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Hughs: Rumor mill fueled by Internet stories [another hugh steenking pile]
knoxnews.com ^ | Friday, July 11, 2008 | By Ina Hughs

Posted on 07/10/2008 9:55:35 PM PDT by Jim Robinson

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To: Publius6961
OK. Working from memory the article alludes how, "working from facts that make Obama vulnerable...", might lead informed and aware people to make inferences that could as likely be right as wrong.

Which leads me to believe that the purpose of the article is to suggest that only political hacks may make inferences, which then must be accepted as wisdom by the great unwashed.

In short, "the nerve of some people, encouraging others to think for themselves!"

21 posted on 07/10/2008 10:42:16 PM PDT by Publius6961 (You're Government, it's not your money, and you never have to show a profit.)
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To: Jim Robinson
and what rumors of a secret love child did to John McCain's bid for the White House in 2000.

These stories about 2000 seem to be an underhanded mehtod of RE-invigorating this lie that had no effect in 2000.

McCain was the Democrats choice. In 2004 he almost crossed parties. In 2006 Dean staffers started getting behind McCain2008. Crossover Democrats gave us McCain as the GOP nominee. But as uncomfortable as we may be with his liberalism, he is to the right of Obama on virtually every issue. This "ethics" rumor about a bastard child is a smear. the kind of smears that the Obama camp would never admit to using. But someone is spreading it in 2008. Wonder who. My bet is on the same people who ran a campaign against a "culture of (sexual) corruption" in the GOP back in 2006. Pelosi-Reid-Dean's Democrat Party playing the politics of personal destruction AGAIN.

22 posted on 07/10/2008 10:43:37 PM PDT by weegee (Obama loves America like Bill loves Hillary.)
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To: Interesting Times

I do recall that the subsequent congressional investigation into Foleygat revealed that both the DNC and the media outlets they colluded with KNEW more than the GOP earlier and “did nothing” but sit on it until late in the election cycle and then they bitched and moaned how the GOP knew and “did nothing” with less information in hand.

Culture of corruption. Dirty Politics more like it.


23 posted on 07/10/2008 10:46:19 PM PDT by weegee (Obama loves America like Bill loves Hillary.)
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To: Jim Robinson
Unregulated attack groups

Assumes that free speech needs "regulation."

24 posted on 07/10/2008 10:46:44 PM PDT by iowamark
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To: iowamark

And of course, if the 527s were “unregulated,” how was the FEC able to fine them hundreds of thousands of dollars? You can find a lie in almost every sentence of this rant.


25 posted on 07/10/2008 10:49:35 PM PDT by Interesting Times (Swiftboating, you say? Check out ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
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To: txroadkill

“He then explained the true nature of the world in on sentence: “ If they aren’t bitchin’ about you I would assume you aren’t doing your job”.”

Yep.


26 posted on 07/10/2008 10:56:21 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: All

ON THE INTERNET:

http://www.swiftvets.com/
http://www.swiftvets.com/index.php


27 posted on 07/10/2008 10:58:48 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Publius6961
RE: "the nerve of some people, encouraging others to think for themselves!"

Yes, it is a leftist-identified "malady" called cyberbalkanization.

It's a bad thing, dangerous for our democracy when the little people "cling" to their beliefs and don't spend enough time educating themselves with the feeeeeeeeeeeeeeelings of the anointed ones.

"Republic.Com" written by an employee of the University of Chicago and very, very popular among the anointed ones argues that government should force the little people to stop being so narrowed minded.

I have not read the book but I've heard a couple of interviews with the author and read reviews of the book in the MSM. They loved it.

28 posted on 07/10/2008 11:12:50 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Cindy
Now available on the interwebs: a complete account of how the Swift Vets torpedoed the Kerry campaign's much-touted "No Man Left Behind" story:

An Incident on the Bay Hap River.

29 posted on 07/10/2008 11:18:51 PM PDT by Interesting Times (Swiftboating, you say? Check out ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
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To: Interesting Times

Thank you Interesting Times.


30 posted on 07/10/2008 11:25:16 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: weegee

Now THAT would be a shocker. NOT!


31 posted on 07/11/2008 12:34:43 AM PDT by singfreedom
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To: Jim Robinson
Danielle Allen is an admitted Obama Campaign operative and claims she resigned from the Obama Campaign on March 5th when she went on her personal jihad to investigate Internet emails that claimed Obama was/is a Muslim.

She has contributed $900 to Obama’s senatorial campaign and $2,350 to his presidential campaign.

She is obsessed about the “Muslim” Obama stories, but steers clear of Obama’s relationships with communists, Marxists, socialists, terrorists, racist reverends and convicted swindlers — relationships that are easy to document.

She is Dean of Humanities and a Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Chicago (where Obama taught) and the UPS Foundation Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), at Princeton. She is violating federal law by using tax-exempt facilities and her UPS grant money to do opposition research for the Obama Campaign.

Her goal is to make “calumny” a crime on the Internet. Calumny is the act of uttering false charges or misrepresentations maliciously calculated to harm another's reputation.

Dr. Danielle Allen, supposedly “a genius,” has traded her reputation as a scholar to become a shill for Barack Obama.

32 posted on 07/11/2008 1:16:36 AM PDT by Beckwith ('Typical White Person')
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To: Jim Robinson

Sheesh. These leftist journalists trying to pose as objective truth checkers are getting whinier and whinier. Go get a box of kleenex to dry your river of tears, ya big baby.


33 posted on 07/11/2008 1:33:10 AM PDT by smedley64 (Dems go all-in every 4 years with a 7-2 offsuit marxist, hoping to hit the flop big just one time.)
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To: Jim Robinson
Ina Hughs

"..In her 30 years as a newspaper columnist, Ina Hughs has focused on issues involving human rights, children, women's concerns, religion and the environment..."

34 posted on 07/11/2008 1:46:13 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Beckwith
"..Her goal is to make “calumny” a crime on the Internet. Calumny is the act of uttering false charges or misrepresentations maliciously calculated to harm another's reputation..."

What the left wants is a human right tribunal like Canada, any angle to stifle the Speech of the right.

35 posted on 07/11/2008 1:53:05 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Anti-Bubba182
"..In her 30 years as a newspaper columnist, Ina Hughs has focused on issues involving human rights, children, women's concerns, religion and the environment...

"Divorced after 30 years of marriage, she now lives in a cabin on a cove off of the Tennessee River"

Some punch lines just write themselves, LOL
36 posted on 07/11/2008 2:21:20 AM PDT by mkjessup
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To: Jim Robinson

This time the left won’t be satisfied with merely regulating free speech on the airwaves. They will come after websites, mark my words.


37 posted on 07/11/2008 5:29:58 AM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: gogeo
To the best of my knowledge, no one has ever disputed the truth of SBVT.

I believe what you meant to say was: "To the best of my knowledge, no one has ever DISPROVED the truth of SBVT." There have been lots of liberals that have insinuated that the charges were false....but stopped short of proving it.

T Boone Pickens offer of a reward comes to mind. I don't think anyone has collected to date.

38 posted on 07/11/2008 6:49:55 AM PDT by Retired COB (Still mad about Campaign Finance Reform)
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To: hole_n_one; ExTexasRedhead

Thanks for that link!


39 posted on 07/11/2008 7:01:03 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (A vote for any Democrat from BO on down the ticket is a vote for $10 a gallon gas.)
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To: snowman1

>.....and the world will never see what a real scumbag he is.<

Oh, but if he is elected, the world will get an eyeful! :(


40 posted on 07/11/2008 7:24:41 AM PDT by Paperdoll ( on the cutting edge)
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