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The Lynching of the President
The American Spectator ^ | 1/25/2007 | Ben Stein

Posted on 01/25/2007 9:11:38 AM PST by NorCoGOP

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To: NorCoGOP

If Bush showed some balls, the media couldn't touch him. But he doesn't. And his pussy father shamed his family when he went ahead with a Bush Award for Public Service to Ted Kennedy TWO DAYS after Kennedy called his son--the President--a "liar" on the Senate floor. HE gave him the medal anyway! What absolute fools the Bushes are. They love their enemies and their enemies shit all over them. All they seem to care about is having people like them. Reagan couldn't give two shits about what the media and elites thought about him. All he cared about was the PEOPLE. Bush has made a huge error kowtowing to the evil elites for 5 years. He just seems weak, and Americans don't respect weakness, and the media viper feed on it like piranhas.


81 posted on 01/25/2007 2:08:20 PM PST by montag813
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To: carton253
I almost agree with Ben Stein. Iraq was not a mistake. It was necessary for winning the war on terror.

Invading Iraq was not a mistake. Acting like pussies once we got there was a huge mistake. Had we killed another 250,000 Iraqi civilians and eliminated Tikrit and Fallujah from this Earth, killed Al Sadr and hundreds of others (MacArthur hung 950 Japanese agitators in a relatively tame occupied Japan), stuffed ham into the mouths of every killed insurgent and burned their bodies, forgot about stupid elections until every ounce of resistance was brutally crushed, we would have no problems there right now whatsoever. Where the hell is the rage we all felt on 9/11? Who gives a shit about Arab democracy (as if there ever could be such a thing)? We wanted vengeance and we got Realpolitik instead.

82 posted on 01/25/2007 2:14:31 PM PST by montag813
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To: x
The media has less influence, but they still have plenty to do damage. Anytime there is a method for broadcasting propaganda, that propaganda is going to have an effect and influence some people. It is just like advertising. It does not work on everyone, but it works well enough to get some people to buy your product. Bush and the republicans have got to learn to effectively push back and challenge the media and point out what they are doing. That needs to be done daily and it is not being done.
83 posted on 01/25/2007 2:41:17 PM PST by Hendrix
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To: Psalm 73
Odd, my cats like NPR also - and they're not even Democrats, I don't think.........

I have decided that cats are social conservatives (individualists), but fiscal liberals (what's theirs is theirs and what's yours is theirs).

84 posted on 01/25/2007 2:49:28 PM PST by FairWitness
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To: thinkthenpost

Agreed. Well put.


85 posted on 01/25/2007 3:15:20 PM PST by rlmorel (Islamofacism: It is all fun and games until someone puts an eye out. Or chops off a head.)
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To: Hendrix

"It is class warfare rhetoric."

You have mistaken it for class warfare rhetoric, and then closed your mind on that error. If you knew Stein, you'd know better.

"You obviously don't have a clue about free market capitalism."

And you obviously don't have a clue about not being an obnoxious jerk. My initial reaction was to respond to each of your erroneous points. Upon reflection, I don't care to discuss this or anything else with someone who behaves as badly as you. You can post me again when you grow up and get some manners.


86 posted on 01/25/2007 3:56:03 PM PST by dsc
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To: RobRoy

> When you throw a stone into a pack of wild dogs, the one that yelps loudest is the one you hit.

(HeeHeeHee!) Well said! And *that* saying's a Keeper!


87 posted on 01/25/2007 4:06:37 PM PST by DieHard the Hunter (I am the Chieftain of my Clan. I bow to nobody. Get out of my way.)
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To: DieHard the Hunter

I must confess I forgot to give credit for that. It is a statement made by a character in a Louis L'amour short story. The character was Chick Bowdrie, Texas Ranger.


88 posted on 01/25/2007 4:43:00 PM PST by RobRoy (Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in 1938.)
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To: NorCoGOP

Reminder bump - way past time to fix media's wagon. ;-)


89 posted on 01/25/2007 9:12:17 PM PST by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: montag813

I have to disagree! GW isn't trying to be liked by being nice to his enemies. He just isn't giving into the same hate that they are throwing at him. The man has class. I also don't see him as weak, but he is one of the strongest leaders I have every seen. A weak person would never have kept focused on the WOT but would have "cut and ran". All while he has been under constant assault, not just from liberals but also increasingly from the his own party.

To be hated as much as he is and to not hate back says alot about his character. Most people could not handle it.


90 posted on 01/25/2007 9:33:25 PM PST by upsdriver
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I don't think there was any "class" in H.W. Bush going ahead with the "public service" award for Ted Kennedy two days after the creep called his son--the President--a "liar" on the floor of the Senate, something which had not been done in anyone's memory. Character involves courage. The courageous move would have been for H.W. to tell Ted not to bother making the trip.


91 posted on 01/25/2007 10:20:46 PM PST by montag813
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To: montag813

Well, to me, the situation is a little more complicated than your solution would dictate.


92 posted on 01/25/2007 11:05:10 PM PST by carton253 (Duncan Hunter for President.)
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To: NorCoGOP
But we all know we're getting out soon.

We are?

It was a huge mistake,

Really Mr. Stein? Have you consulted the ordinary Iraqi about that? Have you asked any Kurds?

93 posted on 01/27/2007 6:51:14 PM PST by prairiebreeze (Eurotrash sickens me.)
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