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Sen. Kyl Not Sure People Die From Lack of Health Insurance
Commented Oct 19, 2009 at 17:13:35 in Politics
“The ONLY thing Senator Kyl knows for sure is that if it says Democrat or democratic, he's against it.”
Obama's Nobel Prize Is Really a Tribute to American Voters
Commented Oct 10, 2009 at 13:35:43 in Politics
“A wonderful essay!!”
"Kill Obama" Painted On Phoenix-Area Campaign Signs
Commented Oct 09, 2009 at 18:19:27 in Politics
“You know, every time something like this happens, you all become all concerned about "fairness" and point to the one instance in a million where there actually was Dem provocation (if ever).
Try to get this, "fair:" your side is rife with ugly, nasty, prejudiced people who have been enabled by your "entertainers" and elected officials.
THIS IS WHAT YOU DO.”
Try to get this, "fair:" your side is rife with ugly, nasty, prejudiced people who have been enabled by your "entertainers" and elected officials.
THIS IS WHAT YOU DO.”
"Kill Obama" Painted On Phoenix-Area Campaign Signs
Commented Oct 09, 2009 at 18:15:48 in Politics
“Sherriff Joe Arpaio is the same man who got famous for heavy-handed anti-immigrant raids (among other things) and is proud to call himself the "toughest sherriff" in the US.
Let's see how tough he gets with these clowns. Could be fun ...”
Let's see how tough he gets with these clowns. Could be fun ...”
This Week In Magazines: Obama The "Self-Entangling Giant"
Commented Sep 28, 2009 at 18:49:42 in Media
“That was PART of the reason (not to mention the stupid ballot design).
The main reason the Jeb-and-Katherine circus was effective was because the vote was close, and THAT is on Nader. I also seem to remember other states were close.
Sorry, I do hold him responsible. I especially dislike his facile analysis that the two main parties are the same. They are not. Period.”
The main reason the Jeb-and-Katherine circus was effective was because the vote was close, and THAT is on Nader. I also seem to remember other states were close.
Sorry, I do hold him responsible. I especially dislike his facile analysis that the two main parties are the same. They are not. Period.”
This Week In Magazines: Obama The "Self-Entangling Giant"
Commented Sep 28, 2009 at 18:45:49 in Media
“I can see that one might think this way, though on MOST of these things, for example Gitmo, I'm taking a wait and see attitude.
That doesn't change my argument with Wills.
It is one thing to worry, as you do, that Obama is not sticking to his campaign promises. It's another thing to write articles anticipating the ultimate sum total of the Obama presidency based on few months in office. That's just self-serving, and bad research,”
That doesn't change my argument with Wills.
It is one thing to worry, as you do, that Obama is not sticking to his campaign promises. It's another thing to write articles anticipating the ultimate sum total of the Obama presidency based on few months in office. That's just self-serving, and bad research,”
This Week In Magazines: Obama The "Self-Entangling Giant"
Commented Sep 28, 2009 at 08:25:02 in Media
“Give us some logical and clear-eyed deconstruction, and we'll see.
And take your argument up with Wills.
Because I agree with Thunderclap that for a "historian" to pass judgment on a presidency not even 9 months into it ... is a lot of hooey. No self-respecting historian would expect to be taken seriously doing this, and we must therefore wonder whether this is fueled by ... partisanship.”
And take your argument up with Wills.
Because I agree with Thunderclap that for a "historian" to pass judgment on a presidency not even 9 months into it ... is a lot of hooey. No self-respecting historian would expect to be taken seriously doing this, and we must therefore wonder whether this is fueled by ... partisanship.”
WWWexler replied on Sep 28, 2009 at 09:01:00
“There is plenty of deconstruction of the Democratic Party. Clear-eyed or bleary-eyed.
The Democrats always campaign left and run right. Obama is a CLASSIC example of a fake progressive.
I worked on his campaign in Iowa. I know what was being said during the campaign here and I know that it wasn't even a month after the caucus before he started to run right.
This is what Democrats do; they rely on progressives to do the leg work for them, to get out on the streets and knock on doors. Then as soon is the nut-cuttin' begins, they start acting like GOPERs.
