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Bob Nudd posted:Here's a nice little piece from someone who spent a week on the dark side: My Embed in Red. Everybody should read this article; it's a good one. Frank Rich used to be the theater critic for the NY Times ("the butcher of Broadway"); later became an op-ed writer. He's definitely a lefty, but I think he does a pretty good job of trying to understand what "the other side" is hollering about.
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TheIllestVillain posted:This Debbie Schlussel woman seems like quite a piece of work. 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.
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Nov 1, 2012 11:11
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Sydney Bottocks posted:If you told me that I would be seeing, of all loving people, Geraldo Rivera standing up and demonstrating some kind of a backbone--and on the network that pays his salary to boot--I would have thought you were pulling my leg. I mean, I'm glad to see him doing it, and I commend him for it. I just never thought I'd see the day. Every once in a while, Geraldo will do something that's straight-up admirable. I remember him being extremely emphatic about the federal government's lovely response to Katrina. I'm sure Geraldo's primary motive is fame and fortune, but there are times he seems to genuinely care for some people.
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Nov 2, 2012 21:16
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TheIllestVillain posted:Wasn't he also somewhat of a competent journalist at one point? He has absolutely got real journalistic skills, and he has used them from time to time. As mentioned, he broke a big story over Willowbrook. I know Hugh Downs has respect for his news skills, even though he spends most of his time not using them.
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Nov 3, 2012 14:14
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Beowulfs_Ghost posted:Many of these pundits drop codewords that only have any real meaning in a Cold War context. And as they do it, it just reinforces the old Cold War mentality and viewpoint in the listeners. To people who are still living the Cold War, it seems totally obvious that people would leave those socialist hellholes, become productive citizens in the US, and then vote Republican so they could keep their hard earned money. I listened to Mark Levin for the first time yesterday (it was awesome -- he sounds like Master Shake and has no desire to be a "good loser"), and he didn't even gently caress around with codewords. He straight up mentioned "the East Bloc" and "the Iron Curtain". I was amazed; this guy might have to be a regular thing I listen to.
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Nov 8, 2012 14:29
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agarjogger posted:This was Joy Cardin's call-in show on Wisconsin Public Radio, from 7:00-8:00 this morning. Local public broadcasting orgs like Wisconsin Public Media are, of course, responsible for their own guests and content. WPR's content is more likely than average to contain openly progressive viewpoints, and NPR goes batty over any opportunity to have the Heritage or Cato guys on to poo poo up debates they have no credentials in. I don't think WPR found this guy on their own. It's academy vs. think-tank each and every time with an economics debate where NPR is involved. I didn't get much sleep last night, so I could be badly misreading it, but it sounds like you're saying national public radio should have its funding removed if they have people on whose politics you disagree with. What am I missing?
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Nov 14, 2012 16:19
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Phone posted:Might be thinking of Christopher Hitchens. Dennis Miller absolutely cracked up around 9/11. He was relatively liberal beforehand, and turned into "bomb the dirty foreigners at all costs" afterward. It happened to a lot of people. I was a fan of a humorist named James Lileks who had the same thing go wrong in his brain.  VVVV You are absolutely correct. I like to read that every once in a while, especially when I'm angry about something. When the Benghazi (sp?) thing happened, I was pissed off, but reading Kreider's words really helped me level my brain out. 
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Nov 19, 2012 19:09
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Nonsense posted:I'm pretty disappointed he even felt like that. That's loving disgusting. You don't ever get angry and wish ill on villains, even for a short time? If not, I'm impressed -- it feels like a reflex when it happens to me.
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Nov 19, 2012 20:33
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Perfidia posted:Well, thanks for explaining it a bit more to me. I guess there are some cultural differences between our countries that can be confusing sometimes. (For example, Hollywood tells me that if I so much as mention someone's mother, the other person will immediately go bersek on me. Huh.) I think it's just Italians and blacks that freak out like that. 
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Nov 20, 2012 22:37
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Vodos posted:That's right, the recession was economic progress! In a "Great Leap Forward" sense, sure. 
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Nov 26, 2012 16:53
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Sydney Bottocks posted:Here's a news item for those of us who've wondered how Fox News might react towards a guest who opines that they might not actually be "fair and balanced": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbUz3pIPmTY
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Nov 27, 2012 00:27
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Glenn Beck Is Selling A Jar Of His Pee With A Toy Obama Inside
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Nov 28, 2012 04:36
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Ramadu posted:I have another stupid question, why is it called "marginal" tax rates? Is there some reason it's not just called a bracket or just tax rate or something? Does the marginal mean something special when connected to taxes? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_concepts quote:In economics, marginal concepts are associated with a specific change in the quantity used of a good or service, as opposed to some notion of the over-all significance of that class of good or service, or of some total quantity thereof. (It goes on from there. Wikipedia always does. )http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_tax_rate#Marginal quote:A marginal tax rate is the tax rate that applies to the last unit of currency of the tax base (taxable income or spending)...
