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evilweasel posted:i am starting to wonder if hannity is having a glenn-beck esque mental collapse where the mask finally started wearing him and he really just needs a straitjacket and a padded cell The world isn't that just
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Red Oktober posted:I'm loving the new picture on his twitter. Ah-haha, he cropped out the yarmulke.
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May 24, 2017 00:03
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Red Oktober posted:I'm loving the new picture on his twitter. The same way the new one will be Slave labor
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May 24, 2017 00:03
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Duke Igthorn posted:Hey did Trump refer to the Manchester bombing as a "terrorist act" or do we not care about words any more? He declared that he's going to call them "losers" now to make them feel bad about themselves. I'm reasonably certain I have that right.
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May 24, 2017 00:03
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STAC Goat posted:Hannity was never some clever grifter. He was a low level, failure of a radio host who couldn't hold a job because he was terrible and had abhorrent views when Roger Ailes picked him out of obscurity and gave him a TV show. He's a true believer who got lucky. Hannity was a drivetime talk show host in Atlanta in the 90's and from what I remember he was tolerable. Heck, I listened to him until probably 2006 when it became apparent even to my Republican ears that this guy was a loving idiot. Hopefully his steadfast defense of Trump will put a sour taste in his sponsors' mouths.
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May 24, 2017 00:03
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STAC Goat posted:Hannity was never some clever grifter. He was a low level, failure of a radio host who couldn't hold a job because he was terrible and had abhorrent views when Roger Ailes picked him out of obscurity and gave him a TV show. He's a true believer who got lucky. Although I have to imagine that, at some point, you start to become the mask.
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May 24, 2017 00:04
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JeffersonClay posted:I don't think it's a lot of leftists. It's just a small cabal of really bad ones. But yeah it's about not wanting democrats to win the wrong way. And also the legitimate fear they'll be called out for kneecapping Clinton when she went hard on this during the campaign. The Jimmy Dores of the world see the writing on the wall here, but they're still clinging to the hope this is all a deep state conspiracy or a delusion of the bad bad neoliberal democrats. I assume it's one of those leftists who gave you your custom title
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May 24, 2017 00:04
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Spun Dog posted:Exactly, that was when my wife started yelling "What the gently caress? Yup exactly -- the Ukraine giveaway was the first clear "tell." That said, there's a big difference between that and what we got from Brennan today. There's "that looks shaky" vs "sworn testimony from an official in a position to know, making a clear statement"
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May 24, 2017 00:04
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God, Bill O'Reilly gets fired, Roger Ailes dies, Tucker Carlson plows Fox's ratings into the basement, and now Sean Hannity might quit in a screaming huff over a literal fake news conspiracy? Is there a term for a hat-trick where the team just keeps getting scored on?  The correct answer is: A Vancouver Canucks game, but anyway
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May 24, 2017 00:05
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nine-gear crow posted:God, Bill O'Reilly gets fired, Roger Ailes dies, Tucker Carlson plows Fox's ratings into the basement, and now Sean Hannity might quit in a screaming huff over a literal fake news conspiracy? Is there a term for a hat-trick where the team just keeps getting scored on? lol, I was actually in Vancouver for when they lost the Stanley Cup a few years ago, poo poo was crazy
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May 24, 2017 00:06
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STAC Goat posted:He declared that he's going to call them "losers" now to make them feel bad about themselves. Remember when we thought this would be his Reichstag fire?
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May 24, 2017 00:06
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Krispy Kareem posted:Hannity was a drivetime talk show host in Atlanta in the 90's and from what I remember he was tolerable. Heck, I listened to him until probably 2006 when it became apparent even to my Republican ears that this guy was a loving idiot. From what I remember (its been awhile since I read up on any of this) he got that job because he was driven off a college radio station by a local chapter of the ACLU for saying vile poo poo and then bounced around to a couple of different markets branding himself as a Howard Stern-esque controversy grabber. Then Ailes grabbed him from there and established him with Fox News.
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May 24, 2017 00:08
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Fulchrum posted:Remember when we thought this would be his Reichstag fire? I think you mean "remember when a bunch of idiots in the thread last night thought this would be his Reichstag fire?"
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Today's leak. It's just Trump Is A Bad President not Trump Is The Worst Criminal Of All Time: https://twitter.com/jameshohmann/status/867155091089960961 quote:Trump’s call with Duterte, during which he extended an invitation to visit him at the White House, was met with skepticism from some foreign policy analysts and human rights groups. Since taking office in June, Duterte has moved to hedge on the Philippines’ long-standing defense alliance with the United States by establishing closer relations with China. And his administration has overseen a brutal extrajudicial campaign that has resulted in the killings of thousands of suspected drug dealers.
