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FlamingLiberal posted:He also had that infamous moment where he made fun of Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's, but I forget why he did that. Stem Cells, Fox said we need them to research poo poo like Parkinson's and he was having tremors during that ad. Rush proceeded to imply he was faking, mocked the tremors, and in general behave like an utter rear end.
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Pope Guilty posted:Fox stopped taking his pills before the ad so that it would capture the full range of what Parkinson's is like. Conservatives jumped on him and claimed that if he just took his meds he'd have nothing to complain about, because right-wing politics basically burns your empathy away until nothing is left. Yea forgot that aspect, they took 'I stopped taking my medication so you can all see what it's like for people who can't get the pills, this is the actual disease that hurts people' and made it into "WHAT A FUCKIN FAKER GUYS HE WAS SO FULL OF poo poo" Like, it really does take a special kind of piece of poo poo to do that.
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Oct 28, 2012 00:59
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prefect posted:She works as hard as she can to be Ann Coulter II, but she's never seemed to get much attention. Howard Stern used to have her as a guest once in a while, which was fun, because she's only worthwhile for being goofed on. She forgot that the Ann Coulter Method of Edgy involves a scattershot approach. Attack literally everyone in your path, hit every insane theory, do literally anything to get in front of cameras to be terrible. Debbie just keeps ranting about the evil Muslims so people just go 'goddamn she's racist as gently caress'. Basically if you're going to be a bigoted piece of poo poo for money you have to create the shield of 'uh excuse me I'm an equal opportunity offender'  . Debster just reeeeeeally hates Muslims.Also yea, Ingram is Coulter 2.
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Nov 1, 2012 13:12
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Hazo posted:Oh, her. Every time her name comes up I feel like everyone on Earth should be reminded that that evil woman literally wrote a book supporting racism. And, in case you've never seen her, her family is from the pacific region.
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Nov 2, 2012 12:47
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joedevola posted:I'm watching Dick Morris on Fox News at the moment going on about how all the polls that show an Obama advantage are wrong 'because of math'. Foot Hookers don't come cheap.
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Nov 5, 2012 04:40
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Nimmy posted:I posted some disparaging remarks about my fellow catholics in the election thread a few days ago because I always thought we were mostly good people and not divisive moral majoritarians. This was maybe one of the classiest 'gently caress you guys' statements I've read. Jesuits as a whole, in my experience, are pretty drat chill, nice to see their learning institutions are good too.
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Nov 10, 2012 08:00
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SilentD posted:It was the Jesuits at Georgetown University that gave Paul Ryan holy hell for focusing on abortion instead of taking care of the poor. If I remember right isn't the official Jesuit stance on poo poo like abortion and gays and all like 'hey guys you can disagree all you want but it's unfair to force laws and poo poo on people because of it?' Like, I only know them through knowing friends who are part of the church but they seem to focus on debate and education rather than 'ban it'?
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Nov 11, 2012 00:56
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lil mortimer posted:If you don't want to put up with your liberal relatives gloating at the Thanksgiving table, pretend you're a liberal and come up with fun scenarios like, "I made an A in biology but three other students got Fs so my professor asked if it would be okay if I'd take a C so everyone can have a passing grade." Heh, or you can give everyone at the table a shot glass full of eggnog and tell them you're just trying to be fair. Your relatives won't be mad at you because you aren't arguing with them and maybe they'll understand why "spreading the wealth" just makes no darn sense. Look man just because you spend the holidays drinking alone doesn't mean we all do.
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Nov 21, 2012 17:56
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Basically the right reads 'war criminal' as 'slandered hero'.
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Nov 22, 2012 08:01
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Relentless posted:I don't think it was intentional, but it kinda turned into one when she interviewed Art Robinson in 2010. Yea that was a total accident because Art was a paranoid maniac, Maddow went in there like any calm reporter just trying to get him to clarify himself would, he just lost his everloving mind.
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Nov 24, 2012 06:45
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Maddow 'plays into' that by being smart. It's a bit absurd to blame her for not talking down to everyone.
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Nov 24, 2012 20:04
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Volkerball posted:She literally calls them teabaggers on air. Yes, when they called themselves it without realizing the joke, she made fun of them. What a monster.
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Nov 24, 2012 20:16
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Ok Maddow called them teabaggers as a joke because they were so goddamn stupid they did it first. How does that change the fact that, objectively, she is highly educated and knowledgeable about the subjects she discusses and you can't blame her for people she discusses the subjects with not being as educated.
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Nov 24, 2012 22:21
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So it's unironically being argued that the real issue is people like Maddow, one of the few non-idiots on MSNBC, should dumb herself down to make it fair when she gets a dude who thinks Obama is a secret Muslim anti-American on her show? Is this a thing we're doing?
