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Cash_thatswhatiwant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-06-09 05:02 AM
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Glenn Beck’s Next Target: Cass Sunstein
Edited on Sun Sep-06-09 05:04 AM by Cash_thatswhatiwant
As he makes a real impact in pushing conservative fringe attacks on Obama administration officials into the mainstream, Glenn Beck’s Twitter feed has become a must-read. In a message from last night, Beck told his followers to “FIND EVERYTHING YOU CAN ON CASS SUNSTEIN, MARK LLOYD AND CAROL BROWNER.” They are, respectively, the nominee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, the Associate General Counsel and Chief Diversity Officer of the FCC, and the Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change. Browner was also administrator of the EPA for all eight years of Bill Clinton’s presidency.



Beck’s ostensible purpose here is to expose the “czars” who’ve been appointed by the president. Sunstein stands out like a sore thumb, as he’s been tied up by holds and filibusters for months, and Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) only filed for cloture on his nomination at the start of August.

How has Sunstein become so controversial? Basically, conservative Websites have read his iconoclastic, theoretical writing and pumped up the bits that sound really strange. A current example comes from CNSNews.com.

Outlined in the 2008 book “Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness,” Sunstein and co-author Richard H. Thaler argued that the main reason that more people do not donate their organs is because they are required to choose donation. … This problem could be remedied if governments changed the laws for organ donation, they said. Currently, unless a patient has explicitly chosen to be an organ donor, either on his driver’s license or with a donor card, the doctors assume that the person did not want to donate and therefore do not harvest his organs. Thaler and Sunstein called this “explicit consent.


The CNSNews headline:



http://washingtonindependent.com/57912/glenn-becks-next-target-cass-sunstein
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KT2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-06-09 05:29 AM
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1. the current conservative
push in organ donation is selling. Some want selling of organs legalized in the US. One woman went so far as to say that people would be much healthier if they thought they could sell their organs - they could get more money for them.
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-06-09 05:30 AM
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2. The Republcion Homelander pogrom marches on...
Edited on Sun Sep-06-09 05:31 AM by SpiralHawk
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billyoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-06-09 05:33 AM
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3. "do not link before burning to disk"
:rofl:
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GoCubsGo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-06-09 09:54 AM
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13. Speaking of "burning"...
It's time to take a lesson from those brave men and women who are fighting the Station Fire and other such conflagrations. They use backfires. Time to start fighting fire with fire. They're doing a fine job of showing the world that they're insane. It's up to us to show that they're not just lunatics, they're corrupt lunatics. Time to hound them like they did Clinton, and like they're doing Obama and his people now.

BTW, shouldn't that read, "Do not THINK before burning to disc?"
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FlaDem83 Donating Member (121 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-06-09 05:44 AM
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4. Quick!!
everyone find out everything you can about Glen BecKKK. Oh, wait, it's already out there for public consumption? Oh...he rants and raves that the President is racist, FEMA is setting up concentration camps, and records highly questionable and racist songs about jews, Asians and other groups - - - and HE still has a job but wants Cass Sunstein not to?? Unbelievable. Sunstein has more intelligence in a strand of his eyelash hair than Beck does in his whole body.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-06-09 05:48 AM
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IdaBriggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-06-09 05:56 AM
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6. Troll. Not even subtle.
Artur Axmann, 83, a Top Nazi Who Headed the Hitler Youth
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-06-09 06:52 AM
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7. This is why people should NEVER resign.
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butterfly77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-06-09 09:30 AM
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8. Its time to start..
targeting them the same way they do Dems. They have some damn nerve to target anybody with all of the crooks and liars in the Bush admin...
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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-06-09 09:39 AM
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9. I don't give a fuck any more
Edited on Sun Sep-06-09 09:40 AM by WeDidIt
No public option, fuck the administration. Let 'em all go down.
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dionysus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-06-09 12:41 PM
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15. my, someone needs to fetch you some smelling salts.
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niceypoo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-06-09 09:45 AM
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10. Glen Beck needs to be driven away
All out war on his sponsors
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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-06-09 09:51 AM
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11. Lightning doesn't strike twice.
He's going to mess with the wrong person and be very, very sorry.
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Proud Liberal Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-06-09 09:54 AM
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12. Didn't FOX yesterday say something about "overthrowing the czars"?
Guess we're headed in that particular direction, eh?
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nolabear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-06-09 10:07 AM
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14. Honest question, 'cause I don't know...
Is the goal here to destroy the positions themselves? Anyone who holds the position fits Pinky Beck's (he has always reminded me of one of those newborn, hairless mice, commonly called Pinkies, not to mention the cartoon character) definition of "czar." So, no green jobs commission?
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