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Blue clickies are your friend. I'd rather hear your thoughts here, rather than have you simply parrot stuff from FreeperLand. Shows you're thinking about what you said, you know.....

We all know MSM sucks goat balls.

There's a "lot of stuff 'we' know that just ain't so." But the MSM gets the vast majority of the facts right. There's cases where they're perhaps a bit too willing to spout the latest RNC "talking points" unrebutted, or perhaps they've gotten just too lazy. But FWIW, Deborah Howell did finally 'admit' that her facts were wrong about Abramoff giving to Democrats ('facts' that were curiously identical to what the Republicans have been pushing through the Mighty Wurlitzer like it's the only song they know for weeks now) ... and it did take a bunch of screaming by liberals to get her to do even that.... As for the commentatirs and columnists, there's where you start to get a bit farther afield from the facts ... and generally to the benefit of the 'story' the RNC is trying to push. But, if you read enough actual articles, you can get a pretty good idea of what's going on.

Perhaps you have your favourite stories of MSM incompetence. If so, out with 'em and we'll look to see if your charges have any truth to them.... I'll be waiting here.

DeLay's most vocal accusers include a cluster of self-styled "ethics watchdog" groups, among which Common Cause, Democracy 21, Public Citizen, Public Campaign and The Campaign Legal Center have special prominence.(9)

You sure picked a noteworthy horse to hitch your cart to there. DeLay's "most vocal accusers" would surely include Texas DA Earle, the grand jury that indicted him, the House Ethics committee that cited him for multiple ethics violations, and last but not least, the people of his supposedly rock-ribbed bastion of Republicanism, Sugarland, who would favour "any Democrat" over DeLay 49% to 36%. In fact, it's a pretty rocky road for that paragon of Republican values, who's such a good buddy with Jack Abramoff, and an exemplar of Republican family values, so much so that he offered lobbyist the chance to pour champagne all over his daughter in a hot tub. Yesindeedy, you got a good one there. I wouldn't fault you for following behind DeLay and sniffing his posterior, all the way through the gates of Leavenworth.....

All of the above-named groups have received large contributions from Soros' Open Society Institute. Common Cause has received $650,000; Democracy 21, $300,000; Public Citizen, $275,000; and Public Campaign, $1.3 million.(10) The Campaign Legal Center acknowledges on its Web site that it too has received "generous financial support" from the Open Society Institute as well as from other leftwing foundations.

Imagine that. Some one has the balls to say "Enough's enough" with all this Republican cronyism, corruption, and graft, and has the measn to try and do something about it.

In March of this year, the activist group Campaign for America's Future (CAF) joined forces with the Public Campaign Action Fund to launch a $75,000 TV ad campaign in targeted Congressional districts, portraying Tom DeLay as corrupt.

Easy work, I'd say. But you may be right; DeLay's goose may be burnt to a crisp already, and it might be smart to reallocate the money to some of the many other corrupt Republicans. Thanks for the tip.

Both partners in the anti-DeLay ad campaign have received heavy funding from Soros. CAF � a subsidiary of the Institute for America's Future (IAF) � has received more than $300,000 from Soros' Open Society Institute. The other partner, the Public Campaign Action Fund, is an affiliate of the afore-mentioned Public Campaign, which has received $1.3 million from Soros.(11)

The propaganda din from Soros-sponsored "watchdog" groups helps feed the ever-hungry media with anti-Delay stories.

Ummm, the person responsible for all the Delay "stories" is DeLay.

The Soros Book Machine

The Soros Noise Machine also struck through an investigative book called The Hammer: God, Money and the Rise of the Republican Congress, written by two Texas journalists named Lou Dubose and Jan Reid.

And good journalists too. Unlike the crap that Regnery Press puts out.

Co-author Dubose appears as a commentator in the still-unfinished documentary film The Big Buy, in which leftwing filmmakers Mark Birnbaum and Jim Schermbeck chronicle Ronnie Earle's pursuit of Tom DeLay.(12)

Did you have a point? Oh, IC. You're disappointed that there's no conservatives or Republicans who have come forth to denounce DeLay and his sleaze. Imagine that. But then again, they don't call him "The Hammer" for nothing, and if he can't buy your support (like he did with that one Republican congressman who was balking but finally "saw the light"), he'll put you on the s***-list and you'll never see the inside of a committee room again (or any pork for your district, or they'll run someone against you next primary and dump tons of funding on them). Unfortunately for DeLay, he may have to adjust his 'bribery' tactics in the future towards keeping his fat a$$ from belonging to some really nasty con.....

OBTW, what did FreeperVille have to say about the "Dukester" ... before he pleaded guilty, that is?

Dubose's and Reid's book The Hammer was published in October 2004 by Public Affairs Books of New York, an imprint of The Perseus Books Group, which in turn is owned by Perseus LLC, a merchant bank and fund management company, with offices in New York and Washington, DC.

The chairman and CEO of Perseus LLC, Frank H. Pearl, also happens to be the founder and chairman of Perseus Books. More to the point, Mr. Pearl and Mr. Soros are business partners, whose collaborations include such ventures as Perseus-Soros Management LLC, Perseus-Soros Partners LLC and Perseus-Soros Biopharmaceutical Fund.