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May 24, 2017 00:10
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Koyaanisgoatse posted:lol, I was actually in Vancouver for when they lost the Stanley Cup a few years ago, poo poo was crazy Hah. I know. I would walk around my job playing Chelsea Dagger on my phone to troll the gently caress out of everyone. What a time to be alive. (And I was a Nucks fan at the time too)
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Fulchrum posted:Remember when we thought this would be his Reichstag fire? No, because I purposely ignored the thread for the better part of a day to avoid the covoking. Then I checked back in this afternoon to find the thread closed and imagined the worst. Except that I hung around long enough to decide I like that made up word.
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May 24, 2017 00:11
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NikkolasKing posted:I sometimes sit back and wonder "am I being unfair? Perhaps my side has gone too far and the other side has a point." The Swiftboating of John Kerry was the final straw that drove me away from the Republican party (always been independent but grew up in a R household and defaulted to conservative positions). The character assassination of a veteran and the purple heart band-aid bullshit shocked me in a way that didn't really manifest again until the party finally completely lost its mind over Obama. As terrible and craven as that seemed at the time, that stuff is all unremarkable Republican SOP now. Hieronymous Alloy posted:Yup exactly -- the Ukraine giveaway was the first clear "tell." "He said the word 'no' and at some point later on he said the word 'evidence.' No evidence! Checkmate libtard  "
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May 24, 2017 00:12
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Fart City posted:Ah-haha, he cropped out the yarmulke.  One more item for "I am probably in a coma hallucinating this timeline".
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May 24, 2017 00:12
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STAC Goat posted:No, because I purposely ignored the thread for the better part of a day to avoid the covoking. Then I checked back in this afternoon to find the thread closed and imagined the worst. It needs an emote.
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May 24, 2017 00:13
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STAC Goat posted:No, because I purposely ignored the thread for the better part of a day to avoid the covoking. Then I checked back in this afternoon to find the thread closed and imagined the worst. It wasn't that bad, just a couple of the usual suspects. More people in here were freaking out that the Time's Square car crash would be Trump's Reichstag Fire.
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May 24, 2017 00:14
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WeAreTheRomans posted:Huh I thought Islam was a religion of peace ? Checkmate libcucks The neo-nazis conspiring to build bombs was just hurt-locker-room talk.
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May 24, 2017 00:15
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Fulchrum posted:It needs an emote. there is, it's 
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:It wasn't that bad, just a couple of the usual suspects. More people in here were freaking out that the Time's Square car crash would be Trump's Reichstag Fire. Yeah, its just sort of my pattern. When one of these tragedies happens I tend to turn off the news because I hate the way they wallow in it and didn't need that for my personal sanity and emotional health. And then I tend to avoid places like this until the "OH GOD! ITS ALL OVER!" dies down. I'll do the same (avoiding the thread, maybe not the news) when/if Ossoff and the Montana guy lose. Its best for my health and keeps me from saying something I regret.
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May 24, 2017 00:19
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STAC Goat posted:Hannity was never some clever grifter. He was a low level, failure of a radio host who couldn't hold a job because he was terrible and had abhorrent views when Roger Ailes picked him out of obscurity and gave him a TV show. He's a true believer who got lucky. I'd like to just crap on him but the fact is he's been raking in money on Fox for 20 years  He sucks incredibly hard but it's not accurate to call him a "failure".
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Koyaanisgoatse posted:there is, it's No, it's a little different. Less panicking, more just mopey. Closer to 
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Flesh Forge posted:I'd like to just crap on him but the fact is he's been raking in money on Fox for 20 years Well I said he WAS a failure. Obviously once Ailes plucked him out of obscurity (and by Hannity's own admission he was terrible and didn't deserve the job) he found a 20 year home and has done well for him grifting off the machine. But he didn't work his way into that spot or anything. It was just right place, right time stuff. It happens.
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Discussion Quorum posted:"He said the word 'no' and at some point later on he said the word 'evidence.' No evidence! Checkmate libtard Now I want to see Fox News put up a blatantly edited clip of that. A set of "There is." "No." "Evidence" with obvious jump cuts between the clips.
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Apparently Hannity has been looking at quitting Fox / gradually being forced off by the Murdoch bros. for a while now: http://deadline.com/2017/04/hannity-fox-news-leaving-threats-bill-shine-rupert-murdoch-1202078870/ http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/01/sean-hannity-eyes-fox-news-exit-insiders-say quote:Sean Hannity is looking to leave Fox News, according to sources, following the resignation of Fox News co-president Bill Shine officially on Monday. I think we all know what that means by now 
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nine-gear crow posted:God, Bill O'Reilly gets fired, Roger Ailes dies, Tucker Carlson plows Fox's ratings into the basement, and now Sean Hannity might quit in a screaming huff over a literal fake news conspiracy? Is there a term for a hat-trick where the team just keeps getting scored on? I believe you meant Germany v. Brazil in the 2014 World Cup.
