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2004-08-20 Home Front: Politix
Turncoat Brock Now Supports Censorship and One-Party State in US
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Posted by BigEd 2004-08-20 3:39:55 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 @ssh@t hypocrite
Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-08-20 4:00:20 PM||   2004-08-20 4:00:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Someone hang a pork chop around Brock's neck so his puppy will play with him.
Posted by badanov  2004-08-20 4:03:27 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org]  2004-08-20 4:03:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 More like David Crock.

Lots of assertions, what little 'evidence' of misinformation & lies that they allude to that's presented here is the 'unnamed critic' whose sole crime is that of contradiction (I think this is over the Bronze Star dispute when Kerry's boat picked up Rassmann). Guess I'll go soil myself and see what Media Matters has for convincing proof...
Posted by Raj  2004-08-20 4:09:20 PM||   2004-08-20 4:09:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Brock is perhaps the biggest piece of crap ever to have once called himself a Republican. Easily one of the biggest losers walking the earth.
Posted by Chris W.  2004-08-20 4:10:34 PM||   2004-08-20 4:10:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 He's less a turncoat and more of a windsock.
Posted by eLarson 2004-08-20 4:16:26 PM|| [http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2004-08-20 4:16:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Just what I thought - lotsa bullshit.

Elliott also says in that second affidavit, "Had I known the facts, I would not have recommended Kerry for the Silver Star for simply pursuing and dispatching a single, wounded, fleeing Viet Cong." That statement is misleading, however. It mischaracterizes the actual basis on which Kerry received his decoration.

The official citations show Kerry was not awarded the Silver Star "for simply pursuing and dispatching" the Viet Cong. In fact, the killing is not even mentioned in two of the three versions of the official citation (see "supporting documents" at right.) The citations - based on what Elliott wrote up at the time - dwell mostly on Kerry's decision to attack rather than flee from two ambushes, including one in which he led a landing party.

Well, genius - when you're attacking, by definition you're attacking someone or something, right? Also note that Elliot claimed later in the day that the Globe mischaracterized what he sais in the 8/6/04 article; it doesn't look like that was disclosed in this article.

I think the Bronze Star issue comes down to whether there was enemy fire in the area when Rassman was dumped from JFK's boat and in the subsequent pickup. At least two people don't recall / remember there being enemy fire at the time, the prerequisite for the award. Neither person is quoted in this article.

My conclusion - FactCheck doesn't live up to its name here.
Posted by Raj  2004-08-20 4:19:52 PM||   2004-08-20 4:19:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 This is TOOOOO GOOOD! By trying to censor a book that s critical of Kerry, he has shown that Kerry IS "Unfit For Command!" This is a desperate attempt to muzzle a critic. Can you imagine the outrage if Bush/Rove/Cheney/etc. tried to stop any one of the Anti-Bush books or stop the showing of 9/11? Stick a fork in these guys they are done!
Posted by Cyber Sarge  2004-08-20 4:50:06 PM||   2004-08-20 4:50:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 And all those books about Bush and F9-11 were an honest portrayal of the facts.

I better make an investment in the Tissue Manufactures because the Kerry Kamp is sure doing a lot of CRYING.
Posted by danking70 2004-08-20 4:51:59 PM||   2004-08-20 4:51:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 And all those books about Bush and F9-11 were an honest portrayal of the facts. I better make an investment in the Tissue Manufactures because the Kerry Kamp is sure doing a lot of CRYING

The 'crying' they are doing is nothing compared the the crying they will be doing 3 Nov. of this year.
Posted by badanov  2004-08-20 4:55:44 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org]  2004-08-20 4:55:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 I predict W with 56% +-2.
Posted by Brett_the_Quarkian 2004-08-20 5:02:49 PM||   2004-08-20 5:02:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 And the press will spout: "44% not happy with Bush!"
Posted by Cyber Sarge  2004-08-20 5:09:28 PM||   2004-08-20 5:09:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 "As the president and CEO of Media Matters for America, a nonprofit organization that seeks to rid the U.S. media (including book publishing) of conservative misinformation, I ask you to consider taking some action on Unfit for Command"

David Brock, in his sly, weaselly way, is trying to classify conservative views as a thought crime.

Don't go down that road, David. Don't even think of going down it. Because at the end of that road lie Treblinka, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, and Babi Yar.

Got damn, these assholes are getting scarier by the day. They are becoming so brazen and daring, so power-hungry, and so utterly without principle that I really wonder whether they have sense enough to stop short of doing something so heinous that we'll end up in a civil war.

I fear they do not.
Posted by Dave D. 2004-08-20 5:29:21 PM||   2004-08-20 5:29:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 This is just perfect marketing...

Excellent Smithers, order a few more million books run...
Posted by Capsu78 2004-08-20 5:51:50 PM||   2004-08-20 5:51:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Got damn, these assholes are getting scarier by the day.

Got that right.
Posted by Robert Crawford  2004-08-20 5:58:39 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/]  2004-08-20 5:58:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 I can't wait until payday so I can get my copy! Assuming it hasn't banned and burned by the under-fuher. Doesn't he realize that he just sold another 500k copies by calling for it to be banned? It's like when they try to censor a radio or TV show. The day they ban a book (any book) is the day I start stocking ammo and rations, because it's a quick slide down from there.
Posted by Cyber Sarge  2004-08-20 6:23:38 PM||   2004-08-20 6:23:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Ah, the smell of liberal pig roasting on a hot summer night. Honey, grab the fork, we'll poke it and see if its done yet.

Posted by Capt America  2004-08-20 9:55:44 PM|| [http://captamerica.blogspot.com/]  2004-08-20 9:55:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Bear in mind that liberals are simply neofascists. It is hardly astounding that they are reacting this way. Accuracy In Academia has long documented the political bias and censorship of liberals against conservatives on the university campuses. Check out the website of Accuracy In Academia, and you are treated to the following interesting treatises that the MSM would just like to keep hushed up:
• Racism is Not the Problem: Why Martin Luther King Got it Half Right
• Whither the Old Conservatism?
• Conservative University: An Education Civilization Cannot Do Without
• Campus Report 2000: Perversion & Censorship
• The Origins of Political Correctness
• The Constitution: Sovereignty & Accountability
• How Textbooks Distort American History
• Why the New Deal Failed
Posted by cingold 2004-08-20 10:06:01 PM||   2004-08-20 10:06:01 PM|| Front Page Top

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