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Originally posted by Not Bob
Well, then, why do you care what I think?
We've already discussed the photoshoppe issue -- I don't like the ones of Bush or Cheney or whoever, either. But that's not really relevant, because there ain't nobody posting them on the LT Politics board. And I can't remember the last time someone repeatedly responded to a series of posts with "Bush Lied!"
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The immediate and unrelenting assertions of primary responsibility for the mistakes in NO to the Feds are the equivalent of the Bush Lied harangue. And that harangue goes on all the time from posters over there, whether its in two word form or complete sentences or paragraphs. I asked a question about the localities responsibility and the consistent answer I got was "maybe, sort of, I need more info, there might be some responsibility but FEMA FEMA FEMA". Progressively I posted more evidence of the localities complicity and the answer was the same, a qualified non-answer. That is why I kept asking the question.
As for pictorial satires, that goes on everyday in the real world too. Did you see the ads NARAL had to pull related to Roberts as too offensive (and bullshit)?? The Swift Boat stuff was the same. And its not lunatics that come up with this stuff. Its highly paid media consultants. But the message is no different than the photoshoppe satires. So its okay to use graphic representations in the real world, but your sensibilities are so fragile that if you see them on a Poilitics Board you get wounded? Cindy Sheehan's group can burn Bush in effigee but a satirical picture of her is out of bounds? And while it may be offensive, political dialogue is. Did you write your congress people complaining when Harry Reid stood before a group of high school students and called the president a "loser"? Did you write them when Senator Landrieu threatened to punch the President (in violation of a fed stat)? That's offensive and its equally offensive from the other side (eg when Dan Burton called Clinton a scumbag), but I doubt if as a citisen you took any stand, however a photoshoppe of Hillary, now that's troubling.
eta: this probably should have been a PM to not_bob
reta: merde!!! STP!!