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Flesh Forge posted:Apparently Hannity has been looking at quitting Fox / gradually being forced off by the Murdoch bros. for a while now: Yeah, there was a reportedly a small civil war at Fox News over Bill Shine and Hannity was on the losing end of that. He was very public about how he thought people inside Fox News were destroying it and making it into a whole new place and that if Shine went it would be the end of Fox News as its always been. Like, not only on Twitter but on his own show he'd talk about how most of Fox News is "fake news" too. So when Shine was fired everyone kind of held their breath waiting for the next shoe to drop, but the immediate word was Hannity was staying put. But its pretty clear Hannity's lost a lot of allies at Fox and has probably burned some bridges the last few months. If the ratings continue to crash him and Tucker would probably be options A and B for heads to roll, but Hannity could play himself out of it with stuff like this. Tucker seems to be a good soldier. But I doubt he will. Hannity is an egomaniac above all else and I don't imagine he'll voluntarily give up his biggest platform. Even if he is a true believer who thinks Fox News is the enemy now.
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Would be nice if they up and fired him before he gets another appearance on their network. Make him find his own platform to air his grievances.
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Mister Adequate posted:I believe you meant Germany v. Brazil in the 2014 World Cup. For anyone who isn't familiar, with bonus commentary from Jim Ross: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BvGh0x0wUwY
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STAC Goat posted:Yeah, there was a reportedly a small civil war at Fox News over Bill Shine and Hannity was on the losing end of that. He was very public about how he thought people inside Fox News were destroying it and making it into a whole new place and that if Shine went it would be the end of Fox News as its always been. Like, not only on Twitter but on his own show he'd talk about how most of Fox News is "fake news" too. So when Shine was fired everyone kind of held their breath waiting for the next shoe to drop, but the immediate word was Hannity was staying put. If memory serves most of even Fox despises Hannity for being a raging rear end in a top hat but his ratings were too good to fire him for a long drat time. For his part yeah he lucked into the position but all he really had to do was scream about liberals/Muslims/terrorists/Obama all day without saying anything too crazy (like, say,  ) and he'd be fine.
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STAC Goat posted:He declared that he's going to call them "losers" now to make them feel bad about themselves. Infuriatingly, someone on NPR was patting his fat rear end about this phrasing today, because it makes the situation "understandable to kids". It was some expert on how to talk about terrorist attacks with your kids, but the host was nodding and salivating right along. Overall NPR has really been pissing me off the past few days, especially about the pres' overseas trip. I know they can't be the all-Trump-criticism-all-the-time station but goddamnit, they should be. They did talk about the humanitarian crisis in Yemen a bit today but they barely touched on how the Saudi arms deal is going to directly cause a massive loss of life in that hosed-up shithole of a situation. I'm irritated that there's been barely any media coverage of that when everybody's been so rear end-patty about the trip or focused on 
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ToxicSlurpee posted:If memory serves most of even Fox despises Hannity for being a raging rear end in a top hat but his ratings were too good to fire him for a long drat time. For his part yeah he lucked into the position but all he really had to do was scream about liberals/Muslims/terrorists/Obama all day without saying anything too crazy (like, say, Yeah, Hannity has a long reputation of being the most hated member of his own guild. I believe a couple of years ago he lost his poo poo because someone did a survey of journalists and they overwhelmingly agreed he was the least respectable of them. And there were always random things I saw of him warring with O'Reilly and Kelly behind the scenes. He had really strong allies in Ailes and Shine and their departures theoretically leave him vulnerable. Although it was kind of unclear since Tucker and The Five moving into Primetime kind of signals a move towards Hannity's kind of thing. They've been pushing the Seth Rich stuff too. But they'll probably stop now that Fox News has retracted it while Hannity seems intent to double down. Which is kind of why he's hated. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 00:42 on May 24, 2017 |
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Koyaanisgoatse posted:lol is this new The orb is eternal, friend.
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nine-gear crow posted:God, Bill O'Reilly gets fired, Roger Ailes dies, Tucker Carlson plows Fox's ratings into the basement, and now Sean Hannity might quit in a screaming huff over a literal fake news conspiracy? Is there a term for a hat-trick where the team just keeps getting scored on? I prefer the Washington Capitals in the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs
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Koyaanisgoatse posted:lol is this new It's from the CSPAM thread
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Now that the White House has released it's proposed budget, I wonder how many Trump voters are now going to see what Trump is as just another political huckster. But then the cynical side of me realizes that most of them are too stupid to understand the realities of these bills and are so focused on stupid poo poo like deporting Mexicans and building THAT GATDANG WALL.
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