Foreign governments with U.S. writers on their payroll?
“A range of mainstream American publications printed paid propaganda for the government of Malaysia, much of it focused on the campaign against a pro-democracy figure there.
The payments to conservative American opinion writers — whose work appeared in outlets from the Huffington Post and San Francisco Examiner to the Washington Times to National Review and RedState — emerged in a filing this week to the Department of Justice. The filing under the Foreign Agent Registration Act outlines a campaign spanning May 2008 to April 2011 and led by Joshua Trevino, a conservative pundit, who received $389,724.70 under the contract and paid smaller sums to a series of conservative writers….
Trevino’s subcontractors included conservative writer Ben Domenech, who made $36,000 from the arrangement, and Rachel Ehrenfeld, the director of the American Center for Democracy, who made $30,000. Seth Mandel, an editor at Commentary, made $5,500. Brad Jackson, writing at the time for RedState, made $24,700. Overall, 10 writers were part of the arrangement.”
You take secret, undisclosed money from a foreign government to write hit pieces in U.S. media against a man, in this case Anwar Ibrahim, who is struggling to bring democracy to his country and was beaten and imprisoned for years for daring to challenge the dictatorial government? (Russia has apparently run similar pay-to-say operations.)
Much of Trevino’s work under the Malaysian contract has been removed by the outlets that published it. But you can get a taste of its amoral quality from this piece that was published as a rebuttal to a Trevino column.
And here’s a Rachel Ehrenfeld piece, condemning Ibrahim for “careless sexual behavior” among other things.
We already know of course that “you can’t believe everything that’s on the Internet.” But paid agents of foreign governments masquerading as American journalists takes things to a dangerous level and says a lot about the character of those involved.
UPDATE: Among those named as receiving money from Malaysia in Trevino’s belated filing as a foreign agent is Christopher Badeaux. Here’s a small sampling of his Malaysia-related work at RedState.com:
“Najib Razak, the Prime Minister of Malaysia, has been on a more or less singular crusade to convince the Muslim world — and the West — that there is a path for moderate Islam in the world, that Islam does not equal terror, and that the taking of a life is contrary to Islam and civilization. His speech at Oxford was of a piece with that….
The salient point here is not whether we agree with the prime minister’s theological assertions, but rather we can appreciate the extraordinary effort he is making here, and the importance for the United States of his efforts.”
And:
In Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim, the leader of Malaysia’s opposition, has apparently been caught in adultery, with video evidence that Dartmouth scientists say nearly certainly implicates him. The major dailies are calling on him to resign. For three years, after failing to topple the governing party in the 2008 elections, he has crisscrossed the planet telling anyone and everyone who would listen how corrupt and evil the governing party is. And yet despite all of this — despite his stated certainty that his opposition coalition of socialists, Islamists, and yuppie liberals is the only chance his country has to avoid certain doom at the hands of the centrist coalition that has been re-elected time and again in Malaysia, he has refused to resign.”
– Jay Bookman
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Welcome to the Occupation
March 2nd, 2013
11:54 am
Jay: “If anybody would care to dispute the fact that these are conservative writers, please, make your case while I get another cup of coffee”
C’mon, Jay, this is not a question of “conservative” vs “liberal” in the narrow sense. Propaganda of this sort has deep roots in the Cold War era. Just recall the sordid history of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, the infamous CIA front organization that throughout the Cold War had writers and hacks on its payrolls spanning the liberal-conservative spectrum and was certainly not above character assassination or smear tactics when a target was felt to be too “radical” from the standpoint of US imperialistic interests. These tactics have continued in various quarters in the post-CW years and good aspiring hacks like Trevino know where to get their bread placed so it can be buttered.
Stevie Ray
March 2nd, 2013
11:55 am
If anyone is interested, George Will released an interesting piece today suggesting “progressives”are really stuck in the past as it were..
Gotta admit its another in a series of interesting positions…not without some merit of truth..
Progressives are remarkably uninterested in progress. Social Security is 78 years old, and myriad social improvements have added 17 years to life expectancy since 1935, yet progressives insist the program remain frozen, like a fly in amber. Medicare is 48 years old, and the competence and role of medicine have been transformed since 1965, yet progressives cling to Medicare “as we know it.” And they say that the Voting Rights Act, another 48-year-old, must remain unchanged, despite dramatic improvements in race relations.
Classic..
