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Do you agree with President Barack Obama’s choice of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court? 
| Choice | Percent | Visual | Votes |
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| Yes | 43% | 303 | |
| No | 56% | 395 | |
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JeffLebowski (859 comments)posted 5 months, 14 days agoYou hate me cause you ain't me, pro. You'd love to be able to take things written here in stride but you just can't...they consume you. They don't consume me because everyone is entitled to an opinion, I understand and appreciate that; people like you despise this notion.
Perhaps you should try dabbling in pacifism...I, myself, once did so.
ProAmerican (1059 comments)posted 5 months, 14 days ago Volkswagon: peoples' car. Government paid youth camps. Forced slave labor (German Citizens) to build the Autobahn. Sensorship of tv, radio, movies, theater, NAZI: National Socialist Pary). Reminds me of modern "libs".
ProAmerican (1059 comments)posted 5 months, 14 days ago Jeff, I'm telling the truth and it's consuming you not I. How does it feel to be ripped off by rich white capitalists like George Soros and the Kennedys? The support Marxism and you fell for it!
cambridge (915 comments)posted 5 months, 14 days ago I wish these post were on video. I wouldn't want to miss the day ProMerkin's head exploded.
ProAmerican (1059 comments)posted 5 months, 14 days ago Cambridge can't complete with truth so he attempts to be funny at someone's expense. You're not funny, don't quit your day job.
JeffLebowski (859 comments)posted 5 months, 14 days ago pro, I picture you pacing nervously around your mother's basement blurting out words like "socialist" and "Soros" (I don't know who that is, btw), frantically wondering why Rush won't take your call even though you told his intern that you were a "long-time listener, 500th time caller."
You need to relax, my friend; see a movie or something, I heard "W." was pretty good...
ProAmerican (1059 comments)posted 5 months, 14 days ago W is a hate movie, no wonder you like it Jeff. Sorry, I'm a homeowner in Canfield and I earned everything I have. George Soros surely made fools of you libs, lol again. He is a rich, white, capitalist and you're one of his clueless minions. I bet you live in a dumpy government housing project in Youngstown or Campbell; its better than you deserve you mindless puppet. Say hello to the rats, players, dopers, pushers and other urban parasitical scum.
hope4thevalley (391 comments)posted 5 months, 14 days ago Boy do I feel sorry that we have people like PRO
that calls him/her self American .
JeffLebowski (859 comments)posted 5 months, 14 days ago Sounds like I hit a nerve...I'll say it again, I don't know who this George person is. See, I get the feeling you're not a very good listener -- it has clearly proven a real barrier to knowledge.
You're a homeowner? In Canfield? That’s pretty impressive, right? Perhaps...until I recall that I too am a homeowner in what one could strongly argue is a more affluent area than Canfield very far away from the Youngstown area.
You’ve made me feel a whole lot better about my situation, pro; THANKS! Keep hanging out in the basement for a while and stay out of museums for a while, there’s a standing APB out for crazies.
DoctorGonzo (725 comments)posted 5 months, 14 days ago You didn't expalin how the Constituion was not legislation.
Every human being who went to law school or practiced in traffic court knows how the system works, hell most people who watch cable know how the system works.
How can someone who makes an inherently racial statement, as she did, and let's keep the discussion to her now, be expected to interpret the law and not steer it?
She is an activist waiting to happen and she will not be alone on the bench, but a spade is a spade.
Right, right, right, right, twist, right, twist, wrong, appease, wrong, right, right, quail, right, right, fail, wrong, twist, wrong again, beer
ProAmerican (1059 comments)posted 5 months, 14 days ago Jeff, for you information, George Soros in a billionaire white male capitalist who brags about having a great crisis getting even richer. He finances Marxists organizations and Marxists like Barack Hussein Obama and his behind the scene bosses into falling into his trap. And you fell into it. Meanwhile Soros is laughing at useful idiots like you all the way to the bank.
cambridge (915 comments)posted 5 months, 14 days ago ProMerkin....I thought you lived in a Red state. You must have gone nuts when Ohio turned blue. Put Obama over the top. Thanks for that.
