Michael Moore, Elisabeth Hasselbeck clash on ‘The View’

By Stephen C. Webster
Thursday, September 15, 2011 9:01 EDT
 

Elisabeth Hasselbeck, the lone conservative co-host of ABC’s women’s talk show “The View,” took the untypical position of defending President Barack Obama, specifically saying that he made the right decision to order the operation that killed Osama bin Laden.

Moore, who’s previously argued that the U.S. “lost something of our soul” in that raid, wasn’t buying it.

“The way we show the world that we’re difference is that we give even the most heinous person their day in court,” Moore said. “If we lose sight of that basic American principle — we put the Nazis on trial, we put Manson on trial.”

He added: “If we start to say that we’re afraid to hold trials because terrorists might hurt us, we look like a bunch of wusses.”

This video is from ABC, broadcast Sept. 14, 2011.

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Stephen C. Webster
Stephen C. Webster
Stephen C. Webster is the senior editor of Raw Story, and is based out of Austin, Texas. He previously worked as the associate editor of The Lone Star Iconoclast in Crawford, Texas, where he covered state politics and the peace movement’s resurgence at the start of the Iraq war. Webster has also contributed to publications such as True/Slant, Austin Monthly, The Dallas Business Journal, The Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Weekly, The News Connection and others. Follow him on Twitter at @StephenCWebster.
 
 
 
 
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  • Anonymous

    As much as I was in favor of the raid that took out Bin Landen Michael Moore does have a point. The special forces were there, helicopters were there, Bin Laden was there. You’d think taking him alive would make sense but then “dead men tell no tales”.

  • Anonymous

    As much as I was in favor of the raid that took out Bin Landen Michael Moore does have a point. The special forces were there, helicopters were there, Bin Laden was there. You’d think taking him alive would make sense but then “dead men tell no tales”.

  • Anonymous

    As much as I was in favor of the raid that took out Bin Landen Michael Moore does have a point. The special forces were there, helicopters were there, Bin Laden was there. You’d think taking him alive would make sense but then “dead men tell no tales”.

  • Anonymous

    Osama Bin Laden wasn’t there.  

    This so called raid was bullshit all the way.

    I do like Michael Moore, and if this raid had happened as described, his position is the one I would take. 

     

    But, this raid was bullshit much like 911, anthrax, Jessica Lynch, Pat Tillman, WMD, hope and change,  incubator babies on the cold floor…etc..etc..ad nauseum.

  • Anonymous

    It’s interesting, but……………the koch’s, the roves, etc.  would be looking harder into your theory than they did trying to hide bush’s driver license and the housekeeper he raped.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/X6MVZADXSVUVTXVKR74HWMKOCU salter

    Justice was served. I am a liberal and proud of it but Osama admitted it and took credit. No need for a trial.

  • Dr. Matt

    I’m glad he’s dead.  But he did deserve his day in court.  America is better than that. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZNKKA6NGFJF45ITFBKE3KMNJ4I Jason

    Michael, please try to remember what your grandparents told you, “When one argues with a fool there are two.”

  • Anonymous

    Let’s get on the subject of poverty in america instead of discussing dead people.  Of course, if it is not discussed,  there will be dead people.  Most of whom,  will be buried without a grave.

    AmericanLife TV Documentary, “Poverty in America” With Martin Luther King III Wins NECTA Chairman’s Public Service Award

    http://www.redorbit.com/news/entertainment/1473984/americanlife_tv_documentary_poverty_in_america_with_martin_luther_king

    Invisible Nation

    http://web.mac.com/grpinc1/Invisible_Nation_Promo/Invisible_Nation_Quicktime.html

  • Anonymous

    Eyewitnesses who were interviewed on Pakistani TV the night of the raid said the following (and you can find the translated YouTube interview):

    1.       There were 3 helicopters in the raid, only 1 helicopter landed.
    2.       After about 10 minutes, troops stormed out of the compound and boarded the one helicopter that landed.
    3.       Upon takeoff, the helicopter crashed and burst into flames killing all on board.
    4.       No body (Osama Bin Laden) was carried to the helicopter by the troops leaving the compound, even if they did carry a corpse, it was destroyed in the crash.
    5.       Throw on top that many people who knew about the Pakistani TV interview fully expected the U.S. military to come up with a cover story for all the dead SEALs in the helicopter, and what happened last month under a cloud of suspicion and WTF type questions????  All the Navy SEALs in the OBL raid just magically and coincidentally died in another helicopter crash that made little sense (since SEALs do not fly 30 troops deep in Chinooks).  HOW CONVIENIENT!  It is the Pat Tillman Story all over again.

    Now, lets look at some other holes in the official story (forgetting the numerous claims by intelligence services around the globe that OLB has been dead / killed at least 9 different times and all the Manfrans Syndrome/ liver problems).  The U.S. government claimed to have DNA evidence this was OBL about 4 hours after the raid.  How is this possible?  Navy SEALs extracted a body from a hostile LZ, extracted DNA and managed to have a mobile DNA lab somewhere close by to return DNA within hours?  It take 5 to 7 days to get simple paternity tests results from a genetics lab (I know, I called several to confirm).
    There has been conclusive evidence that the photos shown of OBL watching TV in his “command center” is not him.  The ears along with several other unique identifiers did not match.  A person’s ears are like fingerprints.  Also, I am sure there is no suspicion over the fact that no picture of a body was ever shown or confirmed by a single independent analyst, and the government changed its stories numerous times as to why the body had to be dumped in the ocean so quickly.

    Love Michael Moore, but it is interesting to me why he never concludes that the government is involved in something a little bigger than he is letting on.  Fahrenheit 9-11 is a classic example.  Makes all excellent points about the hidden agendas and motives as well as documenting some of the really big lies, but for some reason there is a disconnect with him (and many people) to make the next logical assumption which is that there are secret proceedings and designs that orchestrate much of world events.  It is not a logical disconnect to say, “hey Federal government, I caught you in all these lies and distortions, perhaps you are involved in some sort of conspiracy or cover up.”

    The fact remains, “conspiracy theory” is a slide world and poor word association.  It is a conditioning technique to use these words in sequence.  In reality, many so-called “conspiracy theories” are actually just conspiracies (which happen all the time).  Nothing theoretical about it.

    In reference to the OBL raid in May, all the theory is in the story presented by the Federal government.  No evidence has ever been provided or verified to support the official story.

  • Anonymous

    The US Justice dept and the Republicans who cower in fear from Islamist terrorists, are the unAmericans.  We should bring these terror-criminals to trial, in New York or some other US city.  This is important to show the other sociopath Muslims who have been fed a pile of crap to turn their anger at the West, that we are NOT afraid of their criminal activitiest and their mentally-ill zeal for killing innocent people.  To hide from these sociopaths is to give them power.  By throwing their leaders and fellow criminals in front of an American jury would freak them out.  These crazy brainwashed Arabs are not that much different than the kooks in the Manson commune who killed Sharon Tate.  We did not shrink in fear from Manson and Squeaky Fromme!

  • Anonymous

    Even the military admits they lost a helicopter in a raid which was supported by Pakistani witnesses.  So a helicopter crashes and burns but there are no injuries?????

    You need to do more research or provide me something other than a press release by the Federal government suspected of lying about this as proof.

