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		<title>By: Frank_D</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/02/18/why-the-right-wing-is-a-cult/#comment-23885</link>
		<dc:creator>Frank_D</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2006 01:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Somebody tell me: WHO IS THIS GUY?
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		<title>By: JWG</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/02/18/why-the-right-wing-is-a-cult/#comment-23884</link>
		<dc:creator>JWG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2006 01:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;three numbnuts nobodies&lt;/blockquote&gt;
Oh, please. If the sons of a current Republican congresswoman and a former Republican mayor were caught preventing Democrats from transporting voters to the polls, this website would be going ballistic.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>three numbnuts nobodies</p></blockquote>
<p>Oh, please. If the sons of a current Republican congresswoman and a former Republican mayor were caught preventing Democrats from transporting voters to the polls, this website would be going ballistic.</p>
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		<title>By: Wilbur</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/02/18/why-the-right-wing-is-a-cult/#comment-23883</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2006 01:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;Oh, please. If the sons of a current Republican congresswoman and a former Republican mayor were caught preventing Democrats from transporting voters to the polls, this website would be going ballistic.&lt;/i&gt;

Oh we might have something to say about it, but we certainly wouldn&#039;t be touting it as morally equivalent to something heinous that -say- James Carville or Paul Begala were saying on CNN.  That would smack of desperation, and desperation is exactly what youse guys&#039;s posts smack of.

It always amazes me how far you folks have to stretch to drag some democratic misdeed out of your collective posterior to put up against republican shenanigans.   Funny how we never have to stretch that far.  Here&#039;s a tip for you:  it&#039;s a lot easier just to bring up Chappaquiddick again.  Better hurry and mention that as many times as you can before everyone involved in it is dead  (not that that stopped you in the case of Aaron Burr).
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Oh, please. If the sons of a current Republican congresswoman and a former Republican mayor were caught preventing Democrats from transporting voters to the polls, this website would be going ballistic.</i></p>
<p>Oh we might have something to say about it, but we certainly wouldn&#8217;t be touting it as morally equivalent to something heinous that -say- James Carville or Paul Begala were saying on CNN.  That would smack of desperation, and desperation is exactly what youse guys&#8217;s posts smack of.</p>
<p>It always amazes me how far you folks have to stretch to drag some democratic misdeed out of your collective posterior to put up against republican shenanigans.   Funny how we never have to stretch that far.  Here&#8217;s a tip for you:  it&#8217;s a lot easier just to bring up Chappaquiddick again.  Better hurry and mention that as many times as you can before everyone involved in it is dead  (not that that stopped you in the case of Aaron Burr).</p>
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		<title>By: Wilbur</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/02/18/why-the-right-wing-is-a-cult/#comment-23882</link>
		<dc:creator>Wilbur</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Pedro,
Oliver&#039;s writing about an &quot;expert&quot; who&#039;s a frequent voice on a highly-rated right wing program and you come back with three numbnuts nobodies who -let&#039;s all admit- performed a stupid, possibly criminal act of vandalism.

You say we &quot;ignore and discount&quot; your &quot;facts&quot;.  It&#039;s true that we do &quot;discount&quot; them when there&#039;s a reason to discount them, as in this case.  Are you saying we shouldn&#039;t discount your &quot;facts&quot; even when they are irrelevant and distractionary?

Put up or shut up.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pedro,<br />
Oliver&#8217;s writing about an &#8220;expert&#8221; who&#8217;s a frequent voice on a highly-rated right wing program and you come back with three numbnuts nobodies who -let&#8217;s all admit- performed a stupid, possibly criminal act of vandalism.</p>
<p>You say we &#8220;ignore and discount&#8221; your &#8220;facts&#8221;.  It&#8217;s true that we do &#8220;discount&#8221; them when there&#8217;s a reason to discount them, as in this case.  Are you saying we shouldn&#8217;t discount your &#8220;facts&#8221; even when they are irrelevant and distractionary?</p>
<p>Put up or shut up.</p>
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		<title>By: JWG</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/02/18/why-the-right-wing-is-a-cult/#comment-23881</link>
		<dc:creator>JWG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Faux does this all the time they dredge up some  expert  who subscribes to the latest GOP talking points.

