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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.
While I generally like Rep. Grayson because he doesn't roll over and take it in the ass from the republicans like most democrats do, in this case he's going to end up streisanding this wingnut blogger.
http://wdbo.com/localnews/2009/12/grayson-files-complaint-agains.html#more
Kind of helps to read, doesn't it.
But I guess if you want to swallow whole, "Florida Congressman Wants Blogging Critic Fined, Jailed," as the truth, especially the "blogger critic" part, as opposed to "Former Republican Party Official using Web Site to Raise Funds to Unseat Representative," then you must be a Fox News viewer.
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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You seem to be confused in thinking it's "Republican Standard Operating Procedure" when in reality it's "Politician Standard Operating Procedure."
No, I don't buy that. When you just throw up your hands and say they're all like that you basically let the problem continue. You have to hold people and groups accountable for their actions. The current crop of people running the Republican party are repulsive in the extreme, and they've pretty much been that way since the 90's, and as bad as the Democrats can be, the Republican party is worse.
Media Matters?
Seriously? The George Soros funded Leftist political apparatchik site? You expect ANYONE to take you seriously when you quote THEM?
Buwaaaa haa haa ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaaa.... *whew*! now THAT was funny!
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I too would like to apologize to all the dead people. I am sorry that I let Republicans kill you by depriving you of health care, and your income. I am sorry that so many stood by while Republicans cozied up to big business, allowing them to send your jobs our of the country, and helping them to smash your unions.
I'm sorry that Republicans are such cunts, and that we've done little to point out what huge cunts they are. We'll do better in the future.
It's about time that more people started saying things like this. It's our nation, and our world, on the line here.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
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.
Yeah...paying for services and free emergency room service for everyone who can't is a true holocaust. Way to put it "fucking mildly."
Getting sick and dying is natural.
Gassing 6 million scapegoats is not.
Get some perspective.
Hey Adolf, what's so 'natural' about being denied chemo (something you can't get in the ER) because cancer is a 'pre-existing condition?'
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Here's the problem: we have a large minority of this country, the right wing conservative fundamentalists, who would like to install a taliban type theocracy. they are traitors. the proper thing to do is go after them with RICO, and prosecute, convict, and jail or execute their leaders (including george bush and tick cheney (sp), and fine their organizations to bankruptcy. bye bye republican party. the democrats are only politicians (not a great label but tolerable), the republicans and their cronies are sociopathic criminals. sleep deprived, abused as children, indoctrinated into a violent, intolerant belief system. read ayn rand: she advocated terrorism in her movel the fountainhead, and believed normal people would condone it. healthy societies GET RID of dangerous people. axe murderers, child molesters, and republicans (most of them, that is). hey, its fun to be a troll, i should do this more often.
Yep. I think the action of trying to put someone in jail for 5 years for creating a blog criticizing you, will have great consequences for the congressman.
Oh, I heard that she committed perjury and fraud by swearing on an application that the facts were true, when she lied on the PAC form she filed with the government. She committed fraud in order to tamper with elections and steal tax-exempt status under false pretenses. And that's ok with you because she's using that to talk bad about someone you don't like.
Before you comment about this from a political perspective, think about the kind of punishment proposed by the congressman within the context of a "three strikes" IP law that everyone seems to be clamoring for.
You are right, three strikes is too lenient when it comes to someone purposefully trying to manipulate elections under false pretenses, lying, committing fraud, and hiding her true intentions so that she could steal taxpayer money and violate election law.
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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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