– I don’t know how long term a victory it is, but Shell is out of Arctic drilling for now.
– Tim Eyman not being willing to go on TV to talk about his latest shitty initiative warms my heart.
– It is time to get very afraid: Extremists, authoritarians now run the GOP — and no one can stop them
– My Grandfather And The Plane That Changed Seattle
– Right Wing Fantasy Obama: What Really Happened To John Boehner?
– I could watch that Richard Sherman punt return on a loop for ever.
http://nypost.com/2015/09/23/h.....book-says/
Usually when a DUMMOCRETIN denies a Heilary action, the next few weeks proves them wrong!
@1 I really don’t follow what you are saying….but I know by me saying this that I am not going to get any clarification from you on what you are saying, you are simply going to tell me I am stupid, right?
Anyways, this guy Klein, who I don’t know from Adam or Eve, could have authored the Bible too.
And, what if any of it is true, does it really matter or any evidence of anything criminal in nature? And wouldn’t this contradict your claims that the Obama Administration colludes with the Hillary on protecting her.
Why do you put yourself in a schizophrenic pretzel all the time?
Puffy this is the guy you believe in? The Post previously criticized this guy for false facts..
From Wikipedia….Klein has been criticized for his biography of Hillary Clinton, titled, The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She’ll Go to Become President, which was released on June 21, 2005. Politico criticized the book for “serious factual errors, truncated and distorted quotes and overall themes [that] don’t gibe with any other serious accounts of Clinton’s life.”[9] The book was attacked not only by liberals, but by conservatives as well. John Podhoretz wrote in the New York Post, “Thirty pages into it, I wanted to take a shower. Sixty pages into it, I wanted to be decontaminated. And 200 pages into it, I wanted someone to drive stakes through my eyes so I wouldn’t have to suffer through another word.”[10] In National Review James Geraghty wrote, “Folks, there are plenty of arguments against Hillary Clinton, her policies, her views, her proposals, and her philosophies. This stuff ain’t it. Nobody on the right, left, or center ought to stoop to this level.”[11]
Kathryn Jean Lopez of National Review asked Klein in a June 20, 2005 interview, “Why on earth would you put such a terrible story in your book…that looks to be flimsily sourced at that?,” regarding his suggestion that Chelsea Clinton was conceived in an act of marital rape.[12] Facing criticism from both the left and right for making the claim, Klein eventually backed away from the insinuation in an interview with radio host Jim Bohannon on June 23, 2005[13]
The British newspaper The Guardian pointed out a number of verifiable factual errors in Klein’s 2014 book “Blood Feud”.[14]
Questions of credibility of sources in work[edit]
Klein has also come under fire for his use of anonymous quotes, purported to be from the subjects of his books, which he claims he received from anonymous insiders. The credibility of such quotes has been questioned by writers such as Joe Conason,[15] Salon’s Simon Malloy [16] and conservative commentators Rush Limbaugh[17] and Peggy Noonan.[18] “Some of the quotes strike me as odd, in the sense that I don’t know people who speak this way,” Limbaugh said of Klein’s work, describing the sources as “grade school chatter.”
You mine as well be reading the National Enquirer. Or some other tabloid, like Faux News
If you stick with DU you might get the facts and only facts.
You are one fucking moron.
And before you think I am defending Hillary, think again, because you would be wrong.
Where the Fuck is Bob?
@2&3
Yet Piddles believes that a meeting between Hillary Clinton and President Obama in the Oval Office LONG AFTER Clinton left the administration a: happened b: was held with lots of witnesses c: was leaked about by one of those witnesses to Klein.
Klein, as you’ve pointed out, is a serial fictionalist. But people like Piddles will buy the book and beleive every word of it because anything that reinforces the preconcieved notions of a conservative is….THE ONE TRUE FAITH!
Because the conservatives are becoming ever increasing extremists, does that force liberals to be more progressive to counter them? To keep a balance
@6 unfortunately fight fire with fire, be progressive and as nasty as possible. Although Bob seems to be in hiding.
“My message is that the counterclaim,” said Hanauer, who was one of the initial investors in Amazon, “which is that if wages go up, employment will go down—is a scam. It’s a con job. It’s an intimidation tactic. There is absolutely no evidence anywhere that it’s true. On the contrary, where you find high wages you usually find low unemployment. ”
http://thedailybanter.com/2015.....on-tactic/
As in, one of the fundamental law of capitalism is: when workers have more money, businesses have more customers, and need more workers. Why is that so hard for the greedy to admit?
