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My Q-Face posted:The subjects of their taped segments are not typically public figures, so they do not have a dozen other outlets for their lunacy. They are, however, typical examples of supporters of the people they have on the live interviews. Their taped segments also don't take place before an audience and are edited. The subjects are more likely to let something terrible slip, and it is easier to highlight those slips.
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TDS's taped segments are heavily edited, at times to make the subject or the interviewer seem exaggeratedly stupid. Also, it feels like some of the interviewees are coached to play along with the bit.
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# ? Mar 22, 2014 21:50 |
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Dr.Zeppelin posted:And if they really couldn't find any more people to come on the show to do interviews, it wouldn't be the end of the world if the self-styled comedy show was forced to replace them with another comedy segment. I remember an interview where Jon Stewart said the whole reason they do the interviews is because the staff simply can't come up with another 5 minutes of content every day. Basically this thread for the last dozen pages. VigilantePrime fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Mar 22, 2014 |
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TheDeadlyShoe posted:I consider Stewart's interviews completely unwatchable regardless of who he is interviewing. Colbert is better, but still spotty. I haven't watched the daily show in years but I remember a few well done interviews. His takedown of Betsy 'Death Panels' McCaughey was pretty good: http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/b52wbd/betsy-mccaughey-pt--1 http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/pysl6s/exclusive---betsy-mccaughey-extended-interview-pt--1 http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/bv57fl/exclusive---betsy-mccaughey-extended-interview-pt--2
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PeterWeller posted:Their taped segments also don't take place before an audience and are edited. The subjects are more likely to let something terrible slip, and it is easier to highlight those slips. Or in the case of Don Yelton, who has a vast online trove of saying stupid poo poo, they edited him to appear more articulate and coherent.
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# ? Mar 22, 2014 23:55 |
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I'm surprised no one's posted it yet but Rush Limbaugh's stupid rear end "Rush Revere" book is nominated for Best Children's Author or something like that. Here: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/22/limbaughs-rush-revere-puts-host-running-childrens-/
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# ? Mar 23, 2014 17:22 |
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There's a long, hilarious, and depressing article at the LA Weekly about the collapse of the Pacifica Network, once the crown jewel of left-wing political radio, which is now a snakepit of conspiracy theorizing, alternative "medicines", and super-factional politics. An excerpt:quote:Pacifica has a long and storied history, and still features such leading liberals as Amy Goodman, the widely known host of Democracy Now! (on which journalists Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill are frequent guests), but it has fallen on hard times of late. Listenership, according Reese, is "extraordinarily low." During an average 15-minute period, just 700 people listen to its Los Angeles station, 90.7 FM KPFK, for at least five minutes, according to Nielsen Audio, which monitors radio ratings.
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BiggerBoat posted:I'm surprised no one's posted it yet but Rush Limbaugh's stupid rear end "Rush Revere" book is nominated for Best Children's Author or something like that. Ugh, I read this. It's not a bad concept - but really, I wished he was a bit more original on the names. Rush Revere is just so STUPID. Another hilarious thing is that every picture of Rush's face is the SAME. He never changes his expression.
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RadicalR posted:Ugh, I read this. It's not a bad concept - but really, I wished he was a bit more original on the names. Rush Revere is just so STUPID. Another hilarious thing is that every picture of Rush's face is the SAME. He never changes his expression. "It's not a bad concept" - guy with Ayn Rand userpic
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RadicalR posted:Ugh, I read this. It's not a bad concept - but really, I wished he was a bit more original on the names. Rush Revere is just so STUPID. Another hilarious thing is that every picture of Rush's face is the SAME. He never changes his expression. That's the angle most likely to convince you he has a neck.
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# ? Mar 23, 2014 21:36 |
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The last time I listened to KPFT was when Amy Goodman invited the son of the guy who made Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps to discuss water fluoridation.
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FMguru posted:There's a long, hilarious, and depressing article at the LA Weekly about the collapse of the Pacifica Network, once the crown jewel of left-wing political radio, which is now a snakepit of conspiracy theorizing, alternative "medicines", and super-factional politics. An excerpt: This was real good, but I find it more interesting for the fall of old media aspect. Also, could the reason something like a community radio station failing because it is much more easier now to do something like a New Age health show (In the form of a podcast) by yourself rather than having to get some kind of organization behind you to help get your ideas out there?
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BigRed0427 posted:This was real good, but I find it more interesting for the fall of old media aspect. I'm not quite sure what you're trying to imply there, but many of the first full-time-broadcasting radio stations out there were run by people hawking bogus/alternative medicines to begin with. It's among the oldest things to do for radio, alongside pure religion (and donate to the LORD by way the way of WCHRIST-AM) stations.
