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	<title>Comments on: Wasilla&#8217;s Hillbilly Heroin</title>
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		<title>By: PD100</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/12/26/wasillas-hillbilly-heroin/#comment-131170</link>
		<dc:creator>PD100</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;&quot;On the other hand, enough people still like and agree with Limbaugh, Hannity, and O’Reilly (I’m not among them) that they are still going strong. They also never had their nutso moments that the three you cited &quot;&lt;/i&gt;

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1013043mackris16.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sexual deviant O&#039;Reilly&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/rushletters1.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Big Pharma Limbaugh&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/23/sean-hannity-confronted-o_n_92961.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hannity &amp; his Negruh Hatin&#039; Pal Hal&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>&#8220;On the other hand, enough people still like and agree with Limbaugh, Hannity, and O’Reilly (I’m not among them) that they are still going strong. They also never had their nutso moments that the three you cited &#8220;</i></p>
<p><a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1013043mackris16.html" rel="nofollow">Sexual deviant O&#8217;Reilly</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/rushletters1.html" rel="nofollow">Big Pharma Limbaugh</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/23/sean-hannity-confronted-o_n_92961.html" rel="nofollow">Hannity &amp; his Negruh Hatin&#8217; Pal Hal</a></p>
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		<title>By: Sean D. Martin</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/12/26/wasillas-hillbilly-heroin/#comment-131138</link>
		<dc:creator>Sean D. Martin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>daniel rotter: &lt;i&gt;also don’t know why someone contemplating running for Congress (the Cindy Sheehan reference) would qualify as a “nutso moment.”&lt;/i&gt;

Certainly she had at least as much chance of succeeding as the 99th most senior Senator of becoming President.

How did that &quot;nutso&quot;&#039;s plan work out?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>daniel rotter: <i>also don’t know why someone contemplating running for Congress (the Cindy Sheehan reference) would qualify as a “nutso moment.”</i></p>
<p>Certainly she had at least as much chance of succeeding as the 99th most senior Senator of becoming President.</p>
<p>How did that &#8220;nutso&#8221;&#8217;s plan work out?</p>
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		<title>By: freD</title>
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		<dc:creator>freD</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As an added bonus, Coulter proclaimed Palin the “Conservative of the Year.”  

Did she win the award because of her charismatic populist appeal?  
Because she’s the finest conservatism has to offer?
Because D.C. needs her kind of &quot;political reformer&quot;?

Nooooo.  Sarah Palin is conservative of the year “for her genius at annoying all the right people.”

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29995

It&#039;s the new standard for conservative national leadership!  Screw qualifications -  VPOTUS and potential POTUS is be all about annoying Americans.  As if Bush hasn&#039;t done enough already.

Is conservatism in the toilet or what?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As an added bonus, Coulter proclaimed Palin the “Conservative of the Year.”  </p>
<p>Did she win the award because of her charismatic populist appeal?<br />
Because she’s the finest conservatism has to offer?<br />
Because D.C. needs her kind of &#8220;political reformer&#8221;?</p>
<p>Nooooo.  Sarah Palin is conservative of the year “for her genius at annoying all the right people.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29995" rel="nofollow">http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29995</a></p>
<p>It&#8217;s the new standard for conservative national leadership!  Screw qualifications &#8211;  VPOTUS and potential POTUS is be all about annoying Americans.  As if Bush hasn&#8217;t done enough already.</p>
<p>Is conservatism in the toilet or what?</p>
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		<title>By: daniel rotter</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/12/26/wasillas-hillbilly-heroin/#comment-131120</link>
		<dc:creator>daniel rotter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;They also never had their nutso moments.&quot;

You&#039;re kidding, right?

Hannity said that making sure that Nancy Pelosi does not beoome Speaker of the House was &quot;something worth dying for.&quot;

Limbaugh read on the air, in a credible context, the claim of some wignutty financial &quot;newsletter&quot; that Vincent Foster was murdered in an apartment owned by Hilary Clinton.  Then his body was moved to Fort Marcy Park.

And who could forget O&#039;Lielly&#039;s invitation, on his radio show, to Al-Qaeda to bomb San Francisco?

