Posted on 02/17/2006 3:43:01 PM PST by outofhere2
THe Dems have found another issue to beat Bush over the head with. This issue is being exploited of course to make the Dems look like the ones with long-term foresight in the War on Terror, and they KNOW they can get mileage out of demagoguing it. The Bush Administration is stupid for letting them do this, and has not bothered to defend itself , as usual , to the public. The Dems will win on this one, and take ALL the credit. Sorry to say, whatever their motives, they will have earned it. Even though their real objective is probably to have BIG DEM GOVERNMENT itself take over all Port operations , and build bigger bureaucracies with more dependents in the process.
You summed it up perfectly.
I can't believe I have to support Dems for the safety of my country in this matter but that's what it comes down to and I don't care about "political party" I just want this cronyism type deal to fail and ARABS/Islamos not to have any control over anything so important to our own National Interest.
I can't believe anyone can defend this "pro arabs controlling our US PORTS" position without a koolaid pitcher nearby.
Osamma has got to be smiling at this insane plan. Even Republican officials in NYC are outraged by it. I don't care exactly what security functions these Arab muslim imports are going to be performing in our Eastern sea ports, the fact that they are there at all, IN ANY CAPACITY, is the damn stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life.
The UAE has several direct connections to 9/11, including issuing passports to the hijackers and laundering money. They supporst terrorists in Afghanistan, as well as the Iraq insurgency.
"On its face, this looks like [expletive] insanity to me," Republican minority leader of the New York City Council, James Oddo.
Sheesh. Yes, I know Google. Given your sarcastic response, I will respond as follows. I probably knew Google before you even knew what the Internet was. I'm actually quite proficient with it - generally conducting much more specific and technical searches. Quite frankly, Google is getting pretty bad for more generic searches.
I don't care how many "results" there are or how fast they came up.. Which of the "results" actually allows you to "listen live?"
Your post implied that Google had a new service that provides a "Listen Live" button when you type a radio host's name (which wouldn't be a bad idea for a specialized search result).
Anybody can stick a search term in search box. That doesn't mean that you get what you are looking for.
I revisited some sites that came up and found the first one actually *does* have a listen live feature. I didn't see it the first time, despite looking for it (bad web design).
Alone? None. With the help of the millions of people he reaches every day? Many. If you want to know exactly what he's done and how he does it, I suggest you try listening to him, if you can possibly withstand the terrible pressure you'll feel when has the 'gaul' to disagree with Bush once in awhile.
It's hilarious when someone dares ask a simple question of a Savagebot who makes a claim about Savage, and in reply gets called a Bushbot and all that crap which has no connection to my personal positions.
I'll try once again to engage in a factual debate. Let's see if you can answer without evasion and mudslinging:
You claimed that Savage solved some of our country's problems. Then when called on it, you changed that to "Many WITH the help of the millions he reaches every day.
Simple question:
If there are so many of our country's problems that Michael Savage has solved with the help of the millions of people he reaches every day, can you simply list a handful?
Just a sample of these many problems. Please list them.
Thank you in advance.
After he stated over and over again that Hugo Chavez was the dictator of Argentina, after being corrected, I became convinced that he was off his rocker.
Savage is a bitter man who is entertaining every once in awhile, but his grating style gets to me.
In the end, he's just another talking head, nothing more, nothing less.
Now, I learned from your post. Thanks.
Anyone who would change his birth name to what sounds like a name for a porn star has problems to begin with. But I have tried repeatedly to listen to his show, and yes, he has some factual knowledge, but it's like finding a Rice Krispy in a bowl full of mud. He whines, he complains, he bitches, and his fans worship him because he disparages President Bush--yeah, he's no Bushbot!
OK, great, fine--but what does he GIVE? What does he say of VALUE beyond rhetorical heat?
Nothing I've been able to detect before turning off his redundant shouting.
Yes, I sure am a Bushbot...
But better a Bushbot than a Schumer-luber.
