Don't forget I still think they put electrodes in Obamas brain after he got elected. LOL In all honesty I haven't been much of a fan ever since. More wars and a 4% larger budget for "national defense" than Bush, piss poor excuse for universal healthcare, allowing polluters to pollute, letting the torturers walk, continued omniscience of the citizens... As you know, this is not what I voted for.
As far as "corrupt chicago politicians" goes, all politicians are corrupt. It's the nature of the game, politics is nothing but double-dealing and obfuscation. I hate to make blanket statements like that but I have never heard of a clean politician with no dirty laundry or not trying to hide what they're doing. Of course they're all going to talk about how corrupt the other guys are, that gives them time to hide their own skeletons in their closet. "Hey look at what THAT guy did" that way nobody will be looking at them as they do their own dirty deeds. After all Palins first term Governorship was so riddled with ethics violations she had to resign...
im gonna skip most the stuff on the various news stations cause other than state stuff i pay lil attention to TV news.......just gonna comment on some of your stuff here swords, and forgive me im bout 8 hours from home attending meetings so things are hit or miss when i can get online.....
on the ethics of Palins governorship.....did you actually read the report? i did.....stated that what she did may be by some technicality wrong it was not a major issue by any stretch.....the findings suggested it not be looked at further through a court of law and she really wasnt guilty of any criminal mis-doings....
as for Obama.....if you actually listened to him talk in the debates he stated that although he wanted to withdraw from Iraq he wanted to send more troops to Afghanistan...he stated he was going to continue with it so if that pisses yah off, he stated he was gonna do it before the election......he stated it in the national televised debates with McCain......
in all reality we need someone with a history more akin to Palin than Obama right now......we need someone in there with a history of cutting spending.......we need to cut some major fat from DC spending, force them to run a balanced budget......Obama has never been for this, his solution is more government programs and putting his crooked friends in charge of them......all this crap that you hate about Obama i flat out told you he was going to do most of it yet members here though i was full of crap......
whether you like Palin as an individual is not really the point......Palin did for Alaska what most here want to be done for the US but instead of looking at that, the attention was concentrated on the minor stuff that really doesnt matter on a national scale....dont like her views on religion? no problem, she never forced them on anyone in Alaska, why would she on the nation as a whole? in Alaska she cut government spending, she told the old boys club to screw off and charged them in criminal court and won......she has put Alaska on the fast track for renewable energy, a state that makes most its money on oil.......you complain about this and that about her beliefs and none of it has entered how she governed her state.....she did more in a couple years of governor than most do in 4 or 5 terms.....you seem unable to separate the fact that she has done the things you actually want done from 30 second sound bites by a liberal media that doesnt like her and make you not like her rather than looking at her actual record......
all i asked during the last election was to take a real close look at teh records of the individuals in it.....i did and am not surprised at all by what Obama has done....you didnt and seem to think he changed when he didnt.....you believed what he told you and not the history of what he had actually done....he talked a good game but didnt have the history to prove he would do it.....his history showed that he would do what he is doing.....
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yeah there is no such thing as unbiased news... at least for america.
we could take a vote on it... except there are 60 dems... so....
i publish two newspapers so ive got a bit more experience than most here......total 100% unbiased reporting can only be done if print verbatim what is said and make it basically so the audience was really there....anytime you start cutting this down to selected quotes or a 30 second sound byte your bias will start to filter through....because the author or producer is picking what they feel is important out of what happened....unfortunatly i do some reporting for my papers, i really hate writing but what i feel were the important parts of the meeting and thats what i focus on and only give something else a few sentances...well others may think im wrong.....my bias is showing through no matter how hard i try to keep it out.....
i would love to print some of the meetings i go to word for word but if i did i would go broke cause i dont have the advertisers to pay for the printing of that many pages so by necessity i must condense things, i must make a decision what to focus on, by doing so no matter how hard i try to be 50-50 balanced things are gonna slide 60-40 sometimes, there is absolutely no way to stop it without just printing the meeting or whatever happened word for word.....
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The news channels are all owned by mega-corporations, and serve the interests of their owners. They are neither traditionally liberal or conservative - they are corporatist.
Rattler, you are taking crazy pills again. Palin shows an astonishing ignorance of basic facts. Even apart from the evisceration she gets from McCain staffers in the recent book "Game Change", she has shown behavior that is bizarre, unstable, and incoherent. From her disastrous interview with Katie Couric (who asked such "gotcha" questions as "what magazines do you read" to her rambling resignation speech in which she failed to explain why she was resigning, she has been revealed as borderline crazy. She's folksy, attractive, and perky, but appears to know virtually nothing about the world, about politics, about history, or about policy.
i watched tha Couric interview......Couric was flat out hostile to Palin if you compare it to similar interviews she has done with other individuals.....she damn near looked like she wanted to kiss Michelle Obama during an interview a few days earlier....once again this was edited to show a bias....you do realize of 60% of communication has absolutly nothing to do with the words you say, has to do with tone of voice and body language....COuric went into the interview with a contempt and hostile intention towards Palin, none of which she showed towards and Democratic candidate.....Couric was gonna do everything she could to screw up Palin and once again we did not get to see an entire interview, we got to see the highlights the producers put together......well over 50% of most interviews never make it to print or TV....i can quote and edit anyone to make them look like a genius or a moron from the same interview.....
and if you thing news channels cant be liberal or conservative than your way out there....there is money to be made being a liberal network, there is money to be made being a conservative network.....very few are split 50-50.....