"If you vote for a Democrat, that basically you want to be bombed"

[xray s]

Paula Zahn vomits for the Reich.. "security is still going to be a huge issue in this country, and whether you like it or not, you've got a lot of people out there saying, if you're Republican, we're going to keep the country safe, you know, if you vote for a Democrat, that basically you want to be bombed"

http://mediamatters.org/items/200602010002

I give up. This county is dead. A goddamn fascist shithole. We can not possibly counter the non-stop, wall to wall fascist swill that pours forth from the corporate fascist party media organs. It never stops. It never ends. The torture is excruciating.

We are up against evil working in the service of hundreds of billions of dollars of profits for the corporate death industry.

It never stops. It never ends.

[paradox]

1. no

Bush is afraid of my third baboon testicle created from fusing man with ape!

[LynnTheDem]

2. Yes, republicans did such a GREAT JOB on September 10, 2001

Didn't they.

[Canuckistanian]

Well, from Aug. 6th to Sept 10th, anyways

I forget now. What did they do again?

[SammyWinstonJack]

19. President Clinton in 1995 sought to put measures in place thru legislation

that would fight terrorism without curtailing American civil liberties and the repug controlled Congress fought him every step of the way and eventually okay ed a water down version of his plan, all the while accusing him of "wagging the dog in whatever efforts he took to get Osama. And we are weak on National Security? The GOP demonstrates time and again how they put Party ahead of the Country and NATIONAL SECURITY

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. And to think they were blamed for Vietnam, and of being the

party of war hawks. No kidding. Fifteen years ago, my in-law claimed that only Democratic presidents started wars.

[Cobalt Violet]

4. Most won't be able to afford cable soon anyway.

I don't have it.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

5. are people retarded? do they not remember sept 11 happened under bush

:puke:

[Serenades]

6. Yup.

I, too, was amazed at that comment and it didn't draw criticism from anyone. I watched it live. But I won't give up on this country. Many people have difficulty getting the point where they care and are willing to stand up to bullcrap but things are honestly changing. I live in the redest town in the nation and people here are unhappy with Bush (THen again, some act like they want to get into physical altercations when you criticize him).

[Canuckistanian]

7. "a lot of people"

Well, Ms. Zahn, "a lot of people" think * is an asshole.

The majority, in fact.

[Trevelyan]

8. It is so hideous and unbelievably but Russia in it's Samizdata

self-publishing managed to get the truth out to a number of Russian citizens and in The Nun's Story, there is a fair amount about the Resistance in Belgium and using mimographs to put out quick, small newspapers to let people know the truth even though the occupying Germans would murder anyone caught distributing the newspapers or in possession of one.

We have the Internet and need to have more people attending Meet-Ups. And maybe, since there are some brave attorneys like the ones at CCR Center For Constitutional Rights including Jon Bonaface (sp?) who have used their time and talents to defend the forgotten torture victims and who have participated in trying Bush for War Crimes in citizen actions like the one recently and going back a few years in New York and Belgium also as http://www.BillyJack.com recommends as one of their many citizen actions -- Maybe we can get some attorney's to go after the hate speech inciting violence against more then 50% of US citizens on the corporately owned media.

It is so far over the top, I would think we could start a lawsuit.

[firefox]

9. Best to say "You watch too much television."

Or "I see you are programmed by television."

You can be sure the fascist don't want to start a campaign to reduce adult illiteracy. The country has a brainwashing that borders madness.

It's depressing.

[saltpoint]

10. Paula Zahn has never been accused of intellectual clarity.

She's a bit of a flirt and it's ok to ignore her often-vacuous analyses of events.

Bush failed for the last 5 years to give Americans something to SEE in their citizenship. He's failed in more than just policies -- he's failed in the poetry of the world. Someone dressed up his diction tonight and the speech sounded "forceful and convincing," but in substance, almost nothing in it will inspire re-evaluation of a failed presidency.

He might just as well have stepped up to the podium and admitted, "Look, folks. My domestic agenda for the last 5 years has sucked and sucked fiercely. And if you think IT sucked, you should see my foreign policy. Wait -- you HAVE seen my foreign policy -- the one I trumped up to betray the Congress and belittle our allies, and then lied about to the entire world. The midterms are coming up and all the Republicans who would ordinarily be standing and cheering me tonight might want to consider how bad their asses are going to be whipped by Democrats nationwide. This is a failed presidency, even worse than my old man's, which is hard to believe but true, and I'm going to spend the remainder of it drunk on my pathetic ass. Good night and God Bless America."

[Trevelyan]

11. We need to start doing some serious propaganda/brainwashing analysis

They Just Don't Want to Know; Of Dissidents and Dissonance
By Ben Tripp opednews.com

Like a full-scale papier-mache model of the Earth, the truth is so enormous that it is hard to even comprehend. And once you figure it out, the question becomes where to put it? Because it won't fit on the shelf in the living room. I refer of course to the true reason why Americans are not more concerned at the patent absence of 'Weapons of Mass Destruction' in Iraq.

