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quaoar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 10:32 AM
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The vultures of the venomous left
Are descending on poor, misunderstood George Bush, who is just trying to do the humane thing in the face of gross incompetence by those bad people in Louisiana, who shockingly are ungrateful for all he has done. And some of those people are actually threatening to punch him out.

Imagine that.

That's the spin in a column by the editor in chief of the Washington Times, which contains such gems as:

"vultures of the venomous left"
"drumbeat of partisan ingratitude"
"Sen. Mary Landrieu, who seems to think she's cute when she's mad"
"race hustlers"
"critics, many of whom can't believe their great good luck, that a hurricane, of all things, finally gives them the opening they've been waiting for to heap calumny and scorn on him"

It's actually kind of sad and pathetic watching the toads on the right try to save Bush's ass on this one. They have so little to work with all they can do is lash out irrationally.

If you can stomach it, it can be found here:
http://www.washtimes.com/national/pruden.htm





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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 10:35 AM
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1. Who owns the Washington Times?
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Buck Turgidson Donating Member (434 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 10:37 AM
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3. Moonies!
The Times was founded in 1982 by Reverend Sun Myung Moon, leader of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (Unification Church), to be a conservative alternative to the larger and older Washington Post. To this day, it is widely perceived as maintaining a generally right-leaning editorial stance. The Unification Church has spent over $1bn establishing the paper and subsidising its losses.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Times
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cloud_chaser1 Donating Member (248 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 10:39 AM
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7. The Reverend Sun Myung Moon (The Moonies)
own the Washington Times. This is the guy who believe he is the Messiah and conducts mass marriages every so often, deciding on his own who marries whom.

He's a real charmer.
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Howardx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 10:36 AM
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2. "finally gives them the opening"
"they've been waiting for to heap calumny and scorn on him"

hmmm i was unaware we had been waiting to do that.
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MH1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 05:12 PM
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24. I, for one, have not been waiting.
He'd already created plenty of reason for calumny and scorn WITHOUT the help of Mother Nature.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 10:38 AM
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4. Washington Times=Rev Sun Myung Moon
The paper does NOT make a profit. It is a rightwing rag, a mouthpiece for the moneyboys.

Wes Pruden is an ugly, mean, horrible person. And no matter how much he defends his ugly, mean pals, he is STILL GONNA DIE one day. He may be evil, but he is mortal...and all of the meanspiritedness in the world will not stop the march of time. He will have his legacy as a shill for the powerwhores, but it will do nothing but bring shame upon his successive generations.

When he is breathing his last, will he have an Atwater moment? Ya gotta wonder....
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unhappycamper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 10:39 AM
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5. Unification Church
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WePurrsevere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 10:39 AM
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6. Oh right... we're all supposed to just sit by quietly and not say a thing
about the gross negligance and incompetence of Bush.

"Venomous"... damn straight you butt kissing SOBush! We're mad as heck and it's NOT just folks on the "left"... if folks are not "venomous" and angry as heck they have NOT been paying attention. :nuke:
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CanOfWhoopAss Donating Member (776 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 10:42 AM
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8. Are you kidding?
"If you can stomach it..."

I just got my head out of the trash to read the last line. I need phenergan just to click on the link.

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NewInNewJ. Donating Member (540 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 10:45 AM
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9. Hey,Give Bush a break!
After all according to Prud Bush's only mistake was being tardy.It was everybody elses fault. Just like my grandkids, placing blame on someone else.
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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 10:49 AM
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10. "ingratitude"???? oh, that's rich!
oh, bush, we are so ungrateful you left us to die.
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quaoar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 11:32 AM
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12. But he went down there
and held a few hands.

he even tried to direct a lady to a non-existent Salvation Army center.

See there. He cares.
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 10:55 AM
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11. "kind of sad and pathetic watching the toads on the right ........ "
Edited on Tue Sep-06-05 10:57 AM by Husb2Sparkly
Sad ...... pathetic ...... and extraordinarily effective.

