http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/demagoguery/ en-us Thu, 3 Sep 2009 16:17:52 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2331301/posts After a fierce controversy over what many perceived as an effort to indoctrinate students, the White House says it will rewrite the government recommendation that teachers nationwide assign students a paper on how to "help the president." According to the Washington Times, Obama aides acknowledged the White House helped the U.S. Education Department craft recommended activities to be assigned to students after they watched Obama's address: Among the activities the government initially suggested for prekindergarten to sixth-grade students: that they "write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president." Another task recommended for students immediately after... Examiner Washington, D.C. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2331301/posts#comment Thu, 3 Sep 2009 16:17:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2315626/posts President Obama, You have repeatedly trashed doctors in the US. And you claim that they are taking people's feet off, and removing tonsils simply because they want to make more money. They are greedy. You make these claims and sound so confident as if you have irrefutable proof. So let us see your proof. Tell congress to investigate the matter, they love investigations. America doesn't need any more of your demagoguery on this matter. If you are going to prosecute doctors who are committing a clear case of malpractice, then do so. If not, then put an end to these... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2315626/posts#comment Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:41:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263618/posts Before recent events, I intended to write about the GOP's message problem with the headline: "Shoot the Messenger." Sunday's fatal shooting of abortion doctor George Tiller makes my title inappropriate, but the idea remains relevant. The adage, of course, is "Don't shoot the messenger," meaning we shouldn't necessarily blame the person who delivers bad news. For the Republican Party these days, however, the problem isn't so much the message. It's the messenger. By grotesque coincidence, Tiller's murderer furthers the point. It has long been a problem for the GOP that some of the party's cherished positions are embraced most enthusiastically... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263618/posts#comment Wed, 3 Jun 2009 11:34:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2235366/posts Do you have a spare tire? Some bulges? Do your thighs rub together? Do you have a big gut? Well, be prepared to be ostracized. They already did a number on smokers. It used to be you could smoke almost anywhere, from the supermarket to your workplace. And then they started passing laws until you now have to go to smoke areas which are usually outside and away from everywhere else. Even though OSHA had to admit that second-hand smoke in the workplace cannot affect people except under extreme conditions. “Field studies of environmental tobacco smoke indicate that under normal... Breitbart - Big Hollywood http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2235366/posts#comment Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:00:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2219630/posts Last night, for the first time, I watched the movie, The Fugitive, from start to finish. The film is about a surgeon, falsely accused and convicted of murdering his wife, who escapes during a prison transfer, and is pursued by a US marshall. For Chicagoans, the film is one of the great movie portrayals of the city. But I now believe the classic moment in the movie comes in the 82nd minute. Harrison Ford, playing the falsely accused doctor, Richard Kimble, tries to lose himself from his pursuers by joining in the St. Patrick's Day Parade. This parade always draws... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2219630/posts#comment Wed, 1 Apr 2009 10:24:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2213279/posts In a world growing more dangerous by the week in this dark spring of 2009, Washington may be the most dangerous city in the world. The city is safe enough for its residents - it is the rest of the country and world that is endangered by what Washington is capable of doing. On a bipartisan, bicameral, bigovernmental (executive and legislative branches) basis, rarely has so much policymaking, world-economy-transforming power been in harness to such unsteady political and policy instincts. Whatever one thinks of the American International Group Inc.'s bonus actions, last week's performance by Washington's political class should give... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2213279/posts#comment Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:06:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2192712/posts Why, since President Obama promised to “restore science to its rightful place” in Washington, do some things feel not quite right? First there was Steven Chu, the physicist and new energy secretary, warning The Los Angeles Times that climate change could make water so scarce by century’s end that “there’s no more agriculture in California” and no way to keep the state’s cities going, either. Then there was the hearing in the Senate to confirm another physicist, John Holdren, to be the president’s science adviser. Dr. Holdren was asked about some of his gloomy neo-Malthusian warnings in the past, like... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2192712/posts#comment Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:19:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070348/posts Obama outlined, in the vaguest terms possible, countless billions or trillions of new federal spending. How would he pay for it? By "closing corporate loopholes"--like what? The idea that Obama's orgy of spending can be funded by "closing corporate loopholes" is frankly childish. By increasing taxes on the top 5% of taxpayers, i.e., precisely those who are grossly over-taxed already. The top 5% already pay 60% of all federal income taxes. And by "eliminating programs that no longer work." Really? Which ones? No one seriously imagines that Obama--let alone the Democratic Congress!