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This can't possibly be loving real.quote:A rising chorus of congressional Republicans are calling on President Obama to acknowledge that the pop singer Beyoncé lip-synched during his inaugural festivities on Monday and resign from office, effective immediately. I mean at some point you just have to sort of admire how loving crazy the GOP, and especially everyone's favorite son of a gold bug are.
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The Borowitz Report is in fact, not loving real. e: just for example, http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/01/obama-furious-he-wasted-week-posing-for-coin.html
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Jan 24, 2013 01:06
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It's not. They put a tell at the bottom, because parodying Republicans is not easy.
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Jan 24, 2013 01:06
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A Winner is Jew posted:This can't possibly be loving real. It is satire. I know Poe's law is in effect at all times, but you should know better when the author is Andy Borowitz. It is a great piece though. My favorite line: quote:Mr. Paul also blasted Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for her testimony on Benghazi before the Senate today: “Her tactic of answering each and every question we asked her didn’t fool anyone.”
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Jan 24, 2013 01:07
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Sword of Chomsky posted:It is satire. I know Poe's law is in effect at all times, but you should know better when the author is Andy Borowitz. It is a great piece though. My favorite line: Yeah, my wife just sent that to me and Poe's law was in full effect since we both didn't know The Borowitz Report is satire... and Rand Paul is that god drat crazy.
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Jan 24, 2013 01:10
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I dunno how many of you listen to Houston's AM "news" station, but it's got all the regulars like every other city. But we've got one special guy, a former city council member, named Michael Berry.  http://www.ktrh.com/pages/michaelberry.html (yes, he is gay. And don't go to his site) He's kinda milquetoast, compared to Levin and Rushbo, but he's got a rather strong racism thing going on and boy does he hate Muslims. He has the drivetime slots before Limbaugh and after Hannity and has actually done a few decent interviews with musicians and other such non-political things, but goddamn he's a nutjob about a couple of things and is just as absurd as the other guys on AM. Although he's never been very anti-gay and got caught in a trans bar last year, but it didn't seem to hurt his popularity very much. Today a thing caught me when he was bitching about Clinton's testimony. He was describing the day Stevens was killed and pointed out how the locals dragged his corpse through the street and probably raped it (cause that's how those ferals behave). I know this was a popular line on Fox the day of the attack, but wasn't it thoroughly dis-proven within a few hours and didn't the locals in Benghazi take over every known location of the group behind the attack in retaliation? Oh and then he moved to the shooting on the northside yesterday that hit the nationwide wire. "Those thugs that shot eachother were so stupid that one shot himself. This is how dumb these thugs are." This was especially funny, given this weekend's news. Also, black people are thugs.
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Jan 24, 2013 02:00
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Plastics. posted:I went looking for this and landed on the article on the front page. All pleasantly surprising. And then I read the comments, what the gently caress was I thinking. gently caress this pisses me off. There weren't any "wounded survivors" because each three and a half foot tall and ~50lb six-year old was shot between 3 and 11 times at point blank range with a loving assault rifle. It doesn't matter how "resilient" children supposedly are when they're basically torn apart by gunfire. quote:Then, unprompted by me, Veronique described what she saw: “We all saw how beautiful he was. He had thick, shiny hair, beautiful long eyelashes that rested on his cheeks. He looked like he was sleeping. But the reality of it was under the cloth he had covering his mouth there was no mouth left. His jaw was blown away. I just want people to know the ugliness of it so we don’t talk about it abstractly, like these little angels just went to heaven. No. They were butchered. They were brutalized. And that is what haunts me at night.”
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Jan 24, 2013 02:16
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Sir Tonk posted:I dunno how many of you listen to Houston's AM "news" station, but it's got all the regulars like every other city. So is this guy actually out of the closet? Does he just kind of ignore the gay marriage/DADT issues that have come through in recent years? Hell the President's Inaugural Address just endorsed the right of gays to marry, does he just avoid those topics?
