Heritage Foundation's Haiti Cover-Up

By GottaLaff

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My pal Allen McDuffee has a post up about "Rush's own party that's looking for opportunities in Haiti." And then scrubbing the word "oppotunities" from the Heritage Foundation's website. Not appalled enough yet?

Here's a sample:

The post, written by one of its fellows, Jim Roberts, showed one of the more calloused reactions from within the Beltway.

Here was the original introduction which has since been removed:

In addition to providing immediate humanitarian assistance, the U.S. response to the tragic earthquake in Haiti earthquake offers opportunities to re-shape Haiti’s long-dysfunctional government and economy as well as to improve the public image of the United States in the region.

Forget relief. Opportunities are to be had, according to Roberts.

There's your tease. Here's the whole story.

"Coal Carolers" scrubbed from front group's website

By GottaLaff

Suh-weet:

[The] American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), a coal industry front group, has scrubbed the “Coal Carolers” from its website; the link to the old carolers page redirects viewers to a blog post posting that “it’s time for them to go home for the holidays“:

The group’s Facebook page has also been taken down.

More:

After just three days of online absurdity, the coal industry front group, "America's Power" canned the anthropomorphic singing chunks of coal from their website amidst a torrent of netroots pressure.

After getting kicked around by the blogosphere for a few days, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity's absurd and more than slightly disturbing and sacrilegious effort to win the hearts and minds of Americans with doctored Christmas carols was eventually pilloried by Rachel Maddow on MSNBC:

"How about turning the most famous song in the English language about the birth of Jesus into a commercial for the coal industry? ... Where are all those war on Christmas people when you need them?!"

Calling coal clean is like calling Bush honest.

Or smart.

Or sober.