--has any intention of eliminating any significant government programs. Power Line http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070348/posts#comment Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:55:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004603/posts New York Times VideoIn Sadr City, Hashem Hadi Obaid translates sermons by preachers loyal to Moktada al-Sadr, the anti-American cleric, into sign language.Iraq's most anti-western demagogue is determined to bring the message to those who can't hear it. In Sadr City, Hashem Hadi Obaid translates sermons by preachers loyal to Moktada al-Sadr, the anti-American cleric, into sign language. New York Times Video http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004603/posts#comment Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:19:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995383/posts Today House Democrats appealed to ignorance, in their usual fashion, by summoning executives from the five biggest oil companies to berate them for high gasoline prices. This is fundamentally stupid in at least two respects. First, these same Democrats purport to be worried about "global warming" and committed to taking strong measures to combat it. Needless to say, the simplest way to reduce carbon consumption, if you really believe that carbon consumption will cause an environmental disaster, is to increase the price of energy. This is why some honest global warming advocates have argued for huge increases in the gasoline... Power Line http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995383/posts#comment Wed, 2 Apr 2008 11:47:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1986848/posts Juan Williams, a Fox commentator whose book addresses the 'phony leaders and dead end groups that "promote a Culture of Failure and are undermining Black America,” tells Newsmax that Wright’s sermons reflect “the victim mindset that is so self-defeating in the black community and one that is played on by weak black leadership that chooses to have black people identified as victims rather than inspiring them as people who have overcome. In posing as victims, they say the most prejudiced and vicious things, not only about whites but about America. They call it theology. In fact, it’s nothing but bigotry.”... NewsMax.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1986848/posts#comment Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:11:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1957443/posts Most of the horrors of the 20th century — of which there were many — would not have been possible without demagoguery or misleading propaganda. Most people have too much of a sense of decency and too much common sense to have gone along with those horrors unless someone found a way to turn off their thinking and turn on their emotions. That is how Jim Jones led hundreds of people to their deaths at Jonestown. On a much larger scale, that is how Lenin created a regime of mass murder in Russia, how Hitler did the same thing in... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1957443/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:02:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1904954/posts In his 1932 campaign, Franklin D. Roosevelt had talked about helping someone he called “the forgotten man.” He was thinking of the poorest man, or as he put it—invoking the time of the pharaohs—“the man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.” The phrase came from an essay (and later a book) written decades before, called The Forgotten Man. Written by a famous Yale professor named William Graham Sumner, this essay defined “the forgotten man” differently. Sumner employed an algebra to explain what he meant: A and B want to help X, he wrote. This is the charitable impulse. The... Imprimis http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1904954/posts#comment Mon, 1 Oct 2007 17:05:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1698226/posts National Republicans are condemning state Auditor Claire McCaskill's comment to a group of city Democratic elected officials this week that "George Bush let people die on rooftops in New Orleans because they were poor and because they were black." The St. Louis Post-Dispatch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1698226/posts#comment Sat, 9 Sep 2006 04:16:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1653972/posts Judy Ettenhofer: Gore's 'Truth' needs to be acted upon now By Judy Ettenhofer, June 21, 2006 When "Fahrenheit 9/11," the Michael Moore screen diatribe against our current president, arrived in Madison theaters shortly before the 2004 presidential election, people sympathetic to its message couldn't get enough of it. They flocked to screenings and breathlessly implored their friends to see the movie that bolstered all their reasons for hating George W. Bush. It is my profound hope that the same kind of passionate evangelism occurs as a result of a much, much more crucial film that arrived at Westgate and Eastgate... Capital Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1653972/posts#comment Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:58:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1643712/posts WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush and congressional Republicans are aiming the political spotlight this week on efforts to ban gay marriage, with events at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue - all for a constitutional amendment with scant chance of passage but wide appeal among social conservatives. "Ages of experience have taught us that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society," Bush said in his weekly radio address. "Government, by recognizing and protecting marriage, serves the interests of all." The president was to make... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1643712/posts#comment Mon, 5 Jun 2006 17:00:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1630391/posts by Mark Finkelstein May 11, 2006 Maybe the ABC show should change its name to 'Demagogue Morning America'. Earlier this week, Charlie Gibson trotted out windfall-profit taxes and limits on executive compensation as 'solutions' to high gas prices. This morning, Kate Snow took the demagoguery up-close-and-personal, flashing a $20 bill in the faces of modest-income Americans to elict predictable responses about the tax cut they would be receiving under a Republican-backed plan. Snow set the tone by announcing that the proposed extension of the tax cuts "would cost the federal government $70 billion." Of course tax cuts don't cost the... GMA/NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1630391/posts#comment Thu, 11 May 2006 12:09:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1620102/posts The government should consider a tax on oil companies if they make excessive profits amid rising gasoline prices, a leading Republican senator said Sunday. Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said a windfall profits tax, along with measures to stem concentration of market power among a few select oil companies, could offer eventual relief to consumers hurting at the gas pump. "I believe that we have allowed too many companies to get together to reduce competition," Specter said. "They get together, reduce the supply of oil, and that drives up prices," he said. "In the short... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1620102/posts#comment Sun, 23 Apr 2006 20:00:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1619693/posts Bush marks Earth Day with focus on alternative fuels SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - President George W. Bush marked Earth Day on Saturday by highlighting technology that could reduce U.S. dependence on oil, while Democrats used a spike in gas prices to criticize White House energy policy. With oil prices hitting a record high this week and gas at the pump topping $3 a gallon in some places, Democrats hoping to win control of the U.S. Congress in November elections seized on the issue to make a populist argument against big oil companies and Republicans' ties to them. Critics are also... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1619693/posts#comment Sat, 22 Apr 2006 22:51:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1619414/posts Congressional leaders yesterday planned to ask President Bush to order investigations into possible price gouging by oil companies as crude oil prices hit new highs on world markets and average gasoline prices in the nation's capital blew through the $3-a-gallon mark. House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) are preparing to send a letter to the president Monday asking him to direct the Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department to investigate alleged price gouging and instruct the Environmental Protection Agency to issue waivers that might make it easier for oil refiners to produce adequate... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1619414/posts#comment Sat, 22 Apr 2006 10:27:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1608528/posts Why Does Hillary Clinton Fear Condoleezza Rice? by Walter Williams (March 8, 2006) Capitalism Magazine Presidential aspirant Hillary Clinton used Rev. Al Sharpton's Martin Luther King Jr. birthday celebration to, as Professor Shelby Steele explains, "whistle for the black vote by pandering to the black sense of grievance." In response to a question from the audience: "I need you to tell us what distinguishes Democrats from Republicans right now," Sen. Clinton answered, "When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about . .... Capitalism Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1608528/posts#comment Mon, 3 Apr 2006 22:08:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1470349/posts "I support the poor but not the war on poverty." by JohnLongIsland + Mia T, 8.25.05 If you want to attend ex-President Clinton's upcoming conference on solving global poverty, you better not be poor yourself. The web site for the so-called "Clinton Global Initiative" - set for Sept. 15-17 in Manhattan - is hawking tickets for $15,000 a-piece. For that princely sum, "participants will play a role in deciding on the programs that the Initiative will fund throughout the year." "This nonpartisan conference will bring together a diverse and select group of current and former heads of state, business leaders,... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1470349/posts#comment Thu, 25 Aug 2005 13:00:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1358857/posts Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin) on the floor of the House just moments ago regarding President Bush's efforts to reform Social Security: "Are we really going to allow the frail 80-year old woman, whom work is no longer an option, to starve sitting out on the curb?" C-SPAN - floor of the House http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1358857/posts#comment Wed, 9 Mar 2005 02:14:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1315249/posts Below is excerpt of interest => whole article worth read, though: Exploitation of tragedy is a sport played not only by environmentalists. Insurer Munich Re used the event to renew its call to fight global warming, which the insurance industry has recently begun blaming for natural disasters. Concerned about large payouts for natural disaster claims, insurance companies are very eager to establish global warming as contributing to those disasters, so they can sue deep-pocket businesses supposedly responsible for that global warming. Washinthing Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1315249/posts#comment Thu, 6 Jan 2005 14:56:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1290179/posts the left's over-the-top "over the top" by Mia T, 11.29.04 It's time for the 2004 awards for over-the-top rhetoric. Cameron Diaz said that if you think rape should be legal, you should not vote on November 2.... Comedian John Leguizamo said that Hispanics who pulled the lever for Bush would be like roaches voting for Raid. According to Sen. John Edwards, "I'd say if you live in the United States of America and you vote for George Bush, you've lost your mind." So, according to these... sages, on Election Day 44 percent of Hispanics revealed themselves as roaches who... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1290179/posts#comment Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:17:35 GMT