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Talking Gold: An Interview With Swimmer Natalie Coughlin

Posted on July 13, 2012

BuzzFeed Sports spoke with 11-time medalist Natalie Coughlin about living as a professional swimmer, posing for Sports Illustrated , and how exactly Olympians are crazy.

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Can Deneen Borelli Convince Black People To Vote For Republicans?

Posted on June 26, 2012

A difficult job. Deneen Borelli of the Koch-backed FreedomWorks, says conservatives need to work harder at “reaching the black community with message of limited government.” The woman tasked with spreading the Tea Party message among African-Americans says black voters need to get past “ethnic pride” and the “nonsense” that the Tea Party is racist. “There has been a void in reaching the black community with message of limited government,” Deneen Borelli, the new Director of Outreach for FreedomWorks, told BuzzFeed in an interview Monday.

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Three 'Occupy Oakland' protesters charged with robbery, hate crimes

Posted on March 4, 2012

OAKLAND, Calif. Three Occupy Oakland protesters were arrested after they allegedly battered a California woman, stole her wallet and made anti-gay remarks, the Oakland Tribune reported Saturday. Michael Davis, 32, Nneka Crawford, 23, and Randolph Wilkins, 24, were charged with robbery and hate crime Friday and remained in Dublin, Calif., jail Saturday

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Occupy Wall Street: Outing the Ringers – Video

Posted on October 29, 2011


twitter.com A few thoughts on Occupy Wall Street, I’ve been watching it and going down there for a while now but hadn’t had a chance to speak on it. By the way when I say some news media people are “ringers,” I don’t necessarily mean that they deliberately obfuscate, or get orders from some shadowy figure to do so. I think they’ll often just have a personal investment in the system and status quo that’s being critiqued/threatened, so they’ll naturally–without any need to conspire–have their perception skewed by an instinct to protect the status quo they’re invested in.

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