Nickelodeon has deleted all the links it posted to Biggs' sex-obsessed Twitter page.

Sears Holdings Co. and its subsidiary, Kmart, disavowed Biggs' comments earlier this week, but they are not pulling ads.

“I have checked and see that Sears has not pulled its ads from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” said a customer service rep.

By contrast, Sears refuses to run ads on the Rush Limbaugh show.  Sam's Club, which is owned by Nickelodeon advertiser Walmart, also has said it will not run ads on Limbaugh's show.

Some Twitter users say they will not buy products made by companies that sponsor Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Our campaign to remove @jasonbiggs from @TMNTMaster or boycott all advertisers of @NickelodeonTV @viacom is to escalate! ..

- Chris (@Chris_1791) September 6, 2012

Will boycott Kraft/General Mills/Kellogs./Nickelodeon -Jason Biggs' Twitter account – lewd posts | Fox News http://t.co/hVyRKTvL via @fox411

- donttreadonme53 (@donttreadonme53) September 6, 2012

General Mills, Kellogs and Kraft Foods are sponsors of Nickelodeon which need to be totally boycotted along with Nickelodeon. TOTALLY!!!!!

- Rhondal Burns (@rhondalburns) September 5, 2012

@GeneralMills Hi please remove yourselves from the trainwreck at Nickelodeon until they fire Jason Biggs or no General Mills in my house.

- James E Thompson (@JamesEThompson3) September 3, 2012

https://twitter.com/MikePacey/status/243030525399400448

Boycott @NickelodeonTV until they get rid of @JasonBiggs! Boycott @NickelodeonTV sponsors! Dont let up!

- valerie (@valsocal) September 3, 2012

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https://twitter.com/mbt1955/status/242171503741923328

@Kraftfoods @GeneralMills On my way to the supermarket but I'm not buying your products until you tell @NickelodeonTV to dump @JasonBiggs

- mtadude (@mtadude) September 2, 2012

https://twitter.com/katyabram/status/242303111912370176

@generalmills@mattel@kelloggs_us@kmart@marriott@kccorp I will not continue supporting your business until Nickelodeon fires Jason Biggs

- Life Integrative HC (@LifeIHCnow) September 4, 2012

@Kelloggs_US Until you address the issue concerning @NickelodeonTV and it's association with @JasonBiggs I will boycott your products.

- Imaumbn™ (@Imaumbn) September 2, 2012

Boycott Nickelodeon and its advertisers
till they fire Jason Biggs @NickelodeonTV #boycottNickelodeonTV

- FrGRV1nan (@RevFr_1nan) September 5, 2012

The Wit and Wisdom of @JasonBiggs WARNING SMUT WARNING SMUT @NickelodeonPR http://t.co/zu1J3Hef #BOYCOTT Nickelodeon @viacom & ADVERTISERS

- Jzzy Emily (@JzzS) September 5, 2012

https://twitter.com/PatsyGrimmett/status/242433102109097984

@Kraftfoods: As a customer, I will NOT buy your product if you support @NickelodeonTV @JasonBiggs vulgarity –> http://t.co/pn4R4Duz

- Dave (@virginiapops) September 2, 2012

A list of Nickelodeon advertisers, along with contact information, can be found here.

Previous:

American Idiot: Pig-Maher-in-training Jason Biggs sends out sick tweets about Paul and Janna Ryan; Update: Deletes tweets

American Idiot 2: Jason Biggs knocks Christians; targets Ann Romney and Janna Ryan with vile tweets

Pressure mounting for Nickelodeon to throw the pie at American idiot Jason Biggs

Jason Biggs' wife laments death of free speech

Jason Biggs dismisses his anti-Christian and misogynist filth with 'I put my dick in a pie'

American Weasel: Jason Biggs quietly deletes vile tweets about Ann Romney and Janna Ryan

Nickelodeon now including Jason Biggs' Twitter handle in promotions

Hey Nickelodeon, how's that anti-bullying campaign going?

