By Konservo (aka Mr. President)
Here at ThinkProgress Watch, we like provide readers with a diverse range of perspectives. It turns out that Trajan and I both have written posts about TP’s on-going struggle to acquire factual information about reality, a task which they rarely, if ever, manage to succeed.
Rachel Maddow, a nobody who pinch-rants for Olby, screwed up just as Olby himself would have, namely, by lifting material from the Clinton/Soros propaganda machine and Left-wing hate-site ThinkProgress.
The Weekly Standard’s Michael Goldfarb explains that: Think Progress Screws Up Again, and indeed, we can assume this is true without even reading the blog, but it would be imprudent to dismiss the radical Leftists who write there merely because of the consistency with which they post lies and propaganda, defying reason, reality, and truth.
Goldfarb states:
Last week Think Progress blogger Amanda accused John McCain of plagiarizing a speech from Admiral Timothy Ziemer only to retract the story hours later.
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Today she runs a story about North Carolina Rep. Patrick McHenry under the headline: “Rep. McHenry calls U.S. soldier in Iraq a ‘two-bit security guard.’”
Well, it isn’t true. Think Progress provides the video, but at no point does McHenry indicate that the “security guard” is an American soldier. In fact, if Amanda had bothered to call McHenry’s office, she would have learned that the security guard was one of the foreign contractors so reviled by the left–an individual who in any other circumstance Amanda would likely label a “mercenary.”
Mr. Goldfarb, your naïveté is almost charming.
No, Amanda does not label the security guard a mercenary. Instead she does as she and her fellow goons at TP are instructed, namely, spew propaganda at all costs and, if caught red-handed, to do her best to mitigate responsibility for the fabrication, exaggeration, and/or misinformation she posted.
The foreign contractor a despised mercenary at TP? Nay, Mr. Goldfarb, for it is the author herself who unscrupulously proffers in her own defense a point raised at ‘right-wing’ blog HotAir.com, thus, we see a woman deficient in moral principle and lacking the novelty to slither her own way out of the mess in which she finds herself. It is she who is to be despised by men and women of integrity.
Amanda spouts her pathetic apologetic:
Michael Goldfarb reports that the “two-bit security guard” was a foreign contractor, not a member of the military, as both Carolina Politics and Lance Sigmon originally reported. As Ed Morrissey states, “Does this really make it any better? After all, the contractors risk their lives as well, albeit for better compensation.”
Source: TP
So, Mr. Goldfarb, it is not wise to write-off ThinkProgress because of screw-ups like this, and being wrong about McCain, and being wrong about Iran, and being wrong about Spitzer, and being wrong about right-wing reactions to Laura Bush visiting the Middle East… and, well, just being wrong in general. For the ruthless, guerrilla-blogging tactics with which TP operates depend not upon any factual information.
Know Thine Enemy
avideditor
16 responses so far ↓
trajan75 // April 5, 2008 at 11:48 pm
This is great! I gonna put it at the top!
trajan75 // April 5, 2008 at 11:55 pm
This also proves that Think Progress headlines just go to Olbermann’s telepropmpter. Even Rachel Maddow just read what was in front of her. MSNBC are puppets.
Yogi Barrister // April 6, 2008 at 12:27 am
You’re hilarious Trajan. Rachel Maddow is a “nobody” ? So what does that make a queer, wet douche like McHenry?
Yogi Barrister // April 6, 2008 at 12:29 am
What an odd little piece of rightwing nuttia this website is. Konservo is a twatwaffle.
konservo // April 6, 2008 at 12:53 am
Thanks, Trajan!
Yogi Barrister,
Like a typical leftist, you start babbling when you know you’ve been exposed.
Yogi Barrister // April 6, 2008 at 1:41 am
Who was exposed? Certainly not you. Rachel Maddow has a huge national following, and is unquestionably the best on air debater going. She chews up little shits like Pat Buchanan and spits them out . You on the other hand, really are a nobody.
And that teeny-tiny, chickenshit, queer, wet douche Patrick McHenry is your representative, if not in Congress, your political persuassion. I won’t comment further, lest I attract readers to this jerkwater corner of the blogosphere.
IncompetentRomanEmperor // April 6, 2008 at 2:32 am
How dare anyone say that this site is a “jerkwater corner of the blogosphere.” This site is the best right-wing parody site on the web.
Take that you Jihadist/Stalinist/Liberal/AntiAmerican twit.
Conservodroid // April 6, 2008 at 2:32 am
You guys crack me up. Who writes your schtick?
Trajanwasalousyemperor // April 6, 2008 at 2:34 am
Yeah, bunch of stalinists/effete lefties. Let’s get em’, boys!
TPWatch: Know Thine Enemy « Dj Konservo // April 6, 2008 at 1:10 pm
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avideditor // April 6, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Is it just me or have they toned down now because they know they are being watched. I was looking for something to post on and although I found a bunch of lefty propaganda but they where not gloating over the death of our troops as usual.
Yogi Barrister // April 6, 2008 at 11:44 pm
I love how the nitwits in rightwing world are using McHenry’s despicable gaffe to try and discredit THINK PROGRESS. I repeat, Konservo is a twatwaffle, slathered with margarine, dripping with corn syrup.
Yogi Barrister // April 6, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Avideditor, you think the folks at THINK PROGRESS give two shits if rightwing morons are watching them?
Go to this website and discover that 60 of the 272 criminals listed here are pedophiles. McHenry is probably a pedophile as well. The Republican Party- Short Men With Short Eyes!
http://www.republicanoffenders.com/
avideditor // April 7, 2008 at 12:22 am
wow yogi you can call people names. Why don’t you address the issues.
Liberals are sad individuals // April 7, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Left wingers are funny.
Left wingers have been attacking the private security forces that have won a contract and gone to Iraq to fight and protect diplomats, Iraqi government civilians, etc.
Now TP first gets McHenry story wrong and then this clown Rachel, who in the past has attacked these private security forces calling them amoral and merceneries, says McHenry was still wrong because this individual is also risking his life.
While I agree that these private security forces are risking their lives as much as an American soldier, while I agree that McHenry should not have said what he said, the hypocrisy on the left is pathetic.
They have attacked these private security forces, called them amoral, illegal, merceneries, etc, etc, and now they get angry because someone on the Republican side did what the left has been doing for years?!
truly sad and leave it to the crazy Liberals to insult and spew hate instead of addressing the issues. How Liberal of them.
konservo // April 7, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Not only that, but they cite Ed Morrisey from HotAir (a more conservative blog).
It’s truly unbelievable.
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