Opinions are Like???
It has come to my attention recently that someone felt the need to explain their lies by professing that they’re only repeating what they have heard. I say, either someone is making excuses for their lies or they need a hearing aid.
It’s a normal part of life to comparatively say that the glass is half empty and another to say the glass is half full. We enter into something completely different if another claims the glass is totally empty when we know for a fact that’s not the case. We are all entitled to our own set of opinions but, what we are not entitled to our own set of facts. Let’s put some facts out there, shall we?
“She hates whites, ever read her Thesis?”
This is a statement made recently about Michelle Obama.
If you haven’t read her Thesis yet, you can find it here.
http://obamaprincetonthesis.wordpress.com
I couldn’t find anywhere in the Thesis that Michelle Obama states that she hates white people. Not even where she hints that she hates white people. For arguments sake, let’s look at where these type of people might get this idea.
“Blacks must join in solidarity to combat a white oppressor.”
All by itself, this looks rather damaging to Michelle Obama, I can fully admit that. What we don’t see is the context in which she said it. Let’s expand it out to include what came before, and after that quote and see if it reads differently.
“As discussed earlier, most respondents were attending Princeton during the 70’s, at a time when the Black Power Movement was still influencing the attitudes of many Blacks.
Is is possible that Black individuals either chose to or felt pressure to come together with other blacks on campus because of the belief that Blacks must join in solidarity to combat a White oppressor. As the few blacks in a white environment it is understandable that respondents might have felt a need to look out for one another.”
This is a readily available tool for those that have no ethics. Pluck a sentence out of the middle of anything and it becomes whatever they want it to be.
Did everybody see someone throw out the name of a right-wing hack and shock jock Michael Savage as a good example of their proof that President Obama is a Marxist and or Communist. You have to be kidding me, right?
Does this person know that Michael Savage has been banned from entering the UK for “fostering extremism and hatred”, along side the Phelps group and some KKK guy and a few others. You’ll find him at the end of the list, his real name is Michael Weiner. I just couldn’t make that shit up!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8033060.stm
You can see where the UK reaffirmed that he won’t be coming to their country anytime soon.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1390738/Barred-Shock-jock-Michael-Savage-U-K-ban-reaffirmed.html
I’m not going to put any of his ignorant asinine quotes here. I refuse to read them again. I do know that anyone that uses him as a creditable source has to be a sac of skin that holds testicles. Just Google him if you want to see his sickening blathering. He has direct ties to WorldNetDaily website, that’s all anyone needs to know is that he hangs out with the conspiracy theory wackos.
A nit picker stated out loud that the tax payers pay for the food for the President and his family. I have a link here from National Geographic that says she is wrong.
“but the President is billed for all food consumed by his family and his personal guests.”
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/01/president/bumiller-text/3
This same nit picker also did some backbiting about the vacations the First family has taken. I’m guessing they think that Mrs. Obama should never leave the White House, ever. For people that fight so hard not to tax the rich it seems awful hypocritical to not want them to spend their own money.
Private trips are paid for by the Obama’s, including the average price of plane fair for the trip. Here’s a link last updated April 10,2007,to a pdf file titled, Presidential Travel: Policy and Costs.
http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/RS21835_20070410.pdf
As time permits, I will be doing these kind of blogs every time I see these lies being spread. I encourage each of you to do the same.
Big shout out for the small hand full of people that spoke out about lunacy that had reared it’s ugly head on a blog here on the “Burst” recently , Thank you!!!
I think the answers given by the blog host shows this person in a light that many of us had tried to draw them out into before and failed. Seems as though this person is further to the right than they have ever let be known. They have shown themselves to be teetering on the insane side with the conspiracy theory nuts. I’m elated.
Play nice kids, I wrote this late last night and don’t know if I’ll be around much today. My brother-in-law passed away. He fought the good fight for these extra four months so hard!! It’s rather hard to get past stage 4 lung cancer though. I’ve now lost 4 people in the last 3 years to this same kind of lung cancer. 🙁
So sorry about your loss. Will be thinking of you.
As to the blog. 😉
Thank you for fighting fire with truth…. I cannot believe that the loons cannot find enough legitimate reasons to hate they they are reduced to lies. Yes, I disliked Bush to an extreme. Never once did I make a reason up out of thin air…
I also disagree with President Obama. It’s about policy.
The thesis was tl;dr but no politician especially a First Lady would be stupid enough to do something to self-incriminate..even if they had such beliefs so..such statements that come in public are BS from the start..It’s good to point them out though,pitty the people are so guillable before the media.