And you earned everything you have? Now that's pretty impressive. The rest of us, you know the one's that don't agree with you, we got everything for free. We didn't work for a thing. Somebody just gave us everything we have. I'm going to have to just keep disagreeing with you, I wouldn't want all the free stuff to stop.
JeffLebowski (859 comments)posted 5 months, 14 days ago pro, thanks for the clarification(?)...but if I don't even know who he is how is he laughing at me? If I don't know who he is how am I falling into his trap? What is his trap?
On second thought things aren't all that much clearer...because you're a rambling, crazy person.
My compliments to cambridge, especially the merkin bit.
ProAmerican (1059 comments)posted 5 months, 14 days ago The trap. You claim to own an upscale home in an upscale area superior to Canfield? Wake up; the rich white Marxists who believe in capitalism just for themselves and Obama will raise your real estate taxes, utility bills, etc. Hyperinflation; because the socialist government is printing conterfeit money! That's what Marxists do. Maybe you can share your home with the less unfortunate or the homeless. After all, you have more than you need. karl Marx said "each according to his needs". Obama's bosses are Marxists so look out. Didn't he say he is considering a extra $.10 per/gallon of gasoline? How about taxing company paid health insurance? That's on the table too. Do you like being forced to drive a clown car? I bet you don't but get used to all my predictions. No wonder Lenin called Leftos living in the west useful idiots!
ProAmerican (1059 comments)posted 5 months, 14 days ago Hey Hope, Yes I'm proud to be an American. What does America mean to you; being a wimpy coward begging the government to feed, clothe and educate them and their children? Too gutless to defend yourselves and family against criminals and our enemies?
hope4thevalley (391 comments)posted 5 months, 14 days ago Dear pro not that it's any of your business but since you brought it up . My family has fought in almost every war that this great country has fought in. The first was in the Revolutionary War and then we fought in the Civil War. Two of us were in the World War 1 and 6 of us were in World war 2 . I was in the service for 10 years . We have 3 of our family in Arlendton. So I think calling me and my famiily cowards just shows how low rightwings nut will go.
ProAmerican (1059 comments)posted 5 months, 14 days ago I'm not discrediting your brave patriotic ancestors; do you think they would be proud of you? It's Arlington.
hope4thevalley (391 comments)posted 5 months, 14 days ago YES YOU DO YOU DISCREDIT AMERICA WITH YOUR HATE
SORRY ABOUT THE SPELLING IT WAS SO NICE OF YOU THE POINT IT OUT AND MAKE ME FEEL BAD
JeffLebowski (859 comments)posted 5 months, 14 days ago First of all I will never have more than I need, that's not what America is all about.
Secondly it would seem somewhat strange to open my home to the "less unfortunate," wouldn't it? Perhaps your manic/delusional/nonsensical whimsy got the better of you and you worded that improperly...though, perhaps not.
Third, I never said "superior," I said "more affluent." There is a difference -- a profound one, in fact.
Fourth, your wild and baseless claims about counterfeit money and modern Marxism further illustrate what was painfully obvious earlier in your chain of posts -- you are a crazy person. Crazy to the extent that I fully expect your next post to mention how you've invented a product called "seven minute abs."
Stan (2568 comments)posted 5 months, 14 days ago Where is all the free stuff Cambridge? I can't seem to find any.
ProAmerican (1059 comments)posted 5 months, 14 days ago Wow, it's fun making fools of all you libs all by myself! Jeff is a ghetto dweller pretending to be a somebody but is just a nobody; a mind is a terrible thing to develop. All you libs are gutless and fearful of honest debate. Confuse a lib; use facts and they go off on you.
Stan (2568 comments)posted 5 months, 14 days ago Jeff gets confused all on his own. He needs no help.
ProAmerican (1059 comments)posted 5 months, 14 days ago Jeff, how do you exchange food stamps for cash at Arab grocery stores since it became computerized (the card). Do you losers still use them to fence whatever you steal? How many times have you been arrested and for what crimes; how much time have you spent in jail? Do you stay in the Campbell ghetto at times when you're not incarscerated? How many illegimate children do you have? Do you know your father?
JeffLebowski (859 comments)posted 5 months, 14 days ago This country is indeed a confusing place, this much we can agree upon. pro has presented literally no facts; I really haven't, either but acknowledge that freely rather than asserting otherwise.
