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calimary's JournalGlad you found it, Hortensis! Even better that SOMEBODY's writing about it.
THANK GOD!!!
Because the worst part of this is how relentlessly the media seems to want to keep carrying the ball on this, carrying water for these liars, and not just buying into it but freakin' OBSESSING on it!
http://www.salon.com/2016/08/22/judicial-watch-vs-hillary-the-conservative-group-has-a-long-history-of-spreading-clinton-lies/
Judicial Watch has had a hard-on against Hillary for as far back as I can remember.
The minute they open their yaps about ANYTHING, the immediate response from broadcast journalism is to go back and put it in context, ACTUALLY REPORT that these people have been attacking her relentlessly, for a whole lotta NOTHING, for more than a generation. Larry Klayman?? Oh for the Love of God - he is nothing more than a partisan shit-stirrer! STILL stirring shit up in the veiled, and in-vain hopes of finding SOMETHING.
It's like the scenario of piles of horse shit around the Christmas tree. There MUST be a pony under all that horse shit! There MUST be a pony!!!!! Well, sorry, folks, you can keep on digging and sifting all that horse shit. But there IS NO pony underneath. There's nothing to "get to the bottom of". There's NOTHING there. NOTHING.
The collective effect of all this, though, has been rather effective. TOO MUCH of the nation is now negatively predisposed toward both the Clintons. Because, well, there are all these investigations... so there MUST be something to it, n'est-ce pas? Where there's smoke, there MUST BE fire, shouldn't there be? Doesn't it makes sense? NO! There's NOTHING there. There's NOTHING. NOTHING has turned up. NOTHING! No pony. No truth. No illegalities. No conspiracies. No fishy stuff under there anywhere. Get used to it. And GET OVER IT. And stop wasting years' worth of time and what's now hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayers' money by now, on these lame-ass "investigations" and "special committees" and other assorted crap - because you're just gonna keep coming up with NOTHINGBURGERS.
The answer is a big fat NO!!!
OR, in less time than it takes Rudy Giuliani to FORGET 9/11.
From just days ago, August 16th:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/aug/16/rudy-giuliani/aside-from-911-rudy-giuliani-wrong-about-no-terr/
AND from January 8, 2010!!!
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/jan/08/rudy-giuliani/giuliani-says-there-were-no-domestic-attacks-durin/
NEVER forget this: The CONS hold grudges.
No wonder their symbol is an elephant. They never forget, either. I remember reading during the whole Clinton impeachment crap - that this was little more than "payback for Nixon." It was something quoted from an admission by one of the CONS, as I recall. But that was a long time ago, and I don't remember who said it. I just remember what was said.
These assholes hold grudges. Take that to the bank. And they hold those grudges with an on-going, scorched-earth, single-minded determination to seek revenge.
My latest tweet:
Edited - I started over and rewrote it. It DID go through.
PLEASE understand. With Hillary: Where there's smoke, it's not fire. There's merely a GOP smoke machine.
Me too, Hortensis!!!
Me TOO!
Where there's smoke, in Hillary's case, there's no fire whatsoever. There's just a smoke machine!
FOUND THE QUOTE - from Melissa McEwen's work on Blue Nation Review:
"But they are endlessly repeated nonetheless, in order to create enough smoke that some voters reflexively assume there must be a fire.
But there is no fire. There is only a smoke machine."
http://bluenationreview.com/hillarycoverageiscrap/
She targets Andrea Mitchell, among others. Andrea Mitchell DESERVES to be targeted. I'm utterly DELIGHTED to see this! (Shit! It ain't just me!) I think I've sent dozens of tweets by now, targeting her fucking GOP bias and questioning her "journalistic" integrity and credibility (um... WHAT credibility?) and more. I've seen some of those tweets retweeted and earning likes. What's good about that is what this suggests - that others feel the same way, but maybe they didn't think there was any point in bringing it up.
Well, maybe not. But WTF? Maybe SO! WHY NOT? Why SHOULDN'T it be said? Or asked? Or questioned? Or brought up? WHY NOT? Should we just remain silent and grumbling to ourselves? I don't think we should. I think instead of Hillary constantly being persecuted, maybe Andrea Mitchell should maybe do what Bob Shrum just suggested a few moments ago. Treat what the RNC/Trump says with suspicion. Lead with THAT mentality. NOT the "Hillary must be guilty of something" mentality. Wonder if she ever really embraced the notion that one is innocent til proven guilty, and NOT the other way around. American system of justice. Seems to apply to everyone but Hillary, and as an absolute with anything from the CONS.
So here I sit, peppering Mitchell's twitter page with criticism. It's a shame that's the only blowback she gets...
Good! At least somebody should.
We all need to provide backup. Twitter is fast becoming my new favorite. But ONE person tweeting a complaint won't have much of an impact. We need swarms of 'em!
Numbers can be your friend.
I discovered something awfully fun!
#Doublestandard
I'm going to start using that - LIBERALLY! Particularly for calling out Andrea Mitchell. I must tweet-scold her on almost a daily basis by now!
Welcome to DU, bagelsforbreakfast!
I LIKE your screen name!
And as for Brownback and others like him, I find the idea of a nice warm place at the end of things to be a comforting thought. I used to wish unemployment on these assholes, but they always wriggle out of that. They should be made to walk in the shoes of the people they hurt, and short-changed, and threw into poverty for the sake of comforting the already-plenty-comfortable.
And that never happens. They never get a taste of what their precious "trickle-down" philosophy does to the less powerful and less influential.
Instead, they usually get lots of nice luxury lifeboats and safe havens. There are positions in prominent law firms, hideouts in big-time well-funded "think tanks" and "foundations" and "institutes" that spread the CON poison, big-time lobbying outfits for which they can be spokespeople, a place in the infrastructure of the RNC where they can further the efforts of other likeminded people to go out and screw over THEIR constituents, or some network hires them as a "commentator" so they have a nice media platform to spew their poison and try to convince the public that they were right all along. These assholes NEVER pay for what they've done. They usually wind up being paid more, and insulated from any responsibility or accountability. It'll happen for him, too, I'm sure. For all we know, CNN could be calling, right now, trying to be first in line to grab him after his career craters in Kansas.
He also created another myth:
"The most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.'"
BASTARD! That just pumped all kinds of juice into the I-Hate-Government movement (WHY do you hate government? Are you one of those childish brats who stamp their little feet and wave their tiny hands around and yowl "NOBODY tells ME what to do?"
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I'm sure the people who have to dig out and start over in the flood zones still buy that "I hate government" crap. And the populated fire zones out here, too. DAMMIT, sometimes you NEED a larger over-arching entity to step in and do stuff. To provide HELP. When the problem is way bigger than you, you NEED a larger entity like that! That's part of the reason we pay taxes. So there's help, and there are helpers, who can step in. And an entity that doesn't automatically present you with a big invoice like the private sector would do.
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