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w8liftinglady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 10:48 AM
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If you haven't already,would you kindly comment on my latest LTTE?
I am trying to get our views...and the truth....out in Neocon hell...read the comments-you'll see what I mean.Next week there will be several LTTE attacking ME(as usual).Thanks,y'all!
http://www.thedailylight.com/articles/2008/08/06/opinion/doc4899fb482e3ce959997902.txt
To the Editor,

“Obamanation” is an abomination. I have listened to the persistent quoting of Jerome Corsi’s “Obamanation” — a hatchet job done by the author of “Unfit for Command: Swiftboat Veterans Speak out against John Kerry.” I thought it necessary to offer some facts about Barack Obama that are being manipulated by this man.

Mediamatters is a non-partisan group that fact-checks written and news items and offers resources to verify their findings. Mediamatters has found so many inaccuracies with Corsi’s book that I can’t write them all in a short letter. I will focus on Corsi’s inaccuracies regarding Obama and the military.

Corsi falsely claims that Obama seeks to decrease the size of the military. In fact, during the Democratic primary, Obama repeatedly asserted that he would “increase our ground forces by 65,000 soldiers and 27,000 Marines. Obama also stated, “Increasing our end strength will help units retrain and re-equip properly between deployments and decrease the strain on military families.”

Discussing Obama’s “antiwar ... foreign policy,” Corsi conflates Iraq and Afghanistan to falsely suggest that Obama supports “de-escalating troops from Afghanistan. But Obama’s January 2007 bill — the Iraq War De-escalation Act of 2007 — establishes a timetable for the withdrawal of most troops from Iraq, and calls for “appropriate units of the Armed Forces” to be redeployed to Afghanistan and elsewhere in the region, as well as “elsewhere, to meet urgent United States security needs.” Obama has been calling for an increase of U.S. troops in Afghanistan since at least 2006 and has specifically proposed the addition of at least two combat brigades since 2007.

This obvious smear of Sen. Obama has been given a lot of footing by the mainstream media. Please do your own research before quoting Corsi. His track record shows him to be a character assassin of the worst degree.
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DangerDave921 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 11:25 AM
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1. One fix you need to make to maintain credibility
You say that Media Matters is a "non-partisan group." This is not correct. Media Matters is a liberal/progressive outlet. You need to change this because I guarantee the editor will pick up on it and discount your points. I looked at Media Matters' own website, which reads:

Media Matters for America is 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.



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w8liftinglady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 12:20 PM
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2. I appreciate your input.I wasn't aware of that
I always thought they were non-partisan..I guess conservatives seem to confabulate the truth more often(I guess they have to)
Thanks for that little tidbit.I may use their facts..just not quote them directly the next time.:)
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DangerDave921 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 12:25 PM
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3. You're welcome
Actually, I wish MM would review all media outlets for inaccuracies. That way, they would have more widespread acceptance rather than always being discounted as a left-wing group.

p.s. is that you in the picture?
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w8liftinglady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 12:29 PM
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5. I wish..that is Iris Kyle.
I am a much smaller blonde haired,blue-eyed version of that
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DangerDave921 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 12:30 PM
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6. LOL
I don't know my bodybuilders.

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w8liftinglady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 12:28 PM
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4. ...and I have corrected that part of my letter online.Thank you.
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