The Right Wing sure knows how to distract everyone

[Attero Dominatus]

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XOKCowboy  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Mar-11-08 07:20 PM
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The Right Wing sure knows how to distract everyone
   
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Including DU it seems. 5 of the 10 "check for duplicates" posts are about hookers or Spitzer.

OH LOOK! HOOKERS!

Don't mind the 8 dead soldiers in Iraq, the economy on the edge of collapse, FISA being debated in the House, KBR poisoning the troops or anything trivial like that.

Why do we (especially we at DU who should know better) always play right into their hands?

I'm still not convinced that it's not selective prosecution by Bush's toadie DOJ but that's another topic.

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You just cannot buy this kind of delusion.

0007  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Mar-11-08 07:25 PM
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1. Adm. William J. Fallon, was another big issue to wrestle with today.
   
Don't even have time to catch your breath, before another biggy hits us.
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XOKCowboy  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Mar-11-08 07:32 PM
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6. Yea well Heidi Fleiss and Dennis Hof the ones on the "news" shows
   
Is it any wonder why most of the rest of the world looks at us as fools? Any talk of sex and we go ballistic about things that wouldn't even get a side glance in most places.

The shame is that while everyone in America knows Eliot Spitzer's name right now, more people should know Adm. Fallon's name and why he "resigned" today and what it means to us and the rest of the world.
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MrsGrumpy  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Mar-11-08 07:26 PM
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3. Mr. Spitzer did this to himself. And I am able to pay attention to more
   
than just one story. The top story on my list is the ongoing strike of American Axle here in Detroit. Apparently not enough of those who back the union care about that, as the droppage of my threads on it will attest to.
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bronxiteforever  (587 posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Mar-11-08 07:48 PM
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9. How is this a defense for Spitzer? This is the second statement I have seen
   
about paying attention to more than one story. Is your point that this deserves to be the TOP story when 8 families set about burying their dead in this endless war? Then I think you are wrong.
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Captain Angry  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Mar-11-08 07:27 PM
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4. It makes people feel good about themselves to post their own thread.
   
If they post in somebody else's, it makes them a follower. Hence the K&R crap. No decent discussion, just vapid pages of "yeah, what he said."

It's very frustrating to try and find new information buried in 15 duplicate posts from the same sources.

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Melynn  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Mar-11-08 08:35 PM
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12. Don't forget the highest gas prices ever
   
Nothing stirs people up like $3.50 per gallon gas.

But hey we have a hooker scandal. So just fill up yer tank so you can get home and see the latest news on the Governor and $5,000 prostitute.
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[Carl]

No DUmmies,it is that sunrise to a vampire thingy that has you all stirred up.

All of a sudden real crimes are shown to have real consequences and your delusional little minds are having a hard time making the sky green and the grass blue again in your private little worlds.