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Halloween surprise? Daily Kos terrifies with satire (Kim Davis moving to Asheville)
Wednesday, 04 November 2015 14:10
By JEFF MESSER
Special to the Daily Planet

Jeff Messer is the host of a daily radio talk show on Asheville’s WPEK (880-AM, The Revolution) that airs from 3 to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. This column features posts from his daily blog.

The following was posted on Oct. 15:

Want a fright? Well, then check out this article on the DailyKos: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/15/1432770/-Kim-Davis-Announces-Move-to-Asheville-NC#

Yes, it is a story about Kim Davis, Morehead, Kentucky’s plucky Goldy clerk who loves her some Jesus but hates some of God’s little children (precious in his sight or not), announcing plans to move with her husband Jethro (sorry, I don’t know his real name) to Asheville. 

Come swim in the cesspool of sin!

Jerry Nelson has written a sharp article, full of well-places satirical points that I applaud! And, fear not, it is revealed in the end that this is just satire. 

But, even knowing that it all turns out OK in the end should not stop you from reading this fine piece that sends up a not so fine piece of something from the hills of Kentucky.

 

The following was posted on Oct.19:

 

Clinton email hell threatens to burn down Colin Powell

Oh, the vast right-wing conspiracy to get Hillary Clinton on something. Anything. And you know, she must be hiding all her potions and witches brews in her massive secret emails, right? Whatever it is that will destroy her from being the first woman president in the U.S., surely. Right?

Well, as the Congressional Committee that has been dogging her for those emails are getting all they wished for, and more that they wished they could shove back in the toothpaste tube.

As for the later, a recently unearthed secretary of state email reveals plans for the Iraq invasion almost a full year before it actually happened, and in stark contradiction to the accepted narrative that has been used for years by the Bush administration and the Blair administration in the U.K.

Ah, yes, the email server actually has emails from previous secretaries of state, too! And this one is a whopper from the desktop of Colin Powell, who may now no longer be able to pretend he ducked out in 2004 as a man of too-high integrity for the shenanigans of the W team.

Powell, helped prep W for his first Blair meeting in Crawford, Texas, in early April 2002. And Powell is talking an awful lot in the email as if the invasion of Iraq that would come just shy of a year later was a done deal, and Blair was on board, and could help sell it where W would stumble.

Blair looked a little like Hugh Grant and talked a lot like Roger Moore. How could we not be swooned by him?

This story broke over the weekend all over the U.S. press, but the real breakout story on it was from the U.K.’s Daily Mail, which gave play-by-play coverage of the email, and charted what each sentence meant. Detail that is lost on the U.S. media, for sure.

It is worth spending some time examining this, as it is the confirmation of what a lot of us have long held to be true: W and company committed war crimes, and should be held accountable.

Obama refused to follow up on such things, wanting to move on. And it looks like the only real evidence and break through that could seal the fate of the last GOP leader, as well as the string of hopefuls to be next came from the person they love to hate the most (close tie with Obama): Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Careful what you wish for GOP.

Here’s the UK Daily Mail link:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3277402/Smoking-gun-emails-reveal-Blair-s-deal-blood-George-Bush-Iraq-war-forged-YEAR-invasion-started.html#ixzz3osf7ulen

For contrast, here’s how the US is covering it:

http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/hillary-clintons-emails-reveal-that-george-w-bush-committed-treason/22854/

http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/clinton-emails-bush-blair/2015/10/17/id/696750/

And thus far, the mainstream media here hasn’t touched the story, despite the Internet erupting with it.

Go figure.

 



 


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