    Where is your proof he was there?  The government told you so?  How has that worked out in the past for you?

    Where is the body?

    Where are the NAVY Seals now to testify about the raid?

    Where is a picture? The only picture released is conclusively not Osama Bin Laden.

    Really, crack open that search engine and get to work.  Tell me what evidence you come up with to support these claims.

  • Anonymous

    and the latest reason why the people should believe gubmint lies and propaganda?
    Election chances?

    …oh that would explain all the votes Bush got in ’04, no?
    Believe the WMD lies coz it might help Democrats if you don’t?

  • Anonymous

    Please read the following links.  Examine the claims, THEN DISPUTE.  Don’t come out guns firing with ad hominem if you don’t even have all the facts.

    http://www.opednews.com/articles/Pakistan-TV-Report-Contrad-by-paul-craig-roberts-110806-879.html

    http://www.vdare.com/articles/creating-evidence-where-there-is-none

  • Anonymous

    Thanks – it would be extremely, extremely awesome if obl was to suddenly appear again on tv, just before Obomber’s re-election – I would be laughing my butt off…

  • Anonymous

    No, under your assumption there is some fundamental difference between the Bush-Obama years in terms of foreign policy. 

    Please explain to me what has changed with Obama’s prosecution of the phony war on terror that makes you think Rove-Cheney-Bush would take issue with Obama’s Islamaphobia propaganda? 

    Your assumption doesn’t seem to match reality to me, IMHO.

  • Anonymous

    Remember also, this is the same Obama Administration that is protecting the Bush Administration from war crimes investigations and illegal-legal memos on torture.

    One hand not washing the back of another?

  • Anonymous

    Was. Was better than that.

  • Anonymous

    The reason they don’t want a trial is because ALL the truth would come out. For one example, BushCo’s ignoring the warnings.

  • Anonymous

    I agree with MM about 99% of the time, but I have to disagree with him here.
    Osama declared war on the US,(not that his complaints about US policy were not true) thus we had to terminate his command, terminate with extreme prejudice.
    He HAD to be taken down by any means necessary.

  • Anonymous

    No sir, justice was not served. Summary execution is not justice, and nothing to be proud of. For so many Americans to agree with you is, imo, another indicator of the downfall of America. I’m sorry, but it is a symptom of an uneducated, leaderless public. It doesn’t matter how evil, how terrible, how unbelievably awful a person is, there is only 1 way out: trial. It should be a just and fair trial. The trial ( like Nuremburg) gives a chance for all the stories to come out officially, publicly. All the photo’s, films of the horror, details, witneses, what really happened, when, where, how. Sure, it’s a lot of work, but how much is it worth to our ancestors and to history? Every penny, just like Nuremburg was. Remember, the Brits wanted to just kill the Nazi leaders and be done with it, that would have been a terrible mistake. Also many Americans did not want the ‘stories’ to come out, and just wanted them to be left alone. Please see the movie ‘Judgement at Nuremburg’, if you have not.

    The ‘joke’ trial of Saddam was not a trial. This was another example of how justice was not served at all. The question will forever remain now: what would have been revealed, what history would have been told, and what justice would have really been served with a full trial of Saddam?

    It doesn’t take much of a consipracy mindset to understand there may be those who don’t wish for anything to be revealed. If so, then they, and not the American people or justice have won the day. Both with obl, and saddam….

  • Anonymous

    Abu Garab, the Iraq War false pretenses, The 2008 Mortgage Crisis, GW Bush and Co.  These things had much more to do with deteriorating our standing in the world than shooting Bin Laden through his eye. 

  • Dr. Matt

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    So a helicopter crashes and burns but there are no injuries?????
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Yes.  It’s possible.  Very possible.  Aircraft “crash” frequently resulting in little to no injuries to the occupants. 

  • Dr. Matt

    ~~~~~~~~~~~
    Where are the NAVY Seals now to testify about the raid
    ~~~~~~~~~~~

    FAIL, fucktard.

    The identity of active duty SEALs are anonymous to the general public.

  • Anonymous

    Boo

    Look behind you.

    You make a great drinking game.

  • Anonymous

    ‘The View’ another friggin pathetic info-tainment POS. This is why America is heading downriver – so many people actually have their views influenced by 30 seconds of debate. No minds are changed, no good debate, nothing…

    Hey Hasselbeck, fyi: the ‘war’ will never be over…

  • Anonymous

    So true and so evident. Glad hasslebeck is showing her true colors , as well as barbara walters. Shills for the corporations. Don’t know why I looked at the view years ago. 

  • Anonymous

    You like kool aid?

  • Anonymous

    Brilliant comment.

      It is the Pat Tillman Story all over again.

    I saw a video of the Pat Tillman murder on Democracy Now. He was yelling I am Pat Tillman over and over again out there in the desert standing beside a rock. No way that was anything but a hit because Pat Tillman knew he was fighting a war of aggression.

  • Anonymous

    Michael Moore goes where others fear to tread. He showed up the shills on the view for just who and what they are. So did Rosie O’Donnell when she was going to book a scientist on the view to tell how the official 9/11 story was shot full of holes. 

    I had to read about Michael Moore’s death threats from the Guardian. Hard to get the facts here in US fascist land.

  • Anonymous

    “No sir, justice was not served. Summary execution is not justice, and nothing to be proud of. For so many Americans to agree with you is, imo, another indicator of the downfall of America.”

    Shows propaganda works too.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe obama decided to work in the system instead of getting JFKd.

  • Anonymous

    If his comment is based on Kool aid – Order the rest of these bloggers a liberal dose.

  • Anonymous

    Some people don’t like Kool Aid. 

  • Anonymous

    “Love Michael Moore, but it is interesting to me why he never concludes
    that the government is involved in something a little bigger than he is
    letting on.”

    Because unlike you he is not delusional.

  • Anonymous

    Obama was in a bind.  He had to eliminate Bin Laden, whether myth or real, because a year from now he would be taunting him in the middle of the election.  His tapes have always tended to drive people to the Republicans and in this case it would be even more so.   Obama couldn’t put him on trial because a lot of things that they don’t want talked about would have been presented, like: what role did he really play in 9/11 and was he really the person in all those tapes.  I am surprised, though, that they didn’t at least pretend that they intended to put him on trial.  Maybe the image of him cowering behind a woman was too good to pass up.

  • Anonymous

    You are correct.  A friend told me that the Repubs are relying on rioting in the black communicates this summer, just before the election..

  • http://abstractartist.org Cris Ronk

    Opinion, opinion. Blah, blah, blah. Hate, hate hate. I’m right – you’re wrong.

  • Anonymous

    Actually Osama declared shortly after 9/11 that he had NOTHING to do with the attack.  The video of him released several months later was proven to be a hoax.  Even the FBI dropped Osama Bin Laden off their terror list, because it couldn’t be proven that he had committed terrorism.

  • Anonymous

    I think most people would have approved of a hit on Hitler. OBL was being sheltered by the Pakistanis, without a chance to extradite him while he continued to be a threat to American lives. Moreover, a strike against a terrorist leader is less destructive than committing thousands of troops.

  • Anonymous

    The downside of taking him into custody would be that his friends would kidnap Americans and demand a prisoner swap.

    A trial of OBL would not require a broad inquiry since there is video tape of him admitting the attack. A new York jury would take about 20 minutes to convict him and another 20 to impose a death sentence.

