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		<title>By: Samir</title>
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		<dc:creator>Samir</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#29. Marc Malone -

Hey, racism because of my name and my African-American heritage, wow, shocking.

And you guys wonder why you&#039;re only getting 2% of us in elections.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#29. Marc Malone -</p>
<p>Hey, racism because of my name and my African-American heritage, wow, shocking.</p>
<p>And you guys wonder why you&#8217;re only getting 2% of us in elections.</p>
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		<title>By: RH</title>
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		<dc:creator>RH</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yes, they should put a lid on it. It has taken decades for Hollywood to build up their anti-American reputation and deservidly so. It is far, far better they be seen for the true &quot;haters&#039; they are, and not let the public be distracted by believing that there is finally some shred of patriotism remaining in that immoral bastion of narcissicism.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, they should put a lid on it. It has taken decades for Hollywood to build up their anti-American reputation and deservidly so. It is far, far better they be seen for the true &#8220;haters&#8217; they are, and not let the public be distracted by believing that there is finally some shred of patriotism remaining in that immoral bastion of narcissicism.</p>
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		<title>By: Fred</title>
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		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@ Horace Wells

The following videos have appeared on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VS3Us-TRU0&amp;feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdvvkVNS_zo

Who are the real bigots.

The peacefully praying Christians?

Or the &quot;No to 8&quot; protesters who attack them?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@ Horace Wells</p>
<p>The following videos have appeared on Youtube:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VS3Us-TRU0&amp;feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VS3Us-TRU0&amp;feature=related</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdvvkVNS_zo" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdvvkVNS_zo</a></p>
<p>Who are the real bigots.</p>
<p>The peacefully praying Christians?</p>
<p>Or the &#8220;No to 8&#8243; protesters who attack them?</p>
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		<title>By: Fred</title>
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		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@ Richard

Actually, this is your post that I was responding to:

&quot;You confuse ethics with religion. According to your line of reasoning, atheists are inherently immoral, which is the reason why the Christian chest thumping of the right continues to alienate the center. That point of view is self-righteous and arrogant, not to mention just plain wrong.&quot;

I simply disagree with your point.  Nothing more, nothing less.

Shifting gears, I would be a self-righteous, hypocritical Christian if I said the following:

*I&#039;m morally perfect.

*I hate those who don&#039;t share my faith, skin color, etc.

I&#039;ve neither said or thought nothing of the sort.  When I contrast myself to God, I&#039;m instantly reminded that  Hell is all I deserve because of how sinful I am in His eyes.  It&#039;s only because I&#039;m saved through Christ that Heaven, not Hell, will be my eternal destination.  Heck, it&#039;s because Christ is my Savior that I can act in a moral manner.  

That&#039;s a very humbling realization, one that He reminds me of daily.

I hope that clears things up.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@ Richard</p>
<p>Actually, this is your post that I was responding to:</p>
<p>&#8220;You confuse ethics with religion. According to your line of reasoning, atheists are inherently immoral, which is the reason why the Christian chest thumping of the right continues to alienate the center. That point of view is self-righteous and arrogant, not to mention just plain wrong.&#8221;</p>
<p>I simply disagree with your point.  Nothing more, nothing less.</p>
<p>Shifting gears, I would be a self-righteous, hypocritical Christian if I said the following:</p>
<p>*I&#8217;m morally perfect.</p>
<p>*I hate those who don&#8217;t share my faith, skin color, etc.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve neither said or thought nothing of the sort.  When I contrast myself to God, I&#8217;m instantly reminded that  Hell is all I deserve because of how sinful I am in His eyes.  It&#8217;s only because I&#8217;m saved through Christ that Heaven, not Hell, will be my eternal destination.  Heck, it&#8217;s because Christ is my Savior that I can act in a moral manner.  </p>
<p>That&#8217;s a very humbling realization, one that He reminds me of daily.</p>
<p>I hope that clears things up.</p>
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		<title>By: barry 0351</title>
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		<dc:creator>barry 0351</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yup, all entertainers need to realize they are just media whores and have no mental capacity to understand real life as it really is, not how they want it.
Hollywood needs to STFU and STFD even the conservatives.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yup, all entertainers need to realize they are just media whores and have no mental capacity to understand real life as it really is, not how they want it.<br />
Hollywood needs to STFU and STFD even the conservatives.</p>
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		<title>By: the scholar (in training)</title>
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		<dc:creator>the scholar (in training)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Damon v. Kristol Debate.  Go to www.thescholarsforum.org and read about the challenge Andrew Breitbart threw down to Matt Damon for his disparaging remarks about Bill Kristol.  For once, a conservative might, unlikely, but might be able to directly engage one of these knucklehead Hollywood liberals.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Damon v. Kristol Debate.  Go to <a href="http://www.thescholarsforum.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.thescholarsforum.org</a> and read about the challenge Andrew Breitbart threw down to Matt Damon for his disparaging remarks about Bill Kristol.  For once, a conservative might, unlikely, but might be able to directly engage one of these knucklehead Hollywood liberals.</p>
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		<title>By: The Scholar (in training)</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Scholar (in training)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Here’s a great opportunity. Andrew Breitbart, one of Hollywood’s few conservative voices and creator of breitbart.com (great site incidentally) has thrown down the gauntlet.  Matt Doman, Hollywood icon and consummate liberal, made the following remark to a Miami Herald writer, “‘He’s [Bill Kristol] an idiot — he wrote that we should be grateful to George Bush because he won the Iraq war. We! Won! The! War!”  In response, Andrew to this statement asked Kristol if he’d be amenable to a debate with the self-proclaimed foreign policy expert Damon.  Kristol agreed and, in return, Breitbart has agreed to donate $100,000 to Damon or a charity of the actor’s choice if he’ll publically debate Kristol.  Here’s where all of you come in - let’s up the ante.