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Naga Warlord posted:Excuse you, it's 99.7% accuracy. Has anyone else noticed he's been slowly going down a tenth of a point on this
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FMguru posted:There's a long, hilarious, and depressing article at the LA Weekly about the collapse of the Pacifica Network, once the crown jewel of left-wing political radio, which is now a snakepit of conspiracy theorizing, alternative "medicines", and super-factional politics. An excerpt: I did a show on KPFT for the better part of a decade and our problems are nothing compared to what's happening at KPFK. Also, the decision to let the listeners choose the board members was loving insane. It completely changed KPFT's programming, for the worse in my opinion, and is leading to the station's slow death. The people running for the board, more often than not, are old school peaceniks that are scared of anyone under thirty (especially minorities) and are still stuck in the traditional pledge model that only really works on baby boomers. I'll be amazed if they're still on the air in ten years without significant changes to the programming and fundraising strategies. And we certainly have a fair number of infowars types that try to get shows and call in all the time, but thankfully they haven't gotten organized enough to take over the board (which would be quite easy). All in all, running a Pacifica station is a thankless job for crazy people. You will never please all the listeners and they all think that their pet obsession is the most important thing ever and must be covered at all times. I'm amazed that they've survived as long as they have and they won't last much longer if they keep letting the listeners pick who runs the station. They can have their Democracy Now, but it will be their undoing. edit Swan Oat posted:The last time I listened to KPFT was when Amy Goodman invited the son of the guy who made Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps to discuss water fluoridation. This dude may be a crackpot, but I love how ridiculous his packaging is. I bought some dish soap a few years ago just so I could finish reading it all. And please tell me Goodman isn't a fluoridation conspiracy nut. Next thing she'll be against vaccinations. Sir Tonk fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Mar 23, 2014 |
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BiggerBoat posted:I'm surprised no one's posted it yet but Rush Limbaugh's stupid rear end "Rush Revere" book is nominated for Best Children's Author or something like that. It's because of sales, and kids vote on the actual winner, so don't worry; the content isn't being endorsed, and Rush won't win. RadicalR posted:Ugh, I read this. It's not a bad concept - but really, I wished he was a bit more original on the names. Rush Revere is just so STUPID. Another hilarious thing is that every picture of Rush's face is the SAME. He never changes his expression. It's about as good as magic steel and and a sonic doomsday device.
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# ? Mar 24, 2014 01:11 |
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In other right-wing media news it appears that Nate Silver is giving a microphone to a notorious climate science denier who is known for butchering statistics (http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/03/19/3415984/nate-silver-science-writer-ignores-data/). Silver himself seems to be pretty liberal across the board but appears to have a huge blind spot when it comes to climate change, as both his book and now is flagship site show.
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Dr.Zeppelin posted:In other right-wing media news it appears that Nate Silver is giving a microphone to a notorious climate science denier who is known for butchering statistics (http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/03/19/3415984/nate-silver-science-writer-ignores-data/). Silver himself seems to be pretty liberal across the board but appears to have a huge blind spot when it comes to climate change, as both his book and now is flagship site show. I seem to remember that he's done this before (I think on another topic but I can't remember what it was). It may have been his book, The Signal And The Noise, which also made a bunch of criticisms of climate change. Basically Nate Silver is really good at analyzing things that are truly random, but he then makes the crucial mistake of assuming that his success in that area makes him an expert in any field involving numbers. There's underlying mechanisms to climate change that are more complex than the random noise of polling results or baseball stats, and he is willing to make predictions without really understanding the models.
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Paul MaudDib posted:I seem to remember that he's done this before (I think on another topic but I can't remember what it was). It may have been his book, The Signal And The Noise, which also made a bunch of criticisms of climate change. Yeah, either the article I linked or another one that TP did references the issue in his book. He seems like the Freakonomics guys in that he's very interested in trying to get "the story behind the story" so that he ends up looking smarter than the conventional wisdom. Works great in electoral politics where everyone talks out of their rear end and doesn't care about data but not so much when he's pretending he's smarter than actual scientific consensus. I was actually going to buy his book but I think I'll take a pass now.
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RadicalR posted:Ugh, I read this. It's not a bad concept - but really, I wished he was a bit more original on the names. Rush Revere is just so STUPID. Another hilarious thing is that every picture of Rush's face is the SAME. He never changes his expression. Lying about history: NOT A BAD CONCEPT
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Darkman Fanpage posted:Lying about history: NOT A BAD CONCEPT Not to mention the irony of (presumably) a Rand supporter talking about how dumb the names of some fictional characters are.
