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I could sort of also see that exchange as more like a Rush and the caller were almost saying: "No, I don't think she feels any guilt, at all, for her hand in this." "You're right. How selfish."
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ErIog posted:Their blind acceptance of culture war rhetoric and pro wrestling approach to politics causes them to dismiss racism/sexism as a tool in those fights. This is why they're so interested in trying to point out hypocrisy on the left. Any perceived hypocrisy on the left becomes evidence for their claim that Democrats' only interest is in hurting the opposing team. I laugh every time I hear Republicans saying that anything the Democrats do is just to be contrary or deliberately hurt America. Because that's TOTALLY ABSOLUTELY DIFFERENT than the simple fact that the Republican party declared that its primary goal was to ensure that Obama was a one-term president with no legacy AT LITERALLY ANY COST. It doesn't matter if homelessness is increasing, hunger is increasing, unemployment is rampant, and millions of Americans are suffering. No man, the important thing is that we sabotage that black man.
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Rhesus Pieces posted:Yeah, O'Keefe doesn't seem like an Irish whiskey kind of guy to me. I can totally see him OD'ing on some kind of stimulant though. Well, he was a protege of the echo chamber's favorite coke fiend. XyloJW posted:Alright, buddy, but it's got to be a stimulant with a play on the very Irish name of O'Keefe. If he splatters himself up and down a highway after driving while high, would a Miles O'Keefe pun be acceptable?
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Jul 18, 2013 03:36
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Do none of these people remember what it was like to be 17? When I was 17, I did all kinds of ridiculous emotion-fueled poo poo, like protesting against the start of the Iraq War. I didn't deserve to get shot and killed because of it.
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Jul 18, 2013 06:22
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cheerfullydrab posted:Do none of these people remember what it was like to be 17? I distinctly remember pro-war people at the time wishing violence upon protestors, so... 
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Jul 18, 2013 06:37
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cheerfullydrab posted:Do none of these people remember what it was like to be 17? Give yourself some credit, lots of reasonable adults did too.
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Jul 18, 2013 06:57
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Phone posted:It was a harmless joke, though. You know how Republicans are with humor.
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Jul 18, 2013 15:12
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My local right wing morning radio host (Greg Garrison, Indianapolis) has our terrible new Governor (Mike Pence) on this morning but is not taking phone calls. I'm bummed me out because I want to call in and ask him about his increasing possession of an 8th of marijuana from a misdemeanor to a felony and if that was in any way connected to the fact that one of his primary donors for Governor was the private prison system.
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Jul 18, 2013 15:23
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Mark Levin last night randomly went on an anti-vegetable rant exclaiming "kids aren't going to eat that!" and "why the hell should a 14 year old eat vegetables?" He then bragged that "in the good old days" he ate pizza and PB&J every day and that it "didn't adversely effect him." Mark Levin had a massive heart attack and bypass surgery over 10 years ago when he was just in his early 40s, and now in his 50s complains of his heart disease issues regularly  .
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Jul 18, 2013 21:59
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FlamingLiberal posted:If a liberal leaning person say, wiretapped Ted Cruz's office for instance, you would have every Republican member of Congress demanding that they be repeatedly tortured and then sent to Guantanamo. And Karl Rove is still not in jail.
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Jul 18, 2013 22:08
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MaxxBot posted:Mark Levin last night randomly went on an anti-vegetable rant exclaiming "kids aren't going to eat that!" and "why the hell should a 14 year old eat vegetables?" He then bragged that "in the good old days" he ate pizza and PB&J every day and that it "didn't adversely effect him." Mark Levin had a massive heart attack and bypass surgery over 10 years ago when he was just in his early 40s, and now in his 50s complains of his heart disease issues regularly Well, the guy is a walking milkshake.
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MaxxBot posted:Mark Levin last night randomly went on an anti-vegetable rant exclaiming "kids aren't going to eat that!" and "why the hell should a 14 year old eat vegetables?" He then bragged that "in the good old days" he ate pizza and PB&J every day and that it "didn't adversely effect him." Mark Levin had a massive heart attack and bypass surgery over 10 years ago when he was just in his early 40s, and now in his 50s complains of his heart disease issues regularly I swear to God the only way to motivate conservatives is for liberals to be for anything. If Obama came out tomorrow and started championing a Big Mac Value Meal as the most affordable and nutritious way to feed children, GOP voters would march lock step to Whole Foods and organize a boycott of MacDonalds. Remember, these are the people that boycotted Heinz Ketchup, stood in line for hours at Chic-Fil-A because of gays, and gave Obama poo poo for wanting Dijon mustard on his hamburger. I'm only barely even kidding here.
