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To: SiouxPal who wrote (82919)	10/13/2006 4:23:02 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 361257

The difference between liberal and conservative Brent Flynn Practically Rational My brother, a self-professed Dittohead (Rush Limbaugh fan), forwarded me an email on Veteran's Day titled "Difference Between Liberal and Conservative." I read what turned out to be a joke in which a liberal and a conservative are put in the same hypothetical situation and certain assumptions are made about how they will react. Here's the situation: You're walking down the street with your wife and children. A dangerous looking man with a knife comes running and screaming obscenities at you. In your hand is a .357 Magnum. What do you do? In the joke, the liberal's response is to understand why this man turned to violence. The pacifist liberal then wonders if the man might be content to stab only him, while his family makes an escape. Finally, the pathetic liberal decides to consult a friend to come up with a solution. In the meantime, the liberal is exterminated along with his bleeding heart family. The conservative's answer is simply to shoot the man, take his family to a baseball game, eat some hot dogs with apple pie, sing the national anthem, go to church and praise the Lord for one more day of freedom. I found the joke mildly amusing. I did have a few problems with its premise (not least of which was the part where the liberal dies). For starters, it is a simplistic breakdown of a wide spectrum of ideas into only two categories. Conservatives are given a monopoly on common sense, bravery and patriotism while liberals are portrayed as a bunch of pansies. What is even more disturbing is that there is a whole genre of conservative literature being disseminated via email with the sole intent of casting so-called "liberals" in the worst possible light. One email contains the alleged first-hand account of an interview on National Public Radio between a female host and U.S. Army General Reinwald. The General is describing a Boy Scout Troop the base is sponsoring, and mentions that the boys will be learning how to shoot a rifle. The interviewer questions whether the kids are being equipped to "...become violent killers." The General responds, "Well, you're equipped to be a prostitute, but you're not one, are you?" The zinger the general lays on the liberal reporter really puts her in her place…except the interview never happened. The fabricated story is an elaborate set-up for the big pay-off where the General makes his politically incorrect (Republicans love anything that's not PC) remarks. Another email claims that the government has been paying the Clinton's mortgage on their New York home. Allegedly, a housing unit was built at the Clintons' house for Secret Service agents to use. The Clintons, we are told, are charging them rent and the rate they are charging is the same amount as their mortgage payment (about $10,000). In short, we taxpayers are paying for the Secret Service addition, AND the Clintons' mortgage! Is your blood boiling yet? Well cool down. Ex-presidents are reimbursed for any area of their house used by the Secret Service. The Clintons were eligible to receive more than $1,000 a month, but they did not accept the reimbursement. Nevertheless, these emails are passed around to the delight of Dittoheads everywhere who apparently never bothered to check the facts. Now I'm not a big fan of the Clintons or a blind follower of every "liberal" cause out there, but the zeal with which Republican's go after those on the left has gotten way out of hand and in some cases is based on flat-out lies. There are many more of these emails floating around in cyberspace on a variety of subjects, but when I pointed out these two examples of conservative smear campaigns and reminded my brother that he had sent me the one about the Clintons' Secret Service reimbursement, he didn't respond. So I called him a couple of days later and asked him why he hadn't replied. He said, "You sounded like you were trying to start a fight." (emphasis mine) Oh that's right. I'm trying to start the fight. He was just sharing a funny email that he thought I might enjoy. No reason for me to get so upset. Then again, it was just a joke. Maybe I shouldn't be so touchy…but who am I fooling? I'm just an unpatriotic, overly-sensitive liberal. brentflynn.com

To: SiouxPal who wrote (82919)	10/13/2006 4:24:48 PM
From: Patricia Trinchero	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361257

I am currently in Nevada and the TV is full of anti-liberal ads............they are trying to link all Democrats to Nancy Pelosi claiming that she is representative of the politics of San Francisco. The ads claim that a vote for any Democrat will bring the politics of SF to the US. Then they ran a video clip of the worst Gay Parade imagery.......................someone on a cross dressed as Jesus with a pro-gay sign attached. I's pretty bad...............the ads are inflammatory. I do suppose that all across this country the same is happening..............inciting all the religious right to vote. What a crock of BS.