This is not an argument, it's a fact. Look where Obama went on Iraq (listen to the commanders on the ground), FISA immunity (voted for it), "faith based imitative" (said he would expand it), rights of local communities to ban handgunst (fought it), single-payer health care (was for it before he was against it), closing Gitmo (said he'd do it, it's still open), Afghanistan (who knows?), public campaign financing (ditched it), and the list goes on and on.
Were you paying attention to how Obama's position changed on those issues from mid-2007 to the 2008 election? I sure was. Please tell me I'm wrong. PLEASE wake me up from this nightmare.
-Wexler”
The Democrats always campaign left and run right. Obama is a CLASSIC example of a fake progressive.
I worked on his campaign in Iowa. I know what was being said during the campaign here and I know that it wasn't even a month after the caucus before he started to run right.
This is what Democrats do; they rely on progressives to do the leg work for them, to get out on the streets and knock on doors. Then as soon is the nut-cuttin' begins, they start acting like GOPERs.
This is not an argument, it's a fact. Look where Obama went on Iraq (listen to the commanders on the ground), FISA immunity (voted for it), "faith based imitative" (said he would expand it), rights of local communities to ban handgunst (fought it), single-payer health care (was for it before he was against it), closing Gitmo (said he'd do it, it's still open), Afghanistan (who knows?), public campaign financing (ditched it), and the list goes on and on.
Were you paying attention to how Obama's position changed on those issues from mid-2007 to the 2008 election? I sure was. Please tell me I'm wrong. PLEASE wake me up from this nightmare.
-Wexler”
Discussion Of Dead Census Worker Highlights Right-Wing Paranoia
Commented Sep 26, 2009 at 10:40:50 in Politics
“The right-wing paranoia that I find REALLY offensive:
their reflexive fear of being held accountable for their nasty fact-free comments that incite hatred and violence, and how quick they are to whine they had nothing-absolutely-nothing to do with this toxic atmosphere.”
their reflexive fear of being held accountable for their nasty fact-free comments that incite hatred and violence, and how quick they are to whine they had nothing-absolutely-nothing to do with this toxic atmosphere.”
Discussion Of Dead Census Worker Highlights Right-Wing Paranoia
Commented Sep 24, 2009 at 18:11:05 in Politics
“Yeah yeah yeah. He "wondered" about it on one show and then debunked it later. Classic.”
Discussion Of Dead Census Worker Highlights Right-Wing Paranoia
Commented Sep 24, 2009 at 18:05:16 in Politics
“The main paranoia on that side is quite predictable: IF (and we don't know this, we know nothing) and only IF it turns out this was inspired by the anti-census Acorn-y c.r.a.p from the right, they will all be scrambling to play the who-me-"innocent-inciter victim card," and whining that people are pointing fingers at them.
Create a mentality and a ugly atmosphere, and then play innocent of the consequences ...”
Create a mentality and a ugly atmosphere, and then play innocent of the consequences ...”
swimbiker replied on Sep 25, 2009 at 12:00:13
“That's what Rush and Bill O'Reilly have been doing for years. It's sort of a wink-wink acknowledgment by their listeners who then feel free to go out and behave anti-socially.”
As Movement Demanding CNN Dump Him Grows, Dobbs Plays Victim
Commented Sep 22, 2009 at 10:12:56 in Media
“Oh please.
Free speech does not mean you are guaranteed a lucrative platform.
It means no one has the right to prevent you from speaking. No one is suing him, sending him to jail or otherwise infringing on his rights.
He just doesn't get to use the cover of a relatively legitimate news organization unless he actually sticks to facts and analysis. On several issues (his lopsided and mistaken ideas about immigration, his personal vendetta against Obama) he's devolved into tabloid bigotry and made-up nonsense.”
Free speech does not mean you are guaranteed a lucrative platform.
It means no one has the right to prevent you from speaking. No one is suing him, sending him to jail or otherwise infringing on his rights.
He just doesn't get to use the cover of a relatively legitimate news organization unless he actually sticks to facts and analysis. On several issues (his lopsided and mistaken ideas about immigration, his personal vendetta against Obama) he's devolved into tabloid bigotry and made-up nonsense.”
