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[3rd gen Navy]

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Where is our Free Press? ...Barbra Streisand
Posted on September 28, 2004
If you cross this administration you get your head handed to you. If you open your mouth and tell the truth like former White House Economic Advisor Lawrence Lindsay did when he told the Administration that the Iraqi war was going to cost between $100-$200 billion dollars, you get fired. If you disagree with the President, like Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill did one too many times regarding the President's policy on tax cuts, you get canned. If you claim that the Administration is misrepresenting the facts and misleading the public, like Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson did, your wife's career gets ruined when she gets outed as a CIA operative in the national media. If you tell the administration that several thousand more servicemen and women are needed in Iraq, like General Shinseki did, you get publicly scolded as being incorrect. And, if you choose to air a story about George Bush's military service, or lack thereof, like CBS did last week, you and your award winning news anchor, get investigated by the FCC.

So it's no wonder that the press has taken a backseat to reporting the misdeeds of this administration. It's not surprising that the press failed to ask the hard questions leading up to the war in Iraq, when a more informed public still had time to speak up. Never mind that CBS's story included substantive and uncontested evidence that Bush didn't show up for duty when he was supposed to, that he skipped a required physical that grounded him from flying, and that he mysteriously received an honorable discharge. Yes...the documents CBS presented could not be confirmed for their authenticity, but these details of Bush's military record have been out for public consumption for years. Why is the media not discussing the facts behind the story instead of just focusing on CBS? For example, Killian's secretary said those memos accurately reflected the Colonel's feelings. Ben Barnes, former lieutenant governor of Texas, admitted that he pulled strings to get Bush into the National Air Guard. And Robert Mintz, retired National Guardsman who served in Bush's unit in 1972, doesn't remember seeing him there. And in contrast to Senator John Kerry, who said "send me" when given the option to go to Vietnam, according to the LA Times, when asked the same question, Bush checked the box stating "do not volunteer for overseas." The media's attention is diverted from the real story because we now live in a time where the fear of revenge by this administration sends a chill through the corporations that control our media and overwhelms the press' responsibility to investigate, educate and hold our leaders accountable.

For more information on Bush's military record, please see the LA Times article by clicking on the link below:

http://www.latimes.com/news/yahoo/la-na-bushguard27sep27,1,4322081.story
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Warm Regards,
Sean G. Smith,
RN, BSN, EMT-B, U.S. Navy, 1994 - 2003.
BS Biology, Business Administration, Nursing
The Deal with Life: Make decisions based on what you might gain, not on what you may lose.
!!!!!! LET THE WILD RUMPUS BEGIN !!!!!!

[neverforget]

She's so full of crap.
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US Army Security Agency
1965-1971

[Navy_Navy_Navy]

I'd echo Laura Ingraham and tell her to "Shut up and Sing," but considering that it's Barbra, just the "Shut up" part would work better.
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Altering course to starboard - On Fire, Keep Clear
Navy woman, Navy wife, Navy mother

[LewWaters]

I'm still waiting for one of them to show me an article positive about the President in the past 2 years.

Does she address what happens to Hollywood celebs if they publicly support the right? I've never seen any of them stand up for celebs who happen to be conservative.

But then again, I'm still waiting on all of them that said they would have to leave America if Bush got elected to actually leave.
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[W.P. Wily]

I started thinking about how to refute these "points", but about 1/3 of the way in I realized that sometimes it's just easier to throw a piece of cr*p like this into the trash and forget about it than it is to answer it.

This is the reason that Rush calls BS Barbra Streisand.

[W.P. Wily]

[3rd gen Navy]

Concur w/ Wiliey. This was just too much of an illogical, convoluted, hysterical rant to even attempt a response.
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Warm Regards,
Sean G. Smith,
RN, BSN, EMT-B, U.S. Navy, 1994 - 2003.
BS Biology, Business Administration, Nursing
The Deal with Life: Make decisions based on what you might gain, not on what you may lose.
!!!!!! LET THE WILD RUMPUS BEGIN !!!!!!

[HOV1]

[quote="But then again, I'm still waiting on all of them that said they would have to leave America if Bush got elected to actually leave. [/quote]

LOL The funniest thing I heard right after the 2000 election was Jay Leno the night after the election. He said "It was really hard at the home of Alec Baldwin.... All night long it was "Pack the car" "Unpack the car" "Pack the car" "Unpack the car".


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HOV1

[Hondo]

Hell, maybe this time Alec will be in SF, at the Golden Gate Bridge.

God forbid this election is close, but if it is, I can hear it now:

Jump - don't jump - jump - don't jump . . . . .
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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse."
-- John Stuart Mill