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Jan 24, 2013 02:26
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Zwabu posted:So is this guy actually out of the closet? Does he just kind of ignore the gay marriage/DADT issues that have come through in recent years? Hell the President's Inaugural Address just endorsed the right of gays to marry, does he just avoid those topics? Considering 'ignorance' is kind of the order of the day for most of the GOP and its constituents you already know why.
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Jan 24, 2013 02:29
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A Winner is Jew posted:This can't possibly be loving real. And here I was thinking Rand Paul wouldn't be as hilarious as his father!  All this "SANDY HOOK WAS A FALSE FLAG ATTACK!" thing is really making me sick. What kind of hosed up person makes an assertion that children are somehow more resilient to gunshot wounds than adults? The gently caress is wrong with these people? Darkman Fanpage fucked around with this message at 02:36 on Jan 24, 2013 |
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Jan 24, 2013 02:32
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CommieGIR posted:Considering 'ignorance' is kind of the order of the day for most of the GOP and its constituents you already know why. I was curious as to whether dude actually was out of the closet. Just getting caught in a gay hangout doesn't mean the guy fesses up, see Larry Craig, U.S. Senator.
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Jan 24, 2013 02:38
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Zwabu posted:So is this guy actually out of the closet? Does he just kind of ignore the gay marriage/DADT issues that have come through in recent years? Hell the President's Inaugural Address just endorsed the right of gays to marry, does he just avoid those topics? He may be one of those folks who are in a certain income bracket and feel their economic interests outweigh their civil ones? I mean, that's sad, but people have their priorities so whaddyagonnado. on the other hand, first against the wall etc, etc.
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Jan 24, 2013 02:38
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Rhesus Pieces posted:There weren't any "wounded survivors" because each three and a half foot tall and ~50lb six-year old was shot between 3 and 11 times at point blank range with a loving assault rifle. Uhh excuse me the ar-15 is not an "assault rifle" it doesn't have a select fire switch duh. Maybe you will better understand this concept if I show you this heavily compressed and artifact-riddled facebook meme? 
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Jan 24, 2013 02:42
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mr. mephistopheles posted:I'd be interested to hear what he berated you about (since he does it to people all the time and it's always so condescending and terrible) if you don't mind sharing. I can't really recall and it wasn't that interesting. I'd like to think he was bitching about youth being politically out of touch and caught up in superficialism and I called to agree with him, but before I could even get started on air I guess he gambled I was some idiot kid and started asking me poo poo like 'Do you have the cool starter jacket? Do you have the cool sports shoes?' (I was in my rebellious long hair metal phase so that was insulting to me at the time) and insinuated that I didn't read (I guess because I went to a non-private high school?) when he asked what I was reading at the time. I mentioned some techno-war thriller which was probably a conservative's fantasy narrative, but since I'd literally just started it I couldn't tell him about it when he asked. He then hung up on me and probably said some poo poo about me on air after the fact using me as an example for the 'youth of today'. Being on the receiving end of Boortz being a douche is probably what began my turn from the dark side. I guess I should be thankful for the experience.
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Jan 24, 2013 03:18
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Seoinin posted:He may be one of those folks who are in a certain income bracket and feel their economic interests outweigh their civil ones? I mean, that's sad, but people have their priorities so whaddyagonnado. Oh I know, believe me, I work with people like this. I was just wondering if the guy was in the status of "everyone knows he's gay, it's the worst kept secret ever" or "is out of the closet". Gay marriage and DADT repeal have been prominent issues during Obama's administration and I'd think they would be hard issues to ignore entirely for a political radio talker. The only other right wing radio person who is out of the closet is Tammy Bruce, who is horrible.