Edit to add: we need to stay on top of this, but they are much better at getting to their base than we are of refuting it.
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McCamy Taylor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 11:33 AM
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13. How many Deep Southerners are Moonies?
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quaoar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 11:47 AM
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14. I live in Alabama
Haven't seen a Moonie here yet. Moon Pies, but no Moonies.
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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 11:51 AM
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15. Vultures Up! n/t
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MrBenchley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 12:03 PM
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16. Pruden is a white supremacist
and a bunch of his editorial board has ties to racist groups like VDare.com...
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Hidden Stillness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 12:34 PM
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17. You KNEW They Would Do This Next
This is the big threat, of course, when they start playing it this way, and "locking the argument up"--pretending to be outraged ON BEHALF OF THE VICTIMS, against us. This makes a powerful posture, and hard to defend against, because for every point you make, people will "hear you" "capitalizing on it" by "not helping but instead only complaining," as the routine goes. This is why Democrats need to get out there NOW (Wesley Clark has been great) and attack the premeditated funding cuts that doomed these people and animals to death, and attack the smear campaign that now attacks the victims (these Gulf state officials, after all, live there, too) a second time, after the original tragedy. Bush, Rove, etc., are calculating and merciless, and now attempt to spin and smear their way out of a totally horrific tragedy, which they caused, and their targets suffered. We have to get out the outraged word, our side of the story attacking the deadly-incompetent Bush Administration, ON BEHALF OF THE VICTIMS, just that way.
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EVDebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 01:43 PM
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18. Actually, Bush's own policies are coming back to bite him
FEMA's outsourcing is at the root of the New Orlean's fiasco:

FEMA Outsourced New Orleans Disaster Plans

http://www.wnymedia.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=45&Itemid=35



by Wayne Madsen



shows us the company, Innovative Emergency Management, Inc. IEM for short, that should have planned out rescue and relief efforts in New Orleans. I also note that it took around FIVE whole days but FEMA finally got around to the process of privatizing bus contracts to rescue those New Orleans Superdome/ConventionCenter refugees. Those bus contracts appear to have gone from 650 to 5000 by the time FEMA realized people were AT those sites !



FEMA Urges Patience

http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=18540



“ *Convoys of food, water and ice which are arriving hourly in impacted areas.

*The evacuation of thousands from New Orleans to Texas. FEMA has contracted for more than 650 buses to expedite the state-ordered evacuation.”



Local Company Sending Charter Buses to Gulf

http://www.wcpo.com/news/2005/local/09/02/bus.html



“The Federal Emergency Management Agency is mobilizing 5,000 buses nationwide.” This is from a Cincinnati, OH bus company ; a No. Carolina Christian bus charter firm also got a contract





Community Offers Relief

BY JENNIFER MENSTER

Record Staff Writer

Saturday, September 3, 2005



http://www.hickoryrecord.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=HDR/MGArticle/HDR_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031784847098&path=



So, you can see, FEMA was ‘privatizing’ the rescue/relief effort and dawdling in this effort, rather than expediting rescue/relief that the National Guard/military could have been doing.

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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 02:17 PM
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19. Oh please.
It takes crises like Katrina for the scum to show their true colors, doesn't it?
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Humor_In_Cuneiform Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 02:47 PM
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20. This guy needs a biology and/or writing lessons
Venom comes from animals like snakes.

Vultures prey on dead meat.

So Venomous vultures of the left is truly a very mixed metaphor, as well just inaccurate in the biological sense.

Poor misguided foolish editor of the right wing rag that substitutes for a real newspaper.
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Zhade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 03:20 PM
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21. Oh, the WT - for a second, I thought this was from Al From.
NT!

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SomewhereOutThere424 Donating Member (497 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 03:31 PM
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22. For the sake of argument
Who the fuck cares if we were any of those things? Bush is a murderer, a conductor of genocide. How can any of those petty insults possibly be worse? "Remove the plank from your own eye before removing the splinter from their's", the media's constant support of bush has aided in these people losing their lives.

It's better to be a "vulture of the venomous left" than a man who'd sold out the american people with media propoganda for a few measly pennies added to their yearly annual paycheck total, and we're not even any of what he accused of anyway.
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sepia_steel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 05:07 PM
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23. Hear, HEAR!!!
Or is it 'here, here'. :applause:
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LittleClarkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 05:16 PM
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25. pluck, pluck (gets out bow)
:nopity:
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kitkat65 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 05:30 PM
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26. Why bother with reason? LTTE
"Not much traction with the abuse" by Pruden

Fuck you. You can take George Bush and his policies and shove 'em.

How's that for abuse?

Best lesson learned this last week:If a national disaster comes your way, you're on your own, pal. Hope you have friends in high places but judging by your bias, I'm guessing you do.

Peace. (No, really. Peace!)
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