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Grand Prize Winner posted:Hey, y'all remember how the Koch Brothers rented/bought Buzzfeed? Apparently Buzzfeed's editor-in-chief has a long history with them. Jesus Christ. A banner advertising the Koch Institute as: A place of "Dialogue & Discovery for Societal Well-Being and Progress."
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Ben Smith was one of the more noxious hacks at Politico (which is no mean feat) prior to failing upward to the non-Cracked list site.
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mr. mephistopheles posted:Jesus Christ. "If you can't afford us, get the gently caress out" Would probably be more apt.
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May 16, 2013 12:31
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Social justice isn't justice. It's harassment. - Rush Limbaugh 5/16/2013 I had to laugh at that one because words have different meetings in Crazytown. Probably not the first time he's raged against the term, but wow. Wikipedia posted:A socially just society is one based upon the principles of equality and solidarity; which pedagogy also maintains that a socially just society both understands and values human rights, as well as recognizing the dignity of every human being.
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May 16, 2013 18:46
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Hey, y'all remember how the Koch Brothers rented/bought Buzzfeed? Apparently Buzzfeed's editor-in-chief has a long history with them. Well that explains this: http://www.buzzfeed.com/bennyjohnson/ronald-reagan-yolo
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May 16, 2013 20:51
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Don't the Koch companies sponsor PBS programs? I swear I've watched Nova or Nature and been told it's been brought to me, in part, by the Koch Foundation or something.
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May 16, 2013 21:05
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Wiki seems to say soquote:Koch contributed $7 million to the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) show Nova,[35] and is a contributor to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., including a $20 million gift to the American Museum of Natural History, creating the David H. Koch Dinosaur Wing and a contribution of $15 million to the National Museum of Natural History to create the new David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins, which opened on the museum's 100th anniversary of its location on the National Mall on March 17, 2010.[36] In 2012, Koch contributed US $35 million to the Smithsonian to build a new dinosaur exhibition hall at the National Museum of Natural History.[37] Consider me pleasantly surprised.
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May 16, 2013 21:19
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Nckdictator posted:Wiki seems to say so Too bad that only rich kids will ever get to see those museum exhibits because all the poor kids will be dead if the Kochs get their way on taxes and "government intervention" into their already-massive profits.
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May 16, 2013 21:29
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Nckdictator posted:Wiki seems to say so The Koch brothers actually donate a great deal of money to a number of worthy causes. If they'd give up on playing politics and try to save the world like Bill Gates does, I'd like them much better.
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May 16, 2013 21:30
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The Koch brothers basically want to keep Americans from being dependent on the government by making them dependent on the Koch brothers.
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May 16, 2013 21:49
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PBS, NPR, etc know who pays a good chunk of their bills; and this affects who they will and will not cover in a negative light.
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May 16, 2013 22:12
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McDowell posted:PBS, NPR, etc know who pays a good chunk of their bills; and this affects who they will and will not cover in a negative light. I don't know, Frontline has done a number of scathing reports on the conservative power machine.
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May 16, 2013 22:17
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I just want to thank the Amerigoons who linked Maddows blog. It's the most entertaining thing I've put in my Facebook feed since George Takei. 
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May 16, 2013 22:23
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Nckdictator posted:Wiki seems to say so Initially read that as the David H. Koch Hall of Human Organs
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beatlegs posted:I don't know, Frontline has done a number of scathing reports on the conservative power machine. Frontline is actual investigative journalism while the daily NPR/PBS news programs aren't. Nothing beats tuning in to NPR to hear about how fracking is pretty good and then they end the segment with a not-commercial telling you "NPR is brought to you by [oil company] and listeners like you".
