There seems to be a problem among conservative politicians of taking "personal responsibility" fof their actions. If a CEO is running a company with so many unethical people, he should resign for the sheer fact that he lacks the ability to judge character. However, it is not likely that he did not know what was going on, especially with Rebekah Brooks admitting to the police she paid off the police for information! This abdication of responsbility is similiar to what the Republicans that were in charge during the Bush years are doing. They cry and wail like a child at a candy store that they are not getting what they want, all the while they have spent all of their parents money at the mall and maxed out all of the credit cards. When the parent asks the child to get a job and pay for it (because this would bring in revenue), they refuse and blame the parents for wreckless spending, even though it was them that actually spent wrecklessly. The Republicans voted for huge tax cuts, two wars, a prescription drug bill, the creation of a new Department of Homeland Security, and No Child Left Behind all without paying for any of it. The economy tanks and revenues fall because people aren't working, emergency measures are needed to stabilize the economy, and Republicans make it sound as though Obama is the main problem. America needs to wake up to the fact that the Republican party in it's current form is intellectually bankrupt. And in the words of David Brooks, a conservative, " But we can have no confidence that the Republicans will seize this opportunity.(What he means here is a real deficit reduction deal in these debt-ceiling negotiations) That’s because the Republican Party may no longer be a normal party. Over the past few years, it has been infected by a faction that is more of a psychological protest than a practical, governing alternative."
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Rupert Murdoch Lies Just as Badly as Fox News
If one were to watch Fox News as the main source of media, public policy polling has shown that they will consistently misinform you on major issues, and politifact has rated many of the people on the network and find the truth to be wanting. The man who owns NewsCorp, which is the parent company of many smaller companies, one of those being Faux News, was engaged in sleazy journalism. His British newspaper, News Of The World, was caught hacking into the phones of many British people, some as famous as Gordon Brown, and lower status people, such as the 13 year old girl named Milly Dowler. She was missing and NewsCorp employees actually hacked into her voicemail and deleted them to make room for her family and friends to leave more, leaving them and the police to believe she was still alive. And recently, Rebekah Brooks, Murdoch's second in command, admitted she had paid off the police for scandalous information. Murdoch claimed yesterday in front of the British Parliament that he did not know what was happening.
There seems to be a problem among conservative politicians of taking "personal responsibility" fof their actions. If a CEO is running a company with so many unethical people, he should resign for the sheer fact that he lacks the ability to judge character. However, it is not likely that he did not know what was going on, especially with Rebekah Brooks admitting to the police she paid off the police for information! This abdication of responsbility is similiar to what the Republicans that were in charge during the Bush years are doing. They cry and wail like a child at a candy store that they are not getting what they want, all the while they have spent all of their parents money at the mall and maxed out all of the credit cards. When the parent asks the child to get a job and pay for it (because this would bring in revenue), they refuse and blame the parents for wreckless spending, even though it was them that actually spent wrecklessly. The Republicans voted for huge tax cuts, two wars, a prescription drug bill, the creation of a new Department of Homeland Security, and No Child Left Behind all without paying for any of it. The economy tanks and revenues fall because people aren't working, emergency measures are needed to stabilize the economy, and Republicans make it sound as though Obama is the main problem. America needs to wake up to the fact that the Republican party in it's current form is intellectually bankrupt. And in the words of David Brooks, a conservative, " But we can have no confidence that the Republicans will seize this opportunity.(What he means here is a real deficit reduction deal in these debt-ceiling negotiations) That’s because the Republican Party may no longer be a normal party. Over the past few years, it has been infected by a faction that is more of a psychological protest than a practical, governing alternative."
There seems to be a problem among conservative politicians of taking "personal responsibility" fof their actions. If a CEO is running a company with so many unethical people, he should resign for the sheer fact that he lacks the ability to judge character. However, it is not likely that he did not know what was going on, especially with Rebekah Brooks admitting to the police she paid off the police for information! This abdication of responsbility is similiar to what the Republicans that were in charge during the Bush years are doing. They cry and wail like a child at a candy store that they are not getting what they want, all the while they have spent all of their parents money at the mall and maxed out all of the credit cards. When the parent asks the child to get a job and pay for it (because this would bring in revenue), they refuse and blame the parents for wreckless spending, even though it was them that actually spent wrecklessly. The Republicans voted for huge tax cuts, two wars, a prescription drug bill, the creation of a new Department of Homeland Security, and No Child Left Behind all without paying for any of it. The economy tanks and revenues fall because people aren't working, emergency measures are needed to stabilize the economy, and Republicans make it sound as though Obama is the main problem. America needs to wake up to the fact that the Republican party in it's current form is intellectually bankrupt. And in the words of David Brooks, a conservative, " But we can have no confidence that the Republicans will seize this opportunity.(What he means here is a real deficit reduction deal in these debt-ceiling negotiations) That’s because the Republican Party may no longer be a normal party. Over the past few years, it has been infected by a faction that is more of a psychological protest than a practical, governing alternative."
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