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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-09 10:15 PM
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Conservative media figures falsely suggest that Reich proposed excluding white males from stimulus
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Summary: Michelle Malkin, Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity have falsely asserted or suggested that Robert Reich, speaking at a congressional forum, proposed that jobs created by the economic stimulus package should exclude white males. In fact, Reich has repeatedly stated that he favors a stimulus plan that "includ<es> women and minorities, and the long-term unemployed" in addition to skilled professionals and white male construction workers, not one that is solely limited to them ...

http://mediamatters.org/items/200901230015?f=h_latest
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liberalmuse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-09 10:17 PM
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1. OMG, are we going to have to listen to these screeching fuckers...
for the next 8 years? It's been 3 days and already I hate 'pubs more than I ever did while W was destroying this country.
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-09 10:21 PM
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2. Is it my imagination.. or are they gettting sillier & sillier
(and shriller & shriller at the same time)

Imagine playing an LP backwards, faster & faster... That's what it sounds like to me now.
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elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-09 10:25 PM
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3. Sounds that way to me.
Maybe they figure that's the best way for them to get ANY attention, as everyone is so focused on what PRESIDENT OBAMA is doing!
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