  • Anonymous

    Osama certainly took credit for it, after the fact. Why wouldn’t he?

    Obama chose to murder (assassinate?) Osama for political reasons – nothing more. Why we as citizens might not want this is because we now have no information (except for what has been provided by the government) for what his actual involvement in the conspiracy was. It’s a slippery slope when we give the government the right to accuse, try in secret and execute *anyone*, even Osama Bin Laden.

    We will now never be able to decide for ourselves who was responsible for 9/11 or examine the evidence ourselves or allow Osama a defense for the unproven accusations of the government. Our embracing of summary executions shows that we really don’t want to look at our policies or consider alternate, plausible viewpoints for actions we and others take and that we just want a simple narrative to make us feel better.

  • Anonymous

    Brainless dits with NO understanding of America other then what she is TOLD to believe and say, absolutely disgusting, but then again she supports COWARDS and TRAITORS and WAR CRIMINALS bush, cheney, rove, gonzales, yoo, rice, rumsfeld, and the white house CORPORATE SELECTED STAFF and thinks these low life SCUM BAGS are heroes, what a dits.

  • Anonymous

    It’s too late  Fox news the right arm of the neocan right wing zionists has done such a splendid job of brain washing the dumb American masses  that  if you even bring up the possibility that 9-11 was  other than than the official version your looked  upon  as a lefty crazy  conspiracy nut . I  strongly  suggest you  see  Arron Russo and  Rockafeller   or    Arron Russo on  9-11  Also  google  BBC NOW  ADMITS…  Finally  it’s  impossible for the commercial  planes  that  hit  the  towers  to fly  the  way  they  did  with  the  built in software on the  planes.  You  can’t  pull  5-6  G’s while  doing  180 degree  banked  turns  without  stalling.  The  only way  this is  physically  possible is  through a  GPS  positional signal guiding the  planes     See  flight termination systems and system planning  corp   Dov  Zackeim.  By  the  way  this GPS  guidance was  available  in 2001.  In  Oct 1994  110  United  Airlines 747′s  were sucessfully  auto-piloted  take off  landed etc  thru  altered GPS  positional signals !!!      If  it  smells  like  a Duck …….

  • Anonymous

    Actually it was the same people who wired the buildings on 911, produced a phony birth certificate for the Pres., concealed proof of the existence of Big Foot, covered up extraterrestrial contacts, generated a worldwide scientific conspiracy of false climate change and arranged for fluoride in the drinking water to ossify the brains of our youth. 

  • Anonymous

    All true… unfortunately.  We the people bring so much woe on ourselves by electing vampires and dyldoes.

  • Anonymous

    I would have ENJOYED a trial.

  • Anonymous

    Please don’t be so hard on yourself, we all get older.  In 1960 I committed a felony:  I campaigned for Richard Nixon.

  • Anonymous

    Love Ya Mike, but we didn’t lose anything whacking bin Laden. We’ve done 10000 other things that have tainted us, but that was something that should have been done ages ago, but bin Laden is a frind of the Bushies and therefore was protected.

    All his tapes and just the mention of his name served vast fearmongering purposes.

    Now we just have to be satisfied with killing ‘alQueda’s #2 Man’ again and again.

  • Anonymous

    Trying the Oklahoma bomber didn’t intimidate his fellow Christian terrorists at all.  He became for them a martyr for the cause.

  • Anonymous

    You are right. We were not there. Logic would tell you that if you fake killing someone you are setting yourself up for quite an embarrassment when that person surfaces again. Maybe we have BL under lock and key. Who knows. I do know that two former US allies, Bin Laden and Saddam, are both gone along with any embarrassing tales they may have had to tell.

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  • Anonymous

    Do you notice how conspiracies grow as negating evidence mounts? The Birther conspiracies now require that the entire State of Hawaii has been in on it for the past 50 years. Amazing.

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  • Anonymous

    This just in from head quarters omar, you have been promoted to number two…..hey where are ya going ya have to plan the next attack?  

    oh I’m gotta tell my wife that I’m not gonna be able to pick up that quart of goat milk….ever again!

  • http://www.facebook.com/mejsmith Michael Smith

    That is what happens when you vote further and further to the right every generation.  Both main parties are to the right and if you don’t believe it compare it to other democracies where this shift is not as pronounced.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for the links. Paul Craig Roberts is highly credible and definitely not a “conspiracy theorist”.

    Liberals/Progressives love him when he slams Republican/Teabag economic policy and when he tells the true story of the Reagan administration. When he questions the so called facts put out by the Department of Propaganda, not so much.

  • Anonymous

    We spent most of WWII trying to kill Hitler but if we had captured him we would have tried him just like we did with the rest of his inner circle.

  • Anonymous

    Unless you had a relative involved in any way.   Can you imagine what the terrorists would have done to the family members of the Jury, the Bailiffs the Court Reporters, the Judge?  MM’s mistake is not acknowledging that fact that the Germans were DEFEATED and there were not sympathizers left over able to wreck havoc upon the system.   Big, BIG difference!

  • Anonymous

    Who that liberal Commie lovin, wage freezing, EPA creating RINO?   

  • Anonymous

    The “liberal” media doing what it does best: Generating a lot of heat without throwing any light on the subject. 

    The so-called debate shows we’re all passionate about this thing, that opinions are divided and hotly contested… like a car spinning it’s wheels very fast, burning the rubber and not going anywhere. 
    What did this passionate, shouting, and over-talking “discussion” actually achieve? Absolutely nothing. Mission Accomplished.

    We’ll be right back after these messages from our sponsors.

  • Anonymous

    Stop assuming that the rest of the world thinks and acts like American’s!   Stop and ask yourself why there is an ENDLESS supply of suicide bombers.   The ask yourself what effect other than to ENHANCE and elevate OBL’s stature as a martyr would have a trial accomplished????  Oh I forgot WE would feel better but would that be before or after they killed a few jury members, blew up the court house or killed the judge and his family?   

    Get real when dealing with barbarians you don’t invite them to the dinner table and expect them to know how to use silverware.   No you speak their language and treat them the way they treat others to make your POINT with their followers!

  • Anonymous

    Yeah because the dumb hillbilly’s are too whacked out on meth and moonshine to get all exercised about who is really screwing their sisters!

  • Anonymous

    Tell exactly how that would have worked?   Who & Where please.

  • Anonymous

    Hasselbeck is worth something, but not for intelligence.

  • Anonymous

    Big difference between trying the captured command structure of a defeated nation state and a SINGLE leader of a diffuse and ON GOING terrorist organization.

  • Anonymous

    I think the guy had been on ice for years.

  • Anonymous

    There is a grand conspiracy here that Osama’a  disposal seals forever.   Was HW philandering in the Middle East during his OSS days?    Was Osama a result of that and did this cement the relationship with the Bin Ladens and Saudis?   This would make W and Osama half brothers.  

  • Anonymous

    “I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks
    in the United States. As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie.
    I had no knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of
    innocent women, children and other humans as an appreciable act.
    Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women, children and
    other people. Such a practice is forbidden even in the course of battle.
    It is the United States which is perpetrating every maltreatment on
    women, children and common people.” -Osama Bin Laden 9/28/2001

  • Anonymous

    May I suggest:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuC_4mGTs98

    Everything you ever wanted to know about the 9/11 conspiracy theory in under 5 minutes.

