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Starshark posted:Who was it who came up with the 'nothing burger' line anyway? There's been so much poo poo flying around in the last eight months I really can't keep up. Well, the word itself goes back to the 1950s. The first mention of it in relation to Russia seems to have come from ... Ted Cruz, talking about Sessions' meetings with the Russian ambassador. But as the previous poster says, the term was already being heavily used in relation to the Her Emails scandal.
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Starshark posted:Who was it who came up with the 'nothing burger' line anyway? There's been so much poo poo flying around in the last eight months I really can't keep up. loquacius posted:Ironically enough the first time I ever heard it used was by Dems, w/r/t the DNC email leaks I don't have my safire available at the moment to get the exact context, but it's several decades old- I think 60s or 70s. edit: a tiny googling says it was used in the context of describing shallow hollywood personalities (and lovely LA marketing ideas) in the 1950s, then migrated to capitol hill over the next couple decades. It gained new prominence when Anne Buford (the mother of Justice Gorsuch) used it to describe her proposed appointment to NOAA after royally screwing up the EPA under Reagan, in 1984. Its original meaning was someone with a hollow or fake personality with no substance underneath- or an idea that had no substance. My source is http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Where-did-the-term-nothing-burger-actually-11283897.php I'll see if I can dig up my safire if folks are really interested. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 15:14 on Oct 31, 2017 |
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I'm pretty sure I've heard the term "nothingburger" for years, it's just become a lot more popular since being used to describe various things in the 2016 election. e: beaten
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These phrases or odd names are when really gives me  about the news. On day everyone will be calling something a nothingburger. Fox will call it a nothingburger and MSM will wonder aloud if it is in fact a nothingburger, really. They could be copying eachother but it sounds like everyone (no matter their angle) gets the memo on the buzzphrase for the day. And the natural finish is cartoonist drawing it 3 week out of date like they are clever. You aren't clever for drawing a work that was said 10,000 times the week before you hacks.
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Bombadilillo posted:They could be copying eachother but it sounds like everyone (no matter their angle) gets the memo on the buzzphrase for the day.
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Trump chewing the face off his chief of staff would win him points in my book.
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Bors is a national treasure. 
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Cpt.Americant posted:Also particularly great because while the rest of the world was focusing on Manafort, Fox News literally talked about a "controversy" involving what cheeseburger emojis should actually look like. Don't know if that's part of the reference or just a happy coincidence. Too good to be true. Jurgan fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Oct 31, 2017 |
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Radish posted:Trump chewing the face off his chief of staff would win him points in my book. This post needs to go places. Out of context.
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Right-wing comic idea "Trump is charged of basically all the crime" "Why is the MSM and LIBERALS (LIBERALS LIBERALS LIBERALS) picking on Trump?!"
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albany academy posted:Trump wouldn't go near a book repository Which would make it an ingenious sniping spot for Trump. And now, 40 lashes for me for using "ingenious" and "Trump" in the same sentence.  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9Looks like the new right-wing talking point is off to a good start.  10 11 12 Not surprised this is Lester's takeaway from the Spacey story.  13 14 15
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Muller is an unstoppable force, AGC
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Kevin Spacey, GBS poster
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All these mindless wingnut cheerleaders had these things ready to go no matter who Mueller pinched, didn't they. All the final draft required was labeling the "amusingly small thing" as "Manafort." Also... quote:
Learn how to punctuate, you hate-drunk rear end in a top hat.
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This is somehow even lazier than when he posts a blank cartoon.
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Sandpuppy posted:
Trump the Whale is very happy he's not a fish.
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This is funny to anyone following Australian politics, especially the windmill.
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Well, they caught Manafort--nothing but a small fish, a common "winning presidential campaign manager." Well, glad that whole Russia investigation thing is over!
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Mueller is just one step closer now that he's caught the bait he can use to get Trump. AGC Also man some of the delusion going on acting like these indictments are no big deal. For all the talk about crooked hillary they sure really don't care when they support criminals and those criminals directly support the president. I couldn't even imagine how badly they would be screaming in an alternate universe where this was happening to Hillary.
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Avirosb posted:Trump the Whale is very happy he's not a fish. "ha ha! The guy with the fishing pole didn't catch me!" -a whale Also, I like how they're calling Manafort a small fish or small fry, because it indicates an awareness of bigger fish out there to be caught. Hillary 
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Ularg posted:Also man some of the delusion going on acting like these indictments are no big deal. For all the talk about crooked hillary they sure really don't care when they support criminals and those criminals directly support the president. Not that it's much of a surprise, but Trump supporters have already established their fallback position of LOL whatever, even if Trump himself cops to colluding with Russia.
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You'd kinda think that political cartoonists of all people would see the value of getting a small fish - aren't they the ones who keep doodling small fish being eaten by progressively bigger fish?
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Why would you loving orient this to be unreadable? Just flip it around, it still works. God dammit all you pol cartoonists need to take a basic illustration class.
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HereCometheKillBots posted:Why would you loving orient this to be unreadable? Just flip it around, it still works. God dammit all you pol cartoonists need to take a basic illustration class. They were more concerned about showing Mueller's face than the headlines. And of course they still labeled him in spite of that lmao.
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Selachian posted:Well, the word itself goes back to the 1950s. The first mention of it in relation to Russia seems to have come from ... Ted Cruz, talking about Sessions' meetings with the Russian ambassador. But as the previous poster says, the term was already being heavily used in relation to the Her Emails scandal. 
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All the conservative political cartoonists using the same talking point is hilarious, sad and angering all at the same time.
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A Hillary Clinton indictment. For gently caress's sake. These people need to get over their own fan fiction.
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Moddington posted:This is somehow even lazier than when he posts a blank cartoon. Do newspapers actually print these things?
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Starshark posted:
This works for American audiences with zero modification, really. At a first glance I thought that was the iron fence on Pennsylvania Avenue and without examining further assumed it the shape in the background was the White House.
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The Cubelodyte posted:This works for American audiences with zero modification, really. At a first glance I thought that was the iron fence on Pennsylvania Avenue and without examining further assumed it the shape in the background was the White House. Yeah, the way I tracked it was (left to right) Whitehouse staff leakers, judges blocking executive action, scary Islamic women, green energy / coal arch nemesis, and... OK Australia, please explain the chickens orbiting a Welcome Home sign.
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KirbyKhan posted:
Not Australian, but I assume it represents chickens coming home to roost?
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I wish we could destroy Cillizza's career https://twitter.com/cillizzacnn/status/852568945982930944
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   Ghoul-dian:  "Martin Rowson on the Trump-Russia inquiry – The special investigation into Russian election meddling closed in dramatically on Donald Trump on Monday, as news broke that a former foreign policy adviser pleaded guilty to perjury over his contacts with Russians linked to the Kremlin and the president’s former campaign manager and another aide faced charges of money laundering" Terror-graph:  In-de-pee'd-pants:  Budget: Hammond faces spending dilemma, says IFS End Times:  Eviling Stand-arrgh:  Netflix cancels House of Cards amid Kevin Spacey allegations Maul: Mac on... Westminster 'sex pest' scandal 
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