I also don&#039;t know why someone contemplating running for Congress (the Cindy Sheehan reference) would qualify as a &quot;nutso moment.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;They also never had their nutso moments.&#8221;</p>
<p>You&#8217;re kidding, right?</p>
<p>Hannity said that making sure that Nancy Pelosi does not beoome Speaker of the House was &#8220;something worth dying for.&#8221;</p>
<p>Limbaugh read on the air, in a credible context, the claim of some wignutty financial &#8220;newsletter&#8221; that Vincent Foster was murdered in an apartment owned by Hilary Clinton.  Then his body was moved to Fort Marcy Park.</p>
<p>And who could forget O&#8217;Lielly&#8217;s invitation, on his radio show, to Al-Qaeda to bomb San Francisco?</p>
<p>I also don&#8217;t know why someone contemplating running for Congress (the Cindy Sheehan reference) would qualify as a &#8220;nutso moment.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: freD</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/12/26/wasillas-hillbilly-heroin/#comment-131118</link>
		<dc:creator>freD</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;freD, work on your reading comprehension. &lt;/i&gt;

You’re projecting.  I was referring to wingnuttia, not you.  Here’s the quote in question (from Dec 28th, 2008 at 6:33 pm):

&lt;i&gt;Is Obama still an illegal alien megalomaniac muslim socialist jew-hater in the land of wingnuttia?&lt;/i&gt;

Hastily typed, I’ll admit.  “illegal alien” refers to the wingnut attack on Obamas US citizenship, trying to make his POTUS-elect status illegal.
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&lt;i&gt;Rosie O’Donnell, Ward Churchill, and Cindy Sheehan were first hailed as heroes by the left&lt;/i&gt;

Which “left”?  The MSM left?  Proof?  I always saw them as nuts.
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&lt;i&gt;Limbaugh, Hannity, and O’Reilly&lt;/i&gt;

The market for these clowns is strong because the conservative base is wingnutty.  True conservatives, (who understand that most citizens do not need or want government on their backs during the good times, and who want to keep government clean and efficient to accomplish only that necessary business which citizens cannot accomplish on their own during bad times), have been overrun by “hillbilly heroin kooks”, as Goldwater might say.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>freD, work on your reading comprehension. </i></p>
<p>You’re projecting.  I was referring to wingnuttia, not you.  Here’s the quote in question (from Dec 28th, 2008 at 6:33 pm):</p>
<p><i>Is Obama still an illegal alien megalomaniac muslim socialist jew-hater in the land of wingnuttia?</i></p>
<p>Hastily typed, I’ll admit.  “illegal alien” refers to the wingnut attack on Obamas US citizenship, trying to make his POTUS-elect status illegal.<br />
&#8212;&#8211;<br />
<i>Rosie O’Donnell, Ward Churchill, and Cindy Sheehan were first hailed as heroes by the left</i></p>
<p>Which “left”?  The MSM left?  Proof?  I always saw them as nuts.<br />
&#8212;&#8211;<br />
<i>Limbaugh, Hannity, and O’Reilly</i></p>
<p>The market for these clowns is strong because the conservative base is wingnutty.  True conservatives, (who understand that most citizens do not need or want government on their backs during the good times, and who want to keep government clean and efficient to accomplish only that necessary business which citizens cannot accomplish on their own during bad times), have been overrun by “hillbilly heroin kooks”, as Goldwater might say.</p>
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		<title>By: Sean D. Martin</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/12/26/wasillas-hillbilly-heroin/#comment-131115</link>
		<dc:creator>Sean D. Martin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jay Tea: &lt;i&gt;Now pretty much everyone agrees that the right was right all along — they just won’t admit it.&lt;/i&gt;

IOW, everyone agrees with you, and those that say they don&#039;t are clearly liars.  Beautiful!

You KNOW you&#039;d object if someone on the left made that statement about the right.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jay Tea: <i>Now pretty much everyone agrees that the right was right all along — they just won’t admit it.</i></p>
<p>IOW, everyone agrees with you, and those that say they don&#8217;t are clearly liars.  Beautiful!</p>
<p>You KNOW you&#8217;d object if someone on the left made that statement about the right.</p>
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		<title>By: Oliver Willis</title>
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		<dc:creator>Oliver Willis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;Try reviewing a transcript that hasn’t been Bowdlerized by your colleagues.&lt;/i&gt;
Or you could actually listen to the audio at the link I gave. I know its tough and all, but sheesh.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Try reviewing a transcript that hasn’t been Bowdlerized by your colleagues.</i><br />
Or you could actually listen to the audio at the link I gave. I know its tough and all, but sheesh.</p>
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		<title>By: Jay Tea</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jay Tea</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ll take your word for it, Duros. I really don&#039;t follow right-wing commentators much at all. Dennis Miller, when I remember and am not working, and that&#039;s about it.

