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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ron who wrote (23588)	11/29/2003 10:59:03 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Hi Ron, I've been precluded from responding to you on tsigprofit's increasingly irrelevant thread, so here goes: Re: Message 19546087 Ed Schultz is a sheep in wolf's clothing. He's part of an agent provocateur scheme being hatched by Tom Hicks at Clear Channel and some of the good old boys in the agribusiness lobbying bidness to promote him as a self-described "liberal". I watched a one hour segment with Schultz on C-SPAN's Washington Journal recently and I was aghast. The man was ten parts hot air, three parts overwrought ego and two parts bluster. He faked sincerity, but not very well. Aside from stroking his own ego for endless minutes, he also got into some bizarre exchanges with callers to the program. One sensible farmer from the Midwest called and discussed the Bush farm subsidy program in disparaging terms. Schultz defended the program, and engaged in the Big Lie technique by repeating at least three times that the Bushies are engaged in a "cheap food" policy for America that greatly benefits the American consumer. Apparently Schultz is having some difficulty reading newspapers and economic reports. Food inflation is running 23% YoY in oils, 15% in wholesale grains and twice that in supermarket cereal products, nearly 100% YoY for beef and about 50% YoY for fresh produce. Facts didn't seem to phase Schultz one bit. He kept the pro-agribusiness line intact and easy to comprehend by a third grader. **** "Now isn't this special" Dept.: Schultz hasn't gotten beyond his Fargo, ND homeboy radio stations, but he's already become a whipping boy for the Right on Scarborough Country: 209.157.64.200 I do admire the cunning propaganda campaigns that the Right can mount. Schultz isn't even out of the starting gate and already he's a "straw man" caricature of the stupid "librul" for the real radio audience, the right wing angry white male crowd. Beware of false prophets. Schultz is probably making a pretty penny for posing. Beware.