Case in point, remember at the start of military action against Afghanistan? &lt;/blockquote&gt;
That is a &quot;case in point&quot;? What GOP talking points did Cafasso parrot in the FOX coverage of the invasion of Afghanistan?
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Faux does this all the time they dredge up some  expert  who subscribes to the latest GOP talking points.</p>
<p>Case in point, remember at the start of military action against Afghanistan? </p></blockquote>
<p>That is a &#8220;case in point&#8221;? What GOP talking points did Cafasso parrot in the FOX coverage of the invasion of Afghanistan?</p>
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		<title>By: drpedro</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/02/18/why-the-right-wing-is-a-cult/#comment-23880</link>
		<dc:creator>drpedro</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Here is the post I was referring to Oliver

&quot;This is what the GOP has become. A party of smoke and mirrors. The party of power before governance. The party of winning at all costs.&quot; Curmudgeon


I responded directly to it.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here is the post I was referring to Oliver</p>
<p>&#8220;This is what the GOP has become. A party of smoke and mirrors. The party of power before governance. The party of winning at all costs.&#8221; Curmudgeon</p>
<p>I responded directly to it.</p>
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		<title>By: Jadegold</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/02/18/why-the-right-wing-is-a-cult/#comment-23879</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 21:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This really isn&#039;t news in the world of the conservative media.  They&#039;re always parading these &quot;experts&quot; who really aren&#039;t much of experts in anything except for lying.

Faux does this all the time--they dredge up some &quot;expert&quot; who subscribes to the latest GOP talking points.

Case in point, remember at the start of military action against Afghanistan? Faux had a Joe Cafasso on just about 6 hours a day.  Cafasso claimed to be a Special Forces Colonel.  Yet, Army records found Cafasso lasted 5 weeks in boot camp before being sent home.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This really isn&#8217;t news in the world of the conservative media.  They&#8217;re always parading these &#8220;experts&#8221; who really aren&#8217;t much of experts in anything except for lying.</p>
<p>Faux does this all the time&#8211;they dredge up some &#8220;expert&#8221; who subscribes to the latest GOP talking points.</p>
<p>Case in point, remember at the start of military action against Afghanistan? Faux had a Joe Cafasso on just about 6 hours a day.  Cafasso claimed to be a Special Forces Colonel.  Yet, Army records found Cafasso lasted 5 weeks in boot camp before being sent home.</p>
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		<title>By: Oliver Willis</title>
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		<dc:creator>Oliver Willis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 21:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>pedro, that&#039;s exactly the strategy you employ. I&#039;m talking about a guy who is a propaganda tool and your best response is election day vandals?
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>pedro, that&#8217;s exactly the strategy you employ. I&#8217;m talking about a guy who is a propaganda tool and your best response is election day vandals?</p>
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		<title>By: drpedro</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/02/18/why-the-right-wing-is-a-cult/#comment-23877</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 20:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sorry Ollie, you can&#039;t mention &quot;winning at all costs&quot; as if this is a republican only trait  like curmudgeon, and then get mad when I bring out the fair and balanced facts

I am constantly accosted by the leftists here for their perceived lack of &quot;fact&quot; on my part.  I use them constantly, they are just immediately discounted by you guys for a variety of reasons, in this case Ollie doesn&#039;t think it is related to the discussion.