The pope thinks government officials should have the right to discriminate against Catholics because their church has raped thousands of children.
@myself
Think the scenario through since Piddles hasn’t. Never mind that even a noted right winger Podhoretz has weighed in on Klein being a serial fictionalist. Never mind that fact checkers have had a field day with Klein’s previous books.
Klein spent 300+ pages in a previous work describing how the Clintons and the Obamas LOATH each other.
So it goes like this.
Clinton is no longer in the Administration and President Obama never has to deal with the bitch he loathes again.
President Obama loathes her so much that his underlings start leaking stories to ensure that she won’t ever be president.
Hillary Clinton finds out about it and requests an Oval Office meeting with President Obama who she loathes and he loathes her and President Obama never has to deal with her again.
President Obama, “Sure, we can meet, how’s next Tuesday?”
“Yissir, Regnery Publishing. I’ll buy ALL your stuff. Does it say Barack is the Anti-Christ. I want more. Tell me how he eats live fetus soup. I believe you. Can I get you some slippers? Fetch your paper. Give us a treat.” Piddles, or words to that effect, tail wagging. “I can sit up and beg, wanna see me sit up and beg, you’d like my beg, yes you would!”
Observation of political effectiveness:
House Speaker & de facto leader of the GOP, John Boehner, accomplished nothing in 5 years before being forced out of his elected position by “false prophets”.
Kshama Sawant, the lone Socialist Seattle city council woman, led the fight for successful city legislation on:
1) minimum wage increase
2) rent control
and led the successful fight to keep Shell oil out of Seattle ports.
Hmmmm
@6
Yes, they already have.
So, the Fascists choice for Speaker of the House is none other than Daniel Webster, a hard-line Christian Dominionist who follows serial child abuser Bill Gothard’s ministry of misogynistic hate, where childhood curiosity and play are denounced as a major sin, and children who exhibit curiosity by asking questions are beaten and punished for being demonic.
Gothard belongs in prison, many times over. His “ministry” has openly promoted its own version of Jesus Boot Camp for teenagers who step out of their parent’s teaching, and these “camps” have been connected with several suicides, murders and torturing of young people who have parents who believe in the Cult.
Gothard has been successfully sued several times in this regard, and continues to make huge amounts of money operating these literal torture camps for children. They are very, very profitable. Every time the social services organizations start sniffing around, Gothard just changes the name and Corporate organization operating these camps, and continues on operating as before. He’s been doing this for decades.
The Third Reich in Christian Colors. “It is all part of Gods Plan for America”.
@10 that last paragraph is awesome.
@13 Heil Daniel! Heil, mein Führer!
Bob?????
Saudi Arabia pushing down oil prices had more to do with Shell leaving the Arctic (for now) than any local actions.
@16, Revenue minus Cost equals (=) Profit or Loss
There’s no single side of an equation superior to the other. QED “=”
just saying
@17- not arguing, just pointing out where market prices are now. Low gas prices are good for the consumer but bad for all relatively more expensive sources of energy.
This is one boring thread.
@1 While the article is probably more untrue than true there is a kernel of truth in there. While Congress is partly driving it there it does not appear that the White House is doing much to mitigate the damage and is staying at arms length, and while much may just be the bureaucracy at work in multiple agencies just doing their job this maybe Chicago politics working or oddly not working and being inept in dealing with the bureaucracy.
Similar to the Berghdahl situation the President and the White House spoke well of the Sergeant when the swap was made. It didn’t seem to have spent the political capital to insure the Sergeant got the ticker tape parade and medals and put on the speaking tour or quietly shown the door. The Army is very capable of doing either and there are ways for the White House to insure its version of the facts is the version the Army supports and political capital should have been expended in the Berghdahl situation for everyone to put on a happy face, but wasn’t and now there is a bit of egg on the White House faces, and we may or may not have a Berghdahl court martial. While a lot will be done to make it appear it’s politically neutral, just applying the UCMJ to a bad apple, it’s readily apparent it’s political, and maybe vindictive as in we don’t want to pay the man back pay he’s owed. There was controversy over the POWs we got back from Vietnam. There was some controversy and certain facts that were hushed up about the POW’s from the 1st Iraqi war, and again we have controversy about the only Prisoner we traded for in this latest conflict.