What is Digg?Sponsored by Microsoft
Microsoft responds to the headlines. view!
microsoft.com/everybodysbusiness - Read our developers’ points of view on the headlines making news.
70 Comments
- eddywin, on 09/05/2008, -1/+47and the idiots of america believe this garbage
- keigwyn, on 09/05/2008, -1/+35No surprises there.
Obama has shown some serious strength in going before FOX and O'Reilly, where he knew he would be asked the most difficult questions and grilled on non-issues, broadcast to an unfriendly and biased audience. And he came out looking pretty good.
This kind of strength is needed in the Oval Office, the most powerful position in the world. McCain wouldn't go in front of Larry King and CNN because of tough questions about Palin's role in the Alaskan National Guard. A President can't say to a foreign nation "I don't like the questions you are asking me, they are unfair." - ihavenobias, on 09/05/2008, -1/+283 Recent Hirings By Fox News:
1)-Karl Rove
2)-Mike Huckabee
3)-Laura Ingraham
Fair and balanced? That's laughable. - VulcanMike, on 09/05/2008, -1/+27Amazing! Almost word for word... four years later, same smears... this video should make it clear that you are being manipulated if you watch FOX News.
- Bevo1, on 09/05/2008, -1/+23“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” Joseph Goebbels.
“A lie told often enough becomes truth” Vladimir Lenin.
I sense a pattern here. It's pretty obvious there's a connection between the Republicans and these two guys..... - cactuskiller, on 09/05/2008, -1/+23"It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success."
--Joseph Goebbels - cici102, on 09/05/2008, -2/+24i am a woman and palin would NEVER represent me. and she is SO NOT the most qualified - Mcsame was pandering, thinking that he could just replace a history making, proven woman like hillary with just another "skirt" and get me to vote for him and her. Well, he is wrong. I am a woman and a single mom and palin, and mccain too, can never represent me:
she would do even more harm than bush to the environment
she does not believe in global warming - same coloring book as bush again
she wants to drill everywhere
her running mate has NEVER voted for alternative energy
she laughs when other women are called bit__ on a public radio
she is a member of the AIP that thinks it can start its own country
she is OK with book banning and will bully librarians to get her way
she has hacked into computers in campaigns to get her way
she was before the bridge before she was against it and "forgot" that
she has troopergate and now wants to transfer the case to her cronies
she thinks God ordained the war
she left her town $27 million in debt - a town of LESS than 10,000
she HAS used lobbyist - we are just supposed to ignore that fact
her running mate VOTED AGAINST equal pay for equal work
mccain and his family spent $900,000 on ONE credit vcard in ONE month - he has no clue about the economy
mccain wants to, and VOTED for privatization of social security - my parents depend on that!
mccane health care - the cost for a famly of four for insurance is $13,000 A YEAR by a recent study - he will give you a $5000 tax credit - and tax any benefits from employers. Does he think the insurance companies are just going to suddenly LOWER their costs.
his probable financial advisor - phil graham - thinks all this is in our heads!
as a woman - i say NO WAY. and there needs to be vetting, and public discourse. i AM SICK of sound bites - she "has done so much" - what??????? when she was mayor WE ARE TALKING LESS THAN 1000 PEOPLE WHO ELECTED HER - that needs to be known. Alaska has a population SMALLER THAN Columbus, Ohio - true fact. And she has 18 months experience.
and tax breaks - Obama will cut the taxes for anyone making less than $250,000, eliminate capital gains tax on small businesses AND the low income elderly will pay NO taxes. ONLY the very rich (at least to little old me) will get an increase.
HOW ABOUT REPORTING ON SARAH PALIN BILLO - THERE IS SURE A LOT OF STUFF TO LOOK AT - sethrothompson, on 09/05/2008, -1/+19It pretty much comes down to... if you buy this crap or not. Those of us who have actual brains don't. Republicans? I can't say the same. They're like sheep following their herd master.
- RoroCo, on 09/05/2008, -1/+19Fox News is the main reason the US media gets such a bad rap.....?
- sassce, on 09/05/2008, -1/+19Hey Fox News, got a question for ya
Where is fairness? Where is the balance?
If we are being honest, if we are really telling it like its, what we have here is the RSB
Otherwise known as the Republican Swift Boating Network
NOT THIS TIME YOU CONSERVATIVE RIGHT WING NUTS!!!! - kellsmom, on 09/05/2008, -1/+17Not to mention the fact that not one member of the media has picked up on the Sarah Palin's pastor story--that just a few weeks ago Palin sat through a sermon by an invited guest to her church who talked of the reason Israel DESERVES terrorist attacks. Spread the word to the Floridians.
