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<title><![CDATA[Bill Zeiser - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/29836.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Bill Zeiser]]></description><category domain="29836">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Left-Wing Twitter Goes Full 'Apocalypse Now']]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/left-wing-twitter-goes-full-apocalypse-now/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Zeiser</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the film Apocalypse Now, Martin Sheen'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Captain Willard comes upon a remote outpost defending a bridge. Hoping to confer with the commander, he instead finds a delirious state of chaos. A machine gunner fires heavy caliber rounds into the night while trading taunts with an unseen...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Either the U.S. Leads on Crypto, or China Will]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2020/12/18/either_the_us_leads_on_crypto_or_china_will_653775.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Zeiser</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even casual viewers of cable news are familiar with commercials featuring actor William Devane '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' usually golfing or horseback riding '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' exhorting them to invest in precious metals. Lately, Devane has been joined in this pursuit by financial educator Robert Kiyosaki, creator of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wicked Whitmer vs. the Land of Self-Government]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2020/07/20/wicked-whitmer-vs-the-enchanted-land-of-self-government/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Zeiser</author>
							<description><![CDATA[More than once, I've heard professors at Hillsdale College remark that the most dangerous words you can say to the government are leave me alone. Governor Gretchen Whitmer seems hellbent on proving the truth of this maxim. Hillsdale, a small liberal arts school in the rural Michigan town...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Context Is Important When Snopes Fact-Checks. Sometimes.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/06/04/context_is_important_when_snopes_fact-checks_sometimes_143363.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Zeiser</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump, presently at war with the social media giant Twitter over whether his tweets should have fact checks appended to them, is a reliable source for the promotion of controversial material. Browsing Facebook recently, I saw a post from an acquaintance who insisted that the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Snopes Fact-Checkers Finally Label Satire -- Sort Of]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/08/17/snopes_fact-checkers_finally_label_satire_--_sort_of.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Zeiser</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Snopes, one of the nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s leading fact-checking outfits, has quietly introduced a new category for rating claims: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Labeled Satire.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' While a request for comment from Snopes was not returned, the change is presumably a result of the fact checkers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' spat earlier this...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fact-Checking Satire -- Is Snopes Serious?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/07/31/fact-checking_satire_--_is_snopes_serious_140893.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Zeiser</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Humor website the Babylon Bee is like The Onion for the politically conservative and evangelical Christian set. That is, it offers satirical articles written in the style of a legitimate news outlet. Recent headlines include '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Futuristic, Utopian Paradise of Baltimore Completely...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mizzou Ignored Donor's Conservative Intent, Lawsuit Asserts]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/07/19/mizzou_ignored_donors_conservative_intent_lawsuit_asserts_140826.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Zeiser</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The University of Missouri has faced a tough few years. First, there were well-publicized protests stemming from student allegations that the administration responded inadequately to racial bias on campus. At one particularly charged demonstration, a (since fired) journalism professor...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Political Gamesmanship -- in the Palm of Your Hand]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/02/28/political_gamesmanship_--_in_the_palm_of_your_hand_139609.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Zeiser</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may be too young to run for president in real life, but she is the number one candidate of choice in Two Seventy, an app-based game that allows players to simulate a presidential election. Transcending history, this week she is beating out even John F....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Larger-Than-Life Rebuke to AOC's Anti-Business Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/02/21/a_larger-than-life_rebuke_to_aocs_anti-business_politics_139534.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Zeiser</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Amazon'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s decision last week to cancel plans to build a New York City campus was costly for the Big Apple. The online retailing giant would reportedly have bolstered New York'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s coffers to the tune of $27 billion in tax revenue over 25 years, and created 25,000 to 40,000 new jobs...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Impending Loss in the Fact-Checking Family?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/12/13/an_impending_loss_in_the_fact-checking_family_138918.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Zeiser</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Reports have circulated recently that The Weekly Standard, a fixture of conservative opinion since the mid-1990s, might not be long for the world. Paradoxically, the cause of the magazine'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s undoing might be the very thing that has distinguished it these past few years. The Standard...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Post Sells Trump Short on Housing, Economic Stats]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/12/04/post_sells_trump_short_on_housing_economic_stats_138826.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Zeiser</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A recent piece by fact checker Meg Kelly of the Washington Post concludes that '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the president is often eager to prove his economic might. But he should be more careful when promoting success.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' This is doubtless true of not only President Trump, but most politicians. The Post...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trouble With 'Half True' Fact-Checking Verdicts]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/11/20/the_trouble_with_half_true_fact-checking_verdicts_138707.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Zeiser</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Under ideal circumstances, fact-checking outlets offer simple ratings that inform readers whether a claim they have encountered is true or false. As with many situations in life, however, reality is often far more complicated than the ideal. Regular readers of fact-checking sites might...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Was Facebook's Suppression of News Story Fair Play?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/11/13/was_facebooks_suppression_of_news_story_fair_play_138631.