J.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ll take your word for it, Duros. I really don&#8217;t follow right-wing commentators much at all. Dennis Miller, when I remember and am not working, and that&#8217;s about it.</p>
<p>J.</p>
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		<title>By: Duros 62</title>
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		<dc:creator>Duros 62</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>dunno about that, Jay. Glen Beck still has a day job.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>dunno about that, Jay. Glen Beck still has a day job.</p>
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		<title>By: Jay Tea</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/12/26/wasillas-hillbilly-heroin/#comment-131102</link>
		<dc:creator>Jay Tea</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>freD, work on your reading comprehension. I said Obama&#039;s AUNT is an illegal alien, and that is beyond dispute. And his half-brother IS living in squalor back in Africa.

Rosie O&#039;Donnell, Ward Churchill, and Cindy Sheehan were first hailed as heroes by the left and nuts by the right. Now pretty much everyone agrees that the right was right all along -- they just won&#039;t admit it.

On the other hand, enough people still like and agree with Limbaugh, Hannity, and O&#039;Reilly (I&#039;m not among them) that they are still going strong. They also never had their nutso moments that the three you cited (O&#039;Donnell and &quot;fire can&#039;t melt steel;&quot; Churchill and his plagiarism and fraud; and Sheehan going after Pelosi&#039;s seat) all did.

One you didn&#039;t mention was Michael Savage and his &quot;why don&#039;t you get AIDS&quot; meltdown that cost him his TV gig.

Perhaps the right ought to apologize for not picking more obvious nutjobs for its ideological heroes. Definitely not fair of them.

J.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>freD, work on your reading comprehension. I said Obama&#8217;s AUNT is an illegal alien, and that is beyond dispute. And his half-brother IS living in squalor back in Africa.</p>
<p>Rosie O&#8217;Donnell, Ward Churchill, and Cindy Sheehan were first hailed as heroes by the left and nuts by the right. Now pretty much everyone agrees that the right was right all along &#8212; they just won&#8217;t admit it.</p>
<p>On the other hand, enough people still like and agree with Limbaugh, Hannity, and O&#8217;Reilly (I&#8217;m not among them) that they are still going strong. They also never had their nutso moments that the three you cited (O&#8217;Donnell and &#8220;fire can&#8217;t melt steel;&#8221; Churchill and his plagiarism and fraud; and Sheehan going after Pelosi&#8217;s seat) all did.</p>
<p>One you didn&#8217;t mention was Michael Savage and his &#8220;why don&#8217;t you get AIDS&#8221; meltdown that cost him his TV gig.</p>
<p>Perhaps the right ought to apologize for not picking more obvious nutjobs for its ideological heroes. Definitely not fair of them.</p>
<p>J.</p>
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		<title>By: freD</title>
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		<dc:creator>freD</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 07:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>But isn’t Oliver being accurate regarding both Johnstons arrest and Limbaugh’s abuse?  

Obama has yet to be proven an illegal alien megalomaniac muslim socialist jew-hater. 

Seems when “lefties” or “liberals” get too &#039;out there&#039; or hypocritical nutty their audience disappears.  Where the hell’s Rosie O’Donnell, Ward Churchill or Cindy Sheehan these days?  OTOH, Limbaugh, Hannity, O’Reilly are all still doing quite well – as are all the comics and critics who make a good living off the formers continuous &#039;out there&#039; hypocritical nuttiness.  What’s up with that?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But isn’t Oliver being accurate regarding both Johnstons arrest and Limbaugh’s abuse?  </p>
<p>Obama has yet to be proven an illegal alien megalomaniac muslim socialist jew-hater. </p>
<p>Seems when “lefties” or “liberals” get too &#8216;out there&#8217; or hypocritical nutty their audience disappears.  Where the hell’s Rosie O’Donnell, Ward Churchill or Cindy Sheehan these days?  OTOH, Limbaugh, Hannity, O’Reilly are all still doing quite well – as are all the comics and critics who make a good living off the formers continuous &#8216;out there&#8217; hypocritical nuttiness.  What’s up with that?</p>
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		<title>By: Jay Tea</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jay Tea</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>freD, there&#039;s a difference between wanting the media labeled, and wanting them labeled by the government. I would prefer public pressure to hold them accountable, with no consequences beyond public backlash if they refuse. I don&#039;t want the government anywhere NEAR making those kinds of judgments and imposing any kinds of standards. That thought worries me no end. 