    I really like the part about the Osama killing…

  • http://richard-chase.blogspot.com Richard Chase

    To be actually concerned with this issue, one must first decide whether there’s anything substantive to this whole “Terrorist” thing to begin with. Whether or not it’s simply a vehicle for soulless political and corporate opportunists. Personally, I don’t shun tall buildings because I fear terrorists, I fear our government and it’s nefarious “intelligence” tentacles far more.

  • Anonymous

    Well said, and needed to be said.

    As a typical loud mouth sissy, Hasselbeck had to keep jacking her jaw and talking over Moore when he tried to explain his position. Walters or Goldberg should have told Hasslebeck to shut up and wait her turn.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/CTGKYFNDGU6KJEHQNNPXA64ZZI Pj

    Precisely.

    TY

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3A55AAFK2Q54STF3BDZI7KSMLU Ross M

    it’s a shame they couldn’t give him more time to rip the bubble-headed blond up a little more (or Moore as the case may be).  The idea that we shouldn’t hold terrorists on trial because they don’t deserve our rights as human beings is exactly why I can’t get behind the conservative movement.  America is great because we rise above our adversaries and we are better then our enemies.  And we do not cower in the face of danger, especially when that danger is manufactured by the conservative tea baggers and the American media.  /  we as Americans are better than that!

  • Anonymous

    Hasselbeck is clearly a Stalinist with her anti-American view on our legal process where we should just condemned the accused and execute them without a trial.  Why doesn’t she move to Saudi Arabia where they don’t worry about things like human rights.  Let’s get American hating traitors like her out of here.

  • Anonymous

    Back in the old days, actual JOURNALISM professors taught actual JOURNALISM students to use a person’s first AND last name in a story upon first usage. Paragraph two indicates that that’s not the case these daze. (The headline doesn’t count.)

  • Anonymous

    While I’m a severely under-employed copywriter with NOTHING better to do than edit online DRECK today, graph three: “different” not “difference.”

  • Anonymous

    Well said… I do believe, if one were to partake in some honest accounting, the state is the single greatest cause of unnatural death in history.

    Additionally, you are 30 times more likely to die of a lightning bolt than a terror attack, 10 times more likely to die drowning in your bathtub and 8 times more likely to be killed by an American police officer there to “help” you than any terrorist.

    There are many, many things more deadly than terrorists, such as peanuts.  I propose we declare a preemptive war on all peanuts globally, for the safety of our citizens of course.

    http://newsblaze.com/story/20090221100148tsop.nb/topstory.html

  • Anonymous

    Why don’t you try to refute a single thing I said with a shread of evidence you unthinking prick?

    People like you are the problem in this country.  Emotionally wedded to lies. 

    Great argument you fucking asshole, way to retort the very specific evidence I presented.

    And by the way you jerk, may I see your PhD from MIT and your Masters from Cornell?  Yeah, many delusional thinkers running around those institutions where I learned to think.

    Parrot alert – right to ad hominem means you lose and have nothing to back up your statements with.

  • Anonymous

    vdare.com? Are you fucking serious?

  • Anonymous

    Yeah you’d think someone with no thumbs typed that.

  • Anonymous

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26559

    The above links describes far too many when broaching subjects such as this.

  • Anonymous

    Learn the difference between a source and a medium.

    The source is Paul Craig Roberts.  The medium is vDare (one of many).  The same artile is at Op-Ed News, Global Research and many others.

    Seriously, is that all people have over here?  Ad hominem and attempting to attack a particular forum where an article is posted?

    So I ask you, are you fucking serious?  Is that all you got?

    Boy howdy, I am in the land of critical thinkers over here… once again, I am thoroughly convinced by such a well thought out argument such as: “vdare.com? Are you fucking serious? ”

    Bravo sir, bravo. You are right, you disproved everything I posted with those 4 words – “are you fucking serious?”

  • Anonymous

    Regarding a right to a trial, she aid “Even those citizens who do not abide by the law are granted those rights.” So, in some places only the innocent are granted trials? I hope somebody frames her and then the authority says, you don’t get a trial because we already know you are guilty”

  • Anonymous

    Remember, the conservatives have a loooong tradition of lynching. They dont need no stinkin courts to ruin their good time. 

  • Anonymous

    For people who scream and scream about the constitution…they sure don’t give a rats ass about what it says.

    This, once again, proves to me that they are idiots and their arguments are invalid. 

  • ghostof911

    He made his blood oath with the mob years before the election. There was no decision to work in the system because he was already in the system. By the time he reached the Oval Office, the mob had him groomed like a show pony.

  • Ed Dominguez

    Under Bush there day in court consisted of a bucket of water!

  • ghostof911

    It should be fairly easy to identify who wired the towers and Building 7.  There are only a handful of companies in the world with that expertise.

    Any suggestions?

  • ghostof911

    A friend told me that Obama is going to call for a new 9/11 investigation this summer, just before the election.

  • ghostof911

    They don’t have to get exercised about that. They know who’s screwing their sisters. They are.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WWPOPFWZPWXI34IUVD56IMB2T4 johnathen

    Fuck the View and all the bitches that are on there.
    Just another example of how dumb downed the population of Amerika is!
    Who gives a rats ass about anything these woman say.
    They are just paid shills for whatever “cause” they are paid to believe in.
    Same with Mr. Moore….another freakin’ shill!
    Amerika…pull your heads out of your asses and look at what is really going on..it’s a hell of a lot worse than they are going to report on the fuckin’ View!!!

  • Anonymous

    I played that interview through clenched teeth because the sound and logic of Hasselbeck is like being locked in a room with Bachmann, Palin, Shlaffley, O’Donnell and Angle all talking at once. ( I’m sorry for that graphic but it does make my point. ) However Moore is “RIGHT ON” with his comment. One of my problems with our current administration is the carryover of the unconstitutional and illegal policies of the “Bush Crime Family”. Damn it if this is a country of laws and not men then we have to follow that path regardless of the severity of the CRIME. 

  • ladygeek

    Speaking of birthers:   Apparently our good friend, Michele Bachmann was visiting with a group of them after the debate.  I thought they had gone away but I guess they’ll just keep going to survive forever since it’s so hard for them to read.

    I don’t watch them just like I don’t watch Faux.

  • Anonymous

    Well said!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YJZL433MLGUP7PHZBGEQJDPC34 Devin Proctor

    My pet peeve has always been spelling and correct vocabulary. That you spelled ‘days’ correctly at first only increases my confusion as to why you’d choose to spell it as ‘daze’ at the end. It kind of deflates the punch of your critique.

  • Anonymous

    I believe he was pointing out the collective mindset.

  • ladygeek

    I don’t know what you mean about JFK’d.   However, I’ve read this tome:  http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786718323/ref=nosim/thomhartmann/

  • ladygeek

    The Russians got there just a bit too late and I don’t think they would have let any of those people out of the bunker alive.

  • ladygeek

    Al-Queda themselves came out and confirmed what happened to OBL.  They hadn’t said anything at all in the past.  I’m not really invested in the debate on this anyway.  He’s dead whether it was or not before, it is true now.

