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To seemingly most Americans your first suggestion would be more attractive.
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Actually, I think the old 'fool all of the people some of the time' thing is beginning to come home to roost now. There's something about seeing your house in danger of repossession, your job in jeopardy, tax cuts for the rich being enshrined and billions being poured into the deserts of Iraq that spells trouble for the Right-wing Noise Machine, even without its repeated foot-in-mouth episodes. For example, Obama quoted an Army captain's experiences of being sent to war by Bush and co. thus:
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I heard from a Army captain, who was the head of a rifle platoon, supposed to have 39 men in a rifle platoon. Ended up being sent to Afghanistan with 24, because 15 of those soldiers had been sent to Iraq. And as a consequence, they didn't have enough ammunition; they didn't have enough humvees.
They were actually capturing Taliban weapons because it was easier to get Taliban weapons than it was for them to get properly equipped by our current commander in chief.
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This was jumped on with both feet by the RNM (along the lines of 'it can't be true, since a platoon isn't led by a captain, but a lieutenant') until someone got in touch with the soldier in question and found it was perfectly true, and he'd been a lieutenant *at the time*, but promotion is quick these days. The only bit where Obama had slightly exaggerated was implying that they were actively capturing Taliban weapons rather than just picking them up after fights, because apart from anything else the bearded boys use the same weapons as the Afghan Army. Hardly a serious misrepresentation.
O'Reilly in particular is pretty much shot credibility wise. Fox apparently had someone on the other day who actually *attacked the station for being biased [gasp]*. Does Gavin still watch them, I wonder?
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At the end of the segment, Camp said, “What is Fox News? It’s just a parade of propaganda, isn’t it? It’s just a festival of ignorance.”
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George Bush is 19% in the polls.