Comments on: Truth Gone Missing – Part Deux http://rightvoices.com/2004/10/28/truth-gone-missing-part-deux/ in all matter of opinion, our adversaries are insane. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:05:09 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: shiloh http://rightvoices.com/2004/10/28/truth-gone-missing-part-deux/comment-page-5/#comment-24651 shiloh Sun, 31 Oct 2004 20:18:26 +0000 http://rightvoices.com/archives/2004/10/28/truth-gone-missing-part-deux/#comment-24651 Bad reporters find experts by calling up university press relations officials or brokerage research departments and saying, in effect, "Gimme an expert"; some academic publicity machines send out rosters, complete with phone numbers, e-mail addresses and areas of expertise, so that the lazy journalist doesn't even have to make that first call. Really bad reporters, paradoxically, work a little harder: knowing the conclusions they want to arrive at, they seek out experts who just happen to agree with them. Give me a position, and I'll find you an expert to support it - and not just an expert but one with an institutional affiliation sounding so dignified it could make a nobleman genuflect. Give me a Center for the Study of ..., an Institute for the Advancement of ..., or an American Council on ..., and often as not I'll give you an organization whose special interests are as sharply defined as its name is not. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/31/weekinreview/31bott.html">question everything</a> Bad reporters find experts by calling up university press relations officials or brokerage research departments and saying, in effect, “Gimme an expert”; some academic publicity machines send out rosters, complete with phone numbers, e-mail addresses and areas of expertise, so that the lazy journalist doesn’t even have to make that first call. Really bad reporters, paradoxically, work a little harder: knowing the conclusions they want to arrive at, they seek out experts who just happen to agree with them. Give me a position, and I’ll find you an expert to support it – and not just an expert but one with an institutional affiliation sounding so dignified it could make a nobleman genuflect. Give me a Center for the Study of …, an Institute for the Advancement of …, or an American Council on …, and often as not I’ll give you an organization whose special interests are as sharply defined as its name is not.

question everything

]]> By: shiloh http://rightvoices.com/2004/10/28/truth-gone-missing-part-deux/comment-page-5/#comment-24648 shiloh Sun, 31 Oct 2004 18:38:48 +0000 http://rightvoices.com/archives/2004/10/28/truth-gone-missing-part-deux/#comment-24648 More than 80 percent of the population of Detroit is black. This is very well understood by John Pappageorge, who is white and a Republican state legislator in Michigan. "If we do not suppress the Detroit vote," said Mr. Pappageorge, "we're going to have a tough time in this election." <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/13/opinion/13herbert.html">baloney</a> More than 80 percent of the population of Detroit is black. This is very well understood by John Pappageorge, who is white and a Republican state legislator in Michigan. “If we do not suppress the Detroit vote,” said Mr. Pappageorge, “we’re going to have a tough time in this election.”

baloney

]]> By: shiloh http://rightvoices.com/2004/10/28/truth-gone-missing-part-deux/comment-page-5/#comment-24647 shiloh Sun, 31 Oct 2004 18:34:50 +0000 http://rightvoices.com/archives/2004/10/28/truth-gone-missing-part-deux/#comment-24647 First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me. - by Rev. Martin Niemöller, 1945 Columnist Bob Herbert has a rather eye-popping piece about Republicans in Detroit wanting to surpress certain sectors of the electorate: <a href="http://preemptivekarma.com/2004/09/first-they-came-for.html">link</a> First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.
- by Rev. Martin Niemöller, 1945

Columnist Bob Herbert has a rather eye-popping piece about Republicans in Detroit wanting to surpress certain sectors of the electorate:

link

]]> By: shiloh http://rightvoices.com/2004/10/28/truth-gone-missing-part-deux/comment-page-5/#comment-24646 shiloh Sun, 31 Oct 2004 18:28:21 +0000 http://rightvoices.com/archives/2004/10/28/truth-gone-missing-part-deux/#comment-24646 ELECTION BOARD THROWS OUT 976 CHALLENGES BY REPUBLICAN PARTY GOP Challenger Barbara Miller Could be Indicted on Felony Charges <a href="http://www.drudge.com/weblog/4782/voter_supression_effort_backfires_on_ohio_gop.html">AKRON, Ohio -</a> Republicans have long tried to suppress minority turnout for precisely because of their presumed allegiance to Democrats; indeed, Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist (news - web sites), who was nominated to the Court by Richard Nixon in 1971, participated in challenges of minority voters 40 years ago when he was a Republican activist in Arizona. But the party is believed to have mobilized tens of thousands of attorneys and poll-watchers for that purpose this year, particularly in so-called battleground states, such as Florida, Wisconsin, and Ohio. <a href="http://http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=655&e=9&u=/oneworld/4536969831099053816">okeydokey</a> ELECTION BOARD THROWS OUT 976 CHALLENGES BY REPUBLICAN PARTY

