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the lying liberal media lies again

you didn't address my point, which is that simply labeling the media produces negative thoughts and behaviors towards it. This serves to silence it. This labeling process has been proven in studies of the brain- although I too am lazy, and will not look it up for you.

Way ahead of you. It's called "perceptual models", and yes they're powerful. But so what? You can smell a lie when you hear one, can't you? Something had to generate that model in the first place, didn't it?

I haven't darkened a church door in ages, but don't see any papers on them when I pass by. I will not listen to radio politics, too much obvious propaganda. And billboards and street signs-wtf? I use original source info as much as possible. What are you a prof of anyway?

What do you call "original source info"? The media sure isn't giving you any. And it's very hard to find on the internet. That's why there's all the conspiracy theories about Sandy Hook and the rest.

Our illustrious media seems to have appointed itself the arbiter of the gaps between our tidbits of knowledge. When they think it's important, they'll fill in the gaps for us (with Hollywood and Disneyland, if they have to), but when there's something important they don't want you talking about, they're not going to say a word.

Our scumbag media didn't even have the guts to call out Hillary Clinton on her Benghazi fiasco, when the whole entire rest of the world was reading the truth in Reuters not 24 hours after the attack. (I even still have the original article, I'll link you to it if you want, it's an eyewitness account by a Libyan policeman). This media is protecting Hillary Clinton, we're not hearing a word about how Sidney Blumenthal sent her those e-mails because they were trying to drum up reconstruction contracts so they'd have more to destroy next time around. Those Clinton people are corrupt to the bone and we're not hearing one word about it in the lamestream media. Why is that? Hmmm?????
 
Horsepucky. The comment was right on target. Terrorists are exactly like rabid dogs, they try to bite you for no reason and whenever they get their paws on someone their disease is in danger of being transmitted.

God Bless Donald Trump and Ben Carson, and everyone else who's willing to speak the truth louder than the PC Gasp Machine.

Dude - not only are they rabid dogs, these scumbag terrorists need to be exterminated, just like you'd shoot a rabid dog. Shoot them dead, kill every last man woman and child.

Our Jackass-in-Chief thnks we can "contain" people like that, but we can't. If we were any good at "containing" them, they wouldn't just have bombed Paris, and we wouldn't have had a 9/11, and right now the country of Belgium and the city of Brussels wouldn't be terrorized into a state of complete lockdown.

Dammit, we pay our military 700 billion dollars a year, and I am entirely certain they can take out 50,000 fanatical extremists. I say we let 'em do it. Now. Quickly. Before our "containment" plans end up failing again, and they end up bombing Canada next, or Puerto Rico, or even Los Angeles.

Our Idiot-in-Chief is completely incompetent as a defender of national security. He's shaking in his boots at the idea of "occupying" a part of the Middle East again. He's pulled off 75% of our air sorties against ISIS 'cause he's scared of shooting a few civilians. And meanwhile, every minute our "containment" policy continues to fail, is a minute that Abdul and Mohammed get to catch a plane through Turkey or wander up through Greece so they can cause more damage someplace new.

Yeah, they're rabid dogs, and they need to be shot dead like any rabid dog would be shot.

And after that, we can wrap their bodies in bacon and stick a football in their dead hands and leave their dead bodies for the maggots.

I want these people dead. You understand that, right? I pay my government to take people like this off the planet.

Do we or do we not have a military, and an intelligence community, and a desire to maintain some semblance of stability in the world in the interest of national security?

Blowbama's been twiddling his butt for nine whole months, he had a window of opportunity and he missed it. Now he's dealing with the consequences.

Even Robert Kagan is scared shirtless about the idea of "occupying" any part of the Middle East.

And I repeat, do we or do we not care about national security and the stability of the world?

Anyone with a brain cell and at least one 'nad is going to occupy, and occupy again, and keep occupying until those fools show the world they're capable of governing themselves.

Which includes protecting their people against forces like ISIS.

ISIS is a clear and immediate and very present threat to all of humanity and every single country on the planet.

They need to be wiped out. I don't want them in jail, I don't want them waterboarded, I want them dead. Removed entirely from the playing field. Now. Quickly.

Our Goofball-in-Chief is highly illogical. We've all seen the result of his "containment" policy live and in color in our living rooms for the past week.

At least the French didn't dally like our Fool-in-Chief.

700 billion dollars a year. How hard can it be? What would it take, a dozen bunker busters? Two dozen? How hard could it be to deprive those idiots of their revenue-generating oil fields, all of which are geographically localized and exposed to both land and air?

WHY haven't we decapitated those *ssholes yet?

Why?

Thank you for your wordy rationalization.

But Ben Carson's comment WAS an abomination...no matter which interpretation we use of it.

Think about it...and you will see.
 
This is like a Mars/Venus thing. The left hears and reads what they want to hear and read. They make their own interpretations and form their own opinions based on connecting their own dots. Ben Carson compared terrorists to rabid dogs, not all refugees in general. The rest is just the left's interpretation of the wording and you will never convince them otherwise. I learned this a long time ago when I talked to a diehard liberal and told him that terrorists would rather see a Democrat elected president than a Republican. I thought that was just a simple statement you could argue with or not but he was insulted, thinking that since he wanted a Democrat to win I was calling him a terrorist. It's just the way their brains are wired and you cannot change the wiring no matter how hard you try.
 
This is like a Mars/Venus thing. The left hears and reads what they want to hear and read. They make their own interpretations and form their own opinions based on connecting their own dots. Ben Carson compared terrorists to rabid dogs, not all refugees in general. The rest is just the left's interpretation of the wording and you will never convince them otherwise. I learned this a long time ago when I talked to a diehard liberal and told him that terrorists would rather see a Democrat elected president than a Republican. I thought that was just a simple statement you could argue with or not but he was insulted, thinking that since he wanted a Democrat to win I was calling him a terrorist. It's just the way their brains are wired and you cannot change the wiring no matter how hard you try.

