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Kiwi Bigtree posted:At this point I think we could invent a "tactical" muzzle loading black powder rifle and make everyone happy. As long as you could cram enough rails on it to fit all the flashlights, lasers, 4x, red-dot sights, I'm sure it would be a hot item. And as soon as this happens, I'll go down to Home Depot, buy a bunch of their 5 gallon buckets, spray paint them black, and sell them for $100 each as "extended" powder horns.
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Seoinin posted:Experts blame the rash of assaults and grand theft vespa incidents on the lyrics glorifying violence and misogyny in Paul Banks' rap mixtape. What...? To move the thread along, has anyone caught any of Herman Cain's show since he took over for Boortz? I'm surprised at how dull, unsationalistic and meandering it is. There's really hardly anything to it, which is weird given what a P.T. Barnum kook Cain is and with how far Boortz managed to set the bar once he announced his retirement and stopped giving a poo poo what he said. I expected Herman to grasp the baton and really ratchet up the crazy but from what I've heard of his show so far, it's not even interesting enough to make me angry. It's just sort of there if you have some time to fill. Sort of like his pizza, come to think of it.
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BiggerBoat posted:What...? I certainly didn't. Herman Cain was selected as nominee because he was pretty certain to not take the reins during his token run. The last thing the right wanted was a genuinely viable black candidate. But then again, he's not even gotten warmed up yet. There's a lot of potential here once some good writers get on, and maybe some animation. Hell, Herman would have a blast. He just needs to hit his stride. I'm thinking along the lines of a hybrid of Glenn Beck and the Aqua Teens/Robot Chicken.
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I found out today that my company is sponsoring the Herman Cain radio show. I really don't know how to feel about that. I want to just spam this thread's Cain jokes on our internal social network.
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BiggerBoat posted:What...? He's filled in for other hosts before and he has always been incredibly boring and uninspired. I'm not the least bit shocked that that hasn't changed In other pundit related news, Fox news on satellite's last day is today. The host for Fox Across America has spent the last few days whining on air about how the phone lines are completely empty and that they'll never get to talk to him again after today. I guess he's satellite only and didn't have any affiliates so his rear end is getting booted right out onto the street. It has been pretty amusing to listen to. Good Citizen fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Feb 15, 2013 |
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Infomaniac posted:Don't forget your free month of @reagan.com email address to show you are a real patriot. Reagan, a name you can trust, a name that never has been associated with any unlawful act. holy cow I wonder if my throw_hot_jizz@reagan.com address is still active Warcabbit posted:Welcome to New York. We're rude, pushy, and loud. But ya gotta love us. New York is loud, overcrowded, smelly, ridiculously expensive, filled with an air of smug self-importance, and one of the greatest loving places I've ever had the pleasure of visiting. Even if my hotel was way over in Staten Island (Wu Tang Staten Island, not Nice Staten Island). All the stereotypes I had about New York in the 80s have all moved down to DC.
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I was listening to Rush today, just a little bit before I had to turn it off, but it sounded as if he were blaming the Chris Dorner murder rampage on Django Unchained. Has anyone heard any other pundits making this comparison?
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sleepingbuddha posted:I was listening to Rush today, just a little bit before I had to turn it off, but it sounded as if he were blaming the Chris Dorner murder rampage on Django Unchained. Has anyone heard any other pundits making this comparison? He did his usual spiel of "someone said something silly on a single show that no one watches = the entire media is exactly like this" In this case, it was someone comparing Chris Dorner to Django.
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Rhesus Pieces posted:Agreed. Like I said, it's always about the money. The gun lobby isn't selling these guys more guns to prepare for some inevitable race war or to fight government tyranny. The gun lobby is selling them guns because they're the In some fantasy world I imagine Obama's administration tell people flat out "We will not collect or outlaw your guns, we support the 2nd amendment" I would love to see the gun lobby spin that into paranoia frenzy
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Did you forget Obama is the Orwellian mastermind? That's just the kind of poo poo he wants you to think. Truth is the 2nd is already gone, he's just trying to get rid of the ability of True Patriots of even thinking of having a gun. The Unnamed One fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Feb 15, 2013 |
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I know this is all going to shock you to hell and blow your minds but Herman Cain is joining FoxNews as a contributor. 