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Jan 24, 2013 03:19
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Rip Testes posted:I can't really recall and it wasn't that interesting. I'd like to think he was bitching about youth being politically out of touch and caught up in superficialism and I called to agree with him, but before I could even get started on air I guess he gambled I was some idiot kid and started asking me poo poo like 'Do you have the cool starter jacket? Do you have the cool sports shoes?' (I was in my rebellious long hair metal phase so that was insulting to me at the time) and insinuated that I didn't read (I guess because I went to a non-private high school?) when he asked what I was reading at the time. I mentioned some techno-war thriller which was probably a conservative's fantasy narrative, but since I'd literally just started it I couldn't tell him about it when he asked. He then hung up on me and probably said some poo poo about me on air after the fact using me as an example for the 'youth of today'. Being on the receiving end of Boortz being a douche is probably what began my turn from the dark side. I guess I should be thankful for the experience. Haha, wow, what a douche. Yeah, it sounds like it was a good thing, though.
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Jan 24, 2013 03:24
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Kiwi Bigtree posted:The closest explanation I got was: Oh, so it's like that episode of The Powerpuff Girls when Princess became mayor and made all crime legal while making it illegal for the PPG to fight crime.
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Jan 24, 2013 03:54
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Zwabu posted:So is this guy actually out of the closet? Does he just kind of ignore the gay marriage/DADT issues that have come through in recent years? Hell the President's Inaugural Address just endorsed the right of gays to marry, does he just avoid those topics? Nope, he's got a wife and kids. It was kind of a non-denial denial thing. And if you've ever been to that part of Montrose, it is literally all gay bars. There is no reason anyone would be walking around there other than to go to a gay bar. (well, the restaurants are really good, but they're a few blocks down) Here, the story is hilarious. http://houston.culturemap.com/newsd...er-bashed-gays/ edit Here, Berry was at TC's (there's three times that many bars that aren't labeled). Literally every named place on there is a gay bar and/or restaurant. This part of town has been known as the center of gay culture for at least forty years. 
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Jan 24, 2013 04:15
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800peepee51doodoo posted:Uhh excuse me the ar-15 is not an "assault rifle" it doesn't have a select fire switch duh. Maybe you will better understand this concept if I show you this heavily compressed and artifact-riddled facebook meme? "No assault rifles used" is like a gun nut version of "AHEM it's actually EPHEBOPHILIA." Except worse since there are dead children.
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Jan 24, 2013 05:19
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colonel_korn posted:The Borowitz Report is in fact, not loving real. Nor is it funny.
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Jan 24, 2013 05:39
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I don't really listen to right wing radio but today I was driving around while Huckabee was on and decided to listen for a bit. First he had some guy on to talk about how great guns are, with Huckabee talking about how he used to hunt a lot, living off the meat and eating squirrels and whatnot to survive and now Obama wants to take all that away, then he said something like how good gun owners like him are the only ones standing in the way between us and tyranny. Later he started lecturing about how the economy is poo poo because liberals punish success and good old hard work and that's when I stopped the car and went inside. I just don't know how anyone can actually listen to this kinda crap for more than a few minutes. I tried listening to Limbaugh and Hannity a few times but I just can't listen to right wing radio for long without feeling even more miserable and  At least Huckabee seems to stay calm and won't throw fits and yell and insult people all the time. Ivan Shitskin fucked around with this message at 06:43 on Jan 24, 2013 |
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Jan 24, 2013 06:39
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Aufzug Taube! posted:I don't really listen to right wing radio but today I was driving around while Huckabee was on and decided to listen for a bit. First he had some guy on to talk about how great guns are, with Huckabee talking about how he used to hunt a lot, living off the meat and eating squirrels and whatnot to survive and now Obama wants to take all that away, then he said something like how good gun owners like him are the only ones standing in the way between us and tyranny. Later he started lecturing about how the economy is poo poo because liberals punish success and good old hard work and that's when I stopped the car and went inside. Reminds me of the time I accidentally caught some of Huckabee's show, and he tried to argue that because he, an old person, television personlity and former governor, and Obama, a black man, bestselling author, and current President of the United States, could both vote, Voter ID laws were totally not disproportionately affecting old and black people, and were thus hunky-dory.
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Jan 24, 2013 06:53
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Today I heard about how the fact that Obama even having an inauguration party goes against the spirit if the presidency, which is why Washington almost didn't have one. So that's another thing that literally every other president has done that they preten is unique to Obama.
