It's Your Call, May 12, 2008
Monday, May 12, 2008
Monday, May 12, 2008
Josephine opinion
While I appreciate the efforts to be trendy, I wish the Josephine magazine would have more to offer women with more traditional values and tastes. I find all these modern ideas very boring, and sometimes I feel that there’s a subtle put-down of women who prefer more conservative ideals. Please give this some consideration.
Lies become truth
We have a real problem in this country called propaganda. As a child in school in the 1960s, we were taught it was evil and something the poor Russians had to put up with, but we here in the land of the free had a free and open media. Unfortunately, free and open are relative terms, just like fair and balanced. There are hardcore right-wing Christian radio stations in this country that, to the surprise of most people, originated in the 1960s and are financed by powerful hard-right Republicans who spew lies 24 hours a day, seven days a week. John Steinbeck describes his protagonist in “East of Eden” as such a talented deceiver that she can make a lie sound like the truth and make the truth sound like a lie. If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.
That’s ridiculous
I wish somebody in this town or this state could tell me why when you go to the state license bureau there are 75 people waiting in the middle of the morning at 10. You go home and come back at 2 in the afternoon, and there are about 50 people waiting in line. The state did away with the license bureau being run by the state. And then we thought it was bad because you had to wait downtown. This is absolutely ridiculous. I don’t know who is in charge of it, but I am getting ahold of my state representative to get this changed. These people don’t have a clue what’s going on.
Time to wise up
Regarding “Hard to see through,” where the caller is convinced Obama has a hidden agenda and a dark, sinister side, and claims young people are naive when they vote for Obama. How arrogant to make such an all-knowing, broad statement. You are naive if you think that will work in this election. I’m not young, and we have all had enough of these insinuations like what happened in the last election. We had a war hero, John Kerry, who tried to tell us of the failures in Iraq, and no one would listen to him and he was swiftboated with no facts. People thought he was an elitist and it would be better to vote for a good old boy Bush, whom they could have a beer with instead of someone with intelligence. People let conservatives use fear and convince them they’ll make the government smaller. But since Reagan, they have set the average worker closer and closer to poverty and made corporations and the few elite richer than their wildest dream.
Changing sides
Barack Obama was saying he had the campaign sewed up, but I don’t think so. I was a Democrat for 30 years, but last night I drove up to the Republican headquarters to get a McCain bumper sticker. They were closed, but someday they’ll be open and I’ll have my sticker.
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Lies become truth: Welcome to the world of the conservative! This same unfair, biased reporting has been going on for years through the liberal media. If you don't like the ""so-called" lies and untruths told about the perfect Democratic candidates, change stations. That's why I watch FOX news, as they tend not to follow the norm of conservative bashing. I would love to know what closet you have been living in that you see the bias coming only one way. Enjoy some of your own liberal medicine that the conservative has had fed to him for years!
Posted by gingersnapp on May 12, 2008 at 9:42 a.m. (Suggest removal)To Lies become Truth:
You are so right on. Thank goodness most people are seeing through all of that now. I will admit I was scared for awhile that these people were going to take over my life. But with the return of the Democratic Congress in 2006 people had began to wake up from their hypnotic states and see the light again.
Propagandist Fox News is losing viewership daily as MSNBC gains. When Obama becomes President we will again be free.
Yes We Can.
Posted by rush620 on May 12, 2008 at 9:48 a.m. (Suggest removal)That's ridiculous - I agree the long lines at the license bureau are ridiculous, however, I do have to disagree that those people don't have a clue. I have been standing in line and see people show up without ins. cards, property tax reciepts, titles unsigned ect. I don't think it's the ladies of the license bureau that don't have a clue. Also, after standing in line for 2 hours and 15 minutes, I was told that I could have gone to Savannah and been done in 15 minutes. That will definately be worth a try next time.
Posted by 4wildones on May 12, 2008 at 11:59 a.m. (Suggest removal)Yes, it is much faster to go to Savannah. I do it all the time to avoid the lines at our local office. I've had to wait about 35 minutes one time in all the years I've been going. They have always been very friendly and efficient. I am very appreciative of the privelage of being able to go to Savannah for vehicle licensing.