And you&#039;re right about there being a market for trash, freD. Witness Oliver&#039;s salivating glee over posting this initial story.

J.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>freD, there&#8217;s a difference between wanting the media labeled, and wanting them labeled by the government. I would prefer public pressure to hold them accountable, with no consequences beyond public backlash if they refuse. I don&#8217;t want the government anywhere NEAR making those kinds of judgments and imposing any kinds of standards. That thought worries me no end. </p>
<p>And you&#8217;re right about there being a market for trash, freD. Witness Oliver&#8217;s salivating glee over posting this initial story.</p>
<p>J.</p>
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		<title>By: daniel rotter</title>
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		<dc:creator>daniel rotter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You do realize, Jay, that the caller HIMSELF took Rush&#039;s &quot;phony soldiers&quot; comment as indicating those soldiers in Iraq who opposed the war (&quot;If you talk to real soldiers, they are proud to serve. They want to be over in Iraq.&quot;). Interestingly, also, Rush didn&#039;t say anything to the caller like &quot;Uh, sir, I think you misunderstood what I meant by the term &#039;&quot;phony soldiers&#039;&quot;. So even if he was INITIALLY only talking about the MacBeth&#039;s of America with the now-infamous two words, he sure didn&#039;t have a problem with the caller &quot;broadening&quot; what he meant to include anti-war-in-Iraq soldiers; otherwise, as I said, why didn&#039;t he chastise or correct the caller&#039;s interpretation of what he meant with those two words?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You do realize, Jay, that the caller HIMSELF took Rush&#8217;s &#8220;phony soldiers&#8221; comment as indicating those soldiers in Iraq who opposed the war (&#8221;If you talk to real soldiers, they are proud to serve. They want to be over in Iraq.&#8221;). Interestingly, also, Rush didn&#8217;t say anything to the caller like &#8220;Uh, sir, I think you misunderstood what I meant by the term &#8216;&#8221;phony soldiers&#8217;&#8221;. So even if he was INITIALLY only talking about the MacBeth&#8217;s of America with the now-infamous two words, he sure didn&#8217;t have a problem with the caller &#8220;broadening&#8221; what he meant to include anti-war-in-Iraq soldiers; otherwise, as I said, why didn&#8217;t he chastise or correct the caller&#8217;s interpretation of what he meant with those two words?</p>
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		<title>By: daniel rotter</title>
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		<dc:creator>daniel rotter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>AO, BOTH Laura Bush and Ted Kennedy should have done time.  Will you agree with me on that?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>AO, BOTH Laura Bush and Ted Kennedy should have done time.  Will you agree with me on that?</p>
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		<title>By: Quaker in a Basement</title>
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		<dc:creator>Quaker in a Basement</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;can we also discuss Barack Obama’s illegal alien aunt in Boston and his poverty-stricken half-brother in Africa?
&lt;/em&gt;

Haven&#039;t you already?

Of course you have. That&#039;s why your outrage over this stupid story rings hollw, Mr. Tea.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>can we also discuss Barack Obama’s illegal alien aunt in Boston and his poverty-stricken half-brother in Africa?<br />
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<p>Haven&#8217;t you already?</p>
<p>Of course you have. That&#8217;s why your outrage over this stupid story rings hollw, Mr. Tea.</p>
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		<title>By: freD</title>
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		<dc:creator>freD</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;freD, are you saying you’d TRUST the government to apply those labels and do your judging for you? Food and drugs, yeah — it’s impossible for the average person to verify those for themselves, but deciding what is fact and what is opinion? &lt;/i&gt;