Parents put pressure on Nickelodeon's advertisers

The wit and wisdom of Nickelodeon's Jason Biggs

Jonah Goldberg: 'this Jason Biggs buffoon deserves firing far more than the Yahoo News Director guy'

Jason Biggs' wife: You people criticizing my husband are scary, humorless bullies

Sears and Kmart disavow Jason Biggs' filthy tweets; 'We do not condone this behavior'

Nickelodeon responds to national outrage: 'We understand your concern' about Jason Biggs

Colorado Rockies baseball team stands with Nickelodeon

Dana Loesch takes to the airwaves to smack down Jason Biggs, Nickelodeon

Colorado Rockies and Nickelodeon team up to promote Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2012/09/06/advertisers-stand-by-nickelodeon/

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Teamsters, Daily Kos, MSNBC push back against 'phony' video of union assault

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That video of union thugs in Michigan tearing down the Americans for Prosperity tent and punching Fox News contributor Steven Crowder repeatedly? You didn't see that. OK, everyone's seen it by now, so what are union supporters supposed to do? Claim the whole thing was a setup, obviously.

For their part, the Teamsters tweeted their concerns of “right-wing provocateurs” ruining their peaceful protest.

Peaceful protests follow #RTW4Less passage in #MI; #Koch lackeys try to smear #unions; automakers concerned teamsternation.blogspot.com/2012/12/peacef… #savemi

- Teamsters (@Teamsters) December 11, 2012

Right-wing provocateurs are at it again with phony 'damaged tent' outrage emptywheel.net/2012/12/11/bre… #savemi

- Teamsters (@Teamsters) December 11, 2012

@teamsters have you seen THIS video?? youtube.com/watch?v=u_F3oe…

- Patriotic Resistance (@AmericanHawkTPJ) December 11, 2012

Of course they've seen the “heavily edited” video. The Teamsters, however, have linked to a blog post explaining the whole incident. Witnesses on the ground confirm that the AFP people loosened the ropes on their own tent. And those union people rushing the tent? They were pushing and shoving to help people out from under it. They even have a witness! Here's Tom Duckworth.

And Crowder? He was, um, punching himself. No? Well, then he was provoking the peaceful protesters to the point where they had to start swinging fists. Daily Kos links to the same video.

Lol idiots at @dailykos denying any violence happened and saying AFP took its own tent down! At least attempt to sound reasonable #pendejos!

- El SOOPer!! (@SooperMexican) December 11, 2012

As the Daily Kos concludes, “Clearly AFP came to this rally to incite an altercation that could be shown on endless loop on Fox to show that union members are, indeed, 'union thugs'. Not surprisingly, Fox News cameramen where [sic] right there on the spot to capture it all on film.” How to counter AFP's fake video? Duckworth also spoke to the official blogger for the Ed Schultz show so MSNBC could pass along the truth.

Anyone in Lansing see up close what happened to the Americans for Prosperity tent? Lots of conflicting reports. #righttowork

- Ned Resnikoff (@resnikoff) December 11, 2012

Another on the ground report: Michigan anti-#righttowork protester accuses Americans for Prosperity of dirty tricks on.msnbc.com/126kHv3

- Ned Resnikoff (@resnikoff) December 11, 2012

Conflicting reports! Which are you going to believe? The obviously fake and heavily edited video shot on the scene? Or this eyewitness who sat down with ProgressMichigan?

Are you people HIGH? Seriously, @msnbc. Watch the videos. MI protest, charges of violence, dirty tricks on.msnbc.com/ZcfLVJ via @edshow

- Cheryl S Fontenot (@StoreyLine) December 11, 2012

@edshow care to comment on the left hook thrown by those Caring union members?

- paulpeterson (@paulypeterson) December 11, 2012

@edshow what about the video of unionists screaming, swearing and punching Crowder in the face? Guess that wouldn't fit your narrative.

- David Rutz (@DavidRutz) December 11, 2012

Will Chris Matthews step in and do the job his MSNBC cohort won't do? Of course not. Matthews is most concerned with who paid for the AFP tent. Oh, and racism.

Can't wait to hear Chris Matthews explain how “Ow! My face!” is racist code language.