Given the close partnership between these two men, we should hardly be surprised to learn that Mr. Pearl's Public Affairs book imprint � the same imprint which published the anti-DeLay title The Hammer � also happens to have published many books by George Soros, including The Crisis of Global Capitalism, Underwriting Democracy, George Soros on Globalization, The Bubble of American Supremacy and the forthcoming George Soros on Freedom.

Did you have a point?

Transparency

The money trail strongly suggests that George Soros is implicated in the plot to frame Tom DeLay.

Gonna say it's a frame job when they frog-march him off? Say, did you hear that it was Abramoff who was reportedly shopping pictures around of Abramoff and Dubya? You Republicans just don't know how to pick your friends, eh? But I imagine that story must, considering that Abramoff has copped a plea, be making DeLay's sphincter pucker like a old two-bit whore's desperate lips....

NOTES

1. Marc Morano, "Soros Conviction for Insider Trading Upheld in French Court," Cybercast News Service (CNSnews.com), March 24, 2005

Oh, yeah. "Cybercast News Service". Another in the line of "Jeff Gannon/Guckert" faux "news outlets" pretending to be something other than cheap shills for the Republicans.

2. Lou Dubose, "Senatorial Courtesy: Will John McCain Let Republican Perps Walk?", The Texas Observer, August 26, 2005

3. Sharon Kehnemul Liss, "DeLay Blasts `Leftwing Syndicate'", FoxNews.com, April 20, 2005; Richard Poe, "The Soros Noise Machine," MoonbatCentral.com, March 20, 2005

ROFLMAO. Faux Snooze. Right. The ones that put on the liar Hannity, and Mr. "Loofah"/"I won a Peabody"/"Shut up, shut up, shut UP!" O'Reilly. The name for the other site speaks for itself.

4. Andrew C. McCarthy, "Ronnie Earle Should Not be a Prosecutor", National Review Online, October 6, 2005; Byron York, "Dollars for Dismissals," National Review Online, June 20, 2005; Peter Flaherty, "Texas Smear Machine Targets DeLay", Cybercast News Service (CNSNews.com), September 23, 2004

The National Review Online. Opinion columns there. Say, when I said references, I didn't mean circular ones. At some point, the references should point to something other than opinion pieces; you know, like a real, straight-up, news article?

5. "Hammer Time: Ronnie Earle Finally Gets His Man," The Wall Street Journal Online (OpinionJournal.com), September 29, 2005

The WSJ is interesting. The actual news there is pretty straight-forward, and on the up-and-up. The editorial pages is filled with the fulminations of RW hacks. I will give them credit; they do keep the two separated. But don't make the mistake of using the WSJ's news credibility to prop up its editorial staff.

6. S.C. Gwynne,"The Daughter Also Rises",Texas Monthly, August 2004, p 112; David Horowitz and Richard Poe, "The Shadow Party" (Parts I-III), FrontPageMagazine.com, October 6, 7, 11, 2004

7. Cliff Kincaid, "George Soros and the Press", Accuracy in Media (AIM.org), April 13, 2005; Ed Morrisey, "Inside McCain's Reform Institute", Captain's Quarters, March 9, 2005; Richard Poe, "John McCain Gets Soros Cash," MoonbatCentral.com, March 10, 2005

"Captain's Quarters", eh? Cap'n Ed claimed he was for robust discussion, but when I got under the skin of his sycophantic hangers-on over there, he banned me. Since then it's tunred into pretty much a circle-jerk of the latest in Republican talking points. As Ed's "fame" has grown, he's sold his soul to Satan. As long as he spouts the party line, they invite him to all kinds of ERW thingies, like their "Justice Sunday" screechfest with all the Dominionists singing Hallelujah at the thought of a Republican/Jesus alliance to herald the new millenium....

8. Richard Poe, "Pewgate: Battle of the Blogosphere," FrontPageMagazine.com, March 25, 2005

Another RW screech machine.

9. Alexander Bolton, "Watchdogs in Soros's Pocket: GOP," The Hill (CNSnews.com), March 23, 2005; Michelle Malkin, "Wobbly Watchdogs," michellemalkin.com, June 22, 2004

Oh. Ms. Malkin. The "Kerry shot himself on purpose" wingnut. She's never apologised for that hackery. After all, it's her duty to sling mud for the party, why apologise?

10. "The Soros Agenda: Free Speech for Billionaires Only," The Wall Street Journal Online (OpinionJournal.com), January 3, 2004

11. Anne E. Kornblut, "DeLay's Critics are Numerous, So He Sees a Conspiracy," San Francisco Chronicle, October 2, 2005

Ahhh, yes. A voice of sanity here. Reporting the news. Everyone (or at least most rational people) thinks that Delay's a crook and a slimeball, so, according to DeLay, they're crazy and he's the Virgin Mary.

12. Byron York, "Coming Soon, the Ronnie Earle Movie," National Review Online, September 29, 2005; Byron York, "The Movie: Ronnie Earle on a Mission from God," National Review Online, September 30, 2005

Strange that all your news seems to come only from certified Republican-Approved(TM) sources. No wonder you don't seem to know what's going on.

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Yep, a Freeper reader (if not participant). You know, over there, they censor anyone who pokes holes in their "arguments". Here, unfortunately for you, you'll have to face some opposition ... and a dose of reality. Hey, I'll give you a chance: You can dump DeLay right now, and I won't hold it against you when he goes up the river. OK? Same deal for Bob Ney, Bill Frist, Ken Blackwell, Tom Noe, Richard Pombo, Conrad Burns, etc....

Cheers,