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16 years ago @ Big Hollywood - The National Endowment... · 0 replies · +1 points

The answer to these questions is strikingly easy:
Simply ask: "Would this effort be OK were the NEA to send out a similar "call to action" that substituted the name of one president for another (hypothetically, say "Bush" for "Obama"), and the focus areas around which to "raise a stink" were replaced, one for another, according to those presidential priorities (again, say.... "War on Terror" for "energy and environment" and "No Child Left Behind" for "Healthcare")?
How are Liberals going to feel when a Republican is again in the White House (which will happen again, sooner or later) and/or a Republican majority returns to power in Congress (sooner or later), and the Right decides to avail themselves of these same allowances and facilities to promote their governing priorities?

THAT is what Conservatives need to be stressing to get these sedated & silent Civil Libertarians off of their couches and back to waving the "stop" signs.

16 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Republican leader atta... · 0 replies · +2 points

I can't decide if this is the Brownshirts or the "Ministry of Truth" or the Norsefire party? Maybe all 3.

16 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Obama says Indiana \'f... · 0 replies · +4 points

Why doesn't anyone ask him how that Catapiller factory is going across the way in Peoria? Why doesn't anyone in the press corps REMEMBER what was said just a few months ago about how Cat would be able to hire back all those folks once the Stimulus got passed?

17 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Cronkite Award for Cou... · 4 replies · 0 points

Katie & Sarah, part 2
Here's the key: you shouldn’t have to prep or train or practice giving honest, straightforward answers to relevant questions. This wasn’t as bad as the “Who’s the president of Pakistan?” question George W Bush was sandbagged with as he walked off an airplane during the 2000 campaign. Now THAT's a gotcha question. “What do you read?” isn’t hard to answer if you DO read; it is if you don’t.
After listening to these clips, I'm more certain than ever that Sarah was the weak link.

17 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Cronkite Award for Cou... · 1 reply · +1 points

Folks: I’m a conservative that has to disagree with many of you. Since this debacle occured, I've often wondered about the extent of the media training she had either before the nomination or during the campaign. (For those who consider "Media Training" to be a dirty word taken to mean prepped to be evasive, not candid or untruthful, then think "experience being interviewed").
It's not Katie's fault that Sarah Palin didn't stick to a core message point on the abortion issue, or that she doesn't have a alternative version of the thought that expresses the same thing. Why couldn't she stand pat on a heart-felt position that she articulated twice before? Trained media interviewees know that the media won't air three consecutive versions of the same question -- and if they DID, the viewers would see a strong-willed, principled person being badgered by a Liberal-leaning gotcha journalist.

17 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Lonewolf Diaries: Only... · 0 replies · +1 points

Speaking of political cartoonists.... here'a a new presidential suggestion for Doonesbury (who liked to predict GHWB as invisible and GWB as first a cowboy-hat wearing, then a Roman general helmet wearing "invisibilian") -- how about a slim metal pole capped with a piece of bent reflective plexiglas (TelePrompTer)?

17 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Caterpillar to lay off... · 0 replies · +5 points

You just KNOW that if Geo. Bush had uttered a statement like this and the CAT had announced news like this under his watch, that the John Stewart's and Keith O's and Jay Lenos and Dave Letterman's of the world would be leading off their programs with this item. Do you think we'll see this on Sat. Night Live? Don't think so! Der Fuehrer can't be seen to fail or be contradicted.

17 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Caterpillar to lay off... · 1 reply · +3 points

Dear Mr. Lovering: (you should use the byline, Winston Smith). How in the world can you NOT mention the fact that the President held up this guy and this company to the the nation as an example of how well his Stimulus Package would serve the country's recovery? Did you check your journalist integrity at the door OR has that episode be cleansed from the Ministry of Truth archives already. Geez! Come on, at least pretend you are unbiased. No wonder your newspapers are folding everyday.

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