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Lefty48197 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-09 05:30 PM
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Michelle Malkin sheds a little light on the insanity of the Right Wing Media
A friend of mine just called and mentioned that his Dad (John Birch Society type) was all livid about some comments apparently made by Robert Reich. I had no idea what he was talking about so I googled the subject.

Apparently, the Right Wing media machine is trying to stir up muck concerning some comments Reich made a month or so ago regarding jobs to be created by federal stimulus money. Reich commented on the fact that union construction workers are overwhelmingly white males.

I am personally a white male construction worker and have worked as or with union workers for over twenty years, I can tell you that union construction workers are probably about 95% white males around here.

Reich made the point that if federal stimulus money is spent on construction projects, then likely a huge percentage of that money would go to white males, thus shutting out women and peole of color. (Makes sense to ME).

Reich went on to suggest ways to remedy the situation: "I’d suggest that all contracts entered into with stimulus funds require contractors to provide at least 20 percent of jobs to the long-term unemployed and to people with incomes at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level. And at least 2 percent of project funds should be allocated to such training. In addition, advantage should be taken of buildings trades apprenticeships — wich must be fully available to women and minorities.", said Reich.

Malkin quoted Reich's comments on her blog and then went on to twist the words and fabricate thoughts that never appeared in Reich's words. What did she say? Oh, the usual right wing bullshit. Read her blog if you really care what she said.

Her website is where it gets interesting. She has a list of links along the left side of her website. The links send you to a bunch of different websites, all of which support her insanity.
Of special interest were three other blogs that posted the exact same content as Michelle's blog. They quoted the Reich comments and then went on to post their own reworded version of Michelle's rant. All of which was designed to create the impression of a ground-swell of outrage against Reich.

All three of those blogs referred to Michelle Malkin's blog about the same subject. All three of those blogs invited others to comment, yet none of them had any significant comments. Do you think it's possible that Michelle basically has surrogates blogging about the exact same subjects as her and coming to the exact same insane conclusions?

Here's a link to Michelle's rant:
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/22/robert-reich-keep-stimulus-money-away-from-skilled-workers-and-white-male-contractors/
Scroll down to the left and click the links to other comments about Reich and the stimulus money for a look at the "other" blogs.

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zeemike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-09 05:44 PM
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1. They do that shit al the time.
It gives legitimacy to there crap, or so they think.
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drm604 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-09 05:49 PM
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2. Do I think she has surrogates?
Sort of. I'm not so sure that she herself actually has surrogates under her control, but I do think that all four of them are getting their talking points from the same source. That source, whoever it is (possibly the construction industry in this case), is trying to create the appearance of a groundswell.

This is how they've been doing things for years.
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Maat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-09 06:00 PM
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3. Yes, I agree.
They have been doing this crap for years - getting their daily talking points and citing each other, etc.

:puke:
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peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-09 06:40 PM
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4. During the Clinton character assassination, they would have meetings
every Wednesday or every other Wednesday to get the talking points. It was so obvious. One of the people who handed out talking points was Grover Norquist. At times they phycially attended Republican 'seminars' to 'coordinate' the tactics and emphasis. One of their people talked about it on her blog.

They were instructed in a mantra chant that would go on for weeks, then change slightly -

In reference to Clinton

they would all get on tv and say

JUST come forward ..... then
JUST admit it ..........then
JUST say you're sorry

I'm paraphrasing, but there was progress that they were chanting for.

I say they conducted the most exquisitively orchestrated campaign against Clinton and for Bush that we may never see again.
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axesup Donating Member (9 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-09 09:53 PM
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5. Malkin is a caustic shrew
The only thing worse than a shrill shrew is an angry conservative shrill shrew.
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BanTheGOP Donating Member (596 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-09 11:19 AM
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6. May I suggest you don't enable this "Rush Bitch"...
...and instead of providing a direct link to her site, that you exchange the letters "http" with "hxxp". It will require copying the link and pasting into the address, but this way her blog does NOT get the huge link reward that DU provides.

In general, only link to sources that are favorable to our cause, or at best generic links. Repug sites do NOT need our K & R's.
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4lbs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-09 02:03 PM
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7. What Michelle Malkin looks like in full rant mode isn't pretty.






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