Wilson Is the Poster "Child" for the New Republican Party
Commented Sep 21, 2009 at 07:31:58 in Politics
“Poster child for the party of scripted insolence and uninformed tantrums.
How appropriate.”
How appropriate.”
Time Magazine Gives Glenn Beck a Rave Review
Commented Sep 20, 2009 at 10:57:05 in Media
“The writer's "method" was the same lazy "confront-the-opposites" m.o. they use on TV "news" these days.
1.Take one idea or fact or position.
2. Find its opposite.
3. Ignore any rational evaluation of relative merit, apples and oranges, or credibility.
4. List the two opposites side by side.
5. Provide no analysis and no further info..
6. Sit back and consider your job done.
No room for thinking, nuance (what's that?), third or fourth points, evaluating the evidence.
Takes too much time and effort.”
1.Take one idea or fact or position.
2. Find its opposite.
3. Ignore any rational evaluation of relative merit, apples and oranges, or credibility.
4. List the two opposites side by side.
5. Provide no analysis and no further info..
6. Sit back and consider your job done.
No room for thinking, nuance (what's that?), third or fourth points, evaluating the evidence.
Takes too much time and effort.”
ebanks84 replied on Sep 20, 2009 at 11:31:49
“The writer is in bed with the RNC big time and probably got a very "fat" pocket right now also.”
Jimmy Carter's Words Give Media Outlets a Gigantic Excuse to Look Hard at Racism and Some Obama Critics
Commented Sep 17, 2009 at 16:29:10 in Media
“Come on, you can express this differently.
I do think the anti-Obama forces are trying to overshadow the healthcare debate, but saying it this way is not much better than what Wilson did.”
I do think the anti-Obama forces are trying to overshadow the healthcare debate, but saying it this way is not much better than what Wilson did.”
Jimmy Carter's Words Give Media Outlets a Gigantic Excuse to Look Hard at Racism and Some Obama Critics
Commented Sep 17, 2009 at 16:12:36 in Media
“Then why get on a thread about exactly that topic?”
Jimmy Carter's Words Give Media Outlets a Gigantic Excuse to Look Hard at Racism and Some Obama Critics
Commented Sep 17, 2009 at 16:08:35 in Media
“Whose opinion, since you've already dismissed posts on this blog as mere "obvious biased comments?"”
Jimmy Carter's Words Give Media Outlets a Gigantic Excuse to Look Hard at Racism and Some Obama Critics
Commented Sep 17, 2009 at 15:59:39 in Media
“Agreed, enough. No more of those odious posters and obnoxious shouting.
No more simplistic statements like "progressive = racist."”
No more simplistic statements like "progressive = racist."”
Jimmy Carter's Words Give Media Outlets a Gigantic Excuse to Look Hard at Racism and Some Obama Critics
Commented Sep 17, 2009 at 15:54:52 in Media
“Merely disagreeing with Obama does NOT make you or anyone a racist.
Carter never said everyone was, he was talking about the "intense manifestations."
He believes there is still a mentality out there feeding a level of casual disregard where people feel quite entitled to ignore common decency, manners, or reason.
This may not apply to all protesters.
But I believe it is why Wilson felt so free to be insolent (and yes, it was exceptional), and it is DEFINITELY manifested in many of the posters we saw at the 9/12 march.
You can tune this out -- but that guarantees you'll miss anything useful that might be learned.”
Carter never said everyone was, he was talking about the "intense manifestations."
He believes there is still a mentality out there feeding a level of casual disregard where people feel quite entitled to ignore common decency, manners, or reason.
This may not apply to all protesters.
But I believe it is why Wilson felt so free to be insolent (and yes, it was exceptional), and it is DEFINITELY manifested in many of the posters we saw at the 9/12 march.
You can tune this out -- but that guarantees you'll miss anything useful that might be learned.”
Jimmy Carter's Words Give Media Outlets a Gigantic Excuse to Look Hard at Racism and Some Obama Critics
Commented Sep 17, 2009 at 15:37:02 in Media
“You are correct that the animosity towards Clinton came close.