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Nov 24, 2012 23:30
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Yea, teabaggers are pretty legit dominated by racist loons. They literally formed like, days, after Obama was elected to angrily declare themselves Taxed Enough Already and tell us how taxes were killing us and it's all his fault because he's a communist-Nazi-socialist- They literally formed as soon as the black guy won, even at their very best they ignored everything up until the black guy won and then blamed him.
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Nov 25, 2012 01:48
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Yea Olbermann's a great example of how a total piece of poo poo can sometimes wind up doing good things by accident.
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Nov 26, 2012 07:39
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I love that so much, because if anything Politifact, in its obsession with avoiding the label of 'left wing', has been leaning right if anything. They called that 'Republicans will destroy Medicare' statement the lie of the year because they'd still call the gutted and destroyed program 'Medicare' for crying out loud.
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Nov 26, 2012 17:00
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SedanChair posted:If this is sincere, the scales have just fallen from my eyes and I finally, finally understand right-wing authoritarians. No that's very much a root in these people's thinking. "Common Sense" basically means gut feelings and what you assume to be true, and they have this insane idea of the past where back in the good old days before we had safety regulations we just used gut feelings and everything was perfect. It makes total sense, to them, that she's not LYING to anyone, she's just saying what she feels, and well the mean ol media is saying she's lying with their 'fact checkers' and number crunchers.
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Nov 26, 2012 18:52
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Yea it comes from a blend of not understanding the topic and worship of 'the good old days'. Like, a good example is in stuff like seatbelt or helmet laws, back in their day they didn't have any laws saying to wear them and THEY'RE alive so they don't need some government pencil pusher telling them to wear a helmet, IE when those laws are brought up they fight them because 'Common Sense' says they don't need them.
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Nov 26, 2012 19:33
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beatlegs posted:So his decision to criticize Bush when nobody else had the guts to and his lobbying efforts to get Maddow hired were accidents. All righty then. Well his going after Bush without giving a gently caress came from the fact that he literally does nothing but rant and rave about right wing people using as much hyperbole and froth as possible. So yes, the side effect of 'he blindly treats every right winger like the worst person' was 'he didn't give a gently caress about the insane reverence people suddenly had for him while he was getting people killed'.
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Nov 26, 2012 21:23
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When loving Gerardo calls you unethical you've shat the bed pretty bad. That's like Jerry Springer asking if you have any shame.
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Nov 27, 2012 01:56
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Zeroisanumber posted:I never understood what it was that gave Greta Van Sustren so much juice in the industry. In 2008 she became BFF's with Sarah Palin and basically acted as her media rep until she figured out that Palin wasn't going to run in 2012, but I can't think of a single memorable piece of journalism that she's done either at FOX or CNN. Really I can't get over how pathetic she was during Palin's thing. She was promised a prominent spot in the press if Palin became the VP, and that was pretty early on (They wanted a woman for the whole 'rah rah right wing women' thing and and the Pretty White Blond Crew was tied up in contracts for too long, she was their only steady choice really) so you'd think she'd try to be cool about it and maybe not be a transparent shill for her. But no, every show, she had a Palin on or was talking about how great they were and how mean the media is (except her she loves them for real) and how she's going to be the best. Then Palin lost and tailspun hard and welp.
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Nov 27, 2012 07:02
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To be honest my issue with Morning Joe is MSNBC rewarded a murderer with a flagship TV show. I mean he's a shithead and all but the dude literally murdered someone.
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Dec 1, 2012 17:20
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Unzip and Attack posted:As has been stated before, all of Olbermann's shortcomings don't undo the fact that he alone in the media stood up against the excesses of the War on Terror and was the first mainstream pundit to challenge the lockstep worship of the administration beginning in 2003. He's a dickbarn to be sure, but he was right when it counted. And at the same time the fact that his abrasive, self-absorbed, personality worked out on the right side of things one time doesn't mean he's not a pretty embarrassing figure for his causes as a whole.
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Dec 5, 2012 21:11
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Or, maybe, the point of an artist saying 'this was utter bullshit and you should be ashamed of yourselves' isn't literally demanding show trials (still curious why any South Korean court falls under that), but rather simply expressing an emotion he feels is common in his people?
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Dec 9, 2012 01:06
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Mo Tzu posted:Isn't that literally all high profile cases, though? Hell if we're going by 'hostility possibly tainting things' isn't that near any case involving a minority in a country?