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Jul 18, 2013 22:38
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Obama could jump start the economy if he came out in favor of saving as much money as you can. The right-wing fringe would go on a massive spending spree out of spite and we'd be back to 5% unemployment in no time!
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OAquinas posted:Well, the guy is a walking milkshake. I love Master Levin  BiggerBoat posted:I swear to God the only way to motivate conservatives is for liberals to be for anything. I really wonder sometimes what they would do if *poof* all Liberals on the planet disappeared tomorrow like in some hypothetical science fiction movie. I mean, if they don't have anything to be mad at and afraid of what is the point of their existence? To keep jacking other conservatives off? (Wooooops, answered my own question there. DIRECTIVE 1: KILL ALL LIBERALS DIRECTIVE 2: GIVE SELF BLOWJOB)
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Jul 18, 2013 23:37
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Monkey Fracas posted:I love Master Levin I imagine it would be like the end of the drones' fight with the Gungans in Phantom Menace; they all just deactivate.
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Jul 18, 2013 23:57
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Please. They'd find new, exciting ideological impurities in other conservatives and proceed to satiate the blood needs of their dark god with each other. There would be no end to their demands of purity (and the definition thereof) until the land is scoured clean of humanity. I'd say in that way they're in the Ra's al ghul camp of environmentalism, but the land would be long since drained of resources and dead.
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I was going down to Columbus this afternoon, and I was jamming to some Sirius/XM radio. Well, for a while, until the pre-set radio station started to cut in with an affliate for this station: http://www.afa.net/Radio/ Some of the highlights I heard while in car for this: -A message for how standing up for "Traditional Marriage" (AKA denying people normal basic human dignity) is the equivalent of when Abolionists stood up to slavery. -The hosts going on about the "Godless left" (which is hilarious because all the democrats I know in my life are christian, and one is even pro-life) -The hosts mentioning stuff about Religion/God is a central tenant of Gov't, and the "left" wants to remove it all -"Judeo-Christian" tradition. -Referring to how supposedly if "Gay Marriage" is legalized it will be the end of the US Constitution as we know it, and how we're close to being a "socialist" country. Honestly, as both a Christian, and a human being I was offended by this garbage.
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Jul 19, 2013 00:03
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Monkey Fracas posted:I love Master Levin Could anyone link a soundbyte or clip from him where he sounds like Master Shake immediately? I tried listening to him regularly and he wasn't sounding like it fast enough for his opinions to annoy me off the radio.
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Jul 19, 2013 00:55
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On the Trayvon thing, which right-wing figures have been pushing the "why doesn't Al Sharpton care about the black-on-black crime rate" thing? Also the Zimmerman having a thousand black friends and thus not racist thing. I've seen those things repeated almost verbatim so many times in the last week that I'm wondering where it's coming from.
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Jul 19, 2013 00:59
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XyloJW posted:On the Trayvon thing, which right-wing figures have been pushing the "why doesn't Al Sharpton care about the black-on-black crime rate" thing? Also the Zimmerman having a thousand black friends and thus not racist thing. I've seen those things repeated almost verbatim so many times in the last week that I'm wondering where it's coming from.
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Jul 19, 2013 01:14
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XyloJW posted:On the Trayvon thing, which right-wing figures have been pushing the "why doesn't Al Sharpton care about the black-on-black crime rate" thing? Also the Zimmerman having a thousand black friends and thus not racist thing. I've seen those things repeated almost verbatim so many times in the last week that I'm wondering where it's coming from. What I love about this argument is that Al Sharpton's primary goal has always been economical and education improvement in poor communities, which is the core of black on black violence. I seriously wonder what they expect him to be doing instead if that doesn't count as "caring about black-on-black crime."
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Pander posted:Could anyone link a soundbyte or clip from him where he sounds like Master Shake immediately? I tried listening to him regularly and he wasn't sounding like it fast enough for his opinions to annoy me off the radio. Honestly almost everything he says sounds like Shake to me, but it's mostly when he gets into one of his insane yowling rants then runs out of breath, pauses, and says something quietly. He goes from 'I WILL RUIN THIS BIRD WITH MY ANGER' to 'you don't own space so quit acting like you do.' Haha maybe here, at "I love this house and I'm going to transform it!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39AdchqsNvw&feature=player_detailpage#t=219s
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XyloJW posted:On the Trayvon thing, which right-wing figures have been pushing the "why doesn't Al Sharpton care about the black-on-black crime rate" thing? Also the Zimmerman having a thousand black friends and thus not racist thing. Every single one of them. Seriously. I can't think of one that hasn't. My favorite crazy right wing talking point on the case is that Zimmerman isn't white anymore than the president is because they're both only half white so this isn't even a racist thing unless you think the president is actually white too. It's an amazing bit of mental gymnastics.