Posted by BHSGRAD on May 12, 2008 at 12:07 p.m. (Suggest removal)"When Obama becomes President we will again be free."
If you consider the governamnet taking more of your hard earned money in taxes freedom then Barry Obama is your guy.
Posted by gr8fan on May 12, 2008 at 1:30 p.m. (Suggest removal)Gingersnapp,
Posted by familyguy on May 12, 2008 at 3:44 p.m. (Suggest removal)Why are you constantly complaining about government? Your guys are in control of Congress. All is well! And you might want to check your ratings again. CNBC and MSNBC are getting smoked by FOX in viewership growth. BHSGRAD is right on the mark. Get ready to load up on taxes if the almighty Obama gets in.
Ginger, MSNBC has had some slight gains in viwership in 2007 and 2008, but Fox and CNN are still beating them handily in viewers:
http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.com/2008/narrative_cabletv_intro.php?media=7
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/ratings/default.asp
With the Democratically-controlled Congressional Job approval hovering at 20% I wouldn't be too excited about the thought of 4 more years of Democrats in power.
The nice thing about our country is if the country elects someone you don't like, you can try really hard to vote them out at the next election. The end of the world is not nigh if my candidate does not win. It just puts the pressure on the candidate that does win to do what he or she says they would. Senator Barack is a great speaker and an intelligent man, but he seems to be more style than substance, more words than action. He has little to no voting record to go by and he's running a campaign based more on emotion than logic and reason. The man downright scares me when he stands at the podium with his eyes closed, head cocked listening to the voices of his followers around him deliriously chanting, "Yes We Can!" "YES WE CAN!!" I just want to know where he is going to get the money to pay for all of the things his followers THINKS he can do?
Posted by gingersnapp on May 12, 2008 at 4:35 p.m. (Suggest removal)Now if someone can find anywhere where I said MSNBC was beating Fox please let me know. I said Fox has been losing while MSNBC gains. I have been tracking this trend for the last year and a half through TVNEWSER. Keith Olbermann has been getting close to Bill O'Reilly in th 25-54 demographic throughout this time and usually beats all other evening shows on Fox.
Posted by gr8fan on May 12, 2008 at 7:02 p.m. (Suggest removal)You have other choices if your candidate loses in November. Maybe we could just leave the country like the great liberals Adam Baldwin and Susan Surandon did when Bush won. Oh, they didn't leave? I guess it's not just the candidates that make promises they don't keep in the Democratic Party, huh?
Posted by familyguy on May 13, 2008 at 10:45 a.m. (Suggest removal)ginger, my link to stateofthenewsmedia.com shows that FNC has not lost viewership, they have shown smaller than normal growth. MSNBC has grown somewhat for the last year or so, but still trails almost all other shows on the news networks. If you look at tvnewser, you can see that Olberman's number drop dramatically after his 8 p.m. show whereas O'Reilly's numbers are high for 8 and 11 p.m. Olberman is losing consistently to Greta and Cooper on his rerun.
I'm not trying to be jerkie about this, I just wanted to be clear about what the numbers are stating. I'm glad the leftie liberals have a voice in Olberman and MSNBC. I believe MSNBC deciding to become more liberal in their viewpoints is a good opposition to Fox being more conservative in theirs. It's a free market and I can choose to watch what I want. It just so happens that the numbers show that a larger majority of people in this nation consistently choose FNC and CNN over MSNBC to get their news.
Please tell me how Obama becoming president is going to "free" those of us "hypnotized" by the "propaganda" of FNC and CNN? I feel like I need to prepare for battle or something.
Posted by gladimgone on May 13, 2008 at 3:36 p.m. (Suggest removal)The only thing Obama or Shrillary will free people of is their hard-earned dollars to redistribute them to those who believe government is a giant teat to suck off of.
Posted by dondill on May 14, 2008 at 4:57 a.m. (Suggest removal)The biggest teat suckers ever are of the Republican corporate welfare types. The industrial military complex also sucks teat. The teat offered to the ordinary people is minuscule compared to what is sucked dry by the big-wigs.
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