Morning Must Reads: The Hot Hand

Sources tell Swampland KT put a lampshade over her head at the goodbye party.

Polls must be for the exclusive use of self-preservation (i.e., gaining/staying in office). When work is actually done, those who lost out continually re-package their bad ideas and say it works! (see Gingrich, Eye of Newt.)

Real reason Stupe-ak is quitting: He thought he had more power than he actually had. Or delivered.

What did I miss?

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Wasserman-Schultz – “There is no mandate for anyone to buy Health insurance”

Is she lying or clueless?

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Oil $100 Gas $4/gal by summer

Markets not impressed by Obama

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Congress silent as DOJ continues to ignore requests from Civil Rights Commission for info on New Black Panther case

Can anyone say coverup?

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AFL-CIO’s Trumka gives speech decrying hate speech and violence from the right.

Who says liberals don’t have a sense of humor or is that hypocrisy? Its usually the same with the left.

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Adminstration to issues rules forcing the hiring of union on federal contracts.

Deficit we don’t care about no stinkin deficit.

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FDA to require food label on front of food package

Whew! What a relief, Obama administration saves the public from the daunting task of turning the packages to see the back or side.

According to FOX News (!) the IRS is more popular the the Tea Partiers: (PDF) http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/040810_Obama_HC_2010_web.pdf
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…was it a toga party?

“Oil $100 Gas $4/gal by summer”
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A prediction, expectation, or something that’s happened dozens of times under the prior administration that you’re now implying could NEVER have happened in a McCain Administration?
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“Markets not impressed by Obama”
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Not since the Dow has gone up almost 3000 points since January ’09. Guess they’re a little tired of him now.
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Your pinspotter’s perpetual, Freep. Keep setting ‘em up so we can knock ‘em down!

Stevens announced his retirement. Will leave at the send of June or July.

…and say THEY WORK (subject/verb agreement stuff)

No sign of Belushi so prolly not.

…and the return of the Boys of Summer

Let’s be clear- So Fox News isn’t the lying piece of trash you and the entire squad of leftists here claim. Or you pick and choose views that you like and the supposed yearning for the truth is just another liberal punch line.

No Free (not sure how anybody is free when they are so imprisoned by hate and fear) they are still the anything, but fair and balanced entertainment outlet we think. This is just a case of even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Don’t tell me – the 3-point line’s a Communist plot ain’t it?

Hey Einstein:

It has been the Demos screaming fo rhow many years about drilling? 20 years ago claiming it would be 10 years before it have have any impact. Guess what/ We could have started drilling twice over.

The market, I was referring to was the oil and gasoline markets–try to follow the conservation. I don’t need to set them up you have a perpetual knee jerk reaction. You proved it by commenting without knowing what you were talking about. That must be the nuanced brilliance of the left I kept hearing about–usually from them.

As for McCain we will never know if it would have happened. We will know with Obama.

Generic Ballot Points Towards Possible 50+ Seat Loss for Democrats.
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Just more biased coverage by one of those Right Wing Tea Party Extremist. You can’t trust them to tell the truth about anything. They are all evil people who don’t care about anyone but themselves. They hate the poor.
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You can’t trust Right Wing Bigots like Nate Silver.
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Actually Nate Silver is a Progressive and even though he is Left leaning, he is considered one of the better Poll Analysis in the country.
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Someone recently posted that the Left is now mainstream.
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I don’t think so and neither does the American public.

Fear and hate? Comedy now. Listen to the rhetoric of any MSM, left politician, union member the Administration that is fear and hate. There is not a single policy where someone is not demonized. Anyone evil but them.

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“This is just a case of even a broken clock is right twice a day”

Well there is hope for you then isn’t there?

But you proved the point, you agree with the point so they are right. Thanks for playing along. Liberal deep think at its best.

Now we are going back into fake outrage season.

You really are uninformed, aren’t you? 80% of all domestic oil and gas leases are going unused by oil companies. It’s cheaper to import it than explore for it. Bush I signed the executive order banning off shore drilling not the Democrats.

“Let’s be clear- So Fox News isn’t the lying piece of trash you and the entire squad of leftists here claim. Or you pick and choose views that you like and the supposed yearning for the truth is just another liberal punch line.”
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Now, THAT’S irony!
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Hey Freepy, do you believe that FOX is an unbiased arbiter of the truth? Or are they a news outlet with a conservative viewpoint?
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I’m actually okay with the latter. I like hearing opposing points a view, though I do insist on a minimal degree of intellectual honesty.
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Can you say the same? Or are all liberals wrong, all the time, because FOX told ya so?

Yup-I look forward to all the Constitutional experts that will weigh in.

