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	<title>Comments on: Matthews Rips Bush For Misleading Nation; White House Praises Matthews</title>
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		<title>By: Matthews Blasts Administration on Iraq :: SOTUblog</title>
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		<dc:creator>Matthews Blasts Administration on Iraq :: SOTUblog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2006 10:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Chris Matthews was on Imus in the Morning recent. Think Progress has a transcript; Crooks &amp; Liars with the video. Everybody was led to believe that we were getting payback, we were avenging what happened on 9/11 and that we are going to get them. &#8230; We pursued the terrorists back to Iraq. And it&#8217;s all nonsense. The reason there are terrorists in Iraq today like Zarqawi is we created the opening by blowing the country apart. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Chris Matthews was on Imus in the Morning recent. Think Progress has a transcript; Crooks &amp; Liars with the video. Everybody was led to believe that we were getting payback, we were avenging what happened on 9/11 and that we are going to get them. &hellip; We pursued the terrorists back to Iraq. And it&rsquo;s all nonsense. The reason there are terrorists in Iraq today like Zarqawi is we created the opening by blowing the country apart. [...]<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1213768', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: The Bush Awareness Report &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Zarqawi is dead&#8230;now can we bring our people home?</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Bush Awareness Report &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Zarqawi is dead&#8230;now can we bring our people home?</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 21:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: unspunblog.com &#187; Every Day Gets Nuttier</title>
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		<dc:creator>unspunblog.com &#187; Every Day Gets Nuttier</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2006 09:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] We get ever increasing evidence the President and his advisers were intent on war with Iraq regardless of what evidence supported the invasion of a sovereign country and lied to the American people to achieve their ends. Yet, the process that is to maintain the checks and balances among the three branches of government is broken and it does not seem that anything short of elections this fall will fix the problem and even then there is no guarantee that the elections will be a sort of referendum to demand Congress carry out its oversight functions. As long as the Congress acts as a rubber stamp for the administration there is no oversight. And here is more information if you need it. And yet more. And yet despite all the evidence we have the Senate Intelligence Committee dragging its feet and failing to investigate the true story of how we would up going to war in Iraq. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] We get ever increasing evidence the President and his advisers were intent on war with Iraq regardless of what evidence supported the invasion of a sovereign country and lied to the American people to achieve their ends. Yet, the process that is to maintain the checks and balances among the three branches of government is broken and it does not seem that anything short of elections this fall will fix the problem and even then there is no guarantee that the elections will be a sort of referendum to demand Congress carry out its oversight functions. As long as the Congress acts as a rubber stamp for the administration there is no oversight. And here is more information if you need it. And yet more. And yet despite all the evidence we have the Senate Intelligence Committee dragging its feet and failing to investigate the true story of how we would up going to war in Iraq. [...]<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=489156', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: JPark</title>
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		<dc:creator>JPark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#124 Troll, that makes you what?  Much less intelligent than Rainman.  Good call there idiot.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#124 Troll, that makes you what?  Much less intelligent than Rainman.  Good call there idiot.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=486994', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: unbelievable</title>
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		<dc:creator>unbelievable</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;I await the day when the party gets its act together so I can vote for them. In the mean time, I will keep voting Independent/Green to give rise to a new, and hopefully, more honest party. 

Comment by Seixon â€” March 26, 2006 @ 7:16 pm &lt;/em&gt;

That&#039;s why you think I&#039;m sane...  :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>I await the day when the party gets its act together so I can vote for them. In the mean time, I will keep voting Independent/Green to give rise to a new, and hopefully, more honest party. </p>
<p>Comment by Seixon â€” March 26, 2006 @ 7:16 pm </em></p>
<p>That&#8217;s why you think I&#8217;m sane&#8230;  :)<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=486987', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Briseadh na Faire</title>
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		<dc:creator>Briseadh na Faire</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2006 00:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>121, Seixon, I should not have included you with the other two.