Brosephus™ - If do right, no can defense
March 2nd, 2013
11:55 am
Now you know I love nothing better than dancing with you, however I need to know in advance what kinda of sleep you got last night
What does that have to do with what I stated? When has any conservative here ever owned up to the shortcomings of their own before blasting Jay about his “liberalism”?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
March 2nd, 2013
11:57 am
How much do those people on those BOD’s of Soros foundation receive in “Grants” for research purposes?
Look I know you love to post buffoonish arguments. You have evidence of “those people” having grants and writing articles for which they “received” a grant and it was not disclosed? Only an idiot would try to claim that every person who receives a grant is going to slant the outcome. But I know its a typical conned mind melt.
td
March 2nd, 2013
11:58 am
Fred ™
March 2nd, 2013
11:45 am
I have got your Michelle Malkin. Funniest political video going right now.
No it’s not. It is quite stupid as a matter of fact. But then you aren’t exactly the brightest bulb in the knife drawer so I’m sure you find it amusing.
I am sure you thought this one about GWB was funny as hell.
http://politicalhumor.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=politicalhumor&cdn=entertainment&tm=26&f=20&su=p284.13.342.ip_p504.6.342.ip_&tt=3&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A//www.funnyordie.com/videos/24dd4a855d
Fred ™
March 2nd, 2013
11:58 am
What does that have to do with what I stated? When has any conservative here ever owned up to the shortcomings of their own before blasting Jay about his “liberalism”?
LOL Bro, when have a majority even read the piece the current blog is about before they start?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 2nd, 2013
11:59 am
The obligatory weakly George Will shill.
I can set my watch by it.
Fred ™
March 2nd, 2013
12:00 pm
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Fred ™
March 2nd, 2013
12:01 pm
Nice try td, but I secure my computer. I found THIS ONE about Obama to be funny as hell. It’s not a video though…….
http://twitpic.com/9jyrvh
You see td, unlike YOU I think for myself, I’m not a party puppet who mindlessly spams propaganda I don’t understand.
TBS
March 2nd, 2013
12:02 pm
Keep
Keep in mind you are talking to a blogger who wears two right shoes (thanks Bro for that one) on a daily basis and two right gloves when it is cold because he thinks he will lose his rw credentials
That right handers baseball glove on the right hand never never fit him to well either…………
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 2nd, 2013
12:02 pm
And they say that the Voting Rights Act, another 48-year-old, must remain unchanged, despite dramatic improvements in race relations.
NOT because of conservatives.
Otherwise how do explain an organization with over 30 million registered members that has 2% black and 5% Latino membership?
De facto segregation is how…
Brosephus™ - If do right, no can defense
March 2nd, 2013
12:03 pm
If anyone is interested, George Will released an interesting piece today suggesting “progressives”are really stuck in the past as it were..
If it’s the voting column, I’ve already read it. Funny thing is, Will accuses “progressives” of something that is an inherent characteristic of a true “conservative”. Both are stuck in the past, but the one’s opining for things to be like the Founding Fathers intended word-for-word are much farther behind than those “progressives”. Just sayin…
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Fred
I’m beginning to believe that there are not many who read Jay’s column at all. They just see his name and their Pavlovian tendencies kick in. There are not many who read his links as well. I don’t always read them, but when I do, there tends to be interesting things to back him up.
Arms Akimbo
March 2nd, 2013
12:03 pm
Hmmmm. Wonder where foreign Governments got the idea that having the American press in their pockets could help hide the truth, push an agenda, and keep unqualified politicians in office?
Brosephus™ - If do right, no can defense
March 2nd, 2013
12:03 pm
td
Whines about liberal influence in the media, yet he advocates for conservative bribery and ownership of government.
Laughable!!!!
http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2012/12/05/inside-the-koch-empire-how-the-brothers-plan-to-reshape-america/
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 2nd, 2013
12:03 pm
Hey Fred
Did you ever get that laundry room closet put back together again?
DannyX
March 2nd, 2013
12:05 pm
Best ever, White House correspondents video, Stephen Colbert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSE_saVX_2A
TBS
March 2nd, 2013
12:05 pm
keep
he only takes right turns, yet wonders why he always winds up at the same place he started
larry
March 2nd, 2013
12:07 pm
And they say that the Voting Rights Act, another 48-year-old, must remain unchanged, despite dramatic improvements in race relations.
Really, after last year’s debacle about voter ID laws and the REASON they were passed , he says there is dramatic improvements in race relations.
What world was he living in?
td
March 2nd, 2013
12:07 pm
The problem is that besides Hannity there is not one true conservative show on Fox. The problem is the other media outlets have gone so far left that a moderate station is now considered far right.
