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Rhesus Pieces posted:Is that actually true? Yes. Before the internet "exposed" the business to younger fans in the late 90s, there were still tons of people who thought it was real. To maintain that illusion, promotion owners would seriously tell their wrestlers to "live the gimmick" in public. This actually resulted in at least one bad guy wrestler getting stabbed by a fan. Even now there are still enough people who still think it's all real that the "good guys" and "bad guys" have to travel on separate buses and avoid being friendly in public. Elephant Ambush fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Feb 26, 2013 |
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Today Rush was frothing at the mouth over Moochelle and the IRONY of her presenting an Oscar to Argo, a movie about a successful rescue of embassy personnel, and her failure to rescue embassy personnel in Benghazi. Then he called Manti Te'o gay, said NFL owners are nervous about drafting him and did the hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhnnnnnnnnnnghhhhhhg-bonk to ads. The first one being him selling Indian tractors to american farmers. I almost drove off the road. I really wish my NPR station had something worth listening to during the 11:00 hour.
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Feb 26, 2013 19:06
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Dirk Pitt posted:I almost drove off the road. I really wish my NPR station had something worth listening to during the 11:00 hour. I was really disappointed when my local NPR affiliate, KERA, replaced Fresh Air at 11am with "The Take Away". It's not a bad show but it reminds much more of the right wing style radio than I would like.
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Speaking of 'irony' - Rush making any commentary about the NFL will be tinged with rich-man's grudge for being blocked by the NFL from purchasing partial ownership of the St. Louis Rams. (For being a racist rear end in a top hat the NFL wants nothing to do with.) It's also why he flipped out going out of his way to mock the congresswoman who said the 'I stand here as a freed slave' line - she was one of the key people who raised a fuss over Rush being a racist rear end in a top hat who shouldn't be associated with the NFL, when he was trying to buy those shares. Also - What are you doing listening to Rush? Don't you have a way to listen to podcasts on the road? You don't have to listen to that fat bloated pig or his advertisers. Spacedad fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Feb 26, 2013 |
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Here's a fairly lucid and intelligent article from a rabid right winger. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/02/26/infantile_conservatism__117165.html
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Dirk Pitt posted:Today Rush was frothing at the mouth over Moochelle and the IRONY of her presenting an Oscar to Argo, a movie about a successful rescue of embassy personnel, and her failure to rescue embassy personnel in Benghazi. Then he called Manti Te'o gay, said NFL owners are nervous about drafting him and did the hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhnnnnnnnnnnghhhhhhg-bonk to ads. The first one being him selling Indian tractors to american farmers. Just to be clear, most people who listen to Rush think he is a speaker for the republican party. Calling a woman a cow, especially the first lady is in itself entirely classless, but it gets the ratings right? You know, I was going to write up a long response on how toxic this guy is, but I don't have too. Guys a walking Onion article these days anyways. It is kind of amusing how the whole "nation of fear" thing is finally breaking down. The republicans are stuck in fear, and they are it.
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The only people I fear are the crazies telling us what they think we should fear.
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SilentD posted:Here's a fairly lucid and intelligent article from a rabid right winger. Incidentally, I love that he calls World War Two era Japan "The Empire of the Sun". It makes it seem like we're living in some kind of D&D campaign.
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SilentD posted:Here's a fairly lucid and intelligent article from a rabid right winger. Pat Buchanan? There wasn't a single racist remark int he entire thing!
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SilentD posted:Here's a fairly lucid and intelligent article from a rabid right winger. Jennifer Rubin Is An Idiot is hardly a deep thought, but hey if it's obvious enough even Patty Patty Buke Buke can tell...
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Minorities posted:Yes. Before the internet "exposed" the business to younger fans in the late 90s, there were still tons of people who thought it was real. To maintain that illusion, promotion owners would seriously tell their wrestlers to "live the gimmick" in public. This actually resulted in at least one bad guy wrestler getting stabbed by a fan. Even now there are still enough people who still think it's all real that the "good guys" and "bad guys" have to travel on separate buses and avoid being friendly in public. This reminds me of hearing about the time Hacksaw Jim Duggan and the Iron Sheik (long before he became an internet cult hero) were busted together for DUI/drug possession: quote:In 1987, Duggan and the Iron Sheik (Khosrow Vasiri) were pulled over by New Jersey police after a WWF event, suspecting Duggan of driving under the influence. After a search of the vehicle and the persons, police discovered that Duggan was under the influence of marijuana and alcohol, while Vasiri was high on cocaine. Small amounts of cocaine were also found in the vehicle. Duggan received a conditional release while Vasiri was placed on probation for a year. The scandal that erupted after two in-ring enemies were found drinking and doing drugs together led to the end of the angle, the Sheik's release, and Duggan's temporary departure from WWF. Duggan soon returned to wrestling.[90][91][92][93][94] That's probably as bad of a character break as you could have back then.