My apologies.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>121, Seixon, I should not have included you with the other two.</p>
<p>My apologies.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=486950', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Seixon</title>
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		<dc:creator>Seixon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2006 00:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Spudge Boy,

Of course I&#039;m your enemy. I tell you the truth, and you don&#039;t like to hear it. It doesn&#039;t matter if I probably hold many of the same values as you, because you are a brainwashed puppy unable to break yourself free from the liberal dungeon of propaganda and lies.

When you&#039;re labeling a moderate as your enemy for telling you the truth, you&#039;ve got problems. Unfortunately, the Democratic party has succumbed to this disease, sad, but true. I await the day when the party gets its act together so I can vote for them. In the mean time, I will keep voting Independent/Green to give rise to a new, and hopefully, more honest party.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Spudge Boy,</p>
<p>Of course I&#8217;m your enemy. I tell you the truth, and you don&#8217;t like to hear it. It doesn&#8217;t matter if I probably hold many of the same values as you, because you are a brainwashed puppy unable to break yourself free from the liberal dungeon of propaganda and lies.</p>
<p>When you&#8217;re labeling a moderate as your enemy for telling you the truth, you&#8217;ve got problems. Unfortunately, the Democratic party has succumbed to this disease, sad, but true. I await the day when the party gets its act together so I can vote for them. In the mean time, I will keep voting Independent/Green to give rise to a new, and hopefully, more honest party.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=486945', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Spudge_Boy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Spudge_Boy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2006 19:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;label me your enemy&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Seixon,

We don&#039;t need to label you the enemy. You ARE the enemy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>label me your enemy</p></blockquote>
<p>Seixon,</p>
<p>We don&#8217;t need to label you the enemy. You ARE the enemy.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=486725', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: troll</title>
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		<dc:creator>troll</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2006 18:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dont mind Ryan his anal retentive obsession with grammar and spelling betray his autism. 

Just refer to him as RAINMAN in the future.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dont mind Ryan his anal retentive obsession with grammar and spelling betray his autism. </p>
<p>Just refer to him as RAINMAN in the future.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=486663', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Spudge_Boy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Spudge_Boy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2006 17:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Spudge_Boy, please provide some shred of evidence that I support a theocracy, or be proved once again to be a liar and a fraud.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

First of all, this is wwallace.


Second of all:

White House
March 7, 2006
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/03/20060307-5.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Executive Order: Responsibilities of the Department of Homeland Security with Respect to Faith-Based and Community Initiatives&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to help the Federal Government coordinate a national effort to expand opportunities for faith-based and other community organizations and to strengthen their capacity to better meet America&#039;s social and community needs, it is hereby ordered as follows:&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&quot;In God We Trust&quot; was added to our currency in 1957. &quot;One Nation Under God&quot; was added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954. You righties are pushing for a theocracy for a long time now.

It is time you found out what your party is really about.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Spudge_Boy, please provide some shred of evidence that I support a theocracy, or be proved once again to be a liar and a fraud.</p></blockquote>
<p>First of all, this is wwallace.</p>
<p>Second of all:</p>
<p>White House<br />
March 7, 2006<br />
<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/03/20060307-5.html" rel="nofollow">Executive Order: Responsibilities of the Department of Homeland Security with Respect to Faith-Based and Community Initiatives</a></p>
<blockquote><p>By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to help the Federal Government coordinate a national effort to expand opportunities for faith-based and other community organizations and to strengthen their capacity to better meet America&#8217;s social and community needs, it is hereby ordered as follows:</p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;In God We Trust&#8221; was added to our currency in 1957. &#8220;One Nation Under God&#8221; was added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954. You righties are pushing for a theocracy for a long time now.</p>
<p>It is time you found out what your party is really about.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=486615', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: unbelievable</title>
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		<dc:creator>unbelievable</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2006 17:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;unbelievable,

It seems like you might be the only sane person around here, but thatâ€™s still not saying much. 

