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Because Mother Jones inviting them into a conversation pretty accurate reflection of larger is a nonprofit organization, with our reporters and editors changes at MoJo—changes that we’ve weathered the general about what matters. put us on a path toward greater economic tumult better than our impact and a sustainable future. counterparts who are dependent Why do we do this? Because in the For a 35-year-old organization to on advertising for financial survival. end we believe—as do you—that be able to say this—while we’re This is the secret behind MoJo’s independent journalism that tells all still dealing with the worst strength: You—our readers and the truth about the world we live economic downturn since the donors—have given us the cushion in can make a difference. Because Great Depression—is no mean to ride out difficult times. (as we note later on in this report) feat. But it’s true. Mother Jones was founded some More importantly, with your 35 years ago to contribute to the The conventional wisdom at support we’ve been able to build great historic arc toward justice so many “future of journalism” Mother Jones into a bonafide and social change. conferences is that so-called home for original investigative “legacy” media shops—outfits journalism—with an award- Your support has made this that cut their reporting teeth in winning, high-impact team of possible, and for that, on behalf print, or on the radio or TV, and reporters and editors covering of Mother Jones’ entire board and that hewed to the traditional the stories and issues that really staff, you have our deepest thanks conventions of what was matter. Plus, we’ve broken through and appreciation. considered good journalism—​ the conventional wisdom: Mother Kind regards, are dead in the water and won’t Jones is helping to create the future make the transition to a digital of journalism using all the new world. 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Legacy Society 6 Six principles for the future 19 Online/Washington, DC, 14 How we make a difference: 27 Board of directors bureau coverage Don’t let go. 28 Staff 30 Statement of activities for the year ending December 31, 2009 34 How you can help Mother Jones magazine and website offer our audience Mother Jones as a center for What We Do and MotherJones.com the depth and context of longform innovation and incubation reporting, combined with the Awarded the prestigious National Mother Jones plays an increasingly breaking-news delivery people Magazine Award for General important role in fostering a crave in this digital age. Excellence in 2008 and 2010, healthy future for journalism. As Mother Jones magazine is published The Ben Bagdikian an incubator for new approaches, by the nonprofit Foundation for Fellowship Program including iterative reporting by National Progress. 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Today, MotherJones publishing projects such as 2008, Mother Jones named its .com reaches more than 1 million Longshot Magazine, which internship program in honor of the readers each month, and the produces, designs, and publishes great investigative reporter and magazine has a large and loyal a full-size print magazine in journalism educator Ben Bagdikian. community of followers on social 48 hours. Mother Jones also Bagdikian interns and fellows work media mainstays Facebook and continues to support The Media side by side with MoJo’s editors and Twitter. Together, the magazine Consortium, a partnership of writers, fact-checking, researching, some 45 independent, progressive and writing original reported stories journalism organizations that have for print and online. come together to strengthen their collective voice. It’s hard to imagine a world the environment in context. And [1] Build on 35 years of Six Principles as volatile and—to put a we aim to equip readers with tools print journalism and create for the positive spin on it—rich with to respond as informed citizens. a 21st century magazine. opportunities for change as the It’s no coincidence that Mother Our roots are in print journalism, Future one Mother Jones operates in Jones has emerged as an exemplary and even today—with all the today: global political change, model of how nonprofit journalism attention being given to new intensely angry political rhetoric, can work, and has worked, since digital products—we believe that deep economic uncertainty, we began publishing in 1976. The a print magazine can do things and the transformation of the New York Times called Mother that no digital product can yet media landscape. As we navigate Jones a “real-life laboratory” for deliver. 