Opinions are not facts. And in this case, this opinion is antithetical to the truth…
http://mediamatters.org/research/sundayshowreport/
LMAO!!! You are giving an article from the extreme leftest George Soros funded Media matters to talk about how conservative Fox is. My God, they would right that Lenin was a conservative.
Nero
March 2nd, 2013
12:09 pm
Nobody cares except you and your sheep Bookman. Make yourself a sandwich with that cup of joe.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
March 2nd, 2013
12:09 pm
TBS
well you know Soros apparently bought all the left shoes so what could the poor boy do.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 2nd, 2013
12:09 pm
… they would right[sic] that Lenin was a conservative.
Freudian slip much?
Bernie
March 2nd, 2013
12:10 pm
Jay, every now and then your YOUTH,UNDERSTANDING and Inexperience of worldly issues always rears its HEAD as a News worthy topic of discussion here. When actuality this issue is OLD and its process is as Old as the cat & mouse game of epsionage that goes on with every Nation on this EARTH. There is a WHOLE LOT MORE & worse that is going on and you are not even aware of this very moment.
So if you would please you would be better served and so would your limited number of readers if topics of discussion can be kept to the more important issues that we are MORE CONCERNED about. Like the New Stadium proposal, Healthcare coverage fo the uninsured, The local school systems and their problems. These issues are better left to the real PROFESSIONALS like those of the NEW YORK TIMES, who have the investigative skills and budets to delve deep into such complicated issues. The managment of the AJC will barely give you gas money to go across town to investigate why a MOSQUITO’s raincoat was stolen, during a Carjacking from a One LEgged COCKROACH!
indigo
March 2nd, 2013
12:12 pm
This is a perfect example of what has essentially become the bottom line for much of America, namely:
Money talks and BS walks
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 2nd, 2013
12:13 pm
So if you would please you would be better served and so would your limited number of readers if topics of discussion can be kept to the more important issues that we are MORE CONCERNED about.
1. Go to blogspot.com.
2. Create your own blog.
3. Choose the topics that you wish to discuss.
See how easy that is?
Your welcome.
TBS
March 2nd, 2013
12:14 pm
td
I’m not a mediamatters guy. With that said since you totally discounted it, is it ok to discount anything you post from the weeklystd, theblaze, hotair, wnd, dailycaller, etc etc?
I’m sure you don’t think those sites I listed are unbiased reporting, right?
indigo
March 2nd, 2013
12:15 pm
Bernie – 12:10
Take two asprins and go lie down now.
Theres a good boy.
GT
March 2nd, 2013
12:15 pm
FOX eats off that plate too. They hire legitimate journalist away from legitimate outlets and have them writing with just their right hands for great sums of money and they thought that was all that was needed to equal the reporting against their antiquated movements. The dream in the early years was to buy CBS and turn that into a FOX network but CBS was not the whore they thought they were. So they formed the network and found the reporters who were watching journalism turn into an entertainment industry and wanted some of that action over the dead end street of network journalism that had one anchor and the rest journalist without portfolio. It is like a great “has been” athlete playing his last days for money on a cellar dwelling team to get people to buy tickets.
What has really surprise me, but not Obama, is this money tainted reporting has not stopped the stream of honest consciences that exist in journalism. And Obama has outflanked the right which has never understood the digital age, in getting his message to the people. I just really wish O would govern the way he runs a campaign, he doesn’t try as hard to get his message out in peace time.
Thomas heyward Jr
March 2nd, 2013
12:18 pm
Regardless…………..there is nothing worse than an American writer trying to Opologize for an American war-criminal president.
.
Najib Rajkek has never murdered American citizens.
.
Sugar coat it………….all ya want.
Fred ™
March 2nd, 2013
12:19 pm
td: You basic problem is that you don’t think. You react. That video by Malkin is just STUPID. There is no humor in it. Maybe if someone who has some comedic sense had written and produced it, it could have been funny. But they didn’t and it wasn’t. YOU merely saw, making fun of Michele Obama. Ha Ha must be funny. Must laugh.
Will Farrell as George Bush? Freaking hilarious and I don’t like Will Farrell. Who was it back in the day on SNL that did Clinton? Classically funny. Have you seen the Obama impersonator? Dude had me rolling.
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 2nd, 2013
12:20 pm
Poor td, the man who wrote – and insanely and humiliatingly made a very public bet on – Romney was NOT going to get annihilated and who also wrote that the US Civil War was not primarily based on slavery.