Whatever, just keep your ears plugged while saying &quot;nyaah,nyaah,nyaah...I can&#039;t hear you...!&quot;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry Ollie, you can&#8217;t mention &#8220;winning at all costs&#8221; as if this is a republican only trait  like curmudgeon, and then get mad when I bring out the fair and balanced facts</p>
<p>I am constantly accosted by the leftists here for their perceived lack of &#8220;fact&#8221; on my part.  I use them constantly, they are just immediately discounted by you guys for a variety of reasons, in this case Ollie doesn&#8217;t think it is related to the discussion.</p>
<p>Whatever, just keep your ears plugged while saying &#8220;nyaah,nyaah,nyaah&#8230;I can&#8217;t hear you&#8230;!&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Oliver Willis</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/02/18/why-the-right-wing-is-a-cult/#comment-23876</link>
		<dc:creator>Oliver Willis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Frank: Churchill has no influence on the right, but the cons drag him out again and again as if he were the DNC chair. This guy as I&#039;ve noted, is a part of the right and propels himself into the news by working in concert with the right-wing to spread their propaganda.

JWG: Lol, drink up my little cultist.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Frank: Churchill has no influence on the right, but the cons drag him out again and again as if he were the DNC chair. This guy as I&#8217;ve noted, is a part of the right and propels himself into the news by working in concert with the right-wing to spread their propaganda.</p>
<p>JWG: Lol, drink up my little cultist.</p>
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		<title>By: JWG</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/02/18/why-the-right-wing-is-a-cult/#comment-23875</link>
		<dc:creator>JWG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 13:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;And if you wanna talk about winning at all costs&amp; &lt;/blockquote&gt;
Seriously, Oliver...that&#039;s a perfect example. The Democrats were trying to illegally fix the recount to favor Gore and the Republicans tried to stop it.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>And if you wanna talk about winning at all costs&#038; </p></blockquote>
<p>Seriously, Oliver&#8230;that&#8217;s a perfect example. The Democrats were trying to illegally fix the recount to favor Gore and the Republicans tried to stop it.</p>
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		<title>By: Frank_D</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/02/18/why-the-right-wing-is-a-cult/#comment-23874</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 10:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You&#039;ve certainly heard of ward Churchill by now... And I&#039;ve never called him influential in way, shape or form. So that&#039;s easy. I don&#039;t recall ever mentioning his name in any regard.

Next.

All I&#039;m saying is he he can&#039;t be too powerful, if I&#039;ve never eeven heard of him. I&#039;ve never heard or read anything about this guy. I don&#039;t watch or Hannity, as I&#039;ve said before. I only read frontpage when Oliver refers to it. And I rarely watch ABCCBSNBC news -- biased, you know.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;ve certainly heard of ward Churchill by now&#8230; And I&#8217;ve never called him influential in way, shape or form. So that&#8217;s easy. I don&#8217;t recall ever mentioning his name in any regard.</p>
<p>Next.</p>
<p>All I&#8217;m saying is he he can&#8217;t be too powerful, if I&#8217;ve never eeven heard of him. I&#8217;ve never heard or read anything about this guy. I don&#8217;t watch or Hannity, as I&#8217;ve said before. I only read frontpage when Oliver refers to it. And I rarely watch ABCCBSNBC news &#8212; biased, you know.</p>
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		<title>By: Rheinhard</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 06:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Three conservatives, who follow the movement pretty closely, never heard of him, and that proves he s some kind of clever right - wing agent?&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Tell ya what, Frank... if we&#039;ll agree to posit that a commentator who has been featured on Hannity, FrontPageMag, ABC, etc. is just a nobody of no consequence in the right-wing army because &lt;i&gt;you personally&lt;/i&gt; haven&#039;t heard of him, would you agree to stop citing ass-heads like Ward Churchill (whom &lt;b&gt;no one&lt;/b&gt; on the left had ever heard of until the right wing punditry dug him out from under his rock to throw up in our faces) is somehow representative of Democrats and progressives?
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Three conservatives, who follow the movement pretty closely, never heard of him, and that proves he s some kind of clever right &#8211; wing agent?</p></blockquote>
<p>Tell ya what, Frank&#8230; if we&#8217;ll agree to posit that a commentator who has been featured on Hannity, FrontPageMag, ABC, etc. is just a nobody of no consequence in the right-wing army because <i>you personally</i> haven&#8217;t heard of him, would you agree to stop citing ass-heads like Ward Churchill (whom <b>no one</b> on the left had ever heard of until the right wing punditry dug him out from under his rock to throw up in our faces) is somehow representative of Democrats and progressives?</p>
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		<title>By: Oliver Willis</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/02/18/why-the-right-wing-is-a-cult/#comment-23872</link>
		<dc:creator>Oliver Willis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 06:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Another Pedro non-sequitor, completely unrelated to what we&#039;re talking about. From now on, pedro, just say &quot;Easter Bunny&quot; and we&#039;ll know what you mean. And if you wanna talk about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31074-2005Jan23.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;winning at all costs&lt;/a&gt;...
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another Pedro non-sequitor, completely unrelated to what we&#8217;re talking about. From now on, pedro, just say &#8220;Easter Bunny&#8221; and we&#8217;ll know what you mean. And if you wanna talk about <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31074-2005Jan23.html" rel="nofollow">winning at all costs</a>&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: drpedro</title>
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		<dc:creator>drpedro</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 05:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yea, the party of winning at all costs....you mean like these guys, who by the way, aren&#039;t just individual citizens, but paid democratic party activists...

