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The budget, sure, but not really the economy. Unless you're talking about iraq's economy of course.
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Flobbster posted:Maybe Beck was just really inspired by a recent episode of Adventure Time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqZOH4Z8ta0 I was thinking this, myself.
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Azuth0667 posted:
It's undeniable fact that the Iraq and Afghanistan wars did not add one cent to the federal budget deficit until Obama was in office.
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This Beck thing is shamelessly transparent and stupid. He's just trying to make himself relevant again now that FOX News can't even deal with him. I have now idea how his radio show and books are doing, but I saw a ton of the latter in the bargain bin the last time I went to a chain bookstore and I can't find the former on air anywhere, even in northeast Florida. P.T. Barnum would cringe. Didn't Rush already try this with the "I'm going deaf" trick? Now you've got Coulter being contrarian again just because it's the only way she can be "shocking" anymore. If we needed any other proof that these kooks are only in it for the money and the ends justify the means, then there you go. I mean, say what you want about Michael Moore, Obermann, Maddow, Shultz, Maher or whoever, but at least they're consistent in their beliefs and rarely turn themselves into circus acts. The Glenn Beck silliness reminds me of the televangilist a few decades back who needed a million dollars to save him from cancer, got it, and then needed a million more. BiggerBoat fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Jun 14, 2013 |
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Rush has legitimate hearing loss. He would be completely deaf without cochlear implants.
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e;fb Rush has gone def though. He has/had tinnitus which means he now hears by a cochlear implant.
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Babylon Astronaut posted:Rush has legitimate hearing loss. He would be completely deaf without cochlear implants. A Winner is Jew posted:e;fb I'm not sure what's more poetic, that Rush Limbaugh can't listen or that Glenn Beck can't speak. Rush never listens anyway so what does he need ears for and Beck always has his chalkboard that connects Hitler to Bill Ayers and George Soros. I keep being reminded of the famous scene from Planet of the Apes. All we need is for Hannity or O'Reilly to go blind.
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Today Rush was teasing the idea of spending next week discussing the theory of who stands to benefit financially from conservatives becoming a minority. (spoiler: the liberal mainstream media) BiggerBoat posted:I'm not sure what's more poetic, that Rush Limbaugh can't listen or that Glenn Beck can't speak. Rush never listens anyway so what does he need ears for and Beck always has his chalkboard that connects Hitler to Bill Ayers and George Soros. Maybe that guy that paints those fine art paintings of Obama stepping on the Constitution could go blind. That'd be more poetic than any of the radio bile spewers.
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BiggerBoat posted:Rush never listens anyway so what does he need ears for
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wixard posted:He does seem like the type that would want to listen to himself really loud in his headphones all the time, with the gold RE-20 and all. There's a pretty solid chance that's what cost him his hearing after decades of broadcasting. It's not exactly common for tinnitus to explode into deafness all of a sudden, it generally happens very slowly until the threshold of noise is too much to deal with. A lot of musicians (most notably Pete Townsend) claim they did more damage to their hearing with headphones in studios than with guitar amps at concerts. That and all the Oxycontin Rush was forcing his maid to buy for him. Apparently if you abuse the hell out of Vicodin-alikes for a few months it can cause sudden deafness. Hmmm!