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Jan 24, 2013 07:30
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Aufzug Taube! posted:I don't really listen to right wing radio but today I was driving around while Huckabee was on and decided to listen for a bit. First he had some guy on to talk about how great guns are, with Huckabee talking about how he used to hunt a lot, living off the meat and eating squirrels and whatnot to survive and now Obama wants to take all that away, then he said something like how good gun owners like him are the only ones standing in the way between us and tyranny. Later he started lecturing about how the economy is poo poo because liberals punish success and good old hard work and that's when I stopped the car and went inside. Huckabee thinks that prayer in schools will protect children from the proliferation of firearms. Counterpoint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_54urFdp2kU
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Jan 24, 2013 12:08
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Spacedad posted:Huckabee thinks that prayer in schools will protect children from the proliferation of firearms. I dunno, worked out pretty well in the Boxer Rebellion.
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Jan 24, 2013 12:45
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Aufzug Taube! posted:I don't really listen to right wing radio but today I was driving around while Huckabee was on and decided to listen for a bit. First he had some guy on to talk about how great guns are, with Huckabee talking about how he used to hunt a lot, living off the meat and eating squirrels and whatnot to survive and now Obama wants to take all that away, then he said something like how good gun owners like him are the only ones standing in the way between us and tyranny. Later he started lecturing about how the economy is poo poo because liberals punish success and good old hard work and that's when I stopped the car and went inside. It's really amazing how long it's lasted and how successful the anti-hunter kookery as a subsection of the overall gun nut propaganda has been. I remember when the Brady Bill had first made the news back in the 80s and some jerkasses were whining about it, my dad told me he'd cancelled his NRA membership back around 1979 because it had become obvious even back then they'd been taken over by a bunch of loons. We're into the fourth decade of this stupidity and yet somehow hunting has managed to not die off.
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Jan 24, 2013 13:29
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Not to mention most shooters literally shoot hundreds of dollars a way a year at paper targets and soda cans. It's an expensive hobby. People can spend their money however they like, but don't try to pretends their livelihoods and ability to eat is at stake. Unless they also prep, butcher, and sell the meat they hunt, then they have an argument about livelihood. Luckily no one is trying to ban hunting.
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Jan 24, 2013 14:00
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It's much cheaper from a time/inventory POV to just go to Cost Co and pick your meat up.
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Jan 24, 2013 18:28
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Zuhzuhzombie!! posted:It's much cheaper from a time/inventory POV to just go to Cost Co and pick your meat up. Most grocers don't sell venison or boar though, and it is really fantastic meat.
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Jan 24, 2013 18:44
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Aufzug Taube! posted:...then he said something like how good gun owners like him are the only ones standing in the way between us and tyranny. Later he started lecturing about how the economy is poo poo because liberals punish success and good old hard work and that's when I stopped the car and went inside. All of these shows are like this, all of the time, and I'm with you 100%. I listen for as long as I can stand it just to...I don't know really; know my enemy, hear another side of things or to have something to contribute to the thread, but I don't know how anyone can tolerate it for more than 10 or 15 minutes at a time, let alone all day long. The effect of it really is pervasive though. The last place I worked at, there were 2 or 3 girls that had this poo poo on constantly and it noticeably affected their mindset, their mood and their opinions. They were always angry, blaming others for their lovely jobs and why they didn't get a raise and always going on about whatever talking points they'd absorbed, like thinking ACORN runs the world for instance. I could tell just be eavesdropping in the lunchroom what Boortz, FOX or Rush were on about that day. Largely, it would just be background noise or listened to out of habit, I think. I doubt they really paid much active attention to what they were hearing, but it definitely sunk in, sort of like learning a foreign language with subliminal sleeping tapes or something. I'm still wondering how much of it is confirmation bias versus how much of it is actually effective brainwashing, but I tend to lean towards the latter.
