Ragnar34 posted:

Is Todd Starnes the guy where someone said he's got the face of someone who pays women to spank him? Not to kinkshame, like if that's his thing then it's the only non-objectionable thing about him. But there's something about is pasty round face, like an Uncrustable, and his thin floppy hair and the way his glasses distort his eyes.

moths posted:

Does he drink pee?

Kenzie posted:

Crowder has to be the most obnoxious RWM figure for me, just because he tries to be a comedian. I can listen to most right wing propagandists just fine for some reason, like Levin or Rush or Savage, or even Hannity in small doses.

The Muppets On PCP posted:

Twelve by Pies posted:

Or maybe they look at assholes like you and your friends and figure "Wow if being that big of a shithead is what Christianity is about then count me out."

Twelve by Pies posted:

Or maybe they look at assholes like you and your friends and figure "Wow if being that big of a shithead is what Christianity is about then count me out."

Twelve by Pies posted:

Or maybe they look at assholes like you and your friends and figure "Wow if being that big of a shithead is what Christianity is about then count me out."

Jurgan posted:

I was just trying to think through the causality there. "What if Pearl Harbor never was attacked?" isn't an alternate history scenario I've seen explored.


In fact, that actually happened. Obama talked a lot about green energy and reducing pollution to protect people's health. Conservatives' response?



"Rolling Coal."

BarbarianElephant posted:

They are kinda putting me off my own religion, since they seem to be closer to the Pharisees that Jesus hated, than Jesus himself. How could we have lost our way so much?

Instant Sunrise posted:

This is backed up by actual data by the way. There's been a huge drop-off of millennials leaving churches when they turn 18 and aren't socially obligated to go (something like 59% who grew up in the church leave it). And when surveyed the answers are invariably that they were turned off by all the political culture warrior bullshit.

Star Man posted:

https://twitter.com/thinkprogress/status/905570077768118272

Azuth0667 posted:

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.

Star Man posted:

https://twitter.com/thinkprogress/status/905570077768118272

Civil Lies posted:

Fox is really hammering the Southern Poverty Law Center tonight. What did they do over the past 24 - 48 hours to deserve this much focus?

Leofish posted:

The issue with this is that adding another voice to the chorus of bullshit just legitimizes the bullshit. You (the non-specific you) would become just another data point "proving" these odious ideas are correct and popular. They take great comfort in the number of YouTube views or shares of their bullshit articles. The bigger their numbers the more correct they are.

And while you may be in on the joke, or saying it without believing it, your views and readers and listeners almost certainly believe you're genuine, so they'll reinforce and echo these beliefs.

I honestly don't know what the solution is at this point, to turning the kind of people swept up in these lies, but adding to it, even with the altruistic intention of turning the money and influence to better causes, is not the way, in my opinion.


Another classic case of right-wing projection. They are so spiteful that they think left-wing people, journalists, and climate scientists are "orgasmic" at the thought of lives lost and property destroyed from killer storms. Disgusting.

Leofish posted:

I honestly don't know what the solution is at this point...

Civil Lies posted:

Fox is really hammering the Southern Poverty Law Center tonight. What did they do over the past 24 - 48 hours to deserve this much focus?

The Muppets On PCP posted:

dunno but quasi-related i've been seeing mark krikorian of the center for immigration studies, which is listed as a white nationalist hate group by splc, on cnn and msnbc a whole bunch to talk about daca

for some reason nobody ever seems to bother mentioning who exactly he's representing. it's the damnedest thing

PhazonLink posted:

Didn't Todd Starnes also admit he hosed an animal?

What a morally inept gently caress.

Star Man posted:

https://twitter.com/thinkprogress/status/905570077768118272

quote:

He’s not saying the hurricane itself isn’t real, Limbaugh clarifies, but just that he’s looked at the paths and Irma is not going to hit South Florida. Rather, it’s going to turn and go out into the Atlantic.

Rush Limbaugh transcript posted:

Let’s take south Florida television, for example. There is symbiotic relationship between retailers and local media, and it’s related to money. It revolves around money. You have major, major industries and businesses which prosper during times of crisis and panic, such as a hurricane, which could destroy or greatly damage people’s homes, and it could interrupt the flow of water and electricity. So what happens?

Well, the TV stations begin reporting this and the panic begins to increase. And then people end up going to various stores to stock up on water and whatever they might need for home repairs and batteries and all this that they’re advised to get, and a vicious circle is created. You have these various retail outlets who spend a lot of advertising dollars with the local media. The local media, in turn, reports in such a way as to create the panic way far out, which sends people into these stores to fill up with water and to fill up with batteries, and it becomes a never-ending repeated cycle. And the two coexist. So the media benefits with the panic with increased eyeballs, and the retailers benefit from the panic with increased sales, and the TV companies benefit because they’re getting advertising dollars from the businesses that are seeing all this attention from customers.

Leofish posted:

Holy poo poo, more on this Rush thing, he also thinks it's a secret wink-and-nod deal between grocery stores and local TV stations.

https://www.mediamatters.org/video/...e-agenda/217842

Larryb posted:

Or the times when they railed against drinking water and eating healthy just because the Obamas happened to be in favor of it.

Avirosb posted:

https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/905596338573905920
Guy who couldn't afford to pay child support wants more people to buy expensive plastic.

letthereberock posted:

A piece on Brietbart is making the claim that hurricane damage is getting worse BECAUSE of people believing in climate change.

We are talking up is down, 2+2=5, etc.

Avirosb posted:

https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/905596338573905920
Guy who couldn't afford to pay child support wants more people to buy expensive plastic.

boner confessor posted:

part of the problem lego is in is because they branched out into video games and movies fyi

Crunch Buttsteak posted:

I know he's not the worst when it comes to actual influence and impact, but my most-hated RWM figure has always been Todd Starnes. He appeals to the very worst of the Republican base, from his trumpeting of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, to his breathless reports of "Christian persecution", which are never retracted even when they're almost always proven false.

Plenty of conservative pundits do poo poo like that, yeah, but there's just something about how Starnes does it that gets under my skin. He has such an affected "Well shucks, I'm just a home-town country boy, and here's what I think" manner about him, despite looking like he's never even developed a mild tan. Dude would probably faint if required to do an actual morning's worth of farm chores. Despite this, his radio commentaries and columns are him essentially roleplaying as a Dukes of Hazzard character, couching regressive talking points, handed straight down from Fox News higher-ups, in a "Now I ain't no city slicker, so I don't get why these libruls got their saddles in a twists" veneer. It's the most blatant pandering bullshit. At least the Duck Dynasty guys had the excuse of being on reality TV.

Remember his first book, "They Popped My Hood and Found Gravy on the Dipstick"?





gently caress you, Todd Starnes.