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I caught about two minutes of some guy substituting for Bill O'Reilly today and they're talking about the Carnival Triumph. He has somehow spun the event into making it sound like everyone got some kind of extended vacation, everyone made it out uninjured and that no one died, the cruise liner is giving them things like another trip and such for free, and that they should be grateful. I can't even make it into two minutes of this poo poo without being cast into a near-violent mood swing. How on earth do you people stand to listen to this poo poo?
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Why side with carnival at all? Is carnival like paying these people to sell poo poo?
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Star Man posted:I caught about two minutes of some guy substituting for Bill O'Reilly today and they're talking about the Carnival Triumph. He has somehow spun the event into making it sound like everyone got some kind of extended vacation, everyone made it out uninjured and that no one died, the cruise liner is giving them things like another trip and such for free, and that they should be grateful. Wait, what the gently caress is his angle here? That Carnival is the real victim in all of this because the customers are daring to hold Carnival accountable for a horrendously bungled cruise that turned the ship into a floating septic tank? How dare they attack a poor, defenseless corporation! They should just take their free cruise vouchers (drinks and tips not included) and shut the gently caress up.
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Bill O'Reilly's algorithm of sorting through news stories: Find the victim, blame them. Dad died responding to 9/11? It's the son's fault. Carnival cruise goes awry? It's the passenger's fault. Gangnam Style fluff piece? It's the mindless consumer's fault. Can't remember my lines? gently caress it, we'll do it live.
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Star Man posted:I can't even make it into two minutes of this poo poo without being cast into a near-violent mood swing. How on earth do you people stand to listen to this poo poo? For me it's a mix of half self-loathing and half-"oh my god I'm a way better person than this guy even if he's faking it to make a buck. And what the hell, there are sad unfortunate people stupid enough to buy this poo poo... I feel better about myself (kinda) but that also makes me sort of sad"
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If bad things happen to good people for no reason, the entire worldview collapses. Just world fallacy. Therefore either things aren't bad or the victims deserve it for some reason.
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Rhesus Pieces posted:Wait, what the gently caress is his angle here? That Carnival is the real victim in all of this because the customers are daring to hold Carnival accountable for a horrendously bungled cruise that turned the ship into a floating septic tank? A "poor defenseless corporation" that reaps enormous profit by abusing international boundaries to exploit workers in foreign countries with no labor laws, and abuses international law and legal waiver forms to prevent people from leveling lawsuits against them every time they gently caress up and inevitably hurt people. (Which is often.) There's far far far worse things Carnival is guilty of than this disaster.
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sleepingbuddha posted:I was listening to Rush today Me too, Moving Pictures is still a great album. Oh, the idiot, not the band. 
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Bobby Digital posted:Me too, Moving Pictures is still a great album. Holy poo poo, I thought the same thing! Is there anyway that the good Rush could sue the bad one until he lost the right to use the name? Say he's polluting their brand or something? That'd be so great.
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Rush was trying to pin the blame for electricity failure of the Triumph on environmentalists somehow. I didn't catch all of it but it was something like "if environmentalist wackos get their way, this sort of power failure will happen everywhere." Here it is: http://dailyrushbo.com/rush-if-environmentalist-wackos-get-their-way-entire-cities-will-become-like-crippled-cruise-ship/
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BiggerBoat posted:http://dailyrushbo.com/rush-if-environmentalist-wackos-get-their-way-entire-cities-will-become-like-crippled-cruise-ship/ Jesus, Rush is the loving master of transitioning to talking points from stories that have nothing at all to do with those talking points. As soon as he goes from the boat to the tried and true "liberals are attacking capitalism!!1!  " canard, he can talk about whatever he wants.And the notion that electric cars don't reduce fossil fuel consumption is one of the most  things I've ever heard. C'mon Rush, you know that isn't true.
