Topic: Culture Wars (Read 78170 times)

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #540 on:** December 17, 2010, 09:32:08 AM »

For those of you who didn't see last night's Daily Show, it's definitely worth watching(even with the annoying ads).

Jon expertly takes apart the Republicans on this one, and drives home something that the Dems should make their #1 message: Republicans care more about tax cuts for the wealthy than providing $7 million in health care and assistance for 9/11 first responders, who are literally(in the true sense of the word) DYING. One of the guys on the panel mentions that he died twice last year. And it's a $7 million bill. 7 million dollars is nothing. That's barely more than we spend on a SINGLE Abrams tank.

Huckabee's interview is a perfect example of why I can't stand him. He seems likeable enough, but here you can see the him slimeballing in real time as he tries to figure out a way to pin the blocking of the bill on the Dems, even going so far as to accuse them of turning this into a political issue(which they haven't, although they should). The whole time, he skirts around the real issue, which is that Republicans are putting tax cuts for the wealthy and political grandstanding ahead of real people who are suffering and dying. Absolutely despicable.

sei · « **Reply #541 on:** December 17, 2010, 02:42:38 PM »

NoScript lets you get around TDS's ads.

Nothing I've tried with Chrome will. (Writing a greasemonkey script would probably work, but there's no useful domain white-listing mechanism for scripting permissions. Ghostery doesn't cut the mustard.)

EDIT: Correction. Firefox's version of Adblock Plus gets around those ads. Chrome's version does not.

Mongrel · « **Reply #542 on:** January 13, 2011, 09:02:15 PM »

Passing something along:

Quote from:

So, how did this not make it on the news back in November?

Tea Party-affiliated GOP candidate and his supporters physically attack Democratic winner and staff in front of San Diego's city hall.

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #543 on:** January 14, 2011, 09:51:39 AM »

I tend to not trust reports given by a voice that sounds like it wants to sell me lemonade.

Mongrel · « **Reply #544 on:** January 17, 2011, 04:40:52 PM »

Fox News would like to wish you a happy MLK day!

Mongrel · « **Reply #545 on:** April 01, 2011, 05:22:47 PM »

In the Florida State Legislature, "uterus" is a dirty word

Mongrel · « **Reply #546 on:** April 03, 2011, 06:12:28 PM »

This is some tiny no-name paper (possibly a student rag), but the article seeeeeeems legit (obviously I'm not putting 100% stock in this).

Need a totally staged caller for your phone-in talk radio show? We can help!

So assuming this checks out... "This is my surprised face."

Shinra · « **Reply #547 on:** April 05, 2011, 08:04:15 AM »

Audience plants are nothing new in the world of sensationalist pseudo-journalism, so I can't say I'm shocked. I imagine it's more surprising for Canadians, where there are actually laws against this shit, but in the states it's par for the course.

Mongrel · « **Reply #548 on:** April 05, 2011, 04:44:41 PM »

Yeah, it's not exactly a surprise per se. More that the adverts are so shameless. And name the names of shows that use their services.

Büge · « **Reply #549 on:** June 19, 2011, 02:01:18 PM »

http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/weigel/archive/2011/06/14/the-most-offensive-political-ad-ever-this-hour.aspx

Mongrel · « **Reply #550 on:** June 19, 2011, 05:21:34 PM »

Those two guys must have the least self-respect of just about any human on earth.

Or just come real cheap.

Brentai · « **Reply #551 on:** June 19, 2011, 08:11:58 PM »

You can tell from their facial expressions that they're already counting the weeks it'll take to drink the shame out of their memories.

Büge · « **Reply #552 on:** June 22, 2011, 03:06:21 PM »

Roe v. Wade is in danger.

(still)

Mongrel · « **Reply #553 on:** June 22, 2011, 05:45:05 PM »

That posting isn't dated, but in it she uses the phrase "If Obama is elected".

:/

sei · « **Reply #554 on:** June 22, 2011, 05:54:37 PM »

She's talking about 2012. Obama isn't Lord-God Emperor for life; there's an upcoming election.

TA · « **Reply #555 on:** June 22, 2011, 06:01:22 PM »

Quote from: Mongrel on June 22, 2011, 05:45:05 PM

That posting isn't dated, but in it she uses the phrase "If Obama is elected".

:/

Ah, but she refers to the recent Walmart v. Dukes case. Of course, she does so by way of grotesque mischaracterisation of the case and the arguments of both sides, as though it were an instance of blatant misogyny in the Supreme Court instead of an obviously correct decision, so yeah I'm not inclined to take any of the rest of these words as being informed opinions either.

Mongrel · « **Reply #556 on:** June 22, 2011, 06:15:10 PM »

Quote from: sei on June 22, 2011, 05:54:37 PM

She's talking about 2012. Obama isn't Lord-God Emperor for life; there's an upcoming election.

Okay, well, wouldn't that be re-elected, and not elected?

And she talks about the possibility of him making Supreme Court appointments in a way that implies he hasn't made any yet.

Though TA seems to have a relevant point. Unless she was talking about pre-trial stuff? Those things usually take a long time, after all.

Well, I guess we can all agree she's misinformed.

sei · « **Reply #557 on:** June 22, 2011, 06:35:00 PM »

The process by which he would potentially be re-elected is referred to as an election. Elected is less specific than re-elected, but nonetheless not incorrect.

Mongrel · « **Reply #558 on:** June 22, 2011, 08:19:31 PM »

No need to play semantic games. I think we all know that common usage is re-elected for a re-election.

Kfroog · « **Reply #559 on:** June 22, 2011, 09:06:56 PM »

Mongrel, did you read the same thing I did? She also refers to Obama's two previous appointees.

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