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For what ever the reason our thread has been tossed, so let's keep it going!! If you could choose the top dogs to run the White House, who and what position? My cabinet is as follows: - President: B. Obama - V.P.: John Edwards - Secretary of Defense: Joe Biden - Secretary of State: Hillary Clinton - Secretary of Treasury Dept.: Ron Paul - Head of Environmenntal Protection Agency: Al Gore -- THE TRUTH ll: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zG4sOyfoOg&feature=related
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Nov 20, 2009 4:56 PM
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Another Alan Grayson & Ron Paul collaboration.
> This is more under radar. This was a
> a resolution which said that high school seniors
> should be required to learn about the constitution
> for a week.
Perhaps such a resolution might come back to
bite congressperson's on the butt since few of
them are held accountable for the crappy
legislation that is passed which they, and
not the president is ultimately responsible
for....such as wars for instance. It was just
amazing to watch the democrat pols who
voted for Public Law 107-243 (the authorization
for use of force in Iraq) being the same people
available to criticize the same.
Apparently we have a lot of people who actually
thought Bush the "decider" after Junior crowed
about congress's passing off of the decision to
invade at his discretion and rubbed the fact of it
in the face of any antiwar democrats that don't
want the "decider" to decide so much at his
discretion.
They are still there and free to continue voting
to do much the same with legislation such as
Kyl / Lieberman which, in conjunction with
PL 107-243 gives any president a green light to
bomb supposed terrorist training camps in Iran
at his discretion....and like PL 107-243, was
justified by what has turned out to most likely be
lies unvetted by any of our intelligence services.
Democrats say they don't like Joe anymore but
don't seem to mind voting for his crappy legislation.
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Nov 20, 2009 11:12 AM
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It would be none of the above, accept I think hillary should be vice president.
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Nov 20, 2009 10:24 AM
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If this "error" keeps occurring, shouldn't they be firing production assistants?
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Fox News again accused of airing misleading video
For the second time in just over a week, Fox News is coming under fire for misusing old news footage. The latest flap is leading some people to charge that the cable news network is intentionally misleading its audience, while Fox claims a "production error."
Wednesday's incident occurred when Fox News host Gregg Jarrett mentioned that a Sarah Palin appearance and book signing in Grand Rapids, Michigan had a massive turnout. As footage rolled of a smiling and waving Palin amidst a throng of fans, Jarrett noted that the former Republican vice-presidential candidate is "continuing to draw huge crowds while she's promoting her brand-new book,'' adding that the images being shown were "some of the pictures just coming in to us.... The lines earlier had formed this morning."
However, the video used in the segment was from a 2008 McCain/Palin campaign rally. In response to the minor uproar that arose after clips of Jarrett's report hit the Internet, Fox senior vice-president of news Michael Clemente issued an initial statement saying, "This was a production error in which the copy editor changed a script and didn't alert the control room to update the video."
On Thursday afternoon, Fox News issued an on-air apology delivered by host Jane Skinner:
Yesterday we told you about Sarah Palin kicking off her book tour and then we spoke to Sean Hannity about an interview that he did with former Governor Palin. When introducing the segment we showed you footage of people lining up in Michigan for a book signing that evening. In the tease before the segment, the tease to commercial, we told you how those people were already lining up to meet Palin. The problem is we didn't show you the video we were actually referencing. Instead we mistakenly aired what's called "file tape" of Sarah Palin. We didn't mean to mislead anybody in that tease. It was a mistake, and for that we apologize.
The current mishap comes on the heels of a controversy sparked last week when footage from a conservative rally held over the summer was played on "Hannity" during a segment on a more recent rally. During the clip, host Sean Hannity marveled over the large turnout for a Washington, DC protest. The Daily Show later pointed out that there seemed to be some inconsistencies with the video shown on Hannity's show, namely that the atmospheric conditions seemed to vary from shot to shot. Hannity later apologized on the air for what he called "an inadvertent mistake."
Barely a week into Palin?s blitz to promote ?Going Rogue,? media coverage is becoming its own story. Fox News rival MSNBC caught heat last week for using altered images of Sarah Palin on the air, for which they later apologized. On Wednesday, Yahoo! News reported Newsweek?s defense of their latest controversial cover, which Palin herself blasted as ?sexist.?
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Nov 18, 2009 11:34 PM
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gt; Way to go, Alan Grayson!!!
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> We need more of him, and more of this type of stance.
He's also the guy who said on the floor of the house: "The republican healthcare plan is this
A) Don't get sick
B) If you get sick; Die quickly"
Dude is turning into my personal hero. I'm about to build him and Bernie Sanders a shrine next to the Michael Jordan one... :^D
Did I mention that A) I live in his district, B) I voted for him, almost by accident, C) We lucked into having him as our representative...I believe my district tends to be republican (a lot of old white people in Orange County, FL)
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Nov 18, 2009 3:25 PM
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Agreed. Ron Paul and he have been hammering the Fed.
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> Alan Grayson Talking To Bernake about that Half
> a Trillion Dollars this July.....
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> Grayson "So who got the money?"
> Bernake "To financial institutions in Europe and
> other countries"
> Grayson "Which ones?"
> Bernake "I don't know."
> Grayson "Half a Trillion Dollars and you don't know
> who got the money?"
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> Grayson"Well look at the next page, the very next
> page has the US Dollar nominal exchange rate which
> shows a 20% increase in the nominal exchange rate at
> the exactly the same time that you were handing out
> half a trillion dollars. Do you think that is a
> coincidence?"
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> Bernake(Takes a Deep Breath)"Yes."
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> Grayson (Laughs)
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> Edited by Fudo_Maiyo at 11/18/2009 12:22 PM PST
Way to go, Alan Grayson!!!
We need more of him, and more of this type of stance.
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Nov 18, 2009 3:14 PM
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Alan Grayson Talking To Bernake about that Half a Trillion Dollars this July.....
Grayson "So who got the money?"
Bernake "To financial institutions in Europe and other countries"
Grayson "Which ones?"
Bernake "I don't know."
Grayson "Half a Trillion Dollars and you don't know who got the money?"
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Grayson"Well look at the next page, the very next page has the US Dollar nominal exchange rate which shows a 20% increase in the nominal exchange rate at the exactly the same time that you were handing out half a trillion dollars. Do you think that is a coincidence?"
Bernake(Takes a Deep Breath)"Yes."
Grayson (Laughs)
Basically, our tax dollars are keeping foreign markets afloat while at the same time THOSE dollars are CRASHING in value.
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