Posted on 10/20/2008 10:29:44 AM PDT by quesney
Save for later reading.
Please elaborate. How would you go about restraining capitalism, greed and shortsightedness for the greater good?
That’s the line of the Month!
How can someone who says such damning things call himself a “Democrat” when the leaders of his damned party have been the cause of his angst for more decades than he’s been alive?
He’s not nearly as intelligent as he seems.
“They have already sold their souls to the devil.”
That’s not an idle phrase.
After reading the following posting on FR, I am having a feeling of dread as to what forces are about to be unleashed, and what power is really behind 0bama.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2110317/posts
OSC thinks that he can rationally argue the MSM into covering 0bama.
I am afraid that we are dealing with irrational forces.
Orson Scott Card ping!
Ann Coulter makes a good case about the Left's hypocrisy with Watergate. She points out that the MSM was just as biased then, and that many equally scandalous events occurred with Democrats in the White House, but were never pursued by "journalists".
At the root of the MSM’s demise is their utter disdain for the notion of truth. For them, whatever they can get away with telling, regardless of whether or not it occurred, is “truth”. Thus lying to cover for their secular Messiah is not a problem.
Great post. I have long ago stopped believing in the illusion of journalistic impartiality. It’s a load of crap.
The truth, as I see it, is that the MSM is hostile to conservatives because of the Right's cultural values, especially those related to religion and sexuality.
Please check Post 56 for possible explanation.
An excellent read (in case you hadn’t seen it).
You can’t expect journalists to be honerable..
They aren’t.
Political identification
Card identifies himself as a Democrat because he is pro-gun control/anti-National Rifle Association, highly critical of free-market capitalism, and because he believes that the Republican party in the South continues to tolerate racism. Card encapsulated his views thus:[12]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card
Even Mormons can be wrong. By the way, didn't you read the opening comment in blue on the Mormon magazine website? It reads, “Editor's note: Orson Scott Card is a Democrat and a newspaper columnist, and in this opinion piece he takes on both while lamenting the current state of journalism. “
Get a clue you two.
BTTT!
Editor's note: Orson Scott Card is a Democrat and a newspaper columnist, and in this opinion piece he takes on both while lamenting the current state of journalism. An open letter to the local daily paper -- almost every local daily paper in America: ...This housing crisis didn't come out of nowhere. It was not a vague emanation of the evil Bush administration. It was a direct result of the political decision, back in the late 1990s, to loosen the rules of lending so that home loans would be more accessible to poor people. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were authorized to approve risky loans... One political party, in Congress and in the executive branch, tried repeatedly to tighten up the rules. The other party blocked every such attempt and tried to loosen them. Furthermore, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were making political contributions to the very members of Congress who were allowing them to make irresponsible loans... Isn't there a story here? Doesn't journalism require that you who produce our daily paper tell the truth about who brought us to a position where the only way to keep confidence in our economy was a $700 billion bailout? Aren't you supposed to follow the money and see which politicians were benefiting personally from the deregulation of mortgage lending? I have no doubt that if these facts had pointed to the Republican Party or to John McCain as the guilty parties, you would be treating it as a vast scandal. "Housing-gate," no doubt. Or "Fannie-gate." Instead, it was Senator Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, both Democrats, who denied that there were any problems, who refused Bush administration requests to set up a regulatory agency to watch over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and who were still pushing for these agencies to go even further in promoting sub-prime mortgage loans almost up to the minute they failed... These are facts. This financial crisis was completely preventable. The party that blocked any attempt to prevent it was ... the Democratic Party. The party that tried to prevent it was ... the Republican Party.
Great article by Card if you haven’t seen it.
Wish the rest of the country would read it too.
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