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Police say someone fired a shot at an Obama campaign field office in Denver on Friday afternoon.

No one was injured, though people were inside the offices when the incident occurred, said Denver police spokeswoman Raquel Lopez.

Luther was subjected to the Diet of Worms, which served death in the Wars of the Reformation.

The Republican Party has subjected its followers to a diet of lies, and it’s starting to yield its fruit.

And, when someone dies, the lies and lying liars will be in no way responsible. It will be the deed of a “lone actor” who for some reason “no one can understand” somehow “got carried away.”

These are not nice people.

Denver Post link via Balloon Juice.

Addendum, the Next Day:

StevenD has questions:

How many Romney offices have been shot at? If you can count to zero, you have your answer. How many liberals have been arrested for political terrorism involving violence such as this against Republicans over the two decades?

Mark Hamill is not happy with Mitt’s flips.

But after the presidential debate last week he (Mark Hamill–ed.) was so “outraged” that he publicly blasted GOP hopeful Mitt Romney. In a tweet, Hamill described Romney as a liar and “snake-oil salesman” who needed to be defeated.

“I debated in high school. If you told things that weren’t true or just made things out of whole cloth, you were penalized. It’s too bad they don’t apply the same standards to presidential candidates as they do to high school students,” he told Current TV host Cenk Ugyur.

Leonard Pitts, Jr., discusses right wing efforts to suck facts and truth out of politics. A nugget:

This is the legacy of the War on Reality. Some of us live under a new ethos, fueled and abetted by Fox, the Internet and talk radio, which holds that facts are optional and reality, multiple choice — and that anyone who questions this is part of the conspiracy against you. The results have not been pretty. When, in the history of American political discourse, have conservatives — some, not all — seemed more paranoid, put-upon and ready to believe themselves the victims of outlandish plots?

Hillary Clinton was rightly derided for saying a “vast right-wing conspiracy” was out to get her husband. But if that one-time utterance made her sound ridiculous, what shall we make of this constant drumbeat from the political right? What shall we make of a mindset in which the answer to every criticism, the response to every unwelcome fact, is to point to a conspiracy of bias that exists mostly in their minds?

And this surprises you how?

A man registering voters in Nevada may have implicated the Republican Party in a felony when was caught on video recently telling potential voters to register “non-partisan” because “I don’t get credit for Democrats.”

Nevada television station KOLO obtained cell phone video of a man, who claimed he worked for the Republican Party, revealing that he was paid by the number of voters he registers, but only if they were not Democrats.

“Could you do me a favor?” the man asked a potential voter. “Mark non-partisan on there. I’ll get credit for it. I don’t get credit for Democrats.”

Afterthought:

How long before the denials? By tomorrow he will be a non-person.

One more parody, one more too true to be funny. From the website:

This is a real print ad running in local media. We dummies thought it would pack more punch in video.

Via Bartcop.

At Tampa Bay dot com, Bill Maxwell, who worked with the SCLC to register black voters in the 1960s, remembers the roots of the gut out the vote effort:

As a child, I did not know any blacks who voted. We could not vote. I recognized an ugly irony up close: Several of my relatives who had served as Marines and soldiers during World War II and the Korean conflict could not vote after returning to U.S. soil. They were not alone. More than 500,000 blacks fought, and many died, as members of racially segregated units during World War II. More than 600,000 served during the Korean conflict. Many died.

To keep blacks out of voting booths back then, whites used practices that included poll taxes, proof of residency, physical intimidation and even murder.

The Republican Party has based its electoral fortunes on dressing bigotry in a nice new suit called “Voter ID.”

It’s still bigotry, still craven, corrupt, and contemptible.

Tamba Bay dot com’s John Romano confesses the error of his ways:

They were right, I was wrong.

They knew better, I knew nothing.

When I recently criticized the state’s Republican leaders for chasing nonexistent voter fraud, I should have bowed to their insider knowledge.

