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A bill in the House to audit the Federal Reserve, known as the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009 (HR 1207) http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-1207, attained 289 co-sponsors yesterday. If you include its sponsor, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), that gives this bill the two-thirds majority required in the House in order to make it veto-proof www.ronpaul.com/on-the-issues/audit-the-federal-reserve-hr-1207/.

Read more here: http://www.examiner.com/x-23316-Madison-Independent-Examiner~y2009m9d17-Bill-to-audit-the-Federal-Reserve-has-vetoproof-majority

Excerpt:
In July, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke appeared before the House Financial Services Committee and was questioned by congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL) regarding $500 billion in government bailout money that cannot be accounted for (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00ECLxK2YTs&feature=player_embedded). Here’s a partial transcript:

Grayson: “So who got the money?”
Bernanke: “Financial institutions in Europe and other countries.”
Grayson: “Which ones?”
Bernanke: “I don’t know.”
Grayson: “Half a trillion dollars and you don’t know who got the money?”

Grayson later said, ” ‘I don’t know’ is not good enough when you’re talking about $500 billion.”

If you agree with that statement, then you probably agree that the government should have a legal right to audit the Federal Reserve.

Here’s a nice one. The dittohead tea-baggers got some media coverage, but the corporate media hacks apparently did not know how to handle it. It took a blogger from St. Petersburg to call them out: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2009/sep/14/tea-party-photo-shows-large-crowd-different-event/ 

Right-wing looney sites such as Say Anything and Power Line, along with one of their corporate media hacks, Michelle Malkin, said the teabaggin’ crowd was between one and two million people. Many pathologically lying right-wingers used the photo above as proof of that on their BS sites. The truth is, they were lying their asses off. The photo was taken in 1997 at a completely different rally.

It’s not a coincidence that rallies protesting the war in Iraq or anything that the real fascist dogs did were “underestimated” and this one was given full-blown media hype. For more info. check out this one on my Examiner page: http://www.examiner.com/x-23316-Madison-Independent-Examiner~y2009m9d14-Conservative-media-called-out

Even Michelle Malkin had to update her twitter page when the shit hit the fan on this one. It’s about time people are catching up with the lies in the corporate media. Hey Michelle and all you right-wing liars…blow me! It’s about time people are waking up to the crap you smear all over the media in this country.

Thanks to Mike Malloy for bringing this one to my attention!

http://www.mikemalloy.com/

Btw, Malloy’s a BartCop fan too:

Is there hope for Americans? Are we finally waking up to the fact that our corporate media is full of it? I know my bovine excrement meter has been maxed out and broken for about 10 years.

Here’s an article I posted on my Examiner page: http://www.examiner.com/x-23316-Madison-Independent-Examiner~y2009m9d14-Public-perception-of-news-medias-credibility-reaches-a-new-low

Excerpt:

According to a poll released on Sunday by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press http://people-press.org/report/543/, almost two-thirds of Americans think the news stories that they watch, read and hear are frequently inaccurate. According to the poll, “the public’s assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now at it’s lowest level in more than two decades of Pew research surveys, and Americans’ views of media bias and independence now match previous lows.”

Perhaps more than “dozens” of people have been reading Bartcop.