What is truly fun is watching people confuse common sense for liberalism (I don't consider myself liberal or conservative, I didn't even voice an opinion on Judge S.) and confuse baseless opinion with fact (insistence on such things as the government minting counterfeit money with no proof...interesting "facts" to be certain). "Rich, white people" take heed -- someone in CANFIELD has you all figured out.
A confusing place, indeed.
ProAmerican (1059 comments)posted 5 months, 14 days ago Jeff, liberism is the opposite of common sense. You are living proof. Are you using a computer at a library or did you steal one? You don't need the conterfeit money the Fed is printing; you have "the card".
JeffLebowski (859 comments)posted 5 months, 14 days ago I'll play along, pro.
1.) No public assistance, wasn't actually aware cards were being used...you may have presented a fact!
2.) No stealing or fencing
3.) No arrests/jail time
4.) See above, also I don't know if I've ever even been to Campbell
5.) No illegit children, in great part because both your wife and mother insist on swallowing (at least for me, that is)
6.) I do know my father
That is all.
ProAmerican (1059 comments)posted 5 months, 14 days ago Jeff, How's you wife and my kids? Oh I forgot, you mama is yo wife.
JeffLebowski (859 comments)posted 5 months, 13 days ago That was weak, pro.
ProAmerican (1059 comments)posted 5 months, 13 days ago Jeff, we shouldn't play the dozens; it's filthy.
cambridge (915 comments)posted 5 months, 3 days ago papmaffia.....Sonia Sotomayor is Puerto Rican. The last time I checked Puerto Rico was an American territory. You are clearly a racist and I expect your post to be removed. I wish it would stay up so everyone could see what kind of low lifes walk among us.
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Seems like a very nice lady, but that doesn't mean you earn my approval.
Everyone knows this was a political move to win Latino votes. It helped for a few days in the Rasmussen Daily Tracking Poll when the Index went out to +10, but today it fell to his worst of his entire time in office: 0.
34% of Americans Strongly Approve of Obama.
34% of Americans Strongly Disapprove of Obama.
She has made the statement that Latinas make better judges than white men at least eight times. Was she lying all those times, or does she believe in racial and gender superiority? Either way, she should not be a justice of the highest Court in the nation.
I would welcome a Latina, just not a rascist one.
And oh yeah, 2/3 of her decisions were deemed faulty by the US Supreme Court and overturned.
Of couse, she'll be approved by the Senate because the People's Republic of America now has what Youngstown has enjoyed for decades...one party rule.
Since it seems that this administration seems to be all about race, quotas, diversity crap and all that, maybe Obama's next court appointment could be a female, Jewish, black, lesbian, Native American, married to a Buddist, with mixed race kids. Then we can just get this stuff out of the way with just one more appointment and get down to business.
If the white man isn't very wise; how has he dominated the world for the past 6,000 years?
Its an ongoing plot to dumb down the society. If your smart, apply yourself, get ahead, make your way in the world, study, use common sense, be responsible, treat people fairly, save your money, live and work with ethical and/or religious standards, your a target to be screwed with by the Obamunisn group. The Bible said that the meek shall inherit the earth. WRONG, at least in America 2009. It's the dirtbags, irresponsible, whiners, lazy, slug drones, and bottom feeders that will inherit what you only thought you had.
It is easier to rule the unmotivated and uneducated, especially if they're dependent on the government.
The DNC strategy of expanding entitlements and government dependence has paid off. They now have a secured voting block that will ensure their power over the subjects of the People's Republc of America indefinitely (or at least as long as the PRA exists).
Once there was an America that understood the value of an ambitious and hard working citizenry. Our children and grandchildren will read about it like they would the Renaissance or Stone Age.
Judge Sotomayor has had 1.3% of her decisiions overturned. Of all her rulings only 5 have been heard by the Supreme Court. As to her statement that would indicate her ethnicity would influence her decision making we need only look at Judge Alito's words; "When looking at cases of descrimination..I only have to look back to my own family's treatment when it comes to ethnicity and religion." I believe he was a Bush appointment.
I do not yet have enough data to support Judge Sotomayor but I cannot allow the far left or far right to influence my thought process. The Limbaughs and Moores of the world make their money by creating controversy and driving wedges through distortion of the facts and outright lies. My sympathy to those that allow them to do their thinking for them.
