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Sarah Palin Meets The Matrix

by Propagandee November 27, 2009

Proving you don’t need to know how to read a book to write one
When a nation becomes unmoored from reality, it retreats into a world of magic. Facts are accepted or discarded according to the dictates of a preordained cosmology. The search for truth becomes irrelevant. Our national discourse is dominated by manufactured events, from [...]

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Putting Terrorism On Trial: Wingers Piss Their Diapers (Updated)

by Propagandee November 15, 2009
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GOP Diaper wetters: David “PP” Vitter, Tony “Depends” Blankley,
R. Hudson “Incontinent” Limpboughtenpaidfor, Eric “WeWee” Cantor,
John “Sissy-Boy Boehner, and weepy Mitch McConnell.
Said GOP House Leader John Boehner yesterday:
The Obama Administration’s irresponsible decision to prosecute the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks in New York City puts the interests of liberal special interest groups before the safety and [...]

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Funambulist In Chief

by Propagandee June 25, 2009

President Obama’s balancing act
Despite receiving a thumbs up from a number of conservative foreign policy observers, and the public at large, for his handling of the current Iranian domestic turmoil, the wingers seem to have settled on a narrative that President Obama has been too timid in his response to same.
It was a theme dutifully [...]

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The Unavoidable Bigotry of Rick Warren

by Terry December 21, 2008

Juan Cole shared a spotlight with Pastor Rick Warren over the weekend, at the annual Muslim Public Affairs Council in Long Beach. His post is well worth reading, especially so for those who would rather get poked in the eye with a sharp stick than listen to Warren deliver the inauguration invocation.

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A New James Bond

by Propagandee November 17, 2008

Oh, Oh 7 ready to kick some imperialist ass
Juan Cole has a great review of the new Bond movie, A Quantum of Solace, on his blog yesterday titled “A Quantum of Anti-Imperialism.”
The movie’s plot involves the attempted regime change of a populist Bolivian president (a thinly disguised Evo Morales) who is unwilling to turn [...]

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The Difference Between Palin and Bush? UPDATE I

by Propagandee September 9, 2008

Seems like Sarah Palin’s lipstick joke is becoming something of a joke itself, undergoing a number of remixes and used against her (as in my own blog yesterday).
Check out this version by Juan Cole in today’s Salon titled:
“What’s the difference between Palin and Muslim fundamentalists? Lipstick”
It begins thusly:
Sept. 9, 2008 |
John McCain announced [...]

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The Surge Is Not A Success

by Propagandee August 2, 2008

                 Urban renewal project in beautiful downtown Baghdad
Chris Matthews‘ substitute host, McCain enthusiast Mike Barnicle, reacted incredulously Wednesday to a comment by Iraq war vet Jon Soltz, co-founder and chairman of VoteVets.org, that the so-called “surge” has not been a success. Pressed by Barnicle, who refelcts the corporatist media’s official narrative of [...]

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War is God’s Way of Teaching Americans Geography

by Propagandee June 23, 2008

Representative government presupposes an intelligent, efficient, and universal electorate. The character of such a government will ever be determined by the character and caliber of those who compose it. -The Urantia Book
Boy, are we in trouble.
Five plus years into the Iraq War, only one in seven Americans can find Iraq on a map. Only two [...]

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The Manchurian Muslim Candidate

by Propagandee March 3, 2008

According to the tireless efforts of patriots like Matt Drudgery and Rush Limpbot, a political catastrophe of the highest order can still be avoided.
In a scoop that left the MSM swooning with envy, Drudgery uncovered Barak Obama’s middle name.
“Hussein. Hussein!,” thundered Limpbot in an exclusive interview I had with him today.
“I mean, they don’t even [...]

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