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Return of the Swift Boaters (Barf Alert)
Yahoo! News/The Nation ^ | January 2, 2008 | Christopher Hayes

Posted on 01/05/2008 10:26:45 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: okie01

The Left puts Party before Country every time.

Even now they are forcing Kucinich to take the “loyalty oath” to support the Democrat nominee.


81 posted on 01/05/2008 9:23:22 PM PST by weegee (End the Bush-Bush-Bush-Clinton/Clinton-Clinton/Clinton-Bush-Bush-Clinton/Clinton Oligarchy in 2008.)
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To: purpleraine
I’m waiting for the movie “Christmas in Cambodia” starring Sean Penn.

Actually that should be "Holiday in Cambodia" (pending approval from Dead Kennedys Inc.). Wouldn't want to upset the non-Christians on the Left who might want to take in Kerry's fantasy film of the holiday season.

82 posted on 01/05/2008 9:25:48 PM PST by weegee (End the Bush-Bush-Bush-Clinton/Clinton-Clinton/Clinton-Bush-Bush-Clinton/Clinton Oligarchy in 2008.)
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To: penowa

Is this same iditorialist upset that Moveon (founded to push for censuring BJ Clinton and “moving on”) is still around?


83 posted on 01/05/2008 9:29:29 PM PST by weegee (End the Bush-Bush-Bush-Clinton/Clinton-Clinton/Clinton-Bush-Bush-Clinton/Clinton Oligarchy in 2008.)
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To: weegee

I agree. These rats are a virulent new strain. They are determined to win at all costs. They want a radical remake of American society. I cannot understand why the public does not see the immorality and treachery of these rats.


84 posted on 01/05/2008 9:32:22 PM PST by businessprofessor
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
What they call a "smear", we call hidden truth. You'll note that the Swift Boaters were never sued for defamation, nor libel, which is a subset of defamation. It is hard for a public figure to sue for defamation, unless they can prove "actual malice", which in this case, where the "smears" not true, would not have been difficult to prove, the motivation being obvious.

The most important defense to an action for defamation (or libel) is "truth", which is an absolute defense to an action for defamation.

Oh, and John, sign the SF-180 for General release of your military records, and prove the Swifties wrong... if you can.

85 posted on 01/05/2008 10:41:46 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: potlatch; PhilDragoo; ntnychik; MeekOneGOP; Interesting Times; FARS; 2ndDivisionVet



86 posted on 01/06/2008 12:42:25 AM PST by devolve (---- - Hey Boone! - My bonus check is late again! -)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

btt


87 posted on 01/06/2008 3:07:11 AM PST by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: devolve

88 posted on 01/06/2008 5:05:22 PM PST by potlatch ("Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance!")
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To: potlatch

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Good post potlatch!

John Kerry-Kohn is keeping his head down these days


89 posted on 01/06/2008 5:27:11 PM PST by devolve (---- - Hey Boone! - My bonus check is late again! -)
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To: devolve

Yes he is.
That gif was one of those little ‘keep busy’ things!


90 posted on 01/06/2008 5:28:58 PM PST by potlatch ("Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance!")
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To: potlatch

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Yes -

Those “keep busy things” you create

That get featured as the day’s graphic at “Strange Politics”!!!


91 posted on 01/06/2008 6:03:55 PM PST by devolve (---- - Hey Boone! - My bonus check is late again! -)
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To: devolve

Well, maybe I’m strange but I don’t necessarily consider that an honor. Someone submits each thing and usually as ‘their own’!!


92 posted on 01/06/2008 6:08:58 PM PST by potlatch ("Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance!")
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To: potlatch

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Yup

I know what you mean!


93 posted on 01/06/2008 6:39:56 PM PST by devolve (---- - Hey Boone! - My bonus check is late again! -)
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To: devolve

No, you’re not as fussy about it as I am. I have been pinged [by someone] to sites where somebody else uploads my gifs without the name on it.


