Palin's Terrorist Connections

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Palin's Terrorist Connections
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Tue, 10-07-2008 - 8:29pm
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Wed, 10-08-2008 - 8:22pm
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Wed, 10-08-2008 - 8:31pm
By all means....have a look into the Ayers stuff. But don't just read the crap that's out there in the media right now. Go back a little further, before this became all caught up in the issue of Presidential politics and all its distorting effects.

Just a suggestion, but I'd start with the Wikipedia page, which isn't bad. There's also this article from Chicago Magazine from a few years back. It mentions Ayers tangentially, but focuses more on the Weathermen in general. Still, a good way to get an idea for what it was actually LIKE in that time and place. And, lastly, you might try the infamous NY Times article that started it all. It was an interview that Ayers did in advance of the release of his book, an article which - ironically - ran in the Times on September 11, 2001. Not a good day to be talking about political dissent. And also, apparently, not all that accurate in its characterization of what Ayers said.

Oh, yeah....almost forgot. If you want to get a better idea of the man, you might try his own blog, or the specific blog post he wrote in response to the Times article, back in 2001.

Come to your own conclusions.
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Wed, 10-08-2008 - 8:33pm

And you believe that it doesn't happen, all the time?

Seriously?

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Wed, 10-08-2008 - 8:49pm

That is a very interesting video.

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Wed, 10-08-2008 - 8:54pm
This is just a lawsuit.
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Wed, 10-08-2008 - 8:55pm
I will respectfully say that CrooksandLiars isn't a credible source by any stretch of the means.
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Wed, 10-08-2008 - 9:55pm
Please excuse my ignorance - what is milf?
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Wed, 10-08-2008 - 10:14pm
Not a credible source?

OK, I guess. But I'm curious. Most of what they post are video clips from various television news programs. How can a clip of a TV news show be "not credible?" Yes, I know they can be edited....but the ones at crooksandliars are not (other than at the beginning and the end, I suppose). And they can use small soundbites to take things out of context....but that's sort of a case-by-case basis, wouldn't you say (as well as often a matter of opinion)?

In this case, the video in question is a computer-screen capture of what USED to happen when you typed "voteforthemilf.com" into a browser. It doesn't happen anymore, because that redirect now goes to.....google. Do you truly believe that someone at crooksandliars would

  1. Pay money to register the domainname "voteforthemilf.com,"

  2. Redirect it to the McCain/Palin web site's video welcome from Governor Palin, and then

  3. Laboriously alter the computer-generated video of the traceroute/whois information?


Aside from that fact that that would be actionable fraud and libel, it also would be a tremendous amount of work. Such a scenario genuinely seems more likely to you than simply that it is what the video depicts it to be?
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Wed, 10-08-2008 - 10:16pm

If you don't know....you probably don't want to know. But in the interest of sparing you the shock you'll get if you simply google that acronym (and trust me, it won't be subtle), MILF stands for Mother I'd Like to F---

Don't say I didn't warn you.

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Wed, 10-08-2008 - 10:39pm
I did google it but thought I must be mistaken. I was shocked to say the least. I guess it is a sign of the times as language has gotten so bad of late. I volunteer at a school near my office and the language I sometimes hear in the hallway is astonishing! Once I am in the room working one on one with a student I usually see a whole different side of them, but run into them later in the hallway and it's like night and day!