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wixard posted:He does seem like the type that would want to listen to himself really loud in his headphones all the time, with the gold RE-20 and all. There's a pretty solid chance that's what cost him his hearing after decades of broadcasting. It's not exactly common for tinnitus to explode into deafness all of a sudden, it generally happens very slowly until the threshold of noise is too much to deal with. A lot of musicians (most notably Pete Townsend) claim they did more damage to their hearing with headphones in studios than with guitar amps at concerts. He also doesn't do interviews, go on talk shows and poo poo like that. He doesn't listen to anything anyone says. What does he even need ears for? He's a carnival barker used car salesman who figured out a way to make money by filling the vacuum of "cool rebel conservative" after years and years of failing in radio. He knows who butters his bread and, like so many other examples in this thread, it's all just about money. Whatever makes you rich is right and that's it. I've had this conversation over the years with conservatives and they judge everything by how much money it makes. Until you reach the point in the discussion where that logic makes Michael Jackson the greatest musician of all time (better than Elvis!) and Shaquille O'Neal smarter than Ayn Rand. Then it all crumbles. I mean, seriously, do modern conservatives honestly think that McDonalds is the best restaurant in the world simply because it's the most profitable? Or Wal-Mart the greatest department store? I seriously doubt that any wealthy, successful Republican frequents any of those places or listens to MJ. Most of them that I know wouldn't be caught dead in an Applebee's or a McDonalds, let alone listening to "Billie Jean" anywhere outside of their daughter's wedding reception.
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BiggerBoat posted:I mean, seriously, do modern conservatives honestly think that McDonalds is the best restaurant in the world simply because it's the most profitable? Or Wal-Mart the greatest department store? Some of them actually do. I've talked to these people. They love McDonald's, Wal-Mart, and Jay Leno.
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Today, on Rush Limbaugh: The Official Obama Criticizer, apparently the return of so they have done some form of this before. Official Limbaugh transcript Audio if the transcript is not offensive enough for you quote:Official EIB Obama Criticizer, certified black enough to criticize, 100% American organic slave blood, with a legitimate birth certificate on file, uncut truth on your dial, delivered with a smile
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radical meme posted:Today, on Rush Limbaugh: The Official Obama Criticizer, apparently the return of so they have done some form of this before. This bullshit has been around for at least a couple of years. I don't remember them saying "100% American organic slave blood" before, though.
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quote:100% American organic slave blood But is he USDA Approved?
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platedlizard posted:But is he USDA Approved? FDA. He's man-made, not farm-grown. 
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Duncan Doenitz posted:I think I might have my first right-wing professor this semester; one of his required books for a poli sci class is "Ameritopia" by the esteemed He got the gig out of Affirmative Action because the university didn't want to look too 'left wing'.
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Duncan Doenitz posted:I think I might have my first right-wing professor this semester; one of his required books for a poli sci class is "Ameritopia" by the esteemed Drop the class. Or get the audio book narrated by Levin himself so that you can laugh your way through it.
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Good Citizen posted:Drop the class. gently caress that, use your time in the class to post a thread here about what a conservative college professor actually thinks/teaches you. McDowell posted:He got the gig out of Affirmative Action because the university didn't want to look too 'left wing'. Also, remind him of this as much as you can.
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SedanChair posted:I would love to teach a class on right-wing lit. (I am not right-wing.) Don't English majors deconstruct different genres of fiction all the time?
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Rush is, predictably, all up in arms today about government overreach and poo poo and was going on about the President's new approval numbers. For once, he's right in a sense, but 8 years ago he was all about the Patriot Act, government surveillance and how everyone who opposed those things hated America and "wanted the terrorists to win". Now he sounds like a card carrying ACLU member. All of the right wing media does. They're not wrong, I just wish a lot of them had better memories. He said something weird about how "it will take a 'pop culture' event" to bring Obama down, and I'm not sure what he meant by that, but he kept repeating the phrase "generation text", so expect that to be a banner headline on FOX and CNN soon. I guess he means Obama will have to be videoed ragging on, I dunno...um...something popular? Again, he's not wrong (about the government overreach), but it's positively bizarre to listen to these fascists suddenly championing whistle blowers, a free press, the right to privacy and all the other stuff that 'Nazi Socialists' think are important.
