Local LTTE writer has been watching Bill Maher (sacrificing the Constitution)

[NewJeffCT]

This was a good one, but was not from me. Didn't Maher do something like this about a month ago?

THE LIBERAL COMPLAINERS
I am tired of all of you liberal whiners complaining about sacrificing for the war. You complain how, in past wars, Americans had to sacrifice by enduring higher taxes to pay for the war and rationing of vital supplies. Yet, according to liberals, Americans have not had to sacrifice in the War on Terror and that is why we are doing so poorly. This is so wrong. Americans have sacrificed a lot in the War on Terror. We have surrendered most of the Bill of Rights, including freedom against unreasonable search and seizure, the right to a speedy and public trial, freedom of assembly and of the press, right to a trial by jury, and the right to not be deprived of life or liberty without due process of law. People should start checking their facts because we have forfeited much of the Constitution in this War on Terror.

http://remindernewspapers.com/Default/Skins/Vernon/Client.asp?Skin=Vernon&Enter=true&Daily=VERN&GZ=T&AppName=1

[MrSlayer]

1. Yeah. Nearly word for word I think.

Have to look at a transcript.

[NewJeffCT]

2. There is another one at the end

that has all the standard RW talking points on the US attorney scandal... I don't know where to begin with responding to this one, as it is just so wrong in so many places>>>

IT WAS A NICE TRY
In response to “Not So Liberal,” nice try. If you are going to use statistics, don’t go to a liberal Web site to get them. Why didn’t you just go to MoveOn.org for your information? Media Matters is run by a liberal and the site is used as a conservative bashing forum against people such as Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. When it comes to bias, the networks, CNN and company have a major left-leaning bias. All you need to do is compare the Alberto Gonzales situation with Janet (Waco) Reno’s firing of 12 times as many U.S. Attorneys. The liberal media has run hundreds of times more stories than when Reno did it. No liberal bias? Please!

If anybody wants to respond in 150 words or less, feel free:

http://remindernewspapers.com/speakout/speakout.php

You can choose CT towns like Colchester, Killingly, Plainfield, Norwich or Putnam as towns.

[Clark2008]

3. CNN has a major left-leaning bias?

Not since Ted Turner sold it in the 90s it doesn't.

Why do people believe this? Can't they do some research and see who OWNS CNN. It sure as hell ain't some liberal organization. Do they really think these large corporations are left-leaning? :grr:

[SarahB]

4. "conservative bashing forum against people such as Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter"

:rofl:

Does that person not see the irony in that? As if those two ever site sources, let along non-bias factual ones. They're the prince and princess of lousy "journalism".

[NewJeffCT]

5. I wouldn't even call them "journalists"

They're just two cogs in the machine that catapults the propaganda.

[left is right]

6. This man is asking for rebuttal

we should send several thousands, all very polite, of course, but devastatingly factual.

[NewJeffCT]

7. be my guest

I put the direct link above in my 2nd post in this thread - not the original.

It is completely anonymous, only asking for town and state in eastern Connecticut (Jewett City, Norwich, Putnam, Vernon, Enfield, East Windsor, Manchester, Ellington, Killingly, Plainfield, etc)

It also asks you to type in 4 or 5 characters in a box to verify that you're not spamming.

[NewJeffCT]

8. My response to this letter (so far)

The person that wrote “It Was a Nice Try” into Speak Out has their facts on the attorney firings completely wrong. When Janet Reno fired the U.S. attorneys, save one, she was following precedent as every time a president from a new party takes over the White House, they replace all the U.S attorneys. George W. Bush did that in 2001 and Reagan did it in 1981. What was unprecedented was that Team Bush fired attorneys that they themselves appointed in the middle of their term for purely political reasons. They were not political enough for Karl Rove. The firings also obstructed justice in that they stopped ongoing investigations into high profile Republican members of Congress. Now, every conviction obtained by a Bush-appointed U.S. attorney is suspect because their prosecutions have been revealed as highly political and not an even-handed application of the rule of law. 225 years of democracy shredded to hold onto power.