Just found this bit of defamatory hatred emanating from Pott County.
Given the content and the title, perhaps the Iowa Guy should have introspectively posed the title question before striking the “publish” button?
Given the content and the title, perhaps the Iowa Guy should have introspectively posed the title question before striking the “publish” button?
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I've spent more than enough time listening to Rush on some long car rides. Considering what Rush himself dishes out, Iowa Guy's commentary is nothing special. You reap what you sow. If Rush and his fans can't take the heat, they should just shut up themselves.
"The heat" shouldn't be based on taking someone's remarks completely out of context and accusing them of saying things they never said. I assume you know the facts surrounding the Rush "story" - if not, please take a moment to find the transcript of Rush's comments, which were made to a caller on his program. When he referred to "phoney soldiers," he was referring to people who lie about being in the military so they can make accusations about misconduct among our troops and further undermine our efforts overseas. Rush did NOT call real fighting troops "phoney soldiers," as the left is reporting. He called people who LIE ABOUT BEING IN THE MILITARY phoney soldiers.
Here's the Iowa Guy's BIO. He doesn't seem to know that the Trial Lawyers Association are the buttboys of the democrat party. Wasn't it Algore who tried to litigate his way into the Presidency? Isn't it Democrats who are suing and pursuing every republican officeholder and conservative pundit? What lawsuits have been filed against liberal blogs? What a dick smoker.
Iowa Guy
Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States
I'm a middle-aged, liberal gay man stuck in the vast conservative wasteland of southwestern Iowa.
I'm literate, extremely opinionated and have a decidedly skewed sense of humor.
I'm friendly and open to most people, but abhor phonies and bullshit.
Disclaimer: While much of the content on this website is based on fact, this site is primarily opinion.
I alone am responsible for the content and my opinions are also my own.
You would think that it wouldn't be necessary to say that, but in our litigious society today, there are certain right-wing groups out there that have made it their mission to file lawsuits against left-leaning sites and blogs for defamation.
So, in an attempt to launch my own preemptive strike, I am making this disclaimer where everybody can see it. So there.
Let's not forget that Tom Harkin is himself, a PHONY soldier.
Is Iowa Guy talking about these kind of right wing lawsuits?
Michelle Malkin reports today:
For daring to raise a voice and raise some money for the troops (all proceeds from the sale of his items go to the National Military Family Association charity), this T-shirt seller earned the wrath of MoveOn.org’s lawyers.
MoveOn.org chief operating officer Carrie Olson brought down the sledgehammer. She sent a cease-and-desist letter to CafePress demanding that PoliStew Cafe’s items and other anti-MoveOn.org merchandise be removed from the store.
Olson warned: “We have been alerted to an entire page of items on your website that infringes on our registered trademark, and we request that you remove all items immediately, and ask the poster to refrain from shipping any items purchased on this webpage. We also request that you give us contact information for the company / person who posted the items. This content has certainly NOT been authorized by anyone at MoveOn.org, nor anyone affiliated with MoveOn.”
Acceptable speech to MoveOn.org: Likening President Bush to Adolf Hitler, as they did in 2004.
Unacceptable speech: Little old mugs and hoodie sweatshirts gently satirizing the thin-skinned, left-wing mafia.
(more)....The pretextual copyright infringement claims are downright laughable.
This isn’t about protecting MoveOn.org’s property rights. It’s about shutting up citizens who don’t have the deep pockets to defend themselves against frivolous claims by bullies in progressive clothing.
Sane liberals should be ashamed at such free speech-squelching efforts. As Los Angeles Times blogger Jon Healey, the only other mainstream journalist to cover the crackdown, notes:
“Trademark law doesn’t confer monopoly rights over all uses of a registered phrase or symbol, however, and it wasn’t created simply to protect the trademark owner’s interests.
Instead, it’s designed to protect consumers against being misled or confused about brands.
The courts have repeatedly ruled in favor of parodies and critiques; that’s why www.famousbrandnamesucks.com doesn’t violate famousbrandname’s trademark.
And most, if not all, of the items targeted by MoveOn were clearly designed to razz it, not to trick buyers into thinking they were the group’s products.”
CafePress refused to give in on several of the items. But the speech-chilling message is clear: Parody MoveOn.org and they’ll threaten to hunt you down and sue you.
The PoliStew Cafe operator took down the pro-Petraeus, anti-MoveOn.org shirts and replaced them instead with merchandise referring to “THE GROUP THAT SHALL NOT BE NAMED.”
An army of MoveOn mockers online has published photoshopped logos (”MoveOut.org,” “MoveOn.org: Surrender in Action”) in solidarity — daring the far-left lawyers to sue them.
By Noel Sheppard | October 1, 2007 - 18:00 ET
As NewsBusters reported Sunday, the leftwing organization responsible for the recent smear campaigns against Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly, Media Matters, has direct ties to the Clintons.
To be sure, folks on the left, and in the media that support them, will either deny this connection, or ignore it.
In the end, that's going to be hard to do, for on August 4, while speaking at the YearlyKos convention in Chicago, the junior senator from New York boasted of "institutions that I helped to start and support like Media Matters and Center for American Progress."
The DIRECT QUOTE FROM SHILLARY AT THE YEARLY HATE CONVENTION CALLED KOS ON 8-4-2007
"We are certainly better prepared and more focused on, you know, taking our arguments, and making them effective, and disseminating them widely, and really putting together a network, uh, in the blogosphere, in a lot of the new progressive infrastructure, institutions that I helped to start and support like Media Matters and Center for American Progress."
Sounds like the junior senator confirmed my contention from Sunday: "Hillary and her backers have created an advocacy network whose expressed goal is to take down all of her critics in the media.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/10/01/hillary-clinton-told-yearlykos-convention-she-helped-start-media-matt
I love the comments from the hatemongers quoting Michelle Malkin and defending poor drug addicted Rush.
That Iowa edumacation sure turned you guys into solid citizens. What Hicks!
Oh Real ted is a trial lawyer so Your hero must be the enemy
Recent Anonymous 5:22;
Is there are argument lurking amongst your ad hominem attacks?
Using Sporer's standard (see the thread a couple of post prior), Iowa Guy's post is obviously based on "contextually accurate fact." So get over it and stop whining.
Other than getting teddy's profession correct, what other part of the post is contextually accurate. the part about hicks or michelle malkin delivers hate speech.
Inquiring minds want to know specific Malkin cites to hate speech. Not just paraphrases or partial quotes but cites to the articles in which the alleged statements of hate are made?
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