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AND THEN REALITY BEGAN
HOUR 9 ^ | 5/16/05

Posted on 05/16/2005 9:45:47 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection

AND THEN REALITY BEGAN

I don’t have time to watch television during the week so I TIVO my son’s choices that we watch on the weekend night which works best. He asks questions, has a very sharp memory, and uses all information to his best advantage (much like my wife). Most of the shows he enjoys are competitive and we are more often predicting losers rather than the winner/s. Until the ending segments of most popular multi-participation the bet is on who will be eliminated.

As I considered this I recognized the reality of media and the repercussions henceforth. Suddenly the general public was not interested in general media. Circulation cuts affected everyone, everywhere. All of a sudden the game shows on television were/are authentic. Tom DeLay is a criminal. Judge Brown is a racist. Hillary has no reason to participate in trial. Social Security is being obstructed by the right-wing. Our Constitution evolves, there is no reason not to know what other countries are doing. Newsweek just admitted to fabricating a story and provoking riots around the world.

The liberals are turning against their beloved minorities. They are desecrating religion. They are promoting taxes of every sort. They want to socialize anything imaginable yet refuse to put their "ideas" on paper.

We are back to these shows trying to knock a player off, the competition and the strategy. How does anyone benefit when liberals shut down ideas or media firewalls the public with anything but the left’s interests? How do we address their incessant attempts to intervene in foreign affairs? Why do we want to govern by another country’s laws?... When will the public awake to the strategy and competition of this game?


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: downhill; liberals

1 posted on 05/16/2005 9:45:48 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: Checkraise

Thanks for sTROLLING in!


3 posted on 05/16/2005 10:39:40 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: Checkraise
The Newsweek error does however lend fortuitous cover to those who prefer not to acknowledge that all is not roses in that country.

What a patently absurd insinuation on your part. Nobody in the entire free world - and I mean NOBODY! - think it's all roses in Afghanistan.

I sure hope you come up to speed soon, or you won't last long around here. But welcome to the forum anyway.

4 posted on 05/16/2005 10:50:43 AM PDT by Coop (In memory of a true hero - Pat Tillman)
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To: Checkraise

You need to check your sources. FR welcomes dissenting opinion. That's what we're about. But you'd better become more educated if you intend to throw out silly accusations such as above or the Iraq War claim. Why don't you start again and help l'il ol' me out? Clarify the Iraq War rationale which was - to put it kindly - inaccurate.


6 posted on 05/16/2005 11:58:02 AM PDT by Coop (In memory of a true hero - Pat Tillman)
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To: Checkraise
Newsweek has not admitted to a "fabrication." They got a story wrong, one that changes every time Gitmo sources discuss it (today it's "the PRISONER was flushing his Koran"; tomorrow it will be something else). None other than Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff made it clear on Friday that the riots were not the result of Newsweek's story, but rather part of the ongoing unrest as Afghanistan struggles with democratic reforms. The Newsweek error does however lend fortuitous cover to those who prefer not to acknowledge that all is not roses in that country.

  1. Dan Rather lied at CBS.
  2. Kerry lied while campaigning for president.
  3. McDermott (D) refused to say "Under God" on the House floor and was ignored by the media.
  4. Hillary and Berger were given free passes in the courts.
  5. Byrd (D) describes "niggers" on national television while the press does not blink.
  6. Daschle (D) in Clinton (D) tradition rescinded military appropriations until after the 9/11 attacks.
  7. A Colorado "professor" accused of plagiarism blamed those killed.
  8. Judge Brown has been labeled a racist...

I was told FReep doesn't take kindly to dissenting opinion. Looking forward to a lively exchange of ideas.

When are you going to begin self-evaluation?

7 posted on 05/16/2005 12:03:04 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection (http://hour9.blogspot.com/)
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To: Checkraise
The assessment of Iraq's WMD capability and stocks was flat out wrong. There isn't a single credible source or person of authority that would repeat today what was the rationale on invasion day. Not even the President is sticking to that story.

You, like liberals and media, continue to evade unsuitable facts (see above again). Although neither the media nor the left remembers 12/16/98, Clinton (D) ordered was ""to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs, and its military capacity to threaten their neighbors. Their purpose is to protect the national interests of the United States". Just a month later he cited aggressive action necessary for "An offensive biological warfare capability, notably 5,000 gallons of botulinum, 2,000 gallons of anthrax, 25 biological-filled scud warheads, and 157 aerial bombs..." He had full support from party members then who are defying actions Bush took. I have the text of Clinton's speeches... The real question is not only what did the liberals know in 1998 that they "forgot" a few years later, but what about the media?

This is the same "crew" which supported Social Security reform about the same time only to again "forget" that when Bush entered office (I have that information as well if necessary).

This blog provides people such as you with the same, just another time. Once again here we go out with a fact in another attempt to hide something else. Media circulation is down the tubes, that's hidden. National television news is no longer watched, FOX sucks. Liberals are a growing minority, minorities rule. People are unwilling to allow this kind of crap to destroy our nation.

9 posted on 05/16/2005 1:06:35 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection (http://hour9.blogspot.com/)
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To: Checkraise
I quoted the text and you question whether Clinton was wrong? If I pasted quotes from Daschle, Kerry, Feinstein..., listed all liberals who signed the document in favor of attacking Iraq, would you ask the same about them? Were they wrong?

Then we have the inspectors who were banished from the country, those guys "largely successful in neutralizing Saddam's threat". What kind of difference did that make?

Why aren't publications such as Newsweek wrong to print crap like that and place our country in a precarious position? Why are these same sources not wrong to lie about other aspects of war which essentially accomplish similar objectives?

11 posted on 05/16/2005 2:06:26 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection (http://hour9.blogspot.com/)
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To: Checkraise
"We regret that we got any part of our story wrong, and extend our sympathies to victims of the violence and to the U.S. soldiers caught in its midst," editor Mark Whitaker wrote in the magazine's latest issue, due to appear on U.S. newsstands today.
13 posted on 05/16/2005 2:29:55 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection (http://hour9.blogspot.com/)
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To: Checkraise

Who told you we don't allow dissent here? Your "people?" Why would you discuss your plans to register as a Freeper with anyone in the 1st place?


15 posted on 05/16/2005 4:31:15 PM PDT by IrishRainy
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