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BiggerBoat posted:He was also a 9/11 truther. Eh? There any citation for this in Hunter's own words? All Google leads me to is the usual gang of tinfoil idiots insisting he was murdered because he was totally about to prove them right about 9/11 any day now.
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Paul MaudDib posted:I seem to remember that he's done this before (I think on another topic but I can't remember what it was). It may have been his book, The Signal And The Noise, which also made a bunch of criticisms of climate change. Nate Silver actually isn't that good in the statistical analysis part. He is pretty good at packaging those for daily consumption, but he is certainly not better than experts in anything, whatever "truly random" means here. His real innovation in electoral politics was updating the day to day of the electoral horse race, which is something that is very popular. It is not surprising that controversial opinions would appear in his website.
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The Rand avatar wasn't my idea. Apparently, I pissed off a thread shitter by closing a thread when it was clear that it was getting of hand. I'm far too cheap to replace it. I hate Rush as much as the next guy, but unless any of you have read it, I can't find fault with the story.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Eh? There any citation for this in Hunter's own words? All Google leads me to is the usual gang of tinfoil idiots insisting he was murdered because he was totally about to prove them right about 9/11 any day now. This one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbG5Awb7gK4 It's long and I'm not sure the time stamp where he gets into it. It's a good listen though. edit: what the gently caress did I do there? Link fixed. BiggerBoat fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Mar 25, 2014 |
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Install Windows posted:I'm not quite sure what you're trying to imply there, but many of the first full-time-broadcasting radio stations out there were run by people hawking bogus/alternative medicines to begin with. It's among the oldest things to do for radio, alongside pure religion (and donate to the LORD by way the way of WCHRIST-AM) stations. I mentioned this in the D&D Pics thread, but Pope Brock's Charlatan, about John R. Brinkley, is about exactly that.
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Sir Tonk posted:
I think she was probably more just trying to do some mealy mouthed, let's hear all the different sides of this issue than actually trying to push anti-fluoridation nonsense, but like I said I turned it off. Dr Bronner's is fantastic soap, and I use it, and the packaging is really fun to read, but I don't exactly want the crackpot who espouses the label on that soap to lecture me on public health policy.
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"A story out of the UK, aborted babies, were used in incinerators to heat british hospitals." -Rush Limbaugh This is going to be a good day.
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Slightly Toasted posted:"A story out of the UK, aborted babies, were used in incinerators to heat british hospitals." -Rush Limbaugh This is also the front page headline on Drudge right now. I'm gonna go make some popcorn.
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Slightly Toasted posted:"A story out of the UK, aborted babies, were used in incinerators to heat british hospitals." -Rush Limbaugh Holy poo poo. And let me guess, it's not even close to being true.
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RadicalR posted:Holy poo poo. And let me guess, it's not even close to being true. Not unless British babies are made from wood, no. edit: using the spare heat generated by incinerators to warm the central heating sounds like a pretty good idea.
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So thaaaats what the B in BTU is.
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Phhfft.. and Republicans said they were serious about removing wasteful spending.
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RadicalR posted:Holy poo poo. And let me guess, it's not even close to being true. One would hope. That's not an efficient heating solution. I'll take a guess at how it shakes out though, assuming it even has the remotest grain of truth behind it: biohazard remains from abortion procedures got sent to the incinerator by accident. Ergo, the SOCIALIST UK government provides heating not through God-Given natural gas, but the blood of the innocent. TURN IT OFF! posted:edit: using the spare heat generated by incinerators to warm the central heating sounds like a pretty good idea.
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"Hospital incinerates medical waste and provides heat as a byproduct" isn't a very interesting headline. It's not like on a steam train with a bloke shovelling screaming babies into a furnace. 'Cause shovels are the wrong tool. You need a pitchfork for that.
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OAquinas posted:One would hope. That's not an efficient heating solution. "Apparently solar panels and wind farms aren't enough anymore for these middleists and liberals" -Rush Limbaugh
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How Fox News contributor Jonathan Hoenig made a 13 year old's dream come true
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That is child abuse.
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OAquinas posted:
What is roadkill if not garbage? Better get these ten tons of flattened skunks an individual grave in a pet cemetery. Also Denmark was the land that killed a giraffe, had it autopsied while school children watched, invited the press to photograph the carcass being eaten in the lion pen, all the while not understanding why the rest of the world was upset. I don't think they were the ones who we're getting upset that dead animals served some purpose.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:How Fox News contributor Jonathan Hoenig made a 13 year old's dream come true That poor kid. 15 years from now, he'll curse the day Jonathan tweeted that.
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