Rush Limbaugh Defines A Real Vs A "Phony" Soldier

[AEON]

Originally posted by Irvine511

they are beholden to NO ONE

Where do they get the money to operate and pay employees?

[Irvine511]

Originally posted by AEON


Where do they get the money to operate and pay employees?

from taxpayers and private endowments.

[BVS]

Originally posted by Irvine511

but i suppose you're right -- reality does have a well-known liberal bias.

I think this is true to a certain point, although I wouldn't call it bias. But this is why higher education often gets the "liberal" label.

Status quo and nostalgia will get us nowhere, something the extreme right haven't figured out yet.

[AEON]

Originally posted by Irvine511




from taxpayers and private endowments.

well then it is good to know they are beholden to no one...other than taxpayers and private donors...

[Irvine511]

Originally posted by AEON


well then it is good to know they are beholden to no one...other than taxpayers and private donors...

yes, don't you get it? the reason all other stations exist -- save for subscription channels -- is because corporations will buy ad time that enables programming to exist. what you see on CNN was paid for by Ford or Toyota or Fannie Mae or Cialis. and if these companies don't like what's on a specific channel, then they will pull out their advertising dollars.

NPR and PBS are guaranteed a certain number of dollars a year by the government and from foundations that have been in existence for decades. they get their operating budget, profit is NOT a consideration, and they can simply go about the business of being journalists.

this is how most civilized nations get their news -- the BBC, ABC, CBC, these are all government funded.

i used to work for the Discovery Channel. we were forbidden from doing shows on global warming because they'd lose advertising revenue from car companies. talk about censorship!

[BVS]

I don't think he gets it.

[AEON]

Originally posted by BonoVoxSupastar
I don't think he gets it.

You're right.

[phillyfan26]

Originally posted by AEON
You're right.

What about what Irvine said do you not understand?

[diamond]

So like if the if private organizations with names like (fictious of course)..

"Clandestine Rump Rangers For Non Disclosure In America Foundation"
or
"Whacked Out Enviromental Nazis For Christ Foundation"

were to bundle money together and offer it as an endowment could that unduly slant the tone of the how topics are presented on NPR?

It seems like that is how topics are presented on NPR- with an obtusely liberal slant.

dbs

[phillyfan26]

Non-ficticious examples?

[BVS]

Originally posted by diamond


It seems like that is how topics are presented on NPR- with an obtusely liberal slant.

dbs

If you knew anything about what you were talking about, you wouldn't have to use ficticious examples.

[MrsSpringsteen]

Originally posted by Irvine511

you mean like Jessica Lynch

Well I guess she's a phony soldier for speaking out against the phony stories/mistruths/lies? that were put forth by the military/US government about her situation. If she was a real soldier she would have just kept her mouth shut.

[AEON]

Originally posted by MrsSpringsteen


Well I guess she's a phony soldier for speaking out against the phony stories/mistruths/lies? that were put forth by the military/US government about her situation. If she was a real soldier she would have just kept her mouth shut.

I think it is a mistake to automatically equate courage and honesty with speaking out against the war.

[MrsSpringsteen]

Originally posted by AEON

I think it is a mistake to automatically equate courage and honesty with speaking out against the war.

Well I don't know what that has to do with the post that you quoted, I assume you were referring to one of my previous posts. I certainly do equate courage with speaking out (when you are in the military) when you know you will get holy hell from many directions for it. And when Jessica Lynch spoke out during the Tillman hearings, well that was just as courageous as anything she did in Iraq. She spoke the truth, whether or not certain people liked it didn't make it any less true. She wasn't speaking out against the war, she was clearing up all the falsehoods that had existed about her time in Iraq. I guess some would equate that with speaking against the war, if you believe in that code of silence sort of stuff.

[phillyfan26]

Originally posted by AEON
I think it is a mistake to automatically equate courage and honesty with speaking out against the war.

I think it's a mistake to criticize soliders for being honest.

[diamond]

Originally posted by AEON


I think it is a mistake to automatically equate courage and honesty with speaking out against the war.

The Left's new hero and poster child:




GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) - A university student with a history of taping his own practical jokes was Tasered by campus police and arrested after loudly and repeatedly trying to ask U.S. Senator John Kerry questions during a campus forum.
Andrew Meyer, 21, spent a night in jail before his release Tuesday morning. His attorney, Robert Griscti, did not return messages seeking comment.

Videos of the Monday night incident, posted on several Web sites and played repeatedly on television news, show officers pulling Meyer away from the microphone after he asks Kerry about impeaching President Bush and whether he and Bush were both members of the secret society Skull and Bones at Yale University.

"He apparently asked several questions—he went on for quite awhile—then he was asked to stop," university spokesman Steve Orlando said. "He had used his allotted time. His microphone was cut off, then he became upset."

As two officers take Meyer by the arms, Kerry, D-Mass., can be heard saying, "That's alright, let me answer his question."

Audience members applaud, and Meyer struggles for several seconds as up to four officers try to remove him from the room. Meyer screams for help and tries to break away from officers, then is forced to the ground and officers order him to stop resisting.

As Kerry tells the audience he will answer the student's "very important question," Meyer yells at the officers to release him, crying out, "Don't Tase me, bro," just before he is shocked by the Taser. He is then led from the room, screaming, "What did I do?"

Meyer was arrested on charges of resisting an officer and disturbing the peace, according to Alachua County jail records, but the State Attorney's Office had yet to make the formal charging decision. Police recommended charges of resisting arrest with violence, a felony, and disturbing the peace and interfering with school administrative functions, a misdemeanor.

Orlando said university police would conduct an internal investigation.

"The police department does have a standard procedure for when they use force, including when they use a Taser," Orlando said. "That is what the internal investigation would address—whether the proper procedures were followed, whether the officers acted appropriately."

Meyer was ordered released from jail Tuesday on his own recognizance.

Meyer has his own Web site and it contains several "comedy" videos that he appears in. In one, he stands in a street with a sign that says "Harry Dies" after the latest Harry Potter book was released. In another, he acts like a drunk while trying to pick up a woman in a bar.

The site also has what is called a "disorganized diatribe" attributed to Meyer that criticizes the Iraq war, the news media for not covering the conflict enough and the American public for paying too much attention to celebrity news.

[MrsSpringsteen]

What does that have to do with anything?

[phillyfan26]

Originally posted by diamond
The Left's new hero and poster child:

That's BS and you know it.

[MrsSpringsteen]

Why is it that sometimes I feel like there is some sort of bizarro world here of mashed up threads? Oh yeah, that's why...

[BVS]

Originally posted by diamond


The Left's new hero and poster child:

Only in your delusional world...