Comments on: Onion: Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be http://www.lies.com/wp/2009/11/15/onion-area-man-passionate-defender-of-what-he-imagines-constitution-to-be-the-onion-americas-finest-news-source/ believe nothing... Thu, 13 Jun 2013 02:01:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: knarlyknight http://www.lies.com/wp/2009/11/15/onion-area-man-passionate-defender-of-what-he-imagines-constitution-to-be-the-onion-americas-finest-news-source/#comment-167958 knarlyknight Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:13:34 +0000 http://www.lies.com/?p=3689#comment-167958 The entirety of the Bush presidency was an attack on the intellect of Americans, and a glorification of knee jerk reactions using gut instincts rather than logic applied introspectively and externally before acting. The result was a squandering of near universal support for America in 2001 and the infliction of critical injuries to the worlds largest economy. America is now walking a tightrope between a long and difficult recovery on the one side and a descent into epic wars over world resources, hyperinflation, and an ever eroding US dollar on the other. For your sake and that of our children, I hope Americans do not cause Obama to stumble. The entirety of the Bush presidency was an attack on the intellect of Americans, and a glorification of knee jerk reactions using gut instincts rather than logic applied introspectively and externally before acting.

The result was a squandering of near universal support for America in 2001 and the infliction of critical injuries to the worlds largest economy.

America is now walking a tightrope between a long and difficult recovery on the one side and a descent into epic wars over world resources, hyperinflation, and an ever eroding US dollar on the other.

For your sake and that of our children, I hope Americans do not cause Obama to stumble.

]]> By: NorthernLite http://www.lies.com/wp/2009/11/15/onion-area-man-passionate-defender-of-what-he-imagines-constitution-to-be-the-onion-americas-finest-news-source/#comment-167939 NorthernLite Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:55:40 +0000 http://www.lies.com/?p=3689#comment-167939 Wow. That's what I call deliciously ironic! No wonder these people are so consumed with attacking intellect, they are severely lacking any resemblance of it. I saw that older blonde lady (congresswoman?) standing behind Boehner in the clip on Chris Matthews last night and Chris asked her if she new where the Fort Hood shooter went to college. Very smugly she replied, “Oh I dunno, probably Harvard.” (actually it was South Carolina). Chris then went on to blast her over the comment and this whole R strategy of attacking people for being smart. It was pretty good and left her speechless. Wow. That’s what I call deliciously ironic! No wonder these people are so consumed with attacking intellect, they are severely lacking any resemblance of it.

I saw that older blonde lady (congresswoman?) standing behind Boehner in the clip on Chris Matthews last night and Chris asked her if she new where the Fort Hood shooter went to college. Very smugly she replied, “Oh I dunno, probably Harvard.” (actually it was South Carolina). Chris then went on to blast her over the comment and this whole R strategy of attacking people for being smart. It was pretty good and left her speechless.

]]> By: enkidu http://www.lies.com/wp/2009/11/15/onion-area-man-passionate-defender-of-what-he-imagines-constitution-to-be-the-onion-americas-finest-news-source/#comment-167754 enkidu Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:48:38 +0000 http://www.lies.com/?p=3689#comment-167754 What makes this extra funny is that minority 'leader' John Boehner recently extolled the virtues of the Constitution to a crowd of teabaggers while quoting the Declaration of Independence. Smarter than a fifth grader? Evidently not. Why trust yer lying eyes, eh? http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/scarce/boehner-pulls-boner oh and the fact that wrong wing clearly had no idea this was satire... rich! What makes this extra funny is that minority ‘leader’ John Boehner recently extolled the virtues of the Constitution to a crowd of teabaggers while quoting the Declaration of Independence.

Smarter than a fifth grader? Evidently not.

Why trust yer lying eyes, eh?
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/scarce/boehner-pulls-boner

oh and the fact that wrong wing clearly had no idea this was satire… rich!

]]> By: shcb http://www.lies.com/wp/2009/11/15/onion-area-man-passionate-defender-of-what-he-imagines-constitution-to-be-the-onion-americas-finest-news-source/#comment-167751 shcb Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:27:04 +0000 http://www.lies.com/?p=3689#comment-167751 tonight? Hell I hadn't even started drinking yet. tonight? Hell I hadn’t even started drinking yet.

