Happy Birthday Keith Olbermann: CDP finds Wally Herger terrorist adulation video

Dang, Youtube commenter beat me to it (8.00 / 1)

Just enjoying the off-the-charts level irony of the dude invoking the Pilgrims as examples of people who never had their hand out and survived that Winter completely on their own. Squanto might disagree. But then again, dude was a Socialist.  

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by: mobygrapekoolaid @ Wed Aug 26, 2009 at 23:45:17 PM UTC

reminds me of the legend: (4.00 / 1)

"I was on foodstamps and welfare, nobody gave me a handout."

In the minds of these people, apparently, assistance is morally allowed for...ahem...some people because they're hard workers--so if they fall on hard times, they deserve a helping hand.  As opposed to all those other good-for-nothing people.

So it wasn't morally objectionable or socialist for the pilgrims to get help from Squanto.  It was just a happenstance of Calvinist manifest destiny.

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by: Dante Atkins @ Thu Aug 27, 2009 at 00:24:21 AM UTC

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That's no legend, that was Craig T Nelson (5.00 / 1)

Basically said exactly that on Fox News the other day.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...


I think?

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by: Brian Leubitz @ Thu Aug 27, 2009 at 00:38:03 AM UTC

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thanks CDP (0.00 / 0)

Thanks to the CDP for getting the video!

When I lived in Washington State, I remember talking to people I knew who worked for DSHS, and they used to say that in many Republican parts of the state, those that were the most aggressive in demanding money and more were people in the Republican parts of the state....Randy Tate, who was elected to Congress in 1994, used to mow lawns at his dad's trailer parks...his dad would raise rents based on Social Security checks COL's. And welfare recipients in the rural areas HATED Democrats...but you try and cut their welfare check and they FREAKED OUT, claiming it was their "right" to get paid by the state to do nothing. Of course that right didn't extend to anyone in a metro area.

WhatEVER.

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by: gregdewar.com @ Thu Aug 27, 2009 at 06:06:26 AM UTC

What are we doing with admitted terrorists? (0.00 / 0)

I don't really know what we are doing these days with self-admitted terrorists and terrorist sympathizers, but certainly they should go on a watch list.  Obviously they should not be flying, but perhaps we should freeze their bank accounts and take the other prudent steps that the Bush Administration took to protect our great nation from terrorists.

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by: smoker1 @ Thu Aug 27, 2009 at 13:40:46 PM UTC

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