94 posted on 01/06/2008 6:47:17 PM PST by potlatch ("Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance!")
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To: potlatch

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Maybe start adding a very tiny (Sandy) Burglar.gif to all graphics


95 posted on 01/06/2008 6:54:50 PM PST by devolve (---- - Hey Boone! - My bonus check is late again! -)
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To: devolve

I add a NAME, and I know my own creations, lol.


96 posted on 01/06/2008 6:57:31 PM PST by potlatch ("Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance!")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I shocked! Shocked I tell you.

I didn't think anyone actually read The Nation! I thought graduate students carried it to make brownie points with the professorate.

They're still carrying torches for Saco and Vanzetti on Irving Place. The Venona files caused them the worst outbreak of cognitive dissonance since they found out Stalin had Trotsky killed. (That's OK, the Rosenbergs really were spies and traitors, as was Hiss, but they did if for the right reasons. Stalin was protecting the Revolution against facists. Some day there'll be erecting monuments to the Rosenbergs, just wait and see.)

97 posted on 01/06/2008 6:57:47 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Being an idealist excuses nothing. Hitler was an idealist.)
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To: Red6

From Wikipedia Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hayes_%28journalist%29

Hayes attended Brown University for his undergraduate education, where he received a B.A. in Philosophy. Previously, Hayes was Adjunct Professor of English at St. Augustine College in Chicago.

From 2006 through 2007, Hayes was a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at the Nation Institute[2], and a Contributing Writer for The Nation. On November 1, 2007, The Nation named him as its Washington, D.C. Editor, replacing David Corn. He is also currently a Senior Editor at In These Times, a progressive monthly magazine based in Chicago. He has written extensively on issues central to the progressive community, including what ails the Democratic Party in the post-9/11 era[3], and how the labor movement is changing[4].

Hayes is also a regular contributor to the Chicago Reader, an independent weekly newspaper, where he covers local and national politics.


98 posted on 01/06/2008 7:02:35 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Being an idealist excuses nothing. Hitler was an idealist.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
LOL

I knew it! :)

I bet someone like him probably entered himself into wikipedia, a monument to himself!

Some people can’t suppress their cheese ball selves. As an example, our neighbor many years past in Germany was a psychologist (I grew up as a USAF brat). They had a baby and when they came back their little kid was dressed in blue, my father immediately replied when seeing the little baby, “So what did you name her?” The psychologist replied, “How did you know?” Years later I figured that one out.

Thanks for the link: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Christopher_Hayes_by_David_Shankbone.jpg

He even has the intellectual glasses! (Conjecture follows) People like this seldom deliver anything tangible. Of course they would say that scribbling some words to paper is something tangible. They exist in academia, politics, arts, entertainment, and in the media; in a bubble unattached from reality, where you live in a surreal world of abstract nonsense. It’s a world of contradictions, where it’s considered smart to say something scandalous, to be against the establishment, even if you’re part of it. He’s a person whose existence is based on word smiting things together like that opinion piece he wrote. It’s painful to read the editorial he wrote! It reeks of self absorbed pretentiousness, it’s indicative of a wimp who uses words to belittle and bully people. This type is physically too little, too slow, too weak, but uses his words to pound on people he claims are bad in his opinion not unlike the school bully, only in his little jock circle of academics and journalists he’s the stud. People like this often see themselves above others, but in reality they provide less to society than the trash man that picks up the carbon footprint they leave behind. The most productive moments these types usually have in their life are when they take out their own trash, do their laundry, or mow their lawn.

Then again, this guy might have been a boyscout, served as a volunteer fireman, helped raise his siblings, and worked in a paper mill in his early years, but I doubt it. That doesn't fit the profile of such men.

99 posted on 01/06/2008 8:29:27 PM PST by Red6 (Come and take it.)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

Ditto, and I’ve got a pile of “thank you” postcards to prove it.

I donated every payday, and was PROUD to be a part of it !!!

Most satisfaction I’ve ever gotten from donating to a cause.


100 posted on 01/06/2008 8:35:22 PM PST by JMJJR (Just doing my part to slow the coming of the next impending ice-age)
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