Democrat journalist Orson Scott Card
Finally someone got it right. Orson Scott Card has finally said something that every major news network (with the exception of Fox) was not willing to say. You will find the letter below.
This housing crisis didn’t come out of nowhere. It was not a vague emanation of the evil Bush administration.
It was a direct result of the political decision, back in the late 1990s, to loosen the rules of lending so that home loans would be more accessible to poor people. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were authorized to approve risky loans. …
This was completely foreseeable and in fact many people did foresee it. One political party, in Congress and in the executive branch, tried repeatedly to tighten up the rules. The other party blocked every such attempt and tried to loosen them.
Furthermore, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were making political contributions to the very members of Congress who were allowing them to make irresponsible loans. (Though why quasi-federal agencies were allowed to do so baffles me. It’s as if the Pentagon were allowed to contribute to the political campaigns of Congressmen who support increasing their budget.)
Isn’t there a story here? Doesn’t journalism require that you who produce our daily paper tell the truth about who brought us to a position where the only way to keep confidence in our economy was a $700 billion bailout? Aren’t you supposed to follow the money and see which politicians were benefiting personally from the deregulation of mortgage lending?
I have no doubt that if these facts had pointed to the Republican Party or to John McCain as the guilty parties, you would be treating it as a vast scandal. “Housing-gate,” no doubt. Or “Fannie-gate.”
Instead, it was Senator Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, both Democrats, who denied that there were any problems, who refused Bush administration requests to set up a regulatory agency to watch over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and who were still pushing for these agencies to go even further in promoting sub-prime mortgage loans almost up to the minute they failed. …
Yet when Nancy Pelosi accused the Bush administration and Republican deregulation of causing the crisis, you in the press did not hold her to account for her lie. Instead, you criticized Republicans who took offense at this lie and refused to vote for the bailout!
Your job, as journalists, is to tell the truth. That’s what you claim you do, when you accept people’s money to buy or subscribe to your paper.
But right now, you are consenting to or actively promoting a big fat lie — that the housing crisis should somehow be blamed on Bush, McCain, and the Republicans. You have trained the American people to blame everything bad — even bad weather — on Bush, and they are responding as you have taught them to.
If you had any personal honor, each reporter and editor would be insisting on telling the truth — even if it hurts the election chances of your favorite candidate.
- Orson Scott Card
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Tim Mahoney and former aide Patricia Allen
Even though I have to hold myself back from saying it, I’m not going to say GOTCHA!! But this is definitely deja vu. Mahoney, yeah the same guy who outed Foley in 2004 for his sex scandal has himself been caught in one.
To make matters even worse he allegedly paid off former aide Patricia Allen 121,000 (of campaign funds) to keep her mouth quiet. Although he admits to the affair he denies the latter allegation.
I’m so interested in seeing what is going to happen now. And please tell me that the democratic leadership in Washington will kindly ask him to step down.
VIA: FoxNews
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If you watch Fox news than you know this is nothing but classic O’Reilly factor montage. FINALLY!!! Someone in the media who is willing to ask this ass loving democrat (yes he is gay) what happened to the money from Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Video can be viewed below.
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So the house passed the bill. I don’t have much to say except this is the beginning of the end for the free American economy. If you believe that government has to bail us out every time we get into trouble like we’re little babies than I don’t know what to say.
Mark my word. Any how this bill goes into effect, have no doubt it will fix things…FOR A TIME… but next go around it will be ten times worse than before.
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So they’re back with the same crapy bill, only disguised as having more options and some tax breaks (which come at the expense of our freedom). I would give my comment on it, But my friend over at Rob Jones summed it up nicely.
Go over there and check out his post. And in case you’re wondering, yes I do agree with his point (as if that was hard to tell).
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To all those who said that we need government intervention: go to hell. Thanks to the government staying out of the mess they created Wallstreet closed with some better numbers. And guess what it has all of Congress scrambling to get a bill to destroy it.
