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    Repiglican Roast

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    I'm furious about my squandered nation.

    Tuesday, February 07, 2006

    More Bad News

    Bush Nominates LOBBYIST Robert M. McDowell to Fill Empty FCC Seat.

    [...]
    McDowell is extensively involved in civic and political affairs. He has served on numerous boards and commissions. He was appointed by Virginia Governor George Allen to the Governor's Advisory Board for a Safe and Drug-Free Virginia, and to the Virginia Board for Contractors, to which he was reappointed by Governor Jim Gilmore. Also he is a veteran of several presidential campaigns, serving as counsel to the Bush-Cheney Florida Recount Team in 2000 and leading advance teams for President and Mrs. Bush in 2004, among many other endeavors. McDowell has twice been a candidate for the Virginia General Assembly. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of the McLean Project for the Arts.
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    Yes, he was involved in shutting down the 2000 election recount and installing the unelected dictator. Perhaps this is his reward, like the UN is Bolton's reward.

    Look out! Now the FCC will begin suppressing political dissent on the internet in earnest. Of course, it will be committed in the name of corporate profit, just like everything is.

    When did American become a place that values corporate profit more than freedom of speech? I'm not sure. The eighties, I think, when the repiglikkkans took over and got rid of the fairness doctrine and started implementing the Powell Manifesto. And yes, Clinton is a republican, not a Repiglikkkan, but a real, old school republican.

    When did American become such a stupid place? If it weren't so nauseating, it'd be hilarious that the cable news networks won't run the "offensive" images that are inflaming bloodthirsty fundie riots within the community of peace loving Islam, when they have completely failed to report honestly on the American colonization underway in the middle east, the latest step in the real problem.

    Does anyone sane think Amerikkkan and British interference, coercion and covert ops have not fueled fundie, wahabi, cut off your head Islam, just like the same glorious corporate perspective, and the fascists who sport it, have fueled fundie, Calvinist, cut off your head and assassinate your political opponent Christianity?

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