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zeroprime posted:Frontline is actual investigative journalism while the daily NPR/PBS news programs aren't. Nothing beats tuning in to NPR to hear about how fracking is pretty good and then they end the segment with a not-commercial telling you "NPR is brought to you by [oil company] and listeners like you". Well, even then it's pretty show-by-show. For example, Diane Rehm REALLY likes to discuss fracking, it comes up all the time and while she always has some oil-company shill there to present their argument, he always seems to end up on the defensive from Diane and the other guests. And my local news commentator guy also is out for oil company blood on the fracking issue (Dan Rodricks on WYPR, Baltimore) despite NPR's sponsors. But yeah, I've totally heard some ridiculous bullshit spouted before on All Things Considered and ESPECIALLY Marketplace.
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As opposed to Planet Money brought to you by Ally Bank?
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comes along bort posted:Initially read that as the David H. Koch Hall of Human Organs I'm sure there's one of those.
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While it would be nice if the feds funded NPR, APM, PRI, PBS, etc more, I have very few issues with their reporting especially when compared to everything else on radio and television. Unless you've got a Pacifica station in your town, NPR is probably as good as it gets. You can nitpick some of their biases, but in general they're quite good for the United States. Like yesterday, Marketplace, of all the shows, had Rumsfeld and Kai had some very good questions shoved into a six minute interview. http://www.marketplace.org/topics/economy/big-book/three-life-rules-donald-rumsfeld Phone posted:As opposed to Planet Money brought to you by Ally Bank? They're still just a podcast, right? edit Anyway, back on topic. It would seem the right is back to being its usual petty self and hasn't learned how to manage itself enough to seem to not be children. http://wonkette.com/516692/guest-post-from-a-u-s-marine-about-barack-obamas-shocking-and-disgusting-use-of-an-umbrella or, if you want it from the source: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/17/was-it-against-uniform-protocol-for-the-marine-to-hold-obamas-umbrella/ Holy poo poo are these people willfully ignorant. Like that Marine is supposed to go, "I'm sorry sir, I am unable to shield you from the rain because of the UCMJ uniform standards that only apply to myself." Sir Tonk fucked around with this message at 16:30 on May 17, 2013 |
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Sir Tonk posted:They're still just a podcast, right? They frequently contribute segments to All Things Considered and recently, the horrible disability reporting on This American Life.
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Apparently it was republicans that altered the Benghazi e-mail stream? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/16/republicans-benghazi-emails_n_3289428.html?icid=maing-grid7 poor nose fucked around with this message at 17:51 on May 17, 2013 |
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Sir Tonk posted:
Didn't the right wing media pull this same stunt with Bill Clinton as well? I remember something about how marines right-faced towards Bush and didn't do it for Clinton or whatever. Manufactured outrage about the dumbest poo poo ever.
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Sir Tonk posted:While it would be nice if the feds funded NPR, APM, PRI, PBS, etc more, I have very few issues with their reporting especially when compared to everything else on radio and television. Unless you've got a Pacifica station in your town, NPR is probably as good as it gets. You can nitpick some of their biases, but in general they're quite good for the United States. This is the single most petty thing I have ever seen made into a news story.
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Warchicken posted:This is the single most petty thing I have ever seen made into a news story. Didn't you know Obama puts DIJON MUSTARD ON HIS HAMBURGER!?!?!?!
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The Angry Bum posted:Didn't you know Obama puts DIJON MUSTARD ON HIS HAMBURGER!?!?!?! I'll bet he doesn't microwave every single meal, either!
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They're just upset Obama didn't pull a President Harrison.
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Nonsense posted:What if the Koch Bros. bought CNN? How do you know they haven't already?
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The Angry Bum posted:Didn't you know Obama puts DIJON MUSTARD ON HIS HAMBURGER!?!?!?!  ELITIST SNOBBERY DETECTED!
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The Angry Bum posted:Didn't you know Obama puts DIJON MUSTARD ON HIS HAMBURGER!?!?!?! Hamburger? What, is the MUSLIM too good for a hotdog? Where did this fixation on presidential eating habits come from, anyways?
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Mister Macys posted:Hamburger? What, is the MUSLIM too good for a hotdog? Zachary Taylor?
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this is where I think that meme originated Did anyone other than hannity care?
