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To: mel221 who wrote (751939)	11/9/2013 3:02:05 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576628

NY Times on Lara Logan's screwed up reporting: As CBS was backtracking on its report, Threshold Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, said in a statement that it was recommending that booksellers remove Mr. Davies’s book from their shelves. “The Embassy House” was published Oct. 29, and more than 38,000 copies are in print. Ms. Logan did not reply to requests for an interview Friday. In an interview earlier this week, she had ardently defended Mr. Davies’s character and his veracity against charges that he had given differing accounts of the events that night in Benghazi. Threshold is a right wing nutcase publisher ("Threshold Editions is an imprint of Simon & Schuster that specializes in conservative non-fiction. Recent successes include #1 New York Times bestsellers Liberty and Tyranny by Mark Levin, An Inconvenient Book by Glenn Beck, and The Obama Nation by Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D."), and that CBS is at all associated with it (it owns Simon and Schuster) and would push this conspiracy theory to sell books and pander to Benghazi nutters tells you everything you need to know in terms of trusting their judgment. CBS is the same organization that screwed up their interview of an Obamacare "victim", only to have Fox News straighten them out: After appearing on CBS News yesterday morning in a segment on her rising health-care costs under Obamacare, 56-year-old Florida resident Dianne Barrette received calls from producers at Fox News, the better to repeat her critical tale on TV’s No. 1 outlet for Obamacare opposition. Presumably the network was interested in how Barrette’s insurance premiums were set to go from around $50 to nearly $600, as she explained yesterday on CBS News. The story, however, wasn’t as straightforward as the CBS News account suggested. As pointed out here and here, Barrette’s $50 insurance plan was shot through with holes, particularly with respect to hospitalization. The Obamacare-compliant plan that she was offered in its place must comply with a set of basic standards, including hospitalization. Clearly, this calls for a blogger ethics conference.

To: mel221 who wrote (751939)	11/9/2013 3:03:18 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576628

>> And most of the 6 trillion spent was not stimulus. It is deficit spending and it exactly stimulus to the economy. Without that spending the government spending and GDP would have been less. Yeah, so what? Dang! You people are ridiculous.........you don't have the first clue on how the economy works.

To: mel221 who wrote (751939)

11/10/2013 11:10:11 AM

From: koan

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No the name is Bernanke and the fed. They are independent and he was appointed by Bush! The fed has loaned trillions to the banks at .05% interest rate. Then the loan at higher rates and make a ton. And that is not stimulus. They are not loaning the money mostly into bonds and making the difference.

Are you forgetting it started with Bush and Treasury Secretary Paulson begging Pelosie to give AIG 82 billion no questions asked and hundreds of billions to the banks and others?; and Reid did no more or less than Boehner and McConnell.

All of the gain since 08, all of it went to the top 1%. All the money went to the plutocrats i.e banks, and Wall street. The fed gave trillions of dollars to the banks. No one can stop the plutocrats it seems. Bush didn't, the republican controlled congress didn't and hasn't.

What we liberals keep trying to explain to the conservatives is that they are helping the plutocrats skin us all alive. We all need to join together to stop the plutocrats from controlling our country.

>> And most of the 6 trillion spent was not stimulus.

It is deficit spending and it exactly stimulus to the economy. Without that spending the government spending and GDP would have been less.

>> It was a give away to the plutocrats/banks by both parties.

The laws that spent that $6T have 3 names as signatories; Obama, Reid, Pelosi.

Giving money to plutocrats is how Democrats conduct business.