]]> By: knarlyknight http://www.lies.com/wp/2009/11/15/onion-area-man-passionate-defender-of-what-he-imagines-constitution-to-be-the-onion-americas-finest-news-source/#comment-167741 knarlyknight Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:40:41 +0000 http://www.lies.com/?p=3689#comment-167741 That was funny. shcb I mean. Haven't the attention span even fr Onion tonight, but on a related note would like to pass on a great comment from a journalist of the New Republic being interviewed on the CBC. He was on a train near St. Petersburgh in 1982, sitting next to a Russian University proessor. The professor stated that the USSR's people got more truth from their news sources than Americans get. The journalist, then a visiting student from some Western country, asked whatever could he mean by that, how could that possibly be true? Well, replied the professor, in America the people will read the NY Times or what have you and get very detailed accounts of what is presented as truth, but often is found out years later to not be entirely truthful, yet the people believe most of what they read. In the USSR, everyone who reads the paper knows it is full of lies, but they read seven or eight different papers and find other unofficial reports and sort of "triangulate" what must be true from the various accounts. In that way the Russian's are more discerning and ahve a better understanding of events than the mislead Americans. Just something to think about. That was funny. shcb I mean. Haven’t the attention span even fr Onion tonight, but on a related note would like to pass on a great comment from a journalist of the New Republic being interviewed on the CBC. He was on a train near St. Petersburgh in 1982, sitting next to a Russian University proessor. The professor stated that the USSR’s people got more truth from their news sources than Americans get. The journalist, then a visiting student from some Western country, asked whatever could he mean by that, how could that possibly be true? Well, replied the professor, in America the people will read the NY Times or what have you and get very detailed accounts of what is presented as truth, but often is found out years later to not be entirely truthful, yet the people believe most of what they read. In the USSR, everyone who reads the paper knows it is full of lies, but they read seven or eight different papers and find other unofficial reports and sort of “triangulate” what must be true from the various accounts. In that way the Russian’s are more discerning and ahve a better understanding of events than the mislead Americans.

Just something to think about.

]]> By: shcb http://www.lies.com/wp/2009/11/15/onion-area-man-passionate-defender-of-what-he-imagines-constitution-to-be-the-onion-americas-finest-news-source/#comment-167712 shcb Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:24:04 +0000 http://www.lies.com/?p=3689#comment-167712 I mean I know the onion is satire, I mean I know the onion is satire,

]]> By: shcb http://www.lies.com/wp/2009/11/15/onion-area-man-passionate-defender-of-what-he-imagines-constitution-to-be-the-onion-americas-finest-news-source/#comment-167711 shcb Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:23:36 +0000 http://www.lies.com/?p=3689#comment-167711 Aaaa yeah I know it is satire, is this satire? I thought maybe they were branching out. If this is satire just hand me a towel so I can wipe the egg off my red face. Aaaa yeah I know it is satire, is this satire? I thought maybe they were branching out. If this is satire just hand me a towel so I can wipe the egg off my red face.

]]> By: Smith http://www.lies.com/wp/2009/11/15/onion-area-man-passionate-defender-of-what-he-imagines-constitution-to-be-the-onion-americas-finest-news-source/#comment-167709 Smith Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:02:16 +0000 http://www.lies.com/?p=3689#comment-167709 I might be misreading your post (sarcasm is not always conveyed well in text), but you do know that The Onion is a satire, right? I might be misreading your post (sarcasm is not always conveyed well in text), but you do know that The Onion is a satire, right?

]]> By: shcb http://www.lies.com/wp/2009/11/15/onion-area-man-passionate-defender-of-what-he-imagines-constitution-to-be-the-onion-americas-finest-news-source/#comment-167688 shcb Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:28:13 +0000 http://www.lies.com/?p=3689#comment-167688 Really <blockquote>Dad's great, but listening to all that talk radio has put some weird ideas into his head," said daughter Samantha, a freshman at Reed College in Portland, OR. "He believes the Constitution allows the government to torture people and ban gay marriage, yet he doesn't even know that it guarantees universal health care." </blockquote> sounds like the whole family needs to go back to school, oops she's already in shcool, wonder who put those notions in her head. Really

Dad’s great, but listening to all that talk radio has put some weird ideas into his head,” said daughter Samantha, a freshman at Reed College in Portland, OR. “He believes the Constitution allows the government to torture people and ban gay marriage, yet he doesn’t even know that it guarantees universal health care.”

sounds like the whole family needs to go back to school, oops she’s already in shcool, wonder who put those notions in her head.

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