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Arrests in Plan to Kill Obama and Black Schoolchildren
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/us/politics/28p…
Calm your hemorrhoids– we don't hold this stuff against all of you. But it's out there.

Pay attention to something that isn't there? How does one do that, pray tell? Is one required to don a tin foil hat? Show me an article in a newspaper that says Palins wearing of white clothing is code that she's racist. Or is that the kind of non-existent article I should be paying attention to? I mean, please. You're quite mental, aren't you?

I've lived in the states for over two years now. Yes, the media can be biased, but it is equally biased. FOX is mainstream. The NY Post is mainstream. The National Review is mainstream. I could go on. The point is that intelligent people should take anything they read and watch with a grain of salt. Basically, try using your goddamn brain. Also, understand that an editorial is not the same as news. This seems to be a common theme here in the states. The amount of angry comments I read following an editorial is quite staggering. Don't people here know what an opionion is?

"But the nuance beneath it is true and it needs to be addressed, even if *THAT* event didn’t really happen.”

It's funny you should say this… To me… It should be addressed to Jimmie as he's been espousing this very idea. ie: "It doesn't matter if Todd was lying because the left are raging psychos and that's just the kind of thing they'd do.."

"In this instance, it was doubted by many on the right long before she admitted it."

Perhaps, but it was the right who jumped on the story and guilded the lily. Drudge and Fox were reporting it practically as fact while most other outlets were still putting on their shoes.

Make that eight. This was made up as well:

The window of John McCain’s campaign bus was shot out and it was shot several times with paintballs in New Mexico (via Mary Katharine Ham)

There was only one source for this claim, an anti-Obama campaigner citing an anonymous source and even his follow up said there was nothing to support this occurring.

The link you've got there goes to a post featuring the headline "(UPDATED: No Reports to Police or Campaign)".

By the way, what's the difference between a right wing hoaxer and a leftie hoaxer? The Democrats whitewash it with, "But the nuance beneath it is true and it needs to be addressed, even if *THAT* event didn't really happen." People on the right, on the other hand, actually come out and condemn it. In this instance, it was doubted by many on the right long before she admitted it.

Whinging isn't what you need to be focusing on, but some serious issues with truth. And the left are more "truth challenged" than I ever believed possible.

Oh, god, stop being such a cry-baby.

Neither side is perfect. Both sides are equally guilty of foul play. That's politics. Most rational, non-ideological liberals AND conservatives accept this.

I'm a left-leaning Aussie girl. I have no problem with conservatives, only conservatives with a persecution complex. Your whining is as unattractive as your dogmatism. I mean, listen to yourself – even when you're wrong you're right! You're behaviour would impress even the most staunch fundamentalist.

Yes, Progressive to a Point works for what I am as well. I call it Conservative Libertarian, but it works out in the same neighborhood as you. I pay for the stuff that I can't pay for myself as an individual citizen (y'know, police and fire and an army and other sundries) and I'm good with that.

What I'm just tired of is seeing how folks like me are the ones everyone's supposedly afraid of taking to the streets. I'm portrayed as the dangerously violent one even though me and mine haven't rioted since…ever!

It's gotten to the point where I'm pissed off about it and I'm tired of actual crimes getting overlooked just so the overarching media narrative of McCain supporters as crazed maniacs who are barely controlling their urge to commit mass murder against black people and anyone who dissents against their Coming Reich Wing.