FROM 2012 INTO 2013 POLITICS THREAD

At the expense of another Great Depression?

 

So your position is that running up the debt to pay off campaign contributors saved us from a Great Depression?

 

I have no clue what that's a reference to.

What would have John McCain done differently?

 

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/05/21/obama-the-media-and-national-security/only-nixon-harmed-a-free-press-more

The Times gets the lawyer who represented them in the Pentagon Papers to write an op-ed. He basically says Obama is worse than Nixon was.

But unable to hide the bias, Times puts headline on it that says: "Only Nixon Harmed a Free Press More"

Here's a hint for Times headline writers:

Nixon is included in "previous presidents."

 

Sure they did. There is a national wiretap law, for example. Has been for many, many, many years. This has nothing to do with the First Amendment. Nothing.

 

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Looks like the senators were writing to the IRS with complaints that political groups were masquerading as social-welfare organizations to get bullshit non-profit status.

Senators write letters all the time. Any letter to, say, the Department of Energy asking for an investigation into its funding as a green energy start-up would fall into the same category.

Also it is worth noting, again, that the vast majority of these groups are/were, in fact, conservative organizations. If 90 percent of the organizations reviewed were conservative, that is perfectly fine because 90 percent of the organizations are conservative.

 

The free press did a pretty good job on Nixon, so I would say it was pretty even.

Good to see though that The Bill of Rights has become important again in only a
matter of a few weeks. The Times and The NRA now praying from the same pew.

Chilling

 

How do you feel about targeting minorities in stop and frisk since they commit
50 % of the nations murders and are only 10 % of the population?

Better yet how about only sending Muslims through airline security since they
commit majority of terrorist acts.

 

That's the thing that really mystifies me. The press as a whole has been so in the tank for Obama that it makes no sense at all to do something that will get them to finally start reporting accurately on you. Sure, Fox reported accurately on Obama, but the other 98% if outlets just shouted them down.

As Jay Leno said, Fox is now able to change its slogan from "Fair and Balanced" to "See, I told you so."

 

Agree. This move has insured that his second term will not be a pleasant one
with most of the media against him. He'll have to rely on MSNBC to carry the water.

 

BUT THAT'S DIFFERENT!!!!