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		<title>By: Stephen Rittenberg</title>
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		<dc:creator>Stephen Rittenberg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 01:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Here&#039;s what I wrote back in January: 
JANUARY 04, 2008

IT&#039;S ALL OVER BUT THE SHOUTING

The idiotic Iowa caucuses have revealed enough so that Horsefeathers is now ready to call the 2008 election: Obama will easily beat Mc&#039;Cain for the Presidency.
Instead of worrying about the election, save time and energy; skip the next 9 mos of the media manufactured horse race. Instead get ready for a torrent of politically correct cant, and the replacement of neo-conservative utopianism by liberal utopianism. The neo-conservative faith in Democracy for all, with its accompanying fantastical belief that everyone craves freedom, will be replaced by the Liberal utopianism that believes all conflicts can be resolved using words and therapeutic empathy. When Islamic barbarism strikes again, we&#039;ll deploy cadres of psychotherapists and lawyers to help the aggrieved Jihadis, driven to despair by the unfair distribution of wealth and power. Remember this, however, it might have been worse; it might have been President Hillary.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s what I wrote back in January:<br />
JANUARY 04, 2008</p>
<p>IT&#8217;S ALL OVER BUT THE SHOUTING</p>
<p>The idiotic Iowa caucuses have revealed enough so that Horsefeathers is now ready to call the 2008 election: Obama will easily beat Mc&#8217;Cain for the Presidency.<br />
Instead of worrying about the election, save time and energy; skip the next 9 mos of the media manufactured horse race. Instead get ready for a torrent of politically correct cant, and the replacement of neo-conservative utopianism by liberal utopianism. The neo-conservative faith in Democracy for all, with its accompanying fantastical belief that everyone craves freedom, will be replaced by the Liberal utopianism that believes all conflicts can be resolved using words and therapeutic empathy. When Islamic barbarism strikes again, we&#8217;ll deploy cadres of psychotherapists and lawyers to help the aggrieved Jihadis, driven to despair by the unfair distribution of wealth and power. Remember this, however, it might have been worse; it might have been President Hillary.</p>
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		<title>By: steveaz</title>
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		<dc:creator>steveaz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Grouchy said,
&quot;[...] all the while knowing they would have done the same things he was doing if they were in his shoes.&quot;

That&#039;s the final word on Bush, I think.  Historians referencing official documents - not media products, will write about how closely Bush followed the Clinton/Gore &quot;regime-change&quot; battle-plan in Iraq, and how his first tries at creating a civil authority there using the now-maligned Garner/Bremer model simply put 
Al Gore&#039;s cabinet&#039;s planning into effect. 

It&#039;s kinda sad, actually:  the way grown-ups with TV &#039;news&#039; and &#039;comedy&#039; shows have behaved for the last eight years.  They&#039;ve all made a lot of money off of parodying Bush; they ought to be ashamed at themselves.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Grouchy said,<br />
&#8220;[...] all the while knowing they would have done the same things he was doing if they were in his shoes.&#8221;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the final word on Bush, I think.  Historians referencing official documents &#8211; not media products, will write about how closely Bush followed the Clinton/Gore &#8220;regime-change&#8221; battle-plan in Iraq, and how his first tries at creating a civil authority there using the now-maligned Garner/Bremer model simply put<br />
Al Gore&#8217;s cabinet&#8217;s planning into effect. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s kinda sad, actually:  the way grown-ups with TV &#8216;news&#8217; and &#8216;comedy&#8217; shows have behaved for the last eight years.  They&#8217;ve all made a lot of money off of parodying Bush; they ought to be ashamed at themselves.</p>
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		<title>By: mae</title>
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		<dc:creator>mae</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree with SeanLA. I apologize in advance for the rant.

My husband dismisses the MSM, saying everybody knows the media are biased, thus nobody pays any attention to them.  Wrong.  So wrong.  Fer Pete&#039;s sake after choosing Mccain for the Republicans, they then went ahead and secured the election for Obama. Few saw it. Most people followed along like rats behind the Pied Piper.  