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This is journalism that makes a difference. In the next few pages, we highlight the ways Mother Jones is adapting and thriving in a Saying Goodbye to Jay new media environment. We spotlight how our print and After he served 19 years at the helm of Mother Jones said goodbye to Jay Harris as publisher in late 2009. Jay online reporting is using the dedicated much of his life as the spirited and charismatic technological revolution to create leader of the organization, taking Mother Jones from a diverse interactive relationship its sophomore years into adulthood. His passion for progressive issues will continue to inspire and engage with our audience and how we people in the years to come. We can’t thank are furthering our coverage of him enough for his dedication to smart, , we issues ignored or underreported fearless, journalism, and we wish him great success with his by the commercial press. new endeavors. The decline in the commercial the number of newspapers with 2008 election coverage How We press has led to widening gaps in bureaus in Washington has During the 2008 election, coverage of serious news. Mother declined by more than half, and Make a MoJo’s DC bureau consistently Jones responded by launching an the number of media organizations broke stories that led the news. Difference: eight-person DC bureau in the with congressional reporting In January 2008, David Corn fall of 2007 and, more recently, credentials fell by 17 percent from reported John McCain’s campaign- Fill the Gap. by introducing two new reporting 1998 to 2009. trail comment that it would be initiatives: a collaborative approach As an anchor for an increasingly “fine” with him if the US stayed to reporting on climate change influential independent media in Iraq for “a hundred years.” and an expanded commitment to ecosystem, Mother Jones’ Corn’s exposé of Ohio pastor reporting on human rights issues Washington bureau is part of the Rod Parsley’s virulent anti- domestically and around the globe. solution in DC. We deploy skilled Islamic preaching made national A political perspective inside reporters to cover the White broadcast news and forced John and outside the Beltway House, the executive branch, McCain to disavow the influential Congress, the courts, and the televangelist’s endorsement. And The Pew Research Center’s private interests and power bases a month before McCain advisor Project for Excellence in that shape modern government. Phil Gramm scolded Americans Journalism’s February 2009 report for living in a “mental recession,” on “The New Washington Press Led by David Corn, Mother Jones’ Corn documented Gramm’s Corps” included some stunning DC bureau has carved out an pivotal role in jamming through statistics: Since the mid-1980s, important and effective niche in changes in the regulation of credit Beltway journalism—covering default swaps that led directly to news as it happens in the Rose the housing and credit crises. Garden and beyond, as well as digging deep into the story behind “There’s Something About Mary: the headlines. With reporters Unmasking a Gun Lobby Mole” on the ground and dialed into (online, July 2008) the inside scoop, MoJo can break Washington bureau chief David news right alongside the big guns. Corn, senior correspondent Since opening in 2007, news James Ridgeway, and news editor reports from the bureau have Daniel Schulman revealed that the helped shape the national media National Rifle Association paid a landscape from inside the Beltway. freelance spy, Mary Lou Sapone, to infiltrate gun-control organizations at the highest levels for more “Blackwater’s World of Covering climate change In December 2009, Mother Jones than a decade. An earlier story Warcraft” (March/April 2008) convened a two-day strategy In October of 2009, Mother by Ridgeway documented how a “Their Own Private Africa” session to design a longer-term Jones pulled together a group of Maryland-based private security “Animal House in Afghanistan” collaborative effort. Participants reporting organizations (including firm spied on Greenpeace and “The Cowboys of Kabul” included Slate, The Atlantic, Wired, The Nation, Grist, Treehugger, Fora other environmental groups on (online, September 2009) the Nation Institute, Grist, the .tv, the Uptake, the Pulitzer Center behalf of corporate clients. Center for Investigative Reporting, This package of print and online for Crisis Reporting, and Discover and PBS’ Need to Know, the