expect more of this big brother hope & change!
Steve H has already weighed in today on Joe the Plumber and the body-cavity search done on state government computers. Go read it, but come back. Okay?
I know where they draw the line!
Ohio state officials say they “always” run checks on people in newspaper stories, especially those who asked your preferred candidate an excellent question, and your candidate didn’t have his mobile teleprompter on the suburban Toledo street and confidently belted out a socialist talking-point. Yes we can!
This is what’s happening NOW, when God Jr. only considers himself the presumptive POTUS. You know, before we’ve all voted. He’s nancing around, wielding his personalized presidential seal and working with Nancy Pelosi and his transition team. How nice for them.
If elected, you can be darn sure not many people with working braincells will eagerly give their names and be quoted in any newspaper story (no matter what the topic) for fear of government mandated rectal exams. You read about this stuff happening in socialist countries all over the world, folks too terrified to be mentioned by name, worried about repercussions from the government.
And now we’ll get to experience limited free speech for ourselves, just as Joe the Plumber has. Socialism, folks. Get used to it.
Here’s more hope and change:
A Federal Communications Commission investigation of on-air military analysts is providing a glimpse of what Democrats and an Obama administration will do to critics once they capture Washington.
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October 30th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
If elected, anyone who dares to criticize God Jr. will face the wrath of Michelle “Aunt Esther” Obama, who will beat his enemies into submission with her handbag (with a silver-plated Koran inside, no doubt).
October 30th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Hi Moxie,
I’ve been a reader for a long time. I found you through my brother’s blog, http://www.velociworld.com. My brother (with his usual wit) wrote about why Obama hates him. Read where he has now been picked up–Andrew Sullivan and Vanity Fair. He has already received over a million hits to his site, not from admiration. You will NOT be able to ever criticize the Messiah.
October 30th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
All they are missing is a miners cap and a flashlight.
November 2nd, 2008 at 6:54 pm
The FCC investigation raises the question of whether a Democrat-controlled Congress and White House next year will investigate — and perhaps criminalize — all sorts of actions taken by the Bush administration.
Why is this a problem? Just speaking of the Generals, when I read about the initial investigation it was reported that they were all briefed by the WH and/or Defense Dept. so that they would stay on message in their TV appearances. Did that initial investigation prove to be wrong? If it didn’t then this was an violation of some anti-govt. propaganda act, right? The Gov’t can’t engage in sending out mouthpieces without disclosing that it is doing so is how I heard it explained. Tell me, if that is the true story, why is Orwellian used to describe the investigators not the perpetrators?
November 2nd, 2008 at 8:27 pm
“Ribbit.”
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:07 am
“…why is Orwellian used to describe the investigators not the perpetrators?”
Private briefings are not top-secret briefings. Furthermore, they are talking about the spoken word that was heard – not the written word. That is hearsay. To be held accountable for speaking your _opinion_ as a military analyst using hearsay from a private briefing is Orwellian.
If the FCC finds these perpetrators guilty of speaking private briefings hearsay (the key word in the article is ‘parroting’), whats the point of having Military Analysts? They might as well analyze the tactics in a battle between the Klingons and the Federation – which is totally removed from reality.
I agree with Mike, your sentences are still very convoluted. Translating your paragraph from frog (think cheese eating surrender monkey French) took me some time.
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:19 am
“…why is Orwellian used to describe the investigators not the perpetrators?”
Lastly, to be Orwellian, one must be the enforcer of rules (usually to the ridiculous extreme) or someone stating propaganda as fact. The ‘perpetrators’ were only speaking their analysis on a military subject as their educated opinion.
Considering that it was obvious that the ‘perpetrators’ were merely pundits, I may actually accuse you of turnspeak. That was invented by the … Nazis.
http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/turnspeak.html
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:46 am
A very convenient way to keep the term ‘Orwellian’ at the forfront of your mind is giving by it religious over tones and calling it ‘Secular Dogma’.
The liberal left is just chock full of ‘Secular Dogma’. All hail the great Goracle! Seig Heil!
November 3rd, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Condo,
The perpetrators ARE the government. To believe these men, all ex military, are not part of the rule makers and enforcers is naive.