Many don&#039;t - can&#039;t - see the media bias that conservatives see.  Perhaps, their world view is being reflected back to them.  Or it could be that they are drinking the koolade.  Either way..  Just last evening, I was being dressed down by a (less than tolerant) liberal friend.  She demands that I either prove media bias or quit referring to it.  So, exactly how does one prove the existence of bias when the listener believes the bias to be a reflection of the truth. Hmmm, more positive stories about O than big Mac, then it must be that O does, in fact, do more positive things and McCain does more negative things.  I just laugh, because I &#039;ll never open her eyes.  And yet... and yet she tells me I have a closed mind.  Ha.

Somehow the media must be disarmed, disabled, exposed for their meglomania and destroyed.  Hastening the decay of the media will be tough on the country, because, oddly, people seek comfort in traditional media.

But traditional media need to be excised like the cancer they have become.  

The deranged media&#039;s destruction of President Bush has been an inexcusably vile, dark and despicable chapter in US history. How dare anyone treat our nation&#039;s sitting president with that disrespect? And contempt?  How dare they?  He is my nation&#039;s sitting president. Not to mention, in the case of George Bush, a magnificent human being. (Oh, lord don&#039;t even get me started on the members of the media&#039;s unworthiness to pass judgement on President Bush, I can feel my blood pressure going up, up..) But I thought it was terrible when the media tore Clinton down. Yes, he had done wrong, but the media has no business destroying a president&#039;s humanity. It degrades the members of the press and it degrades the consumers while degrading the target. Have the media no standards except destruction.  Show respect to our president, dammit.  If he has done something wrong, then there are procedures in place to remove him.  But destroy him and render him unable to govern...THAT sounds dangerously close to the definition of high crimes and misdemeanors, to me.  

Media hatred and lies proceeded to then promote bitter divisions within the US between people of differing politics, using strict adherence to political correctness as their weapon. 

Unforgivable.  Sickening.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree with SeanLA. I apologize in advance for the rant.</p>
<p>My husband dismisses the MSM, saying everybody knows the media are biased, thus nobody pays any attention to them.  Wrong.  So wrong.  Fer Pete&#8217;s sake after choosing Mccain for the Republicans, they then went ahead and secured the election for Obama. Few saw it. Most people followed along like rats behind the Pied Piper.  </p>
<p>Many don&#8217;t &#8211; can&#8217;t &#8211; see the media bias that conservatives see.  Perhaps, their world view is being reflected back to them.  Or it could be that they are drinking the koolade.  Either way..  Just last evening, I was being dressed down by a (less than tolerant) liberal friend.  She demands that I either prove media bias or quit referring to it.  So, exactly how does one prove the existence of bias when the listener believes the bias to be a reflection of the truth. Hmmm, more positive stories about O than big Mac, then it must be that O does, in fact, do more positive things and McCain does more negative things.  I just laugh, because I &#8216;ll never open her eyes.  And yet&#8230; and yet she tells me I have a closed mind.  Ha.</p>
<p>Somehow the media must be disarmed, disabled, exposed for their meglomania and destroyed.  Hastening the decay of the media will be tough on the country, because, oddly, people seek comfort in traditional media.</p>
<p>But traditional media need to be excised like the cancer they have become.  </p>
<p>The deranged media&#8217;s destruction of President Bush has been an inexcusably vile, dark and despicable chapter in US history. How dare anyone treat our nation&#8217;s sitting president with that disrespect? And contempt?  How dare they?  He is my nation&#8217;s sitting president. Not to mention, in the case of George Bush, a magnificent human being. (Oh, lord don&#8217;t even get me started on the members of the media&#8217;s unworthiness to pass judgement on President Bush, I can feel my blood pressure going up, up..) But I thought it was terrible when the media tore Clinton down. Yes, he had done wrong, but the media has no business destroying a president&#8217;s humanity. It degrades the members of the press and it degrades the consumers while degrading the target. Have the media no standards except destruction.  Show respect to our president, dammit.  If he has done something wrong, then there are procedures in place to remove him.  But destroy him and render him unable to govern&#8230;THAT sounds dangerously close to the definition of high crimes and misdemeanors, to me.  </p>
<p>Media hatred and lies proceeded to then promote bitter divisions within the US between people of differing politics, using strict adherence to political correctness as their weapon. </p>
<p>Unforgivable.  Sickening.</p>
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		<title>By: Grouchy Old Fart</title>
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		<dc:creator>Grouchy Old Fart</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This American never failed to stand by the President. He&#039;s kept me and my family safe for 7+ years and I am grateful. He&#039;s withstood the worst kind of belittlement and personal assault from his lessers for years without giving in to petty back and forth. Sometimes I wished he would have lashed out at the phonies who tore him down all the while knowing they would have done the same things he was doing if they were in his shoes. Someday his accomplishments will be recognized; freeing 45 million people from tyranny, 6 years of job growth and uninterrupted economic growth. I&#039;m afraid we&#039;ll have to suffer more terrorist attacks and more financial hardships than we could have imagined before the nation and the world comes to appreciate George W. Bush.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This American never failed to stand by the President. He&#8217;s kept me and my family safe for 7+ years and I am grateful. He&#8217;s withstood the worst kind of belittlement and personal assault from his lessers for years without giving in to petty back and forth. Sometimes I wished he would have lashed out at the phonies who tore him down all the while knowing they would have done the same things he was doing if they were in his shoes. Someday his accomplishments will be recognized; freeing 45 million people from tyranny, 6 years of job growth and uninterrupted economic growth. I&#8217;m afraid we&#8217;ll have to suffer more terrorist attacks and more financial hardships than we could have imagined before the nation and the world comes to appreciate George W. Bush.</p>
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		<title>By: AlanC</title>
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		<dc:creator>AlanC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Gumshoe:

I didn&#039;t forget hence my statement in #23

&quot;I hope he has a nice secure overseas location ready because I fully expect show trials and war crimes tribunals to go after the Administration very soon after January.&quot;  

Ugly?  This will make Rosie O&#039;donnell look like a super model.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gumshoe:</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t forget hence my statement in #23</p>
<p>&#8220;I hope he has a nice secure overseas location ready because I fully expect show trials and war crimes tribunals to go after the Administration very soon after January.&#8221;  </p>
<p>Ugly?  This will make Rosie O&#8217;donnell look like a super model.</p>
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		<title>By: gumshoe</title>
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		<dc:creator>gumshoe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;44. jedrury:
Where will the MSM do now that the great object of their bile
has left the scene? Against whom, will the Obermanns and the Matthews and Moyers rant? They are not sustain their ratings without a hate object; Bush, Cheney; they will last as the object at least to February 1.

jedury - 
you seem to have forgotten John Conyers previous attempts at impeachment hearings for Bush and Cheney.

i can&#039;t explain why i&#039;m one of the few to mention it.
seriously ugly stuff.
great wag the dog material.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;44. jedrury:<br />
Where will the MSM do now that the great object of their bile<br />
has left the scene? Against whom, will the Obermanns and the Matthews and Moyers rant? They are not sustain their ratings without a hate object; Bush, Cheney; they will last as the object at least to February 1.</p>
<p>jedury &#8211;<br />
you seem to have forgotten John Conyers previous attempts at impeachment hearings for Bush and Cheney.</p>
<p>i can&#8217;t explain why i&#8217;m one of the few to mention it.<br />
seriously ugly stuff.<br />
great wag the dog material.</p>
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		<title>By: SeanLA</title>
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		<dc:creator>SeanLA</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hey gippergal,
the MSM didn&#039;t fail in anything.  They were outrageously successful.  

