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How Goldsmith tries the Filner case on TV
Don, the fact is that political rhetoric in America has gone deranged, using Goebbels' Manual of Propaganda with increasing frequency since Obama won his first election after which Mitch McConnell announced that his paramount goal for the GOP is to destroy Obama's presidency. This explains why Manchester lusts after something like a Goebbels Prize For Political Propaganda to gain great GOP political power. That's why the Manchester cancer is metastasizing to other states. It's the classical strategy of Money and Power Vs. We The People that has destroyed democracies clear back to Ancient Athens.— August 18, 2013 11:54 a.m.
How Goldsmith tries the Filner case on TV
Don, thanks for your great investigative reporting. Indeed, the U-T is a cheap tabloid in comparison. Manchester lusts after Murdoch's reputation for checkout stand tabloid quality that gave him so much political power in Great Britain. That's why the U-T Editorial Board is now infamous for their deranged rant style that is astoundingly worse than the Copley style. Manchester's Barbie Doll U-T TV and his Playboy parties are giving him quite a reputation so it is no surprise that Goldsmith is one of his puppets, and that they are both at least as socially unacceptable as Filner. There are a lot of shattered glass houses.— August 18, 2013 10:39 a.m.
How Goldsmith tries the Filner case on TV
Diogenes, indeed there is a hellaciously long list of crimes against humanity throughout the world that is overwhelming if not destroying our civilization. Relative to never-ending crimes against women, on August 4 Professor Diane Winston of the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism published an Opinion in the L.A. Times on “Pope Francis’ woman problem” where she documented some problems that women have relative to the church, but I submit that these problems actually go far beyond religion involving worldwide social and cultural failures. Specifically, Prof. Winston states that far too many women around the world are “neglected, disenfranchised and marginalized” enabling “sexism, misogyny and exploitation” resulting in “global reverberations in unwanted pregnancies, female poverty and sexual slavery.” This is the reality of what we are dealing with today, and Mayor Filner is just one more example of our never-ending cultural failure, in a male dominated world, to protect and respect women’s rights. We must not allow this to continue or the consequences of our legacy to our newest and future generations shall be totally unacceptable. However, it must be recognized that Filner's brain-dead stupid acts against women have been enabled by many powerful women who looked the other way failing to fight for and protect women's rights themselves before Filner opened this Pandora's Box. So I still hope your previous comment to Don’s “Palace coup? Filner could be locked out” post on Aug. 16, 2013 @ 10:01 a.m leads to a solution to the problem that the people of San Diego can accept without further destruction by the Manchester oligarchy.— August 17, 2013 1:19 p.m.
How Goldsmith tries the Filner case on TV
Don, it's bad enough that Goldsmith was part of the corrupt judicial system that let Hedgecock go free by overthrowing two jury verdicts of guilty. Now Goldsmith is Manchester's lapdog. We keep repeating historical failures clear back to the Ancient Greeks when we learned about oligarchs like Manchester who hire sophists to do his bidding. Democracy failed back then and is in grave jeopardy again.— August 17, 2013 11:02 a.m.
Palace coup? Filner could be locked out
Diogenes, best hypothesis so far, and San Diego has some of the greatest neuroscientists in the world to advise. If you are following in Diogenes' footsteps, stoicism could be most helpful in this situation.— August 16, 2013 12:46 p.m.
Who's more embarrassing? U-T or Filner?
Maybe, but we are so screwed up with two corrupt parties, a third could be the end of our Democracy, and the republicans are split into two parties already.— August 16, 2013 11:11 a.m.
Who's more embarrassing? U-T or Filner?
Yankeedoodle, yes but it was republican voters who knew about Schwarzenegger and voted for him anyway while San Diego democratic voters were not told about Filner by Washington democratic leaders like Feinstein and Pelosi who knew about Filner’s predations and chose to cover them up. San Diegans must show the nation that we are better than our failed political leaders in both parties and set an example by compelling Filner to resign immediately for the good of San Diego. However, it must also be noted that women who were attacked by Filner before he was elected Mayor were afraid to speak out against him because they were threatened by the powers that they worked for with threats against their careers.— August 15, 2013 3:12 p.m.
Who's more embarrassing? U-T or Filner?
Yankeedoodle, you are right about Schwarzenegger's history of physical assaults against women, plus the republican party (including Manchester) attitude of looking the other way and cover-ups, are hideously worse than what has been reported about Filner. But that doesn't excuse Filner's egregiously inexcusable assaults that have been reported by many women. The democrats must prove themselves to be better than the republicans by compelling Filner to resign immediately. Women's rights are the most important issue here and Filner has lied repeatedly about his support for women's rights while his repeated assaults against women prove he is a total and complete liar, and worse. And as one who claimed to be a spokesperson for women's rights for decades, Filner had to know everything there is to know about the acts of sexual harassment he committed were totally and completely unacceptable.— August 15, 2013 2:05 p.m.
Who's more embarrassing? U-T or Filner?
Of course Don, that goes without saying. But the L.A. Times also tells us what the rest of Southern California sees going on in San Diego, and Colbert gives us the national perspective on San Diego. As you keep proving, both republicans and democrats are corrupt. And both parties cover-up their own failures in morality and greed in order to get elected no matter what the consequences will be when people finally discover the hard way that we are continuously lied to by both parties.— August 15, 2013 11:45 a.m.
Who's more embarrassing? U-T or Filner?
Excellent post Don. Manchester's Barbie Doll media empire is designed for people with his Playboy mentality. Dirty Filthy Manchester is the biggest threat to the future of San Diego today, but Filner must go if democratic party integrity is going to be restored after they ran Filner even though his congressional colleagues (Feinstein, Boxer, Pelosi et al.) knew all about his anti-women's rights mentality (he may have said otherwise but his actions prove he is a liar in many things). Filner never would have been elected in the first place if San Diegans knew the truth about him before the election. So the question is, can San Diego politics get any worse? Stay tuned to the Colbert Report and read the L.A. Times daily.— August 15, 2013 11:08 a.m.