A very, very tenuous grasp on reality, to say the least.
During this period, Republicans and conservatives had the advantage on every show (This Week, Face the Nation, Meet the Press, Fox News Sunday) in every category measured. All four shows interviewed more Republicans and conservatives than Democrats and progressives, interviewed more Republican elected and administration officials than Democratic officials, hosted more conservative journalists than progressive journalists, held more panels that tilted right than tilted left, and gave more solo interviews to Republicans and conservatives.
But for the empirically-challenged td and his fellow sheep, it might just as well all be written in Greek….
getalife
March 2nd, 2013
12:20 pm
The cons would be libs if the pay was right.
Are you just figuring this out?
Anyhoo, tax cuts and cuts are done.
I expect our economy to suk so don’t expect jobs.
Thomas heyward Jr
March 2nd, 2013
12:20 pm
As Bill Krystal says……………and evidence shows……………….you Obama-Bots are ALL neo-cons now.
kayaker 71
March 2nd, 2013
12:20 pm
If Bookman is trying to use this as some lame excuse that conservative writers are biased and do it for money, this is one small instance of someone doing exactly that. They are biased. So is most of the main stream media. Their bias shows every day of every week. Look what happened to Woodward when he strayed just a little bit out of the box. An avalanche of criticism including some liberal turd that says he can’t wait for Woodward to die so the truth will out. From being a liberal icon to a hack in one single day. It’s the liberal way. Don’t get in the way. Don’t voice an opinion different from ours. Don’t go against what we believe in. If you do, we will make it our express purpose in life to destroy you. Any way we can. Whether or not you are right or wrong, we really don’t care. Just don’t disagree with us. Do so at your own peril.
td
March 2nd, 2013
12:21 pm
Fred ™
March 2nd, 2013
12:01 pm
Nice try td, but I secure my computer. I found THIS ONE about Obama to be funny as hell. It’s not a video though…….
http://twitpic.com/9jyrvh
You see td, unlike YOU I think for myself, I’m not a party puppet who mindlessly spams propaganda I don’t understand.
How do you know I am a “party puppet”? That is a huge ASSumption on your part. I oppose many things that the Republican party does (example that dumba$$ amendment on Charter schools and the stupid ethics reform legislation). I am a Conservative first and foremost and would probably be more of a Libertarian (especially on social issues) if we could get the Democrats to accept the principle that people should take responsibility for their actions and suffer the consequences for those actions and not have the government take the consequences away from them.
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 2nd, 2013
12:22 pm
Nobody cares except you and your sheep Bookman. Make yourself a sandwich with that cup of joe.
Yet Nero very much cares what Bookman writes – he supports the cause by blogging here pretty much every single day
breckenridge
March 2nd, 2013
12:24 pm
“As Bill Krystal says….you Obama-Bots are ALL neo-cons now.”
The neo-con movment, whose goal was to export democracy at then end of a gun barrel, is dead. Isn’t it time for a new movement? The neo-neo-con movement.
Bill Krystal…….what a worthless sack of chit. A dirty filthy blight on this great nation.
getalife
March 2nd, 2013
12:24 pm
Entitlements are not touched and the gop will try to weasel out of the military cuts but do not expect growth.
DannyX
March 2nd, 2013
12:26 pm
“How do you know I am a “party puppet”?”
I loved it when the when the conservative media was pulling td’s strings during the last election. I hear next election td will be a dummy sitting on Karl Rove’s lap, a nice promotion for td.
Look before I leap...
March 2nd, 2013
12:26 pm
The same yahoos come on here on a daily basis and whine about Jay’s topic selection.
From experience they know that Jay is a left-leaning liberal who writes opinion pieces.
Yet they wake up grumpy and if they can’t find outrage in the current topic, they manufacture one by carping about what Jay DIDN’T write.
Ah well, it is a free country, do as you please and tilt at all the windmills you like. Just seems to me to be a pretty miserable way to live.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 2nd, 2013
12:26 pm
How do you know I am a “party puppet”?
Well, first and foremost, you publicly admitted that you started a let’s all get together and bob our dittoheads in unison listening to El Rushbo on the radio club in college.
Then you’ve bragged about getting the highest score in Newt Gingrich’s stroke his ego college course.