Whether or not the briefings were formal, top secret, contained handouts, etc, is not the point. They did not ask for the briefings, they were recruited and sent out to disseminate the WH’s point of view, not their own. That these men may have shared these beliefs before the briefings is not relevant. There were no “analysts” with conflicting points of view invited. These men were dispatched to the various media outlets and represented themselves as independent observers and did not disclose that they were in fact government agents.
If this is not a propaganda mission then please describe what a “real” one would look like.
November 3rd, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Watch out for those black helicopters!
November 3rd, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Oops, I guess I should have said African-American helicopters…
November 4th, 2008 at 1:52 am
“The perpetrators ARE the government”
Okay let me get this straight:
The military analysts/pundits are the perpetrators who inform the viewers.
The FCC is investigating the perpetrators for “parroting” on air the private briefings.
The FCC is the government investigating these military analysts speaking to the people.
But you say the perpetrators are the government. This is Turnspeak (again!!!).
I think I’m losing my mind. This is a clear cut example of your convoluted thinking. Either that or its more turnspeak.
http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/turnspeak.html
One of the effects of turn speak is:
‘Turnspeak leads to psychological confusion and a feeling of being “burned-out” or “overwhelmed” with too much information, effectively creating a blanket of “white noise” which makes clarity difficult to achieve.’
This is either purposeful on your part Strawman or you are banana’s.
I guess I should conterpoint every argument YOU make with its opposite (thus using a childs form of turnspeak): You are a poopyhead! No… you are!!! etc…
November 4th, 2008 at 1:54 am
Oh… and Strawman:
Ribbit!
November 4th, 2008 at 5:25 am
Heh.
November 4th, 2008 at 5:38 am
Mike… this conversation with Strawhat is in the process of sounding alot like a Monty Python Skit:
Me: That parrot is Dead!!
SH: No ee’s not. Ee’s … uh… resting.
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~ebarnes/python/dead-parrot.htm
November 4th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
[…] only when it is “fair,” and “fair” only when Washington (and perhaps your local “dependable” state government) tells you it […]
November 4th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Condo,
Our govt does not act, thankfully, from one mind. And like terminator’s: some are hot and on our side and some are not.
The FCC may investigate wrondoing that came from the exectuve branch. Why does a bright fellow like yourself choose to sidestep the obvious when everybody is watching you dance around it.
This briefing and the non disclosure that followed is propagandizing on the part of the executive branch. Instead of Karl Rove, imagine Josef Goebbels calling up 15 or so retired SS military buddies and sending them to 15 newspapers to get jobs as political reporters or political commentators who claimed, because of their past military and government affiliation, to have the the real story of the Jewish involvement in the Germany’s woes.
November 4th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Hey Strawman-
First point: You say I’m sidestepping? Unbelievable. First Turnspeak. Now outrageous bullshit. This isn’t a discussion. Your viewpoint in this ‘discussion’ is a mutually exclusive oration of crap that comes out of your ass and I am a card board cut out of your opposition - a convient prop for your ravings.
Second point: Your first words in one of your posts were “So it begins!”. That is enough for me to know that your view of a discussion is pathetic and wrong-headed.
A discussion is not a fight. Nor is it a duel. You can’t kill me with words. From your own words (”So it begins!”) you have conveyed that it is pointless to convince you of anything. Take it from someone who had to deal with many years of pointless bickering (which I truly tried to untangle very sincerely).
There is one guy I know who would start arguing with me, telling me how wrong I was, only to emphasize _my own_ points by the end of his lengthy oration (he claimed them as his own without even acknowledging I was right). He was in love with his own voice, which was full of sound and fury, and it signified nothing.
After this commentary, I will no longer answer to ‘Strawman’ (ridiculing is still free of charge) as it is pointless to talk to someone whom you cannot speak with in a reasonable fashion. You’ll have to use another name or… apologize with a most contrite heart.
Until then, try being a Navy Seal or an Army Sniper: At least there is a finality with those forms of ‘argumentation’. Oh wait, you’re a libtard fool who doesn’t believe in warfare. My mistake.
With much ridicule,
John Q Public
November 4th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
“…and I am a card board cut out of your opposition - a convient prop for your ravings.”
Hmmm… I guess that makes ME the strawman. Cute play on words, Troll.
Feeding time is over.