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Friday, April 24, 2015

NPR Did NOT Cut This Story. I Heard It With My Own Ears

Dear John,

Here is what every American needs to know about George W. Bush:

"Bush's Toxic Legacy In Iraq"

Thanks to Smirk and Snarl, the Middle East was reduced to chaos and Iran won The Iraq War.

Iran Won The Iraq War

Even Pope Benedict considered The Iraq War unjust.

Pope Benedict XVI's Question: 'Can Modern Warfare Ever Be Just?'


Political partisans always spin the truth. 

 What is new in American politics is that conservatives have normalized the creation of whole cloth lies and then believe them!?!

"There are two ways of lying, as there are two ways of deceiving customers. If the scale registers 15 ounces, you can say: "It's a pound." Your lie will remain relative to an invariable measure of the true. If customers check it, they can see that they are being robbed, and you know by how much you are robbing them: a truth remains as a judge between you. But if the demon induces you to tamper with the scale itself, it is the criterion of the true which is denatured, there is no longer any possible control. And little by little you will forget that you are cheating."    

As pièce de résistance, Republicans retract nothing, not even when proven wrong.

Bill Maher: The Zombie Life Cycle Of Republican Lies. They Never - Ever - Die

"Conservatives Scare More Easily Than Liberals"

"Are Republicans Insane?"

"American Conservatives And Oppositional-Defiant Disorder"

Compendium Of Best Pax Posts On "Too Pure Principles" And The Collapse Of Conservatism

"The Republican Party Is A Satanic Cult"

"Do Republicans Do Anything But Piss, Moan, Bitch, Whine?"

The Beatitude That Separates Pope Francis From Prissy, Bitchy "Christians"

The Singularly Slimy Way Conservatives Lie.... Just To Moan, Piss, Whine, Bitch
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-singularly-slimy-way-conservatives.html

"The Death of Epistemology"

How the death of epistemology validates rhetorical vapidity:
  1. The Guardian: "John Oliver's Viral Video Is The Best Climate Change Debate You'll Ever See"
    1. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-guardian-john-olivers-viral-video.html

Stewart, Colbert, Oliver Probe The Spectacular Idiocy Of Climate Change Deniers

"The Reign of Morons Is Here," Charles P. Pierce, The Atlantic

"A Southerner Explains Tea Party Radicalism: The Civil War Is Not Over"

"Republicans For Revolution," A Study In Anarchic Apocalypticism

"Bank On It: The South Is Always Wrong"

Republican Party Is "Full Of Racists," Colin Powell's Chief Of Staff

"Why The Bible Belt Is Its Own Worst Enemy"
  1. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/10/why-bible-belt-is-christianitys-enemy.html

George McGovern: "The Case For Liberalism, A Defense Of The Future Against The Past"

Conservative Norm Ornstein: The Media Ignore Republican Lunacy

"Let's Just Say It. The Republicans Are The Problem"
Conservative Norm Ornstein and Liberal Thomas Mann

"Just How Far Out Is The Republican Fringe?" Norm Ornstein (And Is It The Fringe?)

"It's Even Worse Than It Looks"
Conservative Norm Ornstein and Liberal Thomas Mann

"When Extremism Goes Mainstream"
Conservative Norm Ornstein

"The Real Death Panels," Conservative Norm Ornstein

Jindal Criticizes The Stupid Party: "Simply protects the rich so they get to keep their toys"

Bobby Jindal's Healthcare Plan: What Republicans ALWAYS Get Wrong


 Pax tecum

Alan



NPR Cut Dana Perino’s Heartwarming Story About George W. Bush

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President George W. Bush hugs soon-to-be White House press secretary Dana Perino on Aug. 31, 2007. (Photo: Joshua Roberts/EPA/Newscom)


Dana Perino’s new book features a touching encounter between President George W. Bush and an injured—and intubated—Marine receiving the Purple Heart. She follows it with another story involving a dying soldier’s mother yelling at the president about the war.
Both stories were recounted by Perino in an excerpt from “And the Good News Is…” that was published by The Daily Signal this week. But if you listened toNPR’s interview with the former White House press secretary on “Morning Edition” today, you would’ve only heard one.
NPR’s edited version of the interview that aired included the story about the mother who yelled at Bush, but not the more uplifting story about the Marine, who happened to be intubated in his hospital bed but opened his eyes upon Bush’s comments to the Marine’s son.
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Here’s part of that story:
Everyone stood silently while the military aide in a low and steady voice presented the award. At the end of it, the Marine’s little boy tugged on the president’s jacket and asked, “What’s a Purple Heart?”
The president got down on one knee and pulled the little boy closer to him. He said, “It’s an award for your dad, because he is very brave and courageous, and because he loves his country so much. And I hope you know how much he loves you and your mom, too.”
As he hugged the boy, there was a commotion from the medical staff as they moved toward the bed.
The Marine had just opened his eyes. I could see him from where I stood.
The CNO [Chief Naval Officer] held the medical team back and said, “Hold on, guys. I think he wants the president.”
The president jumped up and rushed over to the side of the bed. He cupped the Marine’s face in his hands. They locked eyes, and after a couple of moments the president, without breaking eye contact, said to the military aide, “Read it again.”
So we stood silently as the military aide presented the Marine with the award for a second time. The president had tears dripping from his eyes onto the Marine’s face. As the presentation ended, the president rested his forehead on the Marine’s for a moment.
Perino told The Daily Signal she recounted the whole story to NPR’s David Greene when he asked about the hospital visit. When The Daily Signal reached out to NPR to understand why it chose to feature only part of Perino’s interview, a spokeswoman told us this:
Dana Perino told many anecdotes in her wonderful interview. It’s too bad we could not include them all because of time constraints.
She spoke, for example, of the president’s graciousness with her father. She also spoke of a mother who yelled at him—and then described how the president quite deliberately stayed and listened and absorbed the woman’s anger. It was an interaction the president himself remembered on Marine One, as Dana recounted. For these reasons, we chose to include it, while making sure to highlight that the reaction in that room was an exception.
You can find the entire story—and more—in Perino’s excerpt on The Daily Signal.




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