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Arlen Specter

I listen to Mark Levin (yes I am a dirty rotten conservative) and he was talking alot about Arlen Specter, an old Republican who recently switched parties and ended up getting elected. Mark was hounding on him so much due to his changing parties that I decided to look him up on wikipedia. His bio helped remind me how biased everything is that I read anywhere.

I thought I'd post this just to see y'alls reactions regarding it. I think whoever wrote it is somewhat comical and definitely biased:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlen_Specter

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Specter is a democrat and a scum sucking weasel that was born in Wichita, Kansas, the youngest child of Lillie Shanin and Harry Specter, who had emigrated from Russia in 1911.[8] He was raised as Jewish in Russell, Kansas, also the hometown of fellow politician Bob Dole. Specter's father served in the U.S. infantry during World War I, and was badly wounded. During the Great Depression, Specter's father was a fruit peddler, a tailor and junkyard owner. Specter studied first at the University of Oklahoma. He transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, majored in International Relations, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1951. He served in the United States Air Force from 1951 to 1953, during the Korean War. Specter graduated from Yale Law School in 1956 and was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar. He is married to the former Joan Levy, and they reside in the East Falls section of Philadelphia. They have two sons, Shanin and Stephen, and four grandchildren, Silvi, Perri, Lilli, and Hatti. After graduating from Yale Law School, Specter opened a law practice, Specter & Katz, with Marvin Katz, who is now a Federal District Court Judge in Philadelphia. Specter became an assistant district attorney under District Attorney James Crumlish, and was a Democrat. At the recommendation of Representative Gerald R. Ford, he worked for the Warren Commission, investigating the assassination of John F. Kennedy. As an assistant counsel for the commission, he authored or co-authored[9] the controversial "single bullet theory," which suggested the wounds to Kennedy and non-fatal wounds to Texas Governor John Connally were caused by the same bullet. This was a crucial assertion for the Warren Commission, since if the two had been wounded by separate bullets, that would have demonstrated the presence of a second assassin and therefore a conspiracy.[10] Specter reproducing the assumed alignment of the single bullet theory In 1965, Specter ran for District Attorney, on the Republican ticket as a registered Democrat. He handily beat incumbent Jim Crumlish, and subsequently changed his registration to Republican. Although a supporter of capital punishment, as prosecutor he questioned the fairness of the Pennsylvania death penalty statute in 1972.[11] In 1967, he was the Republican Party standard bearer together with City Controller candidate, Tom Gola, in the mayoral campaign against the Democratic incumbent James H. J. Tate. One of their slogans was, "We need THESE guys to watch THOSE guys."[12] He served two terms as District Attorney for the City of Philadelphia. In 1976, Specter ran in the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate and was defeated by John Heinz. In 1978, he was defeated in the primary for Governor of Pennsylvania by Dick Thornburgh.[13] After several years of private practice with the prestigious Philadelphia law firm Dechert, Price & Rhoads, Specter ran for the Senate in 1980, this time, successfully. He assumed office in January 1981.

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For the record, when I originally quoted this (May 4 at 22:11), "Scum Sucking Weasel" was a part of it. I didn't add it there, it was already there and I quoted it directly from wikipedia. The entire reason I linked it here was to show a funny example of how unreliable wikipedia is.

he wrote the "magic bullet" theory? wow, sheer genius!

...wait, he was a Democrat when he wrote it. something is not right?

wow...a republican who went to Penn and Yale law school. That's not something you read everyday. Wharton or HBS would be believable, but not Yale. That background is more representative of a democrat anyway.


i like your little addition: scum sucking weasel.

This sick fuck said yesterday that Jack Kemp would still be alive if the GOP would have listened to him and spent more on "the war on cancer". Unconscionable. And Democrats are thrilled to have this jackball aboard? It took him less than 24 hours to politicize Kemp's death.



This statement is also a grotesque lie, which makes it even worse:

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During Republican control of Congress, federal spending on health research and regulation increased 46% after inflation, from $49 billion a year to $72 billion a year, or about 7% increase each year. That�s almost the same rate of increase as Defense spending got in the same period (48%), when we actually had a real war on our hands.

http://www.heritage.org/research/bu...ythenumbers.pdf

As Greg Hengler notes: "Having watched this a few times, it appears Specter is not only giving himself credit for carrying the ark of the covenant that would have saved Kemp's life, but he has already saved "many lives," including his own. Wow! This guy does belong on Obama's squad. Hosanna in the highest!"

If I ever see him in real life I'm going to throw up on him.

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Originally posted by The17sss This sick fuck said yesterday that Jack Kemp would still be alive if the GOP would have listened to him and spent more on "the war on cancer". Unconscionable. And Democrats are thrilled to have this jackball aboard? It took him less than 24 hours to politicize Kemp's death. This statement is also a grotesque lie, which makes it even worse: http://www.heritage.org/research/bu...ythenumbers.pdf As Greg Hengler notes: "Having watched this a few times, it appears Specter is not only giving himself credit for carrying the ark of the covenant that would have saved Kemp's life, but he has already saved "many lives," including his own. Wow! This guy does belong on Obama's squad. Hosanna in the highest!" If I ever see him in real life I'm going to throw up on him.

And if he'd made those comments without switching sides, you would have played them off as nothing.

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Originally posted by jerZ07002 wow...a republican who went to Penn and Yale law school. That's not something you read everyday. Wharton or HBS would be believable, but not Yale. That background is more representative of a democrat anyway. i like your little addition: scum sucking weasel.

I didn't add scum sucking weasel, it was there when I read it. Evidently someone edited it out. Goes to show how reliable wikipedia is.

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Originally posted by Alex And if he'd made those comments without switching sides, you would have played them off as nothing.

And if Rush said the same thing there would be a new thread about it.

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Originally posted by AsparTAME I didn't add scum sucking weasel, it was there when I read it. Evidently someone edited it out. Goes to show how reliable wikipedia is.

actually, it supports the accuracy of wikipedia. The fact that it was gone less than 2 hours after you quoted it shows that the public doesn't allow inaccurate information to stay on the site for too long. I think the website also take the IP address of people who frequently edit inaccurate information and those computers are banned from making edits (not sure about that, but i think heard that was the case).

EDIT: Yes, in fact, wiki does block abusive editors:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blocking_policy

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