Coverage of Supreme Court articles was part of reporter Bruce blogs) to cover the UN climate WNET-New York series that Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s Falconer’s and Daniel Schulman’s change talks in Copenhagen. A replaced Bill Moyers’ show after confirmation groundbreaking investigation of force of two dozen reporters and his retirement in the spring of (online, May-July 2009) the military contractor industry. videographers, including Naomi 2010. Out of these conversations They reported how a little Klein, Bill McKibben, Chris Mooney, Mother Jones’ Washington came The Climate Desk, a new known subsidiary of Blackwater, and David Corn, broke a number bureau covered the Sotomayor reporting partnership targeting the Greystone, recruits mercenaries of stories, posted articles and confirmation hearing from collective reach of these outlets’ from Colombia, Chile, and other video in real time, and generated numerous angles, many of them 25 million readers. countries as part of their global a social-media feed that shared (such as Ken Starr’s endorsement private army for hire. These stories content with the combined The Climate Desk has generated of the Obama pick) picked up by helped bring to light numerous audience of all outlets and helped substantial buzz in the journalism outside media. abuses and frame the national get our coverage on sites such as and environmental policy worlds, military contractor debate. Huffington Post and The Atlantic. with coverage in the Columbia Journalism Review, Folio, The Guardian, and Mediabistro, among others; climate advocacy sites such as PowerShift and 350.org all told their followers about it. The Yale Forum on Climate Media called it a “new model for serious journalism in troubled times.” Simon Dumenco of Advertising Age, in an interview with Mother Jones co-editor Clara Jeffery, called The Climate Desk “a potentially revolutionary cooperative reporting venture.” The Anita Fund: A Global After her death, the staff and Combining two of Anita’s great We hired Mac McClelland, a smart Justice Journalism Project board of Mother Jones chose to passions—the struggle for global and passionate journalist, to report honor Anita by creating a fund justice and the fierce, probative full-time on global and domestic Dame Anita Roddick believed that would represent her values investigative journalism that can human rights issues. In addition to in brave journalism as a critical and further her ideals. Thanks to prompt social change—the fund her work in the print magazine, means of identifying injustice a generous grant endowed by her aims to build on Mother Jones’ long- Mac capitalizes on the immediacy and compelling change for those husband Gordon and their two time commitment to human rights. of the digital age by breaking news deprived of their basic human daughters, Justine and Sam, we both on her blog, The Rights Stuff, rights. Anita recognized that proudly launched The Anita Fund: and via her Twitter feed, which has intrepid investigative reporters A Global Justice Journalism Project more than 7,000 followers. were often the first ones to in late 2009. draw the connections between human misery and upstream abuses of power. She believed that journalism is indispensible in bridging truth to justice. Jeff Cohen, the founder of Fairness “Foreclosure Phil” and the were far more active participants in How We and Accuracy in Reporting, once subprime meltdown timeline war-time torture than previously Make a said, “If it’s in the New York Times, (July/August 2008) understood, and that the it was in Mother Jones six months professional bodies in charge of As noted in the Columbia Journalism Difference: ago.” From the beginning, Mother policing medical ethics have failed to Review, Mother Jones’ package on Jones has aimed to impact the address the issue. In a related story, the housing mess helped the rest of Get there first. news cycle by breaking stories that DC assistant editor Nick Baumann’s the press connect McCain advisor help shift the national conversation online pieces on the cover-up of Phil Gramm to the deregulation of toward real issues and facts—2008 a key Justice Department anti- credit default swaps in late 2008. and 2009 were no exception. torture memo showed that former David Corn’s “Foreclosure Phil” vice president Dick Cheney not Here are few examples of how was mentioned, among other only advocated torture, but our reporters stayed out in front places, in the National Review, the aggressively went after those within in 2008 and 2009: New York Times, the New York Daily