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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (768972)	2/11/2014 1:22:10 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By dave rose Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576346

How, exactly, is it "success" when the federal government has to bail out a company with a half billion dollars of taxpayer money? I'm trying to understand what is good about this situation. PS - I'm giving you an opportunity to respond like an adult. Don't blow it with your typical useless responses. This thread has been made totally useless with the recent influx of mindless liberals. I'm trying to find some way to justify posting here.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (768972)	2/11/2014 1:22:41 PM
From: Alex MG	Respond to of 1576346

RIGHT-WINGERS TRY TO MAKE AMERICA STUPIDER BY PRETENDING "PIVOTAL" IS A WORD OF PRAISE Living in America at a time when the terms of virtually every political debate are set by the right-wing noise machine is like living in a science fiction dystopia in which malign forces try to enslave the population by deliberately causing mass brain damage. If evil alien overlords were attempting to infest all of our minds with toxins that made us all significantly stupider, and thus made us increasingly fearful of things that couldn't possibly harm us, it would be exactly like living with widespread conservative propaganda. In today's example (via PJ Media), we're told that a teaser video for the Olympics "praises" Soviet communism by calling it "one of modern history's pivotal experiments." This is being said all over the wingnuttosphere -- at Fox News and Fox Nation and Hot Air and Twitchy. Marco Rubio is demagoguing this on Twitter. Glenn Beck's Blaze joins the pile-on even while (unwittingly?) explaining why the entire hissyfit is preposterous: According to the online Merriam-Webster dictionary, pivotal is defined as "of, relating to, or constituting a pivot" or "vitally important." Yes! Exactly! "Pivotal" doesn't mean "super-awesome." It means "important." It's as acceptable to say that the Soviet era was a pivotal historical event just as it's acceptable to say that Hurricane Katrina was a pivotal event in the history of New Orleans. nomoremister.blogspot.com