No.  I trust government as much as I trust any power center – unchecked, trouble usually happens.  The Fairness Doctrine comment was pointed at you, as you seemed to want media to be labeled.   I say media bias is subject to the whims of the marketplace, but with a strong influence from corporate board members in power who will follow their own money, sometimes to the detriment of the common shareholder.  Any other conspiracy theory I&#039;ve heard (postmodernist influence, soft power...) doesn&#039;t make sense to me.
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&lt;i&gt;if Sarah Palin’s daughter’s fiance’s mother is prominent enough to merit discussion, can we also discuss Barack Obama’s illegal alien aunt in Boston and his poverty-stricken half-brother in Africa?
&lt;/i&gt;

It will inevitably happen.  In America if there’s a market for trash it will be sold.  Is Obama still an illegal alien megalomaniac muslim socialist jew-hater in the land of wingnuttia?  I haven’t checked lately.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>freD, are you saying you’d TRUST the government to apply those labels and do your judging for you? Food and drugs, yeah — it’s impossible for the average person to verify those for themselves, but deciding what is fact and what is opinion? </i></p>
<p>No.  I trust government as much as I trust any power center – unchecked, trouble usually happens.  The Fairness Doctrine comment was pointed at you, as you seemed to want media to be labeled.   I say media bias is subject to the whims of the marketplace, but with a strong influence from corporate board members in power who will follow their own money, sometimes to the detriment of the common shareholder.  Any other conspiracy theory I&#8217;ve heard (postmodernist influence, soft power&#8230;) doesn&#8217;t make sense to me.<br />
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br />
<i>if Sarah Palin’s daughter’s fiance’s mother is prominent enough to merit discussion, can we also discuss Barack Obama’s illegal alien aunt in Boston and his poverty-stricken half-brother in Africa?<br />
</i></p>
<p>It will inevitably happen.  In America if there’s a market for trash it will be sold.  Is Obama still an illegal alien megalomaniac muslim socialist jew-hater in the land of wingnuttia?  I haven’t checked lately.</p>
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		<title>By: Bruce Henry</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/12/26/wasillas-hillbilly-heroin/#comment-131061</link>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Henry</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What an excellent way to come back to &quot;the topic at hand.&quot;
You&#039;re too tired to even try to hide your dishonesty at this point. Go to bed, man.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What an excellent way to come back to &#8220;the topic at hand.&#8221;<br />
You&#8217;re too tired to even try to hide your dishonesty at this point. Go to bed, man.</p>
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		<title>By: Jay Tea</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/12/26/wasillas-hillbilly-heroin/#comment-131060</link>
		<dc:creator>Jay Tea</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>But back to the topic at hand... if Sarah Palin&#039;s daughter&#039;s fiance&#039;s mother is prominent enough to merit discussion, can we also discuss Barack Obama&#039;s illegal alien aunt in Boston and his poverty-stricken half-brother in Africa?

J.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But back to the topic at hand&#8230; if Sarah Palin&#8217;s daughter&#8217;s fiance&#8217;s mother is prominent enough to merit discussion, can we also discuss Barack Obama&#8217;s illegal alien aunt in Boston and his poverty-stricken half-brother in Africa?</p>
<p>J.</p>
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		<title>By: Quaker in a Basement</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/12/26/wasillas-hillbilly-heroin/#comment-131059</link>
		<dc:creator>Quaker in a Basement</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Of course, feel free to once again insist you were really talking about something else.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Of course, feel free to once again insist you were really talking about something else.</p>
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		<title>By: Quaker in a Basement</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/12/26/wasillas-hillbilly-heroin/#comment-131058</link>
		<dc:creator>Quaker in a Basement</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;A lesson that Mr. Obama could stand to remember as he constantly revises and reworks and rewrites the history of contacts between his camp and that of Mr. Blagojevich,&lt;/em&gt;

Rewriting? Revising?

Once again, Tea, you&#039;re MSU. The first and last account remain the same: no discussion between Mr. Obama and the Gov regarding his replacement, no deals offered or made by Mr. Obama&#039;s staff.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>A lesson that Mr. Obama could stand to remember as he constantly revises and reworks and rewrites the history of contacts between his camp and that of Mr. Blagojevich,</em></p>
<p>Rewriting? Revising?</p>
<p>Once again, Tea, you&#8217;re MSU. The first and last account remain the same: no discussion between Mr. Obama and the Gov regarding his replacement, no deals offered or made by Mr. Obama&#8217;s staff.</p>
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