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  • PS: Ktwdawg...

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    You can always count on readers like "raymundohpl" -- a few posts back -- to make the really intelligent points you're after.

  • The fix was in? Ha!

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    Garry, my poor, poor, unemployeed, basement-ridden friend:

    Yes, the fix was "IN" as you say. Especially when you simply refer to the "fix" as an allegiance to the values of your party.

    And by the way, why is it I'm so sure you base your history of the Kennedy assination on the Oliver Stone movie? But that's another question.

    So once again, and only becuase we're dealing with a very short attention-span here: the final bid was made by a woman named Betty Casey. She is a trustee of the Eugene B. Casey Foundation, which donates money to hospitals, hospices, colleges, and private schools. These include the Eugene B. Casey Diabetes Education Center at Suburban Hospital, the Eugene B. Casey Swim Center, and the Eugene B. Casey Academic Center, and the Casey Home Hospice.

    Yes, Garry, you're right -- Betty Casey is "a Bush 2004 campaign and a regular right wing millionaire." I guess that means she's as committed to the right wing as George Soros is committed to the left. So where in this easily understandable universe does your brain fit in, Garry?

    Wait! wait! Upstairs! There's that sound again! You're mother has a bedtime story for you, Garry.

  • I tried, Garry, I really tried...

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    reading your response. But then I just got sleepy as it turned into another incoherent moonbat rant. Yes, yes, I'm sure this "scandal" you see is all over the news by now. But wait... it isn't, is it? In fact, it's nowhere. Garry, have you been cutting and pasting from other moonbat sites again?

    Why don't you do Joan a favor and stay off her side.

    Now go clean up your room. You promised your mom this would be the day.

  • You keep at it, Garry...

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    I'm sure CNN, MSNBC and all the major MSM outlets will be all over this story really soon.

    Not.

  • Luv ya, Garry

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    Hey, Garry, I haven't any hate inside, my friend. I just don't like it when I see Joan (or anyone, for that matter) spinning the truth or spreading misinformation. Rush Limbaugh had a very, very good day yesterday, that's all. Sometimes people you don't like or don't agree with have good days. That's life.

    You might consider spending some time at realclearpolitics.com, Garry. It REALLY DOES give both sides of the issues from respected journalists left and right. And without any BS.

    But please don't think of me when you work out, dude. That thought left me feeling rather strange this morning.

    All the best, big guy.

  • Joan Walsh sinks to the McCarthy Method: Guilt by Association.

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    Want to destroy Rudy? Just do what Joan does. Reach into that old, reliable Joseph McCarthy handbook and play the guilt by association game. It’s easy! In this case, you simply link Monsignor Alan Placa’s name with Rudy’s and – TA DA! – Giuliani suddenly prefers the company of child molesters! It doesn’t matter that Placa is accused but not convicted. It doesn’t even matter that Rudy would undoubtedly terminate any friendship like that in a New York minute if it were ever proven true. Not to mention taking a nice long shower or two or three.

    All that matters is that Joan gets to smear Rudy by calling him Monsignor Placa’s “best friend.” Hmmm… Joan, what’s your source for the “best friend” reference? Did you bother sourcing it yourself or are you just cutting and pasting something you read somewhere else?

    Because NPR online says that businessman Peter J. Powers, of Powers Global Strategies, has been Giuliani's best friend since they were boys in Bishop Loughlin High School in Brooklyn.

    And New York Magazine says Giuliani's best friend is businessman Elliot Cuker. AND, in that same article, Rudy himself has fun telling us that some of his best friends are “drag queens.”

    But, alas, you can always leave it to Joan to take the low road. How pathetic.

  • fetboy --

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    Right... like I said... guilt by association.

  • fetboy -

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    You're argument is painstakingly assumptive. Like I said... guilt by association.

    Let the chips fall where they may. They always do. Then Joan can write her little article.

  • Joan's beloved little man

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    The world according to Joan: "By contrast, I've always supported Rep. Dennis Kucinich's inclusion in these debates, though I was sorry his views on UFOs became a dumb sideshow at the end."

    An inconvenient truth: Dennis Kucinich is a sideshow onto himself. The UFO he claimed he saw in the company of another sideshow -- Shirley Maclaine -- is just further proof of this miniature man's miniature brain. Jeeze, I can just see the two of them sitting on Shirley's front porch, gazing up at the stars as Dennis dips his cookie in his chocolate milk.

    Dennis: Gee, Shirley, is that a shooting star?

    Shirley: (petting his head) No, Dennis, THAT"S a UFO.

    Dennis: Wow! A UFO!?! Now I can tell everybody I saw one, right, Mrs. Maclaine!?!

    Shirley: That's right, Dennis. Now you can tell everybody.

    Dennis: Swell!!!

  • Hey, Anonymous, about that ombudsman position at Salon...

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    "I wish Joan were more interested in the ethical lapse and shoddy journalism at Salon.... A good start would be for her to create an ombudsman position."

    Damn good idea, Anonymous, but it'll never happen. Joan et al would have to start behaving like REAL journalists. You know -- the ones who actually check their sources themselves rather than cutting and pasting from what's already been printed... and lots of other pesky little tasks like that.

    So forget it. An ombudsman would only lead to professionalism and integrity.

  • Damn, Garry, you're right...

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    I forgot the beanie. Excellent touch!