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Nov 30, 2012 21:26
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pangstrom posted:It's not his "style", it's that the guy is impossible to employ and unbearable to work with or for. You can say the same about any talented person who flames out of multiple jobs and can't get anyone who has shared a working environment with him to pipe up for him. It's a shame, because when he's good, he's really good. I remember an episode of Sportscenter where due to some scheduling weirdness, the two hosts were Olbermann and Chris Berman. It was hilarious, and they spent the whole show making each other laugh.
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Dec 5, 2012 13:32
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colonelslime posted:This makes me like him more. Further reading on the subject (a kind person linked to this in the cartoons thread): http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/12/07/gangnam-nationalism-why-psys-anti-american-rap-shouldnt-surprise-you/
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Dec 8, 2012 21:37
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DaveWoo posted:Front page of Drudge right now: How do you even pronounce an asterisk, anyway? Is it like those African languages with the exclamation-point clicking sounds?
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Dec 12, 2012 18:54
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Zuhzuhzombie!! posted:They don't like it because Tarantino is a white man that can say n* and "get away with it". The conservative mindset values obedience to authority and absolute rules. "Do not say 'friend of the family'" is a rule they can follow; when the rule doesn't apply to some people, they become confused and angry.
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Dec 12, 2012 19:38
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Spacedad posted:Doctor Doom is a perfection-obsessed egomaniac, who wants everyone else to be beneath him. Clearly, you are a fool for not realizing that everyone else is already beneath him. 
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Jan 7, 2013 13:16
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SilentD posted:Most naval aviators wouldn't be allowed near another plane after destroying the first, let alone the fourth. Is that because the planes are so expensive or because it's actually difficult to destroy one? It seems like they're awfully complicated, and that crashing one by accident wouldn't be an unthinkable thing.
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Jan 7, 2013 16:42
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Spacedad posted:9-11 made almost everyone in the country get really stupid for a while. Tragedy makes people gullible, irrational, and vulnerable. What sucks is that what should have been a national coming together thing was hijacked by the American Right and neocons into expensive unrelated wars, while the 9-11 tragedy was invoked to silence critics of bad policy decisions by accusing them of somehow working with 'the enemy.' (The enemy in this instance being extremist nutjobs with boxcutters.) Hey, it's an opportunity for me to post one of my favorite Tim Kreider quotes. Tim Kreider posted:This charge is also a confesssion. I reacted to 9/11 the same way as a lot of my compatriots: by going completely berserk. I wanted to see those responsible nuked, their squalid theocratic shithole nation turned into a vast flat rink of Trinitite that would glow a faint green at night for the next 30,000 years to remind the world that Americans, as a people, were not to be messed with. I wanted to release one of those viruses we keep deep underground behind 37 different failproof safeguards that's capable of depopulating Indonesia in a week. I'd utterly lost it. My own temporary insanity was shorter-lived than many of my fellow Americans', but I can't pretend it didn't happen. My fear turned into rage so quickly that it was easy to forget it had ever been fear at all. Anger is just fear that feels good.
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Guilty Spork posted:The great thing about the Bush-era anti-French nonsense is that the Iraq war was (as I understand it) a very rare exception to the overall trend of France siding with the U.S. politically, and if anything France has been even more ridiculous than the U.S. in terms of anti-Muslim prejudice. There are Americans who have had an insanely negative opinion of France since 1986. quote:For the Libyan raid, the United States was denied overflight rights by France, Spain and Italy as well as the use of European continental bases, forcing the Air Force portion of the operation to be flown around France, Spain and through the Straits of Gibraltar, adding 1,300 miles (2,100 km) each way and requiring multiple aerial refuelings. The French refusal alone added 2,800 km total, and was imposed despite the fact that France itself had been the target of terrorism directed by the Gaddafi government in Libya. French president Mitterrand refused its clearance because the United States refused to give to the French army all details about the operation and he did not want to authorize any foreign operation that couldn't be analysed by French authorities.
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Jan 8, 2013 00:31
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Business Gorillas posted:Isn't openly threatening an armed revolt kind of illegal? Not if you're just some idiot making non-credible threats. You're allowed to be crazy.
