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CBS News: Obama & Right-Wing Conspiracy Theorists
CBS News ^ | Nov. 30, 2008 | Michael Schaffer

Posted on 11/30/2008 9:49:04 AM PST by Deepest End

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To: Deepest End

The MSM hates an informed citizenry for the same reason most police departments hate an armed citizenry.


61 posted on 11/30/2008 11:21:38 AM PST by Natural Law
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To: SERKIT

There are no facts on his side. He has failed a lie detector test, and has a history of criminal behavior. He was taken into custody in DE because there was an outstanding warrant for his arrest. If someone with the same background as Sinclair had come forward with a similar story about Sarah Palin, we would have dismissed them without consideration.

There may be some validity to some of the other criticisms of BO, but to present Larry Sinclair as anything but a criminal and opportunist requires a complete disregard for reality.


62 posted on 11/30/2008 11:22:09 AM PST by ga medic
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To: EGPWS

It’s all right wing conspiracy theory until someone shows up with a blue dress then the main stream media has to ask themselves why they didn’t cover it. Why do you think the mainstream media is dying? Because nobody f-ing believes their bs anymore.


63 posted on 11/30/2008 11:22:46 AM PST by johnnycap
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To: Wild Irish Rogue

They are cowed by the Fairness Doctrine. Beck and Savage are cowed by islamists including CAIR. If talk radio and SCOTUS do not support the Constitution on this issue then you can pretty much roll up the Constitution.


64 posted on 11/30/2008 11:27:09 AM PST by Frantzie
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To: johnnycap
Because nobody f-ing believes their bs anymore.

Or perhaps not enough care about truth anymore.

65 posted on 11/30/2008 11:28:30 AM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Deepest End
"critiquing George W. Bush" that's all it is -- never mind the plays, books, movies, columns, radio commentary, Internet commentary about assassination and disappointment that neither the president nor the vice president was killed while visiting the war zones.. no it's not hate it's critiquing.

Liberalism is just plain sick.

66 posted on 11/30/2008 11:30:01 AM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Deepest End

Sorry, slip of the keys. I think it’s very possible that Ayres was the ghost writer. I am certain that there was A ghost writer. But habits and patterns of speech are very difficult to prove absolutely. It could be Ayres, or it could be some other left-wing idiot with similar ways of thinking.


67 posted on 11/30/2008 11:36:29 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Deepest End

And they are surprised after the last 8 years of pure hatered of President Bush? What idiots these people are! Sorry just because you think everyone should get along now doesn’t mean it is ever going to happen!


68 posted on 11/30/2008 11:36:29 AM PST by chris_bdba
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To: Deepest End

“He’s a socialist, a Muslim, an actual love-child of Malcolm X. His birth certificate was missing, his book had been ghost-written by William Ayers”

Well.
At least they finally admit it.


69 posted on 11/30/2008 11:38:37 AM PST by Salamander (Welcome to Obamageddon! The best apocalypse foreign money can buy!)
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To: Red Steel

That link does not support his claim. Go back and look at what he wrote.

I’ve seen your link before.


70 posted on 11/30/2008 11:40:06 AM PST by Doug TX
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To: neodad

“By Michael Schaffer
Reprinted with permission from The New Republic.”

“Fair and balanced.”

This is why I don’t click on these types of links. Why give them traffic? The summaries of articles here and other places are more than enough for me.

Let the MSM die a painful death.


71 posted on 11/30/2008 11:44:47 AM PST by Smokeyblue
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To: Owl_Eagle

“As opposed to someone who: had pretended to give birth to the love child of her daughter, went on a wild $150,000 shopping spree at Nieman Marcus, refused to join other candidates on stage because of the abortion and drilling in Alaska views, tried to get her ex-brother-in-law fired improperly, thought Africa was a country, had an affair with her husband’s ex-business partner, made victims of rape pay for their own rape kits, said she could see Alaska from her house, had a “witch doctor” as a spiritual adviser, cut the special needs budget, banned books, was a member of a fringe party, forced creationism to be taught in schools, and so many others.”

BRAVO! (Clap, clap, clap...)


72 posted on 11/30/2008 11:51:23 AM PST by Smokeyblue
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To: Deepest End

http://www.howobamagotelected.com


73 posted on 11/30/2008 11:51:26 AM PST by JavaJumpy
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To: Frantzie

“If talk radio and SCOTUS do not support the Constitution on this issue then you can pretty much roll up the Constitution.”