And condoleances for your loss I’m very sorry to hear that you’ve got such dark clouds over your head right now… 🙁
Sorry to hear about your loss.
As to the blog, how dare you spread the truth.
You have my sincere condolences on the loss of your brother-in-law.
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I’m very sorry about your brother in law.
I’m not worried about the outright lies written by some, because at times they can inspire blogs like this.
I am sorry for your loss 🙁 sincerely .. :love: :love:
My condolences to your sister, you and the rest of the family. I am sorry for your loss. :love:
Fact Check dot Melissa…good job. It will not make a difference where it really should. Once people convince themselves of the “truth”, it takes A box of dynamite to convince them otherwize.
Valiant effort and great serial blog subject strategy…a periodic expose’ .
My condolences to you and your family Lady Hart.
I’ve always been amazed at what they bitch about. Especially, the life in the White House stuff and especially when it pertains to the First Lady. Their staff, food, travel, yard care, security, etc., as if all the rules changed overnight when President Obama took office.
I never hear anybody say anything about Laura Bush’s Oscar de la Rente wardrobe or her overseas trips to Zambia, Mozambique, Mali, Senegal, Haiti, Burma, or the 5 to Africa. We never saw the Bush family travel to the Bush compound in Maine or the ranch in Texas by anything other than Air Force One. I heard he used Air Force One 77 times during his presidency just to go to the ranch. That’s about 9 trips a year, give or take, just to the ranch for vacation. Do any of us get to take 9 vacations a year? I wonder what that cost us? Oh wait, we had the money left over from the Clinton Administration then so it doesn’t matter. I forgot.
It seems to me more and more people are such slaves to their adopted and co-opted ideology, that truth and fact become the first victim. People don’t like cognitive dissonance. Easier to ditch the truth than have to re-think their ideological identities. I had a little run in with several NRA supporters, when I pointed out on a video that the source of their “facts” was a letter which had long since been found to be entirely bogus and pointed them towards a more legitimate source of fact, I also informed them that some of the video footage was not what they reported it to be. They deleted my comments and blocked me from further comment.
My deepest condolences on your family’s loss.
The Tea Party is a tool of the NWO!
um… The Tea Party is funded by the Koch brothers who own the largest privately held Oil Corporation in America. It is also funded by Republican Dick Armey’s Freedom Works and several other Corporate Think Tanks. The Tea Party also receives free publicity from Rupert Murdock’s Fox News.
The Climate Denial Movement has been funded by Exxon/Mobil Corporation to the tune of 200 Million dollars (and counting). The Koch brothers are reported to have spent even more in funding Climate Denial.
According to the New World Order theories, these Mega-Corporations would be part of it, yet they are also funding it!
Draw your own conclusions…
I’m sorry to hear about your brother-in-law passing. My friend in Colorado who grows Medical Marijuana for the state, tells me that massive does of Rick Simpson’s Hemp Oil, have been known to cure stage four cancer.
My condolences to you and your family, Lady_Hart.
Much love, my friend.
I’m sorry to hear about your loss.
Great blog! Aggressive research and accurate fact posting is necessary in this day and age. It’s the only way we’ll ever bring some sanity back to our culture. We can’t be quiet out of a fear of being labeled as a bully, while others lie and play victim when they are corrected. We’ve got to do something to hold back a second Kristallnacht aimed at Liberals and Centrists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht
Hang in there and take care of yourself. :love: :love:
Damn brilliant blog! I was going to do something similar yesterday but was to busy. Yours is way better. Love you are going to do these kind of blogs when lies are said!
And far as your brother in-law…I am so sorry. My heart goes out to you and yours!
My mom 7 mths ago and her mom 6 yrs ago, my nanny died lung cancer. I know first off how terrible it is!!!!! My heart goes out to you and yours! :love:
Hi Melissa,
Thanks for the shoutout and I guess I am curious about your bro in laws age.
I too am sorry for your loss.
Excellent blog and I might just take you up on fact check blogs.
I have done them in the past such as the myths about welfare and the blog about Planned Parenthood and how Margaret Sanger was NOT a racist.
I do like your investigative skills and yes. a sentence removed from its paragraph loses continuity in context.
OMG! Didn’t you hear Melissa Hart (on top of still completely denying that she was the actress who played the lead character in Sabrina, The Teenage Witch) is an anti-glassist?!? It’s true! Just read her most recent blog where she wrote, and I quote:
“the glass is totally empty”
See what I mean?? And we let this person run around wearing the coveted eyeball avatar! It’s a disgrace!
I just found this video on YouTube that may appropriately go along with your blog.
