CenLamar

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1. 

   wesawthat…

   November 23, 2006

   we can go for a free car but not for another free jackass.

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2. 

   Anonymous

   November 24, 2006

   Go Jindal!

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3. 

   Anonymous

   November 27, 2006

   The present governor is the biggest jackass I’ve ever seen.

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4. 

   liberalsarescumsuckers

   November 27, 2006

   Hang on to your pocketbooks, the demoncrats are about to rob us blind.

   Published: October 22, 2006

   Nancy Pelosi condemned the new record highs of the stock market
   as “just another example of Bush policies helping the rich get
   richer”.

   “First Bush cut taxes for the rich and the economy has rebounded
   with new record low unemployment rates, which only means wealthy
   employers are getting even wealthier at the expense of the underpaid
   working class”.

   She went on to say “Despite the billions of dollars being spent in
   Iraq our economy is still strong and government tax revenues are at
   all time highs. What this really means is that business is
   exploiting the war effort and working Americans just to put money in
   their own pockets”.

   When questioned about recent stock market highs she responded “Only
   the rich benefit from these record highs. Working Americans,
   welfare recipients, the unemployed and minorities are not sharing in
   these obscene record highs”.

   “There is no question these windfall profits and income created by
   the Bush administration need to be taxed at 100% rate and those
   dollars redistributed to the poor and working class”.

   “Profits from the stock market do not reward the hard work of our
   working class who, buy their hard work, are responsible for
   generating these corporate profits that create stock market profits
   for the rich. We in congress will need to address this issue to
   either tax these profits or to control the stock market to prevent
   this unearned income to flow to the rich”.

   When asked about the fact that over 80% of all Americans have
   investments in mutual funds, retirement funds, 401K’s, and the stock
   market she replied “That may be true, but probably only 5% account
   for 90% of all these investment dollars. That’s just more “trickle
   down” economics claiming that if a corporation is successful that
   everyone from the CEO to the floor sweeper benefit from higher wages
   and job security which is ridiculous”. How much of this “trickle
   down” ever get to the unemployed and minorities in our county? None,
   and that’s the tragedy of these stock market highs.”

   “We democrats are going to address this issue after the election
   when we take control of the congress. We will return to the 60% to
   80% tax rates on the rich and we will be able to take at least 30%
   of all current lower Federal Income Tax taxpayers off the roles and
   increase government income substantially. We need to work toward
   the goal of equalizing income in our country and at the same time
   limiting the amount the rich can invest.”

   When asked how new these new tax dollars would be spent, she
   replied “We need to raise the standard of living of our poor,
   unemployed and minorities. For example, we have an estimated 12
   million illegal immigrants in our country who need our help along
   with millions of unemployed minorities. Stock market windfall
   profits taxes could go a long ways to guarantee these people the
   standard of living they would like to have as Americans”

   A Bush spokesman responded to this interview by saying “Mrs. Pelosi
   has set a new standard for the spin business.

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5. 

   Lamar White, Jr.

   November 27, 2006

   Liberalsarescum,

   I think you’ve actually set the new standard for the spin business: You’ve posted a completely fabricated and totally egregious “news” release that you probably received as an e-mail. You didn’t fact-check this post. You didn’t even question it. Well, I found it somewhere else on the Internet.

   Here’s one of the responses it generated from a blogger named Chris:

   “This is a really shameful hoax. It’s a pity so many people have been mailing it around, because it doesn’t even pass a basic sniff test.

   Think about it: two weeks after the elections, every major public statement by Nancy Pelosi is in the papers and on the TV. So why is this write-up only found in conservatives e-mails to one another and blogs like this one? Especially when she’s quoted as saying basically crazy shit, like 100% tax rates on windfall taxes.

   That would be flashing-siren material for Drudge, a couple rants for Hannity and O’Reilly, etc.

   As for the write itself, anyone who pushed this across the AP wire would be fired. There are so many errors, it’s clearly a hoax. Among the obvious points:

   * There is no indication of the city the story was filed from, nor the wire service it was filed with.

   * The write has an immense number of grammatical errors and is totally inconsistent with AP style. Errors include a huge number of missing commas, and periods outside of quotes when they should be inside. “By” is written as “buy” in the sixth paragraph. Quotes within quotes, like “trickle down” in the seventh paragraph, should have single quotes, and probably wouldn’t have any quotes at all since they come from an ostensibly spoken, not written, source.

   AP style would also capitalize “Congress” and “Democrats”, and would probably say “spokesperson” instead of “spokesman” in the last paragraph.

   * The story puts right-wing verbiage into Pelosi’s supposed quotes. Liberals would never say “welfare recipients” or “minorities”, as their preferred terms are “the less fortunate” and “people of color”. The only Dems who talk about “illegal immigrants” are those who oppose them; others use newspeak like “undocumented workers.”

   * A real wire write would put the White House reaction much higher than the last paragraph. Newspaper stories are written in descending order of importance, so they can be cut off any any point for space. The reaction is a critical point for balance, and would probably occur after the first three or four paragraphs.

   See, Republicans, this is why we Libertarians and swing voters abandoned you. You can’t handle reality, so you feel compelled to make shit up. And if you can’t handle real life, you don’t get to lead. It’s just that simple.”

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