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RIP ThinkProgress: The Top Progressive News Site Has Shut Down

Good riddance to bad rubbish
 
I have honest never once been to their website. And apparently they were affiliated with Center for American Progress, which I don't see as a progressive/liberal source whatsoever. Just another establishment think-tank that hates progressive policy and is funded by corporations.
 
Think Progress website, which led smear of Tea Party, shuts down

Think Progress website, which led smear of Tea Party, shuts down

Think Progress is now a zombie website, much like the purportedly progressive ideas on which it was built.

We have not written a lot in recent years about Think Progress, the left-wing website owned by the Center for American Progress.

But back in the day, in the earlier years of Legal Insurrection, we wrote a lot about Think Progress and its efforts to smear the Tea Party as racist and violent. Think Progress led an obsessive campaign to demonize the Koch brothers and Andrew Breitbart. The false claim that Sarah Palin’s electoral map was connected to Jared Loughner’s shooting of Gabby Giffords was spread with the early help of Think Progress blogger Matthew Yglesias.

Here was my June 2011, Fair Assessment of Think Progress:

John Hinderaker of Power Line Blog has done an excellent job tracking down and debunking the serial lies of Think Progress regarding the Koch brothers. I’ve chimed in too from time to time, but John really has led the charge.

In a post today, John demonstrates yet another Think Progress lie supposedly connecting the departure of David Koch from a Board position at the National Institutes for Health with the reclassification of a chemical used by Koch subsidiary Georgia Pacific as a carcinogen. There is no truth to it.

John sums Think Progress up as follows (emphasis mine):

Everyone makes mistakes, but ThinkProgress is unique. It doesn’t just get things wrong; it consistently fabricates lies out of whole cloth. Anyone who relies on ThinkProgress for information is asking to be deceived.

I think that is a fair assessment, except I’d go one step further. Many of the people who rely on Think Progress for information, which they then republish, do so with full knowledge of the lack of truthfulness and thereby are complicit.

It was easy to confuse Think Progress with Media Matters — they served the same purpose, the latter being David Brock’s attack dog.
 
lurchadams said:
Hey, do you think Dorian's still going to strike Alabama?
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Rofl...thanks for the concession there, buddy. I'm not going to take the deflection bait.
 
Renae said:
The problem is that you think we're scared, we're bigoted people on the right, that's why Trump won. People like you don't get America rejected your arrogance.
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Your vote for trump just proved us right.
 
humbolt said:
Going to ThinkProgress for news is like going to Trump for the weather. I don't do either. But if it's helpful, think about it this way - ThinkProgress is gone. Trump isn't.
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Best post of the thread

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Fishking said:
Rofl...thanks for the concession there, buddy. I'm not going to take the deflection bait.
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No, just being hysterical. Don't want to rude and contradict your accusation :2razz:
 
lurchadams said:
No, just being hysterical. Don't want to rude and contradict your accusation :2razz:
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In your contemplation of this post, did you imagine it be worth the effort to type it out?
 
Infowars has a certain comedic value to it. They are also correct about twice a year to boot.

NeverTrump said:
Says the person who goes to naturalnews and infowars for theirs.... :lamo
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lurchadams said:
Just hearing the truth is boring.
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Indeed, there is no money in telling it like it is. You need instead to tell people what they want to hear then corporate sponsors will be more forthcoming with advertising revenue.
 
uptower said:
Indeed, there is no money in telling it like it is. You need instead to tell people what they want to hear then corporate sponsors will be more forthcoming with advertising revenue.
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Fox New's and every right-wing talk show and website's business model. trump used the same messages of fear, hatred and bigotry to get elected.
 
Renae said:
The problem is that you think we're scared
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Holy **** Renae, all you conservatives seem to care about is what you're afraid of.

Science. Justice. Women. Gays. Environmentalism. Abortion. Immigrants. Education.

Fear is the core of what it means to be a conservative. Fear of the power structures being toppled. As an ex-conservative myself, I know this all too well.
 
Lisa said:
I'm a progressive and I've never been there. Iver also never been to AlterNet or Kos. I don't need someone to put a collar on me and tell me what to think.
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Lisa said:
I get my news from NPR/PBS, the BBC World Service and occasionally McClatchey. I get still Kos emails and petitions flooding my inbox.

Alternet, Alternet.org

Mother Jones is another lefty source, Mother Jones – Smart, fearless journalism
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DailyKos is hit-and-miss. They have some great diarists there and they have some questionable ones.

It's funny to see you mention BBC. They're considered to be right-leaning in the UK, which is one of the more conservative democracies, but certainly not as conservative fascist as we are.
 
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