gsvol
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I don't think that's it. The issue is two-fold, from my perspective. First, the left just hasn't cultivated the right kind of entertainers for talk radio. While the left has plenty of celebrities from television, music, and film, when those folks start talking politics it tends to come out stilted.
Second, the fundamental ideals of the left do not lend themselves well to the one dimensional venue of talk radio. It is hard to defend or describe complex and brainy rationale on things like foreign policy over the radio, whereas its much easier to get some band to do a mock tune that claims that Obama is a Muslim.
maybe your sense of humor was lost on me when you called me (and others) a hate mongering racist. Then, when you were called on it, you never backed down or even apologized.
I am sorry you are a racist.
j/k
Seriously, you will have to remind me of what the prior posts were on that in order for me to figure out which particular exchange you are talking about. There's a way to link it, I think. But I don't know how, exactly, other than the old fashined way.
I am sorry you are a racist.
j/k
Seriously, you will have to remind me of what the prior posts were on that in order for me to figure out which particular exchange you are talking about. There's a way to link it, I think. But I don't know how, exactly, other than the old fashined way.
I can hardly wait ...
... to see how some of you Obama-hating fear mongering race baiters deal with the rescue of the captain and the killing of several of the pirates. I can hardly wait to hear how Boortz and the others who were trying to make this a Muslim thing and infer that Obama was standing aside deals with today's events.
http://www.volnation.com/forum/politics/70299-i-can-hardly-wait.html#post2291763
another thread, perhaps even this one, has you claiming that Keith Olbermann's show is incredibly well researched and that he would never utter something that he didn't know was the truth. Well, if Keith is such an arbiter of truth, why did he sit there and nod like a bobble-head doll while Jeanene Garafolo (I don't care if I misspelled her name) called tea party attendees a bunch of brain damaged racists?
I didn't say racist, I said race-baiting. And that has more to do with the whole African Muslim thing than anything else.
Its a real phenomenon. To this day you have Limbaugh, Hannity, Gallagher, Boortz, et al, taking every opportunity to continue to raise the claim that maybe Obama is a Muslim in sheep's clothing.
I didn't say racist, I said race-baiting. And that has more to do with the whole African Muslim thing than anything else.
Its a real phenomenon. To this day you have Limbaugh, Hannity, Gallagher, Boortz, et al, taking every opportunity to continue to raise the claim that maybe Obama is a Muslim in sheep's clothing.
I didn't say racist, I said race-baiting. And that has more to do with the whole African Muslim thing than anything else.
Its a real phenomenon. To this day you have Limbaugh, Hannity, Gallagher, Boortz, et al, taking every opportunity to continue to raise the claim that maybe Obama is a Muslim in sheep's clothing.
Have you ever attempted to be with a woman?
It sure would help out a lot........
I didn't say racist, I said race-baiting. And that has more to do with the whole African Muslim thing than anything else.
Its a real phenomenon. To this day you have Limbaugh, Hannity, Gallagher, Boortz, et al, taking every opportunity to continue to raise the claim that maybe Obama is a Muslim in sheep's clothing.
Boortz is the only one I listen to. I am not sure the connection between your ears and your brain is working correctly.
you really believe that the nature of their religious fanaticism and clans warring over religious disputes has anything to do with the problems / poverty that are rampant in the Pirate states?The Friday before the SEALS rescued that captain, Boortz was one of the conservative radio guys repeatedly referring to the priates as Muslims and "Islamic goons," as though their religion had anything at all to do with the criminal activity they had been engaged in for two decades.
you really believe that the nature of their religious fanaticism and clans warring over religious disputes has anything to do with the problems / poverty that are rampant in the Pirate states?
gsvol might actually have had this one right. In fact, I'd wager much that his commentary is on the money about this situation, but it had nothing to do with the religion practiced by the pirates. It was about his belief, a la Carter, that words and talk can get all things done.LOL, that is NOT what guys like Boortz were talking about, and you know it. The insinuation (on some stations outright claim) was that Obama was being soft on them because they are Muslim. Which turned out to be nonsense.
