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Republican National Convention, Day 1: red meat at the tea partynew

Marginalized at the RNC, Michele Bachmann and Hermain Cain light up the Unity Rally
INDY Week  |  Barry Yeoman  |  08-28-2012  |  Politics

Cover-Up: Bush's National Guard Service and the Story that CBS Missed

CBS may have gotten the wrong documents but the facts remain the same: Bush got preferential placement in the Texas National Guard and he didn't serve enough time.
Random Lengths News  |  Paul Rosenberg  |  10-01-2004  |  Politics

RNC Report: A Week of Protest Comes to an Endnew

On the Republican National Convention's last night, most of the activists who had come to New York were either still in cells or had gone home.
Boston Phoenix  |  Camille Dodero  |  09-03-2004  |  Politics

RNC Report: GOP to the World — I Yam What I Yamnew

The hardest thing to consider is changing the product.
Boston Phoenix  |  David S. Bernstein  |  09-03-2004  |  Politics

RNC Report: Protests Go Out with a Whimpernew

Suddenly, I was very, very tired. It was time to go home.
Boston Phoenix  |  Adam Reilly  |  09-03-2004  |  Politics

RNC Report: Everywhere a Signnew

A survey of some of the best protest placards.
Boston Phoenix  |  Camille Dodero  |  09-03-2004  |  Politics

RNC Report: How Bad Was Bush? Baaaaaaad!new

George, if you want anyone to believe you're really introducing "a clear and positive plan" to lead us through "this time of change," you have to give it a name. The 21st Century New Freedom plan or something.
Boston Phoenix  |  David S. Bernstein  |  09-03-2004  |  Politics

RNC Report: Waiting for George to Speaknew

All the way up to the big speech, Thursday night's convention program was so bad it seemed intentionally so.
Boston Phoenix  |  David S. Bernstein  |  09-03-2004  |  Politics

RNC Report: Mean Mr. Millernew

On Wednesday night Zell Miller was mainly pissed off that John Kerry is not more like Wendell Willkie, so clearly he's not too choosy about his topic.
Boston Phoenix  |  David S. Bernstein  |  09-02-2004  |  Politics

RNC Report: Osama Bin-Who?new

This entire convention is an orgy of grief and fury over the attack that smashed a vertical city of people just four miles south of the speakers' podium, and yet the name of Osama bin-Laden has not been uttered. Not once.
Boston Phoenix  |  David S. Bernstein  |  09-02-2004  |  Politics

RNC Report: Students to GOP - Stop Exploiting 9/11new

Students from Manhattan’s Stuyvesant High School march to Ground Zero on the third day of the RNC to protest what they see as the Bush administration’s use of September 11 for propaganda.
Boston Phoenix  |  Kevin Ford  |  09-02-2004  |  Politics

RNC Report: Romney — Not Ready for Prime Timenew

Massachusetts Governor (and 2008 presidential hopeful) Mitt Romney's speech Wednesday evening was the biggest moment of his political career. And he blew it.
Boston Phoenix  |  Adam Reilly  |  09-02-2004  |  Politics

Down and Out at the RNCnew

A Metroland reporter strides confidently into the Republicans’ midst, and is forced to toast George W. Bush in order to make it out alive. (Second story on page)
Metroland  |  Rick Marshall  |  09-02-2004  |  Politics

RNC Report: GOP-TVnew

Stuck inside Republican hell with the ‘fair and balanced’ Fox News Channel.
Boston Phoenix  |  Dan Kennedy  |  09-02-2004  |  Politics

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