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To: Roccus

How the heck did we get to this point?

Rather than debating the honest points that Joe raised with Obama, instead, the MSM decides to do character assassination against Joe. Rather than discuss the merits of the points Joe makes, instead, it’s decided to destroy this man’s reputation and ignore all of the legitimate policy points Joe raised.

Incredible. Sadly incredible.


7 posted on 10/28/2008 9:17:00 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego
How the heck did we get to this point?

Just one more step in the slide toward leftist totalitarianism. As a minority, we were tolerant of them -- all in the interest of "healthy debate". Equal in power, they are now completely intolerant of debate with us. They only want totalitarian control. Given more time for their power to consolidate, they will refuse to cede power even if they lose an election.

19 posted on 10/28/2008 9:26:12 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham ("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
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To: Dilbert San Diego
How the heck did we get to this point?

Incredible. Sadly incredible.

Not realy.

Think FBI files, Linda Tripp, that Naval officer from Able Danger who appeared before Specter's committee....it's the way it's been for a looooong time.

28 posted on 10/28/2008 9:30:41 PM PDT by Roccus (Someday it'll all make sense.............maybe.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The media has proven itself to be a fully functioning Socialist Propaganda Apparatus.


29 posted on 10/28/2008 9:30:50 PM PDT by Hat-Trick (Do you trust a government that cannot trust you with guns?)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

And if Obama wins, the MSM will just be the propaganda organ for Obama’s administration. Can you imagine Watergate, only this time with the media backing Nixon and demonizing the people who were spied upon? Can you imagine Obama, Nixon-like only worse, claiming to himself be the law of the land and the MSM cheering him on while investigating Obama critics. The Democrats will censor opposition, in addition to having the MSM acting as their obedient servant.


53 posted on 10/28/2008 10:16:24 PM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
"Rather than debating the honest points that Joe raised with Obama, instead, the MSM decides to do character assassination against Joe. Rather than discuss the merits of the points Joe makes, instead, it’s decided to destroy this man’s reputation and ignore all of the legitimate policy points Joe raised."

And using the stateapparatus to do it. (BIG BROTHER!!)

56 posted on 10/28/2008 10:23:37 PM PDT by blam
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I wonder if TIM ROBBINS feels that "CHILL WIND of neighbor turning in neighbor" that he felt after the PATRIOT ACT was passed?

Nah! Don't thinks so. He is too busy writing his next speech about RACISM in America that he plans on giving sometime after Nov 4.

65 posted on 10/28/2008 11:16:39 PM PDT by PISANO
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Isn’t it? Obama went to him. He didn’t seek out any publicity. He was just living his life until the empty-suit walked up to him.

The obama-cult is ridiculous, and far worse, dangerous to a free America.


66 posted on 10/28/2008 11:21:28 PM PDT by kenth (Will Rogers never met Barack Obama.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Rather than debating the honest points that Joe raised with Obama, instead, the MSM decides to do character assassination against Joe. Rather than discuss the merits of the points Joe makes, instead, it’s decided to destroy this man’s reputation and ignore all of the legitimate policy points Joe raised......

Joe's experience, immediately following Sarah Palin's, shocking; breathtakingly contemptuous in it's eagerness to break the law by those who get paid to represent it, though nowhere near the ferocity leveled at her for not taking the small place the media and pathetic old pundits set aside for her, are symptomatic of a rapidly decaying culture.

Mel Gibson's film Apocalypto protrays the sort of couth instilled in the left.

80 posted on 10/29/2008 4:43:13 AM PDT by 4woodenboats (W T H !!! How long was I asleep? Where'd Capitalism run off to?)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
How the heck did we get to this point?

Rather than debating the honest points that Joe raised with Obama, instead, the MSM decides to do character assassination against Joe. Rather than discuss the merits of the points Joe makes, instead, it’s decided to destroy this man’s reputation and ignore all of the legitimate policy points Joe raised.

Incredible. Sadly incredible.

No, it's entirely believable, and only to be expected. We have a "mainstream media" to which we-the-people have ceded so much credence that they feel entirely entitled to use any and every device to distract the public from anything which the perpetrators of journalism finds inconvenient.
The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing . . .

It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity,
and they very seldom teach it enough.
  - Adam Smith


99 posted on 10/29/2008 7:34:24 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The conceit of journalistic objectivity is profoundly subversive of democratic principle.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Rather than debating the honest points that Joe raised with Obama, instead, the MSM decides to do character assassination against Joe.

As Rush said, the MSM is OK with looking into Joe's background, Joe's affiliations and Joe's associations. However, if you try to do the same investigation of Sen Obama, it is a dirty trick and an attempt to use guilt by association.

116 posted on 10/30/2008 2:39:47 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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