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Now GOP Aims Lies at Veterans
Thu, 09/03/2009 - 11:06am | mal contends
Hey Sussex, Wisconsin native Thomas Tradewell, Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) National Commander, where are you?
Because nothing is sacred to the Republican Party, certainly not veterans.
Chris Adams at McClatchy Newspapers reports, "While Republicans are calling a Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) health planning booklet a 'death book' that encourages veterans to kill themselves or forgo care, ethicists and legal and medical experts say it's a reasonable attempt to help America's veterans plan for the end of their lives."
Make no mistake, the GOP will tell any lie and dishonor America's 26-million veterans for a chance to stir up its benighted base. Now, they are claiming that the DVA is encouraging veterans to kill themselves.
Does the VFW approve of these lies?
Because nothing is sacred to the Republican Party, certainly not veterans.
Chris Adams at McClatchy Newspapers reports, "While Republicans are calling a Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) health planning booklet a 'death book' that encourages veterans to kill themselves or forgo care, ethicists and legal and medical experts say it's a reasonable attempt to help America's veterans plan for the end of their lives."
Make no mistake, the GOP will tell any lie and dishonor America's 26-million veterans for a chance to stir up its benighted base. Now, they are claiming that the DVA is encouraging veterans to kill themselves.
Does the VFW approve of these lies?
Tags: McCain Using Race Now
Mon, 07/28/2008 - 6:49am | mal contends
Update: Affirmative distraction
via mal contends - Jesse Helms and the Southern Strategy live.
John McCain just cannot resist that old-time religion used by the GOP in fighting general election presidential campaigns: Race as a wedge issue.
Obama says McCain flip-flops by opposing affirmative action reads a McClatchy headline on a piece by William Douglas, though a more instructive headline is that: McCain did flip-flop on affirmative action.
That flip-flop is a fact, and should be reported as such.
Writes Douglas:
Writes Douglas:
Lies Catching Up to Bush Administration
Tue, 07/01/2008 - 7:40am | mal contends
Famed journalist I.F. Stone warned "All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed."
Like in many other aspects of government, the Bush administration has veered to the extreme in its mendacity.
Guantánamo Bay holds only the worst of the worst, the administration repeatedly assured the American public after preventing examination of the evidence holding the accused.
Turns out the administration (as McClatchy news demonstrated in its America's prison for terrorists often held the wrong men in mid-June) is the worst of the worst in its commitment to bald-faced lying.
Like in many other aspects of government, the Bush administration has veered to the extreme in its mendacity.
Guantánamo Bay holds only the worst of the worst, the administration repeatedly assured the American public after preventing examination of the evidence holding the accused.
Turns out the administration (as McClatchy news demonstrated in its America's prison for terrorists often held the wrong men in mid-June) is the worst of the worst in its commitment to bald-faced lying.
Hillary's Appeal to Racism Is a Project, Not an Accident
Wed, 03/12/2008 - 9:53am | mal contends
Update: BREAKING NEWS: NBC News confirms Geraldine Ferraro leaving Clinton campaign
Keith Olbermann on Hillary and Geraldine Ferraro's appeals to racism. See:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/23601329#23601329
via MAL Contends
Hillary Clinton's evolving attacks to define and brand Barack Obama involve what advertising and marketing professionals call impressions—the projection of one image (in this case Barack Obama) onto one human brain (a voter).
Designing and managing Obama’s brand by generating impressions for the benefit of Hillary running in the primary, it is necessary to merge negative (ostensibly plausible) aspects of Obama onto the consciousness of key voting demographics susceptible to certain appeals based on fear and xenophobia.
The more frequent and emotionally potent the impression, the greater is the political impact.