I’d say those two are pretty definitive of your lock step.
td
March 2nd, 2013
12:27 pm
Fred ™
March 2nd, 2013
12:19 pm
td: You basic problem is that you don’t think. You react. That video by Malkin is just STUPID. There is no humor in it. Maybe if someone who has some comedic sense had written and produced it, it could have been funny. But they didn’t and it wasn’t. YOU merely saw, making fun of Michele Obama
If you watched that video and did not see that it was making fun of the Democrats policies and not Michelle then you my friend are the one that is a little lacking in the intelligence department.
indigo
March 2nd, 2013
12:27 pm
Thomas heyward, Jr. “American war-criminal president”
That sort of hyperbole causes most of us to regard you as nothing more than a dimwitted 8th grade homeschooler.
Just saying
March 2nd, 2013
12:29 pm
If the Israeli government and AIPAC can own/control the US congress, what is the big deal with this. And lets also not forget that the US has bases in 150 countries and controls nearly all of their governments through bribery (foreign aid) and intimidation (the CIA).
Fred ™
March 2nd, 2013
12:29 pm
who also wrote that the US Civil War was not primarily based on slavery.
If the War was mainly about slavery why did the Emancipation Proclamation only apply to the slaves in “conquered” rebellion States and why was it issued 2 years AFTER Lincoln took office?
I’ll wait for your answer because I have always wondered that. I know States Rights were not an issue at all, it was all about the slaves because of revisionist history, but that one little thing has always puzzled me……..
Bernie
March 2nd, 2013
12:30 pm
indigo @ 12:15 pm – A sign of a touched nerve, your comment.
Fred ™
March 2nd, 2013
12:31 pm
How do you know I am a “party puppet”? I am a Conservative first and foremost and would probably be more of a Libertarian (especially on social issues) if we could get the Democrats to accept the principle that people should take responsibility for their actions and suffer the consequences for those actions and not have the government take the consequences away from them.
Look at that. I didn’t even have to answer. You asked a question and then provided the answer and the proof right after it.
Look before I leap...
March 2nd, 2013
12:31 pm
“Have you seen the Obama impersonator? Dude had me rolling. ”
Jay Pharoah – he has Obama down pretty damned pat.
Another was the late Steve Bridges who also did a terrific W. Now that’s versatility.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5DpKjlgoP4
TBS
March 2nd, 2013
12:33 pm
“How do you know I am a party puppet”
Let’s see
1. You bought hook line and sinker what Rove and Morris told you about the election
2. You posted all over the AJC blogs bogus bull$hit conspiracy stories about Democrat over sampling in the polls. You were so brainwashed by this crap that you stated Romney might be up by as many as 10% pts.
3. You came on one night talking smack about the Ohio vote totals and how this or that could have changed. Another blogger showed up with a bus and took you to school with numbers from the state of OH. When you knew your assertions were bogus you attempted to blame the article you read and not your own lack of homework and comprehension of those numbers.
I could go on, but you more than get the point
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 2nd, 2013
12:33 pm
breckenridge, everybody remotely associated with the disgusting PNAC should be sent to one of those CIA Black Sites…
Thomas heyward Jr
March 2nd, 2013
12:33 pm
breckenridge
March 2nd, 2013
12:24 pm
“As Bill Krystal says….you Obama-Bots are ALL neo-cons now.”
The neo-con movment, whose goal was to export democracy at then end of a gun barrel, is dead. Isn’t it time for a new movement? The neo-neo-con movement.
Bill Krystal…….what a worthless sack of chit. A dirty filthy blight on this great nation.
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Yes I agree…………..Krystal is a dirty filthy blight but…………….your Vice-God Hillary Clinton .out neo-conned even Krystal.
.You folling yourself if you think the neo-con idea is dead.
Obama and Hillary has ‘codified’ it……………but you bots will never admit it.
.
This whole article is a perfect example.
Bookman and crew espousing on some neo-cons being paid to WRITE trash about some foreign politico……………..while not speaking a squelch about Hillary/Obama HELLFIRING Libya’s duly-elected President’s convoy which enabled the crowd to tear him apart.
Remember what Hillary said?
“We came, we saw..he’s dead”.
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Neo-con is just another word for progressive.
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Pure evil.
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QE 4 EVAH?
March 2nd, 2013
12:33 pm
Russia’s propoganda arm also works for our government.
Ketchum wins $7m federal health record accounts
http://www.prweekus.com/pages/login.aspx?returl=/ketchum-wins-7m-federal-health-record-accounts/article/254620/&pagetypeid=28&articleid=254620&accesslevel=2&expireddays=0&accessAndPrice=0
Savory.
