George W. Bush is a historic embarrassment that will forever stain the legacy of American democracy. Listen to short clips from his press conference yesterday and see if you can make it through a couple of minutes without averting your eyes:
I always come back to the same point because it is the one that makes the biggest difference. The press failed us. This man was always stupid -- and glaringly so. The press needed to tell the American people that the emperor had no clothes on. Instead they spent so many years covering his ass. That's how this imbecile was elected a second time. It was great failing of the press, while they thought they were being "neutral." Your job isn't to be neutral, it's to be objective.
A neutral sports reporter would be laughed out of the press box. The Cowboys beat the Giants 42-10. The neutral reporter says they both played fine. The objective reporter says the Cowboys kicked ass and the Giants sucked. Report the score!
A neutral reporter says John McCain and Barack Obama are both fine candidates who represent a change from George W. Bush. An objective reporters says that John McCain's policy proposals are nearly identical to George W. Bush's. They agree on at least 95% of the issues.
You don't have to say John McCain sucks, that's an opinion. But you do have to say that he is nearly a carbon copy of Bush. That's a fact. If you don't report that, then you are not doing your job of informing the American people. That's how we get incompetent presidents like George W. Bush -- because the press was too scared to report the obvious truth.
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Posted Jul 16th 2008 2:06PM by Cenk Uygur
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16. Since it's your obsession to brand McCain repeatedly as McSame, McBush, a clone or carbon copy the burden of proof is on your side of the court. Please dig your readers up 17 other issues of which they only disagree on one.
An objective reporter could do so....
Bobby at 5:32PM on Jul 16th 2008
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Actually the burden of proof is already made to exhaustion. It's prima facie and available from the sources themselves. It's your duty to get up to speed with it.
Ed Schultz' website will have 27 major similarities to the mcsame/bush incorporation, but I know a lot without going there, and they are the most important issues to a lot of us.
First, he has voted 100% in line with Bush this year, but he has been absent a lot lately.
Last year it was 95%.
Some that you may already know about are continuing the tax breaks for the wealthiest, no change in free trade, occupation of iraq, doing what bush did to iraq to iran, he's worse than bush on health care since his plan will probably destroy group rates given he'll remover employers' tax breaks for offering insurance, ability of corporations to move headquarters to offshore post office drops to stop paying american taxes, lowering of corporate taxes, against closing the enron loophole, against the gi bill, was against minimum wage, against legal abortion, against troop funding for better armor, he's an admitted supply side economist, meaning he's ok with non enforcement of anti monopoly laws, against schip, for bailout of bear stearns, I'm going to stop now.
This is prima facie stuff. It's in front of you on the major news networks day in and day out. You have no right to demand proof of prima facie material except of yourself, and it is a duty, not a right.
OK, now how do you think bush and mccain are different? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
Clif Kuplen at 6:04PM on Jul 16th 2008
17. I should have remembered this - he called the SC's restoration of the right of habeas corpus to US citizens the 'worst piece of legislation in American Hisotry'. I do NOT want that man's finger anywhere near a trigger!
Clif Kuplen at 6:08PM on Jul 16th 2008
18. "15. Just returned home from Iraq thanks for the warm welcome.
Gary at 5:25PM on Jul 16th 2008
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Cenk just got back from vacation, and I'm sure
he appeciates the warm welcome as well."
So Gary, how do you like having your service in Iraq equated with Cenk's vacation?
bob at 6:10PM on Jul 16th 2008
19. Toodles.
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hey, toodles, wasn't your task to refute what I said, viz. to debunk the idea that the mcbush is following Obama's lead in military strategy? Y
ou got sidetracked again. Everything I told you was factual and you whiffed it. The mcbush was against everything Obama said the instant he saidc it, but now they're doing it! If being against was also a flipflop, that just cements the mcbush even more firmly. Flipped if you do, flopped if you don't...
Your other task was to separate the mcbush, was it not?
and instead you justified the mcbush positions and called me a big poopyhead for not liking it.
Results?
McCain=Bush
Obama's military strategy + about 30 days = McBush's military strategy.
They are already talking about adopting the Obama position on withdrawal, too, aren't they? Al Maliki approves, too. Flop your way outta that.
Clif Kuplen at 6:21PM on Jul 16th 2008
20.
So Gary, how do you like having your service in Iraq equated with Cenk's vacation?
bob at 6:10PM on Jul 16th 2008
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Spin it as you will,but I'm betting Gary understood
my point.
Bob Johnson at 6:30PM on Jul 16th 2008
21. "Spin it as you will,but I'm betting Gary understood
my point"
Nothing to spin there, Bob.
They're your words copied just as you posted them.
There's only one thing missing.
An apology to Gary for your crass comparison.
bob at 6:40PM on Jul 16th 2008
22. If only magic were real. WE COULD WISH YOU AWAY. I do notice however....your articles remains at the very bottom right corner of the liberal AOL page. Now that's saying something. HAVE YOU COMPLETELY BANKRUPTED AIR AMERICA YET? ANOTHER SMELLY TURD ARTICLE.
eric at 7:03PM on Jul 16th 2008
23. Captain Negative, I think Cap Whiny has a crush on you.
randy at 7:09PM on Jul 16th 2008
24. Obama brings out his magic wand again
Obama has again wiped clean a portion of his forever changing web site.
Obama was dead against the surge, it would never work, would only make matters worse.
Well it worked, worked great.
Obama had a problem. His website stated how much he was against the surge. Well it DID.
Obama thus did a flip flop on his web site, his negative comments about the surge are now history. Cannot read it on his web site ever again, or at least till he changes his mind again.
Robert OKane at 7:19PM on Jul 16th 2008
25. 3. the intellectual superiority to the rest of us is displayed daily by the youg jerks
robert at 3:19PM on Jul 16th 2008
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Why yes, yes it is, and you prove it.
Godless Heathen Brian at 7:21PM on Jul 16th 2008
26. Clif
Happy Birthday, it is one of your birthdays, yes?
How old are you today? 61? 65? 67? 26?
Robert OKane at 7:19PM on Jul 16th 2008
27. An apology to Gary for your crass comparison.
bob at 6:40PM on Jul 16th 200
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No apology will be forthcoming.
Being a vet gives Gary no immunity to snarky
retorts from me or anyone else here when it was he
who opened the door to it with his snide remark
toward Cenk.
If he were to make a snide remark that you didn't
like would you let it slide?
I'm betting no.
How do you like that "crass" comparison.
BOB JOHNSON at 7:19PM on Jul 16th 2008
28. ANOTHER SMELLY TURD ARTICLE.
eric at 7:03PM on Jul 16th 2008
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Cenk, with critics like that, you can feel confident that you're in the right. Or that he's in a sanitorium fingerpainting with feces. Or both.
Good job.
Godless Heathen Brian at 7:21PM on Jul 16th 2008
29. And Gary,thx for your service.
BOB JOHNSON at 7:23PM on Jul 16th 2008
30. 11. 6. Post # 1. Captain Negative says
If you've got a problem with free speech, you're a "used to be American."
xxxxx
Just returned home from Iraq thanks for the warm welcome.
Gary at 5:25PM on Jul 16th 2008
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Welcome back. If you don't like free speech, you're free to leave again.
Captain Negative at 7:32PM on Jul 16th 2008