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Jan 24, 2013 21:08
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Sir Tonk posted:I dunno how many of you listen to Houston's AM "news" station, but it's got all the regulars like every other city. Michael Berry is ridiculously loving racist. He usually spends half his show making jokes about how black people talk, and he calls Native Americans "Injuns"
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Jan 24, 2013 21:58
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Sir Tonk posted:All those women that have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan probably just tripped and busted their heads or something. Republicans just assume they died in kitchen accidents. Raskolnikov38 posted:Welp it only took a national tragedy but we've finally found something too stupid and crazy for beck to buy into. Beck is all about bilking money from his viewers and profiting on dead children might be above even his skill level. He'd have to be a gun company or a health insurance provider for that.
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Jan 24, 2013 22:31
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He's just pissed he didn't think of it first and doesn't want to lose his flock to a rival crazy man.
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Jan 24, 2013 23:04
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BiggerBoat posted:All of these shows are like this, all of the time, and I'm with you 100%. I listen for as long as I can stand it just to...I don't know really; know my enemy, hear another side of things or to have something to contribute to the thread, but I don't know how anyone can tolerate it for more than 10 or 15 minutes at a time, let alone all day long. So is the level of anger and yelling the only difference between all these shows? At least Alex Jones is funny when he does his insane shouting about GIANT PEDOPHILE ARMIES WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS but I can't listen to the more "normal" right wing radio for very long. It's not funny or entertaining like Jones and it just makes me feel sick that they can vomit their bullshit and hatred out on the radio for so long and still be considered well-adjusted, respected individuals by millions of people. Must be the authoritarian personality type at work. Your post makes me glad that at the last place I worked, they just listened to country music all day long.
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Jan 25, 2013 01:40
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Aufzug Taube! posted:Huckabee talking about how he used to hunt a lot, living off the meat and eating squirrels and whatnot to survive ... Are there any squirrels left?
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Jan 25, 2013 05:06
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boom boom boom posted:Michael Berry is ridiculously loving racist. He usually spends half his show making jokes about how black people talk, and he calls Native Americans "Injuns" Hell, have you heard Rush Limbaugh pronounce a non-Anglo-Saxon name? He hams it up in the most offensive way he can think of. They know their audiences are teeming with casual racists who just eat that poo poo up.
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Jan 25, 2013 18:56
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ReidRansom posted:Are there any squirrels left? No. Grey squirrels are extinct in Arkansas.
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Jan 25, 2013 19:02
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OMG JC a Bomb! posted:They know their audiences are teeming with casual racists who just eat that poo poo up. I don't think there's anything casual at all about it anymore.
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Jan 25, 2013 19:07
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Aufzug Taube! posted:So is the level of anger and yelling the only difference between all these shows? Pretty much that's true, although I never really though about it. The creepy thing to me is how they hit all the same news items and talking points collectively and daily, which really makes it feel like the propaganda it is. They may delve into different narratives and specifics of a given item, but if the memo comes down from on high that "today, we discuss Benghazi" then they ALL do Benghazi. Or guns. Or what have you. The liberal shows I listen to really aren't like that at all. I don't know if they're sort of TOLD what to talk about and how to talk about it every morning or if it's just a product of everyone getting news from Drudge in the morning and that sets the tone. It feels eerily coordinated sometimes though, right down to certain buzzwords and language (union thugs, job creators, socialism, etc.)
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BiggerBoat posted:Pretty much that's true, although I never really though about it. The creepy thing to me is how they hit all the same news items and talking points collectively and daily, which really makes it feel like the propaganda it is. They may delve into different narratives and specifics of a given item, but if the memo comes down from on high that "today, we discuss Benghazi" then they ALL do Benghazi. Or guns. Or what have you. Conservative media is very highly coordinated and whatever topics they want to talk about on a certain day are distributed to each other constantly. You get the same exact opinions, even right down to the same buzzwords, whether it comes from radio, TV, newspapers or blogs. I think we all remember Steve Doocey from Fox and Friends reading, on camera, the RNC talking points for the day. I'd like to think there are Republican vampires out there who only work in the dead of the night preparing the talking points for the all the morning shows.
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