the Bush administration who News, the Washington Post, and opposed his position. the Los Angeles Times, as well as on Democracy Now! and Air America “Totally Wasted” Radio’s Ron Reagan Show. (July/August 2009) “Who Shredded Our Safety Net?” Our summer cover package put (May/June 2009) the drug war front and center at a time when drug violence This cover package featured in Mexico was reaching a fever analyses by James Ridgeway, James pitch. Contributing writer Charles K. Galbraith, and others detailing Bowden’s profile, “‘We Bring how corporate America hijacked Fear,’” of a journalist on the run the retirement economy. The from the “biggest cartel of all,” stories made complex financial Mexico’s US-funded army, drew topics accessible and were widely broad attention from the media discussed in the blogosphere, and and human rights groups. The amongst national commentators. package’s focus on the dramatic “First, Do Harm” escalation in violence the drug war (July/August 2009) has wrought throughout Mexico, and in the 259 US cities where Justine Sharrock’s story broke new the cartels operate, recharged the ground in the detainee-torture debate on US-Mexico relations. discussion, revealing that doctors Effectively capitalizing on new online media colleagues to share Viral victory How We media opportunities is a priority content with new audiences across Anna Lenzer’s September/ for Mother Jones staff. We several high-traffic aggregate sites Make a October 2009 cover story, relaunched MotherJones.com in and social media platforms. “Spin the Bottle,” revealed Difference: 2008 in Drupal, an open-source In addition, we’ve put together how Fiji Water uses celebrity publishing platform—the ultimate a team dedicated to testing greenwashing to disguise Use media model of a truly free press. Our and capitalizing on new-media environmental damage, public writers and editors, particularly effectively. strategies in order to build our health failures, and silence in the those in the DC bureau, are audience. Whether it is a two- face of Fiji’s military junta. The producing more daily content than way conversation with our nearly story proved to be a textbook ever before and working with our 28,000 Facebook fans about the case of journalism gone viral. latest Mother Jones cover; tweeting After it was published online it breaking news to our 26,000-plus picked up buzz immediately via Twitter followers (not to mention social media, especially Twitter. the tens of thousands of people who Blogs piled on (including a series follow our reporters); hosting online of attempts by Fiji Water itself to forums to discuss the complexities do damage control—it got to the of a controversial feature story; or point where Fiji Water saw the ensuring Mother Jones’ latest reports need to offer a free beach blanket find their way onto social networking to anyone who would tweet sites like Digg, Reddit, and positively about it), which further StumbleUpon, we are figuring out stoked the social media fire. It innovative ways to reach and engage wasn’t until a week later that new and current readers alike. traditional media (newspapers, radio shows, and magazines) took notice—but when they did, those pickups in turn were reflected in print, online articles, blogs and social media, kick-starting the coverage all over again. MoJo in the media CBS Evening News CBS: Early Show Just as we’re expanding our ABC: Good Morning America presence online, so too are ABC: This Week with George we reaching new audiences via Stephanopoulos television, radio, and major print PBS: Bill Moyers Journal publication appearances. Here are a Fox News: The O’Reilly Factor few examples of our ever-growing Fox News: Hannity & Colmes media presence in 2008-2009, MSNBC: Hardball with Chris and you can track our latest media Matthews appearances at our press page at MSNBC: The Rachel Maddow Show MotherJones.com. MSNBC: Countdown with Keith Olbermann MSNBC: The Ed Show CNN: The Situation Room CNN: Reliable Sources Comedy Central: The Colbert Report C-SPAN NPR: The Diane Rehm Show ABC Radio: Imus in the Morning Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! Our editors encourage Mother Such was the case when, in refused on camera to discuss the How We Jones writers to do what we call October 2009, staff reporter discrepancy. The story caught fire Make a “iterative reporting”: to walk Josh Harkinson chased down the online as it unfolded, and it ended readers through the process of truth behind the US Chamber of up as a more in-depth piece in the Difference: making real journalism, as well as