But it didn't happen the moment he got elected, and it didn't reach the level of histrionics that we see now. And I really don't remember references to "I want MY country back." implying that the current leadership is illegitimate.
There really is something here. Not in all protesters, of course not. But it's there in the fringe and it is being openly stoked by memebers of a certain party.”
But it didn't happen the moment he got elected, and it didn't reach the level of histrionics that we see now. And I really don't remember references to "I want MY country back." implying that the current leadership is illegitimate.
There really is something here. Not in all protesters, of course not. But it's there in the fringe and it is being openly stoked by memebers of a certain party.”
Jimmy Carter's Words Give Media Outlets a Gigantic Excuse to Look Hard at Racism and Some Obama Critics
Commented Sep 17, 2009 at 15:31:51 in Media
“Very apt comparison, and very well analyzed, Gretel.”
Jimmy Carter's Words Give Media Outlets a Gigantic Excuse to Look Hard at Racism and Some Obama Critics
Commented Sep 17, 2009 at 15:30:11 in Media
“Jimmy Carter made a carefully thought-out and carefully limited and correct comment and is right.
And Eric Deggans is exactly right that it took Carter to make that comment.
All black persons who tried to make the same point were vilified and shouted down.
In fact, that's what they're trying to do to Carter now, in waves of massive apoplectic denial that ANY suh thing is remotely going on at all.
Good for Jimmy Carter.”
And Eric Deggans is exactly right that it took Carter to make that comment.
All black persons who tried to make the same point were vilified and shouted down.
In fact, that's what they're trying to do to Carter now, in waves of massive apoplectic denial that ANY suh thing is remotely going on at all.
Good for Jimmy Carter.”
Stranded replied on Sep 17, 2009 at 16:37:47
“I'd like to ask people who seem to just instinctively reject the idea that Joe Wilson's outburst was racially motivated, or these other folks who claim the race card is being overplayed, how much time they spent considering the point that people are trying to make. If your gut instinct is to reject the charge just because it's been "overplayed," then imagine what it's like living with it every day. The inference is that racial inequality has disappeared, that the US has seen the light and any discussion of the subject is just a waste of time. Obviously, the issue hasn't gone away. Yes, there's racism and there's reverse racism. There's intolerance and prejudice ingrained in this culture (and other cultures too). When a white man from the south who has a dubious history regarding racial sensitivity shouts down a black guest in the House, I think it's fair to at least consider what that means. I've posted this before, but if it wasn't a call to arms, why are people on the right and elsewhere calling Wilson's outburst a "rebel yell?"”
New TIME Cover on Glenn Beck Ignores Facts, and Worse
Commented Sep 17, 2009 at 15:01:46 in Media
“What's getting ridiculous is these attempts to sell a simple cancellation of a subscription as a nefarious act of censorship.
It's the subscriber's MONEY -- that argument usually works for you guys.”
It's the subscriber's MONEY -- that argument usually works for you guys.”
New TIME Cover on Glenn Beck Ignores Facts, and Worse
Commented Sep 17, 2009 at 14:59:18 in Media
“Very well said.
They think every issue is addressed by simple binary oppositions or dichotomies, for/against.
Heaven forbid some issue might have more than two sides, or that things might not be clear-cut.”
They think every issue is addressed by simple binary oppositions or dichotomies, for/against.
Heaven forbid some issue might have more than two sides, or that things might not be clear-cut.”
New TIME Cover on Glenn Beck Ignores Facts, and Worse
Commented Sep 17, 2009 at 14:54:16 in Media
“Interesting that the writer, Dave Von Drehle, seems too l@zy to do any analysis beyond listing one side against the other, regardless of whether there is any real equivalency.
This is also the cheap m.o. we see in much of the allegedly "liberal" MSM”
This is also the cheap m.o. we see in much of the allegedly "liberal" MSM”
Thank You, Glenn Beck!
Commented Sep 09, 2009 at 06:22:17 in Politics
“Oh good, I really needed a good solid laugh this morning!!!
This'll get me through lunch.”
This'll get me through lunch.”
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