- mrtwitter, on 09/05/2008, -1/+17Spread the word!
- suncapsol, on 09/05/2008, -1/+17Why is it that some people can only see out of one side of their glasses. Everyone is screaming about how poor Sarah has been attacked by the liberal media; but they can't see what Fox News and the Karl Roves of this country are doing to "swift boat" Obama.
- my2greatgirls, on 09/05/2008, -1/+16Even my republican Dad who was a regular Fox news viewer for years finally got sick of them this election cycle and has stopped watching.
- jjoh, on 09/05/2008, -1/+16It was amazing watching O'Reilly interrupting Obama with such belligerancy to prevent him from clarifying the facts behind the intentional right wing distortions. The RNC's new startegy for this election? Resort to devious tactics to fool the American public into voting for them. What a shame. Wake up people before it is too late.
- pox05, on 09/05/2008, -1/+15same old tactics, thats great, exactly what we need. no change in the news...
whats next, Bush's speech writers writing a speech for the "change bringing" republicans? OH WAIT, THEY DID WRITE PALIN'S ACCEPTANCE SPEECH! thanks Matthew Scully - Ebonsteel, on 09/05/2008, -0/+14Anyone stupid enough to still be watching FOX News at this point and believing their lies has something very seriously wrong with them.
- LBobRife, on 09/05/2008, -1/+1213% of Americans still believe he's a muslim? Who are these people?
- gasgirl, on 09/05/2008, -1/+11Is there something wrong with an Ivy League education. I wish I had one. And it is for damn sure better than a degree from the University of Idaho, like Sarah Palin's.
- Ebonsteel, on 09/05/2008, -0/+9That's because John McCain can't control his temper and he is easily flustered. Softball questions can throw him for a loop. Could you picture him if he had a serious interviewer asking him questions?
If he can't take the heat from Larry-Freakin-King, can you picture how badly he'd cave under pressure if he were in the Oval Office? - JenniferInMO, on 09/05/2008, -1/+10Let this energize you. Look what we are up against!
It may have worked last time, but not this time. Talk to everyone you know about Obama. Make engage your parents, grandparents, friends, coworkers. Don't tip-toe around politics, but don't fight. Just taut the benefits of change. No one can deny that McCain is 4 more of the same past 8. Ask them if they are better off now. Ask them if Iraq was a good idea, ask them if they think we have made progress in getting off of foreign oil (other than the last year's attempt to allow our oil companies to drill more at home?). Even if they are hesitant about whether Obama can deliver, ask them if we can afford not to give him a chance.
Call, canvass, donate, DIGG, don't allow your pastors at church to sing the praises of the McCain candidacy just becaue Palin is rabidly anti-choice. Do not allow this to be a one issue election for people. Get others involved in the campaign. - JekJob, on 09/05/2008, -1/+10"One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting." —George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia, 1938
"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: You liberate a city by destroying it. Words are used to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests." —Gore Vidal, Imperial America, 2004 - brandonchicago, on 09/05/2008, -1/+10Pull the plug on 'em. Or label them what they are, a tabloid.
- SgtCedar, on 09/05/2008, -1/+10Faux News never changes.
- stoplies, on 09/05/2008, -2/+10Anyone who does not know Fox News is spinning out bias right-wing propaganda is out of touch with reality. Fox News along with other news outlets owned by the extreme right-wing ideologue, Rupert Murdoch and his News Corporation are all busy spewing out right-wing propaganda. This includes but is not limited to: Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, Barrons, MarketWatch.com, The Weekly Standard and The New York Post. All these news outlets, at the very least, in their editorial and opinion policy are highly bias in favor of the Republicans. They all, also, abet the Republican 'jeer, fear, and smear' machine.
- psy333che, on 09/06/2008, -1/+9 Karl Rove is also working with McCain along with Fox news which is a conflict of interest... but that is what they do Lie and Cheat
Bush sent Rove go to McCain to keep the Republicans in the White House so we can have more of their F____ED up ability to ruin everything and also poor management of our country the last 8 years
The sad part is that they do not care about the people they care about the oil and the corporations - Rutabaga64, on 09/06/2008, -1/+8Isn't it interesting that there was all this whining on the right about Obama being a "rock star," yet it's okay that Sarah Palin is being described the same way? Further Republican hypocrisy.
- dali718, on 09/06/2008, -1/+7The same people who watch FOX news are the same people who eight years ago wanted a president to have a beer with. Now they want a vice president to have a mooseburger with. Is that all it takes to get people to vote against their own interests?
- keigwyn, on 09/06/2008, -1/+7Remember, it is not only right-wing propaganda, it is propaganda from corporate America who has a vested interest in keeping the status quo and the people ignorant.
