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Let me set this straight...I usually lean right as I believe in God, am a strong supporter of American Freedom and the US Constitution, and have a deep love for owning evil black rifles...with that said I'm sick of both sides of the media using the tea parties to push their own agenda.
Fox/Hannity...it was never about pro-republicans....so just stop draggin us down with you
CNN....fire that b!tch that began debating/arguing with the protestors on national TV. Not to mention she highly contradicted herself publicly and live. (if you need more info about this I can supply it)
MSNBC...nice shot at the protestors while running stories about "tea-bagging" and using openly and almost obviously gay innuendo on air. Once again...pushing agendas.
CBS...NBC...ABC....you'll never be as extreme as CNN or MSNBC....but you'd probably have a lot more ratings and be closer to #1 Fox if you actually didn't show your true colors.
My point of this whole thing, which many of us have known for a long while is that the media is blatantly biased. For those of you that couldn't see it during the election you're blind. But now you no longer have to open your eyes wide to see the overtly obvious biasedness. It's getting old and like many other things....the MSM needs a f*cking reset button.
The tea parties were never meant to be about anti republican or anti democrat. They were supposed to be about grassroots anti big government anti higher taxes. I'm ashamed at the asshats that used this movement to push their own agenda.
Secondly....I'm tired of being called a racist since I supported the tea party movement and thus having the media and left wing politicians/talking heads stereotype I and others w/ a broad brush. Furthermore get off this extremists **** already....it's getting so bad they're labeling our vets coming home extremists. C'mon what the **** is America coming to...it's the laughing joke of all political leaders around the world.
France's PM Sarkozy just released a public statement today mocking the stupidness of the Obamania over in the EU and said when Obama visits Normandy....Sarkozy will tell him to walk on the channel and he will. It's ****ing sad when a French president get's it....and has more ***** than the American's in power and the sheeple that voted him in.
Fox/Hannity...it was never about pro-republicans....so just stop draggin us down with you
CNN....fire that b!tch that began debating/arguing with the protestors on national TV. Not to mention she highly contradicted herself publicly and live. (if you need more info about this I can supply it)
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Originally Posted by got556
The tea parties were never meant to be about anti republican or anti democrat. They were supposed to be about grassroots anti big government anti higher taxes. I'm ashamed at the asshats that used this movement to push their own agenda.
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There was a large contingent of people at the Tea Parties that just didn't get it. Republicans want to increase the power of the government just as much as the Democrats do, but they're blind to it because they agree with that particular brand of rights restrictions.
France's PM Sarkozy just released a public statement today mocking the stupidness of the Obamania over in the EU
wait... you are ranting about the news media and you fell for this?
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Originally Posted by dailymail.co.uk
. Sarkozy slurs leaders in astonishing G20 rant
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has branded the Spanish prime minister as 'not particularly intelligent' and Barack Obama as 'inexperienced' in a series of astonishing personal attacks, it was claimed today.
Sarkozy also took a swipe at German Chancellor Angela Merkel, insisting she had 'toed his line' during the financial crisis.
The alleged catalogue of slurs was reported in French left-wing daily paper Liberation today. Liberation quoted as its source an unnamed insider who had been present at a meeting at the Elysee Palace on Wednesday when the French president briefed a group of MPs on the recent G20 summit.
He is reported to have told the MPs: 'During one summit meeting I had to tell Mr Obama, "I don't think you have quite understood what we the EU have done on the subject of CO2".'
Liberation then quoted Sarkozy as saying of German Chancellor Angela Merkel: 'When it became clear to her what state her banks and her industry were in, she had no choice but to give in to my line.'
The president was also said to have hit out at EU Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso, who attended the summit but was described by Sarkozy as 'totally absent from the G20'.
Then in a debate over Spain's decision to copy France by banning advertising on state television, Sarkozy uttered a final snub to Jose Zapatero, quipping: 'Perhaps he's not particularly intelligent.'
