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CNN's Costello: States' Rights is Like 'Asking the Children to be the Parents'
NewsBusters.org ^ | 07/31/2009 | Matthew Balan

Posted on 07/31/2009 4:38:17 PM PDT by Pyro7480

CNN correspondent Carol Costello aired a fair report on Friday’s American Morning about the several states which passed resolutions that asserted their rights under the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and asked for viewer responses on the issue, but later stated that her “favorite [viewer] comment so far...‘asking for states’ rights is asking, you know, the children to be the parents’” [audio clips from the report are available here].

Costello began her report, which aired just before the bottom of the 6 am Eastern hour, with the question, “should states’ rights trump the fed?” She also highlighted the premise that “the concept of states’ rights is as old as America.”

The CNN correspondent used three sound bites from Texas Governor Rick Perry’s speech to a tea party in April 2009, which was widely circulated around the Internet. She also featured clips from an Republican state legislator from Oklahoma and a constitutional law professor....

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: carolcostello; cnn; constitution; enemedia; ignorantmedia; mediabias; mediaelite; msm; statesrights
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To: Secret Agent Man
I agree.

The real children are the liberals who not only are NOT familiar with history but have been usurped and blinded by a spoiled liberal press who has refused to vet and report on the other side of stories.

I wonder if we will not all be planning to move to Texas or Alaska or any other state that we know will stand strong against a federal takeover. This will be a war over refusing to become slaves, not like the war that freed the slaves.

41 posted on 07/31/2009 6:24:23 PM PDT by Republic (Ubama OWES Sgt Crowley a HUGE APOLOGY right away...if he can man up, he will do this immediately)
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To: Pyro7480
Costello began her report, which aired just before the bottom of the 6 am Eastern hour, with the question, “should states’ rights trump the fed?”

Absolutely, except in those areas that the fed is specifically tasked to handle.

She also highlighted the premise that “the concept of states’ rights is as old as America.”

Bingo...and so is that moldy piece of paper called the constitution. Apparently she hasn't made time to read it, however.

42 posted on 07/31/2009 6:53:14 PM PDT by highlander_UW (The only difference between the MSM and the DNC is the MSM sells ad space in their propaganda)
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To: Pyro7480

Tell that to Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin . . . dim wit.


43 posted on 07/31/2009 8:01:51 PM PDT by RatRipper (I HATE tax & spend politicians)
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To: Pyro7480

As we all know, the Founding Fathers created a political system with a limited federal government with most of the power located in state governments. Our Founding Fathers understood from history and personal experience that centralized political power was by its very nature tyrannical. We even see this wisdom in the Old Testament when God warned the tribes of Israel what would happen if they insisted upon choosing a king to rule over them. They would live to regret it. People never seem to learn. We are doomed to repeat the same mistakes that all empires make. We have sown the seeds of America’s destruction.


44 posted on 07/31/2009 8:06:51 PM PDT by Nosterrex
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To: Pyro7480

All of us need to be reminded that the Federal Government did not create the States; the States created the Federal Government.

-Ronald Reagan

apparently this view is ignorant..


45 posted on 07/31/2009 8:12:55 PM PDT by JSDude1
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To: SkyDancer
LOL. Pithy. And no, I do not have a lisp. *grin*

In our society, we have a sizeable portion that rely upon the largesse of government to provide them with the things they feel are their 'right'(s). All us other blokes are left with the task of actually doing things that make headway for the rest and have the vision to see what a contribution we can make beyond merely draining the community pool.

I have noticed recently, as a matter of point, that more of the people I once considered mere layabouts are actually getting out there and looking for jobs, so I guess the current economy is not all bad. But the ones who will just not see beyond the government handout just bloody well drives a bloke to drink most times. I mean, sometimes I just want to shout "Just get out there and DO something, for Cr***akes!" I mean, bloody 'ell, even if you're just flippin burgers, at least you have an honestly earned paycheck to look forward to.

46 posted on 07/31/2009 9:04:46 PM PDT by Utilizer (What does not kill you... -can sometimes damage you QUITE severely.)
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To: Utilizer

Interesting .....