Mark Levin said this issue will not go anywhere, and nothing will keep 0bama from being sworn in. If Mark Levin says it to be so, I’d say it’s so.


74 posted on 11/30/2008 11:54:03 AM PST by JavaJumpy
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To: All
What's up with Hussein's smear propoganda site?

http://fightthesmears.com/articles/5/birthcertificate

appears dead

75 posted on 11/30/2008 11:58:55 AM PST by Deepest End ("It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government." - Thomas Paine)
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To: ga medic
He has failed a lie detector test, and has a history of criminal behavior.

The person administering the lie box test has been roundly dismissed as a fraud, hired by a porn-website owner. Larry is no angel, and is a scumbag, but a lot of his documentation seems to back his story. The "warrant" had nothing to do with Delaware so why did Beau have him picked him up by the Wash DC PD, extradicted to Delware? Looking for facts if you have them....Thanks!

76 posted on 11/30/2008 12:03:53 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: missnry

Don’t forget Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals
(Obama and leftist media hero)Read #12

RULE 1: “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.” Power is derived from 2 main sources - money and people. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood. (These are two things of which there is a plentiful supply. Government and corporations always have a difficult time appealing to people, and usually do so almost exclusively with economic arguments.)

RULE 2: “Never go outside the expertise of your people.” It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone. (Organizations under attack wonder why radicals don’t address the “real” issues. This is why. They avoid things with which they have no knowledge.)

RULE 3: “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.” Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)

RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity’s very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip away at the damage.)

RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)

RULE 6: “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.” They’ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They’re doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones. (Radical activists, in this sense, are no different that any other human being. We all avoid “un-fun” activities, and but we revel at and enjoy the ones that work and bring results.)

RULE 7: “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.” Don’t become old news. (Even radical activists get bored. So to keep them excited and involved, organizers are constantly coming up with new tactics.)

RULE 8: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)

RULE 9: “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.” Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist. (Perception is reality. Large organizations always prepare a worst-case scenario, something that may be furthest from the activists’ minds. The upshot is that the organization will expend enormous time and energy, creating in its own collective mind the direst of conclusions. The possibilities can easily poison the mind and result in demoralization.)

RULE 10: “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.” Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog. (Unions used this tactic. Peaceful [albeit loud] demonstrations during the heyday of unions in the early to mid-20th Century incurred management’s wrath, often in the form of violence that eventually brought public sympathy to their side.)

RULE 11: “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.” Never let the enemy score points because you’re caught without a solution to the problem. (Old saw: If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. Activist organizations have an agenda, and their strategy is to hold a place at the table, to be given a forum to wield their power. So, they have to have a compromise solution.)

RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)


77 posted on 11/30/2008 12:06:08 PM PST by Smokeyblue
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To: Deepest End

Now children, we’ve just lived through eight years of Bush-hating, deranged paranoid madness on the part of American liberals and leftists. All of which was totally ignored by the media, except when they themselves were participating in it. Let’s not get too excited about some people who don’t like Barack Obama. Worry about the few people who are stupid or crazy enough to act out their anger.


78 posted on 11/30/2008 12:12:32 PM PST by popdonnelly (Don't lose sight of your conservative principles.)
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To: Deepest End

This is a page from Goebbels playbook...imitated by Stalin about hiding the truth in plain sight.

These are all issues, issues that the Right somehow forced the Left Wing media to acknowledge, and they are publically using the media to discredit.

Where is the Odinga story? Rezko and the shady bank? Axelrod and the shady bank? Michelle’s raise via a pork barrel grant by her hubby (300% raise)? On and on, the media failed any type of ethics, and to the Ayers-inspired dummies produced by our education system, are filled with $150K Palin clothes stories than banning guns or partial-birth abortion...or Wright or Ayers or anything connected to their candidate.

The media is a festering bunch of maggots.


79 posted on 11/30/2008 12:15:00 PM PST by wac3rd (Conservatives are not always Republicans...and vice-versa.)
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To: Deepest End

“What’s up with Hussein’s smear propoganda site?

http://fightthesmears.com/articles/5/birthcertificate";

It’s not dead, the page is still active. They have removed all content from the page so that it just returns a blank page.

Very, very interesting . . .


80 posted on 11/30/2008 12:15:04 PM PST by Free America52
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