&lt;b&gt;Sources close to the 83-day-old probe said Sowande Omokunde, Michael Pratt and three other paid Democratic activists will each be charged with a single felony count of criminal damage to property, legalese for vandalism.

Omokunde, also known as Supreme Solar Allah, is the 25-year-old son of the rookie congresswoman. Pratt, 32, worked on Kerry&#039;s local campaign, which was chaired by his father.

Pratt, Omokunde and the other staffers will be accused of cutting the tires of some 20 vans and cars rented by the state Republican Party to usher the party faithful to and from the polls on election day. The charges will state that the damage to the vehicles was well in excess of $2,500 - the minimum required to merit a felony.&lt;/b&gt;

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=295538&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=295538&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=295538&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

Whatever happened to every vote should count?

A party of  &quot;winning at all costs...&quot;

Indeed......
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yea, the party of winning at all costs&#8230;.you mean like these guys, who by the way, aren&#8217;t just individual citizens, but paid democratic party activists&#8230;</p>
<p><b>Sources close to the 83-day-old probe said Sowande Omokunde, Michael Pratt and three other paid Democratic activists will each be charged with a single felony count of criminal damage to property, legalese for vandalism.</p>
<p>Omokunde, also known as Supreme Solar Allah, is the 25-year-old son of the rookie congresswoman. Pratt, 32, worked on Kerry&#8217;s local campaign, which was chaired by his father.</p>
<p>Pratt, Omokunde and the other staffers will be accused of cutting the tires of some 20 vans and cars rented by the state Republican Party to usher the party faithful to and from the polls on election day. The charges will state that the damage to the vehicles was well in excess of $2,500 &#8211; the minimum required to merit a felony.</b></p>
<p><a href="http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=295538" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=295538" rel="nofollow">http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=295538</a></p>
<p>Whatever happened to every vote should count?</p>
<p>A party of  &#8220;winning at all costs&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Indeed&#8230;&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: mr.curmudgeon</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/02/18/why-the-right-wing-is-a-cult/#comment-23870</link>
		<dc:creator>mr.curmudgeon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 03:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;Cheetos, Oliver and Curmudgeon: You re not going  tinfoil hat  on me, are you?&lt;/i&gt;

No. Just trying to get you to exercise those critical thinking skills Frank.
Seriously, there&#039;s a whole lot of evidence that this is a tried and true GOP method.