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Warchicken posted:This is the single most petty thing I have ever seen made into a news story. American amd Turkish president hold a presser over issues bringing us to the brink of World War 3. 'Lookit dem marines with the umbrellas!' Mc Do Well fucked around with this message at 22:59 on May 17, 2013 |
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Sir Tonk posted:While it would be nice if the feds funded NPR, APM, PRI, PBS, etc more, I have very few issues with their reporting especially when compared to everything else on radio and television. Unless you've got a Pacifica station in your town, NPR is probably as good as it gets. You can nitpick some of their biases, but in general they're quite good for the United States. I love the completely straightfaced discussion over whether or not it was against protocol for the marines to hold umbrellas, as though they are logic-powered robots whose brains would implode if they were forced to violate the fourth law of marine dressware. They're so willing to blame anything, anything at all on Obama that "Did some arbitary set of rules that don't matter at all become violated, and was it his fault?" seems like something that they think is important enough to think about for more than five seconds. It really says all you need to know about whether the hard right has any opinions worth listening to.
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Mister Macys posted:Hamburger? What, is the MUSLIM too good for a hotdog? It's not a new phenomenon. The United States of Arugula posted:"The advisers to the Whig presidential candidate of 1840, William Henry Harrison, tried to smear the Democratic incumbent, Martin Van Buren, as a fey monarchist aristocrat--on the evidence that he drank champagne and had hired a Frenchman to be White House chef. The scrappy old soldier Harrison, on the other hand, subsisted on "hard cider" and "raw beef and salt," and won the election."
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Hard cider, raw beef and salt probably didn't help his chances with the pneumonia, as it were.
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Tender Bender posted:I love the completely straightfaced discussion over whether or not it was against protocol for the marines to hold umbrellas, as though they are logic-powered robots whose brains would implode if they were forced to violate the fourth law of marine dressware. They're so willing to blame anything, anything at all on Obama that "Did some arbitary set of rules that don't matter at all become violated, and was it his fault?" seems like something that they think is important enough to think about for more than five seconds. It really says all you need to know about whether the hard right has any opinions worth listening to. It's a clear violation of the USMC code of conduct for our brave fightman killhavers to at any time not be engaged in activities pertaining to 1) killing 2) maintaining readiness to kill What if North Korea had launched its invasion of America while that Marine was holding Obama's umbrella? He has compromised the mission of the armed forces of America and for that reason I demand his immediate resignation, backdated to five years ago.
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ClothHat posted:It's not a new phenomenon. 
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poor nose posted:Apparently it was republicans that altered the Benghazi e-mail stream? Yeah, this is now starting to explode in the media, as people seem to be generally sick of the scandal-mongering by the GOP. They quite literally were doctoring the Benghazi emails, and got caught and called out on it by CBS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op0alg-WAdE They are so obsessed with creating fake and exaggerated scandals to smear the whitehouse with that they created a scandal of their own about doctoring materials to create fake scandals. Not that the GOP had any credibility, but this torpedoes any pretend moral highgrounding that they had regarding any of the scandals that they're trying to pin on the whitehouse.
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Tender Bender posted:I love the completely straightfaced discussion over whether or not it was against protocol for the marines to hold umbrellas, as though they are logic-powered robots whose brains would implode if they were forced to violate the fourth law of marine dressware. They're so willing to blame anything, anything at all on Obama that "Did some arbitary set of rules that don't matter at all become violated, and was it his fault?" seems like something that they think is important enough to think about for more than five seconds. It really says all you need to know about whether the hard right has any opinions worth listening to. The best part is that the Marine didn't violate the dress code. Just because you wear a dress uniform doesn't mean every day items like umbrellas suddenly become radioactive. A Marine can hold an umbrella for some one else. It's only a violation if he holds it for himself.
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mdemone posted:Hard cider, raw beef and salt probably didn't help his chances with the pneumonia, as it were. Yeah well at least he's not some hoity-toity champagne drinking, French chef having monarchist! 
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