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Get More Smarter on Wednesday (August 15)

A man, a plan, a canal, Panama (the Panama Canal opened on this day in 1914). It’s time to Get More Smarter. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of a visual learner, check out The Get More Smarter […]

Behold! The Dumbest Thing You Will Read This Year!

UPDATE (6:39 pm): This ridiculous editorial has apparently caught the attention of other journalists around Colorado, which has prompted the Gazette to make a bunch of changes throughout the day (as documented by Westword). It gets better. These discussions eventually led to this exchange between Colorado Independent columnist Mike Littwin and Gazette editorial page editor Wayne Laugesen. If you were silently hoping […]

Worst Product Placement Ever, Americans For Prosperity Edition

Joey Bunch of the Phil Anschutz-owned Colorado Springs Gazette ran a puff piece this past weekend celebrating recipients of the so-called “Pinnacle of Prosperity Award,” handed out by Koch Brothers-funded political advocacy group Americans For Prosperity: The well-connected conservative organization Americans for Prosperity-Colorado tapped its 22 favorite Republicans Thursday to receive the Pinnacle of Prosperity Award… […]

Even More Silly California Bashing–Who Is This Aimed At?

9NEWS’ Marshall Zelinger takes a look at another ad running in the Colorado governor’s race, once again demonizing the state of California as a segue into attacking Democratic nominee Jared Polis: RadiCalifornia is back. There is another political ad calling out Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jared Polis and suggesting he’s trying to turn Colorado into California: […]

Get More Smarter on Tuesday (August 14)

Russia, Russia, Russia! It’s time to Get More Smarter. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of a visual learner, check out The Get More Smarter Show.   TOP OF MIND TODAY…  ► President Trump is the least racist […]

Trump’s Interior Secretary, Whom Colorado Republicans Praised Last Week, Says Trump Is “Delightful To Work For”

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Last week, after Trump’s Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke met with Colorado Republican state senators, including Kevin Grantham of Canon City, Beth Martinez Huminek of Westminster, and Randy Baumgardner of Hot Sulpher Springs, he meandered up to Steamboat Springs, where he gave a lengthy interview praising Trump and warning against blaming climate change […]

Rick Perry, Cory Gardner Tour NREL Tomorrow

A press release from the Department of Energy announces the Secretary of Energy hisself, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, will tour Golden’s National Renewable Energy Lab tomorrow accompanied the always-cherubic Sen. Cory Gardner: On Tuesday, August 14, 2018, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry will travel to the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy […]

Panicked Gardner Asks for Trump’s Help in Arizona Senate Race

UPDATE: Republican Senate candidate Kelly Ward is running digital ads criticizing “Amnesty Senator Cory Gardner”: —– Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Yuma) is the Chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) for 2018, which means it is his job to make sure that Republicans maintain their Senate majority in November. This is not a good job to have […]

Pundits Plead With Stapleton To Address KKK Great-Grandpa

A story this weekend from the Denver Post’s John Aguilar and Ben Botkin once again revisits the story that Walker Stapleton used to lead with, and now runs away from: his great grandfather Benjamin Stapleton, who gives Walker most of his “Colorado native” bonafides but also saddles him with a legacy of Ku Klux Klan […]

Blowing The Dog Whistle With Lang Sias

A story today in the Grand Junction Sentinel from reporter Gabrielle Porter covers Republican “Lite Gov” nominee Lang Sias, delivering in Grand Junction yesterday what seems to be the party’s central message about Democratic nominee Jared Polis: he’s from the dreaded socialist hellhole of Boulder, he’s so super far lefty-left that he would be as […]

Check Out These Awesomely Fake “Space Force” Logos

Fast Company’s Jesus Diaz reports, it’s just too damn much: According to astronaut Mark Kelly and plenty of other experts, Donald Trump’s Space Force is, simply put, a pretty dumb idea. Nonetheless, last night the president’s reelection campaign released a slew of possible Space Force logos–and they’re right in line with the stupefyingly bad design […]

Get More Smarter on Friday (August 10)

For many of you, this is the last weekend before the start of the new school year. Please act accordingly. It’s time to Get More Smarter. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of a visual learner, check out […]

Ain’t No Bar High Enough For Colorado Schools? We’ll See

A press release from Great Schools, Thriving Communities announces the approval this week of Amendment 73, a constitutional ballot measure to raise state income taxes on high-income earners as well as the corporate income tax to fund Colorado’s perennially underfunded public schools: “Amendment 73 is set up so local school districts decide where resources are […]