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the2ndgenesis posted:Jesus, Rush is the loving master of transitioning to talking points from stories that have nothing at all to do with those talking points. As soon as he goes from the boat to the tried and true "liberals are attacking capitalism!!1! He's good, but it's also easy to spew bullshit when your audience laps up everything you say without second thought. I bet any of us could take any random news story and transition into an attack on liberals within a few sentences if we didn't have to worry about things like truth.
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the2ndgenesis posted:And the notion that electric cars don't reduce fossil fuel consumption is one of the most Rush is a master troll, love him or hate him. I suspect he doesn't really believe most of the poo poo he spews but ya know... dolla dolla bills 'yall.
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Lets scoff at DEMOCRATIC LEFT-WING LIBERAL Kirsten Powers the way she scoffs at universal Pre-K and a living wage. http://www.mediaite.com/tv/kirsten-powers-and-panel-hit-media-hard-on-sotu-they-fawn-over-every-stupid-idea-barack-obama-has/ Hitting Obama from the left!
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Alex DeLarge posted:Rush is a master troll, love him or hate him. I suspect he doesn't really believe most of the poo poo he spews but ya know... dolla dolla bills 'yall. I hate the effect that Rush has on political discourse, but I have to hand it to hand it to him for being one of the best radiomen of the last 50 years; dude knows his business front to back.
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the2ndgenesis posted:Jesus, Rush is the loving master of transitioning to talking points from stories that have nothing at all to do with those talking points. That's like saying someone is a master of eating their own vomit. Not quite something to be proud of. Actually, scratch that - mastering the eating of one's vomit is considerably more tasteful than being a dishonest jackass.
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But it can't be denied that Rush has a formidable appeal for those who are ignorant of the basics of rhetoric and argumentation, to say nothing of American politics and economy. Don't get me wrong, the guy's a complete blowhard and utter poo poo as a human being, but drat if he doesn't know how to play his audience like a drum. He could have taught Goebbels himself a thing or two about demagoguery. 
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I don't know how much "skill" it actually takes to convince an audience of what they already wanted to believe, as anyone can be a yes man who says all the things their fans want to hear. People like Rush just say those things louder and with a lot more zeal, and the only thing I'd say that's difficult about that is learning to live with yourself afterwards. That and learning how to spew out all that bullshit without reflexively putting your foot into your mouth if you're the type of person who doesn't actually believe Obama is going to murder your grandma, etc. e: Oh I meant Rush Limbaugh, not the band. Mercury_Storm fucked around with this message at 14:24 on Feb 17, 2013 |
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Rush is a Canadian rock band, and Triumph is also a Canadian rock band. Maybe there is more here than meets the eye!
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Mercury_Storm posted:I don't know how much "skill" it actually takes to convince an audience of what they already wanted to believe, as anyone can be a yes man who says all the things their fans want to hear. To be fair to Rush, he's the guy that made it an industry 20+ years ago. The same way Stern didn't invent morning zoo radio, Rush didn't invent saying crazy pandering poo poo on the radio but he was in the right place at the right time to make it something bigger. Funny thing is, the model that was sort of set in stone for AM radio back in the 90's is collapsing on itself. Radio guys like Lew Dickey (Who spent over 2 billion of other people's money to buy Citadel aka old ABC Radio networks) are trashing RW radio (I'm suuuure that has nothing to do with his choices Huckabee and Geraldo sucking wind) in favor of sports these days and you're seeing more and more format flips since nobody is really sure how to get people under the age of 70 to listen to AM. Right Wing mythology has always been its own distinct universe, but it seems in the last few years instead of living in a parallel world these right wing personalities have gone so far off the reservation the appeal is lost to all but the true believers. The Sandra Fluke incident is a good example of this. Rush didn't get in trouble for calling her a slut per se, it was the fact that he did it for 3 days repeatedly trying to super serve that segment of his audience. He's been in the business long enough to know there would be blowback, but these days doesn't have any options other than give the base more and more of what they want since they're the only ones tuning in on a regular basis. Moving forward it's going to be fun to see how this medium the right discovered in the early 90's to deal with the loss of influence comes back to act like an anchor keeping them from changing direction.