For instance, if you&#039;ll allow me to point you to &lt;b&gt;Phil Parlock&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://southpaw.goodshow.net/archives/000943.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;serial victim&lt;/a&gt; for the Republicans. He has convientiently planted himself in front of a camera (three elections in a row), and has an accomplice (at times, his own son) tear his signs apart, often making sure to include his terrified little daughter in the picture as well (again, for a broader emotional appeal). These photos quickly make the rounds, as &quot;evidence&quot; of viciousness on the part of Democrats.

This is what the GOP has become. A party of smoke and mirrors. The party of power before governance. The party of winning at all costs.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Cheetos, Oliver and Curmudgeon: You re not going  tinfoil hat  on me, are you?</i></p>
<p>No. Just trying to get you to exercise those critical thinking skills Frank.<br />
Seriously, there&#8217;s a whole lot of evidence that this is a tried and true GOP method.</p>
<p>For instance, if you&#8217;ll allow me to point you to <b>Phil Parlock</b>, <a href="http://southpaw.goodshow.net/archives/000943.html" rel="nofollow">serial victim</a> for the Republicans. He has convientiently planted himself in front of a camera (three elections in a row), and has an accomplice (at times, his own son) tear his signs apart, often making sure to include his terrified little daughter in the picture as well (again, for a broader emotional appeal). These photos quickly make the rounds, as &#8220;evidence&#8221; of viciousness on the part of Democrats.</p>
<p>This is what the GOP has become. A party of smoke and mirrors. The party of power before governance. The party of winning at all costs.</p>
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		<title>By: Oliver Willis</title>
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		<dc:creator>Oliver Willis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 02:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m talking about &lt;b&gt;one&lt;/b&gt; guy, Frank. One solitary guy who shows up everytime the right needs someone to confirm their talking points on Iraq. It&#039;s not guilt by association when its one guy who&#039;s serially misinforming people.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m talking about <b>one</b> guy, Frank. One solitary guy who shows up everytime the right needs someone to confirm their talking points on Iraq. It&#8217;s not guilt by association when its one guy who&#8217;s serially misinforming people.</p>
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		<title>By: Frank_D</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/02/18/why-the-right-wing-is-a-cult/#comment-23868</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 01:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I meant, Oliver, that you were using McCarthyesque tactics more and more, every day. this guy is associated with this guy, who went to school with this guy, who stayed at the same hotel as this guy, who rode on the same bus as thiss guy, who once ate in the same restaurant -- on different days -- as this guy.
I think it&#039;s called &quot;guilt by association.&quot;

Cheetos, Oliver and Curmudgeon: You&#039;re not going &quot;tinfoil hat&quot; on me, are you?

Three conservatives, who follow the movement pretty closely, never heard of him, and that proves he&#039;s some kind of clever right - wing agent?

&quot;Bill Tierney&quot; according to Google, shares space with an athletic coach from Princeton, and a baseball player. Maybe they&#039;re all one and the same.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I meant, Oliver, that you were using McCarthyesque tactics more and more, every day. this guy is associated with this guy, who went to school with this guy, who stayed at the same hotel as this guy, who rode on the same bus as thiss guy, who once ate in the same restaurant &#8212; on different days &#8212; as this guy.<br />
I think it&#8217;s called &#8220;guilt by association.&#8221;</p>
<p>Cheetos, Oliver and Curmudgeon: You&#8217;re not going &#8220;tinfoil hat&#8221; on me, are you?</p>
<p>Three conservatives, who follow the movement pretty closely, never heard of him, and that proves he&#8217;s some kind of clever right &#8211; wing agent?</p>
<p>&#8220;Bill Tierney&#8221; according to Google, shares space with an athletic coach from Princeton, and a baseball player. Maybe they&#8217;re all one and the same.</p>
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		<title>By: mr.curmudgeon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2006 23:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Frank,

The idea is that he may be a plant, seeding low-level white noise for the right wing echo-chamber. It&#039;s an age-old tactic of Rove&#039;s. Someone puts an allegation out in the wilderness of media spindom, and the bigger dogs ceaselessly reference it. They aren&#039;t obligated to &#039;fact check&#039; it, since, well, it&#039;s already out there...&lt;i&gt;somebody&lt;/i&gt; must have verified it, right?