Fred ™
March 2nd, 2013
12:33 pm
If you watched that video and did not see that it was making fun of the Democrats policies and not Michelle then you my friend are the one that is a little lacking in the intelligence department.
On;ly to the simple minded did it do that. To the rest of us it was just plain out stupid.
GT
March 2nd, 2013
12:34 pm
kayaker 71 it really doesn’t matter what Bookman thinks pal. FOX lost 25% of its revenue last quarter. Bookman was on the right side of this when FOX was the number one cable news channel and looked like the Roman Empire. Bookman didn’t jump the fence like the Democrats did in this state to Republicans when they couldn’t con or bully the Democrats. Nope he has been steady Eddie, telling all that would listen what was up and now he turns out to be right. Your party is toast, FOX is toast, maybe, you should hire people like Bookman to tell you’re the truth and get your money’s worth for once.
Nero
March 2nd, 2013
12:34 pm
Bottom line for America? Money has always talked. It’s the human condition. Been that way long before American and will be that way long after. Greed will always trump ideals of our better nature.
td
March 2nd, 2013
12:34 pm
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 2nd, 2013
12:26 pm
How do you know I am a “party puppet”?
Well, first and foremost, you publicly admitted that you started a let’s all get together and bob our dittoheads in unison listening to El Rushbo on the radio club in college.
Then you’ve bragged about getting the highest score in Newt Gingrich’s stroke his ego college course.
I’d say those two are pretty definitive of your lock step.
You just proved as to how uninformed you really are. Rush is not a shill for the Republican party. He is a Conservative and bashes Republicans on a daily bases when they are not following Conservative philosophies.
As far as Newt goes, at the time that I took his class he was intellectually promoting a Conservative philosophy of how to “renew American civilization”. No one in the Republican party would even support his efforts until after he made the 1993 election a national movement and return the House of Reps back into the hands of Republicans for the fist time in 50 years on a Conservative philosophy.
Fred ™
March 2nd, 2013
12:35 pm
That sort of hyperbole causes most of us to regard you as nothing more than a dimwitted 8th grade homeschooler.
Shi………oot. I don’t consider him at all. I see his name and just scroll right past. Life is too short to waste 15 seconds reading his stupidity.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 2nd, 2013
12:36 pm
Rush is not a shill for the Republican party.
Not intended to be a factual statement.
Tmgotech
March 2nd, 2013
12:36 pm
So the point here is that paid journalists sometimes bring suspect, hidden agendas to the table when they are writing their columns? Never could have guessed that from reading the AJC!
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 2nd, 2013
12:38 pm
Fred,
http://tinyurl.com/byv6der
td
March 2nd, 2013
12:39 pm
Fred ™
March 2nd, 2013
12:33 pm
If you watched that video and did not see that it was making fun of the Democrats policies and not Michelle then you my friend are the one that is a little lacking in the intelligence department.
On;ly to the simple minded did it do that. To the rest of us it was just plain out stupid.
I thought you would change you tune about the video being a hack job on Michelle to just not liking it when I called your intelligence into question. If you do not like it fine (personal opinion) but to attempt to make it something that it is not then that shows intellectual dishonesty.
Nero
March 2nd, 2013
12:39 pm
Jamvet,
You’re missing all those choice fares. Go back to work hoss!
td
March 2nd, 2013
12:40 pm
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 2nd, 2013
12:36 pm
Rush is not a shill for the Republican party.
Not intended to be a factual statement.
Intellectual capacity runs very shallow in this one.
getalife
March 2nd, 2013
12:40 pm
rush would be a lib for the money he makes now but he found the niche in the market so you are stuck with him.
TBS
March 2nd, 2013
12:41 pm
td
Hanitty just called. He asked me to tell you that he already coined the “I’m not a Republican but a conservative” shtick. Said it would be appreciated if you could be original for a change and come up with your own shtick. Said to tell you thank you and have a great day..
Keep Up the Good Fight!
March 2nd, 2013
12:42 pm
You just proved as to how uninformed you really are. Rush is not a shill for the Republican party. He is a Conservative and bashes Republicans on a daily bases when they are not following Conservative philosophies.
Now that is FUNNY!!!!!!!!!
Is being a drug addict part of the being a “conservative”? How about the 4 marriages?
getalife
March 2nd, 2013
12:42 pm
So, we cut 85 billion a year for ten years but will continue easing 85 billion a month so what is the total savings from the cuts.
