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Daily Caller's Martosko somehow doesn't know Sandy missed Philly
"Pennsylvania will flip into the red column ― partially because Hurricane Sandy will depress some turnout in Obama-friendly Philadelphia..." WHAT?
Daily Caller's Martosko somehow doesn't know Sandy missed Philly
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The Daily Caller, a conservative publication founded by Tucker Carlson, isn't known for being good or accurate. But Editor David Martosko's prediction today that "Pennsylvania will flip into the red column ― partially because Hurricane Sandy will depress some turnout in Obama-friendly Philadelphia, and because the new Black Panthers have been warned this time" evidences a savage disregard for the truth.
Or just laziness.
Whatever.
Point being: Hurricane Sandy basically spared Philadelphia. Few people lost power in the city. No one died. Homes are intact. I hunkered down, ate a weirdly large amount of pumpkin bread, and watched a movie. We, unlike New York City and the Jersey Shore, are fine. I'm looking out at Philly right now from my kitchen window. Everything looks as nice or as not nice as always and I think I'll make it the two blocks to my polling location bright and early.
Regarding the Philly 2008 "New Black Panther" incident that has been legend amongst conspiracists for four long years now: two members of the marginal organization briefly stood outside of a North Philadelphia polling place, one carrying a nightstick. But as I reported in 2010, almost no one in the neighborhood had ever heard about the incident that was, at the very moment, being discussed ad nauseam in the right-wing media echo chamber--ostensibly on behalf of them, the supposed victims of "voter intimidation." Republicans never put forth a single person in this overwhelmingly black neighborhood who accused these two obscure activists of "intimidating" them.
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