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BiggerBoat posted:Dinesh D'Souza is really, really becoming one of my most loathed RWM figures. Out of curiosity, what is your top five/ten? I feel like I've got Dinesh, Walsh, and Shapiro fighting for top three.
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So Glenn Beck's theme song is some dumb pop/rock thing about how Americans stand up for each other and help each other and we are one (except for communists/socialists/liberals/leftists/antifa/atheists who are all EVIL AND DESTROYING AMERICA). But today he didn't play that, it was some ominous, scary sounding music. I'm not sure if this was just for today given his opening (talking about North Korea and how dangerous they are) or if this is a permanent change.
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Sep 5, 2017 20:53
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Mister Facetious posted:Out of curiosity, what is your top five/ten? Hannity Coulter Dinesh Weiner Rush
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Sep 5, 2017 21:20
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Coulter to me feels like an 8; she's screaming at people to pay attention to her, but she hasn't been saying anything that others already haven't for a few years now. And yeah, Rush and Hannity would be in my top five, with the other three. Not familiar enough with (Anthony?) Weiner though.
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Sep 5, 2017 21:26
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Matt Walsh I feel is more evil than most I would list.
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Sep 5, 2017 21:29
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Matt Walsh is definitely up there considering the first thing I think of when I hear his name was his post-Charlottesville article "Planned Parenthood are the real Nazis."
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Sep 5, 2017 22:13
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Twelve by Pies posted:Matt Walsh is definitely up there considering the first thing I think of when I hear his name was his post-Charlottesville article "Planned Parenthood are the real Nazis." The actor should really sue him for brand defamation.
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Sep 5, 2017 22:31
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Guys, guys, we're all forgetting Stephen Crowder's stupid smug face.
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Sep 5, 2017 22:39
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Mister Facetious posted:Coulter to me feels like an 8; she's screaming at people to pay attention to her, but she hasn't been saying anything that others already haven't for a few years now. Coulter just grates on me because says the shittiest things and never goes away. "Weiner" is Michale Weiner, aka: Michael SAVAGE, cause he's so badass. He's just an angry, obnoxious monster and makes money doing it somehow. Pure rage directed at the weak and powerless. He got fired from MSNBC for telling a gay caller to "get aids and die", so poo poo like that I kinda don't like. You know, because I'm a decent human being and everything. I rattled off that "top 5" off my head, but that's probably the best way to do it since it reflects the RWM that permeates my head the most. Hannity is the worst by a long shot though.
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Sep 5, 2017 22:43
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1. Hannity. - The cross between a sentient fart and a potato. 2. Rush Limbaugh. - The guy that I blame for snowballing RWM's transformation into outright propaganda. 3. Bill O'reily. - I know he's no longer in the picture but, I still have dumb relatives bringing up his crap. 4. That loving guy who makes all the fake videos but still hasn't gone to jail for it. - One maddening example of the rules only applying to the other parties. 5. Tucker Carlson. - John Stewart didn't do a good enough job. E: I write coulter off as an unfunny FYAD failure so she doesn't bother me. Azuth0667 fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Sep 6, 2017 |
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Sep 6, 2017 00:01
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Azuth0667 posted:4. That loving guy who makes all the fake videos but still hasn't gone to jail for it. - One maddening example of the rules only applying to the other parties. James O'Keefe 
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Sep 6, 2017 00:05
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Yes that loving guy. How has someone punched chowder but, not that guy yet? Isn't he the rape boat dude?
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Sep 6, 2017 00:06
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Not going to bother doing a top five but I'm going to say that Bryan Fischer is a giant piece of poo poo. Everyone involved in the American Family Association is, but good god does that guy rub me the wrong way. I mostly deal with radical evangelicals as my hardcore righter though so a mouthpiece for them gets me more then others.
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Sep 6, 2017 00:10
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1. Rush - fucker basically created the RWM outrage machine and converted a lot of people into lovely assholes. I mean, his followers call themselves dittoheads, that's basically admitting to stating "I have no real opinion so I just repeat my favorite radio man." 2. Hannity - Rush on TV, and peddles stupid conspiracy theories. 3. Ben Garrison - I consider him RWM after he went hardcore for Trump and started pandering to the same people that turned him into Zyklon Ben. Hoooo boy his cartoons are a doozy. Matt Bors made a comment that Garrison is probably the most viewed political cartoonist today, and I think he's right, sadly. 4. Tomi Lahren - offends me as a millenial. She's such a loving Becky. I'll never forget her lovely Kaepernick hot take. I knew Fox News would pick her up. 5. Stephen Crowder - this is the ideal shitpost. You may not like it, but this is what peak poo poo posting looks like. Honorable mention: Matt Stone and Trey Parker.
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Sep 6, 2017 00:16
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O'Keefe reminder. Sex boat and he's not rotting in prison for attempting to wiretap a high level politician because his sugar daddy is rich/powerful.