First, I have the distinct feeling that Damon, like many of his Hollywood liberal cohorts, is more bluster than action.  It’s clearly easier for the likes of Damon to sit atop an ivory tower and sanctimoniously denigrate conservatives than it is to have an open and honest debate in a public forum. To do so might expose their staggering vacuousness on the very political issues they so confidently sermonize on when no one is there to challenge their assertions.  This is a condition that, sadly, afflicts too many Hollywood stars who seem not the least bit aware of their lack of political and policy knowledge - they voice their rather vociferous opinions all-the-same. Given this, let’s use one of the Liberal’s favorite tools to help move this project forward - sign the petition urging Damon to debate Kristol.  If, in the next several weeks we get a hundred thousand signatures I will forward this on to Breitbart.  Perhaps this will place enough pressure on Damon to follow-up up on his diatribes.

Second, go to www.thescholarsforum.org and click on the “Make A Donation” tab on the TSF sidebar and give until it hurts.  Every penny donated will go directly to the Wounded Warriors Project, which seems only fitting given the topic of the debate.

Thanks to Breitbart, this may be the one opportunity we conservatives have to directly engage Hollywood Liberals.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here’s a great opportunity. Andrew Breitbart, one of Hollywood’s few conservative voices and creator of breitbart.com (great site incidentally) has thrown down the gauntlet.  Matt Doman, Hollywood icon and consummate liberal, made the following remark to a Miami Herald writer, “‘He’s [Bill Kristol] an idiot — he wrote that we should be grateful to George Bush because he won the Iraq war. We! Won! The! War!”  In response, Andrew to this statement asked Kristol if he’d be amenable to a debate with the self-proclaimed foreign policy expert Damon.  Kristol agreed and, in return, Breitbart has agreed to donate $100,000 to Damon or a charity of the actor’s choice if he’ll publically debate Kristol.  Here’s where all of you come in &#8211; let’s up the ante.</p>
<p>First, I have the distinct feeling that Damon, like many of his Hollywood liberal cohorts, is more bluster than action.  It’s clearly easier for the likes of Damon to sit atop an ivory tower and sanctimoniously denigrate conservatives than it is to have an open and honest debate in a public forum. To do so might expose their staggering vacuousness on the very political issues they so confidently sermonize on when no one is there to challenge their assertions.  This is a condition that, sadly, afflicts too many Hollywood stars who seem not the least bit aware of their lack of political and policy knowledge &#8211; they voice their rather vociferous opinions all-the-same. Given this, let’s use one of the Liberal’s favorite tools to help move this project forward &#8211; sign the petition urging Damon to debate Kristol.  If, in the next several weeks we get a hundred thousand signatures I will forward this on to Breitbart.  Perhaps this will place enough pressure on Damon to follow-up up on his diatribes.</p>
<p>Second, go to <a href="http://www.thescholarsforum.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.thescholarsforum.org</a> and click on the “Make A Donation” tab on the TSF sidebar and give until it hurts.  Every penny donated will go directly to the Wounded Warriors Project, which seems only fitting given the topic of the debate.</p>
<p>Thanks to Breitbart, this may be the one opportunity we conservatives have to directly engage Hollywood Liberals.</p>
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		<title>By: Richard</title>
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		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Fred, Fred, Fred.  You miss the point.  Again.  You put words in my mouth that I never said, making up quotations about me complaining about someone being too Christian.  I actually don&#039;t give a rat&#039;s ass whether you&#039;re Christian or not, but the assertion that only religious people can act in an ethical and moral way is insulting, self-righteous and arrogant.  If you want to wrap yourself up in the Christian label while espousing those values, then you&#039;re a walking poster boy for hypocrisy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fred, Fred, Fred.  You miss the point.  Again.  You put words in my mouth that I never said, making up quotations about me complaining about someone being too Christian.  I actually don&#8217;t give a rat&#8217;s ass whether you&#8217;re Christian or not, but the assertion that only religious people can act in an ethical and moral way is insulting, self-righteous and arrogant.  If you want to wrap yourself up in the Christian label while espousing those values, then you&#8217;re a walking poster boy for hypocrisy.</p>
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		<title>By: Horace Wells</title>
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		<dc:creator>Horace Wells</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Most of you so called self described Christians here are a bunch of narrow minded, ignorant reactionaries with love only for your fellow small minds, that is why I despise theocons in general. Mel Gibson is the penultimate example of a good Hollywood con, yet I still have my Road Warrior dvd&#039;s. It has nothing to do with your religion and everything to do with your bigoted ugly attitudes. So spare us the whining abour all the non existent discrimination you face. You like to dish it out, but when it comes flying back you cry like babies.

