MSNBC Will ID Analyst as PR Exec

@godawgs: .......... 1) I've never seen Olbermann or Maddow *mis-represent* what was said. They may focus on one aspect more than you think fair, but they do not lie as Hannity did. Admittedly, Olbermann will focus on something vague and blow it out of proportion (like allowing all tea-baggers to be called racists by Garofalo. I think we need a different narrative on why the Right hates the way it does. Clinton was white, and the Right hated him too. You guys just seem to be bullies.) ................................ 2) Rush has been called an entertainer by several Republican leaders, and they all kissed his ass big time afterward. Only the last time it happened was there no ass-kissing, and I'm sorry but I don't remember who that was -- maybe Sanford before his coming-closer-to-Jesus hike ;-) ................................ 3) What did Dodd, Murtha, and Frank do? Dodd was/is duplicious in his banking receipts/regulation/loophole-creation? Murtha added earmarks? Frank did what? These are embarrasing, I agree. I guess the Left feels exposure leads to less corruption. The Right campaings on "family values" and vacuously demands Clinton, etc. resign till they do the same adn then resiging is not even on the table. I do see your point, but why can7t your leaders be honest about it? ................................ 4) So you support having a public option in health care? Socialized medicine for the general society is OK with you? ................................ 5a) Obama is spending to raise us out of the recession. It is stimulus. He is actually quite fiscally strict based in his demands everyhing be paid for -- including having the Iraq and Afghani Wars in the regular budget. You think the government cannot create jobs as *many* Republicans have been repeatedly saying? And this is the only valid, deep criticism of Obama, IMO. But only the Libertarians can really call him on this. The Republicans are just being hateful to even mention it now. ................................ 5b) As to wiretapping, domestic spying, renditions, and indefinite detainment, this is worthy of a conversation in itself. But briefly, I think Obama is keeping the powers he inherited. He is challenging the Legislative Branch to step up and remove the powers permanently from the Executive so that there will be no abuse by future Presidents. He doesn't know what to do with Bush's non-POW's, and he has been wrong on wiretapping since he voted for the new FISA bill last year as Senator. ................................ 6) The Republicans stand for smaller government? Has that EVER happened? Reagan and Bush II saw a tremendous increase in the size (and power) of the federal governement. Clinton did better than either on this count. And lower taxes? Well, that one the Republicans have fulfilled, but it has all been for the rich and businesses and business owners. No? The Republicans seem to be the party of the rich who pretend to care for the...

WTF? Why was godawgs' last post flagged? Did a few of you report him as being abusive? He wasn't. What is going on here?

@ shonangreg, you are correct Godawg for a change was not trolling and extorting the usual crap but at the same time I think there are many readers who over react just by seeing his name due to the influx of pure rubbish......................Now as to the things you suggest the Right do to bring a more serious discussion to the table I honestly doubt there is a single entity within the party to do that...it is much more expedient to have a mouth piece scream "Socialist Agenda" to discredit the Left who won the election. It is much easier to use misrepresented sound bites to fit THEIR Socialist Agenda of controlling the masses via mass hysteria which is taking root within this country, an example is the screams and rants from Birthers. It takes just a few to exploit the system and feed a media who want a huge headline and blow crap out of proportion as the media is interested in only high ratings, the Right is only interested in control of every facet of the lives of American people and somewhere along the line people have forgot HOW TO BE AMERICAN FIRST and a Democrat or Republican second. I honestly would love to see everyone take a step back, clean up the trash from both sides the agenda and think of this country first. Not think about the $ first, or put more value on a tree than a human live ( looking at both sides here) I want to see the majority of silent Americans move forward, work with what we have (this includes getting over Obama being a Black Democrat) and work together to answer some long lasting problems this nation has faced for many years.....I would like to start with Health Care for personal reasons, I would love to see each and every American with the same exact insurance coverage that is allotted to a Congressman or woman, they themselves do not call that "Social Medicine" yet that is exactly what Obama espoused in his very first speech but since then the Media of the right has slammed him constantly for "Social Medicine. If it is good enough for Congress it would have probably saved my wife and it is good enough for the regular American citizen black white brown yellow or any color between

@shonangreag 1. misrepresenting something and focus on a minute detail and blowing it out proporiton is the same with both sides, Fox does it just as much. 2. I think we kind of agree on Rush 3. Dodd knowingly took the sweat heart mortgage deals with the Friends of Angelo, Murtha was/is giving no bid DoD contracts to his family, not on the scale of Cheney but the same thing still, and Frank for getting up and lying to the American People about the health of Fannie and Freddie while his boyfriend was on the board. Also you can add Fienstein who somehow didn't realize her husband withdrew like 300 million to invest in cbre right before they some how got 25 billion in jobs from the government. 4. I was in the military, so I have used what will most likely be the public option, and I didn't die. I don't want it to break the country, if it is the president's plan then yes I support it. 5. As for the powers he inheritated, those particular items were campaigned against by both the president and the left as bad and a sign of how bad our country has gotten, yet he keeps them in place unchecked. 6. The republicans do stand for smaller government and 6 of the last 8 years were some of the most profitable for the country.

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Really? You two don't get it? There....are....lobbyists....on both.....sides.

Mea culpa. Me wrong. I didn't have all the comments displayed.

@kg not just for wall street but the entire country did raise their standard of living i think. It did start with Clinton but continued to grow with Bush.