  • ladygeek

    Al-Queda themselves came out and confirmed what happened to OBL.  They hadn’t said anything at all in the past.  I’m not really invested in the debate on this anyway.  He’s dead whether it was or not before, it is true now.

  • http://twitter.com/mom25boys Sarita Dawn Barthel

    @folcons12345…the “loooong tradition of lynching” was started by the demwits….I doubt MLK would have been a republican if it the KKK was started by them! Funny how history can be rewritten and that lie retold some many times ppl believe it!

  • Spire

    ‘fraid it’s the same hand, sad to say.
     cf Wayne Madsen’s bio of Obama’s immediate relatives.
    http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/08/18/wayne-madsen-obamas-cia-connections-part-i-and-ii/
    we were snookered again.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe he was already dead, and they knew it.

  • Anonymous

    Dr. Matt, the chiropractor?

  • Anonymous

    “You could just go ahead and kill yourself….but then….what would you do for an encore?”

    Prof. Byron B. Johnson 

    1963

  • Anonymous

    Brainwashed idiots. Especially that blond woman she should STFU.

  • Anonymous

    Very interesting. A bunch of people arguing about lies that are lies anyway, and especially a bunch of people who learn history from the mainstream media.

  • Anonymous

    Did I say “Republicans” or did I say “Conservatives?”

    I’m fairly certain that the people lynching others, without a fair trial, were not progressives who believed in rule of law and upholding the constitutional rights of everyone, regardless of race, color, religion, or creed. Was it liberals or conservatives who were against the Civil Rights Act of 1964? I said nothing about party, it is about mindset.

    Funny how someone elses words can be rewritten, by you,  to create a lie to validate your argument.

  • Anonymous

    DINO — falcons12345 appropriately said “conservatives” — he/she did not assign it to parties as neo-convict repugs scamper like vermin to do.  Unless you have just been born in the last, oh I don’t know, ten minutes, you should well know that the “Dixiecrats” were never progressive — which is why they all hustled to give Ronald Reagan a BJ when he started preaching State’s rights. 

    Your comeback either stems from denial, ignorance, or just plain stupidity and inability to process facts.  Shall we put that up for a vote — the democratic (small d) way???

  • Anonymous

    Very good. I wonder about the 1993 incident at the WTC & Clinton. They were caught ,tried & punished.

  • Anonymous

    WOW…very good.

  • Anonymous

    Hey Tex I am the guy that pulled the trigger and dumped the body over board.
    Now you want to make something of it. Tex do you sort of feel all John Wayneeeee!
    Well do you punk?

  • H.P. Loathecraft

    The idea that there is a crime to heinous or a criminal too evil to face due process is a complete fiction concocted by fascists who seek to cover their own crimes, grievous errors and negligence.

    You can put Beelzebub on trial in my living room for all I care, just so long as justice is served.

  • Anonymous

    MIchael looked like a wuss in trying to be nice.  He should have taken her to the curb.  He knows what really happened the day Osama was ‘killed’ years ago, don’t let him fool you, but Elizabeth, she is living the American delusion!  I feel bad for her actually, she will wake up one day and feel like a complete & utter fool in believing that we, the Great Americans!, are showing the world how RIGHT we are in the way we lead the way.  Her ego is blinding her reality ……..  show compassion, she may fight as hard for the Light  when she discovers that it won’t be found on the left or right.

  • http://profiles.google.com/retank Robert Tankersley

    The Fat Boy Tagalong whose press agent is ,btw, Rahm Emanuels brother Ari, who has dual citizenship, with the cackling hens bringing the phony story of Bin Laden to all the captive housewives of America at the orders of Israel,,TADA!!!

  • H.P. Loathecraft

    I caught that as well, and I’m a mere hobbyist.

  • H.P. Loathecraft

    Aside from somewhat conflicting hearsay passed on by government spokes-dissemblers, precisely what evidence has the government proferred that supports the claim that the killing of OBL in Abbatobad, Pakistan by US forces did indeed actually occur?

    What’s that again? **Nothing whatsoever**?? Shocking!

  • Anonymous

    If it produced FellFeline”s above comment, as you suggest, – It’s needed medicine for you.

  • Anonymous

    The logistics of taking OBL alive were beyond impractical an fought with grave danger.

  • Anonymous

    What exactly are you trying to communicate?  

    Do you have some facts to offer, some claims to refute or a point to make?

    Why the hostility?

    Are you having difficulty reconciling the fact that the US Government can’t be trusted to tell the truth?

    And you are from Canada?  

    WTF?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RMWD74RIS4XXJE7SNFIPBOSL7M Ross

    Hulu bites; not streaming to anyone outside the US. 

  • Anonymous

    I am hard on myself. Voted for reagan too. Can’t learn to spell his name. Must be blocking.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/3J34VOUONTK3EKEGVNIAYIEFTE shq13

    Man people are making a Killing by spreading Hate in America. WOW !!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um4v49dqFsI

  • http://360.yahoo.com/billtalk314@sbcglobal.net Bill T.

    The title of this article should read, “St. Bernard growls at Pekinese.”

  • Anonymous

    Elizabeth hasselback’s grasp of american jurisprudential tradition and constitutional values ….is minimal..She is in fact….a couple of french fries short of a happy meal.

  • Anonymous

    Michael Moore…………….the master Cinema producer that fools everyone in believing his fictitious reality! Isn’t that the core paradigm of movie making……..make believe! So I ask you what is real about ….ah…sheeze….Mr. Moore?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Valentine/1277133078 Michael Valentine

    Blood thirsty little bitch.

  • Keller Eaton

    Well done.

  • Anonymous

    The right thing was done to OBL, – He was wanted dead or alive by the USA!!

    There weren’t any complaints about that before Seal Team 6 got him, Justice was done, – End of Story.

  • Anonymous

    oh but what a coup that would have been.  although the publicity would have sent the martyr seekers into a hyper frenzy delusion of even more horrific blood letting.

  • jimbo92107

    Not really. Remember, after killing bin Laden, the Special Ops guys didn’t leave right away. Instead, they took over his compound, swept the place for intelligence data and interrogated his wife. They had plenty of time to snatch Osama and leave with him, if that had been their mission.

    Clearly their mission was to blow his brains out, not to bring him back for trial. We may disagree on whether trying Osama in the US was a good idea, but there is no doubt he was marked for death by Barack Obama.

    George Bush said he didn’t care much about Osama bin Laden. Barack Obama found him and had him killed. Bin Laden admitted on video tape that he approved the al Qaida mission to destroy the Twin Towers. He bragged about it! After that, what purpose does a trial serve, other than to give bin Laden’s supporters material for more propaganda?

  • Taleisin

    This has been very damaging to international opinion of America. It was a barbaric act, obviously done to hide a truth or two. The US stooped to a new low.
    I wonder how long this decline will continue?

  • Anonymous

    I agree with your assertion regarding cinema but must ask if you extend this to the fictitious reality sold to us regarding the death of Bin Laden? What about the theatrical production that was 9-11? Oh wait…I guess the government with all of its largesse and allies within the media would never create productions in a movie sense would they?

    Reality is in the eye of the beholder my friend and I would be careful about blanket assertions regarding the reality presented by Mr. Moore in his movies when much grander productions are all around us at every waking moment. But hey, this is only my view of reality.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZHTYBK67E2S7RNTSJJN4LQXKTQ Greg

    Especially since he died in December of 2001 of Marfan’s syndrome.