BTW: Fred Cao won in LA cause Jefferson was totally corrupt!
Blackwater, you are simple minded little child who only sees things in black and white, so you ignore the hate and evil inside of you (which all of us have) and project that on the rest of the world that failed to live up to your standards. That you picked an alias like that shows you are a bully devoid of reason.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most of you so called self described Christians here are a bunch of narrow minded, ignorant reactionaries with love only for your fellow small minds, that is why I despise theocons in general. Mel Gibson is the penultimate example of a good Hollywood con, yet I still have my Road Warrior dvd&#8217;s. It has nothing to do with your religion and everything to do with your bigoted ugly attitudes. So spare us the whining abour all the non existent discrimination you face. You like to dish it out, but when it comes flying back you cry like babies.</p>
<p>BTW: Fred Cao won in LA cause Jefferson was totally corrupt!<br />
Blackwater, you are simple minded little child who only sees things in black and white, so you ignore the hate and evil inside of you (which all of us have) and project that on the rest of the world that failed to live up to your standards. That you picked an alias like that shows you are a bully devoid of reason.</p>
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		<title>By: Fred</title>
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		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Richard wrote

&quot;So what, Fred? Are you implying that the only people who have principles and can stand up for them are Christians? Then we’re back to an arrogant self-righteousness which is definately not what voters are interested in, and last I checked, its not what Christianity is supposed to be about either. There’s your hypocrisy for you.&quot;

From your previous post, you believed the GOP has lost so many elections because its appeals to the Religious Right, thus alienating moderates.  I used Gao&#039;s win as an example of the flaw in that argument.

The GOP&#039;s losses are the result of being not &quot;too Christian,&quot; but not appearing to have principles.  No matter their faith, Republicans can win IF they stand by their principles instead of using the tired argument &quot;I&#039;m not as bad as the Democrat!&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Richard wrote</p>
<p>&#8220;So what, Fred? Are you implying that the only people who have principles and can stand up for them are Christians? Then we’re back to an arrogant self-righteousness which is definately not what voters are interested in, and last I checked, its not what Christianity is supposed to be about either. There’s your hypocrisy for you.&#8221;</p>
<p>From your previous post, you believed the GOP has lost so many elections because its appeals to the Religious Right, thus alienating moderates.  I used Gao&#8217;s win as an example of the flaw in that argument.</p>
<p>The GOP&#8217;s losses are the result of being not &#8220;too Christian,&#8221; but not appearing to have principles.  No matter their faith, Republicans can win IF they stand by their principles instead of using the tired argument &#8220;I&#8217;m not as bad as the Democrat!&#8221;</p>
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