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Dec 9, 2012 01:33
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Republicans posted:Her early stuff is good. Yea if rightwing shitheads get to use '9/11 made them nuts man' as a shield we get to use 'that war that only recently ended made them nuts man' for when our celebs become less funny. Cho still has a lot of good poo poo, though.
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Dec 11, 2012 08:01
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Yea, a brit saying something stupid sounds smart to our stupid people as long as he has an upper class accent. Without clicking the link is that Stewart Varney? I always love him, he's the resident "OBAMA IS LITERALLY TURNING AMERICA INTO THE SOCIALIST HELLHOLE OF ENGLAND I FLED" dude.
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Dec 13, 2012 05:57
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Pope Guilty posted:The whole FEMA DEATH CAMPS thing actually goes back to Oliver North. Well in fairness if anyone knows about vast government conspiracies that involve treason...
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Dec 22, 2012 08:37
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What an rear end, shouting at a scumbag lobbyist mid-ramble about how really to blame is the ~culture of violence~ to dodge a question about the proliferation of guns in the country, if we're talking about the same moment.
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Dec 23, 2012 07:27
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Sick_Boy posted:Oh, who is this David Ickes? He was the guest I was talking about! Did I just catch an all-star crazy tag team on my first outing into the conspiracy wilderness? He's a crazy man who believes in the 'reptilians', the whole 'a race of lizard men are infiltrating our society to do SOMETHING! (I think he was one of the first to bring that insanity out?) Also a lot of generic UFO poo poo.
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Dec 23, 2012 16:47
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the2ndgenesis posted:In what loving world would one have to live to believe that the WBC is left-wing? A combination of being unable to separate Fred and his clan being Democrats from what they actually say and do, and having drilled in their head that "LEFT WING = ALL BAD THINGS" basically, it's not uncommon.
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Dec 25, 2012 00:49
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"Oh gee the black president holding watermelon that I put by the road looks RACIST to you? Wow I had no idea!"~A legitimate defense.
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Dec 28, 2012 17:46
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watt par posted:Considering Time Warner Cable's already announced they're dumping Current in response, and surely others are soon to follow, probably not. Haha what the gently caress? "Oh no, the A-Rabs are buying it?! BURN IT DOWN."
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Jan 3, 2013 05:46
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ThirdPartyView posted:Pretty certain that Hannity is, in good part, a 'true believer' even if he doesn't believe 100% of the poo poo he spews. Hannity and that fat dude named Neil they use as an economics expert are my two big 'these guys must be totally serious', also Levin from the radio pool.
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Jan 15, 2013 02:07
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VladimirLeninpest posted:If anyone wants to hear something really sad, Michelle Dowry (the Obama phone lady) was on Alex Jones yesterday and he spent the entire interview belittling her and treating her to a number of stupid/racist libertarian talking points. At one point had his staff go to McDonald's to get a Happy Meal to show her that they use toys to keep children hooked, just like the government uses welfare to keep (black) people hooked. She spent the entire time talking about how the government has been cutting her payments down and she hasn't been able to pay rent. His response was that, while she's currently working for $8/hour at a house cleaning company, she could put up flyers for cleaning jobs and easily make double that!!! (minus the cost of everything the company provides, which he does not touch on). Well, that's just plain cruel. Like, that's just a horrible, mean, thing to do to someone who only got 'famous' because a bunch of racists wanted to go "AH HA SEE A BLACK LADY WANTS AN OBAMAPHONE FUCKIN PARASITES". So, we have Bill O bringing a 9/11 victim's kid on the show to yell at for not hating Muslims enough, this, has Hannity done anything like this to get the hat trick of just cruel things to do?
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ShadowCatboy posted:I bought a box of girl scout cookies a while back after they came out supporting transgendered kids. After seeing the amount of trans fats in there though, I think I'll just give a straight-up donation instead. And here I thought you were pro trans  .But yea, I've been just sticking with donating lately too.
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Jan 18, 2013 17:42
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Rush literally get paid to yell whatever will get the most right wing people nodding, his own values are meaningless.
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Jan 19, 2013 01:40
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Dr Christmas posted:So, gun people, is Obama doing anything "wrong" here? I've only shot skeet a couple times but it looks like he's either shooting them as they come out of the launcher just to gently caress around or holding it in the basic standing position for a rifle or shotgun. So basically either he's a guy who just likes to dick around with a gun in the most safe and sport based method possible or he has enough understanding of it to know the basic positions to be in, hardly ground breaking either way but I'm sure there's some right winger who will try to make this the newest -gate.
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Radbot posted:It's already been dubbed Skeetgate. I can only pray we wind up in a 'teabag' situation when some right wingers start talking about Obama 'skeeting' wrong or whatever and give us a few laughs.
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