A Response To: Fear and Lying?

Tuesday, April 26, 2005
By Neil Cavuto
FOXNews

Editorial Link: Here

My Response:

Perhaps you should read your own commentary first.

"...never mind it doesn't know the plan, hasn't seen the plan."

Yeah, because W won't submit a plan because he doesn't want to be tied to one that won't float...oh, and he doesn't have one beyond getting private accounts implemented.

That the president's going to take their Social Security away, when he isn't.

That benefits will be cut back, when they won't.

That they'll pay more for those benefits, when they can't.

How do YOU know this if there is NO plan? Cognitive dissonance?

Like Social Security's math: fewer people paying in, more people taking benefits out. That's not good.

Yeah, but PRIVATE ACCOUNTS make the problem WORSE, not better, by W's own admission.

AARP ISN'T against FIXING Social Security, they are against HOW the administration has PROPOSED to fix it via its 60-day tour.

You're engaging in an intellectual slight of hand in order to influence opinion - that is simply disingenuous to your readers and frankly unbecoming of someone in your position. In short, it stinks.

What's next, quoting USANext? I mean come on, we all know AARP is against the military and pro gay right? Your hyperbole is misplaced and your attacks on AARP for doing EXACTLY what this administration has done to win election twice, e.g. appeal to emotion, is laughable in its hypocrisy. Do you really think everyone is THAT dumb?

You disappoint me.

You can always tell how desperate the right is getting by their approach to making a point.

Stage One: Create false crisis to get people interested and emotionally tuned.

Stage Two: Create policy that appeals to their emotional state created by Stage One and favors religious theology, big business and unrestricted free markets (Irony in itself).

Stage Three: Sell snake oil to public via sales tactics used by direct mailers, cold callers and high-pressure salesmen.

Stage Four: Evaluate stance: If enough snake oil is sold, then pass legislation and collect money; if snake oil is seen for what it is, bunk, then move to Stage Five.

Stage Five: Attack those that challenge the usefulness of the snake oil.

Stage Six: Repeat four and five until you get what you want - if you fail go to stage 7.

Stage Seven: If snake oil can no longer be sold, blame those that debunked the snake oil for lack of snake oil in one's life - continue to blame for at least two terms.

Pathetic. The difference is trying to solve problems for selfish, ideological reasons and trying to solve problems for the good of the many, not just the few.

The irony is that the God to which so many on the right CLAIM to pledge allegiance can see through the faux faith and piousness and see the rampant greed, selfishness, bigotry and violence that they promote on a daily basis via their rhetoric and legislation. All your wealth, political victories, slick sales presentations and charm will not save you from your Karma or final judgment.

Think about that.

Fox News host: Repeat after me

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/300125p-256914c.html

If the conservative guests on Fox News' "Hannity and Colmes" sound especially on-message, that's because they're being coached by the best:

Sean Hannity himself.

On the March 31 installment of the shouting-head show, the guests included two of the late Terri Schiavo's former nurses, Trudy Capone and Carla Sauer Iyer, arguing that their patient wasn't brain-dead.

Between commercials, according to an off-air audiotape obtained by investigative comedian Harry Shearer for last Sunday's episode of his weekly radio program, "Le Show," Hannity coached the women on exactly how to respond when liberal co-host Alan Colmes cross-examined them.

"Just say, 'I'm here to tell what I saw,'" Hannity can be heard instructing his guests. "No matter what the question, 'I'm here to tell you what I saw. I'm here to tell you what I saw.'"
Hannity adds helpfully: "Say, 'I'm not going to be distracted by silliness.' How's that? Does that help you? Look into that camera. Look at me when I'm talking."

On the air, Iyer performs beautifully. "I don't have any opinions or judgments. I was there," she declares.

After the segment ends, Hannity gushes off the air to the nurses: "We got the points out. It's hard, this isn't easy. But you did great, both of you. Thank you, guys. Those nurses are powerful, aren't they?"

On his radio show, Shearer injected: "Yeah, especially when they do what you tell 'em to do. Very powerful when they follow instructions from the host!"

A Fox News flack didn't respond to Lowdown's detailed message yesterday.

Money, Money, Money...MONEY!

Absolute Power...

“The DeLay trip to the South Pacific island, originally reported by a “20/20” investigation, was part of an effort by former aide Jack Abramoff to stop legislation aimed at cracking down on sweatshops and sex shops in the American territory, which is known as the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Abramoff, who was working for the law firm Preston Gates Ellis and Rouvelas Meeds LLP at the time, was paid $1.36 million by Saipan officials and wrote in a memo obtained by ABC News that such congressional trips were “one of the most effective ways to build permanent friends on the Hill.”

Also, Blum defended Abramoff’s lobbying efforts in Saipan, including DeLay’s trip. “Any money paid to Preston Gates from the CNMI was for work that Mr. Abramoff and his team did on behalf of the CNMI during the course of their six-year representation,” he said. “Rep. DeLay was one of over 100 members of Congress and their staff to visit the CNMI during that time.

After touring one garment plant, DeLay praised Saipan at the New Year’s Eve party attended by top factory owners.

“You represent everything that is good about what we are trying to do in America,” DeLay said at the time to his audience, which included Saipan officials and factory owners.
Later, according to a recording made by a human rights investigator posing as a potential customer, one of the prominent factory owners said that DeLay had promised to stop the reform laws.”

http://tinyurl.com/c5vgw

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Scumbag. Sorry, no other word for it.

A Response To: Revelations regarding the Left (Joe Scarborough)

Editorial Link: Here

My Response:

"I don’t know about you, but I am not trying to convert people by shoving them in my church. You won’t hear the next pope cite this doctrine but I often chant Saint John Lennon’s hymn “Whatever Gets You Through the Night.”"

No, you just want shove YOUR morality down our throats through the government. Hmmm...sounds vaguely familiar; Iran in the late 1970s perhaps? You say you're different? Why, because YOUR God is better?

"Sullivan knows that most evangelicals read the teachings of Christ to promote life, discourage abortion, oppose gay marriage, and in America at least, vote Republican."

Pro-life unless it's about guns and dead school children, war on non-Christians, the death penalty - especially for kids, poverty - got to have those tax cuts cause Greed is now a Christian value or sexual education beyond abstinence - which has been shown to work REAL well, or bombing clinics and proudly claiming self-righteous idignation at how others live.

"He is accurate to say that Jesus Christ never attacked gay relationships in the Gospels. That is left to Paul in Romans and to several Old Testament writers."

Yeah, and exactly HOW LONG after Christ died was that written? And, as far as Old Testament writings, do you REALLY want to try and run a country on those, Mullah Scarborough? Funny, I thought theocracy and fundamentalism were what we, well some of us, were fighting overseas.

"But Sullivan’s suggestion that the same Jesus who preached that lusting after a woman is a damning offense would give gay sex a free pass seems suspect at best."

Ah, and there we have it; the reason all of you bigots cannot get over the gay issue: you think being gay is all about sex. You just cannot fathom a caring relationship between two people of the same gender. For you, it's all about the sex. So who has the perverted mind here?

So self-righteous, so simple, so sad.

My question is this: would Jesus lash out at those who criticize him or his beliefs?

How about living a little more like Jesus and a little less like you THINK the Bible wants you to live?