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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (70822)6/5/2008 9:55:38 AM
From: Mary Cluney  Read Replies (2) of 543151
 
<<< So Schumer, according to Schumer, is complicit in taking $10 away from every American who buys 20 gallons of gasoline. "Democracy," said H.L. Mencken, "is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." The common people of New York want Schumer to be their senator, so they should pipe down about gasoline prices,>>>

I am not going to defend Schumer. He is a politician and he does what politicians do and that is to do whatever you have to do to get elected.

But George Will pretends to be a journalist. He is a for profit right wing propagandist. He uses whatever means to deceive.

In this case he is accusing Schumer and other politicians for supporting opposing positions wrt their impact on the cost of oil that consumers have to pay. In the one case, he accuses Schumer of trying to pander to consumers for advocating using pressure on Sauda Arab to increase oil supply but at the same time blocking access to oil in our Alaskan wilderness.

The difference is that it cost us nothing to pressure Saudia Arabia to increase oil production but to increase oil production in Alaska will cause destruction of our environment.

Big difference.

George Will is nothing more than a for profit propagandist.
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