The Elysee Palace said today they had 'no knowledge' that the president had made any of remarks.
..enjoy believing that quote by a French gossip newspaper from an unnamed source that you know nothing about.
The US President is weak, the Spanish leader is dim, the German Chancellor is clinging on to France’s coat-tails and the head of the European Commission is irrelevant.
That, at any rate, is the world according to President Sarkozy, who has spent the week airing his unvarnished opinions of Barack Obama and an array of international politicians — abruptly ending France’s honeymoon with the US and needling Washington on several strategic issues.
In the latest in a stream of accounts from the Élysée Palace, Mr Sarkozy was quoted yesterday as telling an all-party group of MPs that Mr Obama was inexperienced and indecisive. “Obama has a subtle mind, very clever and very charismatic,” the French President said. “But he was elected two months ago and had never run a ministry. There are a certain number of things on which he has no position. And he is not always up to standard on decision-making and efficiency.”
The US President had underperformed on climate change when they met, Mr Sarkozy said, according to an account of the MP’s session in the newspaper Libération. “I told him, ‘I don’t think that you have quite understood what we are doing on carbon dioxide’.”
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Mr Sarkozy was apparently irked by media reports that Mr Obama had saved the day in London by persuading President Hu of China to reach a compromise with France over tax havens. Mr Sarkozy’s version is that he shamed Mr Obama into action, telling him: “You were elected to build a new world. Tax havens are the embodiment of the old world.”
Mr Sarkozy was also reported yesterday to have cracked a dubious joke about Europe’s “Obamamania”. According to L’Express news magazine, he mentioned Mr Obama’s planned visit to Normandy for the D-day anniversary in June, saying: “I am going to ask him to walk on the Channel, and he’ll do it.”
This jaundiced view of Mr Obama may have been prompted by the US President’s heartfelt welcome at the G20, Nato and EU summits. “The President is annoyed by what he sees as the naivety and the herd mentality of the media,” wrote Claude Askolovitch, a commentator close to the Élysée Palace.
The end of the short-lived Franco-American honeymoon also reflects a decision to swing France back towards its traditional role as counterbalance to US power, a shift that began with tension over the London economic summit. In the Élysée account Mr Sarkozy played the pivotal role as upholder of principle in the face of ineffectual US leadership. He had telephoned Gordon Brown on the eve of the summit and threatened not to turn up at all if the leaders refused his demand to name and shame tax havens, according to the leaks.
Although Mr Sarkozy has taken France back into full membership of the Nato alliance, over the past week he has picked various quarrels with Washington, demanding, for instance, a separate headquarters for a new European defence force — an idea opposed by Britain and the US. He has criticised Mr Obama for calling for Turkish membership of the EU.
Mr Sarkozy also turned his guns on his fellow Europeans. He told the assembled MPs that Spain’s Socialist Government had decided to stop advertising on state television — a year after he did the same for France. “You know who they cited as the example?” Mr Sarkozy asked.
When a Socialist MP interjected: “You can say a lot of things about [José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero] . . .” Mr Sarkozy retorted: “Perhaps he’s not very clever — but I know people who were very clever and who did not make the second round of the presidential election.” That was a reference to Lionel Jospin, the former French Socialist leader who was knocked out by Jean-Marie Le Pen in the 2002 race.
Mr Sarkozy said that Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, had come round to his side on the economy at the G20 summit only when she realised that the German economy was in trouble. She “did not have any other choice but to rally to my position”, he said. José Manuel Barroso, the Portuguese President of the Commission, was described as “totally absent” from the G20 discussions.
He did, however, go on to extol the virtues of his favourite fellow leader. “The important thing in democracy is to be re-elected. Look at Berlusconi. He has been re-elected three times,” Mr Sarkozy said.
