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Your Favorite Political Weblogs?
worm eater would like to know: "As the mainstream media is coming under closer scrutiny from the 'blogosphere,' and is having to actually respond to these journalists in pajamas, I thought I'd ask Slashdot: what are your favorite political blogs? Lately I've been reading Talking Points Memo, a liberal weblog by Joshua Micah Marshall, and a blog by Andrew Sullivan, a conservative writer. Where do you go when you want to see the mainstream media dissected and poked at?"
pay to play: ironic? no, he's just to busy to respond to anonymous comments
LOL. That's a fascinating way to spin the facts. The truth is that when Chomsky the America-Hating Idiot launched his site, he was immediately swamped by THOUSANDS of comments -- not anonymous ones, but rather signed ones --from people who weren't prepared to let him get away with his particular brand of mid-Atlantic bullshit.
His solution? Shut the comments down.
God forbid you challenge Chomsky's beliefs. Never, ever forget that he knows more than you.
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You make a valid point. We'd better demand tests to see if Kerry is also an alcoholic... ...in addition to an admitted and self-celebrated war criminal.
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If they couldn't possibly be true, then why did the White House distribute them?
It's press corps policy. Anything that comes in for comment gets passed on to everybody in the press corps.
Why did Scott McClellan say "We had every reason to believe that they were authentic at that time"?
Um. 'Cause it's true? I don't see your point.
Shouldn't George Bush have been able to recall that he hadn't disobeyed a direct order?
You aren't understanding simple points here. 1. No such order was ever given. Therefore 2. it never could have been disobeyed. There exists absolutely no evidence that any such order was given; that was an invention of these memos. Expecting the president to publicly deny every crazy allegation that gets cooked up about him is just silly.
An annual physical is not something you just "skip" because you don't feel you need to have flight status.
Actually, yeah, it is. If you want to be cleared to fly, you have to take a physical. If you aren't going to be required to fly (as Bush wasn't) and you don't want to hang on to your status for some other reason, you just don't take the physical. Common practice.
The government spent over a million bucks training him, he doesn't just get to say he isn't interested any more.
He didn't. When Bush requested a transfer to Alabama, he was told that he would be welcome but that due to a surplus of pilots who had rotated back home, there would be no place on the flightline for him. More pilots than aircraft, you see. More pegs than holes. Ergo, he would not be flying in Alabama. Ergo, no need to maintain flight status.
In his "autobiography," A Charge to Keep, he claims just that. "I continued flying with my unit for the next several years." The truth is he stopped after less than two years.
1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, half of 1972. That's four and a half years, not two. If you want to argue about whether that constitutes "several" be my guest. You'll be arguing by yourself, however.
Bush got in in front of thousands of others
False. In 1968, there were open slots for pilots who wanted to fly the F-102. Bush simply got into one of many open slots.
So the question isn't if strings were pulled, but who pulled them.
Nope. Simply untrue. There is no evidence whatsoever to suggest that any strings at all were pulled, ever.
A transfer would imply that he showed up in Alabama, but the records show he was simply gone for five months.
Yet another untruth spread by you for purposes unknown. We have service and pay records indicating that not only did Bush show up for duty in Alabama, he fulfilled all of his requirements for service. In both 1972 and 1973, Bush earned 56 points, more than the required 50 points. You don't get points if you don't show up.
Of course, you will undoubtedly fall back on "somebody was covering for him," but that's just circular reasoning. Not that that will stop you from getting really strident and shrill about it.
There are no credible witnesses that can recall him ever showing up in Alabama.
There's no evidence that he wasn't there, though, and plenty of documentary evidence that puts him on the scene. Including, as you're well aware, records of a dental examination. You wouldn't suggest, would you, that his teeth were on base but that he was not?
This is a pretty good summary of what we know at this point.
No, it's not. That was written by Kevin Drum, a well-documented partisan and a skilled liar himself. You will learn nothing by reading only that which is written by people who have no compunction about covering up or ignoring relevant facts in order to make their case.
Frankly, I would be more than happy to have the whole thing dropped if Bush would simply acknowledge what the record shows: he didn't faithfully fulfill his obligation to the National Guard.
That is not what the record shows. The record shows, in fact, exactly the opposite. So why aren't you happy to drop the whole thing right now?
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Oh, yeah. Being in war with one middle-eastern country and getting all news through the government's filter really makes you a fucking expert in the cultures of the world.
You must be an American.
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