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Monday, February 10, 2014

Staggering

Via Digby, this rant from Kevin McCullough at Townhall (where else?). A few choice bits:
We have a media complex that reports the administration's view on almost all things without much variance. The handful of actual outlets that report actual facts that vary from the administration's talking points are isolated and marginalized.

You mean like Fox News, a/k/a the propaganda arm of the Republican Party? Or the Fox News wannabes at CNN? The Wall Street Journal? None of which lets a fact stand in the way of a ginned-up scandal.
Through the fundamental transformation that has seen a complete dismantling of the private healthcare industry, while simultaneously eroding individual rights of religious practice, and the destruction of an economy encouraging private small business growth--the payroll of government jobs--beholding to the administration and its "great leader" have been the largest sector for jobs growth in six years.

So much bullshit in one paragraph. Complete dismantling of private health-care? In which insurance companies are getting millions of new customers? You mean that dismantling? Or is it that they actually have to pay for their customers' health care, rather then cutting them off when they get sick?

Eroding individual rights of religious practice? You mean, like the right to enforce your religious beliefs on everyone else? Those rights?

The destruction of the economy? You mean, the economy that's shown small but solid growth over the past five years, in spite of everything the Republicans could do to stop it? Government jobs? You mean the million plus that have been lost because of the deficit reduction nonsense?
While preaching tolerance to those who do not accept their views, the political, theological, and cultural left are the least tolerant people on the planet.

And while they demand that you yield your beliefs in order to carry favor with them. You must always accept what they believe as absolute truth.

OK -- that's just pure projection.

And guess who takes the gold in the Through the Looking Glass Awards.

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