Michael Medved - Flushing Out Fear Mongers from Their Fever Swamps (FR Mentioned)

Town Hall ^ | 1-4-2006 | Michael Medved

[Paul Ross]

...on a sesame bun...

And you have apparently already forgotten the lesson of Jack Abramoff? No one is above the law, unless you're with the Clintons team apparently.

We need to have an administration that is not beholden to any such narrow economic entity as a solitary securities firm.

Why is the Govt-Private Merry-Go-Round so blatant with regard to Goldman Sachs? From the most recent and conspicuous incestuous appointment...naming as Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. and then their RE-HIRING Robert M. Zoellick for huge dollars? Nothing suspicious at all there. Move along. Move along. Nothing to see....

Where the heck are the other majors which are more diversified in their views, the Bear-Stearns, and Smith-Barney and Lehman Brothers policy heads?

Doesn't it seem just a teensy-bit suspicious that there are so many Cabinet and subcabinet heads coming out of Goldman-Sachs, which is apparently the Securities trading entity most associated with outsourcing to China?

If W's administration had been even only half as dedicated to restoring American Defense procurement as he was to abetting industrial hemmhorraging to China...we would be in a vastly stronger position relative to the Communists than we are today, as they cement their Anti-U.S. axis...

I can't help but wonder what Theodore Roosevelt would have thought of this administration's unusual attachment to GS, and the policies it favors...this might be a clue:

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.

[AmishDude]

Wow, with a pickle on the side.

[Paul Ross]

Wow, with a pickle on the side.

So you have any substantive policy point?

BTW: Who are you, as an Iowan, leaning towards in the straw poll in the upcoming Iowa Republican caucuses?

[AmishDude]

What policy point? An article from nobody? An image-laden rant making no actual points but hinting *wink,wink* at a conspiracy? ("Don't you think it's interesting...")

I don't know whom I support in the caucuses, but let me immediately figure out whom I oppose:

Whom do you support?

[Paul Ross]

What policy point? An article from nobody? An image-laden rant making no actual points but hinting *wink,wink* at a conspiracy? ("Don't you think it's interesting...")

You missed the very-clearly-stated policy point. And it isn't a conspiracy, if its in the open, is it? What I am pointing to, and directly condemning is undue influence. By a party that directly prospers from that influence. And advocates appeasement.

I don't know whom I support in the caucuses

Guess you can't...or won't... think for yourself, then. Wait until it's all over, and then decide, eh? And you apparently feel a need to knee-jerk oppose those who true conservatives support.

Lame. Your position thus makes you indistinguishable from the Des Moines Register...I suppose you supported John Kerry as well.

[AmishDude]

All over? ALL OVER? Somebody should buy you a precise timekeeping device. Like a calendar.

Actually, I have some preferences, but I will share them only with rational, intellectual people. I'm willing to wait to see how events test each candidate. The campaign itself is a sufficient gauntlet.

I smell an ad hominem, because you'll find something wrong with anyone I mention, so I'll say that I will only vote for Jesus Christ and I will ask you again: Whom do you support?

Oh, and you STILL have not answered my question about a state formed in secret and away from the public.

[Paul Ross]

I smell an ad hominem, because you'll find something wrong with anyone I mention, so I'll say that I will only vote for Jesus Christ and I will ask you again: Whom do you support?

Ditto!

LOL! Take them apples!

[Pelham]

I'm sorry, I just can't prove there aren't pixies in the garden.

Yes, that's a clever but irrelevant example of a logical fallacy.

I'm interested in seeing what develops from the KC SmartPort, which appears to have more substance than invisible pixies:

http://www.kcsmartport.com/

http://www.kcsmartport.com/pdf/SmtPrtOneRoute.pdf

[AmishDude]

Yes, what a detriment it would be for goods to go through a central clearing-house instead of the haphazard way it happens now. That must make it more difficult to screen them and to regulate the transport of goods and migrants.

You guys kill me.

But it's irrelevant. We're talking about the NAU. The North American Superstate. And you can't seem to keep on subject.

I wonder why...

[Junior_G]

Medved is a very articulate guy, and a pleasure to listen to on certain issues; but he is also a Republican party hack to the core. He is as much of a spokesmouth for the White House as any talk radio host has ever been.

[hedgetrimmer]

Does Mr. Medved know about the deep integration in the name of Simon Bolivar in the southern part of our hemisphere?

From where did spring the idea of the South American Union, if not from the corrupt intellect of the globalists who developed the idea of the North American Union?

If it is such make-believe, why is there a plan for a union of Arab states, starting with a monetary union? And for African states? The talk is all over the internet about their efforts to regionalize, form customs unions and monetary unions (these are code words for making a new 'country' out of many old ones, with corporatist fascist governments in control)

[Pelham]

Apparently you can't post without attempting to make yourself feel superior. That must be very tiring, and you have my sympathy.

I'm just following the debate on the subject of the NAU. You seem to have a need to make it an us vs them issue, and I'm not interested. You'll have to look elsewhere to find a "You guys" with which to practice your witticisms, as excellent as they are.

[AmishDude]

Look, I always feel superior when faced with fools who fall for an obvious con job. Like the NAU. Or Islam.

This whole NAU garbage is tautologically stupid.

[Pelham]

You should feel superior, you deserve to. Not all of us are fortunate enough to be as intelligent as you, and you provide a model for us to emulate and admire. I'm sure I speak for many when I say that I look forward to your reasoned and edifying posts.

[AmishDude]

I do have to admit that I do the sarcastic, backhanded compliment much better than you do.