There is no such thing as a neutral perspective. Everyone's race, gender, and background influence the way they interpret and perceive the world. But America's white, Western European ethnocentrism has recast that particular perspective as normative, which unfairly labels all other perspectives as non-normative.
Sotomayer's Hispanic heritage has no more or no less influence on her than Kennedy's or Ginsberg's, or Breyer's or Robert's whiteness has on them. However, white people often ignore the fact that not everyone shares the same life experiences, nor do we acknowledge the legitimacy of any other perspective, so when someone points out that their ethnicity allows them to look at things differently, we automatically assume that is a negative thing.
With any luck, Sotomayer's appointment will mark the beginning of a Court that more closely resembles the actual demographics of the country, rather than another arm of the Good ol' Boys network that has dominated U.S. for far too long.
There would be NO America without white Europeans. Do you seriously believe America would have materialized through the efforts of "native Americans? Impossible. White Europeans created a much better world than anyone else could have imagined.
C'mon ProMerkin, just say "Seig Heil!" and be done with it. No point in staying in the closet.
"Better" is a relative term. Please define what you mean by "better world." I most definitely can imagine a "much better world."
Great comments City_Dweller. I especially appreciate your opinions on our ethnocentricity. You hit the nail on the head. An Hispanic friend commented to me recently, "Stupid Americans, they don't know anything about anything except themselves." That's a sad commentary about an attitude that has us playing cultural catch-up with the rest of the world.
The Quail
SEIG HEIL! Sounds like La Raza to me. I bet minorities and foreigners are laughing at you.
Quail and City are right. Sensible, non-bigoted people are laughing at you, Pro.
Conservatives are funny.
Jeff, I'm no bigot; I'm just giving you the facts. Ever hear of Aristotle, Da Vinci, Columbus, Washington, Einstein, Churchill? Can you imagine a world without any one of them?
No appointment of anyone to a public body should be based on some ethnocentric view of the world. It would be nice to think that the very best minds are searched out, evaluated and then recommended for the court or other high ranking government positions. We have degenerated to the point where the moronic population thinks that every board, court, committee or commission has to be comprised of a fractional percentage of every off the wall ethnic group or national origin. The population has truly been dumbed down and going even further in that direction. Just look at the sterling Cabinet appointments we have, or the scumbag politician we have at all levels.
"Do you seriously believe America would have materialized through the efforts of "native Americans? Impossible."
With guns and smallpox all things are possible.
"Ever hear of Aristotle, Da Vinci, Columbus, Washington, Einstein, Churchill? Can you imagine a world without any one of them?"
No tot mention: Hitler, Stalin, Mengele, Bonaparte, Caligula, Cheney, Mussolini
I love the fact that ProMerkin and his little buddies post what they post. Come election time those post will go along way in helping people decide who to vote for. Keep em coming.
Who defeated Hitler, Stalin, Mengele, Bonaparte, Caliglia, Cheney?, Mussolini? The white European. Who cure smallpox, not a witch doctor. Yes bow, arrows and spears are no match for firearms.
As with everything else Hussein has been completely screwing up - now its a mad rush to confirm this Latino woman. Everything with Hussein is a rush.....he's a fraud and a disgrace to all the men and woman who have given their lives for the freedom of this country. He knows he will get caught eventually. I'm still praying, as the truth is just around the corner.
WHERE'S THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE....
Synopsis
Race. You know it at a glance: he's black; she's white. They're Asian; we're Latino. Racism. I'm better; she's worse. Those people do those kinds of things. We all know it's wrong to make these judgments, but they come faster than thought. Why? Where did those feelings come from? Why are they so powerful?
Rock-et....Obama was born in Hawaii. Pretty much everyone but you and Sarah Palin know that's in the United States. Were you too in the same geography class?
If Barack Hussein Obama were born in Hawaii, Why doesn't he produce his birth certicate? John McCain did. All you socialists demanded he do it.
Wow, talk about tunnel vision. We can't even begin to fathom what other cultures would have developed into if given the chance. They were massacred and slaughtered in the name of European superiority, yes, because guns were more powerful and Europeans couldn't wait to prove that power. People of other cultures were considered inhuman and soulless. Native Americans and Africans challenged everything 16th and 17th-century Western Europeans knew to be true about the human race, and we are still fighting to correct the consequences of that fear and hatred today.
