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#127 Sep 29 2015 at 7:49 PM Rating: Excellent
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Um... Except the whole "ACORN dismantled as an organization" part, of course.

That doesn't show validity of O'Keffe's videos, it shows the GOP's willingness to use edited videos to advance their agenda. Sorta like with PP, dontchaknow.
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And I'll point out, as I did back then, that the point of the video was about the crowd response. But hey. It's not like wiki doesn't have the the correct facts

Man, you'll always run to a review you can cherry pick instead of using the original source, huh?

But, hey, it's not like the video doesn't start by openly calling Sherrod a racist and saying nothing about the crowd response.
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I'm 99% sure I told you all this back when this was first happening

You did try using that lame excuse back when this happened, yes. That was when you insisted that he never called her a racist, he only said that she discriminates against people due to their race Smiley: laugh
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So other than being wrong about everything, you...um... Well, that's about it.

Teehee.
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#128 Sep 30 2015 at 7:21 AM Rating: Good
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while being pro-racial discrimination is (or should be) universally condemned.
But the Bible says that interracial marriages are a sin. Why are you against religious freedom and the first amendment?
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#129 Sep 30 2015 at 4:59 PM Rating: Decent
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while being pro-racial discrimination is (or should be) universally condemned.
But the Bible says that interracial marriages are a sin. Why are you against religious freedom and the first amendment?


A. Not every rule and regulation in the Bible, especially in the Old Testament, is a rule or regulation our modern society follows.

B. The Bible doesn't say that.

C. That's about the most convoluted justification imaginable. So because you think the Bible says that interracial marriages are wrong, it's ok for NAACP members to think it's funny for a black person to discriminate against a white person when making decisions about dispensing government farm assistance funds? That doesn't remotely make sense, even if you weren't flat our wrong about your interpretation of the Bible.
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#130 Sep 30 2015 at 5:46 PM Rating: Decent
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That doesn't show validity of O'Keffe's videos, it shows the GOP's willingness to use edited videos to advance their agenda. Sorta like with PP, dontchaknow.


Ah... The well loved "it's an edited video" excuse. You guys love that one. When the fully unedited version provides the same conclusions about the wrongness of what is being done, the fact that it was "edited" to reduce the viewing time by removing unimportant parts, doesn't invalidate it. You'd be hard pressed to find *any* video that isn't edited in some way (especially youtube videos), so just proclaiming it "edited" is meaningless.

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Man, you'll always run to a review you can cherry pick instead of using the original source, huh?


Every source says the same thing Joph. The point wasn't about Sherrod, but about the NAACP. This is clearly stated in the blog where the original video was contained. The fact that most people just watched the video on youtube instead of going to the source blog isn't my fault, and certainly does not change the motivation contained in the original blog.

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But, hey, it's not like the video doesn't start by openly calling Sherrod a racist and saying nothing about the crowd response.


We already had this conversation (which you linked). You were wrong then, and you're even more wrong bringing it back up today. For what? To show that liberal institutions are rife with racism, discrimination, and abuse of power? That's the pattern here. Nit picking what was said in response is kinda silly, isn't it? You're playing context and word games, while ignoring the bigger picture.

Even if we accept every single thing you're saying (and I'm not), how does that change anything? Even if there was a false claim in the video about Sherrod being racist, does that change the fact that the reaction from the crowd most definitely *was* racist? That claim was not false. The NAACP reaction was not falsely represented.

Similarly, how does O'Keefe lying to set up his videos, and OMGZ maybe trespassing or whatnot, change the facts contained within those videos? It doesn't. We still have members of ACORN admitting that they violated a number of rules and laws. They admitted to abusing the power they were given, for what was quite obviously politically aligned purposes. The list of things revealed about that operation were pretty shocking (and longer than I feel like going into detail here). But all you're doing is finding some minor reason to dismiss it as nothing? You're kidding right? Why do that except so as to circle the wagons. It's ridiculous.

We have videos of PP members admitting to shopping their prices for tissues. We have them admitting to selecting their surgical methods so as to maximize that tissue harvesting. We have evidence of them looking the other way when teen girls were being molested and abused by family members. We have video of them doing nothing when presented with an underaged prostitute and her pimp showing up to get her an abortion. How the videos were obtained, or whether they had permission to take (that's a pretty weak counter, right?) them kinda shouldn't matter here. These are all cases of activities that should raise massive alarm bells. But instead, it seems like the Left's reaction its to provide more and more cover and protection for the organization.

No matter how you feel about abortion, you should not feel good about Planned Parenthood. I'm not sure how anyone can defend them.

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That was when you insisted that he never called her a racist, he only said that she discriminates against people due to their race Smiley: laugh


When commenting on her relating a story that occurred in the past. In that part of the story, she was discriminating against someone due to their race. As I said back then, there's some torturous tense bending going on, so blame him (his staff, whatever) for bad grammar, but I find it amusing that you're apparently still trying to carry this flag around for some reason.

Again, whatever false allegations may have been leveled against Sherrod because of the video (and regardless of who did it, mostly a lazy media rehashing the youtube without reading the blog it came from), the larger and main point about the NAACP crowd reaction is still true.

We're still left with a long and consistent pattern of liberal organizations engaging in bad behavior. And an equally long and consistent pattern of rank and file liberals desperately finding any excuse they can to defend or ignore it.
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#131 Sep 30 2015 at 5:50 PM Rating: Good
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gbaji wrote:
A. Not every rule and regulation in the Bible, especially in the Old Testament, is a rule or regulation our modern society follows.
Yes, people do pick and choose which parts are "important" (NO GEHYS!!!) and which aren't (NO ADULTERY!!). People; am I right?