- inactive, on 09/05/2008, -1/+7***** FOX NEWS!
- JenniferInMO, on 09/05/2008, -0/+5Yes, because America loves a train wreck so they watch Fox, their ratings go up and the other 24 hour networks scramble to try to recreate what FOX does to grasp at marketshare. CBS and NBC are doing some quality work -- far from perfect, and far from consistent, but there have been some excellent, somewhat in depth pieces and they have aired stories that would NEVER make it on the 24/hr cable networks. Start watching CBS and NBC and praise them whenever they are good boys. Maybe we can bring back a little bit of journalistic excellence somewhere.
- superman4ever, on 09/05/2008, -1/+6OMG! This is completely and utterly infuriating. My G-d!
- JenniferInMO, on 09/05/2008, -0/+5They have taken a playbook from the masters and it has worked throughout history so why not keep it up? Obama's ability to stay on message and to allow the surrogates, his supporters and now some great documentary filmmakers to help out is a good plan. He must stay above the fray and we must call out the lies as often as we can, but the freight train that Obama is leading is more organized and more powerful this time. We just can't get down with the negatives. McCain is 4 more of the last 8, he and Palin have nothing to offer except "anti-obama" Obama is all about solid workable plans for change.
- JenniferInMO, on 09/05/2008, -0/+5It worked last time.
- USArugula, on 09/20/2008, -0/+4A Conservative for Obama
My party has slipped its moorings. It’s time for a true pragmatist to lead the country.
Leading Off By Wick Allison, EDITOR IN CHIEF
THE MORE I LISTEN TO AND READ ABOUT “the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate,” the more I like him. Barack Obama strikes a chord with me like no political figure since Ronald Reagan. To explain why, I need to explain why I am a conservative and what it means to me.
In 1964, at the age of 16, I organized the Dallas County Youth for Goldwater. My senior thesis at the University of Texas was on the conservative intellectual revival in America. Twenty years later, I was invited by William F. Buckley Jr. to join the board of National Review. I later became its publisher.
Conservatism to me is less a political philosophy than a stance, a recognition of the fallibility of man and of man’s institutions. Conservatives respect the past not for its antiquity but because it represents, as G.K. Chesterton said, the democracy of the dead; it gives the benefit of the doubt to customs and laws tried and tested in the crucible of time. Conservatives are skeptical of abstract theories and utopian schemes, doubtful that government is wiser than its citizens, and always ready to test any political program against actual results.
Liberalism always seemed to me to be a system of “oughts.” We ought to do this or that because it’s the right thing to do, regardless of whether it works or not. It is a doctrine based on intentions, not results, on feeling good rather than doing good.
But today it is so-called conservatives who are cemented to political programs when they clearly don’t work. The Bush tax cuts—a solution for which there was no real problem and which he refused to end even when the nation went to war—led to huge deficit spending and a $3 trillion growth in the federal debt. Facing this, John McCain pumps his “conservative” credentials by proposing even bigger tax cuts. Meanwhile, a movement that once fought for limited government has presided over the greatest growth of government in our history. That is not conservatism; it is profligacy using conservatism as a mask.
Today it is conservatives, not liberals, who talk with alarming bellicosity about making the world “safe for democracy.” It is John McCain who says America’s job is to “defeat evil,” a theological expansion of the nation’s mission that would make George Washington cough out his wooden teeth.
This kind of conservatism, which is not conservative at all, has produced financial mismanagement, the waste of human lives, the loss of moral authority, and the wreckage of our economy that McCain now threatens to make worse.
Barack Obama is not my ideal candidate for president. (In fact, I made the maximum donation to John McCain during the primaries, when there was still hope he might come to his senses.) But I now see that Obama is almost the ideal candidate for this moment in American history. I disagree with him on many issues. But those don’t matter as much as what Obama offers, which is a deeply conservative view of the world. Nobody can read Obama’s books (which, it is worth noting, he wrote himself) or listen to him speak without realizing that this is a thoughtful, pragmatic, and prudent man. It gives me comfort just to think that after eight years of George W. Bush we will have a president who has actually read the Federalist Papers.
Most important, Obama will be a realist. I doubt he will taunt Russia, as McCain has, at the very moment when our national interest requires it as an ally. The crucial distinction in my mind is that, unlike John McCain, I am convinced he will not impulsively take us into another war unless American national interests are directly threatened.
“Every great cause,” Eric Hoffer wrote, “begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” As a cause, conservatism may be dead. But as a stance, as a way of making judgments in a complex and difficult world, I believe it is very much alive in the instincts and predispositions of a liberal named Barack Obama.