I spent, I confess, several weeks waiting for the thunderous uproar that would inevitably follow the equally inevitable discovery that Iraq had no biological agents, no foul chemicals, no missiles capable of circling the papier-mache globe and blowing up Daytona Beach, Florida (or similar). The discovery has been made. You want mustard gas in Iraq, you'd better start eating pastrami. Yet the American public doesn't care. There will be no consequences to the Bush Administration for the naked, baseless savagery it perpetrated upon Iraq's people. Why not? The answer hit me like a full-scale papier-mache model of the Earth: Americans aren't upset about the Big Lie because they never believed it in the first place. They just didn't want to know.

Wow, that's such a cynical idea it makes your skin all crinkly. Can it be that the average American so very much doesn't give a shit what its government does? Can it possibly have gotten this bad?

We were until recently known as a generous and friendly people, if loud. Are we in fact the heartless maggots that such a concept would require? It boggles the mind. Where is the public outcry? Why isn't everybody in America going apeshit as the Bush Administration slips into the same "what, me worry?" mode they employed after the failure to snare Osama bin Laden? Osama, as you probably don't remember was Saddam Hussein's tennis partner. And we remember Saddam Hussein, right?) Why, he asks, restating the question yet again because he can't believe it's even necessary to ask, why is the American public not in an uproar at the administration's slow admission that they lied about the justification for this assault on another nation? The answer, sad to say, is cognitive dissonance.

Cognitive dissonance is when you find out the woman you just took back to your hotel is really a man_and you didn't get the corporate discount on the room. Another example of cognitive dissonance is when an entire nation, with world peace in the balance, throws its support behind a bunch of guys who turn out to be lying. In other words, cognitive dissonance is the agony of learning something new that contradicts what you already know. But that's not all: cognitive dissonance is also when you learn something new that contradicts what you already know, so you discount the entire subject as unimportant. "Yeah, he cheats on me when he travels," she pules. "Who cares, as long as I get the frequent flier miles?" America is suffering from a bad case of cognitive dissonance, and it explains a lot- unfortunately, not to Americans.....

Ben Tripp is a screenwriter and cartoonist. Ben also has a lot of outrageously priced crap for sale here. If his writing starts to grate on your nerves, buy some and maybe he'll flee to Mexico. If all else fails, he can be reached at: [email protected]

[malaise]

23. What Dems need to expose

is that the US is being governed by a Politburo - separate institutions run by the Republican party and its corporate supporters.

[Marr]

12. There are "alot of people saying" that Bush is a criminal, too.

[flashdebadge]

13. that quote sounds to me like she is being sarcastic.

Although, I have not heard it in its full context. I guess it depends on how you read the snip.

[Junkdrawer]

14. Wait till the coming "Summer of Terror"....

a few suicide bombers here and there and all our "rights" will be a distant memory...

[resist_vote on paper]

15. if you've voted for democrats, you've never been bombed

would may be the other side of the medallion. What, if 9/11 was just for HIM?

Your media is not free anymore.

Your votes are collected by a giant network, made by bush-supporters.

As a german, who was born long after WW II, I swore to myself, never to believe in news, when they all say the same, especially if it is racism, but instead ask, who is the winner of the game?
And what could be the goal?

I see the same problem in the us right now.

You guys ( and unfortunately the rest of the world, too) have a fat problem, in my opinion. Human rights are not worth the paper they are written on. You get spied, scanned, obeyed on. (It's even a problem here in germany, too. For fighting against terrorism, we were glad to give up our freedom :-(((( )But can it protect us from airplanes, from anthrax, from every evil idea some might have? NO!

And, I am sure of that, your votings were manipulated.

You really should fight for votes on paper, or you will still have a president called Bush in the year 2150...in seventh generation.

I beg your pardon for my bad english, I am much better in german :-)))

Please don't get me wrong.

I am not blaming the pupils of the us, I am blessed with very good friend over there, I only worry that things might go too extreme to stop.

I wonder if there is a possibility to stop it now, anyway.

It's such a shame. I always loved your country.

I cross my fingers for you! Don't give up!

[newyawker99]

25. Hi resist_vote on paper!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

16. Hello, Katrina, Hello!

I guess if you vote for Repubs, you want to be drowned?

[resist_vote on paper]

20. @mayberry

a good one, indeed!

Just keep saying no to kyoto...

we still got mars...

[pinto]

17. I try not to let TV news readers posing as journalists get to me, but that

is one asinine, OTT, inflammatory statement from anyone on national TV. Don't care if it's the Burger King guy...that's irresponsible.

[dogday]

18. I think her hair dye is seeping through to her brain

what a piece of crap.....

[Rocknrule]

21. These people are so goddamn stupid its unbelievable

[Roland99]

22. Sorta like how we were attacked w/a REPUBLICAN President in the WH????

Moran.

[ComerPerro]

24. If you vote Dem, you will be bombed. By Bush or some right winger

who might send you a mailbomb or maybe some anthrax