After all, they were the ones paying $1.33 million to a company that has apparently turned in phony voter registration forms across Florida.

Daniel Ruth dismembers Florida governor Rick Scott’s claim to disinterested non-partisanship as motive for the Florida gut out the vote movement. A nugget:

About the time the public received the governor’s rambling missive, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement was reviewing suspicious voter registration forms filed by a Republican vendor, Strategic Allied Consulting.

To date, dubious voter registration forms collected by Strategic Allied Consulting have been unearthed in about a dozen counties stretching from South Florida to the Panhandle. FDLE launched a formal criminal investigation this week.

Many of the forms cited mythical addresses and at least one (ahem) was for a voter who had long since passed on to that Chicago ward precinct in the sky.

Yet, while Scott’s letter was waxing ridiculous about the sanctity of the voting booth, his own party was busily at work trying to cook the books. This was a bit like Mexico’s Zetas cartel claiming to be outraged over epidemic drug trafficking, oblivious to all the shooting in the streets.

Strategic Allied Consultants, the Republican voter registration outfit that was filing fraudulent registration forms in Florida, tried to raise the dead.

Here’s a snippet from Dick Polman’s article (emphasis added):

“The problem” apparently includes: incorrect addresses, addresses that don’t exist, signatures that don’t match the names, signatures in the same handwriting, dates of births that don’t match the names, and (my favorite) names that match up with the names in death records. As one unamused Florida country supervisor tells a local reporter, “A number of dead people were trying to register to vote.” In another county, roughly 25 percent of the registration forms are suspect or bogus. And in the wake of what has surfaced in Florida, election officials in North Carolina are now reviewing the local activities of that same registration group, Strategic Allied Consultants.

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Voter fraud.

It’s a Republican thing.

More indications that Republicans are so hyped about voter fraud because it’s what they do:

Aggressive recruitment efforts in one of California’s most hotly contested voting districts has created a surge of newly minted Republicans like Marleny Reyes. Except she had no intention of joining the GOP.

The Moreno Valley College student is among scores of voters in Riverside County who say they were duped.

Formal complaints filed with the state by at least 133 residents of a state Senate district there say they were added to GOP rolls without their knowledge, calling into question the party’s boast that Republican membership has rocketed 23% in the battleground area.

Via Unqualified Offerings.

Via Romney the Liar.

More evidence has been uncovered that the Republican hysteria about “voter fraud” is a manifestation of psychological projection.

Voter fraud is not just a Republican lie.

It’s a Republican practice. Projection, anyone?

A vendor fired by the Republican Party of Florida for submitting questionable voter registrations forms in Palm Beach County is also responsible for filing flawed applications in other counties and states, election officials confirmed Friday.

Earlier this week, Florida Republicans fired Virginia-based Strategic Allied Consulting after Palm Beach County flagged about 100 registration forms that looked suspicious because of signatures that looked alike and incompleteness. The Palm Beach County state attorney’s office is reviewing those forms, said spokeswoman Christine Weiss.

But subsequent to that revelation, other counties have reported irregularities with voter registration forms with the identification number of 11-93 — which traces back to the Republican Party of Florida.

The slideshow at Newshound lays it out. (Click to advance the slides.)

Via TPM.

Chauncey Devega decodes the code. It’s the odious Southern strategy once more all over again.

. . . this (the “makers” vs. the “takers” construct–ed.) is a lie and a misrepresentation of reality (more whites are poor and on government assistance than any other group in America); nevertheless this fiction serves Romney’s campaign of overt and subtle racism against Obama quite well.

Romney’s narrative of “makers” and “takers” is rooted in the Republican Party’s ability to put a black and brown face on poverty in America by the use of what has come to be described as “the Southern Strategy.” Since at least Richard Nixon, conservatives realized that by linking anti-poverty programs to people of color that white support for these policies can be undercut.

Because it’s all they got.

Sarah Silverman, below the fold (warning: extreme language).

Via Rolling Stone.

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