  • Anonymous

    The Truther movement is just that……..a belief system based on non precision measurements and hunches founded on faulty logic. Not at all unlike a religion. I won’t argue the point since stated evidence is never produced…….just a circle jerk of sites referring to other sources that end up with no evidence. Licensed Architects and Engineers that allegedly signed a document are never named for substantiating their opinion.  The key is duly licensed!  All other are hearsay and not credible as witnesses.

    I’m Sorry but I do not accept the notion in any way or form. 

  • Anonymous

    And his body has been hidden since that time by the Scientologists working with the Free Masons and the WWF.

  • Anonymous

    OBL is dead even his supporters agree. So to say he is not and that it is bullshit is absurd and it takes away from real unknowns like the truth behind 911.
     
    You see I gave you some of the unnerving propaganda as they do. Who are they that is the question. They are not a single entity that controls everything. They are separate and yet together. It is a little like a group of looters robbing a store. They are all looting taking what they may. They don’t have time to fight with each other nor care about what others are looting inside the store as there only focus individually is to take what ever they can as fast as they can do it. Who are we? … The whole earth is the store and the loot is your possessions and your life.
     
    This was a teaching.

  • Anonymous

    So what happened on 9-11? What is your theory?

  • Anonymous

    They didn’t take him into custody: he died a long time ago, there were no dialysis machines at this “compound” and without them, OBL could not have survived.

    Fact is, the US military helicopter blew up on takeoff…or was shot down…or was that just my imagination the photos of the wrecked “experimental” helicopter msm posted world-wide???? And the eyewitness that testified on camera that there was only one helicopter that landed…and it went “boom”, and everyone on board was killed. Hallucinating?

    Funny too…as soon as that story went viral..”another” helicopter got crashed/shot down, and the Seals (Team 6) that supposedly conducted the assault were “killed.”

    What a coinkidink.

  • Anonymous

    Wanted by whom? His cohorts at the CIA? The FBI didn’t have him as “wanted”…so who did, “Martok”?

    Seal Team 6….they didn’t happen to have Iron Man flying suits on this attack day, did they? Because the only helicopter that landed, went “boom” and fall down…everyone dead. The msm photos posted world-wide ain’t lying, genius..nice try, no cigar.

  • Anonymous

    And what is real about a “fake injun”, TWOBRAINCELLS?

  • Anonymous

    That’s some of the stupidest comments I have ever heard, Fang, – ROFL

  • Anonymous

    “The Truther movement is just that……..a belief system based on non
    precision measurements and hunches founded on faulty logic. Not at all
    unlike a religion. I won’t argue the point since stated evidence is
    never produced….Licensed Architects and Engineers that allegedly signed a document are never named for substantiating their opinion. ”

    Chief Lying Sack ‘o shit, they have their own website, and they freely allow their names to be used, Richard Gage is the spokeman.

    Yes, those crazed 1500 architects and physicists are just clowning with their scientific evidence of explosives present, and you know the reality, right TWOBRAINCELLS?

    It is your bullshit that has no basis in fact. Produce your evidence that kerosene can powderize steel and concrete AFTER it exploded in a huge fireball upon impact that everyone with eyes could see, featherhead.

    You can’t, you’re a shill or the dumbest bunny in America. Only explosives, the evidence has been produced, can create that level of destruction.

    Have a nice day, shill.

  • soverytired

    I think he could not be on trial because then he might have verified what Ron Paul said at the debates the other night about why he and his minions attacked us.  I wish it it wasn’t that way and that we were squeaky clean and that they hate us for our freedom.  That being said i am very very glad he is dead.

  • Anonymous

    “most people would have approved of a hit on Hitler” What most people approve of or not, is not the point of my post, I’m trying to explain what is right and wrong. With that in mind, would it be ok to kill Hitler if we had a chance? Maybe, but what if he was living in a house, unguarded, and we landed with our troops by helicopter, where we could have taken him away for trial easily? Then no. That would have been very wrong. The right thing to do, would be to include him in the Nuremburg trials.

    “OBL was being sheltered by the Pakistanis” I don’t think anyone has proof of that, but I suspect they knew about him, regardless of how much of a ‘threat’ he was, again, we had our hands on him – he was no longer a threat.

    “a strike against a terrorist leader is less destructive than committing thousands of troops” Did it take thousands of troops to remove obl from this house? No.
     

  • Anonymous

    Oops, you chased him away….America knows. The majority of us believe our “lyin’ eyes”, and know a CD when we see one, regardless of how large the flags they waved on 9/11/11 were…we don’t have or don’t need “theories”: we need investigations of those highly suspect.

    And that is usually the ones protesting the loudest against real investigations, hampering said investigations and those that benefited from the events…like any good cop detective can tell ya.

    Put Bush and Cheney in a room and question them separately for a week or so..along with Perle, Wolfowitz, Zackheim and Rumsfeld. Won’t take long before the names start flowing….and how it was done.

    Fake “Patriotism” is the last refuge of scoundrels, believe it. TWOBRAINCELLS is a paid shill. Look around, they are everywhere to be found….here, on msm, in NFL booths. Well-paid shills.

    That’s a fact. It’s war, us against the fascists staging their fake conferences, fake experts, fake commenters, fake rallies, fake “community meetings” where they exclude opposition…fascism is here…now what are we going to do about it?

    Point them out and shun them. And get a real, verified vote back.

  • Anonymous

    This was anything but justice, read my comments above…

  • Anonymous

    A rather un-hero like statement. There is no difference, justice is for everyone – for the evil-doer and for the rest of us.

    And speaking of ‘terrorist organizations’, the US is currently the biggest.

  • Anonymous

    hahahaha, okay sure…he attacked us…why? “I wish it it wasn’t that way and that we were squeaky clean and that they hate us for our freedom.” So…again…WHY did they attack us? Would they not think we would respond as we did??

    You’re not logical, svt.

    And tell me: where our defenses were that day?

    Tell me again how these “hijackers” knew NORAD wouldn’t scramble jets to escort the “hijacked” planes? You see, when they took off from Newark, and Boston they could have flown straight to NYC…but instead flew around for 40-45 minutes…now, does that make any sense? No, it does not.

    How could they plan such a successful “attack” and not think NORAD wouldn’t shoot them down asap???

    They couldn’t, so “minion” that.

  • Anonymous

    good one ;) 

  • Anonymous

    I found the peer-reviewed article detecting nano-thermite in the dust as quite interesting. I have never heard a response to that. 

  • soverytired

    I’m not sure what you object to with your sarcastic repy? Regardless of whether they were helped by our gov’t or simply ignored to allow the attacks to happen they had their own reasons for attacking us and that is what I am addressing. 

  • Anonymous

    There were 141,200 Structural Architects registered in 2008, of which 1500 have signed a partition to have 911 reanalyzed while the remaining 199,700 did not sign or likely to sign. . That equates to 98.94% are some what satisfied with the current explanations of 911.

    Lets put it another way. Only 1.06 % of the Architect professionals believe that 911 was a conspiracy. And only 7 % of the population believes the US Government perpetraited it up on its citizen. The New York Time uses the 5% doctrine to describe the number of people that are crazy and can’t care for them selves in the critical thinking category. Now the NYT did not give a margin of error, however 2 % would be somewhat nominal. Thus the truthers fall in to the 5% category both professionally and as a lay citizen.