Comment by Seixon â€” March 26, 2006 @ 11:30 am &lt;/em&gt;

Thanks for the backhanded compliment, but I&#039;m not at all sane  : )</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>unbelievable,</p>
<p>It seems like you might be the only sane person around here, but thatâ€™s still not saying much. </p>
<p>Comment by Seixon â€” March 26, 2006 @ 11:30 am </em></p>
<p>Thanks for the backhanded compliment, but I&#8217;m not at all sane  : )<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=486595', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Seixon</title>
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		<dc:creator>Seixon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2006 16:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nonneocon,

&quot;&lt;em&gt;Gee Seixon, care to DOCUMENT all these shows you claim Mathews called Bush a liar? Percentage wise, itâ€™s like what, maybe .001 .002 percent of the shows in contrast where he actually wanted Bush up there on Mt. Rushmoreâ€¦ Give me a breakâ€¦â€¦.. Now whoâ€™s been drinking too much of the â€œKool-Aidâ€â€¦ In case youâ€™re not aware thereâ€™s this little site called Media Matters which DOCUMENTS all the BushCO cheerleaders. Check it out sometime&lt;/em&gt;.&quot;

Yes, Media Matters makes a big deal out of the few times Matthews &quot;steps out of line&quot; witht the pre-approved propaganda. You don&#039;t see Media Matters giving a damn when Matthews runs hit-pieces on Cheney and Bush. You are too gullible. Matthews is a BushCO cheerleader, even though he has the view that they are dishonest and have lied repeatedly? How does that work? He&#039;s a BushCO cheerleader, yet for some reason, sites like ThinkProgress, DailyKos, and Atrios commonly use him to back up their own BS.

Try to think on your own, and don&#039;t let fill up the cup at the Kool-Aid stand at Media Matters.

arch stanton,

&quot;&lt;em&gt;How can you not trust a man who says â€œI wonâ€™t be able to win this war in my presidency; Iâ€™m leaving it up to other presidents in the futureâ€?â€™ Chris Matthews Hardball March 22&lt;/em&gt;&quot;

You took his statement out of context. He was asking a rhetorical question. He followed up by saying that Bush had moved the goal posts. It seems lost on the brainwashed masses here on ThinkProgress that hosts of TV shows often play devil&#039;s advocate on their show to solicit responses from their guests, just as Matthews did here. If you actually view the entire segment, you clearly see Matthews does not hold this opinion, it was simply a rhetorical device to further a discussion, where he, as I said, stated as fact that Bush had &quot;moved the goal posts&quot;. Doesn&#039;t seem like a Bush-cheerleader to me. Oh well, keep being ignorant of the truth. When you let Media Matters dictate to you what you read and see, you are being bamboozled.

Jay Randal,

&lt;em&gt;&quot;Always amazes me when somebody tries to claim they support Bush, but are still a moderate &gt; lol. If you back Bush, you have drank the Kool-Aid/Victory Gin, and are NO longer moderate! Intelligence is shown by realizing the Bush Regime is full of crap and 100% pure evil! Seixon: we are NOT brainwashed who oppose Dubya, but those who support him are comatose!&quot;&lt;/em&gt;

Uh, where did I claim I support Bush? I didn&#039;t, that&#039;s what you keep saying. I supported the war, but I have not voted for Bush, and that is because I&#039;m not a Republican or a conservative. Here you show exactly who is drinking the Kool-Aid: anyone who supports Bush on anything is automatically a conservative to you. This is what I call the Cult of anti-Bush. Just as you do to Chris Matthews, if anyone says anything that can be misconstrued as to mean that they support Bush on ANYTHING, they are automatically thrown under the bus and labeled a neo-con, Republican, or a conservative.

I guess that makes Jimmy Carter a conservative for agreeing with Bush on the Dubai ports deal. What, you didn&#039;t know about that? Oh, I forgot, that little morsel of truth never made it through the screening process of the liberal blogosphere. They never told you because it would shatter the worldview they have created for all their minions. They could simply not afford to throw Carter under the bus for supporting Bush, because it would undermine the entire propaganda effort. So what to do? Ignore it. Don&#039;t tell your minions about it. Keep them in the dark.