*2 Kudos*
Well, my condolences are hardly worth mentioning, as they will help not a single bit in anything; still you have them.
I really just wanted to point something out that I can’t help but notice about your entry.
This is the very first time that I have ever seen an entry with an element of personal loss and sadness, combined within an entry involving politics. That you were correct in your points of view (from my POV, anyway) hardly matters in this, because that has never stopped anyone from starting a sh*tstorm before.
But nobody did, here in this entry. I have never seen that pulled off before. Kudos to you, and kudos to those you’ve indirectly mentioned. Courtesy, and decency, and compassion are always good things to see. And so unusual that they kinda stand out, even if it’s accomplished by what isn’t in an entry’s comments. 🙂
Lady_Hart
I offer my deepest condolences on your losses. The death of loved ones by any means is bad enough, but for all to cancer could be quite scary.
I also want to apologize for addressing you as Lady_Heart on Freebird’s Romney blog. I assure you it was an oversight. I am not a touch typist and sometimes things like that escape me. I would have done it there, but it appears she has decided to disallow any opposing views by blocking me.
Now, I do not know who you are addressing in this blog, but I do have a few comments to offer regarding your blog.
“She hates whites, ever read her Thesis?”
The statement does not say that Michelle Obama actually said those words, but it is apparent that it was a conclusion drawn from reading the thesis. You yourself said, “Not even where she hints that she hates white people.” People often state opinions as fact because in their opinion it is a fact. You, I and everyone else are no different, are we?
You are drawing conclusions without the facts yourself, are you not? So it appears that you are no less guilty of your own charge as your opponent.
I have to agree with you regarding Savage. I cannot stand to listen to him myself, but I also can not stand to listen to many liberal pundits in the media either … Chris Matthews rings a bell and how about Bill Mayer … everything that comes out of his mouth is hate speech toward anyone or anything he does not agree with.
“but the President is billed for all food consumed by his family and his personal guests.”
I read the entire article and I am not certain as to why the president is being billed. Within the context of the sentences before and after the statement, it appears that he might be billed only because it is a public function in which he scheduled and sent invitations? This article does not clearly make the point one way or another.
“For people that fight so hard not to tax the rich it seems awful hypocritical to not want them to spend their own money.
Private trips are paid for by the Obama’s, including the average price of plane fair for the trip. Here’s a link last updated April 10,2007,to a pdf file titled, Presidential Travel: Policy and Costs.”
Your source really does not support your thesis. The point of the pres and/or first lady taking trips/vacations is not one of their cost, but the totality of the cost to tax payers. In fact, your article, pages CRS-3 and 4 state quite plainly that even the presidents “vacation” travel is considered official business and therefore is fully paid for by the government. Here are the facts from your own source as to what it costs the American taxpayer every time he or Michelle fly off somewhere:
“Airfare and related travel expenses associated with the trips taken by the President, Vice President and First Lady are only a fraction of the total cost of such trips.”
“For FY1998, the White House Military Office estimated that the President’s 747 costs $34,400 per hour to operate, while the Air Force put the figure at $56,800.”
“In 1999, GAO estimated the incremental costs, … of presidential trips in 1998 to Africa, Chile and China to be at least $42.8 million, $10.5 million and $18.8 million respectively.”
So as you can see, to suggest that the president’s and first lady’s trips do not cost the American tax payer a pretty penny is ludicrous, at best. Having to reimburse for airfare, meals and lodging is a pittance in comparison.
I am not saying the the president does not pay for meals, entertainment or lodging, but to say that he must is simply not entirely true. Do you not remember the time he took Michelle to New York just because she wanted and had never attended a live Broadway Show?
“Seems as though this person is further to the right than they have ever let be known. They have shown themselves to be teetering on the insane side with the conspiracy theory nuts. I’m elated.”
Some could say the same about your supporters here. Name calling and insinuation is merely a childish way of expressing ones distain because they lack the intelligence to express it in civil words. Words spoken in opposition without the name calling and character attacks are not hate speech. They are simply statements of opinion and are just as valid to them as yours are to you. If you must label someone that they know absolutely nothing about other than their political, religious or other social views is the epitome of a characterless, unintelligent and bigoted human being who thinks way too highly of themselves and is evidenced by their very own hypocritical words.
Give Freebird a shout for me and let the Allah man know that his insults toward me are the subject of the above discourse. When anyone speaks as he does, they prove themselves to be unreliable and unworthy of any recognition beyond that of their wildly insane assumptions.
Peace, and I will say a prayer for comfort and peace for you and the rest of your family.
Jack