Things The Media Doesn't Want You To Know

Southack | 1/6/2003 | Southack

[Southack]

1. The Food and Drug Act was signed into law by a republican.
2. The EPA was created by a republican.
3. Bull Conner and George Wallace were Democrats.
4. Martin Luther King, Sr. was a Republican.
5. Al Gore, Sr. voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
6. The embargo on Cuba was initiated by a Democrat.
7. The Vietnam War was ended by a Republican.
8. The U.S. makes more products than any other nation.
9. America's greatest "warrior President" won the Noble Peace Prize.
10. Gold was outlawed by a democrat.
11. Gold was legalized by a republican.
12. The Freedom of Information Act was signed into law by a republican.

[Southack]

Would appreciate additions to this list...

[College Repub]

I think a big one would be that the media (even fox) never calls politicians on their lies about "cuts."

[Tripleplay]

Yassar Arafat is a terrorist.

South Africa is the rape capital of the world.

Any success story invoving Capitalism

[Southack]

Hmmm... Well, I could have titled the Thread "Historical Facts That Most College Students Would Guess Wrong", but I really didn't want the predictable "all of them" style of responses. I was desiring more historical facts; the type of facts that would contradict the prevailing generally accepted views.

For instance, Democrats are constantly calling for the elimination of our embargo on Cuba, yet the press acts as though they would be surprised to learn that it was a Democrat who put that embargo in place to begin with.

That sort of thing...

[Southack]

The first two Black Senators were both Republicans...

[Southack]

Natural oil seapage, not Man, created such topsoil pollution as the La Brea Tar Pits in L.A.

[Orbiter]

Al Sharpton is both a nitwit and a politcal opportunist. However, the Democratic frontrunner in the late summer of '04 is still gonna have to kiss his ring and his arse. Promises of an Ambassadorship ought to bring him into the fold, with Al holding out as long as possible to get past the Nauru slot to maybe Grenada.

[Southack]

The volume of water contained in icebergs takes up more space when frozen than when melted.

[Nitro]

The original George Washington was a Jeffersonian!!

[Nitro]

Smooth or chunky?

[Entropy Squared]

Al Gore really is made out of wood, he's a statue. All his public appearances were done by acting 'doubles'.

[The Raven]

All Ronald Regean achievements
That the government is too big
Strom Thurmond split from the Democtratic party to form the Dixiecrats

[The Raven]

>>The first two Black Senators were both Republicans...


I didn't know that !!!

[Nitro]

The guy that invented the Red, Yellow and Green traffic light was Black.

And most famous of all, "The Real McCoy"...

McCoy was a Black railroad worker and in those days they had to stop the train every, I don't know, call it 50 miles...

to oil the bearings and such, well McCoy figured a way to build a device that attached to the gearings and automatically oiled them and when it was seen to be successful, other companies started making 'knockoffs'...

and after that people started asking, "is that the real McCoy?" and that is how that got started!!

[Las Vegas Dave]

BUMP (for later reading)

[Rudder]

Democrat President Jimmy Carter gave away the Panama canal to China.

[The Raven]

Can you imagine what the Constitution would be like if the modern-day Democrats wrote it?

[M-cubed]

The Federal Reserve has nothing to do with the federal government ...its a private corporation...The founding fathers understood and debated the dangers of this... hence.. Art. 1 Sec. 8......Kennedy addressed this with Executive Order 11110

[Monitor]

Mother Gaia (Nature) is the source of crude oil.

[snowstorm12]

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