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InfraBlue wrote:

So, slander and libel are "leaks?"

Untrue leaks are slander and libel.

I didn't think there was such a thing as "non-violent rape."

McMaster: Trump might not use the phrase 'radical Islamic terror' in Saudi address

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The only silver lining to the dark cloud of the Trump era is the daily reminder of how full of **** conservative critics of Obama were

King wasn't a "political opponent". AG Robert Kennedy ordered the wiretapping of King because it was alleged that one of his top advisors was a high ranking member of the Communist Party of the USA. At the time, this was considered a serious security risk. It's hardly equivalent to Nixon covering up an illegal break in off the opposition party's headquarters by operatives from his re-election campaign committee.

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Everyone thank Trump for selling US warplanes to the family dictatorship whose spies helped the 9/11 hijackers w/ finding flight schools

oralloy wrote:

Liberals just think that rape is OK if it is done by a liberal. Note that movie director who violently raped a 13 year old girl and is always protected from extradition to the US. Liberals actually condemned the 13 year old girl for having been brutally raped.

Um, plenty of liberals loathe Polanski for what he did. My guess would be most, easily.

I don't recall that the Polanski case can be described as a "violent rape".

The interesting thing with Assange is that he might be able to get out of that embassy.

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How are you supposed to treat an incident like his address to the CIA agents early on in his term? How are you supposed to cover something that embarrassing in a positive manner? How are you supposed to deal with the repeated demonstrations of obvious incompetence?

You expect the media to say, "This guy's doing a great job and his administration appears to be highly competent"? Really??

Hey, oralloy, I didn't know you were such a big MLK fan. (Actually, I'm speaking sarcastically here. I seriously doubt you really are.)

Re: the history of liberals (some of which is admittedly tragic), why don't you deal with the dishonorable history of your own movement during the period of the late 1940s through the 1970s regarding racial discrimination?

Conservatives despised MLK when he was alive. I ought to know because I lived through the period!

Leading conservatives such as William Buckley and all the others condemned rulings by the Federal courts against discrimination. They also opposed civil rights legislation and the civil rights movement -- with hardly a criticism of segregationists. You don't believe me? Just go to your local public library and check out past issues of National Review that were published in that time period. I dare you to do it. I seriously doubt you're incapable of learning anything, though, because political conservatism is your religion and your god.

It has filled the apparent emptiness in your life.

Conservatives such as Rush Limbaugh lie about their historical record on civil rights. (Like many of my classmates in high school, he probably chortled when King was assassinated.) He once claimed that Republicans passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act. What he doesn't say is that both parties at that time had a left wing and a right wing -- as opposed to the polarized ideological reality today, which is most unfortunate. Most, if not all, of the Republican Senators who voted for the Civil Rights Act, were liberals and moderates. (Yes, there once were liberal Republicans!) Most of the Democratic Senators who voted against it were conservatives. If any of those liberal and moderate Republicans were still around today, Limbaugh and other conservative Republicans would denounce them as RINOs.

In the early 1960s conservative Republicans began to invite the white Southern conservative "Democrats" to cross over and join their party. So, today there are white Southern Republicans -- the neo-Confederates -- who detest Abraham Lincoln, the founder of their party! Incidentally, the Ku Klux Klan has always been a conservative group. It has always been anti-liberal. All of what I've just said is a matter of undeniable historical fact. No attempt of historical revisionism can stand the test of truth. Of course, there are those who are willingly ignorant or intellectually dishonest.

I repeat, from the late 1940s through the 1970s, the political conservatives defended segregationists and condemned the civil rights movement. Oralloy, you really should join the John Birch Society, assuming you're not already a member.

Oralloy, someday I hope you can get over your intense hatred and bigotry. It really isn't good for your mental health. As someone who gave up on politics a long time ago, I can assure you that there are decent people on both sides of the political divide -- liberal and conservative or, as some would say, Democrats and Republicans. Of course, this is something you're not able or unwilling to see because of your intense bigotry.

A very close friend of mine is a Trump supporter. When I got married more than 30 years ago, I was a Democrat; and my wife was a Republican. That didn't keep us from being in love. Incidentally, I left the Democratic Party years ago; and my wife, who had been tired of all the Southern segregationists who were invited to join her party, finally left the party when Trump was nominated. (Again, for the very last time, I voted for Evan McMullin -- not Hillary Clinton.) We're both independents now.

Readers of this forum should realize that oralloy has a personal problem of a mental or moral nature. About five years ago, he posted a graphic postmortem photo of the murder victim -- a young woman whose throat was deeply slashed -- in the Amanda Knox case, which I've known nothing about. I was sickened by the photo when I saw it, but oralloy chortled over it like some kind of ghoul. That is not how a decent person reacts.

For the his own sake, oralloy should perhaps pay less attention to politics and, instead, seek counseling from a clergyman or psychiatrist.

He's in no position to say that anyone is dishonorable.

As Trump has so often said: Sad!

Now here's a place where some notion akin to "deep state" actually makes some sense. Eisenhower was rather perfectly placed to grasp how organizational structures surrounding the military and those corporations which made arms and provided logistics (that is to say, war) their profit-making business functioned as a dynamic force within and around government.

I'm the smartest person that you've ever talked to.

oralloy wrote:

Liberals just think that rape is OK if it is done by a liberal. Note that movie director who violently raped a 13 year old girl and is always protected from extradition to the US. Liberals actually condemned the 13 year old girl for having been brutally raped.

For the love of god. France doesn't extradite it's citizens and US attempts to extradite Polanski from Poland where he was working a few years ago were rejected by the Polish court and Swiss authorities previously rejected US attempts to extradite him when he was working in that country.

How can a leak be untrue?

A leak is the disclosure of confidential information. If something is untrue how can it be confidential let alone disclosable?

Just curious: what's your IQ? I have never seen a self-announced IQ on the internet that wasn't at least 200. What's yours? 250? 300?