WaPo Defines It As 'Public Awareness' to Say GOP Will Release Terrorists and Pollute Rivers If They Win
While media liberals obsess about negative ads funded by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, federal worker unions are savagely attacking the Tea Party in a forthcoming radio ad campaign. "We would love to be very bipartisan, but it's hard to be bipartisan when one side is just trying to cut your throat," said John Gage of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) in Friday's Washington Post.
Reporter Ed O'Keefe concluded that "the union aired a similar public awareness campaign last summer." But is it "public awareness" to associate ideas in the GOP Pledge to America -- a federal hiring freeze and spending restraint -- with releasing terrorists, ending food inspection, and polluting rivers? O'Keefe relayed the script:
"The Republican tea party Pledge to America says, 'Cut taxes for the rich and cut government,' " AFGE President John Gage says in the ad. "Some have even said, 'Close the government down.' Then what? Food and mine inspection - gone. Forget about border patrol or keeping terrorists locked up. And returning veterans? Give them a cheap voucher instead of a quality VA hospital. Let's dump in the rivers and pollute the air again."
The headline is "Federal worker union blasts tea party candidates in radio ad." Which Tea Party candidates are pledging to voters that if elected, they'll end the Border Patrol and shut down VA hospitals? O'Keefe did not go to a ad fact-checker for a grade on this parade of slurs and wild exaggerations. He didn't even quote Republicans denouncing the ad copy as unfair. For "balance," he quoted Republicans in favor of a hiring freeze.
The hiring freeze "is reasonable and necessary," said Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), who helped announce the proposals. "In the face of massive debt, we must do more with less."
O'Keefe also noticed Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell has called for a hiring freeze as well. But Gage gets to be the story's unchallenged narrator. O'Keefe never challenged Gage on how absolutely nothing can be cut from government, or press him about tax increases, since everything is sacred. He just lets him express that he's the voice of reality:
"We're trying to let people see what government really is," Gage said in an interview. "I have a sneaking suspicion that a lot of people really don't get it and really have to be thinking about what alternatives there are after you try to go make up this deficit by cutting government programs."
The AFGE's 60-second "counter message" (as O'Keefe also called it) will air in Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia over the last two weeks of the campaign and will cost the union about $500,000.
This kind of story underlines the kind of biased coverage Republicans can expect if they win, just as the incoming Republican majorities found in 1995. Every proposed freeze or slight pruning of government activity gets exaggerated into an operatic act of fiscal violence.
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Desparation knows no bounds
Submitted by ThisnThat on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 7:20am.
and the dims are desparate -- very desparate. These people are underestimating the intelligence of the average American -- we're not buying into this crap anymore.
I just saw on Fox &Friends this morning some dumb-ass woman "community activist" claim that "obama has done more for this country than any other president in our history". We're not buying that crap, either.
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Make sure no one tells obama what comes after "trillion"
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“Didn't win the Medal of Honor? Didn't even serve? Then lie about it. We'll support you." — 9th Circuit Court
Desperation breeds shamelessness.
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 7:53am.
and O'Keefe and the WaPo are both.
To classify this smear as a "public awareness campaign" is just jaw-dropping.
"We're trying to let people see what government really is," Gage said in an interview.
This is the equivalent of liberals saying "The truth is...." or "The fact of the matter is....." (fill in with blatant propaganda)
Just when you think they can't get any lower, they exceed your expectations.
Excellent
Submitted by KC Mulville on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 9:16am.
I love the fact that you pointed out the phrases of "pre-assurance." It's a habitual way of speaking that tries to intimidate the listener into believing that there was some independent truth-checker who verified what the speaker asserts before he said it.
Tangential point: that's also why I'm leery of FactCheck.org. I'm not sure it's a good idea to refer all matters of truth to a ... website. In fact, it's a pretty bad idea. Who decided that these guys were the arbiters of reality? Giving them absolute credence is a bad idea. It's slightly less rhetorical than trusting Wikipedia. It doesn't matter whether you agree or disagree with their track record on any issue -- the idea of trusting anyone to verify civil truth is a bad idea, period.
Here's The Catch Line...
Submitted by GeneralAl on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 7:19am.
Here's the catch line: "I have a sneaking suspicion"
Everything about this group is sneaking and that's no suspicion!
http://www.GeneralPatriot.com
"Old Soldiers never die, they just fade away"!
Upon further review...