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Zeiser</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While browsing Facebook recently, I happened upon a post by conservative writer Brandon Weichert. He shared a screen capture of a warning he had been issued by Facebook when trying to share a news article from the Daily Wire, a site owned by conservative pundit Ben Shapiro. The warning...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fact-Check Warning: Don't Just Read the Verdict]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/11/02/fact-check_warning_dont_just_read_the_verdict_138535.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Zeiser</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Fact-checking outfits are supposed to help prevent the spread of misinformation by assigning tidy ratings that place publicly made statements into camps of truths and falsehoods. The effort is noble, given mounting evidence that people share information in pernicious ways. Studies, for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[California Candidate Frisked Closely by Fact Checkers]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/09/14/california_candidate_frisked_closely_by_fact_checkers_138078.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Zeiser</author>
							<description><![CDATA[John Cox is a businessman and perennial, if unsuccessful, candidate for political office. A Republican, Cox is running for governor of California by dint of his second-place finish in the Golden State'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s unique nonpartisan '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'jungle'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' primary system. Cox is facing an uphill...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fact-Checking the Red Menace]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/08/28/fact-checking_the_red_menace_137912.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Zeiser</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ron DeSantis, a Republican member of the House of Representatives in the hunt for the governorship of Florida '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' the state'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s primary is being held today -- found himself on the wrong side of a fact check from PolitiFact recently. The fracas began when DeSantis sided with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Is a Fact Check Not a Fact Check?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/08/21/when_is_a_fact_check_not_a_fact_check_137851.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Zeiser</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Fact checkers, like others who work in media, are competing for their share of the dwindling American attention span. Even my local newspaper in a town of 8,000 residents has started to offer its readership multimedia options like video segments in an effort to accommodate contemporary...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Snopes and Editorializing Fact Checks]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/07/18/snopes_and_editorializing_fact_checks_137551.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Zeiser</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We at RealClearPolitics'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' Fact Check Review are making an earnest effort to better understand how fact checkers work -- and to share our findings with the public. We are doing so because much is unknown about the fact-checking process. What is clear, however, is that fact checkers...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When 'Facts' Are in the Eye of the Beholder]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/07/03/when_facts_are_in_the_eye_of_the_beholder.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Zeiser</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Do writers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' opinions insinuate their way into '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'fact'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' checking? This question has dogged the craft since fact-checking became a staple of modern journalism. Let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s look at two recent case studies, both by PolitiFact, to highlight this topic.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
The first piece,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Uncharitable FactCheck.org Verdict for Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/05/21/an_uncharitable_factcheckorg_verdict_for_trump_137071.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Zeiser</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The federal judge presiding over the bank fraud case against one of President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s former close associates, campaign chairman Paul Manafort, made headlines earlier this month by calling into question the legal justification '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' and motivations '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' of Special Counsel Robert...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Tale of Two Fact Checks]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/05/17/a_tale_of_two_fact_checks_137054.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Zeiser</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Kalev Leetaru, in his piece inaugurating RealClearPolitics'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' Fact Check Review, highlighted some of the problems inherent to fact checking as it is being conducted today. Fact checkers, for example, have the habit of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'checking'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' subjective opinions rather than verifiable...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fact-Checking a Jest: Was the Joke on PolitiFact?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/05/10/fact-checking_a_jest_was_the_joke_on_politifact_137011.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Zeiser</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Political humor in this country will take a while to recover from the fallout of the partisan, foul-mouthed comedian at the 2018 White House Correspondents'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' Association dinner. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' But the week before, the art of the jest took a mugging from an unlikely source: PolitiFact. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
On...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Anatomy of a Good Fact Check]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/05/03/anatomy_of_a_good_fact_check_136958.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Zeiser</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In our unsettling age of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'fake news,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' it would seem that Facebook'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s third-party fact-checking initiative would be a welcome development. Facebook has teamed up with six independent fact-checking organizations to identify and reduce the spread of fake news.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
These...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Left's Campaign Against Philanthropic Privacy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/388705/dark-money-bill-zeiser</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Zeiser</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'The shadow of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'dark money'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' haunts the midterms,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' warned the Washington Post in a headline on September 2. Two days later, the Huffington Post chimed in with a headline of its own: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Time to Name the 2014 Midterms the Dark Money Election.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' The...]]></description>
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