79 - Lying Or Just Plain Ignorant? Bill O'Reilly Misleads His Audience, Part I: Iraq / Bush Health Care Plan Is A Typical Right-Wing Scam (audio)


Today we're going to start a series entitled "Lying Or Just Plain Ignorant? Bill O'Reilly Misleads His Audience." Part I will be about Iraq. Included will be, some effective responses when you hear misinformation like that disseminated by O'Reilly.

Did you know, for example, that 72% of US troops in Iraq said last February they should be withdrawn within one year, whether or not the mission is complete?

Also: Bush's new health care proposal will be put under the Blast The Right microscope and come out much the worse for the wear.

Bush's plan won't help 9 out of 10 Americans without health care insurance. But it will give another tax break to upper income Americans.

(PS: Right-wingers, if you want to write in to me, fine, but at least do me the courtesy of listening to the podcast first. Please don't respond just on the basis of the brief written summary above. Thanks!)

Jack Clark       4:05 PM [+] 0 comments
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78 - Case Study, Ecuador: Listen To Martin Luther King And Learn How To Get On The Correct Side Of The World Revolution (audio)

Martin Luther King, Jr. proclaimed on April 4, 1967:

A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say, "This is not just." It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of South America and say, "This is not just."

Martin Luther King understood that we and the other Western nations need to radically change our behavior all over the world, including South America.

Today we'll discuss one such place in South America where we progressives need to make America stand on the correct side of the world revolution -- or more realistically, at least prevent our country from actively supporting the wrong side.

That place is Ecuador.

You may be thinking, Ecuador? Who knows anything about that country?

Exactly what I would have said, a short time ago.

Just like a relatively short time ago, very few of us knew the difference between a Shiite and a Sunni. But we learned, because it became exceedingly relevant.

If you want to understand how to be in solidarity with the struggling poor of the world, you need to know about places like Ecuador.

(PS: Right-wingers, if you want to write in to me, fine, but at least do me the courtesy of listening to the podcast first. Please don't respond just on the basis of the brief written summary above. Thanks!)

Jack Clark       3:35 PM [+] 0 comments
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