Fred ™
March 2nd, 2013
12:43 pm
Look: I had forgotten about that one.It has to be the funniest Presidential impression act ever. Side by side.
Unlike the far lefties here I don’t think Bush was “the worst President ever” or that 100 years from now he will be viewed as such. I didn’t care for him much nor do i think he was as effective as some other presidents, but the worst EVER? Naw. He deserves points just for the material he gave comedians lol if nothing else. PLUS as he showed in the video, the fact he could laugh at himself.
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 2nd, 2013
12:43 pm
Rush is not a shill for the Republican party.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
(He is the liberals, progressives, moderates and independent secret weapon.)
Many party members have aligned themselves with Limbaugh and his huge audience. There have been more than a few Republicans who have backed off of positions, primarily because Limbaugh was opposed. The conservative movement, and the Republican Party, has played up Limbaugh’s stardom. In some ways, they’ve allowed Limbaugh to become a spokesman for all things conservative and most things Republican.
That sort of strategy doesn’t work.
Do tell…
TBS
March 2nd, 2013
12:46 pm
td
Damn my phone is ringing of the hook.
Bill Oliely called and said make sure you don’t still his “strict constructionist” shtick….
Will let you know who else calls.
Don’t mention it.
TBS
March 2nd, 2013
12:47 pm
*steal
TBS
March 2nd, 2013
12:47 pm
“….don’t steal………..”
td
March 2nd, 2013
12:48 pm
getalife
March 2nd, 2013
12:40 pm
rush would be a lib for the money he makes now but he found the niche in the market so you are stuck with him.
Just saying there was a “niche” unfilled (Conservative point of view) and how much money Rush has made by filling it just proves how progressive the rest of the media really is.
Doggone/GA
March 2nd, 2013
12:48 pm
“but the worst EVER?”
and it’s NEVER possible to say that and be correct, because we don’t know what future Presidents will be like. The most we can ever say is “worst to date” – but it’s even difficult to be accurate about that because we weren’t alive through all the past Presidencies.
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 2nd, 2013
12:48 pm
For a guy who doesn’t care what JB or any of his bloggers think, you sure seem very interested in him and me.
Go ahead, it’s not gonna hurt much. Admit it. You do care.
And I, for one, am honored that you are so caring! (grin)
Fred ™
March 2nd, 2013
12:49 pm
I thought you would change you tune about the video being a hack job on Michelle to just not liking it when I called your intelligence into question.
Wow, you really are simple. I said from the getgo it just wasn’t funny. I realize YOU forget that one can scroll up and read what was posted when but the rest of us haven’t. Are you REALLY this dumb?
Here let me refresh you on what I said………
Fred ™
March 2nd, 2013
12:19 pm
td: You basic problem is that you don’t think. You react. That video by Malkin is just STUPID. There is no humor in it. Maybe if someone who has some comedic sense had written and produced it, it could have been funny. But they didn’t and it wasn’t.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Just damn td. What a waste of time talking to you is.
getalife
March 2nd, 2013
12:50 pm
Now congress can go back to spending like drunks at the ATM at a strip club.
TBS
March 2nd, 2013
12:51 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS6aoz0xiBg
Thomas heyward Jr
March 2nd, 2013
12:51 pm
indigo
March 2nd, 2013
12:27 pm
Thomas heyward, Jr. “American war-criminal president”
That sort of hyperbole causes most of us to regard you as nothing more than a dimwitted 8th grade homeschooler.
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Lost Children, Bush/Obama Neo-Cons, and Hopium addicts may call it hyperbole.
Adults……….with a soul…….call it a fact.
Fred ™
March 2nd, 2013
12:51 pm
Now that is FUNNY!!!!!!!!!
Is being a drug addict part of the being a “conservative”? How about the 4 marriages?
It’s a must as is smoking. Just look at the other person the Conservatives worship, that meth ho Ayn Rand.
DannyX
March 2nd, 2013
12:52 pm
“Rush is not a shill for the Republican party.”
TBS
March 2nd, 2013
12:53 pm
“Now congress can go back to spending like drunks at the ATM at a strip club. – ”
Or RNC execs at S&M clubs
getalife
March 2nd, 2013
12:53 pm
I thought w was cursed because everything he touched turned to crap but Africans love him for his work for Africans
Americans agree he was a disaster but we had worse Presidents..
td
March 2nd, 2013
12:54 pm
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 2nd, 2013
12:43 pm
Rush is not a shill for the Republican party.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Republicans now control more governorships and state legislatures then they have ever in the history of the party but the conservative philosophy that Rush advocate is a failure.
