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Friday, October 16, 2009 03:10 AM

Dear "Barb" Here's the history of your "side"....own up to it!

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=14871&pid=173332&st=0entry173332

Ugly....isn't it? How do you even know which end is up?

Time Magazine, Monday, Dec. 03, 1934:

National Affairs: Plot Without Plotters.....

...Though most of the country was again laughing at the latest Butler story, the special House Committee declined to join in the merriment....

Time Magazine, Monday, Dec. 03, 1934:

...General Butler's sensational tongue had not been heard in the nation's Press for more than a week when he cornered a reporter for the Philadelphia Record and the New York Post, poured into his ears the lurid tale that he had been offered leadership of a Fascist Putsch, scheduled for next year.......

Time Magazine, Monday, Feb. 25, 1935

"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:

...To Pittsburgh one morning went eagle-nosed Major-General Smedley Darlington ("Old Gimlet Eye") Butler, to speak at a banquet.* That same day Jimmy ("Schnozzle") Durante was appearing at a Pittsburgh theatre. Stepping off his train, General Butler thrust his head forward in characteristic pose, stomped down the platform. Loiterers, mistaking him for the well-publicized Durante, began to cheer. That evening nosey Comedian Durante turned up at the banquet where nosey General Butler was speaking. A cameraman snapped them nose to nose.....

In the same, Feb. 25, 1935 issue of Time where Luce's crew made one last attempt to make Gen. Butler look ridiculous,

they reluctantly reported (buried near the bottom of a "People" column....), the news that Butler was apparently correct and vindicated:

....Also last week the House Committee on Un-American Activities purported to report that a two-month investigation had convinced it that General Butler's story of a Fascist march on Washington was alarmingly true....

Barbara Joanne, the dirty little secret in American politics is that there is no "left"....just two right wings, hard right and "right lite". My point is that you are so far slanted to the right in your perception, so indoctrinated with crap as in the example of the slanted presentation of what you perceive as the news delivered by the "liberal" media ala Time magazine's 1934-35 coverage of the right extremist push back against right of center FDR (Obama?)...

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