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Assunto: Re: it's about the administration buying their lies
Jim Dandy: They have the advantage of being able to play on cold war propaganda... socialism, communism, liberalism, etc.. left is bad..
Guess the fear of a stupid WMD war being started by someone (left or right) left it's mark. So did the 331 nuclear weapons tests by the USA.. much of it just boys playing with their toys.
Assunto: Re: If she leaned any further left she'd fall over. Typical reply from the left.
Artful Dodger: One minute you are quoting as you call it.. "left wing media" the next you are dissing someone of the "left wing media" for POINTING OUT that FOX LIED.
It's that Beck stirs up the extreme right wingers... the delusional ones that might start shooting. Some from Tea party events (practising their freedom of speech) have said.. "next time we will bring guns."
.. How does threatening violence count as democracy?
Artful Dodger: Brietbart and Fox should be ashamed of themselves for commenting on an edited video without knowing the complete story.When the true story came to light, they both should have apologised to the same degree that the performed the hatchet job on her
Jim Dandy: False. they did NOT edit it and that is an indisputable fact. You don't even know where that video came from but it came edited like that. The video wasn't presented as a full video but as an edited one. And as of my last reading, they still don't know who edited it.
Artful Dodger:Andrew Brietbart, in cahoots with Fox created this mess,they along with the WH owe this woman,and the farmer an apology.The NAACP have already done so.Fox wil just keep spinning along.Instead of her speech being about her wonderful epiphony, they edited it into the gutter
Modificado por Papa Zoom (21. Julho 2010, 20:58:04)
Jim Dandy: The left spins it all day. If it wasn't for Fox, many stories that reveal the troubling truths about legislation coming from the Obama administration would never see the light of day.
Jim Dandy: Rachel Maddow? If she leaned any further left she'd fall over. Typical reply from the left. The fact that the White House threw her under the bus isn't newsworthy? That BAD on the WH.
And even the NAACP threw the poor girl under the bus - without checking the facts!!!
Can you say knee jerk?
But it does go to show just how racial the NAACP was back then. The crowed voiced their agreement to her statement about not helping a white man. They didn't know where she was going with it.
That said, I do find it odd that a 25 year old video can produce such negative effects. Still, wasn't it the NAACP that just made the bogus claims about the Tea Party being racist? Yeah. Never mind that left-wingers posed as Tea Partiers and made racial comments and the signs that the NAACP claims existed have never been proven. And they are still pushing forth the lie about racial slurs being leveled at certain members of congress even though ALL THE VIDEOS show otherwise.
Can you say double standard?
The White House shakes in it's boots at Fox for one reason: Fox isn't in the business of biased news reporting. And they cover stories the other outlets bury.
Sorry but I see a bit of poetic justice in all this. Obama will look so bad to his base. He caved into his fears of what Beck might have to say on the matter.
(V): They'll just change the spin, as they did at the end of the clip.Now it's not about the misrepresentation of the woman, it's about the administration buying their lies
I was watching Oliver Stone on the morning news.. His new film "South of the border" has him talking about Hugo Chavez .. The film talks about how right wing media both north and south of the border have demonised left wing leaders, and how the US gov and corporations paid to try and remove Hugo Chavez from being president.
Why.. oil.
Chavez also states this is the reason why Iraq was invaded. Not WMD's.. not 'regime change'.. but oil.
Assunto: One sure way to decrease vote for Republicans
Don't accommodate the men and women in the military. Make it impossible for them to vote. Just because they are risking their lives for us doesn't mean we owe them any extra effort to assure they get to vote in US elections. Right?
July 21, 2010 Disenfranchising those who serve us valiantly Ed Lasky In the wake of controversy regarding the Department of Justice complacency regarding violation of voting rights by New Black Panther Party members comes news that the DOJ is also freely granting waivers that allow states to ignore the votes of our citizens in the military:
From the Washington Times, commenting on the disaster of 2008 when many thousands of military votes were uncounted (and could very well have made a difference in the Minnesota race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken): Much of this disaster could have been avoided by the Voting Section of the Justice Department, and without swift action, the Voting Section will cause a similar disaster in 2010 despite congressional efforts to fix the problem.
