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greazeball posted:Obama forced Google to show an image of a socialist organiser instead of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ on Easter. Heard this on the AM talk shows this morning and thought I'd check out facebook:  I'm not sure if I like the guy who's thinking of the wrong Chavez or 'spring spheres' lady better.
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Butt Soup Barnes posted:Edit: Oh, those aren't your friends - I didn't catch who shared the link. Heh, yeah, I only use facebook for keeping in touch with all of my relatives. I just heard the story this morning on the Mike Gallagher show and figured there'd be some quality crazy-time on his facebook page. It didn't disappoint. e\/ I thought those were the best ones, but a few others got some laughs as well. A whole lot of BING FOREVER stuff mostly. Good Citizen fucked around with this message at 22:35 on Apr 1, 2013 |
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Apr 1, 2013 22:30
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platedlizard posted:Urg, I used to have that page bookmarked and now I can't find it. But yes, it was hilarious. Here you go: http://readwrite.com/2010/02/10/facebook_wants_to_be_your_one_true_login All the funny stuff is buried under pages worth of 'lol look at these idiots!' comments now, though. E: actually, just arrange the comments by oldest first if you want to relive the magic. Good Citizen fucked around with this message at 02:27 on Apr 2, 2013 |
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Apr 2, 2013 02:25
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BiggerBoat posted:So Rush was going off on a Gallup poll about "what's wrong with the GOP" today. Results one and two were something like "too ideologically rigid" and "unwilling to compromise". Something like that. Number three was "caves in too easily/abandons their conservative principles too quickly". I'm paraphrasing and going form memory here. The numbers are even worse than you'd expect if you look at them closely. The unwilling to compromise and too rigid answers account for 33% while the caves in answers only account for 9%. There's also an explicit too conservative answer that received 3% and a too liberal answer that received 1%. Really though, you also need to account for the people (17%) that answered that there was nothing wrong with the GOP. That closes the gap a bit.
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Apr 2, 2013 20:14
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Herman Cain's radio personality is just a weak attempt to mimic Glen Beck's which is sad because Beck's show is also really boring. Sure, he says something crazy every once in a while but try listening to any one show straight through. It's schizophrenic trying to be several things at once and only succeeds in being lame.
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Apr 2, 2013 21:10
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Spacedad posted:So it seems that the right wing extremists of the prison gang 'aryan brotherhood' are engaging in organized domestic terrorism by murdering and/or threatening government officials. In addition to murders, this has resulted in at least one state prosecutor stepping down due to security concerns. I've heard at least one right wing radio guy report on it. He basically said that gang members (left unspecified allowing you to assume whatever/probably black people) are killing court officials in Texas and the state is bravely encouraging prosecutors to get CCW permits. Then there was something about how they wouldn't be allowed to defend themselves if this was happening in a liberal state and then he took calls that were all about gun control. Can't remember which host it was now, though.
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Apr 3, 2013 16:18
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Ramadu posted:It was even weirder because some 13 year old called in in the 3rd hour I think and said he found mountains of information at a library for a debate debunking global warming. It was pretty funny but he got an ipad out of Rush so I guess good on him. I listened to that too and it was pretty weird. The kid also went on some tangent about how he heard some people talking in a health food store about how it was cold outside and how about that global warming, huh? One of these days I'm going to call into Rush with some made up bullshit to get my free iPad. It isn't exactly hard to figure out what types of people/arguments get one. Maybe an hour writing out a good theme and calling in is a pretty good deal for a free iPad when you're a college student. In fact I think I know what I'm doing on my lunch break tomorrow
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Apr 4, 2013 22:54
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So apparently the newest thing is that Michelle Obama accidentally referred to herself as a single mother before quickly correcting herself a few seconds later. Levin spent at least a good 15 minutes on it earlier, replaying the clip over and over while yelling at his producer, as he likes to do. There was no real point besides mentioning they take vacations apart sometimes and Obama plays a lot of golf, talking about how he was "just stating the facts." It's on Drudge and other places too. What a nutty thing to run with.
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Apr 5, 2013 06:37
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Now that I have a relatively long commute in the 8-9am timeslot, I'm really starting to appreciate how Mike Gallagher is striving to be the worst person on the planet. This morning there was a solid half hour talking about how Treyvon Martin was a drug abusing tattooed thug with gold teeth. This was followed by anecdotes about two rude black women he ran into the other day and lots of moaning about how you can't talk about how the majority of crime is committed by 'the blacks'. Also somehow that new black panther polling place thing came up. It was like the 'what's the deal with black people??' power hour. Oh, and don't think today was unique. Today only hit about the mean level of vitriol. He's kind of like Levin but with even less filter on what topics are appropriate and he plays it completely straight and doesnt sound like master shake, so it isn't as easy to laugh off. And in case you aren't familiar, we aren't talking about some local am loser. He's nationally syndicated.
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Apr 8, 2013 20:38
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Azuth0667 posted:The funniest part is that if it weren't for conservatives constantly gutting education we might have a functioning education system that could deliver all they are whining for. It's almost like cutting their funding, whining about the lack of quality as a result, and then selling them off to the highest bidder (or low bidding buddies) was the point all along.
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Apr 10, 2013 01:52
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The Angry Bum posted:Why would they do that? That would take away time from complaining about the Democrats and Obama using 'Gestapo tactics' on poor, innocent Republicans. Joementum mentioned in the other thread that McConnell has some relative or associate of Ron Paul on his campaign staff. So that guy or some college aged intern who recorded it on his smart phone are likely culprits 1 and 2
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Apr 11, 2013 19:25
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mr. mephistopheles posted:Michael Savage is calling the suspect in the Boston bombing a "dark foreign national" because he can tell someone's citizenship status by seeing grainy surveillance footage of them, I guess. Some outlets have reported that the 'person of interest' that they've been interviewing is a Saudi national so he probably just assumed. I haven't checked for updates in a few hours but last I heard he was at the hospital, cooperating fully, and denying involvement.
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Apr 16, 2013 05:20
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AsInHowe posted:Turns out, as everyone was running away, someone tackled an Arab-looking individual and had him arrested. The Saudi apparently had nothing to do with it, he was just the wrong skin tone. Yeah, that sounds about right
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Apr 16, 2013 05:27
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Zeroisanumber posted:I ain't going to gently caress with no Mongolians. We'd get our asses kicked and then they'd come over here and conquer the poo poo out of us. Maybe the conservatives would finally get the giant border fence they've always wanted, though
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Apr 16, 2013 20:00
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Glenn Beck's gold line shilling has taken an interesting turn since the bubble started crashing. Now it's all about how speculating isn't the point and he's storing up physical gold to hand down to his children just in case. He basically sounds like bitcoin enthusiasts sounded when their bubble crashed. It's pretty amusing.
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Apr 18, 2013 17:56
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Install Gentoo posted:Although the gold selling companies pretty much all just sell you a certificate entitling you to get gold from their warehouse somewhere, so you don't even actually get the shiny metal to try to barter with. It reminds of some of those food insurance programs. "If society collapses we'll totally send you that stuff you ordered and the warehouse won't be instantly taken over by marauding warlords. Seriously, we swear!"
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Apr 18, 2013 20:48
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Minorities posted:Y'all have a weird idea of what "left wing" means then. Reminder: American Democrats are only considered left wing in America. I think it's pretty clear that this thread refers to left and right wing media in the United States context. Just like right wing media is a decent enough short hand for the nativist theocratic reactionary media, left wing works just fine in this thread when it's obvious what he was referring to. Thanks for the smug reminder of something everyone in this thread already understands, though!
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Apr 23, 2013 20:10
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The right wing radio hosts today have been trying to imply the bombers were Democrats as hard as they possibly can, with Rush actually coming out and saying it at one point. It's mostly stuff about how one of the brothers was briefly on welfare and one of them tweeted something positive the night Obama was elected. Also, apparently the information released that the brothers were partially motivated by the Iraq/Afghanistan wars is all a ploy so that the recent attack can be blamed on Bush.
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Apr 24, 2013 20:49
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I think my favorite thing about Hannity is when he switches into 'list scary sounding things mode'. There's no subtlety to it at all and it's pretty hilarious. It's like some kind of video game-style rage meter builds up in his head and when it maxes out he suddenly drops every power move at once. Just this random stream of 'fort hood, bill ayers, Benghazi, obamacare, fast and furious, jeremiah wright, socialism'. No explanation or attempt to tie them together. Just a huge mass of right wing trigger words. He's pretty much the only right wing hack I really can't stand in anything but the tiniest dose, though. He does that thing where he raises the tone of his voice slightly at the end of each sentence like he's asking a question and it sounds so smug that the urge to smash my car stereo is too large to ignore.
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Apr 25, 2013 21:13
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Dennis Praeger is having a grand time railing against the hookup culture in college as a result of feminism and secularism. Yes, this is the way to attract the youth vote, by being against sex. We all know that sex isn't popular at all. E: oops, got my right wing weirdos mixed up Good Citizen fucked around with this message at 18:17 on Apr 30, 2013 |
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Apr 30, 2013 18:15
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MaxxBot posted:Were you listening to his show yesterday? He brought some lady on who claimed that college guys hook up with women not because they want to, but because social pressure forces them to hook up and then brag about it for street cred. She then said that college students as a whole hate "hookup culture" but are pressured into it to appear cool and that really they all want monogamous marriage Nah, I only listen in my car or when my monthly pandora limit on my phone runs out. That doesn't surprise me though. None of this poo poo ever has anything serious to back it up. It's always designed to sound just plausible enough that people who have no first hand experience in the subject can nod along and internalize bullshit that fits the perceptions they already have.
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I don't think the strategy really changed. The style of media, and specifically the pace of media, has just changed. A decade ago most points were accompanied by a good deal of exposition. Now it's just more in your face constantly with exactly what they think you want, whether it's the internet, radio, or TV. I don't think it's a 'kids have a shorter attention span these days' kind of thing, it's just that media has adapted to be more fast paced and this has a really weird effect on 24-hour-a-day propaganda outlets.ponzicar posted:I'm wondering just how far back that craziness goes. Anything like this during the Carter administration? It's crazies all the way down, and gently caress yes this was happening in a slightly different form during Carter.
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May 1, 2013 03:03
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Goatman Sacks posted:So, GOP non-person Chris Christie wants to build a dune to prevent another Sandy from causing 30 billion dollars in damage to his state. People with shore property don't want their first floor view of the ocean obstructed, so they're doing everything they can to oppose it. Anyway, Christie is saying gently caress you, we'll save money by doing this. This makes him a big government RINO. Any studies showing the dunes would actually be effective at preventing damage from something that's extremely uncommon in that area? I haven't seen any definitive info either way so I'm not ready to declare this a battle between the practical Christie and the greedy land owners.
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May 2, 2013 06:27
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Honestly, I don't know how people who can't laugh at things they completely disagree with could get joy out of anything in this thread. Yes, South Park has dumb opinions about some things and sometimes dumb people adopt those opinions. Relative to every other media outlet talked about in this thread, though, they're pretty benign. I still like the show. Not enough to put new episodes on my calendar, but enough to catch up on old episodes every couple of seasons. And honestly I can't stand the daily show or Colbert report anymore. They don't go far enough towards pure comedy or politics and hearing about something I already know about followed by a cut to Jon Stewart making exasperated faces at the camera got old years ago.
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May 2, 2013 22:56
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Fulchrum posted:Well, there was that time they tried to defend slavery. That was pretty hosed up. If you're talking about the NCAA episode then holy poo poo could you miss the point any harder? On a forum created for edgy immature humor it's odd how hard people try to find away to be offended and how many people are incapable of getting jokes. Good Citizen fucked around with this message at 01:25 on May 3, 2013 |
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May 3, 2013 01:13
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Republicans posted:I'm never quite sure how I should feel about holocaust revisionists who don't deny the holocaust ever happened or that millions of jews were killed in it but rather nitpick over how they were killed and exactly how many millions it was. Disgusted is the proper emotion, I think.
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May 5, 2013 05:20
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ashgromnies posted:So what actually happens if Rush and Cumulus end their relationship? Does that mean no more Rush on the radio? Cumulus just owns some stations that carry Rush. Rush works for Clear Channel, not Cumulus. Rush would stop appearing on those specific radio stations and other stations in those areas would start to carry his show instead. It doesn't matter, though, since this is all just Cumulus blaming a year old controversy for their own failed business model in a declining medium. They aren't really going to drop Rush.
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May 6, 2013 23:23
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little munchkin posted:Meanwhile, one of Limbaugh's interns shows him the wikipedia page for "chopped and screwed" music 10 years after it's relevant, and he's capable of somehow putting together a segment out of it that slams Obama for... uhh... something or other. That episode was just plain surreal. I legitimately thought Limbaugh was having a stroke during the show, at first. It was like he bet someone that he could hit the random article button on wikipedia and just do a whole show about how the result proved Obama was bad.
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May 7, 2013 20:13
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Seoinin posted:I must've missed this. What on earth does chopped and screwed have to do with Obama? Who the gently caress knows? You're welcome to try to parse this poo poo yourself but I wouldn't recommend it Rush posted:RUSH: I'm telling you, people were OD'ing on Robitussin. This DJ Screw guy died of a Robitussin overdose. Robo-tripping was a predecessor of chopped and screwed, and you can't leave out purple drank when talking about this stuff, either, folks. That's another form of OD'ing with codeine. Not cool, but they do it.
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May 7, 2013 20:25
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Zuhzuhzombie!! posted:The "narrative" is that there were calls for help and someone in the administration specifically prevented that help from coming. Since then, the administration has "prevented" the survivors from testifying. Whatever that means. Apparently one or two of them have been leaking info that is damaging to the administration and the admin is "suppressing" them. This person is some how getting this info out there yet no one knows who any of the survivors are. Earlier today someone called into one of the shows and talked about how his CIA friend told him that Obama had the ambassador assassinated because he was refusing to allow illegal weapons to pass through the country on the way to the Syrian rebels. The host went straight into his "I'm not saying I can confirm that view, but it raises some interesting questions" bit. The only interesting question it raises is if any of these boobs know where the 2 countries are on a map.
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May 7, 2013 20:38
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Spite posted:I saw on CNN that they are interviewing Vilerat's mom about a coverup. Based on her interview with Hannity it seems like there was some situation between Vilerat's mom and his wife and there was some kind of rift. It appears that led at least partly to her current distress. I really don't think it's appropriate to speculate any further than that, though.
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May 8, 2013 07:30
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Zuhzuhzombie!! posted:They should have called in the XCOM. Somehow I doubt that would have reduced the casualties considering every single xcom mission ever
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May 13, 2013 19:12
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I'm not sure if I like right wing media more or less when they smell blood in the water. It's a weird combination of funny and obnoxious when they overplay their hand this hard. The term 'summer of watergate 2.0' is getting thrown around all over the place. Even the more 'moderate' hacks are saying that if the current scandals don't lead to impeachment then the president will become 'irrelevant like Carter after the hostage crisis'. I guess some CNN reporter asked a pointed question during a press briefing so now all of their views are finally so obviously verified that even the mainstream media can't ignore them anymore! It's this weird, frantic, childish glee that you can hear in all of their voices.
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May 15, 2013 16:16
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BiggerBoat posted:I agree with you. I get more scared than amused most of the time, knowing how many people buy into it hook, line and sinker. I've said it repeatedly through this thread, but I think most liberals who laugh it off underestimate the effect it has on the national discourse. It's hard to explain why I listen to this poo poo. It's not like I'm unaware of the effect it has on people. I don't take joy in it most of the time. I rarely get to point where I even laugh about it while listening. If I had to compare it to anything I'd say it's like trying to get a peek at a nasty car accident on the highway as you drive by. You know you really don't want to know what's happening and your slowing down to look isn't helping anyone, but there's this sick urge to just observe.
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So apparently there's a live stage show at a local theater near me in a few days with Mark Levin and a few other hacks. It's called something something Constitution and is all about breaking down the Benghazi/ap/irs nonsense, presumably because no one knows what the gently caress they're supposed to be angry about anymore. Thankfully I'm out of town next week and won't make the mistake of thinking it'd be fun to get really drunk and attend.
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May 24, 2013 16:48
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With the new scandal being about which room Obama was in during the attack, I'm sort of hoping that we end up with a special prosecutor just to find out that Obama directed the whole thing from his bathroom. Millions of dollars and man hours wasted all to discover under oath that Obama had bad Mexican food that morning and was in the middle of some especially mean nasty shits.
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May 24, 2013 17:13
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I'm glad to see Rush on board with loudly denying that Christine O'Donnell was a witch. I think he was just denying that she ran in the last election. Angle, O'Donnell and the California crew were all part of the 2010 'I know we're on a republican wave but where the gently caress did we find these assholes' team.
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May 28, 2013 21:32
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Never.More posted:The issue we had before these right wing outlets was that the media was biased to the left. That is such a pile of bullshit, and even if it wasn't you're failing to address that the right wing outlets operating today are not working off of actual right wing ideology. They're contrarian snake oil salesmen who have learned to stretch out the Two Minutes Hate into a 24-hour-a-day media empire of verbal sludge. They're exploiting the worst impulses of people in order to sell gold coins and boner pills. Pretty much everything in your post is wrong.
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Jun 2, 2013 17:18
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Really, the best you can say about American media being left-leaning outside of Fox/AM radio is that if you also included movies and TV shows then you'd probably just barely get a result that tilted towards the modern American interpretation of socially liberal. I agree that watching MSNBC is unbearable, though. All 24-hour news channels are horrible. I actually consume more Fox/AM radio than I do the other channels because they're so bad that they loop back around to being entertaining, like a monster movie with bad special effects.
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Tonight is the night! One night only at the Arizona Biltmore theater you can attend Constitution Under Fire. Live Q&A via satellite with Mark Levin. A bunch of local crazy people and some ex congressman live in the theater holding a panel discussion to answer the question of just how much should you hate Obama (spoiler: a whole lot). Apparently they're going to try to explain all the recent scandals for you in case you forgot if you're still supposed to be angry about what room the president was in while Benghazi was being attacked, or if you should've moved on to being angry about what style of eggs he ordered that morning! http://www.showclix.com/event/3761012 Only $25. If that seems high then just consider the level of people watching you'll get to participate in. It'll be like a trip to a Walmart, a Golden Corral, and a local town hall meeting all rolled into one.
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