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Sep 6, 2017 00:41
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Telling authoritarians what they want to hear every day has got to be the easiest job in the world.
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Sep 6, 2017 01:16
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Hannity is just the absolute worst and the person I just absolutely can't take. I monitor some of this stuff since my dumb rear end started this thread and, for some stupid reason, I feel an obligation to figure out ahead of time what my co-workers and (former) in laws are thinking and where they procure their ideas, and I can subject myself to a certain amount of Rush or whoever, but Sean test my patience like no one else I can think of. I forgot about O'Keefe, who is a frequent guest on Hannity's shows too. So one more reason to hate Sean loving Hannity. God he sucks.
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Sep 6, 2017 01:42
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seiferguy posted:
Not empty quoting. I think they're more a symptom than an intentional actor but they've left lingering damage on American discourse that will take decades to drain out.
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Sep 6, 2017 01:45
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rush limbaugh is a huge piece of poo poo but i can manage to tolerate him for longer than most for some bizarre reason
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Sep 6, 2017 01:59
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1. Charles Coughlin - This literal fascist was the one who first popularized talk radio in the US. gently caress this goddamn hitler-supporting fascist. 2. Mark S. Fowler - The FCC Commissioner under Reagan who pushed for the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine, which had opened the door to single-viewpoint political broadcasts that enabled people like Limbaugh, and had originally been put in place to stop people like Coughlin. 3. Rush Limbaugh - The first and biggest of the post-fairness doctrine repeal talk radio hosts. He's really the one who restarted this bullshit. 4. Geraldo Rivera - His original show did a lot to normalize far right views in front of national audiences, even if it was meant as a trainwreck factor, his show did a lot to normalize that poo poo. 5. Bill O'Reilly - This loving rapist really was the one who started the trend towards cable news being seen through the lens of a single commentator. Yeah it hadn't been O'Reilly it would have been somebody else, but honestly, gently caress that guy.
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Sep 6, 2017 02:07
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whaley posted:rush limbaugh is a huge piece of poo poo but i can manage to tolerate him for longer than most for some bizarre reason He's good is why. He's very very good at radio. Sort of like Stern where even if you don't like him, you can recognize the talent at least. Having said that, gently caress him. Weird to me that people are posting top 5's and there's so many assholes I've never even heard of. They're multiplying. We're on, like, the third loving generation of right wing jackasses, aren't we? Not even counting the one in the White House. The normalization of it all is genuinely frightening to me because there's no walking it back any more and the genie is out of the bottle. It's loving terrifying to me.
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Sep 6, 2017 02:12
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Hannity, is so god drat smug and dishonest that I just want to punch him at any opportunity. Joe Walsh is a local fuckstain that got onto the radio after we voted him out after one term. He's the guy who tried to prove that "Redskin" wasn't bad by going on air and saying every racial slur he knew until management cut him off, and see? They blanked out the "friend of the family" but not "Redskin"! Checkmate libtards. He's also a deadbeat dad and thankfully someone will bring it up all the time he makes a dumb tweet. Also, I got him shook when I called him a big government stooge for his support of some ant-sanctuary city bill in Texas (because enforcing immigration is a federal issue, why do you want to expand the federal government to every cop in Texas?) Rush just pisses me off. Crowder is so stupid it hurts. AF Branco is an assault onto the eyes. Honorable mention to Michael Savage who is my surrogate racist grandpa since the real one is both jewish and dead.
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Sep 6, 2017 02:28
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HootTheOwl posted:Also, I got him shook when I called him a big government stooge for his support of some ant-sanctuary city bill in Texas So he was the reason for all those fire ant rafts in Houston? Yeah, gently caress that dude.
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Sep 6, 2017 02:35
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Pretty sure that was Zodiac Killer when he molted his summer suit.
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Sep 6, 2017 02:42
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BiggerBoat posted:He's good is why. He's very very good at radio. Sort of like Stern where even if you don't like him, you can recognize the talent at least. I'm hoping that we're hitting peak RWM and that's why we have so many new nobodies slithering out of the cesspools. They are all hoping to cash in on some wingnut welfare before its all gone.
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Sep 6, 2017 02:42
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Azuth0667 posted:I'm hoping that we're hitting peak RWM and that's why we have so many new nobodies slithering out of the cesspools. They are all hoping to cash in on some wingnut welfare before its all gone. I've considered doing it myself but I have a...what do you call that thing...? A conscience. It'd probably be REALLY loving easy to do, especially for a reasonably intelligent writer that knows how to cite sources and poo poo to make it all seem legit. I'm not certain I share your optimism that we've peaked with it but FOX News declining ratings are admittedly a good sign, so maybe. The constant screams of "FAKE NEWS" everywhere though give me pause and make me think that the doubling down continues unabated, to the point where anything that resembles "something some RW rear end in a top hat dislikes" is simply "fake". I dunno. I'm cynical by nature and have no hope for mankind in general. I'm in the middle of two climate change debates with several "skeptics" on other boards as I anxiously track Irma and beat my head against the wall.