Original: http://www.dmagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?nm=Core+Pa ... - JenniferInMO, on 09/05/2008, -1/+5Apparently you get your information from Fox. I wish you people would actually go to the candidate's web sites and pull up the issues section and just read a little
- retired05, on 09/06/2008, -2/+6Foreclosure Phil—
Who's to blame for the biggest financial catas¬trophe of our time? There are plenty of cul¬prits, but one candidate for lead perp is former Sen. Phil Gramm. Eight years ago, as part of a decades long anti regulatory crusade, Gramm pulled a sly legislative maneuver that greased the way to the multibillion dollar subprime meltdown. Yet has Gramm been banished from the corridors of power? Reviled as the villain who bankrupted Middle America? Hardly. Now a well paid execu¬tive at a Swiss bank, Gramm co-chairs Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign and advises the Republican candidate on economic matters. He's been mentioned as a possible Treasury secretary should McCain win. That's right: A guy who helped screw up the global financial sys¬tem could end up in charge of US economic policy. Talk about a market failure.
—David Corn, Mother Jones, July/August 2008 - SgtCedar, on 09/05/2008, -0/+3I went to the University of Chicago. They teach you how to think not to memorize specific facts. You can learn to think at a community college. The University of Idaho may be a fine school. I wonder if they want to claim her now?
- JohnnySoftware, on 09/06/2008, -1/+4Reduce, recycle, REUSE. See? They ARE conservative!
- thejimmyo, on 09/20/2008, -0/+2From the AP:
" WASHINGTON — One in 10 voters believes Barack Obama is Muslim, a mistaken impression that lingers across party lines, a poll showed Wednesday.
Fourteen percent of Republicans, 10 percent of Democrats and 8 percent of independents mistakenly think he is Muslim, according to a survey by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center. Just over half of each group correctly identified him as Christian, while about a third said they don't know his religion.
[...]
Conservatives, less educated voters and white evangelical Protestants are likelier to believe Obama is Muslim, as are people from the South, the Midwest and rural areas, the poll showed. Nearly a quarter of white Democrats with unfavorable views of Obama say he is Muslim though overall, blacks are about as likely as whites to hold the misconception."
http://www.ajc.com/highschool/content/news/stories ... - inactive, on 10/10/2008, -0/+2It's up to US to make sure they don't get away with this crap this time....stay involved, donate,volunteer and talk to and email friends about the TRUE MCCAIN!!! Key points: Vets gave McCain a "D" grade for his voting against their issues and Obama got a "B". Obama IS NOT GOING TO RAISE TAXES ON SMALL BUSINESS OR WORKING CLASS PEOPLE....NOBODY WILL SEE A TAX INCREASE THAT MAKES LESS THAN 250,000 DOLLARS!!!!!!! OBAMA '08
- DKgatsby, on 09/06/2008, -1/+3It is depressing that there are going to be a lot of people who people this garbage. Seriously depressing
- doctorgrim, on 11/06/2008, -0/+2Morons like loganro, robthom, and fastang eat this crap up and ask for seconds. Turn off the idiot box people.
- bluangel, on 09/06/2008, -2/+4We must spread the word to all who want to abolish this fascist administration and their minions, such as these at the FAKE NEWS NETWORK. The only way we will be able to take back our country is by not letting these people do the same thing to Sen. Obama that they did to John Kerry in '04. Senator Obama is doing his best by facing them and standing up to them but he needs our help. SEND THIS OUT WHEREVER YOU CAN. SPREAD THE WORD!!!!!!!
- gretamelina37, on 09/16/2008, -0/+2Factcheck.org, you douche. Find out more about your lying,slimy candidate.
- bitfreak, on 10/23/2008, -0/+1I'd like to see McCain man-up and go on MSNBC, with either Olbermann or Maddow. That would be roughly equivalent to Obama facing O'Reilly.
NEVER gonna happen. McCain would destroy himself with his own stumbling words. - zybez, on 10/25/2008, -0/+1This is all Rupert Murdoch's fault. He's the one that owns Fox and many other media companies.
- Fighter4Freedom, on 11/04/2008, -0/+1people like you should be in the direct line of fire when it comes to the effects Mccain would cause!
- dinsy, on 10/28/2008, -0/+1http://www.pennypresslv.com/Obama%27s_Use_of_Hidde ...
- loveburritos, on 10/17/2008, -0/+1punks, do they kiss their mothers with those mouths!?
-
Show 51 - 73 of 73 discussions
The Digg Toolbar for Firefox lets you Digg, submit content, and keep track of Digg even when you're not on the Digg site. Download the official 
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is