Grand Prize Winner posted:

Doesn't our supposedly left-wing media deserve some share of the blame for not fighting the Fox News bandwagon? I mean, who's the leftest person on national TV right now? Maddow? Olberman? As far as I can tell they're both capitalists.

VideoTapir posted:

I'd let Huffington Post influence me more if their business practices weren't so sleazy.

Dr. Cogwerks posted:

I don't remember if it was specifically him, but there was a pretty widespread thing in right wing media that literally any criticism of OUR COMMANDER IN CHIEF during wartime was tantamount to treason. They went hog wild over that "you can't change horses in midstream" poo poo too.

Well, we're still at war! God forbid anyone respect a Democrat president though. As soon as their guy was out, most of those same pundits flipped around and decided it was patriotic as gently caress to criticize a wartime president and patted eachother on the back for it when anyone tried to point out that double standard.

Unzip and Attack posted:

What do you base this on? I mean, black actors in his movies are just as often the 'good guys' as white actors, maybe even more often. Yes his movies confront/include racism but how does that make him a racist person? The man made a revenge fantasy movie about a former slave going on a righteous killing spree against everyone who had a hand in his enslavement - that's about the most un-racist thing the American mainstream can tolerate.

baw posted:

Sydney Bottocks posted:

I should clarify that it's not so much I'm surprised that Murdoch holds those views, because after all he is a person who's spent most of his life living and working in a couple of different countries that have pretty strict gun control laws. It's more that I'm surprised that he would tweet that, knowing full well his right-wing propaganda machine here in the USA holds a view so opposite as to be actively hostile to the message their boss was tweeting. That's why I think Ailes must have drat near had a coronary when he saw the guy who gives him his marching orders tweet a variation on "we need to have stricter gun control laws", because it's the complete opposite of what his talking heads are routinely spouting.

And Turnbull was right on the money; if Murdoch directed Ailes to change Fox News' message about gun control overnight, you would suddenly see a rash of Republican politicians clamoring for more stringent gun controls. Of course, you'd also see Fox News' ratings go into the toilet as their conservative audience abandons them in droves, which is why it'll never happen.

Mr Interweb posted:

Man who tried to burn down mosque was a fan of Fox News:

Crasscrab posted:

First word out of his mouth: WELP. I could not stop laughing. Also loving this little conversation between s one NWOTruthChannel and the video uploader, ProConstitutioner.



I love when morons like this talk about forming militias and fighting back against the government, because that's gone so well for folks like them in the past!

Sir Tonk posted:

BiggerBoat posted:

The other thing about the video game poo poo is that conservatives (and many liberals) already went tooth and nail over this stupid issue to slap ratings on movies, music and games anyway. Like others have pointed out, there's already a big old "M", "NC-17" or "XXX" label on pretty much everything telling any parent who takes 5 minutes out of their day to learn about it that some of these things Are Not for Children.

Just card kids/parents buying games and movies that children shouldn't be playing or watching and the problem's already solved for the most part. Just treat these things like liquor and cigarettes.

bobkatt013 posted:

There is a 99% chance that Dick Cheney has an island where he hunts people.

Phone posted:

I am convinced that nobody can do math. It's hard. Multiplying numbers, adding, sometimes subtracting.

It's hard.

Kiwi Bigtree posted:

To be fair, this has been the post-election Republican strategy.

Step 1: gently caress everything up through belligerent obstructionism
Step 2: Blame Obama for it

MaxxBot posted:

It doesn't surprise me that they sell gold on the left-wing shows also but what really struck me as bizarre was hearing Ed Schultz pedal gold on his show using the exact same talking points they do on Beck/Hannity/etc. He literally recorded a commercial saying "We're being crushed by 16T in debt that will never be paid off, buy gold now!" and then after the break continued reading off of his daily memo from the DNC about how there's no debt crisis .

McDowell posted:

The Muslim Brotherhood came to power with a popular vote. The US has subsidized the Israeli and Egyptian governments for years. But I guess Neocons have always been dishonest about the validity of a popular vote.

Vertical Lime posted:

Our good friend Eric Bolling thinks the firing of Rutgers' basketball coach, who used gay slurs and violence towards his players, thinks it's part of the "wussification" of America:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdZtKVWic_Y

Because, you know, using violence at your players is manly

Phone posted:

Get hosed NY Times:


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/09/world/europe/former-prime-minister-margaret-thatcher-of-britain-has-died.html?_r=0

She was so brave, like the American herosnitch, movie star, and noted war criminal Ronald Reagan.

richardfun posted:

She also wasn't exactly the harshest critic of Augusto Pinochet. And she called Nelson Mandela and the ANC terrorists.

SnakePlissken posted:

Aren't they the guys that have someone buying large numbers of issues just to keep their sales looking high? Or am I mistakenly thinking of somebody else?

Radish posted:

Anyone that wants to claim that waterboarding isn't torture should have to man up and have it done to them or be called out as the hypocritical cowards they are. Say what you will about Christopher Hitchens and Mancow but both of those guys at least manned up and then immediately recanted afterwards when they couldn't last 10 seconds.

A DENVER FAX posted:

Indeed, its terrible when a mediocre and otherwise insignificant player is given undue attention because he is outspoken about social causes.

OH WAIT

A DENVER FAX posted:

Wasn't there another NBA player to come out post-retirement a few years ago? I think he is just the first active player.

Seoinin posted:

I'm reminded of those short stories people were writing in LF right before the 2008 election. "There came the jangling of chains and 'grillz' as Obama and his gang of street toughs ascended the steps of the capitol. The pResident elect began to speak, while his posse popped and locked in unison behind him."

Ograbme posted:

In the 90s, Rush was also in Animaniacs.

Phone posted:

It was a harmless joke, though. You know how Republicans are with humor.