But with regards to Sotomayer, the bottom line is Obama could have nominated Rush Limbaugh (heaven help us) and Republicans would still criticize the choice. It's the nature of the beast. Republicans will hate whoever a Democrat nominates, and vice versa. Dems were none too keen on either Alito or Roberts. But the court needs an even balance of liberal and conservative justices in order to function as it should. Having nine Scalias would be just as disastrous as having nine Ginsbergs. Sotomayer adds diversity and perspective to a court that is sorely lacking those qualities. And while some people don't value those qualities, many of us who don't fit into the white, male, middle-class, heterosexual, college-educated, suburban paradigm that dominates GOP and even "American" discourse hold diversity very dear. And that does not make our perspective inconsequential. But it is still wildly under-represented, and yes, working to change that is a big priority.
City_Dweller, talk about uncivilized, ever hear of Idi Imen, the Mongels, the genocide in Africa by Africans? Muslims enslaving blacks? Why do you have a guilt complex?
City Dweller- you sound like you should be writing for Keith Olberman, and I mean that with as much insult as is sounds like.
You seem to think you understand the high courts but I do not believe you do, not to mention many of the other posters to this question.
Everyone should try reading the actual Constitution itself before they configure mini diatribes about who should be on the Supreme Court. For those who do not know, the Constitution was written a long, long time ago and it isb the founding piece of legislation that inherently governs our country, which is the USA, or to most: the place where you sleep, work and drink starbucks in.
Yay team.
C'mon! I threw the Cheney bait in there and NO ONE took it. Geez, can't have any fun with you tighty righties.
"Who defeated Cheney? The white European."
That's right ProAmerican. We defeated Cheney.
This is for ProAmerican:
http://www.opaquelucidity.com/facepalm.j...
I put a question mark after Cheney's name. Didn't you see it? White Europeans saves millions of starving Africans. Also from disease, poverty, thirst and genocide.
ah.... well I was hoping for more frothing at the mouth I suppose. Glad to see you did catch it. I was starting to wonder...
You defeated yourselves if you voted for Barack Hussein Obama; even a liberal like McCain would have been a wiser choice.
cambridge posted: I love the fact that ProMerkin and his little buddies post what they post. Come election time those post will go along way in helping people decide who to vote for. Keep em coming.
On a previous thread cambridge stated that people write in to the San Francisco Examiner BEGGING to have their taxes raised. No, the people that want taxes raised are those that either pay no taxes or get everything back at the end of the year. The same people that got stimulus checks and never paid any taxes.
These videos will explain the mentality of the Obama voters and why cambridge's words about the next election are probably true. Cambridge has not figured out that he needs to work hard and pay a lot of taxes , a lot of free loaders are depending on him!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P36x8rTb3...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyvqhdllX...
Conservatives are funny.
Judge Sotomayor has a deep and varied record, is well respected, and seems to have what it takes to navigate within our legal system. I think she'd be an excellent choice for Supreme Court Justice.
It's a shame that the neo-cons spend so much time focusing on one remark she made some time ago. The good news is that that's all they've got on her. I think she'll be seated.
DoctorGonzo: I have read the Constitution and see nothing in City_Dweller's mini diatribe[sic] that contradicts it in any way. Could you please clarify?
Or perhaps your comments stem from the fact that you consider the document to be "legislation." Don't worry, we won't hold your arrogant, condescending attitude against you just because you got it wrong. We're used to it.
The Quail
The Constitution is not legislation? Please explain how it is not legislation.
Your line about "navigating within the legal system" itself shows that you do not understand the judical branch and its duties as assigned by the Constitution. You expect her to steer rather than interpret the law. That is not what the founders intended for that branch, that's what they wanted the legislature to do. The same group that helped write the Constitution.
You want someone who represents society better? Then elect a better congress person or senator, that is where people who believe their background makes them full of empathy belong: not on the high court.
Interpretting the law is not the same as creating it.
It's OK, I am arrogant and condescending and you are weak and appeasing, to each their own.