Republicans Trade Orange Jumpsuit for Suspenders in HD-25

A very quiet Republican vacancy committee in Jefferson County has selected a new candidate for State House in HD-25 after incumbent Rep. Tim Leonard (R-Evergreen) decided to drop out of the race on account of being a deadbeat dad. Steve Szutenbach is the Republican candidate running against Democrat Lisa Cutter for what is now an open seat. Leonard, […]

Accountabililty: How Far Dan Haley Has Fallen

UPDATE: It appears that the Energy Accountability Project (or whatever) fixed the misspelling of “accountability” in their logos on their website and Twitter account sometime after this post went live. Unfortunately, “accountability” is misspelled in, well, every piece of content they’ve ever released into the wild! Like this one: And this one: And this one: And […]

Get More Smarter on Thursday (August 9)

Could Omarosa be Donald Trump’s downfall? If God has a sense of humor, it just might happen. It’s time to Get More Smarter. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of a visual learner, check out The Get More […]

Oil & Gas Media Bashing Site Gives Itself Two Thumbs Up

There’s been quite a bit of discussion among Colorado journalists lately regarding a new website called “The Energy Accountability Project” (EAP), which appears to be little more than a media bashing tool that is half-heartedly disguised as a “fact checking” resource. We’ll have more discussion on the EAP site a bit later in this space, […]

Republican Guv’s Association: Slinging The BS Early, Often

FOX 31’s Joe St. George walks us through the latest ad from the Republican Governor’s Association targeting Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jared Polis in the now-familiar “hippie-punching” style we’ve side-eyed in this space before. Under the fact-checking microscope, this ad is revealed to have some serious issues with every single one of its claims that viewers […]

Denver Post letter writers debate relevance of Stapleton’s KKK family ties

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) The Denver Post published a few thoughtful letters over the weekend about whether the New York Times erred in reporting on the potential impact of Republican candidate for governor Walker Stapleton’s family ties to the KKK. The letters responded to Post columnist Mario Nicolais’ June 29 piece titled “The New York Times kneecaps Walker Stapleton.” In his column, Nicolais complained […]

Brauchler Flip-Flops, Faceplants On Guns

An in-depth story in the Vail Daily by freelance reporter David O. Williams could spell big trouble for GOP attorney general candidate George Brauchler: after taking fire from fellow Republicans for supporting “red flag” legislation to get guns out of the hands of dangerous persons with mental illness, Brauchler appears to be backtracking in order […]

More Carnage: Stapleton’s LG Timeline Blows Up in His Face

A successful campaign is a lot like a popular Disney cartoon (but with fewer original songs): It tells a good story centered around a compelling protagonist, with a narrative that keeps even casual viewers engaged and invested in a favorable outcome for the main character. Usually there is even a moral lesson involved. You know […]

They’re Coming For You, Mike Coffman

Team Politico reports on results from the final special election before this year’s fateful midterms, in Ohio’s 12th District: Tuesday night ended with Troy Balderson narrowly ahead in the closely watched special election for a congressional seat in Ohio, and Republicans — including President Donald Trump — declaring victory. But the photo finish — Balderson […]

Conservative Radio Host Joins Coffman in Calling Social Security a “Ponzi Scheme”

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Conservative talk-radio host Ross Kaminsky dredged up an old conversation Tuesday, saying Social Security is “clearly” a “Ponzi scheme” and a “fraud.” To his credit, Kaminsky didn’t just proclaim the 80-year-old program a “Ponzi scheme” and move on. Instead, he had a six-minute debate with Max Richtman, director of the National […]

Caption This Photo: The Harasser And Beth Humenik

We did a double-take over this photo Tweeted yesterday by the Colorado Senate Republicans: That’s Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, who was in Colorado over the weekend visiting Rocky Mountain National Park. With him are a number of Colorado Republican state senators, Chris Holbert, Kevin Lundberg, Don Coram, Randy Baumgardner, Beth Martinez Humenik, Kent […]

Denver Chamber Helps Jack Frack Setback Initiative

We’ve been monitoring the strange story of what appears to have been a multi-pronged insider effort to derail Initiative 97, the controversial ballot measure to dramatically increase setbacks between oil and gas wells and so-called “surface development”–that is, homes and schools built over somebody’s else’s mineral rights. After one petition gathering firm left the state […]

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