The primary hurdle, according to most experts, is time. Nearly every military-voting expert agrees that absentee ballots must be sent to overseas military voters at least 45 days before an election to give those voters sufficient time to receive and return their ballots. The Military Postal Service Agency goes one step further and recommends that absentee ballots be sent to war zones 60 days before an election.
Unfortunately, states have been slow to revamp their voting laws to accommodate a 45-day mailing standard. Before the 2008 election, at least 10 states and the District of Columbia provided military voters with just 35 days or fewer to receive and return their ballots. Overall, the Pew Center on the States found that "more than a third of states [did] not provide military voters stationed abroad with enough time to vote or [were] at high risk of not providing enough time."
Yet the primary entity responsible for protecting military voters, the Voting Section, decided not to pursue those states even though federal law (i.e., the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act) gave the section wide latitude to protect military voters.
Thousands of military members were disenfranchised because their votes came in too late to be counted. Congress acted by requiring states to send ballots much earlier-at least 45 days before an election unless a state requested a waiver. That is the nub of the problem.
The Voting Section of the DOJ is in control of granting waivers. A few months ago, a senior official of the department informed an audience of state officials that the waiver provision was "ambiguous" and tipped his hand by indicating that the DOJ would be flexible regarding granting waivers.
In other words-wink, wink-states will not be sued for failure to send absentee ballots to our men and women in uniform. They can be disenfranchised again-with no penalties.
Military members tend to vote for Republicans.
Given the seeming willingness of the DOJ to turn itself into an apparatus of the Democratic Party when it comes to enforcing voter laws (it goes beyond just The New Black Panthers Party), is it too far-fetched to assume that once again the DOJ is using its power to help elect Democrats?
Breaking: Nevada To Press On With Criminal Prosecution of ACORN by Matthew Vadum
Nevada’s Democratic attorney general, Catherine Cortez Masto, is moving forward with a criminal prosecution of ACORN even though the financially anemic group has dissolved its national structure and reportedly slashed its workforce from 250 to four employees. Trial has been scheduled for Nov. 29.
The charges relate to ACORN’s crime of choice: voter registration fraud.
Yeah, ACORN, the group that helped Obama get elected. Chicago politics on a National level.
The Tea Party Goes To Washington by Andrew Marcus 1 person liked this It’s official. There is now a Tea Party Caucus in the Congress of the United States of America.
Representative Michelle Bachmann filed the paperwork late last week, and the approval was granted almost immediately:
Assunto: Far left Liberals at work - liars and cheats
According to records obtained by The Daily Caller, at several points during the 2008 presidential campaign a group of liberal journalists took radical steps to protect their favored candidate. Employees of news organizations including Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic participated in outpourings of anger over how Obama had been treated in the media, and in some cases plotted to fix the damage. In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama's relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama's conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, "Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares - and call them racists."
This is the left wing press at work. It's their normal way of doing business. And YOU on the left will probably ignore it like you do everything that makes your "side" look bad.
Assunto: Does Obama even understand what's in the Health Bill? Do you?
Example: Just last Friday, he told MSNBC's Chuck Todd that the law "not only makes sure everybody has access to coverage but is reducing costs."
Wrong on both counts. NOT EVERYONE will be covered and COSTS WILL NECESSARILY RISE!!!
Fact: According to the Congressional Budget Office, 10 years from now there will still be at least 21 million uninsured Americans.
You might argue that it's still an improvement over today but that's not the point. Obama says everyone will be covered and that's NOT TRUE.
Fact: Nearly half of the newly covered aren't getting access to true health insurance but are being added to the Medicaid program, with all of its attendant problems of access and quality.
Fact: The RAND Corporation reports that the new law may result in severe overcrowding and longer waits in emergency rooms.
Fact: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services warn that some of the mandated cuts in Medicare could result in the closing of up to 15 percent of US hospitals.
Doesn't sound like things will be better under Obama's plan, but far, far worse.
The current Obama regime has crossed the line and gone one step further than the previous regime of GW Bush by ordering a CIA assassin team to hunt U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki for the sole purpose of killing him without any trial. This overt violation of the U.S. Constituion by Obama would have resulted in leftists calling for impeachment had GW Bush tried it, though now the left propaganda ministers like Olberman are quiet as churchmice, not daring to offend their beloved "hope for change" leader Obama.
Obama orders assassination of US citizen 8 April 2010 For the first time in history, an American president has officially ordered the assassination of a US citizen.