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UFOTofuTacoCat posted:Limbaugh does the name calling a lot as well. I suspect that the repetition is intentional to cause the listener to associate negative adjectives with whatever the noun target is. I've found it working on me in real life. Limbaugh always refers to the Huffington Post as "The Huffington and Puffington Post" and for the life of of me I can't not say that in my head whenever I hear or read the words "Huffington Post". George Lakoff says that certain phrasings/framings activate neural pathways in the brain, and the more they get activated, the stronger they become. It's the reason why repetition is used so much in education. Your brain is changing because of the things you're listening to.
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Jan 10, 2013 15:03
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Install Gentoo posted:Because it allows flexibility for radio stations and listeners alike. It's also just pretty typical for the talk radio format, you put hosts or groups of hosts on air for 4 hours each, generally give each hour a major topic so you cover 4 main topics a show, and rotate them out for the next daypart. quote:Arbitron, the leading audience measurement ratings service in the United States, divides a weekday into five dayparts: morning drive time (6–10am), midday (10am–3pm), afternoon drive (3–7pm), evenings (7:00pm–Midnight), and overnight (Midnight–6am).
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Jan 15, 2013 20:35
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:That graphic is stunningly out of touch. Are those really typical Wall Street Journal readers? Is *that* their median demographic? From 2007: http://www.talkingbiznews.com/1/the-demographics-behind-wall-street-journal-readers/ quote:Mayerowitz wrote, “Each day more than 2 million people pick up a copy of The Wall Street Journal or read it online, more than any other newspaper in the country, except USA Today, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
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Jan 15, 2013 20:55
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A Intimate Rimjobs posted:Facebook is going to sue them so far into the ground, it's not even funny. That will be "proof" that Facebook is anti-conservative.
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tek79 posted:I was gonna say libertarianism was a total sausagefest for much the same reason most mass shootings are committed by young men. It's because the old rich men have all the women, right?
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Feb 13, 2013 01:32
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Spacedad posted:Let me give you a transcript: memememe meep meep memememe mee mememe meep me memememe...(repeat for about a half hour.) The problem with this picture is that Muppet Rand Paul is adorable. 
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Feb 14, 2013 22:10
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keiran_helcyan posted:I can normally only handle very small doses of AM conservative lunacy, however Mark Levin is the crazy gift that never stops giving. He practically screeches his rage over the most minor Obama events possible. Also listening to him attack non Tea Party Republicans makes me laugh. Same here. He's so over-the-top that it isn't as depressing, and you can just enjoy a crazy person ranting. (Also, he sounds like Master Shake.)
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Mar 8, 2013 14:49
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In case anybody wants a Levin stream, you can get it here: http://www.wabcradio.com/ He's on now. Not in full rage mode yet.
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FMguru posted:Does every Reason article end the same way, concluding that the solution is obvious: more libertarianism? They used to be a lot more sensible. I remember a really interesting article about health care that suggested the French system would be the best -- nobody in the debate had mentioned them before.
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BiggerBoat posted:If you say so. I never found him funny at all. Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman, Jan Hooks, Jon Lovitz, and Kevin Nealon might like a word on that as well. Victoria Jackson would probably agree with you. I may be a weirdo, but I even thought Dennis Miller was funny on Monday Night Football. 
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This is from yesterday, so it's possible that something else has happened, but I would be surprised.quote:CNN doesn’t want to chat about the tone of its breaking-news coverage yesterday of the verdict in the Steubenville rape case. “[W]e’ll decline” comment, e-mailed Barbara Levin, the network’s vice president for communications.
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Mar 19, 2013 15:57
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ufarn posted:Going back to war can actually also mitigate PTSD. Seriously? That sounds like the way drinking can help with hangovers. Does the PTSD come back when you leave war again?
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Radish posted:I must be getting old. What's the cool way to search on google now? I have a search box in the top right of my browser windows.
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FlamingLiberal posted:The ANC former leadership released a letter yesterday upon hearing about her death that literally starts with 'good riddance'. That sounded so good, I had to look it up. quote:Pallo Jordan, who remembers the days when Thatcher insisted that the ANC was a terrorist organisation, "I say good riddance. She was a staunch supporter of the apartheid regime. She was part of the rightwing alliance with Ronald Reagan that led to a lot of avoidable deaths. In the end I sat with her in her office with Nelson Mandela in 1991. She knew she had no choice. Although she called us a terrorist organisation, she had to shake hands with a terrorist and sit down with a terrorist. So who won?" http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/09/margaret-thatcher-africa-fela-kuti
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A DENVER FAX posted:It was purchased a few years ago by Rupert Murdoch which turned it from a right-wing but at least intellectually thorough newspaper into a gilded NY Post. Their editorial page has been lovely for a long time, but yeah, in the pre-Murdoch years it was a high-quality newspaper.
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