ourfuture.org - 12/16/2008
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My friends at Fightingliberals.com are recommending people send their old shoes to the George W. Bush Presidential Library. In my humble opinion: no no no no no no no no no no no no no no. Liberals should not make light of or license the physical assault on the leader of a sovereign state, no ...
corner.nationalreview.com - 12/17/2008
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corner.nationalreview.com —
Earlier this week, I completed my Media Research
Center ballot for their worst-of the media 2008. It's...
always a little bit of a cup of expresso -- outrageous reporting I had since otherwise tried to block out of my memory. Bill Moyers equated using ...
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Shoe Shame
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On Shoe-Throwing
Discourse.net —
... I gather some folks are thinking of organizing a real-life event to throw shoes onto the White House lawn. Arguably in bad taste, like the website, if it seems to somehow endorse the act of throwing shoes at people. I’m fine with shoes on lawns, but not for hard objects thrown at people. ...
Wow: What Shoe Throwing Taught Me About America
Firedoglake —
... Sometimes it's your friends who give you an epiphany. In this case, Rick Perlstein, who I admire greatly, with his statement that shoe-chucker Al-Zeidi should go to jail for a rather long time: ...
Feeling marginally better
The Sideshow —
... Note to Rick Perlstein - With all due respect, my brother, the only thing that usually prevents the rise of murderous tyrants is the realistic fear among leaders that if they abuse the public trust, they will end up with their heads on pikes. The arrogance of our current leadership owes quite a lot to the certainty on their part that nothing is going to happen to them as a result of what they've done. Ian Welsh ...
No More Mister Nice Blog —
HIS AIM WAS TRUE I read Rick Perlstein's Nixonland and I think it's a great book, but I've gotta side with Avedon Carol here. Perlstein: My friends at Fightingliberals.com are recommending people send their old shoes to the George W. Bush Presidential Library. In my humble opinion: no no no no no no no no no no no no no no. Liberals should not make light of or license the physical assault on the leader of a sovereign state, no matter how much he's deservedly hated. This is not how we do politics, unless we're in favor ...
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