Speakeasy forum: Nugent 'insulted' after getting axed

one wonders if the Nuge had thought it thru

by grimgraphix - 4/30/12 5:15 PM

In Reply to: I love this part by Josh K

Marines will fight sailors, army will fight air force, all for the pride of their branch of the service and defense of their comrades... and the Commander in Chief is leader of them all.

The long and the short of it is you can bad mouth your own family but when an outsider does it, you gotta kick their butt. Even Nugent should have understood this.

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Yup

by Josh K - 5/1/12 5:55 AM

In Reply to: one wonders if the Nuge had thought it thru by grimgraphix

When that guy threw a shoe at Bush, my wife got angry and said, "Hey, he may be an idiot but he's OUR idiot."

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I am reminded of all the rhetoric from the Right...

by grimgraphix - 5/1/12 7:01 PM

In Reply to: Yup by Josh K

... not so long ago, when they claimed that any questioning of government policy was... wait for it... giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

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Oh, but they aren't questioning government policy

by Josh K - 5/2/12 6:26 AM

In Reply to: I am reminded of all the rhetoric from the Right... by grimgraphix

They're just accusing the President of the United States of being a Muslim Communist terrorist who wasn't even born here.

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I don't think you can accuse him of both

by James Denison - 5/3/12 5:18 PM

In Reply to: Oh, but they aren't questioning government policy by Josh K

More like some accuse him of being secret Muslim, other of being a Communist.

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Remember when....

by Josh K - 5/3/12 7:14 PM

In Reply to: I don't think you can accuse him of both by James Denison

.....making such remarks about the president was "giving aid and comfort to the enemy?"

Ahhhh.....those were the days.

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Josh, what am I supposed to remember...

by J. Vega - 5/4/12 2:02 PM

In Reply to: Remember when.... by Josh K

I'd like some specifics, Josh. Both you and Grim threw out giving aid and comfort to the enemy like a blanket, wishing it to cover those who might disagree with some of their views. I just can't see such a blanket being thrown over large groups when a person has an opposite view of something being discussed.
Grim, you mentioned government policy and Josh mentioned the well known phrase"those were the days". Things have changed with some government policy. In the past, the CIA didn't practice assassination as a standard policy. The KGB and GRU may have liked playing with things like poisoned pellets fired from an umbrella, but our side had a policy of not using assassination. Well, things certainly have changed. We don't use pellet firing umbrellas, but missile firing drones.
I bring this up because in the past, the CIA was commonly looked on as bad/evil agency by many of those on the political left. Their accusations mentioned assassination many times in charges of supposed Agency "evils". Now that Obama is in power and it is an accepted policy using the drones, is it still bad/evil/negative, or is it now a good/proper/positive thing?

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Work won't let me open it

by Diana - 5/4/12 2:28 PM

In Reply to: Josh, what am I supposed to remember... by J. Vega

but, if you google "giving aid and comfort to the enemy", one of the links is The "giving aid and comfort to the enemy" bit is just a run-up to the Republicans declaring any and all dissenters from the Bush administration's policies

Diana

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Accusations of giving assistance thru subversive...

by grimgraphix - 5/4/12 7:38 PM

In Reply to: Josh, what am I supposed to remember... by J. Vega

... and disloyal speech and actions was a constant accusation on a weekly basis by some of the more popular American conservative pundits during the first decade of this century.

I'm surprised you don't remember it.

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For starters....

by Josh K - 5/7/12 6:28 AM

In Reply to: Josh, what am I supposed to remember... by J. Vega

......tons of posts right here in SE. You can probably do a forum search on that phrase and turn up at least a few.

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These are "show people" and rarely to be

by Steven Haninger - 4/30/12 5:21 PM

In Reply to: Nugent 'insulted' after getting axed by JP Bill

taken seriously. Being more outrageous than their competition is a practiced craft. He's no real threat to anyone but those whose ears are still working fairly well.

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