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Showing posts with label daily show. Show all posts
Showing posts with label daily show. Show all posts
Friday, September 20, 2013
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Friday, May 10, 2013
A bit hazi on a sense of proportion
If you think Benghazi is a scandal, rather than a fiasco, you're a person who's completely unable to hold your people to the standard you hold President Obama to.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Bill of attainder
No, not working corruption of blood, as fascist ninny Ann Coulter would.
Fox - whatever its bullshit lip service to the contrary - is tainted with its hatred of the liberal work that is the U.S. Constitution.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Media performance after the Boston Marathon bombing
Or, should I say, non-performance?
My observations:
- CNN really truly sucks at journalism. cnn.com, though, is still a useful source of breaking news.
- Fox I avoid on general principles, but they can manage breaking stories in between the toxic bigotry of their opinion personalities. I watched a little Shepard Smith on Monday while the story was still news and not yet another opportunity to push invidious delusions into the puke funnel of the VRWC.
- MSNBC's Rachel Maddow is vital for background. Her competitors who lean backward into infotainment breathlessly reported on pressure cooker bombs, as if everyone knew what that meant. She actually reported it.
- Both the Boston Globe and the New York Times web sites failed. To judge by the Globe's subsequent removal of access controls, they may lack enough oomph in their user authentication servers.
- NECN was o.k. for a while, but then reported that Boston was being evacuated on the strength of one cop with a bullhorn. Panic, people, panic! But keep watching!
- Any media outlet that gives Alex Jones a platform cannot be trusted.
- Infotainment is the norm:
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
God, media, and crazy people
| The Daily Show with Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Scapegoat Hunter - Gun Control | ||||
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You can always count on Louie Gohmert (R-dumb as a bag of hammers) to state the most extreme wingnut position possible. He's almost - almost - a good reason to let Mexicans vote. They couldn't possibly do as shitty a job as his dumbfuck East Texas constituents.
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Rape ensoulment logic
The weirdest aspect of extreme Republican opposition to all abortion is that they have succumbed to logic. Once, anti-abortion politicians routinely excepted rape, incest, and the safety of the pregnant woman from their proposed bans on abortion.
We in the women's rights community pointed to this and said, in effect, "See, you don't really believe in the absolute right of the fetus to be born." We thought this was a deft reductio ad absurdum. If they would just admit that the fetus could be aborted in certain circumstances, which they already had done, they could not claim any absolute right of the fetus to birth.
As we had hoped and expected, the GOP came around to our premise.
But they reject our conclusion - the conclusion we thought their humane moral intuition would require - that at least there had to be a balancing of principles such as Roe v. Wade solomonically outlined. Maybe there's a better balance to be found, we had thought, maybe viability is only a contingent rule of thumb. But we were sure that the living, breathing woman standing in front of them would convince them that our less black-and-white view of what constitutes life would win out.
Boy, were we wrong.
Instead, ever more beholden to the most fanatical Christian fundamentalists, Republicans concluded that the woman should be indentured to the fetus. Not just if she had erred, not just if her birth control had failed, but also if a monstrous moral wrong, rape or incest, committed against her had led to her pregnancy. God came in at the instant of conception - whenever in the precise dance of fertilization the fundamentalists decide that is - with the new zygote's fully formed, weightless, immortal soul, and that tiny piece of metaphysics outweighed the woman's self.
This is how they choose a blastula over a woman controlling her own uterus.
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Bullshit coming and going
The honest truth is that Mitt Rmoney's latest blithering gaffe is exactly what the Republican base voters believe. No matter how many times you show them that federal taxes don't begin and end with the income tax, that our federal tax system is not very progressive, that almost everyone with a good job pays taxes, that members of the 1% of the 1% (the 0.01%) often pay a far lower rate than anyone but the very poor, even the middle class hard-working white guy pulling down a median income around $50,000 a year thinks he's one of the makers and that other guy is a manipulative taker. I've tried to expose this bullshit, to little avail. Even though Rmoney claims this middle class guy needs another $150,000 a year to join the middle class at all...
I think this comes from the shriveled greedy coal-black hearts of the right wingers. They aren't motivated by anything but money, and they don't have any generosity of spirit (outside very narrow tribal boundaries) nor any ability to evaluate a picture larger than their own wallet, so they assume no one could possibly be a Democrat or a liberal without being paid off. They can't believe a member of the 5% like me could possibly believe the country is better off as a whole with a fairer distribution of taxation, income, and wealth. (Note to moron trolls: fair does not mean equal.)
So Republicans will wonder what all the fuss is about, because they lack basic human sympathy. They've got theirs, devil take the hindmost.
$50,000 video
Without the checkbooks of billionaires, this man would be struggling to see nowhere. They're simply trying to buy the election for this dope.
Monday, September 10, 2012
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Age of reason
The Democrats' problem is that reason only works with a narrow demographic these days. We didn't always have a culture of bullshit, but we do now. Republicans believe they're entitled to their own facts, whatever they make up on the spot to avoid having to deal with actual reality. The radical right-wing media feeds this irrational belief constantly. That's its purpose - keeping the ignoramuses fooled, with their willing, even eager, participation.
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Sean Hannity, lying douchebag
There is simply no explanation for this other than the one I've been asserting for years: Fox is a propaganda outlet with no interest in the truth.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Fundamentalist agenda
Fundies think they have a right to impose their backward and bigoted view of the world on the rest of us. They believe we infringe their religious liberty by disagreeing with them.
In short, they don't have the first clue what the First Amendment means.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Thursday, April 5, 2012
One hour Martinizing
My racist trolls are sooo not going to find this funny. They are too stunted to have reached the stage of having a sense of humor. Humor for them amounts to outrage posing as irony. See Chuck Asay.
Also, notice how the Fox blatherers are wrongly certain what the world has been like without even bothering to check.
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