    Have good dreams, please!

  • Anonymous

    I ain’t crazy!

  • Anonymous

    A brilliantly conceived, planned, and executed attack by an small highly motivated asymmetrical enemy that had hit us repeatedly off shore. The conspiracy, if any exist, lies in the Middle East, particularly Saudi Arabia. And the complacency of every administration since Carter shares in the blame! 

    But frankly I doubt you care…………the conspiracy theory answers ALL questions. It is clean, flexible and designed to be like a jelly fish…..ya just can’t get your hands around it as a questioner.

  • Anonymous

    “You see, when they took off from Newark, and Boston they could have
    flown straight to NYC…but instead flew around for 40-45 minutes…now,
    does that make any sense? No, it does not.”

    Farang.. the highjackers didn’t “take off from Newark and Boston”.. they were not the pilots.  They had to commandeer the plane before they could fly it into the WTC. 

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  • Anonymous

    6th amendment: “…in ALL PROSECUTIONS…” ,  very clearly spelled out in the Bill of Rights if she would care to ever read.  Hasslebeck and every dumb ass who clapped when she said bin Laden wouldn’t be protected under our constitution if prosecuted here is unequivocally full of shit.  So confident she’s right, yet so wrong– the brazen ignorance of this dumb reality show bastard Elizabeth Hasslebeck.  I’d still consider fucking her, but she’d definitely be required to keep quiet and then get the fuck out of my house when I’m through.

  • Anonymous

    Dead men can’t implicate Dick Cheney.

  • Anonymous

    Did you “get” the point? Do you have any response to the risks I have enumerated?

    Yes I agree that our post WWII foreign policy history puts us at the top of that list however that has nothing to do with the correct decision to summarily execute OBL!

  • Anonymous

    ok ok I meant who ELSE!

  • Anonymous

    Justice was done my ass – you call millions killed for 3,000 American lives Justice???

  • Anonymous

    Don’t worry TWOBILL – go to sleep – your government has everything under control. Accept authority – ignorance is strength – slavery is freedom. Your so called argument is a joke. There are so many holes in the whole 9/11 bullshit whitewash report that our so-called government gave us – that it would take days upon days to deal with them. I do not have the time or patience to educated those who are willfully ignorant.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Charles-Richardson/100002390594799 Charles Richardson

    “the Special Ops guys didn’t leave right away. Instead, they took over his compound, swept the place for intelligence data and interrogated his wife. They had plenty of time to snatch Osama and leave with him, if that had been their mission.Clearly their mission was to blow his brains out, not to bring him back for trial.”

    Yeah, there’s no way the Seals could have done all that with OBL alive and in custody.

    You want to believe something, so you throw logic out of the window to make it true.

    Still doesn’t make it true.  The truth is that you don’t know what happened and probably never will.  

    But, if it makes you feel better to spin your yarns, have at it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Charles-Richardson/100002390594799 Charles Richardson

    “So a helicopter crashes and burns but there are no injuries?????”

    No one ever said the copter crashed and burned.  Where are you getting your news?

    The helicopter malfunctioned.  It was destroyed by the seals to protect the intelligence.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Charles-Richardson/100002390594799 Charles Richardson

    People amazes me.  People want to believe the conspiracy story.

    I think it makes them feel smarter, superior in some way.  Like they’re privy to information that no one else has.

    It’s delusional.

  • Tom

    What part of “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that ALL men are created EQUAL , that they are endowed by their creator with certain UNALIENABLE rights, that among them are LIFE, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” doesn’t Hasslebeck AND Obama understand.  

    I’ve been on this rock for 50 something years and government assignations were NEVER officially sanctioned like they have been recently.  Hasslebeck needs to pull herself out of conservative LA-LA land and really THINK about what the government is doing in her name.   

    Stop and think about it for a minute.  The SEALS killed a guy that they THOUGHT LOOKED like Bin Laden.  Then AFTER he was dead they confirmed it really was him.  Is that something that Hasslebeck REALLY wants our government doing?

    And may I add one last thing.  Why on Earth would you kill the head of the main terrorist organization you are fighting?  Think of the intelligence bonanza of taking him alive and interrogating him.  Then there is the propaganda win of putting him on trial for all the world to see.  So why wouldn’t you want to take him a live, and do those things?  I’ll tell you why, they wanted to shut him up permanently.  Don’t forget about his CIA years when he was fighting the Russians for us.  This was nothing more than the equivalent of a mob hit to shut him up.  Nothing more, and nothing less.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QUHVQAYNXIGIWZZWTHZ6W3YMBU Dean Jackson

    Actually that old man was not Osama, but Akhbar Han, which is why none of the male occupants in the compound were armed.

    http://www.therightperspective.org/2011/05/10/thats-not-osama-neighbor/

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PIDTFSPPIAKNJB4MW6SAQHYKIY Artist Three

    I would much rather have seen bin Laden brought to trial in US, the place of the crime, and the evidence brought forth, weighed by a jury and if found guilty, sentanced. That is real closure, after ten whole years of this crap. I don’t consider excecuting bin Laden terrorist style any kind of accomplishment or closure for the American people at all. Americans need closure. We need trials, we need to see the evidence against these terrorist individuals brought forward. But we never get them. Instead, we get Orwellian rhetoric: It’s this way because I say it is.

    What we DON’T need, are suspects held in cells for ten years without a hearing and a trial. We DON’T need suspects excecuted before any hearings and trials. And we certainly DON’T need people like Hasslebeck judging that certain people don’t deserve a trial, based on her personal opinion and not American law, ignoring basic Constitutional values all Americans were taught.

    Hasslebeck is a part time American, one who only believes in the principals of the Constitution when it fits her own personal opinion and the rest of the time just ignores the Constitution. A full time American is aware of the Constitution in all instances, even though their personal opinion doesn’t agree. That is a real American. I’m ashamed of people like Hasslebeck who claim to be American but spout “Ass Talk”….she is typical of most politicians today, only aware of themselves and their opinion, and not laws of the land. They don’t give a fig about laws.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PIDTFSPPIAKNJB4MW6SAQHYKIY Artist Three

    “Justice was done…..”………..Who’s justice? When?

    Justice = the constant and perpetual will to render to everyone his due……St. Thomas Aquinas

    Justice = Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere. ~ Dr. Martin Luther King

    Justice = It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered. ~Aristotle

    Justice = Nothing is to be preferred before justice. ~ Socrates

    True men seek not only for justice in the events that intimately affect them, but for the fair treatment of all, even strangers.
    “Justice is the ligament which holds civilized beings
    and civilized nations together,” said Daniel Webster

    “Justice is a habit whereby a man
    renders to each one his due with constant and perpetual will.”
    …Justinian’s Corpus Juris Civilis

  • Anonymous

    Rachel Maddow Show is historic, you know. It marks the first time television has allow a smart woman to host her own show. Smart women have, and continue to be, a rarity in television.  The dragons that  occupy shows like the View and the Talk are a insult to womanhood. Frankly, I don’t think there is a full brain between them. Barbara Wha Wha, who is credited with being some pioneer for women in broadcasting, is from a rich Hollywood family.  She is yet another born on third base- and thinks she hit a home run.

