Ayn Rand Hates America http://onesinglecandle.posterous.com Most recent posts at Ayn Rand Hates America posterous.com Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:52:27 -0700 It's about damn time #p2 #connecttheleft http://onesinglecandle.posterous.com/its-about-damn-time-p2-connecttheleft http://onesinglecandle.posterous.com/its-about-damn-time-p2-connecttheleft Let's make it an issue in the election, no...THE issue. Give the voters a choice, not a Republican lite option. God help us if the Plutocrats win this round. Of course the elections 4 years later might usher in a real radical, not just a Fox News created one.


From The New York Times:

Obama Vows Veto if Deficit Plan Has No Tax Increases

President Obama called for Congress to adopt his plan to reduce the federal deficit by more than $3 trillion over the next decade, calling for tax increases on the wealthiest Americans and biggest corporations.

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Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:01:00 -0700 Conservatives believe the poor are lazy, blacks are thugs, & CEOs are on our side. Fox News is ... http://onesinglecandle.posterous.com/conservatives-believe-the-poor-are-lazy-black http://onesinglecandle.posterous.com/conservatives-believe-the-poor-are-lazy-black Mr. Roark from Fantasy Island & makes this fantasy real for them.

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Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:41:54 -0700 Poll numbers appear to be on our side, but they can be corroded by the Fox Propaganda Machine http://onesinglecandle.posterous.com/poll-numbers-appear-to-be-on-our-side-but-the http://onesinglecandle.posterous.com/poll-numbers-appear-to-be-on-our-side-but-the
I wish, oh how I wish, that Obama goes big and pushes for high speed rail.  Make the election about going forward, versus backwards-george

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Mon, 05 Sep 2011 21:06:20 -0700 Shocker! Fox distorts for propaganda purposes http://onesinglecandle.posterous.com/shocker-fox-distorts-for-propaganda-purposes http://onesinglecandle.posterous.com/shocker-fox-distorts-for-propaganda-purposes
Just so I am not misquoted, let's vote those sons of bitches out.   

And not vote them back in for a while.  We need to take our country back

JJames Hoffa
James P. Hoffa (Teamsters)
As we all know, a lot of the language around elections and campaigns relies on a measure of metaphor. Mostly it's pretty standard stuff, like "horserace" or "targeted districts"; only every now and then someone goes a step too far with crosshairs and talk of "reloading." So it's pretty rich that Fox News, the televised home of Sarah "crosshairs" Palin, is trying to make an issue of lines from Teamsters' President James Hoffa's Labor Day speech. Hoffa said:
HOFFA: Everybody here's got to vote. If we go back and keep the eye on the prize, let's take these son of a bitches out and give America back to America where we belong! Thank you very much!

What's controversial about that? Well, if you start it at "let's take these son of a bitches out," as Fox News did, removing the context that the sons of bitches otherwise known as congressional Republicans should be taken out by voting, it sounds slightly less at the center-mainstream of polite electoral discussion. (Though probably not outside the box for Fox programming meetings.)

Media Matters details how Fox used the full clip at some moments, with Ed Henry specifying the electoral context, but at other times used the edited version to draw a picture of a "union thug" making physical threats. TPM's Evan McMorris-Santoro followed up with Hoffa:

"How is that different than Mitch McConnell saying he wants to take out Barack Obama?" Hoffa said.

The answer, of course, is that the statement isn't different. The outrage machine dedicated to hyping it is.


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Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:35:29 -0700 It's not really an argument it is a statement of fact http://onesinglecandle.posterous.com/its-not-really-an-argument-it-is-a-statement http://onesinglecandle.posterous.com/its-not-really-an-argument-it-is-a-statement
Yet America falls for this. The refusal to blame Bush continues...

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Sun, 04 Sep 2011 14:08:11 -0700 Fox News, doing what it does best, lying the big lie for the GOP http://onesinglecandle.posterous.com/fox-news-doing-what-it-does-best-lying-the-bi http://onesinglecandle.posterous.com/fox-news-doing-what-it-does-best-lying-the-bi Joseph Goebbels would blush.  Even he had higher ethics.-george


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