“Einsteins” like me are not smart enough to interpret what you mean (i.e., oil or Dow Jones) with very little info to go on.
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I bring up a fact and you shout me down and question my intelligence when it’s not to your liking. Again, you imply that $100/gal oil/$4 gas would never happen if we’d have voted McCain in. Since Bush apparently let it happen at an unprecedented rate, why do you think it’s BO’s fault if it happens again? Only you can provide that answer.
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Who’s the knee-jerk here? OK, leave out the “knee-.”

And, for the sake clarity, that’s Bush 43.

Bush and Rumsfeld knew that hundreds of innocent people were held at Guantanamo:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7092435.ece

Who could have predicted that giving the King executive branch unlimited power to imprison people without trial or judicial review might lead to abuses of power?

@ Free: Most folks agree that $100/barrel oil and $3/gal gas will likely happen…but $4/gal may not happen. Is your hatred for our current prez forcing you to get ahead of yourself?

WDIM?
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Prez weighs in on Confederate lunacy.

Doesn’t Oil normally rise when the economy is good and fall when the economy is doing poorly? After all, oil is a commodity used both in the production of many goods (including plastics) and in, well, nearly every form of transportation and so long as supply isn’t significantly dropping, theoretically a higher oil price indicates demand is higher suggesting higher usage suggesting higher production and more traveling by consumers. Theoretically

When the organization releases a poll that says that a group the organization is biased in favor of and continuously shows it’s biased in favor of is less popular than a group the organization tries to parade around as a spawn of Satan, then it is, at the very least, funny. The more biased the organization is, the funnier it is. When the organization is as biased as Fox, we all roll around laughing our asses off.

I have found that the fox news website can be very reliable. It’s the news tv network with its infotainment that breaks bad.
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Also freeinpa:
have you read your posts… ever? It contains some of the most hateful and fearful speech in the Swamp… Maybe second only to ricardo4max.

“…a plethora of red meat”?

Might have been red once. Now it’s just rancid.

Where to begin with you:
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“Wasserman-Schultz – “There is no mandate for anyone to buy Health insurance”"
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With no link that appears to be a stand alone statement.
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True.
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Businesses and self employed individuals are given a choice of paying more taxes or getting an amount estimated to be larger than the cost of insurance back if they can prove that they insured their employees.
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Lying and clueless are your specialties.
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“Oil $100 Gas $4/gal by summer

Markets not impressed by Obama”
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Markets do not get impressed. They are inanimate abstract concept. If prices go up it is due to an increase in world demand and/or a decrease in world supply.
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Obama could not directly cause this. Additional fuel efficiency and/or alternative sources of energy would mean that we would not care anywhere near as much about it.
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Obama has more work to do and things to get around obstinate Republicans so this won’t hurt too badly.
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“AFL-CIO’s Trumka gives speech decrying hate speech and violence from the right.”
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When did union members fly airplanes into buildings on suicide missions, bomb the Olympics, kill hundreds in Oklahoma City or start anything like fundamentalist militias waiting for Armageddon?
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“Adminstration to issues rules forcing the hiring of union on federal contracts.”
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This is to make sure that new spending goes into the hands of households who will use it to support families far better than welfare and will promptly spend it to create additional jobs using the Keynesian money multiplier to take additional people off unemployment and in less need of government assistance in addition to increasing future tax revenues above and beyond that of non-union jobs.
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“FDA to require food label on front of food package”
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Did you notice how over the past fifteen years people are fatter than ever?
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Do you remember when you were a kid and Santa was a huge fat guy and these days you can’t tell the difference between the one playing Santa and the shoppers is because of his red and white clothes?
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BTW: restaurants, also, will have to put up calorie counts nationwide, as they already do in NYC.You can eat the wrong foods if you want or feel compelled to, but, you’ll know.
(Free market concept: perfect information. It is a capitalist concept, not socialist.)

LOL!
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3X, stop drinking the Kool Aid.
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If the unfounded fear the right put into people does not dissipate, then losses for Democrats will be seven in the Senate and about nineteen in the house.
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Many polls predict Republican losses.
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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/generic_congressional_vote-901.html
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It seems 3X that much of what you find UnAmerican is the most American thing: the will of the governed.

patrickturd

With no link that appears to be a stand alone statement.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2489706/posts

Link with video so you won’t need somebody to read it to you
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“Markets do not get impressed. They are inanimate abstract concept. If prices go up it is due to an increase in world demand and/or a decrease in world supply.”

So all the wealth that was lost was not real? It was an inamimate concept? What a relief and all those people thought they lost trillions.

The markets voted that no increase in supply is coming from the Obama drilling policy—prices rising.
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“This is to make sure that new spending goes into the hands of households who will use it to support families”

So if you are a non-union worker you don’t support a family. IS that what you really want to say?

And of course its because liberals and unions know best how to spend EVERYBODY ELSE’S MONEY.
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“When did union members fly airplanes into buildings on suicide missions, bomb the Olympics, kill hundreds in Oklahoma City or start anything like fundamentalist militias waiting for Armageddon?”

