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FLASHBACK: Bush’s 2000 RNC Convention hypocrisy

admin — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:08:08 +0000

A collection of Dubya’s most memorable lies from the 2000 Republican National Convention.

“Restore troop morale!” Yeah!

Duration : 0:6:44

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1968 DNC: Democratic nightmare in Chicago

admin — Sun, 16 May 2010 20:40:24 +0000

Chaos before Hubert Humphrey’s nomination sets the modern standard for a harmful convention.

Duration : 0:1:15

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Convention Week: Delegate Service Day

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:37:22 +0000

In an effort to give back to the Denver community hosting this historic Convention, delegates from across the country will come together to participate in a “Delegate Service Day” activity on Wednesday, August 27th. In this video, Jenni Engebretsen, Deputy CEO for Public Affairs, describes the DNCC’s commitment to effecting positive change in the community and talks about some of the ways in which delegates and Convention guests will make lasting contributions to the greater Denver area.

Duration : 0:2:19

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Mario Cuomo’s 1984 Convention Speech

admin — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:28:28 +0000

One of the best rhetorical performances ever given, at a time when people didn’t want to hear it.

Duration : 0:7:48

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TEA PARTY CONVENTION – Sarah Palin, Orly Taitz, Interviews with Participants

admin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:26:30 +0000

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In February 2010, the group Tea Party Nation organized the first Tea Party Convention in Nashville, TN, a for-profit event. Some 600 people paid $550 to attend, and Sarah Palin was reportedly paid $115,000 to the be the keynote speaker. After criticism of the convention’s cost, for-profit status, and payment to Palin, multiple national Tea Party organizations withdrew their participation.

But the event went on.

And so did the paranoid, conspiratorial assertions–that President Obama was born in another country, that he has covered up his college transcripts, that he is pushing a communist/socialist agenda, that he is protecting terrorists and endangering our country, etc.

The organizers of the convention made great efforts to limit access to the press, and even held “new-media training” sessions to help the Tea Partiers sound and look better on camera–the more people see inside this movement, the less like it. But we got ourselves into the event, where the right-wing, fringe sentiments were on plain display.

That said, these Tea Partiers–able to pay the cost of attendance–are more affluent than those at the 9.12 DC March, and more self-conscious of they are portrayed in the media. There were fewer signs and homemade t-shirts here, but the attitudes, if more subtle in delivery, were the same.

Special thanks for John Aravosis and Joe Sudbay of AMERICAblog (http://www.americablog.com) for helping us get an Amtrak ticket out of the DC snowstorm, which made this video possible.

This NEW LEFT MEDIA film was produced and edited by Chase Whiteside (interviews) and Erick Stoll (camera).

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Duration : 0:11:24

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President Barack Obama addresses the 2009 NAACP Convention

admin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:34:20 +0000

President Barack Obama addresses the 2009 NAACP Convention in New York, New York at the 2009 Freedom Fund/Spingarn Awards.

Duration : 0:37:36

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