In a speech in Derry, N.H. (2004) President Bush told the crowd that Abu Nidal killed Leon Klinghoffer, (Achille Lauro infamy). He was corrected by his staff, it was acutally Abu Abbas. A little later, at a stop in NY City, Bush made the same mistake again, calling Abu Nidal Klinghoffer's killer. In his speeches he confuses Switzerland with Sweden, Osamma with Saddam, Iraq with Afghanistan. He mis-speaks so often there is a book out there which contains just some of them, and also a day-to-day calendar that contains "Bushisms". Will you call him "off his rocker" too? I didn't think so.
If M. Savage is "off his rocker" that doesn't say much for conservative America, the folks who have made him the #3 most listened to talk show in America. It also does't say much for those who purchased his FOUR national best sellers. I suppose it doesn't say much for the Universities that issued his two Masters degrees and his PhD either, nor for Pepperdine where he holds another honorary Phd. I wish I was as off my rocker as he is.
Wow, I called that one...
Post 549:What most amuses me about Savage fans is how they are the first ones to attack academic types, and yet one of the first things they say in defense of the man is "He has a degree!"
Interesting to see you calling me--someone who on this very thread called some of Bush's ideas "stupid"--a "Bushbot", and then you go and post this mash note to Mr. Weiner:
If M. Savage is "off his rocker" that doesn't say much for conservative America, the folks who have made him the #3 most listened to talk show in America. It also does't say much for those who purchased his FOUR national best sellers. I suppose it doesn't say much for the Universities that issued his two Masters degrees and his PhD either, nor for Pepperdine where he holds another honorary Phd. I wish I was as off my rocker as he is.
Now if I posted something like THAT would you call me a Savagebot? Considering how calling Bush's ideas "stupid" gets me called a Bushbot...
I wish I was as off my rocker as he is.
Don't worry. You are. ;)
Still waiting for a short list of some of those problems Savage has solved...
Exactly.
No, Schumer and Hillary are though, and you've got a bunch of FReepers playing right into their hands on this one. This has nothing to do with national security or the entire country of UAE taking complete control of all our ports. This has everything to do with the Democrats and liberals snookering the Republicans and conservatives in this country. This is nothing more than what happend to NYNEX when it became Verizon. Same phone service, different name.
Besides, China would be stupid to kill off it's largest import customer.
You're drinking too much coffee, (or something a little stronger). I said Savage HELPS solve some of our country's problem. There are many important issues that he has brought to the awareness of the American public, and that have been addressed as a result. One of them is, in fact, that he helped get President Bush elected, twice.
You have said he has no solutions, that he only rants. Yet one of the solutions to our problems that he has espoused, is a plan to throw down the A.C.L.U. He believes it can be done through the federal R.I.C.O. statues, (if anyone has the ba!!$ to try it), just as they were used to silence various pro-life organizations.
He has greatly helped to raise American awareness of our disastrously pourous southern border. Now even some bushbots are pushing the President to do something about this shameful chink in our armor against terrorists.
Another is the Marine Lt. (Pantano), a true American hero whom the military is claiming "murdered" two (terrorists) in the fight for Fallujah. (Pantano is the Marine who left a high paying Wall St. job to go fight in Iraq). He has raised tens of thousands of dollars for Lt. Pantano's legal defense fund and inspired thousands of Americans to write to their Senators and the White House. After getting thousands of people to write their Senators, and raising enough money for a strong defense attorney, the military finally decided to drop the charges and release him from prison.
But like any successful talk show host, he helps mostly by making the peole aware of problems, and trying to inspire them to get off their arses and work for change. That's why I like his emotionalism, it makes people listen and think. I'm equally sure that it turns other people off, but he's getting the job done. That's why he's either loved or hated, everyone KNOWS he's effective. But in all honesty, I think he's done for far more good for Bush than harm. It's just that he's not afraid to call him when he's wrong. And hiring Arab muslims to help with our port security is one of those times Bush is W-R-O-N-G.
Which should tell you alot. Nine times ouf out of ten, Congresscritters don't know sh!t about what's going on outside around them.
So? Nothing would have changed. The Coast Guard and Port Authority Police operate under Homeland Security.
For someone who doesn't give a "shiite" about King and Schumer, you're babbling their talking points word for word.
I believe Maersk (Danish shipping company) has the other 50% ownership in those ports in NY/NJ.
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