Commerce’s inflated claim of 3 print magazine. And Josh continues deliver a superb finished product. million members. Josh’s reporting his ongoing investigative work into Don’t let go. In sharing reporting revelations forced the Chamber to publicly the Chamber’s record on climate along the way via social media, revise its number downward by change. In Josh’s own words, “The the reporting process is more more than 90 percent. This put public and policymakers are transparent and the audience the Chamber on the defensive starting to view the Chamber is engaged and invested in the at the same time that major US as...just another special interest evolution of a story. An in-depth corporations were leaving to group that represents a few final product, complete with vivid protest the Chamber’s climate- pretty dirty industries.” visuals and multimedia elements, change denials and the intensive can help us reach a broad and lobbying it was conducting against diverse audience. the Waxman-Markey climate bill. Harkinson’s story was picked up by major media and led to a flood of comments on the Chamber of Commerce’s Facebook page calling on it to stop lying about its numbers. DC-based reporter Kate Sheppard even confronted a Chamber representative, who Torture Hits Home, The Future Scrubbing King Coal Slammed: Timeline: Bush’s Special March/April 2008 of Energy, James Ridgeway The Coming Reign of Error May/June 2008 Prison Meltdown, Nick Baumann and Reports I Was Kidnapped The Seven Myths of July/August 2008 Dave Gilson by the CIA Scenes From the Energy Independence Peter Bergen Tar Wars Paul Roberts Welcome to the Age How to Burn Mother Jones Josh Harkinson of Incarceration the Speculators Voluntary A Charge to Keep Jennifer Gonnerman James K. Galbraith 2008/2009 Confinement Breaking the Britt Robson Michael Mechanic Efficiency Gridlock When Prison Guards America’s Most Jennifer Kahn Small-Town America’s Go Soft Dangerous Librarians Am I a Torturer? Green Lifeline Sasha Abramsky Amy Goodman and Justine Sharrock Put a Tyrant Jennifer Vogel David Goodman in Your Tank Hard Time Out Department of Joshua Kurlantzick Who Wrecked David Goodman No Contractor Pre-Crime the Economy? Left Behind Eric Umansky The Nuclear Option July/August 2008 Why Texas Still Josh Harkinson Judith Lewis Holds ‘Em The Final Act Foreclosure Phil Stephanie Mencimer Party Favors: Land of Abu Ghraib The Greenback Effect David Corn Handouts Are a Gas JoAnn Wypijewski Bill McKibben Probation Profiteers Keith Kloor The GOP’s December Celia Perry Mr. Match.com Pimps Surprise The Chinavore’s Solar James K. Galbraith The Shawnee Dilemma, and Jon Mooallem Redemption Relief Disaster Where Credit Is Due: Justine Sharrock Congress’ Top 10 A Timeline Joshua Kurlantzick Fossil Fools Nomi Prins Convicting California Chris Mooney James Sterngold Mission Creep Michael Mechanic, map Exit Strategy, by Karen Minot September/ October 2008 Do Taxpayers Need Marriage Workshops? Pursuit of Habeas Stephanie Mencimer Jack Hitt Return to Reason The Next Prez’s Chris Mooney Superpowers David Cole Medicare’s Poison Pill James Ridgeway After W, Will the Press Get a Spine? What Was gwb@ David Corn whitehouse.gov Really Up To? Weakened Warriors Daniel Schulman Bruce Falconer The New The Science Project Smart Growth: Who Ran Away Waste Not Totally Wasted, Climate ECOnomy, Chris Mooney Fresh Solutions for With Your 401(k)? Want Not, July/August 2009 Countdown, November/ Our Rotten Food May/June 2009 May/June 2009 November/ December 2008 The Truth About System, March/ This Is Your December 2009 Green Jobs April 2009 Who Shredded Our Recycling? War on Drugs Can We Save the David Roberts Safety Net? Fuhgeddaboudit Monika Bauerlein and Too Hot to Handle Planet and Rescue Foodie, Beware James Ridgeway Susan Burton Clara Jeffery Bill McKibben the Economy at the Let’s Go Europe Daniel Duane Same Time? Mark Schapiro No Country for Waste Not “We Bring Fear” The Last Breakup Al Gore The Saline Solution, Middle-Aged Men Want Not Charles Bowden Ted Genoways The Seven and Tray Chic Sasha Abramsky Bill McKibben The Most Important Deadly Deficits Josh Harkinson The Patriot’s Guide Betting the Farm Number on Earth Joseph E. Stiglitz Security Blanket: Meet the Zero- to Legalization Kevin Drum Bill McKibben Michael Pollan How Social Security Waste Zealots Kevin Drum How Ford Fixes Dinner Can Save Us All Elizabeth Royte The New Dust Bowl Earth to Washington Lost Focus Clara Jeffrey James K. Galbraith Las Baladas Josh Harkinson David Corn Fara Warner Sludge Happens Prohibidas This Little Piggy Pension Privateers Josh Harkinson