Now, a few hundred or thousand ruined grocery store items may not seem to matter much to the average reader, but this little property destruction campaign spotlights a nasty tactic increasingly employed by the left: campaign finance disclosure as a speech-squelching weapon.
We saw it last fall when Democratic operatives targeted the U.S.
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We saw it in 2008 when a top MoveOn.org alumnus launched attacks on Republican donors with the express purpose of “hoping to create a chilling effect that will dry up contributions.”
We saw it when Obama campaign committee lawyers lobbied the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute a GOP donor for funding campaign ads exposing Obama’s ties to Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers.
We saw it during the Proposition 8 traditional marriage battle in California, where gay rights avengers compiled black lists, harassment lists and Google target maps of citizens who contributed to the ballot measure.
We saw it when “progressive” zealots smeared Target Corporation and Chick-fil-A for daring to associate with social conservatives.
And we’re seeing it again this month as the Obama White House readies an executive order that would force federal contractors to disclose all political donations to candidates and independent groups in excess of $5,000 made not just by a corporate entity, but by all of its individual executives, directors and officers.
Former Federal Election Commission official Hans von Spakovsky obtained the sweeping draft executive order, which — surprise, surprise — exempts unions and predominantly left-wing federal grant recipients from the mandate. On Wednesday, GOP senators spelled out the bullying agenda in an open letter objecting to the Obama order: “Political activity would obviously be chilled if prospective contractors have to fear that their livelihood could be threatened if the causes they support are disfavored by the administration.” Join the club.
When disclosure’s a bludgeon, all but Obama’s cronies are nails.
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The public service unions can't help themselves. They will rant, they will call people names, they will threaten them with boycotts and worse, they will posture in the poses of thuggery. All this because they are constitutionally incapable of recognizing a bullet to the foot when they're the ones doing the shooting. This isn't just because their leadership is terminally stupid, although citing that cause has overwhelming claims to being true. No, these people have a collective anger and hate problem. It has not gone unnoticed that in the public commentary and blogging the Madison et al. events have elicited, all the analysis comes from the conservative side and most of the name-calling comes from the union side. When you are terminally ignorant of economic forces and the logic that drives them, what can you do when you're angry but call people names? Let the Democratic party pander to these people in behalf of their votes–the Democratic party is also terminal. When all you can do is rage and insult, you are signaling that you are too stupid to know how not to shoot yourself in the foot. All conservatives have to do is stand aside and let these people do themselves in
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cost: 350,000. Not 5 million. Watch your "facts. The same article that is referenced in many conservative blogs Fox6 was forced to correct. However websites like this continue to cite the bogus first number. The author of this article is either lying, or living with their head in a hole since this story broke two months ago. My guess is lying.
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It certainly IS possible to get one's facts wrong, in which case they are no longer facts. A person who knowingly publishes incorrect facts is not simply a liar, he is not sane since the public nature of the forum invites immediate rebutal. Here, in this case, I would give Michelle the benefit of the doubt if you yourself are to be considered credible.
The lower figure – a third of a million – certainly seems more reasonable. I imagine for those who wish to do so, a great deal of time and effort can be spent arriving at an exact figure for the damage and cleanup. It occurs to me further that no such cleanup has been required for any similar Tea Party gatherings. Those pesky Tea Party people – your fellow citizens (both Democrats and Republicans by the way) have the good grace to police up after themselves.
No matter how much money was spent, the fact remains that the Wisconsin demonstrators were slobs.
But this is a magazine that published a grossly incorrect figure that was corrected nearly two months ago. This isn't some teenagers blog. Although I can't really tell. Maybe it is.
My larger point is that this happens all to often in both Liberal and Conservative Media. Credible sources is something that is deteriorating rabidly to the point where I must fact check nearly everything I read with a few different sources. Its unfortunate that an educated populace is something to be afraid of, and ones ideas are not enough to win the argument. I see no need to spread disinformation at the high levels both parties do unless its because they know they can't win by ideas alone.
It certainly IS possible to get one’s facts wrong, in which case they are no longer facts. A person who knowingly publishes incorrect facts is not simply a liar, he is not sane since the public nature of the forum invites immediate rebutal. Here, in this case, I would give Michelle the benefit of the doubt if you yourself are to be considered credible.
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