Check it for yourself. DailyKos did not mention a single time that Carter supported Bush on the Dubai ports deal. Not once.

Why do you think that is? Those of us who really are &quot;in the middle&quot; know full well why, but those who keep calling me a troll here are hard-pressed to acknowledge the simple truth.

Briseadh,

&lt;em&gt;Might I suggest that we all simply refuse to answer or address posts from I-Right-I, Mighty Aphrodite, Seixon and others of thier ilk?&lt;/em&gt;

Yes, standard operating procedure. If you can&#039;t defuse what I am saying, personally attack me, label me your enemy, and then ignore me. Whatever keeps you from coming out of the rabbit-hole my friend.

Ryan Neat,

Thanks for describing yourself and your friends. If you&#039;d like to point out a broken link, incoherent statement, or redefinition of a word from me, go ahead. The problem is that you are projecting your own faults.

unbelievable,

It seems like you might be the only sane person around here, but that&#039;s still not saying much.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nonneocon,</p>
<p>&#8220;<em>Gee Seixon, care to DOCUMENT all these shows you claim Mathews called Bush a liar? Percentage wise, itâ€™s like what, maybe .001 .002 percent of the shows in contrast where he actually wanted Bush up there on Mt. Rushmoreâ€¦ Give me a breakâ€¦â€¦.. Now whoâ€™s been drinking too much of the â€œKool-Aidâ€â€¦ In case youâ€™re not aware thereâ€™s this little site called Media Matters which DOCUMENTS all the BushCO cheerleaders. Check it out sometime</em>.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yes, Media Matters makes a big deal out of the few times Matthews &#8220;steps out of line&#8221; witht the pre-approved propaganda. You don&#8217;t see Media Matters giving a damn when Matthews runs hit-pieces on Cheney and Bush. You are too gullible. Matthews is a BushCO cheerleader, even though he has the view that they are dishonest and have lied repeatedly? How does that work? He&#8217;s a BushCO cheerleader, yet for some reason, sites like ThinkProgress, DailyKos, and Atrios commonly use him to back up their own BS.</p>
<p>Try to think on your own, and don&#8217;t let fill up the cup at the Kool-Aid stand at Media Matters.</p>
<p>arch stanton,</p>
<p>&#8220;<em>How can you not trust a man who says â€œI wonâ€™t be able to win this war in my presidency; Iâ€™m leaving it up to other presidents in the futureâ€?â€™ Chris Matthews Hardball March 22</em>&#8221;</p>
<p>You took his statement out of context. He was asking a rhetorical question. He followed up by saying that Bush had moved the goal posts. It seems lost on the brainwashed masses here on ThinkProgress that hosts of TV shows often play devil&#8217;s advocate on their show to solicit responses from their guests, just as Matthews did here. If you actually view the entire segment, you clearly see Matthews does not hold this opinion, it was simply a rhetorical device to further a discussion, where he, as I said, stated as fact that Bush had &#8220;moved the goal posts&#8221;. Doesn&#8217;t seem like a Bush-cheerleader to me. Oh well, keep being ignorant of the truth. When you let Media Matters dictate to you what you read and see, you are being bamboozled.</p>
<p>Jay Randal,</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Always amazes me when somebody tries to claim they support Bush, but are still a moderate &gt; lol. If you back Bush, you have drank the Kool-Aid/Victory Gin, and are NO longer moderate! Intelligence is shown by realizing the Bush Regime is full of crap and 100% pure evil! Seixon: we are NOT brainwashed who oppose Dubya, but those who support him are comatose!&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Uh, where did I claim I support Bush? I didn&#8217;t, that&#8217;s what you keep saying. I supported the war, but I have not voted for Bush, and that is because I&#8217;m not a Republican or a conservative. Here you show exactly who is drinking the Kool-Aid: anyone who supports Bush on anything is automatically a conservative to you. This is what I call the Cult of anti-Bush. Just as you do to Chris Matthews, if anyone says anything that can be misconstrued as to mean that they support Bush on ANYTHING, they are automatically thrown under the bus and labeled a neo-con, Republican, or a conservative.</p>
<p>I guess that makes Jimmy Carter a conservative for agreeing with Bush on the Dubai ports deal. What, you didn&#8217;t know about that? Oh, I forgot, that little morsel of truth never made it through the screening process of the liberal blogosphere. They never told you because it would shatter the worldview they have created for all their minions. They could simply not afford to throw Carter under the bus for supporting Bush, because it would undermine the entire propaganda effort. So what to do? Ignore it. Don&#8217;t tell your minions about it. Keep them in the dark.</p>
<p>Check it for yourself. DailyKos did not mention a single time that Carter supported Bush on the Dubai ports deal. Not once.</p>
<p>Why do you think that is? Those of us who really are &#8220;in the middle&#8221; know full well why, but those who keep calling me a troll here are hard-pressed to acknowledge the simple truth.</p>
<p>Briseadh,</p>
<p><em>Might I suggest that we all simply refuse to answer or address posts from I-Right-I, Mighty Aphrodite, Seixon and others of thier ilk?</em></p>
<p>Yes, standard operating procedure. If you can&#8217;t defuse what I am saying, personally attack me, label me your enemy, and then ignore me. Whatever keeps you from coming out of the rabbit-hole my friend.</p>
<p>Ryan Neat,</p>
<p>Thanks for describing yourself and your friends. If you&#8217;d like to point out a broken link, incoherent statement, or redefinition of a word from me, go ahead. The problem is that you are projecting your own faults.</p>
<p>unbelievable,</p>
<p>It seems like you might be the only sane person around here, but that&#8217;s still not saying much.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=486556', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<dc:creator>unbelievable</dc:creator>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Talk about pre-9/11 mentality. I-RIGHT-I and his ilk are living in a 1950s mentality. 