Brilliant statement and absolutely nothing to do with what I said.

Racism and Hate:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWnxlFbYjVY

Here the video. Union thugs beating a black conservative

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“Did you notice how over the past fifteen years people are fatter than ever?”

Any how long have food packages had labeling? And what has been the impact? If people are too lazy or stupid (or could care less) to turn the box over do you really think they will read/understand by moving it to the front?
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“Free market concept:”

Forcing companies, restaurants to label anything is not a free market concept. What’s the next free market concept changing fat people more for health insurance, take away their children, tax certain food at higher rates?

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Where do you get this crap!

WDIM? Republicans double-down on pro-nuke rhetoric, disavow Reagan’s legacy.

megtron

So you think Fox has 2 staffs one to report the news and the website that posts it and they provide different views?

That’s has more spin than a summer cyclone

As far as my speech, I treat the folks here with the same respect as they show me. Have you read any posts by say 53? All love and kisses right. But you manage to focus how you read here just as you probably do with outside sources, if it agrees with you its great, if not its trash. As far as the hate, you make excuses for it.

“”Einsteins” like me are not smart enough to interpret what you mean”

SO you always respond without understanding what someone is saying? Here is a clue —don’t respond!

“Hey Freepy, do you believe that FOX is an unbiased arbiter of the truth? Or are they a news outlet with a conservative viewpoint?”

I fully admit that Fox has oipinion people with conservative viewpoints and the news folks report in MOST instances both sides.

Now will you admit that the MSM in TV, Cable, newspaper and magazine post liberal viewpoints in their output?

“It’s cheaper to import it than explore for it.”

Now the question to ask is why is it cheaper?

So the left does believe in prayer in schools!

http://wcbstv.com/local/governor.christie.union.2.1621917.html

Momentomori,
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It’s interesting when you look at the actual numbers in the survey.
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Do you Approve or Disapprove of the Tea Party Movement?
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……………………Approve…..Disapprove…..Don’t Know
Independents…….35%………….35%…………..30%
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Republicans………62%…………15%…………..23%
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Democrats………..15%…………51%…………..34%
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Some other items in the survey are also interesting.
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Do you approve of the job Barack Obama is doing as President?
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…………………….Approve…….Disapprove……..Don’t Know
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…………………………42%…………48%………………9%
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On the Economy…..42%…………53%………………5%
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On Job Creation…….40%…………54%……………..6%
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On Health Care……..40%…………53%……………..7%
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On Federal Deficit….31%…………62%……………..7%
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1) At your link “Technically, she’s correct. You don’t have to carry health insurance.”
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Your employer has to pay the higher tax if they do not provided it for you.
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2)”"Markets do not get impressed. They are inanimate abstract concept. If prices go up it is due to an increase in world demand and/or a decrease in world supply.”

So all the wealth that was lost was not real? It was an inamimate concept? What a relief and all those people thought they lost trillions.

The markets voted that no increase in supply is coming from the Obama drilling policy—prices rising.”
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“in·an·i·mate
1. Not having the qualities associated with active, living organisms. See Synonyms at dead.
2. Not animated or energetic; dull.
3. Grammar Belonging to the class of nouns that stand for nonliving things”
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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/inanimate
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Markets are not people walking around and, having lunch, going home to their wife and kids.
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It is not even an object. It is abstract.
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” ab·stract
1. Considered apart from concrete existence: an abstract concept.
2. Not applied or practical; theoretical. See Synonyms at theoretical.
3. Difficult to understand; abstruse: abstract philosophical problems.
4. Thought of or stated without reference to a specific instance: abstract words like truth and justice.
5. Impersonal, as in attitude or views.
6. Having an intellectual and affective artistic content that depends solely on intrinsic form rather than on narrative content or pictorial representation”
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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/abstract
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Oil prices are not a function of Obama, the presidency or elections.
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It is a function of supply and demand.
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India and China are increasing consumption. That was not caused by Obama, Bush or the United States.
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The remaining oil in the world is decreasing. That, also, was not not caused by Obama, elections and so on.
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There is no term for a market getting “impressed”.
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Only human beings are impressed and with you reeper, I am not impressed.
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I’ll get some more in a moment.

I think my favorite bit today was from Liz Cheney

“Until this week, any enemy of our country that might be contemplating a chemical, biological or large-scale conventional attack knew they might face the worst in return: a nuclear response. We have now surrendered that powerful deterrent. The new strategy also prevents America from building any new nuclear weapons or using nuclear deterrence to defend our allies from massive conventional attack.”

Apparently the 1,550 nukes we will have left will not be quite enough to cover the entire globe. Un-targeted and dangerous terrorist countries like New Zealand are probably preparing their mustard gas as we speak.

