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BiggerBoat posted:This is the sort of thing I hope to do with this thread. Media matters is a good resource for staying on top of this sort of thing. For example: Fox Graphic Sets Fire To An Image Of Candy Crowley Here's the picture.  Reminds me of something...  Of course as far as the reactionary distraction engine is concerned, Media Matters (or MEEEEDIA MAAAATERS as O'Reilly invariably refers to it) is just a Soros glove puppet.
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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'. Looking at him... you have to wonder. How old is he? Actual whores, ideally, get to retire pretty young. But he's doing this duplicitous, two faced bullshit in his 60s. How would you not just get worn out? I think the same thing occasionally about the likes of Limbaugh. The ones who clearly have never actually uttered a sincere word in their lives. At some point surely they must have enough money to retire comfortably. Is there some sort of foul vitality that comes with partisan, reactionary hackery? Do they keep going because they'd have nothing else going on otherwise?
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Typical Pubbie posted:The man gets paid tens of millions of dollars a year to wake up, put a shirt on, walk down the hallway to his studio, and spend three hours sharing his personal opinions with an army of gullible idiots who worship him. Why should he retire? My point is I don't think he really believes any of the things he says. What I was wondering was why he keeps going when, financially, he probably doesn't have to, and how he and his ilk maintain such a corrosive mentality without succumbing to emotional exhaustion. Perhaps it's simply the thrill of trying to be The Biggest oval office Alive. It's like his life is a Kaufmanesque performance to see how bilious and fundamentally unpleasant one person's personality can before someone tries to step in and help them.
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Nov 5, 2012 05:06
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Giant Squid posted:Why not? There's an identifiable pantomime quality common to most reactionary commentators. If you compare them to someone like say, Alex Jones, their lack of commitment to their message is very clear. Which isn't to say Jones is better than them particularly, but at least he's sincere. Firstly there's the mental gymnastics required to sustain the idea that the left wing-homosexual-progressive agenda is propagated by people who are simultaneously ineffectual, pie in the sky idealists and cold eyed cultural assassins hell bent on destroying the American way of life. Now, you can absolutely believe that stuff if all you do is passively absorb it on talk radio and regurgitate it on Freep. What I don't think is possible is to be on the supply side and keep it up with an honest passion every single day. Mostly though, there's the palpable contempt that people like Coulter, Limbaugh, Hannity etc for their audience. Coulter especially, does virtually nothing to hide the fact that she's an out front, hollow partisan shill. It's almost impressive to watch her do her duck speak thing. Maybe I'm being naive.
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Nov 5, 2012 06:06
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Kieselguhr Kid posted:You think the right wing punditosphere is some kind of long-running, totally cynical fraud and you think you're naive? It sounds more like paranoia to me. It's not like reactionary demagoguery is a new phenomenon. And it's never been more profitable.
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Nov 5, 2012 20:15
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nine-gear crow posted:did someone find Ben a box to stand on to hug his racist hero daddy? Christ, can we not? Shapiro is a toxic landfill of horrendous poo poo, focus on that. Why yes I am short, why do you ask.
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Jan 11, 2019 02:06
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I thought there was some really funny and sharp writing in the Sam Bee show but her Hilary boosting turned me off it entirely. Clinton loving ruined Broad City and Greg Proops podcast for me too. She can burn in a thousand hells for that and everything else.
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Jan 23, 2019 01:06
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/aravosis/status/1106275780957532160 You can almost hear the radio static coming from his vacant nitwit gaze.
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Mar 15, 2019 01:57
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420 Gank Mid posted:Daily reminder that liberals hate socialism more than fascism "Socialism is more dangerous to this compan... to this country" That's literally a joke in the Larry Sanders show to depict just how much of a corporate money crazed scumbag Larry's agent is.
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I've been streaming Fox News here in Ireland and literally every interview has been with a business owner or just footage of some broken windows. Like that's the real tragedy, the beautiful businesses. One reporter literally just said think of the essential workers who have to walk to work past a busted out Sprint store. A five minute bit with some woman who owned a cupcake shop in Cleveland who - no harm to her - looked like what gentrification would look like if it was a human being. Three different segments on a loving Sephora! Now we know why the cops are seeding piles of bricks along protest routes. I have to imagine this is because almost all the on the ground footage has been of the cops going absolutely buck wild and provoking poo poo.
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