Tierney doesn&#039;t have to speak *directly* to you, his misinformation and spin simply gets repeated ad nausem in the right-wing media channels, were it&#039;s likely to find a way into your arguments.

There have been so many right-wing fraud&#039;s and media plants exposed in the past several years (Gannon, PayolaGate, etc), coupled with the idea that this White House has spent upwards of 1.4 billion american tax dollars on propaganda over the past 2 and half years (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brandweek.com/bw/news/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001996448&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;) ...and any sensible person has to wonder if there&#039;s absolutely any truth to information we hear supporting this administration&#039;s agenda, or if it isn&#039;t, indeed, some well-placed fabrication.

This administration has already vehemently defended it&#039;s right to spy on American citizens - you know, for our own safety - I&#039;d imagine it&#039;s par for the course that they feel we need to be &quot;ministered&quot; to as well.

WAKE UP, AMERICA!
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Frank,</p>
<p>The idea is that he may be a plant, seeding low-level white noise for the right wing echo-chamber. It&#8217;s an age-old tactic of Rove&#8217;s. Someone puts an allegation out in the wilderness of media spindom, and the bigger dogs ceaselessly reference it. They aren&#8217;t obligated to &#8216;fact check&#8217; it, since, well, it&#8217;s already out there&#8230;<i>somebody</i> must have verified it, right?</p>
<p>Tierney doesn&#8217;t have to speak *directly* to you, his misinformation and spin simply gets repeated ad nausem in the right-wing media channels, were it&#8217;s likely to find a way into your arguments.</p>
<p>There have been so many right-wing fraud&#8217;s and media plants exposed in the past several years (Gannon, PayolaGate, etc), coupled with the idea that this White House has spent upwards of 1.4 billion american tax dollars on propaganda over the past 2 and half years (<a href="http://www.brandweek.com/bw/news/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001996448" rel="nofollow">source</a>) &#8230;and any sensible person has to wonder if there&#8217;s absolutely any truth to information we hear supporting this administration&#8217;s agenda, or if it isn&#8217;t, indeed, some well-placed fabrication.</p>
<p>This administration has already vehemently defended it&#8217;s right to spy on American citizens &#8211; you know, for our own safety &#8211; I&#8217;d imagine it&#8217;s par for the course that they feel we need to be &#8220;ministered&#8221; to as well.</p>
<p>WAKE UP, AMERICA!</p>
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		<title>By: Oliver Willis</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/02/18/why-the-right-wing-is-a-cult/#comment-23866</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2006 23:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You never heard of him - fine, but he&#039;s been on Hannity&#039;s radio and tv show, cited in Newsmax, CNSNews, ABCNews, and interviewed on FrontPageMagazine and in The New York Times pushing the conservative cult agenda.

Otherwise, he&#039;s been pretty low visibility.

Also, I&#039;m not sure how to take the &quot;left-wing McCarthy&quot; thing. If it were coming from a non-conservative I would be sure it&#039;s an insult, but the right swears that McCarthy is a Great American - so maybe it&#039;s a complement? Unclear.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You never heard of him &#8211; fine, but he&#8217;s been on Hannity&#8217;s radio and tv show, cited in Newsmax, CNSNews, ABCNews, and interviewed on FrontPageMagazine and in The New York Times pushing the conservative cult agenda.</p>
<p>Otherwise, he&#8217;s been pretty low visibility.</p>
<p>Also, I&#8217;m not sure how to take the &#8220;left-wing McCarthy&#8221; thing. If it were coming from a non-conservative I would be sure it&#8217;s an insult, but the right swears that McCarthy is a Great American &#8211; so maybe it&#8217;s a complement? Unclear.</p>
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