Submitted by ChrisNH on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 7:23am.
...I would imagine that LIBS today are wondering whether having unfettered control of Congress and the White House was a good thing. After all, the collapse of the United States has clearly happened on their watch. There are tens of millions of people who had jobs during the Bush administraion who don't now; asking those people to somehow believe that we were on the wrong track then and the right track now is laughable.
Another moment of stupid
Submitted by Thoreau on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 7:25am.
So they go from saying they are RepubliKKKans and war mongers to saying they will magically start releasing terrorists.
That's the only thing Bush did right dumbasses. He killed them and threw them in a bottomless pit of hell.
As far as polluting rivers, I don't know how they can top Obama and his bestest PAC tipper- BP. The seafood in the Gulf coast is dead. Cutting off the food supply for the Southern States is pretty frickin hard to top. But I'm open to any suggestion from you progressive/liberal dbags.
If it wasn't for environmental law's, they wouldn't be drilling 5 miles down in the middle of a damn hurricaine bait ocean. The harder it is to get at, the less the oil is worth.
So please liberal hookers. Try again. I'm sure you'll never nail the Republicans on what they actually did wrong, because you voted for it too.
Although...
Submitted by ontheright on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 8:21am.
...I agree with the crux of your post, I have to vehemently disagree with a couple of points you attempt to make:
1. Killing terrorists was NOT the only thing Bush did right, but because this is off topic I won't elaborate here.
2. The seafood in the Gulf Coast has not even been marginally affected by the BP spill - my family lives and works there. Seafood is plentiful, the coasts have been spared and businesses are cranking back up. This rouse is just another attempt by the MSM and radical leftie "news" outlets to provide cover to the Obamalinsky administration for not immediately granting drilling permits - since the moratorium has been "lifted early", afterall.
But, like I said I agree with your overall point, liberals are hookers. Selling their "tricks" to the highest radical leftie bidders...thankfully, those numbers are dwindling daily and after the upcoming election, they will scurring back to the trash heaps and darkness from whence they came.
Remember in November!
oTr
WaPo is right! I can testify
Submitted by Van Halen on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 7:35am.
WaPo is right! I can testify personally to owning a warehouse stocked with hundreds of 50 gallon drums, all filled with sludge just waiting to be dumped into the local rivers here on November 3.
Stupid Liberal tools.
*evil grin*
Submitted by sentry_99 on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 7:50am.
I have not even waited. Don't tell anyone but....I have been burning wood in my fireplace on....GASP...SPARE THE AIR DAYS.
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
DIE GAIA DIE!!!!!
last time I checked
Submitted by spepper on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 8:13am.
Last time I checked, the job of journalists is to report what happened-- NOT speculate on what MIGHT happen--
WaPo, NYT etc all should have a disclaimer statement directly underneath their company names: "Anything published within these pages is purely opinion, not based in facts or evidence"
It's eeevil George Bush's Gitmo, right?
Submitted by Red Jeep on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 8:50am.
It's the eeevil George Bush, the Republican, who kept people tortured and locked up at Gitmo, right?
And it's Barack, Mr. Wonderful, who wants that torture center closed and civilian trials in NYC for terrorists, right? He favors catch and release, showing his environmentalist spirit.
So what's that again about "Forget about border patrol or keeping terrorists locked up," if Republicans regain power?!?!
Say what?
They just keep throwing crap
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 8:58am.
at the wall hoping something will stick. And all they're doing is showing their true colors and it "STINKS".
Obama wanted vets to pay for their service related injuries
Submitted by ekslib on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 9:21am.
Yet Democrats spread stories that Republicans are cold-hearted.
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/03/12/obama-va-lets-charge-vets-for-care...
The democrats are the party of Allah, not the GOP
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 10:03am.
And if the GOP is going to pollute the rivers (damn, just how stupid is that) let it be with the bodies of dead camel-washers. -DaveVote for the American in November
Well they are right. If the
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 10:40am.
Well they are right. If the R's win I will take up smoking again plus I will buy my tobacco from those evil Native Americans who pay no taxes.
LOL
Shame, shame, shame
Submitted by bkeyser on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 11:01am.
How do these people sleep at night? If lying was illegal, there'd be prisons full of nothing but politicians and reporters. [edit] And union bosses.
Their mommas must be so proud...
Adequate comparisons
Submitted by NevadanConservative on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 11:59am.
only exist from 1994, and even then not exact fits with the present situation.. but I'll give a go.