Comment by Spudge_Boy â€” March 25, 2006 @ 12:05 pm &lt;/em&gt;

More like 1750s...  : )</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Talk about pre-9/11 mentality. I-RIGHT-I and his ilk are living in a 1950s mentality. </p>
<p>Comment by Spudge_Boy â€” March 25, 2006 @ 12:05 pm </em></p>
<p>More like 1750s&#8230;  : )<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=486526', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<dc:creator>unbelievable</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2006 15:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;unbelievable, oh, I see. Youâ€™re paranoid and delusional. 

Comment by Pro-Democracy â€” March 25, 2006 @ 4:43 pm &lt;/em&gt;

Goodbye wallace.  Enjoy your Spring Break.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>unbelievable, oh, I see. Youâ€™re paranoid and delusional. </p>
<p>Comment by Pro-Democracy â€” March 25, 2006 @ 4:43 pm </em></p>
<p>Goodbye wallace.  Enjoy your Spring Break.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=486523', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<dc:creator>unbelievable</dc:creator>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;but my own rule is to â€œavoid loud and obnoxious people, for they are vexations to the spiritâ€ - those two are most offensive to me, and my spiritâ€¦ 

Comment by katy â€” March 25, 2006 @ 11:03 pm &lt;/em&gt;

I just don&#039;t take them seriously.  Or let them get to me.  No one is worth giving away your sense of self - I agree.  But we can&#039;t just shut ourselves off from everyone who is different - or that makes us just as limited and as exclusive as they are.  And I personally find temperence in having them around.  Reminds me that there is another side to every situation, and by understanding it, I can learn to address it better in my real life.  Also reminds me to question even my own thoughts - for without that, I feel stagnate.  Just my thoughts.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>but my own rule is to â€œavoid loud and obnoxious people, for they are vexations to the spiritâ€ &#8211; those two are most offensive to me, and my spiritâ€¦ </p>
<p>Comment by katy â€” March 25, 2006 @ 11:03 pm </em></p>
<p>I just don&#8217;t take them seriously.  Or let them get to me.  No one is worth giving away your sense of self &#8211; I agree.  But we can&#8217;t just shut ourselves off from everyone who is different &#8211; or that makes us just as limited and as exclusive as they are.  And I personally find temperence in having them around.  Reminds me that there is another side to every situation, and by understanding it, I can learn to address it better in my real life.  Also reminds me to question even my own thoughts &#8211; for without that, I feel stagnate.  Just my thoughts.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=486519', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<dc:creator>unbelievable</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2006 15:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Ryan, Unbelievable and others, 

Might I suggest that we all simply refuse to answer or address posts from I-Right-I, Mighty Aphrodite, Seixon and others of thier ilk?