  • Anonymous

    shouldn’t her name be – ‘Elisabeth Glennbeck’?

  • HelenRainier

    OBL was not wanted for 9-11 but he was wanted for the 1991 (?) WTC bombing while Clinton was President.

  • H.P. Loathecraft

    So you are told. What evidence do you have? WH talking points and “news” accounts?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WWPOPFWZPWXI34IUVD56IMB2T4 johnathen

    Great Quote..I am actually named after Byron B. Johnson..strange coincidence!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WWPOPFWZPWXI34IUVD56IMB2T4 johnathen

    Great Quote..I am actually named after Byron B. Johnson..strange coincidence!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WWPOPFWZPWXI34IUVD56IMB2T4 johnathen

    Great Quote..I am actually named after Byron B. Johnson..strange coincidence!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WWPOPFWZPWXI34IUVD56IMB2T4 johnathen

    Great Quote..I am actually named after Byron B. Johnson..strange coincidence!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WWPOPFWZPWXI34IUVD56IMB2T4 johnathen

    Great Quote..I am actually named after Byron B. Johnson..strange coincidence!

  • Anonymous

    Imagine the gravitas we would have had with the world had we put Bin Laden on trial. We missed a great opportunity there. We miss them all the time. I’m kinda sick of all the missed opportunities to shine. The trouble with Hasselback’s stance is that once we start killing people like we did Bin Laden, it is a slippery slope indeed to having judge and jury be invested in the person holding the gun or making the decision to kill others and who knows where this line will be drawn. We are bigger than that. We are smarter than that. Taking the expedient way weakens us.

  • Anonymous

    “I do not have the time or patience to educated those who are willfully ignorant.”

    You forgot laboratory  viewed evidence, peer reviewed by real scientist and sworn under oath in the halls of truth. You see the truth is a eloquent expression of reallity. It does not take days or weeks to educate someone with no prior knowledge of the condition. Truth is precise and succinct.  In physics, E=M(C sqd) posits that mass and energy are of the same coin. It took Einstein years to mathematically prove the truth that is tough in one hour in a high school physics class!

    I rest well.

  • Anonymous

    I did respond, it’s apparent you that doesn’t ‘get the point’ 

  • Anonymous

    Not to the points made. A summary dismissal is not a response to the arguments made. Tell me who, where and what consequences would have been prepared to accept for the mental satisfaction of displaying the power of the empire?

  • Anonymous

    Ddid you even get the point that “justice” would be lost on the terrorist? Do you understand the showing off our court system would have ZERO effect upon Al Qeada?

    If your goal is self congratulation and aggrandizement of our oh so “fair” justice system you would be better served working to make it fair for all AMERICANS rich or poor than to have an ounce of angst over the killing of the leader of a known and proven international killing operation.

  • Anonymous

    The FBI did not want OBL for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. That’s all the public knew him for, the lies about his masterminding those attacks. The Taliban told Bush et. al. that if they had ANY evidence that OBL was involved in those attacks, they would turn him over to us. Our response was to invade Afghanistan (not provide proof).

    If he was there, and he probably was, he was killed instead of captured because our government knows full well he was a patsy. He lived (if he did) as long as he did, “hidden”, not because he was some great escape artist, but because we had a deal with him (much like when our agents met with him during one of his dialysis treatments a month before the attack).. I’m guessing Obummer decided he needed the political/advertising boost so he decided to take him out for the headlines.

    The wagging of the dog is so violent at present that soon the dog will die from the abuse. I’m just waiting to see how they spin that.

  • Anonymous

    Good point. It seems to me that immediately after 9/11 Bin Laden denied responsibility which I thought was strange for what was supposed to be his crowning achievement. He got back on message pretty fast.

  • http://independentnewshub.com/?p=44922 Michael Moore, Elisabeth Hasselbeck clash on ‘The View’ | Independent News Hub

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  • http://twitter.com/blabstar Michael Feeney

    Michael Moore is sane and correct. Eliz “no brains no clue” should shut up or make a stupid point, quickly. She is righteously stupid, man. Chics should be pissed off, her mouth is setting back the female cause decades. Eliz Ms. Dopey has no idea of what due process is, and by the way, where is the proof that Osama Bin Laden has had ANYTHING to do with 911 ever? Even the 1998 bombing? His involvement is State Department horsesh*t. Straw man nonsense. Who says he is not a puppet, a cut out so the military can be sent out to protect the widespread oil pillaging by select multinationals at taxpayer expense? Osama, yeah, Osama. He puts out a video or several of them which feature several versions of himself, and he claims that he is the 911 mastermind and that’s good enough? 911 wasn’t investigated as a crime. The FBI didn’t have him on the “most wanted” list. The whole horrible incident was reviewed by bogus Bush Appointees that sucked and failed, and wallowed. One more thing: Zelikow was tapped by Henry Kissinger to lead the joke, monkey party assembly. The whole thing stinks of elitist, false-flag BS. It’s what the Soviets or the Nazi’s are skilled in pulling off. Same thing here, but with hybrids. Moore is a good man. Elizabeth is an idiot. Poor Whoopi, she had to deal with that dumbsh*t week in and week out.

  • Anonymous

    WTF does that stupic blonde bitch know anything about anyway!!….She is nothing more than a fucking bimbo !!

  • Anonymous

    OBL was not on the FBI most wanted list: spin it however you like. Be sure to mislead and bring up something I never argued, okay?

  • Anonymous

    Evidently, you didn’t read the official 911 Commission report: The United flight pilot states to the control tower he HEARD COMMOTION in the AA flight while it was STILL ON RUNWAY…and them HIS transponder went off.

    First: get a clue, then try to debate me.

  • Anonymous

    TWOBILL replied to you
    “There were 141,200 Structural Architects registered in 2008, of which 1500 have signed a partition to have 911 reanalyzed while the remaining 199,700 did not sign or likely to sign. . That equates to 98.94% are some what satisfied with the current explanations of 911.”

    Now that is interesting, isn’t it? Before I caught you spreading disinformation, you labeled them “unregistered, non-existent”…now you ADMIT you’re a liar and they are licensed and registered: good going, thanks! You see…it is your SPECIFIC DISINFORMATION that gives you away, shill.

    Now you state the “others” prove you correct…really? Please provide link to THEIR website that so states, liar.

    It was a nice try though…TWOBRAINCELLS..but you see…evidence of explosives (found by Nobel Prize winning physicist) and physics do not change because you’d “like it to”, it is factual and real. THAT’S why the others haven’t come forward to support your THEORY of physics “taking a 9/11/01 holiday.”

    You bore me with your simplistic propaganda: is that the best DOD has to offer up? Or are you posting from Tel Aviv?

  • Anonymous

    “I’m not sure what you object to with your sarcastic repy?…Regardless of whether they were helped by our gov’t or simply ignored to allow the attacks to happen they had their own reasons….”

    My sarcastic “repy” to to point out your false framing: they weren’t “helped by our gov’t nor ignored: it was a treasonous attack by forces within. Nice try though…well..kinda…easily spotted.

    Are you alleging the “hijackers” also rigged the towers and WTC 7 with explosives to bring them down? Did they also shoot themselves down on Flt. 93?

    Sarcastic? Up yours…..this was treason…and I could care less if it huwts youw widdle feewings.

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