IMPORTANT: about the obsequeous reporter at the Bush press conf.

[BlueEyedSon]

Senate Democratic leaders have painted a very bleak picture of the U.S. economy. Harry Reid was talking about soup lines, and Hillary Clinton was talking about the economy being on the verge of collapse. Yet, in the same breath, they say that Social Security is rock-solid and there's no crisis there. How are you going to work -- you said you're going to reach out to these people -- how are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?


Talk about denial of reality.

Here is a source for the quote and some analysis: http://mediamatters.org/items/200501260015

The reporter is Jeff Gannon. Here's his bio at Talon News http://www.talonnews.com/bios/jeffgannon.shtml

Here is where the scumbag got his press credentials:

The Leadership Institute is the premier training ground for tomorrow's conservative leaders. http://www.leadershipinstitute.org/index_flash.cfm

And here is their credo (this is an script outline for a MOVIE they sell):

Roots of the Ultra Left Script
Browse the Script By Topic

* Introduction

Section One:
What Socialists Really Think About Economics

* Profit Comes From Evil Greed

* Socialists must get all your property

* Tax all income at 100%

* Support big government. No new tax cuts.

* Only government creates wealth

* Bureaucrats spend your money better than you do

* To elect more socialists, destroy the economy

* Government jobs good; private employers bad

* "Something for nothing" fools almost everyone

* Why work when you can loot those who do?

* Socialism has never been tried

Section Two:
What Socialists Really Think About Your Family And Our American Culture

* Traditional morality is always bad

* Do what feels good now. Make taxpayers pay the bill

* Break all family ties

* Make God illegal

* Masculine is bad; feminine is also bad

* Kill it. Why give your baby to a moral couple?

Section Three:
What Socialists Really Think About Liberty

* Solve all problems. Give the Left all power.

* Stamp out liberty. It's unfair.

* Everything not compulsory must be prohibited

* Re-write history or stop teaching it

* Keep campuses conservative-free zones

* In the media, any conservatives are too many

* No free speech for conservatives

* Only groups have rights

* Give up your guns. We want you defenseless.

* Pay the union boss or we'll crack your skull

* Save the environment. Kill off all the people.

* Destroy all non-government education

* Teachers unions -- more important than teaching kids

* When judges give us what we want, forget the laws and the Constitution

Section Four:
What Socialists Really Think About The Future Of America In The World.

* America causes all world problems

* Eliminate patriotism

* Bring on world government

* Next time, Marxist-Leninists will get it right

Source: http://www.leadershipinstitute.org/04RESOURCES/RootsLeft_000.htm

Movie info here: http://www.leadershipinstitute.org/04RESOURCES/RootsLeft.htm

The Roots of the Ultra Left is an in-depth look at 35 things the ultra left really thinks. From Socialism to Communism, from economic and religious oppression to the elimination individual freedoms -- they say it’s all for the common good, but the ultra left’s sordid history tells a different tale. It's the documentary the left doesn't want you to see. It’s the documenatry you can’t afford to miss.

[WildClarySage]

1. This is exactly the sort of thing they've been paying for

I can't wait for the FOIA to out this kind of crap.

[radwriter0555]

2. WOW, they have an actual, written agenda??? How in heck do you fight

this crap?

You folks are in DEEP, serious trouble.

[BlueEyedSon]

5. No they have a MOVIE, this is the SCRIPT outline.

http://www.leadershipinstitute.org/04RESOURCES/RootsLeft.htm

[radwriter0555]

13. Damn. Glad I'm leaving the country.

I seriously don't want to be around for the rise of the new americanazis. These people scare the crap out of me.

[htuttle]

3. I believe he's a regular poster over at Free Republic

Somebody mentioned that once, but I do not remember what his username is.

[Stephanie]

10. grasswire was researching it

she wrote about it in her blog too - PM grasswire for the goods on this fake "reporter" and how he managed to get WH credentials

[grasswire]

17. he's a freeper

and his user name over there is Jeff Gannon.

[enough]

4. Great work, Son.

Nominating for home page.

[BlueEyedSon]

6. thx.

[ooglymoogly]

7. kick eom

[BlueEyedSon]

8. Clearly this guy is a RW WACKO, what can we do about it?

No one with this mindset can be a journalist.

[rodeodance]

9. maybe he was a mole?? but how find out? He is part of WH press isn't

he? They say there was only 45 minutes announment of the press conference.

[BlueEyedSon]

11. Mole or no, he is not a journalist.

He is a partisan pretender.

[paineinthearse]

14. A journalist would sign and uphold the SPJ code of ethics

See http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=109x17866

[wicket]

12. kick

:kick:

[BamaBecky]

15. CONTACT JEFF GANNON: [e-mail] eom

[BlueEyedSon]

16. If we email him enough will he fire himself?

I am just SO frustrated!!

[grasswire]

19. careful...........

...he's a nasty one. Don't give him anything that could identify your personal info.

[grasswire]

18. lots more about Gannon and Talon here

http://webdems.blogspot.com/

Oh, and Dan Froomkin of The Washington Post has had his eye on Gannon for quite a while. He's not totally under the radar.

[BlueEyedSon]

20. kick

[freesqueeze]

21. I emailed their tip line email

And let 'em in on the 'tip' that Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer and has never claimed to be a journalist. He has never been confused with a journalist until your man at the white house decided to use Rush Limbaugh's putrid imagination as a news source.

PATHETIC!

[intheflow]

22. Obviously they have never met a socialist,

nor even read about socialism. This outline seems to be made entirely out of whole cloth, really just a regurgitation of McCarthyism. Get out of the 1950's and try living in the 21st Century. :eyes:

[unpossibles]

23. I agree

it also shows their inability to understand nuance on any level, except maybe market fluctuation.

like the statements:

* Socialists must get all your property
* Tax all income at 100%
* Only government creates wealth
* "Something for nothing" fools almost everyone
* Break all family ties
* Make God illegal
* Masculine is bad; feminine is also bad
* No free speech for conservatives
* Save the environment. Kill off all the people.
* America causes all world problems
* Eliminate patriotism

etc. are all such hyperbole that they don't really make any sense to anyone who pays attention or understands that along with some taxes comes benefits to society (hence to the individual).

These people play on the myth that the rich upper class all got there from the bottom with nothing more than hard work and self-motivation. While this is not impossible, it is so far from the norm to be ridiculous. They play on people's desire to one day be rich themselves, and on the fear that when they become rich, some lazy brown woman/gay couple/liberal will steal their "hard-earned" money.

How many people in the upper class never once took advantage of social programs - everything from fire departments to schools and sidewalks to subsidizing water costs to make meat affordable? How many rich CEOs ever tighten their own belts by a couple million (often a small percentage of their income) in order to save their business, the jobs and possibly lives of their wage slaves? (no, I am not saying that every business is like this - see the above statement about nuance) How many businesses, when they cut costs by outsourcing overseas, parlayed that savings to the consumer?

My point is simply that no one exists in a vacuum - that in the rise to the point where you can afford to have your money work for you, you have accepted help from society somewhere along the way. No one is a self-made millionaire.