He also seems to have adopted Mr Berlusconi’s idea of tact. The Italian Prime Minister, who once referred to President Obama as “suntanned”, used the same adjective to describe two black people while touring a makeshift school in L’Aquila yesterday. He said to a black priest: “My compliments, you are very suntanned,” and told a black boy: “I wish I had as much time to lie in the sun as you do.”
Given what Sarkozy has said in the past...yes I believe it. But I do find it funny how that's the only thing you can comment on.
nice..well you are admitting to follow gossip that is unverified, and Sarkozy is just playing populist in his country.
About the rest.. i didn't comment cause there are enough other threads where i voice my opinion....and i agree... you are all getting played out... i said i know there are probably some true libertarians or anarchists in the protests but for the most part its just recycled republicans that hate democrats and are still bitter over the campaign and just want the same republican model of the past 8 years(same one since the 80s). In 4 years who will be the leader of this protest...again it will be an high evangelical conservative candidate, that will make more noise talking about same sex, abortion, guns, and talk about taxes(thought it will just be more taxes for the rich again, same trickle down model).
IMO if you want to bltch about paying taxes then 1st bltch about those than avoid to pay, while you dont...by that I mean the super rich that gets tax cuts only to save it up and hide money from taxes on tax heavens... in the range of 100 billion per year...If i were you ID make an argument that at least 80% of that 100 billion the government gets back per year if they tackle this heavens is used for more tax credits or cuts to middle class.
Is not that i am against tax cuts, just rather where they should be applied... now if you are an anarchist... then no sense arguing with you.
Hey I totally agree w/ you there about the kickbacks and the tax breaks where they are currently applied.
But w/ these protests...it's worthy noting this...since you and I can both agree many of these folks are not hardcore liberals who were protesting. How come everytime liberals protests it ends in destruction of property, people being arrested, and spray being shot from every officer available? As to where the more conservative people, you never hear about this during their protests....since you brought up who'd be leading the next set of protests...
Right wing crazy extremist. DHS should put them all in Guantanamo along fox news executives and free those poor Muslims terrorists who are all innocents.
(in case you did not notice, I was extremely sarcastic)
Do these people vote? Where were their voices 6 months ago... 10 yrs ago.... 50 yrs ago... 70 yrs ago? Yelling and screaming isnt going to do a thing, if they want to change the system, they need a better method than looking like a rabble of wackos... but, of course, in the end, they'll get over it...
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Do these people vote? Where were their voices 6 months ago... 10 yrs ago.... 50 yrs ago... 70 yrs ago? Yelling and screaming isnt going to do a thing, if they want to change the system, they need a better method than looking like a rabble of wackos... but, of course, in the end, they'll get over it...
You mean like those who don't get it their way?
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Do these people vote? Where were their voices 6 months ago... 10 yrs ago.... 50 yrs ago... 70 yrs ago? Yelling and screaming isnt going to do a thing, if they want to change the system, they need a better method than looking like a rabble of wackos... but, of course, in the end, they'll get over it...
Does it really matter when it is? So if I understand what you are saying because it was not done previously they can't do it today?
BTW, there were plenty of protest against the war in the 60's and they were very effective in changing public opinion.
At least, people are using their right to protest peacefully, this is what america is all about: Freedom of speech.
We should praise the behavior and be glad it is still allowed.
It is your right to disagree just as mine to agree. We have to protect that right.
Just like Obama is doing now? The DHS is labeling anyone who disagrees with Obama's politics to be a right wing extremist. Law enforcement are encouraged to consider these individuals as terrorists suspects.
You thought Bush went too far with the Patriot Act? what about that?
Just like Obama is doing now? The DHS is labeling anyone who disagrees with Obama's politics to be a right wing extremist. Law enforcement are encouraged to consider these individuals as terrorists suspects.
You thought Bush went too far with the Patriot Act? what about that?
lol I'm guessing you didn't get my point.
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Me? Noooooooooooooooo, if this party does not have hot girls and nice music, I would never be be caught in one. I leave the support to Fox and other right wing extremist.
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So sick of the media and the tea parties