The DOW which fell over 700 points yesterday gained 485. But guess what, the liberal media says its because investors think the Government is working on a plan, so they decided to buy. HELL NO! That is not what happened. I am tired of MSNBC and CBS claiming that Congress has a plan.
I have one favor to ask you people. Tomorrow Congress will vote on the bill. Just like what you did on Monday, do it again. Call your Congress men and woman and promise to vote them out of office if they sign this stupid and lousy bill. We do not and I repeat, DO NOT need government intervention. They will only make matters worse.
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I am pissed at Congress. No I am not mad at the President or Barack or even McCain. But the freakin’ idiots that we have up there. We just experienced the greatest one day lost on the DOW and all I can hear the dumbass democrats up in Washington do is blame the Republicans for not passing the bill.
You called their commander in chief a fucking idiot for crying out loud and you expect them to vote with you? If your bill is so grand, why not pass it yourself, after all you have all the votes to do so. Pass the damn bill and take all the credit for it. I’m sure it will suite you well in the upcoming elections.
Oh wait I forgot its the crappiest bill ever thought of in a long time. You’re telling me that a bill that gives over $20 billion to liberal organizations is such a good idea? All you idiots want is the Republicans to put their signatures on that thing and than you (along with the drive by media) use it as a beating stick in their back sin a couple days.
I thought this was supposed to be the Congress that fixed the problems we had when the Republicans were in a few years ago? So much for all your good plans. And don’t tell me its because of the President. Because the President backed allot of this bill and people were still outraged about it. So he was on your side for once and you still missed by a mile. Heck crude oil has dropped $11 today but it doesn’t even make sense cause half the people are more concerned about keeping their car than filling her up at the pump.
Yes we lost more in one day ($1 Trillion) than this bailout would have cost us ($700 billion), but guess what, these greedy banks and loan sharks need to pay for their crimes. I don’t care if its gonna cost us 10 years before we have another record day on Wallstreet. But giving the banks nearly $1 Trillion to deal with the problems they created is just as bad as giving your teenager a gun to fix the problems he started.
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DirtyElection.com brought up an interesting article about how Biden has made comments about Obama and himself looking into the possibility of charging Bush for war crimes should they assume office in November. Little was nrought up about this thanks to the media’s high profile coverage of Sarach Palin’s VP spot.
Now Biden is playing his comments down. Asked directly if Obama was looking into prosecuting Bush Biden said that it was Congress and not the Obama Biden adinistration that would look into such charges.
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You guys can keep pointing fingers…keep blaming everyone for your 2006 loss. You know what it served you right. The reason you lost in 2006 is you stepped away from your values. You were drunk with the wine of success. Further more you lost three more key seats in the last month because you still have not wised up. You thinking putting that joker on the campaign trail is going to give you a shot at the White House this November? Yeah if you happen to run against the incompetent fool who doesn’t remember what language Afghanistan speaks. But if you think that a match up with your biggest nemesis since the nineties is going to pull through with him at your head you can keep dreaming.
Yes I’m glad you lost. And I’ll continue to rejoice until you start using your brains. Must I remind you the only reason you lost is because the enemy was able to convince voters that they had better principles than you. The current head of your party is not the problem. The main problem with your party happens to be those who are moving up the ranks who stand for little or nothing.
The day you fix that is the day you carry this country in a landslide election. But I guess that’s not gonna happen. Those bloggers and alternative media has been harping on it since ‘05 and you still have not listened. So continue…I so hope you loose in November.
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Rev. Edward Everett Hale was once asked, while he was Chaplin for the US Senate, if he prayed for Senators. To this re replied:
No, I look at the Senators and pray for the nation
Its quite true. Some of the policies these Senators make you gotta wonder if they were smoking a joint before their meeting. And what’s up with all these drawn out sessions and hearings. No wonder most Americans do not have a favorable opinion about their Senators, representatives and Congressmen.
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