GOP Challenger Barbara Miller Could be Indicted on Felony Charges

AKRON, Ohio -

Republicans have long tried to suppress minority turnout for precisely because of their presumed allegiance to Democrats; indeed, Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist (news – web sites), who was nominated to the Court by Richard Nixon in 1971, participated in challenges of minority voters 40 years ago when he was a Republican activist in Arizona. But the party is believed to have mobilized tens of thousands of attorneys and poll-watchers for that purpose this year, particularly in so-called battleground states, such as Florida, Wisconsin, and Ohio.

okeydokey

]]> By: shiloh http://rightvoices.com/2004/10/28/truth-gone-missing-part-deux/comment-page-5/#comment-24265 shiloh Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:39:40 +0000 http://rightvoices.com/archives/2004/10/28/truth-gone-missing-part-deux/#comment-24265 but that's the excuse both Bush & Cheney repeated as nasuem, and incorrectly, as one of the reasons for war. but that’s the excuse both Bush & Cheney repeated as nasuem, and incorrectly, as one of the reasons for war.

]]> By: K http://rightvoices.com/2004/10/28/truth-gone-missing-part-deux/comment-page-5/#comment-24262 K Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:37:52 +0000 http://rightvoices.com/archives/2004/10/28/truth-gone-missing-part-deux/#comment-24262 well then, good shiloh, now you see that we don't think iraq and 9/11 were directly connected. thanks. well then, good shiloh, now you see that we don’t think iraq and 9/11 were directly connected. thanks.

]]> By: shiloh http://rightvoices.com/2004/10/28/truth-gone-missing-part-deux/comment-page-5/#comment-24259 shiloh Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:34:58 +0000 http://rightvoices.com/archives/2004/10/28/truth-gone-missing-part-deux/#comment-24259 Two years before 9/11, candidate Bush was already talking privately about attacking Iraq, according to his former ghost writer. <a href="http://russbaker.com/Guerrilla%20News%20Network%20-%20Bush.htm">link</a> Two years before 9/11, candidate Bush was already talking privately about attacking Iraq, according to his former ghost writer.

link

]]> By: shiloh http://rightvoices.com/2004/10/28/truth-gone-missing-part-deux/comment-page-5/#comment-24151 shiloh Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:52:46 +0000 http://rightvoices.com/archives/2004/10/28/truth-gone-missing-part-deux/#comment-24151 delete 203 if there's a choice delete 203 if there’s a choice

]]> By: shiloh http://rightvoices.com/2004/10/28/truth-gone-missing-part-deux/comment-page-5/#comment-24150 shiloh Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:52:02 +0000 http://rightvoices.com/archives/2004/10/28/truth-gone-missing-part-deux/#comment-24150 right off the bat - this is a non-partisan group. bankers etc. <strong>Share Of Economy Going To Wages And Salaries Drops For Unprecedented 14th Straight Quarter; Meanwhile, Corporate Profit Share Has Risen </strong>Significantly - 10/29/04 The Commerce Department's new GDP data indicate a continuation of a 14 quarter trend: changes in wage and salary income have lagged behind changes in the overall economy. At the same time, corporate profits have experienced exceptionally robust growth. <a href="http://www.cbpp.org/"> here</a> this means that Bush has done a good job in accomplishing what he and his owners set out to do 4 years ago. congragulations. right off the bat – this is a non-partisan group. bankers etc.

Share Of Economy Going To Wages And Salaries Drops For Unprecedented 14th Straight Quarter; Meanwhile, Corporate Profit Share Has Risen Significantly – 10/29/04
The Commerce Department’s new GDP data indicate a continuation of a 14 quarter trend: changes in wage and salary income have lagged behind changes in the overall economy. At the same time, corporate profits have experienced exceptionally robust growth.

here

this means that Bush has done a good job in accomplishing what he and his owners set out to do 4 years ago. congragulations.

]]> By: peejz http://rightvoices.com/2004/10/28/truth-gone-missing-part-deux/comment-page-5/#comment-24120 peejz Fri, 29 Oct 2004 19:41:27 +0000 http://rightvoices.com/archives/2004/10/28/truth-gone-missing-part-deux/#comment-24120 Pull up the memo to back the statement that Clinton warned Bush of that, or better yet, refer to the Final Clinton Papers in the Archives. They are dated 4/6/04 on this site. Pull up the memo to back the statement that Clinton warned Bush of that, or better yet, refer to the Final Clinton Papers in the Archives. They are dated 4/6/04 on this site.

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