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Extensive Vamping posted:Telling authoritarians what they want to hear every day has got to be the easiest job in the world. It rots your soul from the inside out, though.
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Sep 6, 2017 03:17
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Leofish posted:It rots your soul from the inside out, though. And pads your bank account. Not a tough call for me, in the end, but...tempting. RWM listeners and readers are suckers.
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Sep 6, 2017 03:35
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HootTheOwl posted:Hannity, is so god drat smug and dishonest that I just want to punch him at any opportunity. Hannity's entire gimmick now is accusing the left of doing what the right is doing. He constantly has people on explaining that Hitler was a National SOCIALIST so therefore liberals are the real fascists. He's actually a pretty good indicator of the most lovely things republicans are up to at the moment. Anything he accuses THE RADICAL LEFT of doing is something his team is guilty of.
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Sep 6, 2017 03:59
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BiggerBoat posted:I've considered doing it myself but I have a...what do you call that thing...? I think you could make a case for doing it yourself. Think of it as making a fire break to aid in stopping a wild fire or soil remediation at a superfund site. The more people out there grifting money from the same group of people the less there is to go around and the faster it would all depelete. The way I see it, this base of people is going to spend this money and consume RWM no matter what is done. Without some way to "drain the swamp" the RWM machine is going to continue to spew garbage everywhere. Hopefully this depeltion takes a whole bunch of shitlordes with it but, I'm not an economist so take all of that with a grain of salt. To top it all off you can use what money and popularity you would gain from doing this to advance good causes like science education advocacy.
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Sep 6, 2017 11:31
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"You are what you pretend to be, so be careful what you pretend to be". - Kurt Vonnegut. Starting off trolling for lulz then ending up full nutjob is how half of /pol found themslves where they are. I can't imagine doing it to make actual money would be less destructive to your psyche and morals, quite the opposite. Anne Coulter probably started as an act, now look at her. Deptfordx fucked around with this message at 13:17 on Sep 6, 2017 |
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Sep 6, 2017 12:29
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Deptfordx posted:"You are what you pretend to be, do be careful what you pretend to be". - Kurt Vonnegut. What I find interesting is how the reaction to the act becomes the impetus for succumbing to the act and actually becoming it. There are so many "I wasn't <X> until I pretended to be <X> and those <people I don't like> had such a negative reaction..." It's just so filled with cowardice. They can't admit they hold these views. They have to pretend they're a victim of being forced to hold these views by some strawan of the opposing side. This is almost always acting as cover for some sort of bigotry. It's like the circle is not complete unless they can also blame the groups their prejudiced toward for themselves being prejudiced. It's disgusting, but also incredibly in line for authoritarian rhetoric.
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BiggerBoat posted:He's good is why. He's very very good at radio. Sort of like Stern where even if you don't like him, you can recognize the talent at least. One way he'll do this is giving them the phone and letting them babble something, and then Rush repeats what the caller said in an extended Rushy style while in this interrogatory manner: He will draw it out over a whole segment and conclude with something like: But you said Obama hasn't been forthright about his birth certificate, is that what you're saying? And then switch to a tone assuming that of a liberal interrogator: Well we can't have that! That's outrageous! And then he'll pivot back to the real Rush: But that, my friends, is what we're up against. Much more than that too, because that's how the Washington Club works -- and it is a club, folks -- and it's one that doesn't want you asking those questions.
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Walsh is probably my most hated. He smugly hides behind his the omnipresent image of his religion he wraps himself around in every aspect of his being but actually barely follows the tenants of to make racist arguments. He's a real piece of trash and his hipster craft beer drinking millennial , but also a conservative, bigoted shitlord image is infuriating. I hope he gets crushed by an asteroid and I feel sorry for his kids since he's probably doing a number on them psychologically. My "favorite" Matt Walsh is a huge racist moment was claiming a black man that was killed by police obviously deserved it for having social media pictures of him wearing a backwards cap, holding a gun, and displayed his tattoos and thus was clearly a criminal; all of which are things Matt Walsh has done on social media except his baseball hat was on with the brim forward. Eggplant Squire fucked around with this message at 13:21 on Sep 6, 2017 |
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Sep 6, 2017 13:17
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I remember a Freakazoid! bit where he gets sent back in time and stops the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. When he gets back to the nineties, he notices that Rush Limbaugh is now a nice guy in the new timeline. That's how bad Limbaugh is.
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https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/905204514000707590
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Sep 6, 2017 14:51
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Star Man posted:I remember a Freakazoid! bit where he gets sent back in time and stops the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. When he gets back to the nineties, he notices that Rush Limbaugh is now a nice guy in the new timeline. I don't get it. You're saying he's so bad even children's shows called him out, or is there some time paradox thing I'm missing?
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Sep 6, 2017 15:07
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Jurgan posted:he's so bad even children's shows called him out There's your hint.
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Ah, a platform of spite - you should be proud.
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