Unpacking the MSM Talking Points on Perry

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Monday August 18, 2014 · 7:39 AM PDT

2014/08/18 · 07:39

It's not complicated. The media's now-routine use of Straw Man, Non Sequitur, Ad Hominem and Tu Quoque have been trotted out again like old toy soldiers. Below the orange squiggle are facts and an opinion.

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Is Rick Perry a felon?

39 votes Vote Now!

Is Rick Perry a felon?

Yes

30 votes

Ooops

7 votes

Pie

2 votes

Kossacks Will Determine Palin's Intent: a Poll

Apotropoxy

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Saturday July 04, 2009 · 8:36 AM PDT

2009/07/04 · 08:36

Pretty Palin has, once again, immobilized the bobble-headed media with another stun grenade. But the nabobs of chatter flounder over her motive(s). Perhaps the collective wisdom of the Kossack Community can divine her intentions and pierce the ubiquitous obliquity of her Bushian prose.
With apologies for this diary's brevity...

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Why did Pretty Palin Quit the Alaskan Governorship?

She's pregnant again and her newly named fetus, Twitter, needs gestational juices unadulterated by worldly concerns.

She can't get her own Fux News show while holding public office.

Her lucrative book contract includes a mandatory tour so there will be no time for Alaska.

She has taken a permanent exit from politics. Period

She wages a â€oefight for all our childrenâ€TMs future from outside the governorâ€TMs office.â€

She will "not seek re-election ... This is in Alaskaâ€TMs best interest."

She has launched a preemptive strike in anticipation of pending corruption charges ( Palin awards Spenard Building Supplies the Wasilla hockey arena contract and they pitched in on her home.)

She can't resist the "Four yeses and one â€~Hell, yeah!â€TM " family mandate.

She stepped down so that her administration can â€oecontinue without interruption.â€

She needs the time to start raising money for her 2012 presidential push.

Pie

169 votes Vote Now!

Why did Pretty Palin Quit the Alaskan Governorship?

She's pregnant again and her newly named fetus, Twitter, needs gestational juices unadulterated by worldly concerns.

10 votes

She can't get her own Fux News show while holding public office.

12 votes

Her lucrative book contract includes a mandatory tour so there will be no time for Alaska.

15 votes

She has taken a permanent exit from politics. Period

4 votes

She wages a â€oefight for all our childrenâ€TMs future from outside the governorâ€TMs office.â€

1 vote

She will "not seek re-election ... This is in Alaskaâ€TMs best interest."

1 vote

She has launched a preemptive strike in anticipation of pending corruption charges ( Palin awards Spenard Building Supplies the Wasilla hockey arena contract and they pitched in on her home.)

98 votes

She can't resist the "Four yeses and one â€~Hell, yeah!â€TM " family mandate.

2 votes

She stepped down so that her administration can â€oecontinue without interruption.â€

3 votes

She needs the time to start raising money for her 2012 presidential push.

12 votes

Pie

11 votes

FUX NEWS FUKD UP

Apotropoxy

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Tuesday April 17, 2007 · 9:31 AM PDT

2007/04/17 · 09:31

My apologies to those who may have already spewed their morning coffee over their fish wrap, but this abscess will continue to fester as long as Fux News is permitted to pinch off their turds into the punch bowl.
Ready?
Some enterprising reporters hired by a local Fux News station resisted their management's demand that they include "information" in their reportage that was known to be false. They refused, were fired, sued Fux, won... and then lost it all in appeal.
Fux News, the Official Articulating Orifice of the Borg, actually argued that it was their constitutional right to lie to the public... and it may well be. But the right to lie runs hard up against The Communications Act of 1934 which requires that broadcasters must operate in the "public interest, convenience and necessity."
Are you ready to rumble?

Apotropoxy

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Wednesday November 08, 2006 · 3:18 PM PST

2006/11/08 · 15:18

The election night confetti has settled and only the rice cakes remain... untouched.

Donald "Back Off!" Rumsfeld has been sent on to the Robert McNamara Nursing Home and a new man slips behind the desk. He is Robert Gates: the spymaster.
A year ago such a Pentagon selection might have seemed odd but today it seems inevitable.

Let us all recall that Bush the Lame authorized a subtle tinkering with the watchworks there and that the details of the fix had not been made known to relevant Congressional electors. The point of the spear was not mearly sharpened, it was replaced with a depleted uranium tip. Let's call the Pentagon's new point " the Strategic Support Branch"... they do.
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Waterboarding Is A War Crime

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Tuesday October 31, 2006 · 7:25 AM PST

2006/10/31 · 07:25

My first diary to the Kos groaning board will be brief.

The dithering by the multitude over the gray areas of the waterboarding question needs to stop. This is a settled question and the answer can be found in the dusty volumes of our own recent history. And while the MSM is Google-averse, we diners here at the banquet are not.

As it happens, four Japanese defendants were tried before a U.S. military commission at Yokohama, Japan, in 1947 for their outrageous treatment of American and Allied captives. The cases of the USA vs. Hideji Nakamura, Yukio Asano, Seitara Hata and Takeo Kita, water suffocation techniques were specifically cited as war crimes.

Note: I am a Boolean dunce. Please forgive me if the link I provided comes up dry.
http://www.sptimes.com/...

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