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Spacedad posted:The only people I fear are the crazies telling us what they think we should fear. Fox News Wishes Viewers "Happy Holidays" After Bill O'Reilly's Christmas Rant Just a reminder of how weird life is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XlxgnEJlZg Not Merry Christmas, Fox news has declared war on Christmas in less than 3 seconds after declaring war on Christmas.
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Sword of Chomsky posted:Pat Buchanan? There wasn't a single racist remark int he entire thing! He forced the phrase "wee-wee'd up" in there unnecessarily, I think that counts
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SilentD posted:Here's a fairly lucid and intelligent article from a rabid right winger. Countdown to Buchanan being stripped of his "true conservative" status, or did that happen when he took the gig on MSNBC? It's a real shame that the best rebuke I've seen of the "rah rah bomb Iran" mindset had to come from Pat "it sounded better in the original German" Buchanan.
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Skex posted:Countdown to Buchanan being stripped of his "true conservative" status, or did that happen when he took the gig on MSNBC? It's a real shame that the best rebuke I've seen of the "rah rah bomb Iran" mindset had to come from Pat "it sounded better in the original German" Buchanan. He got the boot when he pointed out that our foreign policy and economic fiasco's weren't Obama's fault, and were instead a result of the Republican elite who didn't actually govern along conservative (cautious foreign foreign policy, not wracking up debt) guidelines and let NYC bankers run loose. Which is heretical. It's hard to tell at times though. He's a hardcore enough culture warrior he still retains some conservative cred for all his "America will fall when it is not a Christian society with WASP values" rants, which are common. But he's a populist and foreign policy realist as well, and completely at home calling the neoconservatives and libertarians out on their poo poo as well. IMHO I'm kinda sad MSNBC let him go. Whatever else you can say the dude isn't stupid and is totally willing and able to argue his own points. They could have just pushed him out to talk about economic and foreign policy issues, rather than serving him up to talk about social issues. But having an intelligent Republican contradict the economic and FP consensus of Washington DC isn't what MSNBC wants on TV, and culture rants get far more ratings. You shouldn't be so shocked that he's lucid on this, the dude is at core a Ike/Nixon Republican who never grew out of that era. Calling conservatives a bunch of pussies over this Iran thing because we could just obliterate them and blaming the current problems on the Bush crew is the sort of thing he'd do.
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LASER BEAM DREAM posted:I was really disappointed when my local NPR affiliate, KERA, replaced Fresh Air at 11am with "The Take Away". It's not a bad show but it reminds much more of the right wing style radio than I would like. KERA was one of the best parts of living in DFW. My local NPR station now is all classical music and BBC World Service at night and it's just not the same, so I've been listening to a lot more CTR. One thing that blows me away is how many commercials there are. I'm sure that listening almost exclusively to NPR for a few years has spoiled me, but some day I want to sit down with a stopwatch and find out exactly how much "content" is in a typical 3 hour installment of Rush or Hannity. If you take out time devoted to actual traditional commercials and then take out time devoted to live on-air product endorsements, I'd wager there's less than 20 minutes of real discussion and commentary per hour. Of course this doesn't even account for the fact that all of these shows will mostly be covering the exact same talking points for weeks at a time. Even if I agreed with what they were saying, I don't think the incessant barrage of ads would be remotely enjoyable to listen to.
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Pat Buchanan basically doesn't like Jews, and because almost any deviation from the Republican story is more likely to be correct than the Republican story itself that antipathy leads him to be correct sometimes.
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pangstrom posted:Pat Buchanan basically doesn't like Jews, and because almost any deviation from the Republican story is more likely to be correct than the Republican story itself that antipathy leads him to be correct sometimes. That's not really what's going on. Pat is pretty much insanely defensive of "his people". Which is working class, white, Christian, middle America. And he goes after anyone who he thinks is screwing them over or belittling them. That leads him to some crazy places on social issues about minorities (not justifiable), and is the root of his extreme rage at white elite liberals (completely justifiable). But it's also why he rails against the neoconservatives and libertarians because he accurately see's them as using and loving over "his people". Real economic populism goes hand in hand with social conservatism in this country, also with a dash of zany isolationalism and jingoism.
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Buchanan's in one of those weird pre-Vatican II Catholic sects. It's pretty straight antisemitism on his part, though he had ample company among Nixon and friends.
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Have any of you guys heard of Dr. Ben Carson? I heard him on On Point on NPR today being a cliche-regurgitation machine ("Flat tax is not ideology," standard Obummer nonsense, moral decay of society, etc) all while vehemently denying being 'politically affiliated.' I also read somewhere that he doesn't believe in evolution--while being a Yale-educated pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins.
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Badera posted:Have any of you guys heard of Dr. Ben Carson? I heard him on On Point on NPR today being a cliche-regurgitation machine ("Flat tax is not ideology," standard Obummer nonsense, moral decay of society, etc) all while vehemently denying being 'politically affiliated.' I also read somewhere that he doesn't believe in evolution--while being a Yale-educated pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins. This is a common thing these days. Espouse lovely republican ideas, morals, and talking points, all while calling yourself independent. They're just too embarrassed to call themselves what they actually are.
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Sword of Chomsky posted:This is a common thing these days. Espouse lovely republican ideas, morals, and talking points, all while calling yourself independent. They're just too embarrassed to call themselves what they actually are. Being nominally independent is fashionable among the conservative set these days.
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Lester Shy posted:KERA was one of the best parts of living in DFW. My local NPR station now is all classical music and BBC World Service at night and it's just not the same, so I've been listening to a lot more CTR. KERA is indeed the best thing in DFW even if was just BRUCE GUNN *pistol noises* doing traffic between hour long marathons of classical music. http://keranews.org/post/keras-voice-traffic-legs-make-headlines
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Anyone else hearing various right-wing news guys shilling for email addresses at Reagan.com? I've heard a number of them talking about it, but today I heard Rush going on about how your Reagan.com email address makes a statement - you're a high-information, intelligent person. Okay, sure. It's finally here: the right wingers (well, Michael Reagan, anyway) are literally making money directly off Ronald Reagan's name. Not that I'm surprised, but It's just funny to see them selling the Gipper for $40 / annually. It's only a hairsbreadth away from the Ferengi practice of family members selling pieces of their dead relatives (Star Trek stuff). Walter fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Feb 26, 2013 |
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Feb 26, 2013 22:21
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I remember signing up for Rahowa1488@reagan.com a while back
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Now to set up roosevelt.com just to gently caress with right wingers.
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Walter posted:Anyone else hearing various right-wing news guys shilling for email addresses at Reagan.com? This is hilarious, I still can't find a place on the site that explains why I'd want a reagan.com email address in the first place.
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Walter posted:Anyone else hearing various right-wing news guys shilling for email addresses at Reagan.com? I think a goon has either throwjizz@reagan.com or throwacid@reagan.com.
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nachos posted:This is hilarious, I still can't find a place on the site that explains why I'd want a reagan.com email address in the first place. They told me why on talk radio yesterday, apparently if you send enough emails to people with your @reagan.com email eventually you'll convert someone to conservatism and that's worth every penny of the $40/year. EDIT: Also gmail STEALS YOUR DATA and uses it for LIBERAL causes!
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Sword of Chomsky posted:This is a common thing these days. Espouse lovely republican ideas, morals, and talking points, all while calling yourself independent. They're just too embarrassed to call themselves what they actually are. It's more that they want to pretend they're being objective with their right wing talking points.
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Soonmot posted:These guys got me good the other day. Someone posted one of their anti-immigration videos on face book and I commented on it as if it were real. Poe's Law is a total bitch. Holy poo poo, I'm impressed.
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nachos posted:This is hilarious, I still can't find a place on the site that explains why I'd want a reagan.com email address in the first place. Duh. To be cool of course.
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Hahaha Tyler the Creator was the music guest on Fallon today. Look who else was there.
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Y'all forgot to post the delicious Ben Shapiro tears following Hagel's confirmation! https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/306532344922255360 quote:Ben Shapiro 
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The celebration party at the Friends of Hamas office got so out of hand, the cops had to come in and shut it down.
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FMguru posted:The celebration party at the Friends of Hamas office got so out of hand, the cops had to come in and shut it down. The lamb kebobs were delicious.
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Why is the right convinced that Iran loves him, he hates Jews, and he will destroy Israel? I thought they were just being obstructionist poo poo heads, I didn't realize they had an ostensible reason for it.
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Warchicken posted:Why is the right convinced that Iran loves him, he hates Jews, and he will destroy Israel? I thought they were just being obstructionist poo poo heads, I didn't realize they had an ostensible reason for it. No serious/honest person thinks this. It's all an attempt to make a big deal out of nothing. Also if anything remotely bad happens under Hagel's watch shitheads like Ben Shapiro can go LOOK I TOLD YOU SO.
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Warchicken posted:Why is the right convinced that Iran loves him, he hates Jews, and he will destroy Israel? I thought they were just being obstructionist poo poo heads, I didn't realize they had an ostensible reason for it. Because Obama. No, seriously, that's why. They're just full of irrational hatred and stopped conducting themselves like adults, or even adolescents by that token, a long time ago.
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Obama isn't bad because he does anti-American things, things are anti-American because Obama does them.
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