Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LindyBill who wrote (16018)	11/13/2003 2:46:45 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 793765

LB, oops, sounds like a ... conspiracy! <g> Pretty far-fetched one, at that. The reason the mainstream media is downplaying the Democratic Senate Intelligence Committee memo is because it implicates mainstream journalists...the past six months has been a set-up job. The best way to counter claims of vast right-wing media conspiracy is, evidentally, to claim the opposite. Reminds me of a certain Iraqi Information Minister claiming no US troops were behind him taking over Baghdad as he spoke. The GOP this week has said a couple of good whoppers, that no judicial filibusters had ever occurred, somehow in quite the same way, and this intelligence committee document of a list of options. Both play well to those predisposed who don't pay attention to the details or actually read the documents, but that's about it, as far as I can tell. I havent' seen any minds changed, except Zell Miller, who's as polemic as he was when he criticized Bush earlier.

To: LindyBill who wrote (16018)	11/13/2003 3:08:30 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 793765

Even Greg Palast has the same opinion of Dems as I do: "... there's just something a bit pathetic in watching invertebrates trying to take a stand" The rest of his amusing email this morning, as usual, thrashing the GOP in general and Bush in particular -- gregpalast.com "Look, as a journalist, I don't like saying, "I hate Republicans." In fact, I don't mind if people are Republicans in the privacy of their own bedrooms. It's just the ones that flaunt it in public, the raging, flaming ones, that give me the creeps. This week, Thunder's Mouth Press released "The I Hate Republicans Reader: Why the GOP is Totally Wrong About Everything," which includes an article of mine about how the Bush family brought democracy to Florida as they have to Iraq. I must put on the record, however, my concern about the book's title. My problem with saying, "I hate Republicans" is that someone might think I have a thing for Democrats. Yes, I'll admit I've looked at the magazines and maybe perused their websites -- just out of curiosity, mind you -- but I always come away disappointed. Ultimately, there's just something a bit pathetic in watching invertebrates trying to take a stand. (Nor do I have a taste for inedible Greens.) The honorable Congresswoman Katherine Harris has written, "Greg Palast is twisted and maniacally partisan." That's not nice. That's not fair. Katie, if the Democrats ever stumble back to office, then I'll turn my spy-glass their way. Until then, as to Democrats, let's let sleeping dogs lie and lying dogs sleep. In the meantime, lie back, think of England, and enjoy this non-partisan expose of the Republican Party's putsch in the Sunshine State."