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	<title>Cowboy Confessional &#187; Politics</title>
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	<description>Guy Smith - writer, songwriter, political provocateur</description>
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		<title>Obama Budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Worsening economic news can only mean a worsening level of propaganda.
This is where MSNBC enters the picture.
The Congressional budget Office (CBO) today announced that the U.S. economy will go from tragic to worse, echoing sentiments of a double-dip depression. Barring miracles that would make the Second Coming look second rate, America’s jobless rate will rise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gingrich Gasp</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newt Gingrich, during last nights GOP debate, expressed surprise that &#8220;CNN would take trash like that and use it to open a presidential debate.&#8221; In other words, the Carrollton Chameleon is shocked that the mainstream media hinges their ratings on salacious salvos and tawdry tripe.
Newt is the only person who is surprised. Everyone else expects [...]]]></description>
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		<title>King Barack</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2012/01/16/king-barack/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
 Martin Luther King Jr.
And it&#8217;s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion.
 Barack Obama
One man used love to bridge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andy’s Absurdity</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2012/01/12/andy%e2%80%99s-absurdity/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Rosenthal has dragged the New York Times’ reputation to a new low.
I didn’t think it was possible.
Andy pens an inappropriately titled column called The Loyal Opposition. Anyone familiar with the now irrelevant Forth Estate sees the irony of naming a newspaper column The Loyal Opposition, and the side-splitting frivolity for it being under the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sinister Salvo</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2012/01/08/sinister-salvo/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Propagandist will trip over one another while rushing to microphones.
Such was the state of organized ineptitude displayed the day after Iowa Republicans delivered a three-way draw. In an odd show of self restraint after the caucuses, leading Republican presidential contenders did not lob incendiaries at one another … for the few days it took them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let The Lying Begin!</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2012/01/04/let-the-lying-begin/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the judge allegedly said at the beginning of each trail, “Let the lying begin!”
Semantic slight-of-hand and prolific propaganda will be the norm this 2012 presidential election cycle, which most pundits agree began in December of 2008. Already various factions have donned snake-oiled overcoats with the intent of using the entire Catalog of Canards to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discount FDR</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2012/01/03/discount-fdr/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama is a discount FDR, and Roosevelt was no prize to begin with.
Many men mistreat their women by trying to fix whatever problems they have, whereas women generally prefer that men listen, then fix problems on their own terms. Such is the nature of The People and government, where certain elected footmen mistakenly take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unity</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2011/11/28/unity/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We are the 100%.
Politics, like any other marketing snowjob, is about segmentation – dividing the market into small, manageable groups that have common traits. Politicians, who are highly corrupt marketers, love segmenting their constituents and selling to different groups differently. When politicians cannot adeptly cajole diverse groups with contradictory messages, they commit monogamy with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fiscal Infidelity</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2011/11/21/fiscal-infidelity/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One would think free hair cuts might be a popular offer, except perhaps to bald fellows taking offense to the lack of value received.
It appears that America may be on the brink of such an event, one where (nearly) everyone receiving Uncle Sugar’s lucre will take a cut. Earlier this year, in a desperate attempt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unconcealed Uneasiness</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2011/10/28/ccw-and-falling-gun-control-support/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2011/10/28/ccw-and-falling-gun-control-support/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 23:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gun control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fear is effective and entertaining.  If you don’t believe people are amused by fear, just watch any Hollywood horror film or a presidential primary.
In my book Shooting The Bull, a handy guide on propaganda analysis, of the 71 forms of fibs, lies, canards, casuistry, flummery, tergiversation, artifice and tarradiddle, the Lie of Fear was foremost. [...]]]></description>
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