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El Cid

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Monday, April 23, 2007 09:55 AM

See? Bush Couldn't Help Himself But Be A Dumb*ss -- Democrats Let Him!

Man, you Dhimmicrats, can't you see Bush Jr. *can't* be blamed his own constant lying about a fraudulent WMD crisis so that he could unleash the most incompetent war in US history and even further destabilize the Middle East into warlord chaos hell, because after the dumb*ss ignored every single imminent warning of a terrorist attack on 9/11/2001, SOME Democrats voted to give him authority to use force if the US really had to.

So it's not his fault at all, because if what he was doing was wrong, then no Democrats should have given him any authority to use force.

Even though we all know that had they not voted for the AUMF, this in no way stops Bush Jr. from using force because Congress is a quaint and irrelevant branch of government and Bush Jr. is a Unitarded Executrix who can do anything he wants at any time in any place forever because he Protects Us.

So basically Bush Jr. had to launch a messed-up war to destroy a region based on lies & frauds, because the Democrats enabled him to do so!!

He had no choice!!

Any President given the authority to use military force to back up UN resolutions is 100% bound to launch an idiotic war to blow up a foreign nation turning it into warlord chaos hell based on faked and overblown evidence!!!

What else could one possibly expect from such a frightful, deluded, dangerous dumb*ss like Bush Jr. and his sycophants?

THEY MADE HIM DO IT BY LETTING HIM DO IT!!!

Tuesday, April 24, 2007 07:37 AM

They'll Have Nice Things To Say About Chomsky When He Dies

Of all the reasons I dread Chomsky's passing, one of the most annoying will be how the shallow ninnies of the mainstream media who couldn't successfully recite, much less analyze (no, they just leap straight to refutation of what they believe he *must* be saying) one of Chomsky's arguments, will suddenly effuse with dismissive praise of the man they will surely describe as crazy but great, yet another quirky madman genius who annoyed them but whose death allows them to attempt to appear noble and passive surveyors of All Our Culture once again.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007 07:43 AM

Real Journalists Had To Break News In Underground Press First

Good journalists will find a way to publish the important stories.

Not only has the underground / alternative media of the 1960s and 1970s given rise to many journalists’ careers, but the mainstream media consistently troll the alternative media (now blogs) for their stories. In addition, brave journalists who had important stories didn't simply let the mainstream sit on them out of their pseudopatriotic cowardice.

Remember My Lai? Surely people don’t think the New Yorker or the New York Times were first to print with this story.

The Myth of the Media’s Role in Vietnam

by Jeff Cohen

Common Dreams, May 2001

Of the many myths that mushroomed from the carnage of the Vietnam War perhaps none is more specious than the fable about how a bold, aggressive mainstream media turned America against the war. As the pundit class sinks into a new quagmire debating former Sen. Bob Kerrey’s Vietnam mission, it’s a good time to dissect the myth.

Let’s begin with the My Lai massacre of March 1968, where hundreds of Vietnamese civilians were executed by American soldiers. My Lai would later be cited as proof of a mainstream press bent on sensationalizing U.S. atrocities in Vietnam.

The reality was just the opposite. Beginning months after My Lai, evidence of the massacre was presented to top national news media by Vietnam veteran Ron Ridenhour and others, but not one outlet would touch the story. It wasn’t until November 1969, more than a year and a half after the My Lai slaughter, that the story was finally published by the small, alternative Dispatch News Service and dogged investigative reporter Seymour Hersh.

http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0506-09.htm

I believe that since the role of liberal & lefty blogs have become so prominent now, that the next time “all” the major media are sitting on a story, you’ll see a few pro journalists bring them to the blogs to get the story out.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007 09:07 AM

Cowardly Defeatists Doubt Bush Jr's Plan To Build Wooden Stairway To The Moon

You negative naysayers just don't understand how much you're hurting America, and Freedom, and Hope, when you criticize Our Dear Leaders new plan to return us to the Moon by building a giant plywood staircase to stretch the 240,000 miles to Freedom Base 1 in the Sea of American Freedom And Not Islamic Tranquility.

Don't you understand that by simply denying all reality and shuttering your mind's eye that We Americans can accomplish not only amazing things, and not only incredible things, but downright illogical and senseless things.

Sure, the Stairway to Freedom Base 1 routinely collapses at about 60 feet high, but we are sure that our new Stairway Surge! Plus Service Pack 2 Update will carry our Stairway to Freedom Base 1 the additional 239,940 miles needed.

Why don't you Hate America Defeatist Democrats just for once (again) trust Our Leader the Magical George Bush Jr. and that given just a little more time and 95% of our gross domestic product we can soon be Walking To the Moon!!!

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