This kind of hate is just what happened in DC today
THANK YOU BECK, RUSH, BUSH, CHENEY,GOP, Pro American, and the rest of you right wing nuts
THANK YOU
DoctorGonzo,
I do NOT expect her to "steer rather than interpret the law." The role of a judge is to interpret, not steer. I said that she knows how to "navigate within the legal system." This means that she has experience and knows the system. Twisting my words makes you look foolish . . . you should refrain from doing so.
I do NOT want someone "who represents society better." I'm not sure where you came up with that gem. I don't care one whit whether she represents society. I do care that she inteprets the law in a fair, unbiased way.
Wrong on both counts my friend . . . care to try again? You're bound to get something right . . . sooner or later.
A question: Who have I advocated "appeasing?" I don't recall doing so. Or . . . could you be wrong yet again?
The Quail
Hey you lefties; hatred is ripping an unborn baby, a human being from it's mother by a greedy, sicko "doctor". That's hatred and torture. You lefties fear the truth so much you pretend it doesn't exist.
I just love it when the Rightwing nuts prove my point
THANK YOU
KEEP THE HATE COMING SO EVERYBODY CAN SEE IT OUT IN THE OPEN
lol @ hope4thevalley
I agree, It's awesome! It's like a laundry list of all the causes of the republicans losing power.
The more their values and views are expressed the less any candidate they endorse will be taken seriously. I can't wait for those 2012 Republican debates and primaries.
Left wing nut jobs Rev. Wright, William Ayers, Air, Castro, David Letterman, Chavez, America. The GOP lost power because it became liberal. All you lefties fear the truth; that's why you want to silence talk radio and secret union ballot elections. Conservatives don't silence you lefties because you reveal your bigotry to be seen and heard.
More leftie haters, Adolph Hitler (NAZIS, NATIONAL SOCIALISTS)! The Unabomber, another leftie, the nut who ambushed the Jewish Center yesterday, another National Socialist. The Muslim whom the left loves who recently murdered a US soldier. Leftie William Ayers, Communist terrorist, stated in the early 1970's that 25M capitalists must be exterminated! Don't forget Pol Pot, Khmer Rouge (Communist) murdering 2M Cambodians. Stalin, responsible for 62M murderers, Lenin, Trotsky to name a few.
ProMerkin . . .Did you forget to take your medicine again!?!?
You'd better pace yourself . . . we're only six months into the Obama adminstration and you're already close to a heart attack! You've got another 7½ years to go for god's sake! Slow down man!
You're pretty good at compiling lists of names. I could do the same with a list of right wing lunatics, but I won't, because realize that it would be a waste of time.
You see . . . not all liberals even remotely resemble the people you list. Unfortunately, you will never understand that the vast majority of us are nothing like the stereotypes to which you try to assign us. We are normal, hard-working people . . . not the monsters you try to make us out to be.
And, similarly, not all neo-cons are like you, so what good would it do me to compile such a list? Most are good, decent people who happen to embrace a political philosophy different from mine. It's only the fanatics like you who put a bad face on the conservative movement.
Keep up the good work though . . . people like you will go a long way toward ensuring Obama's re-election. Simply put . . . I don't like you, but my party needs you. So, as you were soldier!
The Quail
Propaganda. Conservatives are funny.
Quail, why do you leftos hate and fear freedom? Did I tell one lie; of course I'm a conservative, not a neo con. Just like you losers aren't libs, just lefto liars. Jeff, I bet you don't even know the defination of propaganda unless you look it up, lol. The real hate and paranoia is on the left. PS, Hitler was a socialist, a leftie.
"Hitler was a socialist"
Evidence?
Actually I'm pretty familiar with the definition of propaganda. I'll try to stop throwing big words around when posting for your benefit though...I forgot that conservatives try to keep it monosyllabic (there I go again – sorry, that means "one-syllable").
lol.
Hitler was a socialist. Evidence: (NAZI) National Socialist Party. A racist, socialist union. Jeff is a pseudo-intellectual who has been hoodwinked by the big business lefties like George Soros and the white trash Kennedys.
Don't worry about Jeff. We're all Pseudo intellectuals here. Some more so than others. However, please read some basics on what nazism actually is...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_So...
I just heard Rush repeat the same falsehood that you just did ProAmerican not even 90 minutes ago...