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GoatSeeGuy posted:Right Wing mythology has always been its own distinct universe, but it seems in the last few years instead of living in a parallel world these right wing personalities have gone so far off the reservation the appeal is lost to all but the true believers. The Sandra Fluke incident is a good example of this. Rush didn't get in trouble for calling her a slut per se, it was the fact that he did it for 3 days repeatedly trying to super serve that segment of his audience. He's been in the business long enough to know there would be blowback, but these days doesn't have any options other than give the base more and more of what they want since they're the only ones tuning in on a regular basis. Moving forward it's going to be fun to see how this medium the right discovered in the early 90's to deal with the loss of influence comes back to act like an anchor keeping them from changing direction. One of the sportstalk programs I used to listen to seemed to go through regular cycles of limiting the amount the amount of inside-joke jargon and pet nicknames they used on the air, obviously cognizant of the importance of making the show accessible to new listeners. Limbaugh et al, not so much...
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Is there a name for or has Rush patented that noise he uses during short segments or during promo's for his show? It's usually 20 seconds of highly-charged speech ending with "znnnnngBONK" right as it cuts to commercial. It's pure Pavlovian and it's genius.
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I see that there. posted:Is there a name for or has Rush patented that noise he uses during short segments or during promo's for his show? Pretty sure the generic term is stinger.
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Crosspost from the TPC SOROSCREW GBS thread: For anyone who even slightly thinks the tea party is anything but a fake grassroots movement out to demagogue nationalism and brainless anti-government extremism on behalf of big multinational corporations who want deregulation and less taxes for their greedy selves... ...this picture is from 2002.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR0hFAndsPU For anyone who wasn't privvy to this story breaking 6 days ago: quote:Study Confirms Tea Party Was Created by Big Tobacco and Billionaire Koch Brothers Comically and predictably - how does Fox News respond? By fallaciously attacking the study as 'taxpayer funded' so that suckers will ignore the contents of the study: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/15/taxpayer-dollars-used-to-fund-study-tying-tea-party-to-tobacco-lobby/ (PS - the comments on this article are really pathetic.) Fox News headline posted:Taxpayer dollars used to fund study attempting to link Tea Party to tobacco lobby "OH GOD, THE JIG IS UP! Uh uh...what lie can we use to distract from the fact that we're a bunch of manipulative crooks? Uh...uh...Say the study was taxpayer funded! Yeah, that's the ticket!" Anyway, feel free to  Also, feel free to use the term 'teabacco' to describe tea partiers from now on. It's much more accurate to what they really are, sadly. Spacedad fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Feb 18, 2013 |
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I don't know if this thread is the appropriate place for it, but I'm sure you kiddos remember this particular window into the conservative mindset regarding the poor - I'm sorry, I meant the "poor." That was 2011. Now we're getting the same poo poo in National Review, except now they link to a "concerning" study and since it's NR the talking point can now be called like, intellectual or something. gently caress me. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/277040/strange-facts-about-america-s-poor-robert-rector Does anyone else in D&D hate-follow NRO's Facebook page just for the undiluted loving amazing insight into the outlook of their readers? The comments on their Facebook posts, despite the fact that they're under real names and supposedly denote real people, actually seem worse than what you get on the site. There could be a whole thread on those guys.
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Yeah, that 'study' the national review cites was put on by the heritage foundation - a thinktank for rich right-wing assholes. Their literal purpose with it is to create resentment towards the poor instead of the rich who are fleecing everyone. "POOR PEOPLE HAVE BASIC APPLIANCES!" Oh yeah? Well you rich parasitic fucks have tax shelters.
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