MSNBC: Harry Reid slams Sharron Angle on Scientology in prisons

DeathHamster · Jun 20, 2010

Re: MSNBC: Harry Reid slams Sharron Angle on Scientology in prisons

Too bad Sharroon hasn't heard the news.

Triumph · Jun 20, 2010

Re: MSNBC: Harry Reid slams Sharron Angle on Scientology in prisons

RGJ.com Reno Gazette Journal
Fact checker: To prove ads wrong, Angle must offer a plan
By Mark Robison

Narrator: She'd cut benefits for everyone coming into the system. That's Sharron Angle. First, a Scientology plan to give massages to prisoners. Now she wants to get rid of Medicare and Social Security. What's next?

Next, Sharron Angle proposed for Nevada a prison program called Second Chance, which aims to help prisoners kick drug addiction with vitamin-mineral supplements, saunas and massages.

She later dropped the plan because, she told the Associated Press in 2003, she didn't think the Democratic majority in the Nevada Legislature would go for it.

At the time, she insisted the Church of Scientology was not involved with the program's use at a Mexican prison. The Church of Scientology has engaged in efforts to keep Second Chance separate from the church itself, but the program is strongly linked to the church and uses the teachings of founder L. Ron Hubbard.

Angle said on Ralston's show that the prisoner massage was more like a karate chop and claimed the program succeeded in New Mexico. It didn't, and funding was pulled for it there. Joe Williams, the head of Arizona prisons, said Second Chance wasn't a good fit while research by the University of New Mexico found the program's success rate there for repeat offenders was much lower than those cited by proponents.

Fact checker: To prove ads wrong, Angle must offer a plan | rgj.com | The Reno Gazette-Journal

As for Angle's "Scientology prison plan" with massages for inmates, that's right. Second Chance was a dubious idea at best. In her defense, Angle seems to have genuinely pursued what seemed a promising plan to decrease recidivism and prison costs -- and did not intend to promote Scientology. Still, rate it a 9.

Overall truth meter: 7. The ad is as fair as attack ads get, and the claim is generally legit.

Anonymous · Jun 20, 2010

Re: MSNBC: Harry Reid slams Sharron Angle on Scientology in prisons

DeathHamster;1271511 said:

Too bad Sharroon hasn't heard the news.

Lols at 1:39

JohnnyRUClear · Jun 20, 2010

Re: MSNBC: Harry Reid slams Sharron Angle on Scientology in prisons

Anonymous;1271377 said:

If "new age music" and "scented candles" is the worst Reid can do?

The program simply DOESN'T WORK and is entirely based on pseudoscience and L. Ron Hubbard's guesswork -- an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest ever infiltration of the US government, btw. Do we have any studies on the Second Chance program that we can forward to Reid's campaign?

I had the same reaction. Anon could write better copy. Still, it's a start.

Keep fanning the flames. There's a lot more NarCONon/Scientology dirt here which is in need of exposure, and this is as good a chance as any we're likely to get.

Goosh Goosh · Jun 21, 2010

Re: MSNBC: Harry Reid slams Sharron Angle on Scientology in prisons

JohnnyRUClear;1271562 said:

I had the same reaction. Anon could write better copy. Still, it's a start.

Keep fanning the flames. There's a lot more NarCONon/Scientology dirt here which is in need of exposure, and this is as good a chance as any we're likely to get.

QFT

do we have a game plan of any kind to exploit this?

DeathHamster · Jun 21, 2010

Re: MSNBC: Harry Reid slams Sharron Angle on Scientology in prisons

Anonymous;1271519 said:

Lols at 1:39

Scientology's Tone Scale. I wonder how that got there, since Second Chance is based on "natural homeopathic medicine"?

LastOneStanding · Feb 14, 2011

SanDiegoAnonymous said: ↑

re: MSNBC: Harry Reid slams Sharron Angle on Scientology in prisons

As [Anonymous] has said we should not bring politics into this duscussion, and posting something non related to the scilon running for NV GOV. anyways to protect my fellow republicans, democrats dish out the same amout of bs, have you watched msnbc?

and thats exactly why i dont watch any of the news channels O_0

Anonymous · Feb 14, 2011

^^^^
Is it a good idea to drag up an old thread just to say you don't watch news channels?
This thread is from June of last year.
necro much?
I thought this may have been yet another new story (although I don't know how) when I saw the thread title

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