I repeat...whether Dr. Carson intended his comparison only to apply to terrorists, as the conservatives here are asserting...or intended his comparison to all refugees in general...

...is not as germane to his qualifications to represent the United States on the world stage...

...because regardless of how he intended his comment...it was an abomination. It was too open to misinterpretation. And that includes well-meaning people who read it the way many are reading it...and by people whose intent it is to misinterpret...or to cast the remark in the most mean-spirited way possible.

If anyone think that there are not people in this world anxious to "misinterpret" ambiguous statements by American officials and diplomats...he/she is sadly mistaken.

You've got to do a hell of a lot better than the comment Dr. Carson made to sit in the Oval Office.
 
I'm not for Carson but every official person who represents the US has mis- spoken at one time or another. That by itself is not enough to disqualify a candidate and it's a little bit disingenuous for anyone not voting Republican anyway to try claiming that this disqualifies a candidate from being president. That's just a partisan argument.
 
I'm not for Carson but every official person who represents the US has mis- spoken at one time or another. That by itself is not enough to disqualify a candidate and it's a little bit disingenuous for anyone not voting Republican anyway to try claiming that this disqualifies a candidate from being president. That's just a partisan argument.

Then he should be doing better.

I certainly agree that all politicians have misspoken at one time or another.

I am not making a partisan argument. I am a capital "I" Independent...and not speaking for either party.

I am biased...but I doubt anyone here is not.

Dr. Carson was addressing the issue of allowing refugees into our country when he made that comment. I think anyone suggesting it is a LIE to consider it referring to all refugees...is being partisan. People may be mistaken to consider it that way...but calling it a LIE as many have, is really a greater distortion than what they are calling distortion.

Only Ben Carson knows what he was thinking...and he seems to have an inordinate amount of trouble sharing what he is thinking.
 
Way ahead of you. It's called "perceptual models", and yes they're powerful. But so what? You can smell a lie when you hear one, can't you? Something had to generate that model in the first place, didn't it?



What do you call "original source info"? The media sure isn't giving you any. And it's very hard to find on the internet. That's why there's all the conspiracy theories about Sandy Hook and the rest.

Our illustrious media seems to have appointed itself the arbiter of the gaps between our tidbits of knowledge. When they think it's important, they'll fill in the gaps for us (with Hollywood and Disneyland, if they have to), but when there's something important they don't want you talking about, they're not going to say a word.

Our scumbag media didn't even have the guts to call out Hillary Clinton on her Benghazi fiasco, when the whole entire rest of the world was reading the truth in Reuters not 24 hours after the attack. (I even still have the original article, I'll link you to it if you want, it's an eyewitness account by a Libyan policeman). This media is protecting Hillary Clinton, we're not hearing a word about how Sidney Blumenthal sent her those e-mails because they were trying to drum up reconstruction contracts so they'd have more to destroy next time around. Those Clinton people are corrupt to the bone and we're not hearing one word about it in the lamestream media. Why is that? Hmmm?????

Original source: same as primary source. You may have to look it up. This would not include Rush Limbaugh or Glen Beck.
This thread is only a rant also.
 
This lying liberal media is completely worthless. You might as well turn off the news, 'cause you already know you're not going to get the truth.

The lying liberal media lied again tonight. All over the airwaves. On practically every channel in existence.

"Carson compares immigrants to rabid dogs". That was the headline on the ABC Evening News. David Muir said that.

But I listened to what Carson actually said. He was making a statement about "stupid policy". He wasn't comparing anything to anything.

The lying liberal media utters a collective "gasp" every time they hear the word "immigrant". (And then the next word that comes out of their lying liberal mouths is "racist").

The lying liberal media is owned lock stock and barrel by their advertisers. They're not giving you the "news", they're telling you what their advertisers want you to hear.

They're certainly entirely devoid of credibility as a legitimate journalistic enterprise.

I've never seen any evidence that the media is "liberal." The media is owned by those with deep pockets, surely. They may be interested in controversial, divisive news to keep people at each other's throats, as in this rant. Very clever.
 
I've never seen any evidence that the media is "liberal."

Then you haven't been paying attention.

The media is owned by those with deep pockets, surely.

Pwnership takes many forms.

They may be interested in controversial, divisive news to keep people at each other's throats, as in this rant. Very clever.

See? You can't recognize genuine anger when you hear it. Your ears are being dumbed down by the media.
 
I dunno. Do you not understand simple English? Have difficulty with basic analogies?

Carson clearly and unequivocally implies that the terrorists are the rabid dogs, not the refugees.

The lying liberal media is the one who put "refugees" in there, not Carson.

Carson never once compared refugees to rabid dogs.

The proof is in the very video you posted. Everyone should watch it.

(And tune out the scurrilous lies of the "mainstream" media).

And here's yet another example of why Carson was relating refugees to dogs:

Ben Carson Walks Back Comments About Seeing Muslims Cheering On 9/11

Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson joined GOP rival Donald Trump in claiming that he, too, saw news footage of Muslim-Americans cheering as the World Trade Center towers fell on Sept. 11, 2001 -- despite the fact that no such footage has turned up yet.

"I saw the film of it, yes," Carson told reporters at a Monday campaign event, adding that it was documented by "newsreels."

But later that day, he walked back his comments, telling ABC News that he "was thinking of the Middle East, not New Jersey."

The man's an idiot.
 
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