Republicans control the House of Representatives and will until at least 2022 and the Conservative philosophy that Rush advocates is a failure.
Dream on my friend.
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 2nd, 2013
12:55 pm
The album is one of Rundgren’s most unusual in that every sound is the product of the artist’s voice. Rundgren employed overdubbing techniques and an E-mu Emulator (an early sampler), electronically manipulating the sound of his voice in order to mimic conventional rock instruments, hand claps, and other sounds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYPv5BiAnhg
getalife
March 2nd, 2013
12:55 pm
And if you want to see a President actually destroying his country, look at Syria.
Jayna
March 2nd, 2013
12:57 pm
OH MY GOD! The world is going to end! Writers are being paid for editorials supporting certain governments! What are we going to do??
getalife
March 2nd, 2013
12:57 pm
The only reason rush did not go to prison for his oxy addiction is his money.
td
March 2nd, 2013
12:57 pm
DannyX
March 2nd, 2013
12:52 pm
“Rush is not a shill for the Republican party.”
Rush is a shill for the Conservative movement. If politicians get off the reservation and want to give into progressive thought then Rush calls them out and they change their tune because politicians first and foremost want to be re elected and second they do not want a conservative primary challenge. I do not see how you can think this is being a shill for the party.
TBS
March 2nd, 2013
12:58 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6S9oqJRclo
barking frog
March 2nd, 2013
1:00 pm
I don’t have a problem with this since I have been aware
that writers, like gunslingers, shoot at who they are paid to
shoot at. Readers who accept blindly are the problem.
td
March 2nd, 2013
1:00 pm
getalife
March 2nd, 2013
12:57 pm
The only reason rush did not go to prison for his oxy addiction is his money.
No sh1t Sherlock. For you to not realize that the justice system in this country only sees the color of green shows how uninformed you are. OJ, Charlie Rangle and Michael Jackson have been kept out of prison only because of their money as well.
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 2nd, 2013
1:02 pm
Republicans control the House of Representatives and will until at least 2022… .
What happens then? The official death of American fascism?
You Republicans are corporatists, NOT conservatives.
Beginning with Reagan, you killed, murdered, slayed and executed actual American conservatism.
Invading crusaders, spending like drunken johns at a wh0re house, poisoning every living thing in sight for a few more dollars, treating minorities and women like it is still 1953, corporations are people, my friend and on and on and on.
You neocons have a lot of balls even calling yourselves conservatives…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft1K0LHyLmg
Look before I leap...
March 2nd, 2013
1:03 pm
“Republicans control the House of Representatives and will until at least 2022 – ”
You REALLY should stop with the predictions, because you really suck at it.
getalife
March 2nd, 2013
1:03 pm
td,
I am well aware of our justice system where money talks and the criminals walks.
I am pretty sure more broke criminals will hit the streets because of your cuts.
Enjoy.
GT
March 2nd, 2013
1:03 pm
I am totally convinced dumb people hear English differently than the more enlightened.
Michelle Obama is showing a healthy first lady. Where is the joke? Who is laughing, fat people? Because the rest of us see her being a example of how you show look and act. Hack job? In what life was a heathy active and hip woman married to the president of our country and being presented that way a hack job?
td
March 2nd, 2013
1:05 pm
TBS
March 2nd, 2013
12:46 pm
If you think Bill is a Conservative (right leaning moderate like a MItt Romney is more accurate) then it just proves how far to the left your thought process really is.
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 2nd, 2013
1:07 pm
…the justice system in this country only sees the color of green…
Ask the thousands of white collar criminals and banksters on Wall Street and elsewhere…
Besides we don’t need no stinking Uncle Sam to enforce any stinking laws, right?
We’ll just let the “free market” police itself!!!
And you neocons wonder why you are dying such a protracted and humiliating public death…
Fred ™
March 2nd, 2013
1:07 pm
Jam: Thanks for passing on my question as I now have to go and have decided I don’t want to talk about it lol. I’ll save it for another day. I have to get some more Marsala and celery for my Osso Buco
http://savoringtoday.com/2011/03/07/osso-buco-style-beef-short-ribs/
td
March 2nd, 2013
1:08 pm
Look before I leap…
March 2nd, 2013
1:03 pm
“Republicans control the House of Representatives and will until at least 2022 – ”
You REALLY should stop with the predictions, because you really suck at it.
That is not my prediction. It belongs to Nate Silver.