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Good Citizen posted:My favorite crazy right wing talking point on the case is that Zimmerman isn't white anymore than the president is because they're both only half white so this isn't even a racist thing unless you think the president is actually white too. It's an amazing bit of mental gymnastics. One of the reasons I like this thread is that I'll see what I think is a random sprinkling of crazy quarantined in a comments section somewhere -- in the case of the above 'Zimmerman = not white; Obama = white,' buried deep in the 3000+ comments of a Mike Huckabee Facebook post -- then other posters will note seeing the same thing, and voila, I realize it's a talking point.
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I've basically had to read every single page of the Trayvon thread, and you would not believe how many arguments came up almost verbatim. Also Zimmerman magically got even more black friends every few hours. Then I go to the political cartoons thread and this thread, and what do you know, some syndicated troll is printing this poo poo, prepackaged and ready to be deployed.
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XyloJW posted:I've basically had to read every single page of the Trayvon thread, and you would not believe how many arguments came up almost verbatim. Also Zimmerman magically got even more black friends every few hours. Then I go to the political cartoons thread and this thread, and what do you know, some syndicated troll is printing this poo poo, prepackaged and ready to be deployed. I would rather repeatedly slam my head in a car door than read every single page of the Trayvon thread, and that's coming from someone who listens to right wing radio for fun.
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Good Citizen posted:I would rather repeatedly slam my head in a car door than read every single page of the Trayvon thread, and that's coming from someone who listens to right wing radio for fun. The second the verdict came out I was like "Welp, time to avoid all rightwing media for a week"
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So what's the font of the river of poo poo?
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XyloJW posted:I've basically had to read every single page of the Trayvon thread, and you would not believe how many arguments came up almost verbatim. Also Zimmerman magically got even more black friends every few hours. Then I go to the political cartoons thread and this thread, and what do you know, some syndicated troll is printing this poo poo, prepackaged and ready to be deployed. I owe you a drink or something because gently caress. At least you got familiar with your new mod powers.
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Pope Guilty posted:So what's the font of the river of poo poo? I genuinely think RWM as a whole essentially has "marching orders" for stuff like this. A few key figures in the radio game say it, it gets disseminated through Fox and blogs. And then becomes legitimizes by repetition in the national discourse. Its a giant pre-conceived system to create memetic defenses of policy almost instantly.
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Personally, I'm thinking Glenn Beck. Several people linked to an article on The Blaze to try to prove their point about how blacks are the real racists. It also sounds like his whiny "But wait, why isn't your heart bleeding out for these other tragedies? You're the monster, I think" style. But I haven't been following Beck or Hannity or Drudge or Limbaugh throughout this, so that's just guesswork on my part.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I genuinely think RWM as a whole essentially has "marching orders" for stuff like this. During the election somebody pointed out that Drudge has (or had, can only hope for had) a lot of sway. Drudge puts up a headline, it gets picked up by the talk radio guys, congressmen, and Fox News is the last on the bus.
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Pope Guilty posted:So what's the font of the river of poo poo? I've been trying for a while to walk the talking points back and find out if there's one source where right-wing media takes its marching orders. From what I can tell it's a combination of Drudge, the Blaze, and general Internet chit-chat.
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Pope Guilty posted:So what's the font of the river of poo poo? The RNC literally sends out talking points to right wing media figures.
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XyloJW posted:On the Trayvon thing, which right-wing figures have been pushing the "why doesn't Al Sharpton care about the black-on-black crime rate" thing? Also the Zimmerman having a thousand black friends and thus not racist thing. I've seen those things repeated almost verbatim so many times in the last week that I'm wondering where it's coming from.
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It is really funny that they complain about the media not reporting black-on-black crime because they whine the loudest when someone calls out the media on nonstop reporting of missing white college women.
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XyloJW posted:I've basically had to read every single page of the Trayvon thread, and you would not believe how many arguments came up almost verbatim. Also Zimmerman magically got even more black friends every few hours. Then I go to the political cartoons thread and this thread, and what do you know, some syndicated troll is printing this poo poo, prepackaged and ready to be deployed. You've assigned yourself the most thankless task on Earth. The funny thing about all those arguments is that because they are reinterpreted through comments, forums and social media, people think they came up with them all by themselves. It's the beautiful reinforcing quality of right-wing media. "You're smart! See, you
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Rorus Raz posted:It is really funny that they complain about the media not reporting black-on-black crime because they whine the loudest when someone calls out the media on nonstop reporting of missing white college women.
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SedanChair posted:You've assigned yourself the most thankless task on Earth. The funny thing about all those arguments is that because they are reinterpreted through comments, forums and social media, people think they came up with them all by themselves. It's the beautiful reinforcing quality of right-wing media. "You're smart! See, you Wikipegenesis.
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