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Originally Posted by chickentribs
Believe me, I feel you Ustwo. Disinformation is rampant all over, it just a matter of whose lunch are we eating on what day. The best you can hope for is take a bit in from all sides and pray it's balancing itself out in your head by some miracle! I used to feel more comfortable with newsources overseas such as BBC or the Economist, but they are pushing their agendas as well.
All I am saying is that at least at a national level there is more exposure to what they are doing, therefore more likely to get called on the lies. I think if you are interested in intelligent debate, an effort to look at sources should be made. I was just suprised that 60 posts into the thread nobody seemed to have even looked at the website for 2 seconds to see who was behind it.
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The reason is quite simple. We are so USED to such idiocy that we expect it. I did a bit of a search on this and it IS apparently true. You can google quite a few hits on it, and while most are from conservative sites, I can't find anyone who says its not true.
There are quotes attributed to her.
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Previously she’s said:
“All racial groups should be represented,” Lee said, according to the Hill. She hoped federal weather officials “would try to be inclusive of African-American names.”… “It is unfair for only Anglo-Saxon and Hispanic names to be associated with the great destruction and death that hurricanes create. We are sending the wrong message–that the African-American is not capable of such atrocity.” She added, “All racial groups should be represented!”–The Hill
And after a junket to Syria she said:
Jackson Lee said she was so impressed with Syrian President Bashar Assad during her visit that she invited him to speak in Texas, even though his country is designated by the United States as a rogue state and a sponsor of terrorism. “I’m sure someone will write a headline, `Congresswoman invites a terrorist’,” Jackson Lee said. “But that’s not what I’m trying to do.” … “He’s a 39-year-old president who even gave us a picture of him and his children,” Jackson Lee said.–Houston Chronicle
Then there’s her famous quote:
“The Congressional bonehead award goes to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) who, on a visit to JPL, asked if Mars Pathfinder had taken an image of the flag planted there in 1969 by Neil Armstrong! Quipped Rep. Vernon Ehlers (R-MI) to the Washington Times: “We just don’t teach enough science.” Worse, Jackson Lee, who represents Houston, is a member of the House Science Committee’s space subcommittee. Perhaps some committee reassignments are in order…
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The Houston Chronicle reports that during a hearing of a House subcommittee dealing with NASA, California Republican Dana Rohrabacher mixed it up with Texas Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee. According to the Chronicle, Jackson Lee was "in the middle of a long-winded question that. . . had covered seven topics." She was "well beyond" the five-minute limit for questions.
Rohrabacher, the subcommittee chairman, asked her "to be more disciplined in being able to ask a specific question" and to leave enough of her time for the witnesses to answer.
Taking offense, Jackson Lee said, "Only Congresswoman Jackson Lee gets cited by the chair and she will continue to be cited. . ."
An angry exchange ensued, during which Rohrabacher slammed the gavel and told Jackson Lee several times that she was not recognized and needed to stop talking.
"I'm the only member that you comment on," Jackson Lee firmly stated. "It may be that I'm the only African-American woman sitting here."
As the audience sat stunned, Rohrabacher lowered his voice to say, "Ms. Jackson Lee, that type of charge is beneath you. It's beneath your dignity."
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I'll be the first to point out that most of this comes from 'right wing' websites, but at the same time, looking around this women looks like a real idiot. Maybe its a giant right wing conspiracy, or maybe she is an embarassment to the American educational system.