Return of the Fungi Your Top 20 William T. Vollmann Andy Isaacson The Great Persuader Goes Home David Cay Johnston Kevin Drum Econundrums— Bonnie Azab Powell Plastic. Fantastic? Solved! Jennifer Kahn The Altered States Agents of Climate When Tree Sitters Ben Whitford Spoiled: Organic and of America Change, and Heart Lumberjacks Local Is So 2008 Industrial Strength Sam Baldwin and What Happens Josh Harkinson Diet for a Paul Roberts Solution Daniel Luzer When Your Country Warm Planet Joel Makower Drowns? What About the Julia Whitty Why Biofuels Are Rachel Morris Dirty Jobs? the Rainforest’s Chris Lehmann Worst Enemy Earth in the Balance Heather Rogers Sheet Big Green Brother Hillary Rosner Katharine Mieszkowski GM’s Money Trees Mark Schapiro Not Under My Backyard Victoria Schlesinger The Sheikh Down, Class Is the New Blackwater’s Fiscal Therapy, Shock and Audit: Select September/October Black, January/ World of Warcraft, January/February The Hidden Defense 2009 February 2009 March/April 2008 2009 Budget, September/ Features Shane Bauer Debra J. Dickerson Bruce Falconer and David Cay Johnston October 2009 Daniel Schulman Rachel Morris Enter Stage Right, Obama’s Great Fiji Water: Spin the Mother Jones September/October Afghanistan Gamble, Stimulus Is for Bottle, September/ Scrubbing King Coal, 2009 May/June 2009, and Suckers, January/ October 2009 May/June 2008, and 2008/2009 Nick Baumann Is AIPAC Still the February 2009 Anna Lenzer Medicare’s Poison Chosen One? James K. Galbraith Pill, September/ Louisiana’s Mulch September/October The Last Empire: October 2008 Madness, March/ 2009 The People vs. Dick China’s Pollution James Ridgeway April 2008 Robert Dreyfuss Cheney, January/ Problem Goes Michael Behar February 2009 Global, January/ The Spy Who 10 Ways to Trade Karen Greenberg February 2008 Loved Hamas. And Let There Be Light Up, March/April Jacques Leslie Hezbollah. And Iran, Crude, January/ 2009 The Apostles of September/October February 2008 Kevin Drum Ron Paul, January/ The Landmark 2009 Mariah Blake February 2008, and Forum: 42 David Samuels The FBI’s Least Harry Reid, Gold Hours, $500, 65 Meet the Parents: Wanted, May/June Member, March/April Breakdowns, July/ First, Do Harm, July/ The Dark Side of 2009 2009, and August 2009 August 2009 Overseas Adoption, Bruce Falconer What’s Your Laura McClure Justine Sharrock March/April 2009 Water Footprint? 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Angola 3: Should Obama 83 Wall Street Union Busters? Highlights Anti-Nuke? 36 Years of Solitude Control the Internet? Lobbyists Work for Beck’s Next Scalp: Stewart Brand, Judith Steve Aquino 36 Years of Solitude His Campaign NEA’s Yosi Sergant; Lewis, Jonas Siegel, and David Corn, The Chamber’s 2008/2009 Harvey Wasserman James Ridgeway A Cheney Cover-Up? Nick Baumann and Jonathan Stein, and Numbers Game; Iran Panic? Portraits of David Corn Nick Baumann PG&E Quits Chamber Invisible Men of Commerce Over Laura Rozen, Daniel Contractors Levy, Yossi Melman, Adam Shemper Billions to Be Lost in Its “Extreme Position Auto Bailout? Gone Wild; on Climate Change”; Trita Parsi, Danny Angola 3 Dispatch: Clinton on Gore: “I Inside the CIA’s US Chamber of Postel, Jacqueline Shire Albert Woodfox thought he was in (Sort of) Secret Commerce President Hearing Is Organic and Local Neverland”; Document Stash; Tom Donohue’s Jordan Flaherty So 2008? McCain Blasts Showdown in Climate Conflict Blackwater’s Backyard Paul Roberts, Lisa Solitary Confinement: Wall Street Failure, of Interest; Bruce Falconer Gosselin, Jim Harkness, A Brief History; Neglects to Mention What’s Really Behind and Ryan Zinn Camp J, Red Hats, His Adviser Asking for TARP the Van Jones Attack; and the Hole; Helped Cause It; Funds Takes Only Welcome Home, Convict Confection: McCain in NH: Would 27 Minutes Bush! Robert King’s be “Fine” To Keep Alexis Fitts and Josh Harkinson Freelines; Troops in Iraq for “A Daniel Luzer Sen. David Vitter The Convicts Hundred Years”; (R-Formaldehyde) and the Dame McCain’s Pastor Andy Kroll Brooke Shelby Biggs Problem: The Video; McCain’s Spiritual Cayman Island Guide: Destroy Islam; Office Building Home Sarah Palin: to 9,000 Tax Cheats; Neo-Con Pawn?; Civil Rights Groups Sarah Palin’s Defending Predatory Secret Emails; Lenders: Priceless; Two NRA Lobbyists Supreme Court: Violating the Taking Care McCain Campaign’s of Business; Conflict Rules? Tempest in the Van Jones and the 9/11 Tea Party; Conspiracy Theory Where’s Karen Poison Ignagni’s Copay? David Corn Why is Obama Backing Bank of America in Court? 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