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Blame the morons, not the messenger (Free Republic mentioned as dumbed down)
NJ.com ^ | Tuesday, November 23, 2004 | Paul Mulshine

Posted on 11/23/2004 1:01:45 AM PST by AmericanMade1776

An unfortunate byproduct of George W. Bush's political strategy is that his success has depended on moving the base of the Republican Party down into a demographic that should by all rights be Democratic.

That's right, I'm talking about the moron vote.

This was best illustrated by that recent incident in Fallujah in which a cameraman caught on tape the shooting of an Iraqi prisoner by a U.S. Marine. The Marine apparently presumed the Iraqi was pretending to be dead for the purpose of preparing a later ambush. Now the Marine has been removed from duty and may be court-martialed.

Who do you blame for that sort of thing? If you're intelligent, you blame the commander in chief -- you know, that slick politician who when he first ran for the presidency promised he would never get U.S. soldiers into the type of nation- building boondoggle in which such incidents become inevitable.

But if you're a moron, you blame the cameraman. That's been the response among many Bush supporters on talk radio and in chat rooms all over the Internet. One such site was the Free Republic, which used to be a bastion of intelligent conservative comment until Bush dumbed down conservatism.

"He should be charged as a traitor -- the government should make an example of him. This has GOT to STOP," wrote one such blogger, with his thumb on the shift key in classic moron fashion.

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MORON WRITER PAUL MULSHINE


1 posted on 11/23/2004 1:01:45 AM PST by AmericanMade1776
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To: AmericanMade1776

Don't be too hard on Mr. Mulshine, it is not our fault we are dumbed down, but Bush's.


2 posted on 11/23/2004 1:03:24 AM PST by AmericanMade1776
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To: AmericanMade1776

Moroooooon


3 posted on 11/23/2004 1:06:55 AM PST by GeronL ([[[[[[[[[[[This tagline closed until further notice- Homeland Security Dept-]]]]]]]]]]]]]])
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To: AmericanMade1776
Gee, if liberals are so smart you have to wonder why they can't defeat a "moron" like Bush, huh?

It should be child's play to the geniuses on the Left, wouldn't you think?

LOL!

4 posted on 11/23/2004 1:09:57 AM PST by Reactionary
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To: AmericanMade1776

If this guy and his editor don't know how to spell moran, than they best be stop projecting they problems in wide circulation print.

And that folks, is where FR is at.

Last year Mulshine had a following on FR. No more purring over his great wit, and he gets nasty on the site.


5 posted on 11/23/2004 1:14:05 AM PST by JerseyHighlander
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To: AmericanMade1776
"Who do you blame for that sort of thing?"

I blame the media (yes, you, moron writer Paul Mulshine) for perpetuating the lie.
6 posted on 11/23/2004 1:15:25 AM PST by calenel (The Democratic Party is the Socialist Mafia. It is a Criminal Enterprise.)
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To: AmericanMade1776

You know, this means they're getting scared of us!


7 posted on 11/23/2004 1:16:56 AM PST by eagle11
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To: AmericanMade1776

"a cameraman caught on tape the shooting of an Iraqi prisoner by a U.S. Marine."

Oh, moron, he wasn't a prisoner. He was a terrorist committing several War Crimes.


8 posted on 11/23/2004 1:18:16 AM PST by calenel (The Democratic Party is the Socialist Mafia. It is a Criminal Enterprise.)
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To: Reactionary
I do not know much about Paul Mulshine, but he professes to be a Conservative writer. But with remarks like this:

" The only way these big- spending Beltway bozos won re- election was to reiterate endlessly the message that the other side was even worse. That happened to be true, but as of Nov. 3 it stopped working as an excuse. "

One wonders what his political motivation is. Paul Mulshine, you obviously read Free Republic, as you are reporting our comments, so I only have one thing to say to you....YOU ARE A MORON!

9 posted on 11/23/2004 1:18:19 AM PST by AmericanMade1776
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To: eagle11

PAUL MULSHINE of The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J.: Question: What do you call someone who thinks George W. Bush is a conservative?

Answer: a liberal.

Bush has put the Republican Party in a bad position. Its future hinges on a campaign rooted in the notion that the American people are dumb enough to believe the author of the Iraq war should be re-elected on the basis of his foreign policy prowess. They may indeed be that dumb. But it's going to be close.
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/news/editorial/10000474.htm


10 posted on 11/23/2004 1:22:49 AM PST by AmericanMade1776
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To: AmericanMade1776
PAUL MULSHINE - is it possible he aspires to be another
Dan Rather or Bill Moyer?
11 posted on 11/23/2004 1:23:43 AM PST by AnimalLover ((Are there special rules and regulations for the big guys?))
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To: AmericanMade1776

well at least he recognized that the "other side was even worse"...


12 posted on 11/23/2004 1:25:01 AM PST by William of Orange ("Da plan! Da plan! Da plan is to keep recounting until I win..." - JF'nK)
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To: AmericanMade1776
"This has GOT to STOP," wrote one such blogger, with his thumb on the shift key in classic moron fashion."

I would hate to think where dear Paul's thumb usually resides, wouldn't you?

:)

13 posted on 11/23/2004 1:25:13 AM PST by Reactionary
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To: AmericanMade1776

This guy is a friggin jack-ass. He's totally clueless in gathering facts, and should enlist in the Marine Corps, put on a uniform and head out to the ME. Then he *might* have a clue what combat is.


14 posted on 11/23/2004 1:25:46 AM PST by Cobra64 (Babes should wear Bullet Bras - www.BulletBras.net)
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LMAO! This 'journalist" thinks Bush has a wall of t.v. screens in the oval office and gives direct orders to all the troops?

If I was watching that soldier's actions on a tv screen, I would have said without hesitation (and without hesitation was the proper reaction of that soldier) shoot 'im!

These "faking dead" terrorists killed a soldier using this trick just hours earlier. Now He doesn't have to fake it.

Mr. Mulshine is faking having any sort of intelligence.
Then again, he's a democRAT. It doesn't take any intelligence to be one of those.




15 posted on 11/23/2004 1:25:48 AM PST by Nathan Zachary
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To: calenel
"a cameraman caught on tape the shooting of an Iraqi prisoner by a U.S. Marine."
Oh, moron, he wasn't a prisoner. He was a terrorist committing several War Crimes.

The real MORON is someone who fails to crasp the basic concept that a prisoner is somewhat who has either surrendered to you or has been forcebly put under your control. That person faking death was neither. If he was covering up a bomb or grenade, the entire squad could have been killed.

16 posted on 11/23/2004 1:26:40 AM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: AmericanMade1776

I wonder what he thinks about the suicidal maniacs at DU.


17 posted on 11/23/2004 1:27:18 AM PST by BunnySlippers (George W. Bush is our president ... Get over it!)
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To: Nathan Zachary

It is more than that....Mulshine thinks Bush is responsible for Dumbing us down. What a Dumb ----!


18 posted on 11/23/2004 1:29:08 AM PST by AmericanMade1776
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To: AmericanMade1776
a cameraman caught on tape the shooting of an Iraqi prisoner

Who's the moron now? The Marines were securing the building. The Iraqi had not surrendered and been disarmed.

Sheesh, whatta maroon!

19 posted on 11/23/2004 1:29:40 AM PST by Alouette (When the wicked perish, there is jubilation! Proverbs 11:10)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Sounds like he still is in crisis over the election.


20 posted on 11/23/2004 1:30:27 AM PST by bd476
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