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It's a new world of lies in politics...
Friday, June 8, 2012 6:50 AM
NIKI2
Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...
Quote: “The Inspector General said contracts were steered to ‘friends and family.’” When the Romney campaign was asked for documentation, it produced a Newsweek article asserting that Energy Department inspector general Gregory Friedman “has testified that contracts have been steered to ‘friends and family.’” Except that Newsweek article was an excerpt from the book “Throw Them All Out,” written by Peter Schweizer, a right-winger who has served as an adviser to Sarah Palin’s PAC, edited one of Andrew Breitbart’s websites, and written a slew of books portraying liberals as pond scum. And it turns out that the inspector general never testified that stimulus contracts were steered to friends and family.
Friday, June 8, 2012 6:52 AM
ANTHONYT
Freedom is Important because People are Important
Friday, June 8, 2012 7:26 AM
Friday, June 8, 2012 7:46 AM
Friday, June 8, 2012 9:28 AM
Quote:Mitt Romney has been citing a new book he says shows that the Obama administration believed the health care reform law would slow down the economic recovery, but went ahead with it anyway. Too bad for the presidential hopeful that the author of the book says that's not accurate. Romney has been claiming recently that in 2009, Larry Summers, at the time Obama's top economic adviser, told the administration "that if they put in place Obamacare, it would slow down the recovery." Romney has sourced that claim to The Escape Artists, a recent book by Noam Scheiber about the Obama administration's economic policy. On Thursday, Scheiber, a writer for The New Republic magazine, said he found "no evidence" that the administration believed there was anything about the Affordable Care Act itself that would hamper the recovery.Quote:I found no evidence of this. I encountered no administration official who felt that way. They all thought [the healthcare law] was a good thing to do and in the long-term interest of the economy. They had no inkling, there was never any discussion, that this would ... crimp the recovery going forward. http://leanforward.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/07/12112429-noam-scheiber-no-evidence-for-romney-claim-that-cites-my-book?lite other words, he can now point to a book as saying something which it not only does NOT say, but which the author says quite clearly he NEVER WROTE. And he'll no doubt go right on repeating it, and the FoxNoise audience will nod their heads in agreement and tch tch about what a horrible President Obama is and how this proves it and and and... And so it goes...
Quote:I found no evidence of this. I encountered no administration official who felt that way. They all thought [the healthcare law] was a good thing to do and in the long-term interest of the economy. They had no inkling, there was never any discussion, that this would ... crimp the recovery going forward.
Friday, June 8, 2012 9:49 AM
KWICKO
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Friday, June 8, 2012 10:44 AM
CHRISISALL
Friday, June 8, 2012 1:04 PM
HKCAVALIER
Friday, June 8, 2012 1:26 PM
Quote:The Seven Commandments are laws that are supposed to keep order and ensure elementary Animalism within Animal Farm. The Seven Commandments were designed to unite the animals together against the humans and prevent animals from following the humans' evil habits. Since not all of the animals can remember them, they are boiled down into one basic statement: "Four legs good, two legs bad!" (with wings counting as legs for this purpose, Snowball arguing that wings count as legs as they are organs of propulsion rather than manipulation), which the sheep constantly repeat, distracting the crowd from the lies of the pigs. The original commandments were: Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. No animal shall wear clothes. No animal shall sleep in a bed. No animal shall drink alcohol. No animal shall kill any other animal. All animals are equal.
Friday, June 8, 2012 1:34 PM
Friday, June 8, 2012 1:35 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: Huh. I thought it was from Animal Farm, specifically how they boiled down the Seven Commandments. ' From the Wiki: Quote:The Seven Commandments are laws that are supposed to keep order and ensure elementary Animalism within Animal Farm. The Seven Commandments were designed to unite the animals together against the humans and prevent animals from following the humans' evil habits. Since not all of the animals can remember them, they are boiled down into one basic statement: "Four legs good, two legs bad!" (with wings counting as legs for this purpose, Snowball arguing that wings count as legs as they are organs of propulsion rather than manipulation), which the sheep constantly repeat, distracting the crowd from the lies of the pigs. The original commandments were: Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. No animal shall wear clothes. No animal shall sleep in a bed. No animal shall drink alcohol. No animal shall kill any other animal. All animals are equal. Never realized Moreau used a version of it as well. "I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero "I've not watched the video either, or am incapable of intellectually dealing with the substance of this thread, so I'll instead act like a juvenile and claim victory..." - Rappy
Friday, June 8, 2012 1:46 PM
6IXSTRINGJACK
Quote:Originally posted by ANTHONYT: Hello, Four legs good. Two legs better. --Anthony
Friday, June 8, 2012 2:40 PM
Quote:Originally posted by HKCavalier: Oh, well then, George was making an allusion to the H.G. Wells classic, but I have to acknowledge that Anthony was most likely refering to "Animal Farm" as you say, with the 4 > 2 rather than 2 > 4. I haven't read "Animal Farm" in very long time.
Friday, June 8, 2012 2:54 PM
Quote:Sayer of the Law: To go on two legs is very hard. Perhaps four is better, anyway. Sayer of the Law: It is a hard way, the way of being a man. Sooner or later we all want a thing that is bad. To walk on all fours. To suck up drink from a stream. To jabber, instead of saying the words. To go snuffling at the earth, and to claw on the bark of trees. To eat flesh, or fish. To make love to more than one, every which way. These are all bad things. These are not the things that men do. But we are men, are we not? We are men because the Father has made us men!
Friday, June 8, 2012 5:55 PM
Sunday, June 10, 2012 10:19 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko:Meanwhile, the reason Romney won't address his constant lying, and won't correct himself, if simple: Those he's lying to will never know it. They will only get their news from the approved sources (FauxNews, Rush Blimpo, Breitbart, etc.), and the approved sources will not only not report the lies, they'll actively deny that they ever occurred if someone else brings them up.
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