Bush Invited To Join Gold Star Families At Interfaith Prayer Service Friday Outside His Ranch

NCCCUSA ^ | 8/16/05

[llevrok]

Roosevelt met with NO dissidents or traitors during WWII.

How could he? He barely had a leg to stand on.

[paradoxical]

Cal Thomas has in interesting piece at Townhall.com
His premise is have a public meeting with Iraqi's and the rest of her family with Sec Rumsfeld to name a few


http://www.townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/ct20050815.shtml

[Darkwolf377]

Right--but we don't base our actions on the babbling of lunatics.

[Rosemont]

I wonder if they will import an Ayatollah from iran to lead the prayer vigil?

[TXBubba]

Yes, but they are too little to enlarge. The detail is gone. We need a good copy for posters etc. She removed the evidence so that it couldn't be disbursed.

[warchild9]

I'm presently teaching 160 students at a well-known university in a fairly conservative-to-middle-ground history department. I belong to two social clubs, two martial arts schools, and train therapy dogs. I listen to all of them speak, and keep my mouth shut.

W's support is slipping like pants off a buttless beggar.

[clintonh8r]

And he was spending lots of time buffing Ellie. I mean, who wouldn't?

[joebuck]

"I would like one of the reporters there to ask Cindy if her son is a Hero and if so why?"

And you would get the same scripted answers she gives regardless of what the question is.

[CAluvdubya]

Jimmy Carter's administration brought us... THE MISERY INDEX. Remember? Multiply the home mortgage interest rate times the (I think) Consumer Price Index.

Wasn't he a peach? (still is!)

I sure remember the long lines at the pumps! Carter just about killed the farming industry as well. Seems he would fit right in with mother sheehan. Idiots all!

[tomahawk]

Who are they praying to, Satan?

[justshutupandtakeit]

I'll bet you thought Bush was going to lose last Nov. too. And that he had better do something about the crippled ex-Senator rolling in for Kerry too.

Short of running a herd of longhorns over this dingbat's camp nothing will "shut this lady up" certainly not ANOTHER meeting with her.

Nor will it stop the RATmedia from publicizing her antics.

And you are wrong if you believe she is not being dismantled and pointed out as a lying hypocrit.

Quacks are outside the White House every single day should Bush meet with "Transexuals for Wind Power" next?

[llevrok]

Cal Thomas has in interesting piece

who does Cal's hair? Shinola?

[Cyclopean Squid]

I know Cindy Sheehan is a meaningless blip here at groupthink HQ FreeRepublic, but out here in the Real World, the media attention she's getting is taking root. This morning, I overheard boobs at our local supermarket talking about her, which means that the security moms are identifying with her. Considering that ALL the polls show popular support for the war is slipping, W's handlers should best pay attention and not dismiss this out of hand.

You're right in that we here tend to downgrade the influence of the MSM. It is still a rough beast that controls the thoughts of many. I'm reposting some commments I made some time ago on another board that I feel are pertinent here:

The MSM justifies its contrarian stance on the grounds that the press is supposed to be the watchdogs of government; that may well be true, but it is painfully clear that they are in fact the attack dogs who would maul government. What a twisted role; in most countries, propaganda would favor the state; here, it opposes it with glee.

I just hope the MSM is aware of the dangers of its chosen path. The abuse of Free Speech has, in the past, lead to the suppression of that right. Socialist sedition has led to ultranational rule that systematically stifles dissent. If they don't get on board and start calling plays down the middle, as they should and are able, they will be mere unwitting harbingers of the end they should fear.

I hope that the blogs' burgeoning role in keeping the media honest will help to preserve Free Speech as it is laid out in the Constitution. However, it is possible that the MSM will successfully label us as ideologues and extremists with "echo chamber" syndrome; that seems to be the tack they have been attempting of late. Plus many Americans are woefully misinformed, or at least underinformed. My family and friends are, for the most part, utterly clueless and to this day rely on the Alphabet Networks for any information they might get. I will often inform them of things that I have learned either on LGF, Free Republic, or Powerline, but they will scoff at these until the alphabets confirm.

Thus my belief is that the blogs will become the founts of knowledge for the superior minorities, whereas the Alphabets and the cables will be primarily responsible for informing the masses. The blogs will serve a guardian function, but they really rely on the competition among the MSM to get any actual police-work done.

If the MSM were to declare its biases openly I would be glad; embrace the Hearstian journalism and eschew the Ochs model we all know is dead. But for the present the MSM wants to wear its cloak of pseudo-objectivity, and unfortunately it will take more than a Rathergate or Easongate to destroy its primacy. Remember, unbalanced oligopoly is even worse than monopoly, for there is the illusion of competition. I feel that is where the state of the media is now.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Yeah, but just WHO are they going to pray to?

Baal?

[warchild9]

I'd just as soon have Jon Stewart as a source of information as Rush Limbaugh. It's about as reliable.

I listen to people speak--literally hundreds every day, of all ages and colors. That's my source of information.

[Mad Mammoth]

If the Secret Service is worth their salt, they won't let our Commander-In-Chief within 100 yards of those seditionous bastards. Cindy Sheehan has just the right mentality to morph into a latter day Squeaky Fromme with a dynamite bomb belt.

Don't think the thought hasn't crossed her mind. I'd bet the rent that it has.

[johnb838]

I believe they include the Episcopal Church, the United Methodist Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, the United Churches of Christ, and the Presbyterian Church of the USA, among others, the Unitarians perhaps.

[warchild9]

Please withhold the high school fault-finding.

He met with anyone who was getting national attention, like Cindy Sheehan is at present. He was brilliant that way, and charming as a snake.

[tomahawk]

This is why Bush should never have had any of his aides meet with her, or refer to her during his press conference.

By given her attention, he made her newsorthy.

It was amateurish and stupid on the part of the White House.

[joebuck]

This is just like the NAACP. Both Sheehan and Julian Bond go all over television saying the most hateful, nasty, personal things about the President, way beyond just criticising his policy, and then they act shocked that he doesn't want to come to their little party to be viciously attacked in person. And the press acts like Bush is being the unreasonable one in this regard.