sammyptiger

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The military budget was cut to the bone. Kind of like right now.

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You are woefully ingnorant if you really believe this. In 2014, the DOD requested $526.6 billion for its base budget. What did it get?

The U.S. military budget is $612.4 billion for FY 2014. This includes $91.9 billion for Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) to pay for the War in Afghanistan, and $520.5 billion to maintain the Department of Defense.

In 2013, the Department of Defense (DoD) base budget was($525.4 billion), which is down from its high of $530.4 billion in FY 2012.

Yeah, really cut to the bone. What a clown.

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People in a governors staff coordinated a TRAFFIC JAM... and now its the end of the world because Fox isn't following Traffic Jam 2014!!!

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I didnt compare this to Benghazi. Just curious that the right wingers who are afraid of government power, don't carry a story where the government is abusing its power.

Just goes to show that many people on here aren't principled people at all. Their outrage is only apparent when one side does it, but not the other. It s why nothing ever changes.

Your post is a perfect example. Thank you.

Just Saw the MSNBC thread. Just trying to keep the board balanced. Might as well point out the inconsistencies across the media spectrum, instead of acting like this is a unique phenomenon. It helps put some of the faux outrage expressed by some posters in perspective.

Right wingers claim to be afraid of government power, but don't follow a story where the government is abusing its power.

Just goes to show that many people on here aren't principled people at all. Their outrage is only apparent when one side does it, but not the other. It s why nothing ever changes.


How Does Fox Solve a Problem Like Chris Christie’s?

Faced with a scandal involving one of the boss' reportedly favored politicians, Fox found a lot of other news to cover

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A couple of big news stories broke earlier this week. First, emails and texts implicated top aides and allies of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in snarling traffic in a small town to punish its mayor for not endorsing Christie’s reelection. Second, details began leaking from an upcoming book by Gabriel Sherman about Fox News boss Roger Ailes—among them, that Ailes had tried to persuade Christie to run for president in 2012.

Ailes still runs Fox News. And Christie is by every indication considering running for president in 2016. So how is Fox to cover the scandal gathering around him?

On Wednesday, the scandal gathering around an early frontrunner for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination dominated newspaper headlines, politics news sites, and TV news. Except on Fox, whose programs covered the story relatively little or not at all (Although, according to Buzzfeed, Fox covered the story for eight minutes more than Al Jazeera America.) The scandal was not at all mentioned by prime-time talkers Bill O’Reilly or Sean Hannity, and took a back seat to other stories on Greta Van Susteren’s and Megyn Kelly’s shows.

By Thursday, Fox was giving the story considerably more airtime, but not to the degree that CNN and MSNBC did. It led its 9 a.m. news block with the story, for instance, but soon turned to stories about two Obama administration scandals, the IRS audit and HealthCare.gov investigations (the IRS, in particular, came up repeatedly in Fox News discussions of the bridge scandal ). And as Christie gave a marathon, almost-two-hour apology news conference, Fox News was the first cable-news network to cut away, just over an hour in. It gave a few minutes to political analysis—at one point, an anchor almost apologetically explained that the network needed to cover the story because of Christie’s political profile—then moved on to other news.

Gauging the motivating factors in Fox’s coverage of a Christie scandal is a bit of a bank shot, given the internecine politics of the conservative base to which Fox appeals. On the one hand, it’s not just liberals who are happy to see Christie twist in the wind; plenty of conservative Republicans see him as too moderate or, in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, too tight with President Barack Obama. On the other hand, he’s not just a leading prospective candidate but a favorite of many establishment Republicans—like Ailes.

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I'm still trying to figure how how you right wing loons can delude yourselves into thinking Republicans are good for the economy when the three greatest collapses of financial institutions occurred under Republican presidents.

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This. Its not debatable that these collapses occurred under Republican presidents. I think the reasons why are debatable. However, the right doesn't like to spend time discssing this. It would be a good thread topic.

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Jbird

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Do you remember that Michael Moore documentary on Bush? The left discussed that thing like it was gospel.

You're being kind of hard on posters here Rex. Political propaganda exist for a reason-its effective. It appeals to the simple minded. Just look at Obamas "Yes we can" slogan. People ate that shite up.

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Very thoughtful and IMHO completely accurate.

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How so? Obamas foreign policy is much better than what we have had in a long time. The economy is much improved since 2008.

Another blatant attempt to repair his image. I hate political propaganda. Only the weak minded fall for it.

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Taken more vacations and played more golf than any president

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Bush still owns this record. Will be a tough one to beat.

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That may have happened but as time goes on I'm become less and less sympathetic to the staff's plight on the matter. LSU shouldn't put themselves in a situation to where they can be "screwed over."

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No offense man, but your post is just ignorant. 5 star recruits have far too many suitors to just tell them to take it or leave it. The guys we are in the hunt for will make up for what we didn't land, precisely because LSU put time recruiting other guys at their position.