47 posted on 07/31/2009 9:07:50 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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bk


48 posted on 07/31/2009 9:49:17 PM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Luke 22:36...Trust in the Lord...=...LiveFReeOr Die...)
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To: Pyro7480

Carol Costello Vs The Camera

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzYsPVeJo5c

What do you expect from the Michael Jackson cable channel?!


49 posted on 07/31/2009 9:54:28 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: SkyDancer; Talisker; JRandomFreeper; Secret Agent Man

I used the child support example to illustrate that women want big federal government. The feds already hunt down delinquent fathers because that’s what women want.

There are no “self sufficient” women. They all need good men to protect them from bad men.

That’s why women look to the federal government to replace husbands and fathers. Women can’t survive on their own.

Americans must choose between big federal government or traditional values. We can’t have both.


50 posted on 08/01/2009 12:32:31 AM PDT by donna (Sarah Palin: "...all of us, who consider ourselves progressive...")
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To: SkyDancer

Yes I am. *grin*


51 posted on 08/01/2009 2:52:06 AM PDT by Utilizer (What does not kill you... -can sometimes damage you QUITE severely.)
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To: xkaydet65

I read your post and it prompted a thought. What an interesting Poll it would be if Liberal parents were asked if they would support sending their children to fight a 2nd
civil war keeping seceding red states in the Union.


52 posted on 08/01/2009 5:51:09 AM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: mdmathis6
In 56 and 62 and 63 U.S. Army troops were used to enforce court desegregation orders in the Little Rock schools and the campuses of Ole Miss and Alabama.Not quite the same as your scenario, but there was the possibility of violent resistance and no one in my circle, limited as it was to family and, at least in the 60s, high school pals,had a second thought about the use of the Army by Kennedy.

As for today the liberal parents don't see or want their kids in the military so they'd have no problem sending someone else's kid. As for secession, there areIMO three states that have even a microscopic chance of pulling it off. Two because of geography Alaska and Hawaii and one because of history, character and size, Texas.

53 posted on 08/01/2009 9:07:09 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: donna
"There are no “self sufficient” women. They all need good men to protect them from bad men.

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54 posted on 08/01/2009 9:18:19 AM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: xkaydet65

It’s a different scenario now vs 50 years ago...That Major Cook debacle shows that Obama can’t count on the military to be in support of his policies if major portions of the military doubt his legitimacy!


55 posted on 08/01/2009 9:21:35 AM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: donna
That’s why women look to the federal government to replace husbands and fathers. Women can’t survive on their own.

Ive met quite a few self sufficient women over the years...many whose character and fortitude put many men to shame.

My grandmother raised 9 children during the depression years...by her self. She kept the family together and "physically" threw out two social workers who came to her house, trying to take some of her kids away. That was one tough lady. Im a guy who appreciates the strength of a true woman.

That being said I think the woman's lib movement screwed up a whole generation of women.

56 posted on 08/01/2009 9:40:18 AM PDT by Snurple (VEGETARIAN, OLD INDIAN WORD FOR BAD HUNTER.)
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To: Pyro7480

Wow. D.C. elitism at its best.


57 posted on 08/01/2009 9:42:09 AM PDT by PureSolace (Trust in God)
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To: freedomconservationist
That was changed in the 17th Amendment to our Constitution.

Restoring representation to the States through the U.S. Senate would be the single biggest impediment to federal statism.
58 posted on 08/01/2009 9:44:02 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: Pyro7480

It seems Carol has contempt for the States. She also is ignorant of the fact that the States created the federal government such that the States are the PARENTS of the federal government and the federal government is the CHILD of the States. If’ve never seen a child give birth to a parent before as Carol thinks happened.

Reporters are the dumbest of society, that is why they are reporters.


59 posted on 08/01/2009 9:49:04 AM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: donna

Another way to say it is that you either have the state be your family, or you have a normal family.

Either the state takes care of you, or your family does. Family has existed a lot longer than any nation state. Without the family society collapses. The evidence? Look at all the mess we’re in from broken families - of all kinds. For fifty years worth of evidence. Are things better? Hell no, they’re worse. We’ve gone bankrupt trying to support (and encourage) all these malfunctioning arrangements.


60 posted on 08/01/2009 10:18:45 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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