Comment by Briseadh na Faire â€” March 25, 2006 @ 10:36 pm &lt;/em&gt;

I&#039;ve learned that the only person I can control is myself.  I can&#039;t change other people&#039;s behavior.  So, on the days I&#039;m not in the mood for quibbling, I just don&#039;t read troll posts (therefore controlling myself).  I believe they have the same rights and freedoms of speech and thought as we all do. Sorry.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Ryan, Unbelievable and others, </p>
<p>Might I suggest that we all simply refuse to answer or address posts from I-Right-I, Mighty Aphrodite, Seixon and others of thier ilk?</p>
<p>Comment by Briseadh na Faire â€” March 25, 2006 @ 10:36 pm </em></p>
<p>I&#8217;ve learned that the only person I can control is myself.  I can&#8217;t change other people&#8217;s behavior.  So, on the days I&#8217;m not in the mood for quibbling, I just don&#8217;t read troll posts (therefore controlling myself).  I believe they have the same rights and freedoms of speech and thought as we all do. Sorry.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=486514', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<dc:creator>Bush Bites</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2006 14:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>MYSTERIOUSLY, AS TWEETY TALKED TO THE BLONDE OPERATIVE, HIS DESK APPEARED TO LEVITATE.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>MYSTERIOUSLY, AS TWEETY TALKED TO THE BLONDE OPERATIVE, HIS DESK APPEARED TO LEVITATE.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=486495', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<dc:creator>GURU</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2006 06:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Give em hell Spudgeboy!===========Rove and Gannon......anal friends. 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Give em hell Spudgeboy!===========Rove and Gannon&#8230;&#8230;anal friends.<br />
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		<title>By: katy</title>
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		<dc:creator>katy</dc:creator>
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		<description>i agree with you, briseadh na faire - i have &quot;responded&quot; only occasionally but (try to) never directly confront them ... there are times i want to make a point but hate to feed the trolls - it ain&#039;t easy ... but my own rule is to &quot;avoid loud and obnoxious people, for they are vexations to the spirit&quot; - those two are most offensive to me, and my spirit...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i agree with you, briseadh na faire &#8211; i have &#8220;responded&#8221; only occasionally but (try to) never directly confront them &#8230; there are times i want to make a point but hate to feed the trolls &#8211; it ain&#8217;t easy &#8230; but my own rule is to &#8220;avoid loud and obnoxious people, for they are vexations to the spirit&#8221; &#8211; those two are most offensive to me, and my spirit&#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=486408', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Briseadh na Faire</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2006 03:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ryan, Unbelievable and others, 

Might I suggest that we all simply refuse to answer or address posts from I-Right-I, Mighty Aphrodite, Seixon and others of thier ilk?

I-Right-I would convert all to Christianity, yet IRI does not follow the teachings of Christ.

Mighty Aphrodite claims to be a lawyer, yet cannot write a coherent argument.

Let&#039;s face it, some people simply get a perverse pleasure through getting other people riled up. I, for one, am through playing their game.

Peace and Blessings.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ryan, Unbelievable and others, </p>
<p>Might I suggest that we all simply refuse to answer or address posts from I-Right-I, Mighty Aphrodite, Seixon and others of thier ilk?</p>
<p>I-Right-I would convert all to Christianity, yet IRI does not follow the teachings of Christ.</p>
<p>Mighty Aphrodite claims to be a lawyer, yet cannot write a coherent argument.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s face it, some people simply get a perverse pleasure through getting other people riled up. I, for one, am through playing their game.</p>
<p>Peace and Blessings.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=486401', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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