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   Ken Warren said, 26 days ago

   And you wonder why it;s hard to find an honest politician!

   Money not only talks it tells you what to do and how to vote on the issues.

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   grapfhics said, 26 days ago

   Think of it as s a gift, and how about that “free lunch”?
   You can always wait for pay(back)day on Nov 4, 2009.

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   Buzzy-One said, 26 days ago

   ^^ since when is that something new ?

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   motivemagus said, 26 days ago

   A billionaire Republican? Or are you using “liberal” as an adjective instead of a political label?

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   Simon_Jester said, 26 days ago

   Sometimes I wonder if every time ANandy posts, there isn’t somebody standing behind him, pressing a button on his neck.

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   scottfreitas said, 26 days ago

   When will people figure out that in every election, there is always just ONE guaranteed winner?

   The liberal media. Because that’s where the bulk of every politician’s campaign coffers goes. Whether Demoncrat or Republican, Left or Right, they all have to pay the piper in the form of shoveling suitcases filled with hundred-dollar bills at the liberal media, buying air-time and face-time and newspaper ads and billboards…

   Yeah, fine, a tiny percentage goes to the few “conservative” media outlets, too. Not much, though. and you know WHY? Because Conservatives know who they want to vote for without ever seeing one gd radio or Tv ad, because they actuallly FOLLOW POLITICS. Thus the GOP and its ilk spend very little money buying ads in such venues (and obviously the Demoncrats would shrink back, hissing and baring their fangs, if you suggested they buy ads on Fox or Rush Limbaugh)

   Your average “moderate”, swing voter, whatever… they pay so little attention to politics that most of them can’t even name their own Congressman. :/

   Ads (especially negative campaign ads) work on THEM. As any political consultant knows..

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   dtriedel said, 26 days ago

   “… [c]onservatives know who they want to vote for without ever…” thinking?

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   Simon_Jester said, 26 days ago

   You know what I love about guys like scotty?

   One minute they’re crowing about how popular FOX, Rush and Hannity are….and the next they’re wailing like banshees over the fact that that the so-called ‘Liberal media’ controls everything.

   methinks the new motto for the uber-cons oughta be, “Who needs only ONE reality?”

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   Ken Warren said, 26 days ago

   Long ago, when that guy who was just on Dancing With The Stars, got them organized, he taught the Republicans one important lession: If you keep saying something is true eventually it will become true – or at least people will start thinking it is true which (from a political standpoint) is just as good.

   The Republicans don’t like what the media reports if it is different from what the Republicans say it is – so it is the media’s fault since they are “Liberial” and Liberials never tell you the truth.

   Part of what’s happened to the “media” over the last ten years is that one day when a group of rich Republicans were standing around complaining about the Media one of them said; “Instread of complaining about the Media why don’t we just buy them? Which they did.

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    motivemagus said, 26 days ago

    Ken - that principle is known as the Big Lie, a term published for the first time in 1925:
    “[I]n the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.”
    —Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, vol. I, ch. X
    Karl Rove is clearly an admirer.

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    ribbie149 said, 26 days ago

    So, just because no one in the mainstream media pushes phony events such as “Tea Parties” that media must be “liberal”. If you want to see how liberal the MSM is, just take a look at mediamatters.org and see how much disinformation the MSM spreads every day. There is no liberal or conservative bias, only a mainstream media that is horrible at doing its job.

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    churchillwasright said, 26 days ago

    RIBBIE: Media Matters was founded by Hillary Clinton and Center for American Progress (which was founded by Clinton’s Chief of Staff John Podesta) and is funded by George Soros. An impartial organization it is not.

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    Ken Warren said, 26 days ago

    Motivemagus – Yeah I knew the real name was Big Lie (which is a great name by the way), but I had to use that guy (yes I know his name, but “the guy from dancing with the stars is so much more fun to say) from Dancing With The Stars because I love just how messed up our culture has become – I mean where does “reality” end and whatever this mess TV is giving us begins?

    My God what would – what will they do to Jesus when he comes back – I mean he is (as far as we know) still single, would they put him on The Bachelorette?

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    motivemagus said, 26 days ago

    Ken - Jesus Christ, Superstar, remember? Been there…

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    annamargaret1866 said, 26 days ago

    Simon, I may be a progressive/liberal, but I think I’ll adopt “Who needs only one reality?” as my new mantra.

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    meowdam said, 26 days ago

    I wonder if he’ll win , bwahahahahahaaaaaa

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    DrCanuck said, 26 days ago

    I always thought the conservatives’ motto was, “I’ve given up my search for truth and have settled on a comfortable fantasy.”

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    motivemagus said, 26 days ago

    Then there’s the Mythbusters’ line “I reject your reality and substitute my own.” I seem to recall it was a comment on those not believing in science.

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    Ken Warren said, 25 days ago

    I love that line, it was uttered – God I can’t remember his name, I guess I’ll just have to say “The One Who Doesn”t Wear A Baray – he said it after their series of test proved that his theory was wrong.

    Sounded so Republican to me.

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    churchillwasright said, 25 days ago

    I heard tonight that Bloomberg has now spent more of his personal wealth– $250 million– on his three campaigns than anyone in history for any office.

    I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing, but at least it’s his own money…

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    motivemagus said, 25 days ago

    Ken: Adam Savage

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    motivemagus said, 25 days ago

    churchill - it’s a conundrum. On the one hand, he’s not costing the taxpayers; on the other, this means only the rich or the highly effective fundraisers (who are often getting corporate sponsors) become truly eligible for office. I think on the whole it’s a problem. Why should Americans only be represented in the “big roles” by the rich?

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    NeoconMan said, 25 days ago

    churchillwasright, it’s not his own money. When I buy a politician, he stays bought. Republicans are honest that way.

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    churchillwasright said, 25 days ago

    MOTIVE: I couldn’t agree with you more.

    NEO: http://about.blank.com/

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    NeoconMan said, 25 days ago

    churchillwasright, thank you for the broken link.

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    churchillwasright said, 25 days ago

    ^ Can’t figure it out? “This link appears to be broken” is how I feel about your posts! :-)