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sfecap Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-03-04 10:13 AM
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Turn off that TV!!!
Why waste your time watching the media whores spin for the villiage idiot? It just runs your blood pressure up.

Let's revisit a bit of history...

Remember the Clinton impeachment hearings? Recall that during and after the impeachment, Bill Clinton's approval ratings were very high and didn't take a hit. Why? Because the Amercan public know bullshit when they see it. By and large, Americans aren't as dumb as we sometimes think.

SIXTY ONE MILLION people watched Kerry disassemble the chimp the other night. They know who looked like a President, and who looked and sounded like an petulant, smarmy, spoiled, ignorant moron. Sure, some Amurkans like thier leaders to be dumber than they are....but the vast majority don't.

John Kerry reminded America what a leader looks like....intelligent, focused, literate, lucid, calm, and mature.

They won't forget the picture of the idiot and his deer in the headlights look...

Kerry is closing this deal. He's a winner. The American people have seen their future, and I think they like it.

So, turn that TV off, forget the pundits because they have no sense of reality, they have no idea what is really happening out here in the real world.

Go out and do something for John Kerry and John Edwards today! You'll feel a whole lot better afterward. :-)
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mikehiggins Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-03-04 10:19 AM
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1. One demurrer
IF that's how its spelled.

You write "So, turn that TV off, forget the pundits because they have no sense of reality, they have no idea what is really happening out here in the real world."

I disagree. If you get TIME magazine, you may have read the interview with the head of VIACOM. He said that while he might like politicians as individuals, he votes for what is best for VIACOM and it is much better for the mass media to have REPukes in office.

These pundits know which side of the bread their butter is on. They are consciously working to benefit the side that will keep the money rolling in for their bosses. They know it, their bosses know it, and as time goes on, more and more of their victims--whether in the US, Iraq or elsewhere--will come to understand it as well.

They are NOT mistaken; they are lying.

EOM
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AP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-03-04 10:21 AM
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2. ...and go phone bank or precinct walk today.
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LiberalVoice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-03-04 10:22 AM
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3. The american people...
are pound for pound the dumbest people in the world. And they manage to prove me right everyday.

But, I will say that at the very least the majority of people in this country are waking up and we will have a huge turn out on Nov. 2.

Remember this, the Kerry voters are the ones with the incentive to vote. Not the repugs. They are running the Senate, Congress, the white house, and the supreme court. We will have the turnout and the presidency in '05 so stop listening to the Media Whores and do your brain a favor.
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mopaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-03-04 10:25 AM
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4. i'm not fooled by the t.v. machine, though millions are
long ago i learned not to believe it like it was a holy receptacle of truth. now more than ever it's pure propangada on the cable news and right wing radios. i enjoy watching history in the making, and the takeover of the media is one of the biggest issues we face.

we'll need witnesses when it all goes to the trials and tribunals for war crimes.
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