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B. The Bible doesn't say that..
Yeah, it kinda does. Not our fault you slept through CCD.
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#132 Sep 30 2015 at 6:06 PM Rating: Excellent
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gbaji wrote:
Ah... The well loved "it's an edited video" excuse. You guys love that one.

Yeah, we're big fans of truth and context.
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We already had this conversation (which you linked). You were wrong then, and you're even more wrong bringing it back up today.

Well, I suppose saying that is easier than admitting what the video plainly states. I mean, it's not like there's words there explictly spelling it out or anything but, sure, it's all about them rascally NAACP folks.

But, hey, you guys love the edited videos and, as we saw in yesterday's hearings, the GOP loves its false and misleading "data" when defending it. You know, speaking of patterns and all.

Oh, it's the well loved "Look, the GOP and its allies just make shit up and try to pass it off as truth to get an emotional response" excuse from us Democrats.

Edit: As Clinton's hearing draws near, it would be remiss to not also think of the time Republicans changed Benghazi emails and then leaked them to the press to drive a false narrative.

Edited, Oct 1st 2015 11:37am by Jophiel
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#133 Sep 30 2015 at 7:46 PM Rating: Decent
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Stephen Harper said the Government will pay farmers for losses on TPP. Union and Employment Observers say up to 29,000 jobs can be impacted by TPP. Our finance minister says we are not in a recession, despite the Bank of Canada announcing we had entered a recession only weeks earlier.

My Question is.

Why do some Americans get distracted by sideshow politics? Donald Trump is leading the polls by so much. FOX NEWS headline for 4 days was Trump Boycotts Fox News.

Edited, Sep 30th 2015 9:48pm by rdmcandie
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#134 Sep 30 2015 at 8:41 PM Rating: Excellent
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Why do some Americans get distracted by sideshow politics?

I'd guess that if they weren't interested in the sideshow aspects, they wouldn't have any interest at all. It's not as though they'd otherwise be sagely considering the issues.

Trump is leading because he speaks to the simplest lizard-brain parts of the people. "Others" are bad, Your home/tribe is great, Government is bad but I'll fix everything, I'll just strong arm all of our enemies, etc all with a sheen of bluster and showmanship that doesn't make you think. If these people cared at all about policy, Trump would be polling in the negative digits.
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#135 Oct 01 2015 at 4:24 AM Rating: Good
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Why do some Americans get distracted by sideshow politics?
Why do some Canadians get distracted by sideshow politics? Do you really think niqabs are worthy of national debate? THAT'S what's going to fix/break our country?
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#136 Oct 01 2015 at 7:28 AM Rating: Good
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B. The Bible doesn't say that..
Yeah, it kinda does. Not our fault you slept through CCD.
He only slept through Genesis. And Exodus. And Numbers. And Deuteronomy. Joshua. Judges. Kings. Ezra. Nehemiah ...
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#137 Oct 01 2015 at 7:42 AM Rating: Excellent
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Wide awake for Leviticus, though. Parts of it. Well, six verses.
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#138 Oct 01 2015 at 8:10 AM Rating: Good
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If anyone really stayed awake during Leviticus there'd be far fewer All You Can Eat Shrimp deals and far more dead gay people.
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#139 Oct 01 2015 at 8:37 AM Rating: Excellent
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And all my silk-wool blend sweaters would go away, and THAT would be a tragedy.
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#140 Oct 01 2015 at 8:39 AM Rating: Excellent
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In case you weren't paying attention, the continuing resolution passed and government funding continues for another couple months before we're all doomed.
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#141 Oct 01 2015 at 8:50 AM Rating: Good
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We're still on track to shutdown on Christmas though. Smiley: thumbsup
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Ooohhh... I hope there's a big moment where the National Christmas Tree goes dark.

Republicans hate Christmas!
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#143 Oct 01 2015 at 10:22 AM Rating: Good
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Traditional Founding Fathers' Values!
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Mitt "Corporations Are People, My Friend" Romney suddenly realizes that campaign financing is pretty fucked up:
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Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney called for campaign finance reform in the wake of the explosion of super PACs, which can receive unlimited sums of money from corporations, unions and individuals.

“We’ve really got a mess in the financial system with regard to campaigns right now,” the 2012 nominee said Wednesday in an interview at The Atlantic’s Washington Ideas Forum.

"We’ve gotta rethink campaign finance,” he added.

The former Massachusetts governor said it is a problem that shadowy super PACs can take “unlimited amounts of money,” while candidates themselves are “very strictly limited” in the amount of funding they are able to raise.
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#145 Oct 01 2015 at 2:27 PM Rating: Good
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So he's flipped back to being a MA Republican?
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#146 Oct 01 2015 at 5:45 PM Rating: Good
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So he's flipped back to being a MA Republican?

Well, when you don't have to appease the crazies to get primary votes, you can act like a normal person.
Not having to worry about the pac monies helps too.

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#147 Oct 02 2015 at 11:46 AM Rating: Good
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Jeb! Bush is polling at 4% in latest Pew findings.
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#149 Oct 02 2015 at 1:34 PM Rating: Good
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I'm still waiting on that house to fall on Trump. This joke has gone on long enough.
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Jeb? Bush just argued against gun control in Greenville, SC by saying "Stuff happens".
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#151 Oct 02 2015 at 3:07 PM Rating: Excellent
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Well, of course he did.

Once we decided we could live with dead kids, the debate was over. The amazing thing to me is that the pro-gun lobby is still acting like the beleaguered underdog.
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