Randi did a good job with that freeper, deflecting

[GreenPartyVoter]

his "they didn't lie" and "Saddam gassed his own people" lies.

[zoeb]

1. Did Randi tell him that we gave Saddam the gas he used on

his people???

[quiet.american]

3. She did. :) n/t

[zoeb]

7. woohoo....I think she could go one on one with

Hopehead at EIB and steal his ratings...she is to freaking good!!!:toast:

[quiet.american]

2. Thought she should have mentioned, too, that --

-- it was widely reported that the WMD sold to Saddam by the U.S. in 1988 outlived its shelf life by 2003 -- so that idiot trying to reference it to prove that there was some WMD in Iraq still didn't have a leg to stand on. -- And you know what, he sounded of enlistment age. Wonder what he's still doing here?

[eleny]

5. Why not post about that at her message board

[quiet.american]

11. Good idea. Created a board account but there's a waiting period to post --

Here's a link, though, referencing the weapons shelf life if anyone wants to post it over there--

http://www.alternet.org/story/15854 /

Strangely, the U.S. media have, with almost no exceptions, failed to mention that most bio/chemical agents have a rather limited shelf life. The few who do usually quote Scott Ritter, former UN Iraqi weapons inspector and controversial opponent of Dubya’s drive to Baghdad.

According to Ritter, the chemical weapons which Iraq has been known to possess -- nerve agents like sarin and tabun -- have a shelf life of five years, VX just a bit longer. Saddam's major bio weapons are hardly any better; botulinum toxin is potent for about three years, and liquid anthrax about the same (under the right conditions). And he adds that since all chemical weapons were made in Iraq's only chemical weapons complex – the Muthanna State establishment, which was blown up during the first Gulf War in 1991 -- and all biological weapons plants and research papers were clearly destroyed by 1998, any remaining bio/chemical weapons stores are now “harmless, useless goo.”

However, others have questioned Ritter’s veracity. A former hawk keen on an Iraq invasion after the first Gulf War, as recently as 1998 he wrote in an article for the New Republic that Saddam may have successfully hidden everything from potent biological and chemical agents to his "entire nuclear weapons infrastructure" from UN inspectors.

But the truth of the matter is that Iraq’s WMD may have even less of a shelf life than Ritter now claims -- and the U.S. government knows it.

[eleny]

4. This is one of her greatest strengths

I've griped about Randi on occasion. But dealing with freeps is one of her gifts. I hope more call her and get on the air. Like Bernie Ward, she has her unique way of dealing with them. She uses facts they can't deny and she builds in strength as the phone call proceeds. I'm sorry I didn't hear this particular call!

[SalmonChantedEvening]

6. He used the old freeper smokescreen.

"I listen to conservative voices and everyone else..."

Then launched into the standard talking points. Randi (no I love YOU more) laid out the facts and he went off on the "well yes but" dodges, and she would have none of it.

Go Randi!!!! :loveya:

[gratuitous]

8. And she came back from the commercial break

With a series of recordings of administration voices (from a DVD?) lying their corrupt asses off, overpromising, overstating, contradicting, and basically showing the little freep caller that he was full of shit. Too bad he's not on the line anymore, probably too busy jacking off because he talked to an actual woman on the phone.

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. *lol*

[Rainscents]

10. LOL... very funny!!!