we need a new network and the money behind it.  Not like FOX that plays nice nice, but one that will trash and question and place doubt on O and his ilk every day in every way.  At every and any step they make.  Unlike the republicans, the democrats will sue, sue, sue.  So the great part of the budget needs to be for lawyers, to defend and counter sue, because all the `slander&#039; will be provable.   I will donate to that public network if anybody has the nerve to get it up.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hey gippergal,<br />
the MSM didn&#8217;t fail in anything.  They were outrageously successful.  </p>
<p>we need a new network and the money behind it.  Not like FOX that plays nice nice, but one that will trash and question and place doubt on O and his ilk every day in every way.  At every and any step they make.  Unlike the republicans, the democrats will sue, sue, sue.  So the great part of the budget needs to be for lawyers, to defend and counter sue, because all the `slander&#8217; will be provable.   I will donate to that public network if anybody has the nerve to get it up.</p>
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		<title>By: ic</title>
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		<dc:creator>ic</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>42. Huan: My biggest complaint about W was his inability (or unwillingness) to explain to the American public the reasons for his actions, ...

Remember the &quot;Big 3&quot; refused to carry his address the nation speech? (I don&#039;t remember which speech, but there was one.) 90% of American people supported him to take out Saddam, yet when things got tough, the MSM lied about &quot;Bush lied&quot;. They conveniently ignored the 550 metric tons of radioactive materials that were sent to Canada a couple of months ago. The liberals would rather release Gitmo jihadists to live amongst us if that hurt Bush. 

Bush has given up explaining a long time ago. He knows, like the Romans, the American people want a scapegoat, a scapegoat who is to be blamed for the ills of the world and is to be thrown over the cliff to atone for their sins and please the gods.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>42. Huan: My biggest complaint about W was his inability (or unwillingness) to explain to the American public the reasons for his actions, &#8230;</p>
<p>Remember the &#8220;Big 3&#8243; refused to carry his address the nation speech? (I don&#8217;t remember which speech, but there was one.) 90% of American people supported him to take out Saddam, yet when things got tough, the MSM lied about &#8220;Bush lied&#8221;. They conveniently ignored the 550 metric tons of radioactive materials that were sent to Canada a couple of months ago. The liberals would rather release Gitmo jihadists to live amongst us if that hurt Bush. </p>
<p>Bush has given up explaining a long time ago. He knows, like the Romans, the American people want a scapegoat, a scapegoat who is to be blamed for the ills of the world and is to be thrown over the cliff to atone for their sins and please the gods.</p>
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		<title>By: gippergal</title>
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		<dc:creator>gippergal</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s true that the mainstream media has failed to cover positive elements of Bush&#039;s tenure: his record-breaking aid to Africa (and unlikely friendship with Bono!), his administration being the most diverse in history, and the fact that even Barbara Walters grudgingly acknowledged this past Sept. 11: that there has been no attack since.

Americans cry loudly when they experience minimal pain, then forget the pain too quickly. Unfortunately, the archliberal illuminati already being set in place for the next administration will not help this trend. 

It strikes me that &quot;bleeding heart liberals&quot; never would&#039;ve been able to stay on rations for years like the British did in WWII.  Leftists confuse injustice with discomfort.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s true that the mainstream media has failed to cover positive elements of Bush&#8217;s tenure: his record-breaking aid to Africa (and unlikely friendship with Bono!), his administration being the most diverse in history, and the fact that even Barbara Walters grudgingly acknowledged this past Sept. 11: that there has been no attack since.</p>
<p>Americans cry loudly when they experience minimal pain, then forget the pain too quickly. Unfortunately, the archliberal illuminati already being set in place for the next administration will not help this trend. </p>
<p>It strikes me that &#8220;bleeding heart liberals&#8221; never would&#8217;ve been able to stay on rations for years like the British did in WWII.  Leftists confuse injustice with discomfort.</p>
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		<title>By: Crusader</title>
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		<dc:creator>Crusader</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 01:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Read &quot;1984&quot; by George Orwell. In there is all you need to know about what is coming. You shall love Big Brother. Big Brother loves you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Read &#8220;1984&#8243; by George Orwell. In there is all you need to know about what is coming. You shall love Big Brother. Big Brother loves you.</p>
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