In 1995, when the GOP's were empaneled:
Did the waters suddenly become fouled?
Did our prisons suddenly have their door fall off?
In short, did any of the crap that the authoritarians are accusing will happen if the GOP wins this time take place in 1994?
As I stated before, we didn't have such a massive grab at our liberties. Fat Bill (no, he doesn't get even the bare civility of initials from me, and bloody well NEVER did nor will ever in future get from my lips the title he fouled for eight years) really had one sterling 'virtue' in the cesspool of his makeup, in that he was too busy sating his own pleasures to be a successful dictator.
BHO has no such appetites, aside from raging narcissism. I've stated it before... he is not a bumbling clown, just a head first totalitarian wrecking the country, the better to put it back together in his own dictatorial image.
And we that aim to derail his plans are called everything but late for dinner by an equally self-absorbed media. An organ that has grown bloat lazy, doubling and redoubling down on this attempt on freedom with all its power. They know that a biased media is the only type of media that survives a dictatorship.
They also know they HAVE to be on the winning side this time, 'cause they are, in poker terms, 'all in'. Technology has advanced sufficient to make them obsolete and shoved off into the margins should their side lose.
Liberal intelligentsia, feel that vibration in your ivory towers? That is a vote saw....
NVCon.. apologies, not at thte top of my game w/o coffee. Hope this helped.
Well, I don't know about anyone else...
Submitted by stage9 on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 12:07pm.
...but that's why I'm voting this November; because I'm eager to pollute some rivers and release some terrorists!
(wipes hand down face)
"If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner." — Malcolm Muggeridge
Bye Bye, WaPo....
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 12:11pm.
Bye Bye, WaPo....
These people are to be pitied!!
Submitted by Patriot II on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 1:06pm.
They better read the bible and see what happens to liars in the next life.......they will NOT like it!
The best thing the new Congress
Submitted by auldsailor362 on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 1:08pm.
could do is abolish ALL Federal Unions. After all, we do not allow the military to unionize, and their civil liberties are far more circumscribed than anything a "civil servant" could imagine.
The AFGE and the ASCME particularly are pimples on the butt of the progress of the country to getting control of the economy. Next in line would be the Teachers Unions, who do little or nothing for the classroom teacher but do a great deal for their leadership, both local and national. Case in point, the teacher in Toledo who had already been laid off, was recruited to be the shill at the signing of Obamas most recent give away to the union, came back and still was not reinstated. Seems like the union could have done something to help her out, but they didn't.
When I was young Unions were somewhat necessary, as a apprentic machinist I think my first job was .50/ hour raised to 1.50 after 6 months, but that was then, when work was done with your hands, owners were in many cases, reluctant to pay well and you advanced on skill. Now a machine operator only pushes the start button after someone else sets up the job. Useless.
But lets start with Federal/State/City employees. If they reall want to 'serve the public' they will, if they just want a sinicure its called a union.
Maybe in Bizarro world...
Submitted by Phryj1 on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 1:30pm.
...but here in real life, it's Obama and the Dems who are ALREADY DOING THOSE THINGS.
The Obama Admin. intentionally let safety regs slip and allowed Deepwater Horizon to operate without safety equipment, in an attempt to muster the political will to shut down the fossil fuel industry. I wouldn't put it past him to do the same with coal mines.
Obama and other Dems are notoriously soft on terrorists. This actually goes back to the 90's when terrorists were viewed as a law enforcement problem rather than a serious national security threat that warranted full cooperation of law enforcement, intelligence agencies, and the military. Seeing it as a minor law enforcement concern was the exact reason that we were unable to prevent the 9/11 attacks. Well, that and stupid Slick Willie refusing the Sudan's offer to arrest Bin Laden and his lieutenants and turn them over to us in 1996.
Obama and friends are also completely lax on border and immigration enforcement. It's a sick game they play to get votes by pandering to Hispanics.
So, there you go. I'm now even more convinced that we need a Constitutional amendment both limiting the power and influence of unions, and functioning as a federal "Right-to-Work" law.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
"Quality"?
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"And returning veterans? Give them a cheap voucher instead of a quality VA hospital." From what I've seen in exposes on VA hospitals, "quality" isn't what they're selling or giving away. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/04/AR2007030401394.html With few exceptions, private industry does a far better, more efficient job than government.China Wholesaler Town -
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