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    No wonder he rejected public funding

    Barack Obama agreed with John McCain to accept public funding...That is until he saw the tricks he could play.

    What do Bart Simpson, Family Guy, Daffy Duck, King Kong, O.J. Simpson, and Raela Odinga have in common?

    All are celebrities; and with the exception of Odinga and O.J. Simpson, they also are fictional characters. And yet, all of them gave money earlier this month to the campaign of Barack Obama, without any apparent effort by the campaign to screen them out as suspect donors.

    The Obama fundraising machine may owe its sensational success in part to a relaxation of standard online merchant security practices, which has allowed illegal donations from foreign donors and from unknown individuals using anonymous “gift” cards, industry analysts and a confidential informant tell Newsmax.

    He sure likes other peoples money!

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    Quote Originally Posted by mikenold View Post
    Barack Obama agreed with John McCain to accept public funding...That is until he saw the tricks he could play.

    What do Bart Simpson, Family Guy, Daffy Duck, King Kong, O.J. Simpson, and Raela Odinga have in common?

    All are celebrities; and with the exception of Odinga and O.J. Simpson, they also are fictional characters. And yet, all of them gave money earlier this month to the campaign of Barack Obama, without any apparent effort by the campaign to screen them out as suspect donors.

    The Obama fundraising machine may owe its sensational success in part to a relaxation of standard online merchant security practices, which has allowed illegal donations from foreign donors and from unknown individuals using anonymous “gift” cards, industry analysts and a confidential informant tell Newsmax.

    He sure likes other peoples money!

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    http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/oba...mo_code=6DD6-1
    No typical democrat likes to tax and spend with other people's money.

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    You're worried about the objectivity of factcheck.org but post stories from newsmax? Yikes.

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    Sounds like a smart move on Obama's part. Saved the tax payer some money too!
    "If you want to know what God thinks of money just look at the people he gave it to."

    By the way, what happened to biker? I miss the old coot.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dave338 View Post
    You're worried about the objectivity of factcheck.org but post stories from newsmax? Yikes.
    Prove me wrong, then I will agree with you.
    BTW: I wonder what factcheck has to say about it?
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    How can I prove you wrong? You did nothing but post someone else's words.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dave338 View Post
    How can I prove you wrong? You did nothing but post someone else's words.
    I posted the information to show what Barack Obama is all about. Prove the words are not true. You can't prove they are not true because they are true. If you can't prove otherwise, then don't question the post or try to discount what was posted!
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    Quote Originally Posted by dave338 View Post
    How can I prove you wrong? You did nothing but post someone else's words.
    it's called "refute"
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    I have no way of refuting what Newsmax has gotten through 'anonymous sources' and sources who 'ask not to be quoted by name.'

    And, I didn't question the story - I questioned how someone who would not trust a 'biased source' like factcheck.org has no problem believing newsmax, whose bias is evident from their front page:

    "Obama Buys the Election, Most Media Are Silent"
    "Obama Ignores Credit Card Donation Fraud"
    "Obama Would Regulate CO2 as a ‘Pollutant’"

    You have to admit that newsmax doesn't even pretend for a second to be unbiased.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dave338 View Post
    I have no way of refuting what Newsmax has gotten through 'anonymous sources' and sources who 'ask not to be quoted by name.'

    And, I didn't question the story - I questioned how someone who would not trust a 'biased source' like factcheck.org has no problem believing newsmax, whose bias is evident from their front page:

    "Obama Buys the Election, Most Media Are Silent"
    "Obama Ignores Credit Card Donation Fraud"
    "Obama Would Regulate CO2 as a ‘Pollutant’"

    You have to admit that newsmax doesn't even pretend for a second to be unbiased.
    all news is biased.
    First Amendment rights are like muscles, if you don't exercise them they will atrophy.

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    All news is biased because all people are biased. Not many news sources are 100% biased, like Newsmax is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dave338 View Post
    all news is biased because all people are biased. Not many news sources are 100% biased, like newsmax is.
    msnbc, fox!

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    Quote Originally Posted by dave338 View Post
    All news is biased because all people are biased. Not many news sources are 100% biased, like Newsmax is.
    Of course not
    First Amendment rights are like muscles, if you don't exercise them they will atrophy.

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    Thumbs up Media: gate keepers focus

    It's a provocative entertaining business. What gets to gate keepers and passes throught them and why is the focus of daily news. The most important is, "what's here for me?"

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    dave338:?
    Quote Originally Posted by mesue View Post
    Of course not
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