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Florida Congressman Wants Blogging Critic Fined, Jailed
vvaduva writes "Florida Rep. Alan Grayson wants to see one of his critics go directly to jail, all over her use of the word 'my' on her blog. In a four-page letter sent to [US Attorney General Eric] Holder, Grayson accuses blogger Angie Langley of lying to federal elections officials and requests that she be fined and imprisoned for five years. Her lie, according to Grayson, is that she claims to be one of his constituents. Langley, Grayson says, is misrepresenting herself by using the term 'my' in the Web site's name."
The linked article is by Fox News, the media arm of the Republican party. That alone should make you question every word of the article.
Childish approach? He's just mimicking the Republican Standard Operating Procedure. Yeah I can see how that's childish.
Sorry, she's a PAC, not a blogger. She's fund raising by fraudulently claiming to by his constituent.
That's illegal.
But hey don't let the facts hit you in the ass.
You seem to be confused in thinking it's "Republican Standard Operating Procedure" when in reality it's "Politician Standard Operating Procedure."
Not true. Democrats have stood idly by for too long while Republicans get up in the House and make hyperbolic speeches about 'death panels' and 'socialism' while the Dems have just tried to be Mr Nice Guy in the hope that the voters will reward them. They don't. Republicans have become masters of the art of pressing the emotional buttons over and over again even if their message is laced with lies and half truths, while Democrats have tried to counter it with facts, figures, and logic. As you can see from the 2000 and 2004 elections, the voters respond much better to emotional messages (particularly the emotion known as 'fear' as Karl Rove and Dick Cheney know too well) than they do to something as mundane as logic.
All Mr Grayson is doing is what Democrats should have been doing years ago. Republicans want to talk about death panels and pulling the plug on grandma? Fine, they should be prepared to listen to the other side using the same kind of emotional language.
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And the 2008 election was immune? Barack Obama's entire campaign was one of sweeping emotion. Emotion that "change" was on the way, emotion that we'd be able to "rise above" our "petty differences", emotion that he would "transcend" race, etc, etc.
Yup, Obama is another recent Democratic convert to the world of emotional campaigning. Sure he had his facts and figures lined up in true Democratic fashion, but what was new was that he was able to couch it in emotional terms using 'human interest' stories to illustrate the point. Look what happened - he got elected. QED.
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Childish approach? He's just mimicking the Republican Standard Operating Procedure. Yeah I can see how that's childish.
I'm not sure if you're trying to say that the Democrats are no less or more childish than the Republicans (if you are, I agree with you) but you do know that he's a Democrat with, of course, a history of controversies, right? You seem to be confused in thinking it's "Republican Standard Operating Procedure" when in reality it's "Politician Standard Operating Procedure."
He told On December 9, 2009, whilst on the MSNBC show Hardball, Grayson told former vice president Dick Cheney to "STFU."
That's not a controversy, that's good step in the right direction.
If someone is passing you on the right, you are an asshole for driving in the wrong lane.
Two things:
1. I'm tired of CNN, NBC, ABC, ect. and now even Slashdot strategically playing with words. When a Republican does something insane, 'journalists' will boldly emblazon the word Republican next to their name (i wish I was exaggerating, I've seen CNN actually put the party name in BOLD and in a different color). When a Democrat does something equally insane, the party designation is left off and is replaced with the abbreviation of their office: 'Rep.'
2. This story and the subsequent flamewar should have been filed under politics. I filter politics from the front page because of the idiocy that follows in the comments (which I have just contributed to).
Women are like electronics: you don't know how damaged they are until you try to turn them on.
So claiming that the Republican plan for health reform is "Die quickly" is trying to be "Mr Nice Guy"? Pot, kettle, black and all that.
Er, read the post again. Grayson is one of a rare brand of Democrats who have finally decided to man up and hit back at the Republican spin machine with emotionally charged messages of their own instead of trying to be all logical about it like Carter, Dukakis, Gore, or Kerry.
If your eyes are so bad that you missed that point, I hope for your sake that it's not a pre-existing condition.
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Oh. My. God.
So much garbage in there I hardly know where to start. Lemme just deal with this little intellectual turd:
Most people can save far more money as a reserve against poor health than they will ever use.
'Most people?' What about the exception to the rules? Like the occasional people who end up with cancer? They sure as hell can't save enough for treatment. What do you propose they do? Hmm?
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I too would like to apologize to all the dead people. I am sorry that I let democrats take away your right to defend yourself and kill you by depriving you of your second amendment rights, and your dignity just because your state representatives happened to be democrats. I am so sorry that so many policepersons stood by while democrats cozied up to hysterical soccer mommies, allowing them to send your rights into the null and void of irrelevancy, and helping them kill you.
I'm sorry that democrats are such nice and cozy people, and that we've allowed them to destroy our country due to a need to control the populace so that they themselves don't have to die when accountability comes due.
It's about time that more peple started saying things like this. It's our nation, and our world. On the line here.
I know I'm neg-karma but ideology doesn't help in a police state. Congratulations America, apathy is our new anthem.
Oh. My God. Are you fucking insane?
Let's just take one of your claims. Second amendment rights. When was the second amendment abolished? Jesus wept! You people are fucking crazy!
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