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Gopher
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 Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 4:18 pm Post subject: Meet the Democrats' Bob the Plumber... |
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She's being hailed as the "face of the economic crisis," and now Henrietta Hughes has become something of a media star after reaching out to President Obama in an emotional plea for help.
Her message: My son and I are homeless, and we need immediate help.
"I have an urgent need, unemployment and homelessness, a very small vehicle for my family and I to live in," Hughes told Obama Tuesday at a town hall rally in Fort Myers, Florida, as he pushed for passage of his stimulus plan in the Senate. "The housing authority has two years waiting lists, and we need something more than the vehicle and the parks to go to. We need our own kitchen and our own bathroom. Please help..." |
"She's being hailed as..." Looks like sneaky, passive-voice talk to me. Who pray tell besides the Democrats and CNN is hailing this woman as "the face of the economic crisis?"
CNN: Keeping Them Honest! |
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mises
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Why do you torture yourself with CNN?? |
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Gopher
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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| What odds will you give me if I wanted to wager with you that "Henrietta Hughes," if that is truly even her name, will appear in CNN's "heroes" show next year...? |
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mises
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Hmmm... Is she a "person of colour"? |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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| She looked more real at the town hall meeting than Reagan's Welfare Queen. Maybe she rehearsed. |
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Gopher
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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| mises wrote: |
| Why do you torture yourself with CNN?? |
A fair question. My answer is this: my gym plays it on the televisions as I run. The televisions run subtitles. So even though I play my iPod, there it is, facing me, for thirty to forty-five minutes every morning. Bloody brainwashing. And I can hardly stand the morning guy anymore, too.
Re: R. Reagan: that man could tell stories. I know someone who always includes this one in a lecture:
Reagan was talking to the press corps one morning, talking about how America needed good, moral people to stand up and be counted, etc. He began describing an incident during the Second World War. A bomber was going down over the ocean and the captain instructed everyone to bail out. Most did. But one of the gunners could not. His parachute had ripped and he had no where to go. And that captain told that gunner, "don't worry, son; I'm not going anywhere, either." And as that plane went down into the sea, that captain stayed with his gunner and did not let him despair.
Supposedly every one of those journalists had tears in his eyes and they rushed off to print the story.
One of them, however, stopped and asked, "wait. If that plane went down into the sea, and those two men died, how does anyone know what that captain said to that gunner, and how does anyone really know the details of that crash -- if there even was a gunner, for example?"
And he started doing some fact-checking and quickly determined that the story had come from a movie...
I remember that B. Obama said something about wanting to emulate Reagan. Perhaps he meant it more than we understood at the time. |
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