Now Boortz did on Monday give the President credit on allowing the military to deal with the situation. Of course we have the likes of gsvol on here commenting that Obama slowed them down.
Point is, the continuing subterfuge that Obama is a secrent Muslim is just plain paranoid at this point.
I didn't say racist, I said race-baiting. And that has more to do with the whole African Muslim thing than anything else.
Its a real phenomenon. To this day you have Limbaugh, Hannity, Gallagher, Boortz, et al, taking every opportunity to continue to raise the claim that maybe Obama is a Muslim in sheep's clothing.
LOL, that is NOT what guys like Boortz were talking about, and you know it. The insinuation (on some stations outright claim) was that Obama was being soft on them because they are Muslim. Which turned out to be nonsense.
Now Boortz did on Monday give the President credit on allowing the military to deal with the situation. Of course we have the likes of gsvol on here commenting that Obama slowed them down.
Point is, the continuing subterfuge that Obama is a secrent Muslim is just plain paranoid at this point.
gsvol might actually have had this one right. In fact, I'd wager much that his commentary is on the money about this situation, but it had nothing to do with the religion practiced by the pirates. It was about his belief, a la Carter, that words and talk can get all things done.
The Friday before the SEALS rescued that captain, Boortz was one of the conservative radio guys repeatedly referring to the priates as Muslims and "Islamic goons," as though their religion had anything at all to do with the criminal activity they had been engaged in for two decades.
I heard that show. What does that have to do with you claiming he is trying to make a claim that Obama is a Muslim in sheep's clothing?
Barofsky's worrisome findings: Several key components of the $700 billion TARP pose "significant" risks for fraud.
The Treasury Department "adamantly continues to refuse" to require banks to report on how they have used bailout funds.
And despite the administration's attention to executive compensation restrictions for firms that receive bailout cash, it hasn't issued long-awaited rules on pay.
The government already has nearly 20 criminal investigations related to the TARP underway. Details aren't being divulged at this point beyond saying they have to deal with securities fraud, insider trading, mortgage fraud and the like.
"The American people have a right to know how their tax dollars are being used," says Barofsky's quarterly report.
Meanwhile, the Treasury Department--understaffed since the start of the Obama administration--struggles with management and oversight.
The Treasury Department has not hired an asset manager for the TARP's investment portfolio,
it hasn't priced its investments, and
it hasn't determined whether it will convert its preferred shares in companies to common stock.
The department hasn't even issued new rules on executive pay for bailout recipients, even though the stimulus bill signed by President Obama earlier this year calls for specific pay limits and the administration announced its own pay guidelines that month.
The cases represent only the first wave of investigations, and the total fraud could ultimately reach into the tens of billions of dollars, according to Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general overseeing the bailout program.
What started out in October as a $750-billion effort only to buy toxic securities has morphed into 12 separate programs that cover up to $3 trillion in direct spending, loans and loan guarantees -- an amount roughly equal to the annual federal budget.
For all the trumpeting, the effort raised questions about why Obama set the bar so low, considering that $100 million amounts to:
--Less than one-quarter of the budget increase that Congress awarded to itself.
--4 percent of the military aid the United States sends to Israel.
--Less than half the cost of one F-22 fighter plane.
--7 percent of the federal subsidy for the money-losing Amtrak passenger rail system.
--1/10,000th of the government's operating budgets for Cabinet agencies, excluding the Iraq and Afghan wars and the stimulus bill.
Obama only asked his Cabinet secretaries to identify waste in their annual operating budgets, which total a little over $1 trillion. He's leaving out war costs, the economic stimulus measure, the Wall Street bailout and benefit programs like Social Security and Medicare.
Republicans were quick to point out that borrowing costs for February's stimulus package will on average cost almost $100 million a day over the next decade.