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Matter-eater Man said:
An appropiate time for #6
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6: Debate is between those supporting civil liberties and those seeking to prevent terrorism
Many media figures have created a false dichotomy by framing the debate over the Bush administration's actions as one between those who support protecting civil liberties and those who favor protecting America from another deadly terrorist attack. For example, NBC host Katie Couric claimed the debate amounted to "legal analysts and constitutional scholars versus Americans, who say civil liberties are important, but we don't want another September 11," while NBC's Mitchell wondered whether Americans should be more concerned about "[a] terror attack or someone going into their hard drive and intercepting their emails."
Such statements set up exactly the false debate put forth by Cheney and Bush to defend the administration's actions, as Mitchell subsequently noted on the December 21 edition of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews:
MITCHELL: [T]hey set up successfully, the White House, this premise of you're either for security and protecting the American people post-9-11 or you're worried about surveillance. This either-or proposition, when a lot of people say that's a false choice.

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I think this is a really dumb-assed quote, and typical of liberal arguments in general, in using a very convoluted rationalization to say something isn't what it clearly is.

The argument between the Bush administration and its critics about the wiretapping of Muslim terror suspects is about weighing national security against civil liberties.

And for liberals to allege otherwise in convoluted arguments just makes clear that either :

    1) liberals know the wiretapping of Muslim terror suspects is legal and necessary, and are just using whatever ambiguity they can exploit to smear the Bush administration. Again.
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    2) liberals simply don't get it, and fail to understand what the real issue is, of defending the nation and stopping terrorism.


And regardless of which mindset guides these liberal distortions, the American people can see for themselves what the real issue is.
As G-man quoted at the top of this page, polls show the American people aren't buying the liberal distortions, and have more confidence in Republicans to lead the country in a time of war.


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