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Fox news I'm sure was rabid and foaming at the mouth to expose this soundbite to the masses.Hannity,O'reily and Co.probably can't contain themselves right now with their druel cups poised next to them for tonights broadcast.
Remember the soundbite between Bush and Blair was captured,Bush the bad- and Blair the sub-servent agreeing.How bout Chanet cussing up a storm.I just believe whats said under the microphone,should stay under the microphone(like Vegas)unless it's criminal activity of course.
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OK, I'm the broadcaster on BS News and here goes my delivery.
"Today Diesel was quoted as saying (see the above) and we've investigated these comments. His unfounded attack of Fox News and the mention of the Bush and Cheney gaffs is based souly on the fact that Diesel is a democrat through and though contary to the public image that he tries to paint himself more an independent. Diesel is a leftwing extremist democrat party loyalist to the core. This is Marty Muckraker for BS News signing off!"
Marty Muckracker and BS News! Hey, that's pretty good ain't it!
Sure I used an actual fact of news (your comment)but then the rest was purely opinion either based on interpretation of your comments from a specific point of view or in some cases just using your words to re-enforced an already preconceived idea or opinion. For better or worse (I happen to believe worse) that this type of opinion news reporting is what America wants and they look to sources for news that tend to re-enforce our general thinking on things. Even on these opinion news shows, there is always a 2 minute segment on the half hour where they switch to an actual news talking head and a factual news cast is given. Those newcasts are not opinion driven but are fact driven and are done to give the whole thing the appearance of legit news. It'd be like having a newspaper fully loaded with opinion pieces and the only hard news itself being found on a single page of the paper and not on the front page either. As I said, America wants this as we look to re-enforcing opinions in many places.
Fact is, we all do this to some degree or another as it's human nature. Fox News isn't the disease itself, it's only a symptom IMO. As to Bush and Cheney's gaffs, they got tons of airplay from many sides so in some respect I guess Fox's fun with Clinton and Edwards is an effort to make it all "Fair and Balanced!"
As to this adminstration doing service to the budget, healthcare, warfare, etc. Well the dems have control of Congress where all spending bills must originate so what have they done to correct this? And don't argue the President can veto because that just tells me the dems can't sell their ideas to the public to gain the votes. Look what was done with the immigration bill. Truth is, many democrats elected to Congress in the last election were elected on platforms of moderation and not confrontation like some of the leadrship might want it or some pundits want the larger public to believe. And to make matters worse, polling data shows the Congress with worse numbers that Bush.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls/ What does that say? The dems are chasing Bush on the nightly news while gas prices go up, real estate is imploding a bit and they can't even secure the borders. No wonder the numbers are dumping. I may not agree with their solutions but that is where a lot of America is at, not trying to one up Bush at every turn.
Besides, for decades the dems controlled the Congress and during this period they sat idle as President after President of both parties via executive order leached away powers from Congress and transferred to the President these powers. Many people berate Bush for alledging to create a dictatorship because of his consolidation of power in the office of the President and I for one am not happy with such practices although he's only continuing past practice IMO. That power has long been there as Lincoln himself played with violation of Habeas Corpus to the succeeding years with the expansion of the power of the President regarding war powers and use of the military from Woodrow Wilson and then FDR/Truman and finally LBJ to Nixon. Yeah Reagan had his fun too as did Bush 1. All these men took the federal gov't and specifically the office of President to new found levels never envisioned by the founders. I often wonder what the shock and horror would be on the founders faces when they hear the arguments for federal gov't expansion all under the auspices of the commerce clause or what we do today under the so-called war powers. Do you think the founders envisioned an empirical military force at the behest of one man after they had just fought a country and king for our freedom that had the exact same setup. I know Diesel, I'm preaching to the choir but I thought you and I might sow a few seeds.
Condemn Bush all you want and I'm with ya but I'll call it out everytime if someone even thinks about trying to let the dems escape on their complicity in the scheme of things. It's very probable that there would have been no Bush or Cheney or Iraq had there not been an LBJ, FDR or Wilson and come to think of it under Wilson, there may have been no 9/11 if someone at the end of WW1 had made England live up to it's promises to the Saudia tribal chiefs in the first place. Now that's a helluva comment likely to stir up Rudy!
Outside of Ron Paul I think the only other candidate so far that seems to show a clue of knowing any history of that region is Joe Biden. His idea for dividing Iraq up into 3 regions is a good one since this restores Iraq to what it was prior to the end of WW1. It's a good first step to consider IMO.