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A Winner is Jew posted:gently caress that, use your time in the class to post a thread here about what a conservative college professor actually thinks/teaches you. Man, I had a conservative polisci professor last winter. He was like "Barack Obama, father of the welfare state" and "I'm sure there are a lot of Republicans in this room, you just don't talk about politics because you don't want to go against the majority!" It was amazing how he'd launch off on tangents about THE EVIL NOBONGOMER and LIEBRULS while talking about Locke and Rousseau and whites massacring blacks  I left him a nice, scathing review saying "GOP shill, I didn't pay thousands to watch Fox News in person" Jerry Manderbilt fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Jun 18, 2013 |
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BiggerBoat posted:He said something weird about how "it will take a 'pop culture' event" to bring Obama down, and I'm not sure what he meant by that, but he kept repeating the phrase "generation text", so expect that to be a banner headline on FOX and CNN soon. I guess he means Obama will have to be videoed ragging on, I dunno...um...something popular?  " previously, and pretty much rags on Beyoncé any chance he gets to try and show his listeners how "hip" he is with modern pop culture. Basically just talking out of his rear end while his listeners lap up every word, the usual. I tuned in and heard him debating a supposed liberal caller about the IRS scandal. Apparently Rush agrees that Obama didn't order the IRS to target the Tea Party groups! He didn't have to! Eric Holder has a direct mind-link to him and is doing everything Obama wants without any verbal communication whatsoever 
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Man, I had a conservative polisci professor last winter. He was like "Barack Obama, father of the welfare state" and "I'm sure there are a lot of Republicans in this room, you just don't talk about politics because you don't want to go against the majority!" I had an upper division Econ teacher declare on the first day of class that Keynesian (he pronounced it keensian) theory had been completely disproven. I dropped the class that same day and picked up a different one. The worst I've had besides that was one that had had a whole portion of a test about a Gingrich speech in the 90s where he ranted about how the Iran or North Korea were getting ready to use an EMP bomb on the US and how many square miles it would affect at certain altitudes etc. You know, standard Gingrich sci fi tech wanking with little grounding in reality. This was in a class about accounting system security and SOX compliance. Thankfully most of my other teachers were excellent.
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"Generation Text" is similar to "Generation Wikileaks" that this article calls modern whistle-blowers. http://americablog.com/2013/06/generation-wikileaks-why-im-losing-faith-in-nsa-leaker-edward-snowden.html A lot of the old guard of media on both sides of the political spectrum seems to see younger guys going outside of their club as annoying upstarts.
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Kro-Bar posted:James O'Keefe is back with another bullshit video, this time "proving" something about Obama phones, I guess. Good lord why did I scroll down? WHY DID I SCROLL DOWN??? 
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Intel&Sebastian posted:I'm all for varied opinions but...Mark Levin? That's the kind of deep thinking you want to pay thousands of dollars to get to the bottom of? To be fair, Levin at least served in the Reagan administration. So unlike pretty much all other talk show hosts he actually has some education and experience in government and law. He's still an rear end in a top hat, but I could think of plenty of other assholes who could be on the reading lists of an otherwise unbiased poli-sci class.
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Kro-Bar posted:James O'Keefe is back with another bullshit video, this time "proving" something about Obama phones, I guess. So the whole point of this article is that things that are given to people, those people then own that thing? I mean for fucks sake do they expect the government to track every lifeline phone to make sure it hasn't been sold for heroin by a dastardly minority? Goddamn. God dammit. Between this and the comments.
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BiggerBoat posted:Rush is, predictably, all up in arms today about government overreach and poo poo and was going on about the President's new approval numbers. For once, he's right in a sense, but 8 years ago he was all about the Patriot Act, government surveillance and how everyone who opposed those things hated America and "wanted the terrorists to win". Now he sounds like a card carrying ACLU member. All of the right wing media does. They're not wrong, I just wish a lot of them had better memories. Don't these people also want Bradley Manning to be crucified? Weren't these people all up in arms over the fact that the leaked video of an American helicopter literally murdering innocent reporters came about? Didn't I hear this same echo chamber saying that this sort of thing is the reason that censorship must exist because the left, via the media, only put it out there to make Bush look bad?
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