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Thursday, September 07, 2006

ID-01: What Parallel Universe Does Bill Sali Inhabit?

Posted by James L.

The Fox News universe, I guess (Lewiston Morning Tribune via Idaho's excellent F-words blog):

But, Sali insisted weapons were recently discovered and that early in the war weapons were spirited away to Syria. "I know that I saw it on the TV station," Sali said. "It might have only been on FOX, come to think of it."

... This man is the Republican congressional nominee for Idaho's 1st congressional district. It seems that he bases his foreign policy knowledge on hazy, vague memories of Fox News broadcasts from over three years ago. Seriously.

I think it's time to pull up the money quote again:

The [Republican] Speaker [of the Idaho House], Bruce Newcomb, told The Idaho Statesman, “That idiot is just an absolute idiot. He doesn’t have one ounce of empathy in his whole fricking body. And you can put that in the paper.”

Meanwhile, ID-01 voters have a reality-based alternative: netroots-endorsed Democrat Larry Grant.

Posted at 09:00 PM in 2006 Elections - House, Idaho | Technorati

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A few months ago, I was in a hotel (traveling for work) that had a remote that only had channel up/down buttons (no numbers). As I was flipping through the channels, I came accross Fox News (which I have blocked on my tv at home). Ordinarily, I would have skipped through as fast as possible, but the headline at the bottom of the screen intrigued me. It stated that WMDs had been found in Iraq, so I had to at least watch with a morbid curiosity for a few minutes.

As it turned out, Sen. Santorum (pronounced Sanitarium) was on the Hannity show and said he had gotten some document declassified that showed that WMDs had been found in Iraq. I looked for a reputable news source that had the same story but found none. The only person that I found that had even heard of this story was my father, who regrettably turns to Fox News for his nightly brainwashing.

How could Fox News put such BS on the air, I thought, even though they have no scruples -- are the republinazis so desperate that they have to not only confuse the people but change hard facts? Turns out that what was found were low grade chemical weapons containers from the early to mid 1980's that had decayed years ago such that they could not be used. These must have been the ones that Rumsfeld sold Saddam to kill other brown people.
Anyway, the point is, Sali may have seen that nonsense on Fox News, and some people even believe what they see on Fox News. It is important to understand how depraved the republinazis are.

Posted by: jbstork at September 7, 2006 11:05 PM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment

"How could Fox News put such BS on the air ..."

Well, if Bill Sali wins, BS will be on the air all the time. He'd be hands down the most embarrassing Republican in Congress, or in other words, the ideal talking head for Fox once Sanitarium is retired.

Let's not let this happen. Let's help Larry Grant win in the ID-01.

Posted by: Julie Fanselow at September 7, 2006 11:36 PM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment

I have a rabidly Republican uncle who was apparently watching the same Fox broadcast. A few months into the Iraq war he told me at a family gathering how he had seen on Fox that the Russians had used their diplomatic caravan to spirit both the WMDs and Saddam himself out of Iraq into Syria. I haven't had a chance since then to ask him when it was that the Russians smuggled Saddam back in and stuck him in the spider hole.

Posted by: KCinDC at September 8, 2006 01:06 AM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment

The need to resolve cognitive dissonance is a powerful psychological force...

Posted by: dantheman at September 8, 2006 01:29 AM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment

Sali:It might have only been on FOX, come to think of it."

Somehow, I believe that actual thinking is not an operative norm for this potatohead.

Posted by: Predictor at September 8, 2006 12:13 PM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment