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So, the employment rate was better than expected. I wonder if we'll see the return of employment truthers. Rush of course is gonna help: http://mediamatters.org/video/2013/03/05/limbaugh-any-future-positive-economic-numbers-u/192914 Or is their talking point gonna be the Obama-spearheaded sequestration is gonna hurt.
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keiran_helcyan posted:I can normally only handle very small doses of AM conservative lunacy, however Mark Levin is the crazy gift that never stops giving. He practically screeches his rage over the most minor Obama events possible. Also listening to him attack non Tea Party Republicans makes me laugh. Same here. He's so over-the-top that it isn't as depressing, and you can just enjoy a crazy person ranting. (Also, he sounds like Master Shake.)
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Vertical Lime posted:So, the employment rate was better than expected. I wonder if we'll see the return of employment truthers. Rush of course is gonna help: edit: it does seem like everybody, conservative or liberal, who is looking at it in any kind of mathematical way agrees sequestration will hurt the economy, though, when they argue it's about degree. pangstrom fucked around with this message at 15:31 on Mar 8, 2013 |
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Mar 8, 2013 15:28
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Screaming Cow posted:Edit: For bonus idiotic rhetoric, Hugo Chavez is dead because of socialized medicine, if he'd have gotten good old 'Murican privatized treatment he'd still be alive today! Ehhh... He might've done better if he'd gone to some world-renowned oncology hospital like the Mayo or something, but it's not guaranteed.
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Mar 8, 2013 16:15
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Zeroisanumber posted:Ehhh... He might've done better if he'd gone to some world-renowned oncology hospital like the Mayo or something, but it's not guaranteed. From what I've heard, the kind of cancer he had was the kind where top medical treatment means living an extra 6 months or a year, instead of others where prompt medical treatment means you live another 20. Besides, those Cuban doctors aren't exactly slouches in their training.
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Install Gentoo posted:From what I've heard, the kind of cancer he had was the kind where top medical treatment means living an extra 6 months or a year, instead of others where prompt medical treatment means you live another 20. Yea, if he went to Mayo or something he maybe could have had an extra few months, but he had the kinda cancer that is the super scary 'welp need to get my will in order' kind, he was going to die of it soon no matter what country he went to.
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Mar 8, 2013 17:52
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MD Anderson is where you'd want to go generally speaking, which is why all the wealthy cancer death datelines read HOUSTON TX (e.g. Hitch), though specialists in specific types of cancer can be at any medical center in the world. You have to admire him not even trying to go to America, though. I mean I'm sure he would think they'd be trying to kill him anyway, but he was true to the end.
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Mar 8, 2013 18:02
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prefect posted:Same here. He's so over-the-top that it isn't as depressing, and you can just enjoy a crazy person ranting. (Also, he sounds like Master Shake.) Oh my god, you just made listening to Levin 10 times more amusing. It gets more pronounced the more excited he gets about something 
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Mar 8, 2013 18:10
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I love how he gets himself so worked up and starts shouting words at random. He is truly the nuttiest nut to take wing.
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Mar 8, 2013 18:15
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PeterWeller posted:I love how he gets himself so worked up and starts shouting words at random. He is truly the nuttiest nut to take wing. The Constitution! Liberty! Tyranny! The Constitution!
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Mar 8, 2013 18:21
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Naga Warlord posted:The Constitution! Liberty! Tyranny! The Constitution! I phrased my statement poorly. It's even better than that. He doesn't just shout a random word out of context. He starts shouting in the middle of a sentence with no build up, and it is hysterical to hear him lose it like that. I can't even type a hypothetical example because when I do, I inevitably put the emphasis on the words you'd think someone yelling would emphasize, but Levin will just yell out a word in an otherwise perfectly calm and collected sentence.
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Mar 8, 2013 18:34
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It can't be healthy for someone with a history of serious heart problems to get that worked up over politics every single day, I swear the guy is going to have a heart attack on air someday.
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Mar 8, 2013 18:35
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MaxxBot posted:It can't be healthy for someone with a history of serious heart problems to get that worked up over politics every single day, I swear the guy is going to have a heart attack on air someday. While in the middle of yelling about socialized healthcare and deathpanels.
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Mar 8, 2013 18:59
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Fox News contributor Juan Williams is now in trouble due to a report exposing how entire sections of one of his recent online articles were lifted from a Center for American Progress study on immigration. He's blaming this on a staffer, of course.
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Mar 8, 2013 19:07
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Mar 8, 2013 19:12
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Well it probably was a staffer. Plagiarism is rampant among undergrads these days and some fresh out of college staffer probably got away with it before. Regardless the ultimate responsibility lies on the person who put their name on it.
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Mar 8, 2013 19:13
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ACORN finally got him.
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Mar 8, 2013 19:14
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Naga Warlord posted:The Constitution! Liberty! Tyranny! The Constitution! You forgot Reagan, once the screaming has reached it's peak you can probably expect to wait 20 seconds or so before the Reagan namedrop.
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Mar 8, 2013 19:25
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greatn posted:Well it probably was a staffer. Plagiarism is rampant among undergrads these days and some fresh out of college staffer probably got away with it before. Regardless the ultimate responsibility lies on the person who put their name on it. Maureen Dowd got in trouble for something similar. She said a friend gave her a line that turned out to be verbatim from TPM's website. Taking these people at their words, is it really that much better to say "Oh, well I'm just publishing chunks of my researcher's reports and not crediting them"? Sure, the researcher knows the score and has apparently agreed to ghost-write part of Williams' column, but in this job market, it's exploitative.
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Mar 8, 2013 19:34
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Limbaugh Chat: He recognizes that comment sections on blogs/websites are terrible places filled with half thought out drivel. He also read some article in Forbes that said that most of these posters in terrible comment sections where in fact Democrats so there ya go, suck it Libs! 
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UFOTofuTacoCat posted:Limbaugh Chat: He recognizes that comment sections on blogs/websites are terrible places filled with half thought out drivel. He also read some article in Forbes that said that most of these posters in terrible comment sections where in fact Democrats so there ya go, suck it Libs! Yes, because Forbes totally checks the party registration of every internet shitpost. Limbaugh lives a fantasy world where rich people have the power to bend time and space with the power of their money-minds. Spacedad fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Mar 8, 2013 |
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Mar 8, 2013 19:57
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ClothHat posted:You forgot Reagan, once the screaming has reached it's peak you can probably expect to wait 20 seconds or so before the Reagan namedrop. My favorite was on the show right after inaguration where he bitched for a while about how divisive Obama was and then just played large chunks of Reagan's inaguration addresses while verbally fellating him.
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Mar 8, 2013 20:24
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Speaking of Mark Levin, I listened to him last night while he was interviewing one of his Great American True Conservative buddies from Fox News. I can't remember who it was, but the two of them were attempting to engage each other in friendly banter, and good loving lord was it awkward. You can tell these are the most insecure people in the world, because every time they poke fun at each other there's a noticeable pause while they try to figure out whether they've been insulted or not in what is supposed to be a friendly interview between peers. The best part was when the guest started mocking Levin's voice, which obviously irritated Levin, so that by the end of the interview I couldn't tell if these guys were friends or professional arch enemies.
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Mar 8, 2013 20:31
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Can someone please post a "Best Of" from this Levin guy? This is the first I've heard of him and I'd love to hear Master Shake freak out and spike his blood pressure while spouting out conservative talking points.
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Mar 8, 2013 20:41
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redshirt posted:And those who do it for this reason are heroes. But y'all who're just driving home from work or doing poo poo in the warehouse listening to Rush seems a whole different category. How can you listen to him for extended periods for no reason and not be affected? He feels like poison to me and I'd listen to pretty much anything else on the radio than right wing radio. Maybe I'm too lucky. Well, in my case, since I started the thread, I feel somewhat obliged to know what these people are saying. Another part of curiosity along the lines of "what will he say next" and "how can they spin this into a negative" or try to blame it on liberals, whatever it is that day. It's a little bit like what made Howard Stern so popular, where even the people that hated him listened. Then again, at least Howard was funny for the most part. Another part of me is just genuinely curious to know what so many of my neighbors and co-workers are on about on a given day and where they're getting their information. Most right wing types don't know what to think about a news article until Rush and Sean tell them what to think. They're usually pretty quiet about an immediate news story, but let it bake for a day and allow the talking points to resonate and those same people start to have very strong opinions on the matter. The fact that they're someone else's opinions is beside the point. I can't stand to listen to too much of it either, but I force myself to just to know where my father in law is coming up with whatever poo poo he's spewing that day. I'm also not sure why today's (good) job numbers were bad, made up or attributable to Rand Paul and the sequester or whatever but I'm sure I'll know by tomorrow.
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Mar 8, 2013 20:43
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Minorities posted:Can someone please post a "Best Of" from this Levin guy? This is the first I've heard of him and I'd love to hear Master Shake freak out and spike his blood pressure while spouting out conservative talking points. Here is a short clip of Levin ripping on Savage; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLw_8UdHDzw Here is a longer one, a sort of manifesto on how conservatives will not compromise; http://www.therightscoop.com/mark-levin-pulls-no-punches-gives-unvarnished-truth-about-loss-and-attacks-on-conservatism/
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Mar 8, 2013 22:58
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So has anyone gotten weird meditation hippie conservative freak Roy Masters on their local station? We got him a couple weeks ago and the poo poo is just bizarre.I see that there. posted:Rush's interview had a few highlights, namely him fawning, (my paraphrasing, but it was close) "No one has had the GUTS to stand up to this president, and yet we just watched you do it for 13 hours [...] no one has been brave enough to attack this president, but here you are, ok, everything's fine, and the sun is still shining." Yes, Rush, no one has been brave enough to attack the president except nearly every Republican currently in Congress and most major media outlets. FlamingLiberal posted:Fox News contributor Juan Williams is now in trouble due to a report exposing how entire sections of one of his recent online articles were lifted from a Center for American Progress study on immigration. He's blaming this on a staffer, of course. To be fair, staffers probably do do all of his work and he gives it a quick once-over. Either explanation makes him look terribly incompetent. UFOTofuTacoCat posted:Limbaugh Chat: He recognizes that comment sections on blogs/websites are terrible places filled with half thought out drivel. He also read some article in Forbes that said that most of these posters in terrible comment sections where in fact Democrats so there ya go, suck it Libs! I imagine most of the shitposting in comments on Forbes are liberals. The shitposts on any website without a blatant political affiliation are almost all conservative talking points, though. Typical Pubbie posted:Speaking of Mark Levin, I listened to him last night while he was interviewing one of his Great American True Conservative buddies from Fox News. I can't remember who it was, but the two of them were attempting to engage each other in friendly banter, and good loving lord was it awkward. You can tell these are the most insecure people in the world, because every time they poke fun at each other there's a noticeable pause while they try to figure out whether they've been insulted or not in what is supposed to be a friendly interview between peers. The best part was when the guest started mocking Levin's voice, which obviously irritated Levin, so that by the end of the interview I couldn't tell if these guys were friends or professional arch enemies. Oh man, does anyone know who this was? I need to hear this.
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Mar 8, 2013 23:10
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Beowulfs_Ghost posted:Here is a short clip of Levin ripping on Savage; Oh god, his voice. I can't even get mad at him
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Mar 8, 2013 23:34
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mr. mephistopheles posted:I imagine most of the shitposting in comments on Forbes are liberals. The shitposts on any website without a blatant political affiliation are almost all conservative talking points, though. You have to see it from there perspective. The conservative talking points aren't the shitposts. All the people who dog-pile on them, calling them out on their talking-point spamming, are the "shitposters". Go to GBS and go through the Teaparty Community thread. Talking points and terrible bigoted macros are fine. Linking to independent facts and studies is what makes one a shitposting troll worthy of being banned.
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In case anybody wants a Levin stream, you can get it here: http://www.wabcradio.com/ He's on now. Not in full rage mode yet.
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Mar 9, 2013 00:10
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The best new contributor on Fox News is, of course, Thomas Jefferson: http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/fox-friends-hosts-pretend-man-is-actually-thomas--1?ref=fpb 
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De Nomolos posted:The best new contributor on Fox News is, of course, Thomas Jefferson: Remember when FOX interviewed Santa about the war on Christmas? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QoYf45MnIg
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Monkey Fracas posted:Oh god, his voice. I can't even get mad at him He'll yell at you about that, "I have a deviated septum!"
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I'm actually kind of concerned that more people posting in the "Dittoheads, Great Americans, Fairness and Balance - Right Wing Media" thread don't actually listen to or watch right wing media at this point. I thought the idea was to check that poo poo out and report back here as to why it's bad and laugh about it. Standing around saying "Gosh that's bad, is that bad?" "Yeah that's bad." "I refuse to even look at it because it's bad!" doesn't really seem even the spirit of the title of this thread, it's just kinda head nodding that there might be bad stuff being said by people.
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De Nomolos posted:The best new contributor on Fox News is, of course, Thomas Jefferson: Wait.... They did this today instead of women's day? Am I understanding that right? If so that is literally the absolute craziest thing that Fox News has ever done.
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Miltank posted:Wait.... They did this today instead of women's day? Am I understanding that right? If so that is literally the absolute craziest thing that Fox News has ever done. Wait, you expected the channel that claims that the Democrats are conducting the REAL war on women by aborting babies or something to discuss INTERNATIONAL Women's Day? I see that there. posted:I'm actually kind of concerned that more people posting in the "Dittoheads, Great Americans, Fairness and Balance - Right Wing Media" thread don't actually listen to or watch right wing media at this point. I don't drive to and from work any more, so I usually only catch bits and pieces or reports from secondary sources, but I like keeping up with the talking points.
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to me it is surprising that Levin, who is much more educated than Rush and Hannity, is also arguably much more crazy when it comes to the things coming out of his mouth. Guess there goes that paradigm that the more educated you other, the more reason you possess. It is also funny how much Levin loathes Obama. Like really really despises him and labels him a tyrant and a dictator. Someone take this rear end in a top hat to Zimbabwe or North Korea or Iraq under Saddam and have him REALLY experience tyranny. towelieban fucked around with this message at 07:26 on Mar 9, 2013 |
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towelieban posted:to me it is surprising that Levin, who is much more educated than Rush and Hannity, is also arguably much more crazy when it comes to the things coming out of his mouth. Guess there goes that paradigm that the more educated you other, the more reason you possess. Better yet, take him to free-market, no-government Somalia.
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towelieban posted:to me it is surprising that Levin, who is much more educated than Rush and Hannity, is also arguably much more crazy when it comes to the things coming out of his mouth. Guess there goes that paradigm that the more educated you other, the more reason you possess. skaboomizzy posted:Better yet, take him to free-market, no-government Somalia. We could say both of these things about any right-wing Tea Partier, really.
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These guys really are the bane of human existence. More than ready to go bomb But I am getting ahead of myself here. It just really irks me to see these people play off of others' fears and ignorance, feed this great big hate machine we've had to deal with for decades, making money and living like the kings whom them so constantly complain about, living nice long lives. All the while the people they are 'championing' for are getting played like suckers, still living day to day, paycheck to paycheck, and propogating the ignorance and hate that they absorb onto future generations. It makes me depressed.
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