[Vision2020] Commentary by Michael Costello of theLewistonTribune

[keely emerinemix]

FOX NEWS?

It would appear that we are the news-consuming henhouse the Fox is now 
guarding, and I would think long and hard about accepting as true anything 
that comes from there.  Fox, Pat Robertson's CBN, and "E!" network may be 
where too many people get their fill of talking heads, but they aren't 
getting news.

keely


From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
To: "'Ralph Nielsen'" <nielsen at uidaho.edu>,        "'Vision 2020'" 
<Vision2020 at moscow.com>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Commentary by Michael Costello of 
theLewistonTribune
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:41:31 -0800

Exactly, Ralph.

Instead of asking if people "want" Bush's plan to succeed (of which 11% of
the Republicans polled said "No"), a more appropriate question should have
been:

"Do you think that Bush's plan will succeed?"

Responses to this question would entail more substance for open discussion
and debate.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

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From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Ralph Nielsen
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 9:32 AM
To: Vision 2020
Subject: [Vision2020] Commentary by Michael Costello of the LewistonTribune

This is not a fair question. It is not a straightforward question. It
is a loaded question. It isn't about whether Bush's scheme will work
or not. It's a sleazy right-wing attempt to paint people as unpatriotic.

The real question is not about whether some scheme of Bush's should
or should not succeed. It's about whether one thinks that Bush's plan
is likely to succeed or not.

I am old enough to remember when Adolf Hitler was unhappy about the
German losses on the Russian front in WW II. So he declared that from
then on the forces would be guided, not by what the generals thought,
but by the intuition of The Leader (Der Fuehrer). The rest is
history, as they say.

You can imagine how the Germans would have answered this question: Do
you personally want the Russian plan The Leader announced last week
to succeed?"

Ralph

PS: Costello is not a professor. He's just a research assistant. I
have no idea what he researches, but it isn't history. Or logic.



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