More love for our troops from the top...
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 02:51
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Is it a TV show ? Radio station ? Website ?
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"Global warming - it's not just a fact, it's a choice."
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A website that regularly dispatches their fudged statistical lies concerning tv news, entertainment, etc. Often the mainstream media ( mainly NBC & PBS) run with those stories as fact. Most disgusting and absurd sh*t I've ever seen.
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It's the right wing bogeyman they've been told by their ultra far-right lunatic radio to hate upon this week.
I've never heard of it neither, other than that.
-F
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Well, no the story I have didn't come from media matters or whatever the guy's name was. (Too lazy to scroll back up and get it. It's the end of the day ...)
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Sounds a lot like Sinclair or Faux News to me.
So what's the difference again ?
Oh.. right right, which SIDE their on.
*sneer*
And might I add, Rap, given how many of the Faery Tales you yourself have posted from such sources yourself without question or investigation, it's not like you've much room to lay those accusations on anyone else.
-F
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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
I've never heard of it neither, other than that.
-F
Well at least I don't feel so bad.
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Hello,
I feel strongly that the problem outlined here is a systems issue. Where I work, there have been systems issues that, for instance, cause an application to be automatically rejected by the computer before a processor ever gets his hands on it.
This issue cost the company money, and it was quickly addressed.
Unfortunately, the issue being described about our veterans is not costing the government money. Fixing the problem, on the other hand, requires both time and money.
This leads me to believe that we are looking at something that is no more insidious than the nature of the beast. People hop to fix things that are in their own best interests, and are slow to fix things that are a bother. Thank God we have elections coming up and the politicians are trying to score points. Otherwise this problem might linger in limbo, since no one important would have the motivated self-interest needed to solve it.
--Anthony
"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner
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Originally posted by rue:
Who's Jesse McBeth ?? And what is Media Matters ?? I could look it up, I'm just too lazy right now.
McBeth was a washed out soldier who , while never making it past basic training, none the less became the toast of the far Left /anti-war loons when he made up stories about how he had seen US soldiers doing all sorts of nasty things in Iraq. Only problem was, he was never IN Iraq. Typical of the Left.
Oh, and Media Matters is a pseudo internet watch group claiming to be unbiased, but the brainchild of one Hillary Clinton.
"Hillary tried to get a million dollars for the Woodstock museum. I understand it was a major cultural and pharmaceutical event. I couldn't attend. I was tied up at the time." - John McCain
It is not those who use the term "Islamo-Fascism" who are sullying the name of Islam; it is the Islamo-Fascists. - Dennis Prager
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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A couple of experiences with a mistaken bureaucracy:
Many years ago as a student I briefly had a car. Unfortunately said car died in a university parking that didn't allow overnight parking. And b/c it was winter as the days went on it got plowed in and got harder and harder to get out. So it accumulated 6 tickets at $6 each. I paid the tickets and thought that was the end of it.
About a year later the city started dunning me for 5 tickets. Fortunately I had the cancelled checks (in the days when you still got them from the bank) so I sent in copies and they said -oops, never mind. This happened a half-dozen times on and off for the next year or so, and then it stopped so I assumed they had fixed their computer system. A couple of years later I happened to look out the apartment window and see a sheriff park his car on the street. I watched him get out of his car and was idly wondering where he was going, watched him walk down the sidewalk to my particular building in the complex, go to the particular door - all the while I'm thinking - hmmm - that's interesting - and even after he knocked on the door I was thinking he was going to ask me which apartment was number 4 (mine was 3). I was shocked when he had a warrant for me. ME ! Fortunately I STILL had the cancelled checks. So when I showed them to him, rather than be a jackass and haul me off anyway - he made the HUMAN deduction that the system had screwed up and went away.
Another time I was due tuition from my scholarship. I kept sending in my tuition bills, sending in my schedule of classes, sending in my grades - and they kept telling me they weren't going to pay the tuition b/c according to their records I wasn't in school. Now at the time money was VERY tight, I had to work a lot of extra hours at minimum wage to cover the tuition so I could pay and be able to register for my classes the next semester. (If you didn't know, it's quite demanding working two or more jobs and going to school full time.) After this BS went on for a few years I went to the Student Union where they had free legal services- and was advised to send a registered letter demanding my money and saying I had obtained legal counsel. Wouldn't you know it, the money showed up three weeks later.
Somewhere in an effed up system there is a PERSON who sees and acts on the information. And that person can either use a little judgment or can simply be an effed up part of an effed up machine. If the policy is to keep people from using their judgment, from addressing errors of the system, then you'll have cases like what we see here. It becomes literally a Federal case to fix the problem.
It depends on their policies. I still maintain it's a policy issue.
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Did some looking and found this:
"Established in May 2004, Media Matters identifies itself as “a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media”—particularly information “that forwards the conservative agenda.” The organization was founded by the conservative-turned-leftist journalist David Brock, who says he created Media Matters “to combat” what he characterizes as the largely successful effort of “the right wing in this country” to “mov[e] the media itself to the right” and to “mov[e] American politics to the right.”"
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