The Weathermen and the SLA are long gone. Is there a new left wing militia movement I’m unfamiliar with? (Seriously. Please let me know. I might join up.)

Freeinpa: “‘It’s cheaper to import it than explore for it.’” Now the question to ask is why is it cheaper?

It’s cheaper to import because the cost of extracting oil oversea plus the cost of transporting it to the US and delivering it to the refinery is less than we expect the cost of going through the same practice with offshore Atlantic oil to be. It’s the market. (Remember the market?) Time was you could trip over a rock in Saudi Arabia and uncover a gusher. Finding oil hundreds of feet underwater is a lot harder, and a lot more expensive.
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Buy you know that, Freep, right? (Or at least I’m willing to concede that much to you.) So what’s the beef?

But the “prayer” seems not to have been delivered in a school.
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I agree that it’s disgraceful, Freep, which I take to be your point. (It’s also ancient. I can remember hearing it in college, back in the era of white bucks and parietal rules.)
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Did spob delegate the “So’s yer old man” franchise to you in his absence?

Hay FOX Haters.
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I have noticed there are a few things you all seem to have in common.
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1. You are all to the Left in your political views.
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2. You do not directly watch FOX News on a regular basis and therefore have little first hand knowledge of FOX.
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3. Almost all your knowledge about FOX is based on what you have seen or read on Left Wing blogs, TV shows or the MSM who are getting their clocks cleaned by FOX on a daily basis.
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4. The second and third hand reports on FOX, on which your knowledge is based, take comments and video clips out of context and purposely give a false picture of FOX News and it’s Reporters and Opinion Host.
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I personally watch FOX News on a regular basis. I also watch CNN and Network News.
Politics and World Affairs are hobbies of mine and have been for approx 50 years. I read a ton of information about them on a regular basis.
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Why I like FOX News.
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1. Generally speaking FOX presents a balanced view of the news. Their News Reporters tend to present a non-patrician view of the news.
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2. There Opinion Hosts tend to almost always have expert guests from both sides of the issues being discussed. I almost never really see this credibly on the other news shows.
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3. FOX Opinion Host tend to be Conservative leaning, but they are no more so then the vast majority on MSM and other Cable News shows which uniformly lean Left.
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I like to form my own opinions. By directly watching both Conservative leaning and Left leaning news programs I am better able to make decisions based on full knowledge. That’s important to me.

3) “And of course its because liberals and unions know best how to spend EVERYBODY ELSE’S MONEY.”
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No sir.
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Unions do not tell their members what do with their own money.
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Unions are democratic organizations. The members tell the union what they want and need. The union gets what the people want if they can do so, but, usually get only part of what the people want.
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From there, the money is going to the hands of individuals. These individuals spend as they see fit just as you as an individual decide to spend your entire day being a nuisance to others online.
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“Brilliant statement and absolutely nothing to do with what I said.

4) Racism and Hate?
Recorded after a minor scuffle, two black men both say that the other started the fight.
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A black union member having a tussle with a black conservative is not racism.
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It is unclear if it was conservative or union violence.
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If you are white and you try to attack me, is that racism since I am, also white?
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No.
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5) “Free market concept:”
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Perfect competition:
.”* Perfect Information – Prices and quality of products are assumed to be known to all consumers and producers.”
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_competition
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Markets function best when there is more information.
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There are, also, market failures.
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Where did I get this?
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Economics. Along with International Relations it was my double major.
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It is obvious that your facts come from inside of your colon and from Fox News (sorry to insult your bowls, but the two look very similar on paper).

“1. Generally speaking FOX presents a balanced view of the news. Their News Reporters tend to present a non-patrician view of the news.”
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Just on the Swamp I saw a Glen Beck interview with one of the only Massachusetts opponent of the health care reform who is, also, running for governor and has a scandal he is dealing with. There were none supporting HCR despite a majority Massachusetts support for that program and nobody from Hawaii where they have had Health care since 1972.
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Ron Paul was on with nobody questioning he assertion that there will be 16,500 armed IRS agents hired and that they will be there to make sure we all like HCR.
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In reality, the federal government is giving all employers a choice:
1) pay an additional tax.
2) mail in a form showing that you have provided health insurance to your employees.
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No mandate for individuals to buy any health insurance for themselves unless they are self employed in which case they may, with reprimand or punishment, pay a higher tax.
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Fox is 100% partisan.
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Outside of weather reports, I do not trust anything Fox says because it only shows one side.

3X,
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This is my local Fox Affiliate in the largest TV market in the US.
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I can’t find it, but, Fox 5 used advertise by telling us all to “Do the Good Day” dance.
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Something tells me that Edward R Murrow wouldn’t have lead his profession broadcasts that way.
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Knowing what I know, why would I ever trust Fox, 3X?
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It is infotainment, not news.