- John Hayward (@Doc_0) December 11, 2012

Hi,@hardball_chris , why haven't you shown this video? bit.ly/QUbYZB Who paid them to do that?

- Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) December 12, 2012

@hardball_chris Well, you going to report fairly on what the union thugs did today? Any dog whistles there? Lot of us waiting. #HannityLive

- Brad Mackey (@MackeyBrad) December 12, 2012

I don't like who @hardball_chris works for and it's a private organization. Using his logic I'm allowed to assault him.

- James Yaklin (@ajs_dad) December 12, 2012

It seems those clever right-wing provocateurs had the foresight to catch the assault from multiple angles. Here's video from inside the AFP tent as it was being torn down. Those Americans for Prosperity really went out of their way to make the union protesters look bad.

Alternate view from INSIDE Americans for Prosperity tent. Sorry progs, that ain't a “staged” altercation. ftrradio.com/2012/12/breaki… @ftr__radio

- Mandy Nagy (@Liberty_Chick) December 11, 2012

Inside view as unions tear down AFP tent: youtu.be/oj_Lra1lvxw via @youtube

- Jim Treacher (@jtLOL) December 12, 2012

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2012/12/11/teamsters-daily-kos-ed-schultz-push-back-against-phony-video-of-union-assault/

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'Credible political spokesperson' Katy Perry campaigns in 'Forward' dress

http://twitter.com/#!/Schneider_CM/status/264814546487746561

We'll call this a shock poll, but only because we're shocked that anyone bothered to ask. According to the Hollywood Reporter, voters under 35 were eight times more likely than older voters to consider Katy Perry “more credible as a political spokesperson.” Note: That poll was taken Oct. 29, after Perry had appeared in her latex ballot dress but before today's appearance with Barack Obama at a Milwaukee rally wearing this.

Perry in her “Forward” dress twitter.com/news3jessica/s…

- Jessica Arp (@news3jessica) November 3, 2012

Katy Perry: that dress! (take deux) twitter.com/mattmfm/status…

- Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) November 3, 2012

We're not sure if the dress was made before the Obama campaign decided to kick things up a notch by adding an exclamation point to its slogan, if the dressmaker simply ran out of fabric, or if, like the rest of us, Perry just isn't that excited about four more years.

Katy Perry opening for Obama in a shrink-wrap dress in Milwaukee. It says “Forward” up the side.

- Jon Belmont (@jbelmont) November 3, 2012

Katy Perry's “Forward” dress will be recycled into a dozen swimcaps for needy Wisconsin children.

- Meredith Shiner (@meredithshiner) November 3, 2012

ABC's Jake Tapper, back from his one-day foray into covering the Benghazi cover-up, was on hand.

Katy Perry in Milwaukee, photo from @garciajon yfrog.com/hwvz5owj

- Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 3, 2012

@jaketapper @garciajon Katy Perry is an idiot.

- Barbara (@runbec1) November 3, 2012

@jaketapper @garciajon Heil barry

- Fatlikereflexes (@Fatlikereflexes) November 3, 2012

@jaketapper That looks awfully slippery if she gets wet.

- Brian Baranowski (@BBaranowski) November 3, 2012

@jaketapper @garciajon AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL Liberal praise. *BARF* Jake, you should warn your followers

- Laurie Carleton (@lacincali1) November 3, 2012

@jaketapper Katy who?Dead to me.#RomneyRyan2012

- Karen Mixon (@ktmixon315) November 3, 2012

Just when Tapper had regained just a bit of credibility for daring to report on Libya, he had to add this.

@jaketapper we're supposed to follow the advice of someone stupid enough to marry Russell Brand? Give me a break!

- Jeff Gore (@politisized) November 3, 2012

@politisized i quite enjoyed his work in “Sarah Marshall” and “Get Him To the Greek”

- Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 3, 2012

For the sake of equal time, enjoy this Romney belt buckle made for Kid Rock.

@romneycentral we made this #Romney belt buckle for @kidrock earlier this year. #RomenyRyan2012 twitter.com/mattgiese/stat…

- Matt Giese (@mattgiese) August 24, 2012

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