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Technology Breaches the Media Maginot Line
American Thinker ^ | September 18, 2016 | Clarice Feldman

Posted on 09/18/2016 7:37:22 AM PDT by Kaslin

Last week Hillary attacked Trump supporters as “deplorables”, accusing half of them of them of being racist, sexist, homophobic, or xenophobic. In this she was following Obama’s disparaging of millions of voters.

As Victor Davis Hanson observed:

On his recent Asian tour, President Obama characterized his fellow Americans (the most productive workers in the world) as “lazy.” In fact, he went on to deride Americans for a list of supposed transgressions ranging from the Vietnam War to environmental desecration to the 19th century treatment of Native Americans. “If you’re in the United States,” the president said, “sometimes you can feel lazy and think we’re so big we don’t have to really know anything about other people.”

The attack on supposedly insular Americans was somewhat bizarre, given that Obama himself knows no foreign languages. He often seems confused about even basic world geography. (His birthplace of Hawaii is not “Asia,” Austrians do not speak “Austrian,” and the Falkland Islands are not the Maldives).

Obama’s sense of history is equally weak. Contrary to his past remarks, the Islamic world did not spark either the Western Renaissance or the Enlightenment. Cordoba was not, as he once suggested, an Islamic center of “tolerance” during the Spanish Inquisition; in fact, its Muslim population had been expelled during the early Reconquista over two centuries earlier.

In another eerie ditto of his infamous 2008 attack on the supposedly intolerant Pennsylvania “clingers,” Obama returned to his theme that ignorant Americans “typically” become xenophobic and racist: “Typically, when people feel stressed, they turn on others who don’t look like them.” (“Typically” is not a good Obama word to use in the context of racial relations, since he once dubbed his own grandmother a “typical white person.”)


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To: AndyJackson
I found it almost unreadable compared to "Fooled by Randomness" which I think one of the most important books of our time - I try to get all of my scientific colleagues to read it.

I'm not a scientist and I read it. I am smart enough to know that I didn't "get" everything.

21 posted on 09/18/2016 8:44:23 AM PDT by Stentor
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To: Kaslin

Best response to the fallacious dems I’ve ever heard:

“I’m so tired of this line of attack that normally taunts conservatives. Well, let me be very specific in my response. I believe in expanding opportunity, not welfare; that’s not racist.

“I believe every life is worth protecting, particularly the unborn; that doesn’t make me sexist.

“I believe marriage is between one man and one woman; that’s not homophobic.

“I believe in borders, the rule of law and our sovereign right to decide who to let into our country; that’s not xenophobic.

“I believe radical Islam is a mortal threat to America and Western civilization; that is common sense, not Islamophobia.”

-Dr. Ben Carson


22 posted on 09/18/2016 8:47:00 AM PDT by JPJones
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To: AndyJackson

The reviews for her book on Amazon are a MUST read, hilarious!


23 posted on 09/18/2016 8:57:15 AM PDT by JPJones
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To: Kaslin

Marshal McLuhan noted in the 1950’s that “Technology is inherently democratizing”. Not only does the Internet end forever all forms of top down, hierarchical information flow and allow peer to peer information distribution, but the Internet medium is not passive, rather, it allows any human being on the planet to become a broadcaster and go “viral” with anything that others find interesting or compelling. Whenever there is a breaking news story, more and more people are finding out about it via YouTube and there are many budding alternative news agencies to be found there aggregating news much like Matt Drudge. Aggregating salient information is now the name of the game, from reviews on products to gathering opinions on a topic from all around the World.


24 posted on 09/18/2016 9:11:48 AM PDT by Yollopoliuhqui (Smarter - Faster)
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To: Kaslin

Lazy.

How much golf has jackwagon played?


25 posted on 09/18/2016 10:06:34 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Kaslin

I do believe obama does feel lazy.


26 posted on 09/18/2016 10:07:13 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Kaslin

So Hillary Clinton has to take a rat poison for the rest of her life just to stay alive ? Talk about karma. How will that affect her mental state ?


27 posted on 09/18/2016 11:22:23 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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bump


28 posted on 09/18/2016 11:39:55 AM PDT by foreverfree
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To: upchuck; Kaslin

Excellent piece by Clarice Feldman!


29 posted on 09/18/2016 12:20:43 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Kaslin

All this from the laziest of all...actually we are better off when he is lazy...of course Jarrett is the real president and she works too much.

I look forward to hearing from the MSM mo-rons, “I don’t know how Trump won, no one I know voted for him”


30 posted on 09/18/2016 2:18:51 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Deplorable to the last drop.)
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To: AndyJackson

Episode 2 of Supergirl was titled Stronger Together. Coincidence?


31 posted on 09/18/2016 2:59:12 PM PDT by jackal7163 (If you are not willing to achieve victory at any cost, you are doomed to defeat!)
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To: JPJones

Dr. Ben Carson... A wise and good man ...totally ignored by press.
Mr. Trump calls him a good friend.


32 posted on 09/18/2016 5:49:14 PM PDT by victim soul (victim soul)
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