lostfan Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 Yeah... the lowest common denominator in this country determines what happens in mass media. So in hip-hop music we just got over the southern rap phenomenon that's finally starting to die (but we still have some more of this "snap music" crap), for TV there is reality TV, for video games there's the avalanche of first-person shooters, and for the news there's personality-driven journalism. As long as people tune in, that's what we get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 Thank god there is still Bill Moyers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuskyCaucasian Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 Did McCain inadvertently or PURPOSEFULLY cam President Bush a "fool or fraud"? In his new ad he says "Only a fool or fraud romanticizes war.". Now remember, Bush is quoted as calling the Iraq war "romantic" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostfan Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 6, 2008 -> 01:00 PM) Did McCain inadvertently or PURPOSEFULLY cam President Bush a "fool or fraud"? In his new ad he says "Only a fool or fraud romanticizes war.". Now remember, Bush is quoted as calling the Iraq war "romantic" I doubt if it was intentional. But if he did, props to him. He's right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Gotta love Fox news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 that's ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 Rep Issa, R-CA. During discussion on a resolution recognizing the late Tim Russert. ISSA: We are going to miss Tim Russert when it comes to the people on both sides of the issue of why we have $5 oil — $5 gasoline and $135 oil. I think Tim Russert would have been just the right guy to hold people accountable, who would talk about the 68 million acres that are, quote, inactive, while in fact 41 million are under current lease and use and are producing millions of barrels of oil and natural gas a day. […] So, Madam Speaker, I am going to miss Tim Russert because this debate is too important not to have a fact-oriented, unbiased moderator who could in fact bring to bear the truth that we need to have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuskyCaucasian Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 17, 2008 -> 05:51 PM) Rep Issa, R-CA. During discussion on a resolution recognizing the late Tim Russert. Classy.... apparently on Monday Fox News brushed off Russert as a member of the liberal media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostfan Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 17, 2008 -> 06:24 PM) <!--quoteo(post=1666399:date=Jun 17, 2008 -> 05:51 PM:name=Balta1701)-->QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 17, 2008 -> 05:51 PM) <!--quotec-->Rep Issa, R-CA. During discussion on a resolution recognizing the late Tim Russert. Classy.... apparently on Monday Fox News brushed off Russert as a member of the liberal media. He didn't really go into detail, so I'm not sure what he meant (my wife was watching it). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuskyCaucasian Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 17, 2008 -> 05:39 PM) He didn't really go into detail, so I'm not sure what he meant (my wife was watching it). me neither, but it wouldnt surprise me. especially from their morning laughing stock crew. I searched YouTube, but couldn't find anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthSideSox72 Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 17, 2008 -> 04:51 PM) Rep Issa, R-CA. During discussion on a resolution recognizing the late Tim Russert. Asshole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 In the Holy Shoot! file for the day, Obama polled ahead of McCain in "off-limits" Florida. IN FLORIDA. I'm not saying this gets him Florida, but the fact that it is close, the fact that McCain has to put heavy money and resources into this state people that was sure red after Clinton lost, is a huge win. McCain is going to be stretched so thin this election, and he has no where near the resources, be it money or volunteers, that Obama has. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuskyCaucasian Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 McCain's Terror Argument Busted By 1994 Giuliani Quote Rudy Giuliani has been on the war-path on behalf of John McCain these last couple days, including appearing on virtually every morning show this morning to say things like: Giuliani repeated his message, saying Obama favors a "defensive" response to terror. Said Clinton was right when she called him "irresponsible and naive." This is all comes in response to Obama's praising of the trials and incarceration of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing terrorists. That statement alone set off a fury of attacks from the McCain campaign that Obama sees this as a "law enforcement issue," something Rudy picked up pretty fast in his attacks. So, wait for it... Here's what Rudy said in 1994 (via TPM) in response to the convictions of the World Trade Center bombing terrorists: Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani declared that the verdict "demonstrates that New Yorkers won't meet violence with violence, but with a far greater weapon -- the law." OOPS!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 18, 2008 -> 09:42 AM) McCain's Terror Argument Busted By 1994 Giuliani Quote OOPS!!! Do not question 9u11iani's national security credentials. After all look at his resume. I happen to have a copy of it. Here's the national security section: - Happened to be mayor of New York when it was attacked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuskyCaucasian Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jun 18, 2008 -> 09:55 AM) Do not question 9u11iani's national security credentials. After all look at his resume. I happen to have a copy of it. Here's the national security section: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cknolls Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 (edited) QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 17, 2008 -> 06:24 PM) <!--quoteo(post=1666399:date=Jun 17, 2008 -> 05:51 PM:name=Balta1701)-->QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 17, 2008 -> 05:51 PM) <!--quotec-->Rep Issa, R-CA. During discussion on a resolution recognizing the late Tim Russert. Classy.... apparently on Monday Fox News brushed off Russert as a member of the liberal media. Observers of the insane clown posse on MSNBC -- observers such as Ed Morrissey, for example -- noticed the classless comments made by Chris Matthews to Keith Olbermann on Olbermann's "Countdown" show in connection with the death of Tim Russert. "It may be tricky to say this, and I'll say it," Matthews said, introducing his weirdly derogatory remembrance of Russert. Matthews said that Russert had believed the administration's assertion that Saddam was trying to get nuclear weapons and that Russert was "an everyman" for believing it. Matthews was giving Russert what was at best a backhanded compliment, essentially portraying the just-deceased Russert as a dupe. Watch the video for yourself here. On Monday Olbermann promoted my friend Andrew Breitbart as the Worst Person in the World throughout "Countdown." Breitbart's photograph was displayed and Andrew was given reason to get excited. In the event, however, Olbermann conferred the honor collectively on FOX News because of an observation Andrew had made in a segment on "FOX and Friends" that morning. The "FOX and Friends" segment with Breitbart talking about Russert can be seen here. In conferring the honor on FOX News, Olbermann baldly lied about the ground for it. Olbermann's Worst Person in the World segment can be seen here. With his crazed pomposity, Olbermann intoned: "For God's sake, do you have to do it the first morning of the first week day after the man has died? Could you not shut the spigot off just for a little while? Could you not wait until after we have the funeral? Of course, you couldn't. You're FOX News and you are the worst persons in the world." He vaguely derided FOX News for the comments that Matthews had in fact made to Olbermann. In other words, in the clip above, Olbermann falsely imputed Matthews's offense committed on Countdown and on MSNBC on the evening of Russert's death this past Friday to Breitbart and FOX News. In the only critical comment Breitbart made on FOX, Breitbart had accurately described Matthews's offense in his segment discussing Russert on FOX News. The offense for which Olbermann seems to have called out FOX News as the Worst Person in the World was actually committed with Olbermann on MSNBC, and Breitbart had criticized Matthews for it. Because Breitbart's observation about Matthews was correct and damning, Olbermann chose not to quote or show it. Olbermann was thus free to misrepresent the gist of Breitbart's comments for the purposes of conferring his Worst Person in the World honors. In short, MSNBC accused its nemesis at FOX News -- not Breitbart, a somewhat less appealing target to Olbermann -- for what Breitbart said, and imputed Matthews's offense committed on MSNBC to Breitbart and FOX. Pot. Kettle. Black. Or worse. I know its Dem only, but I had to correct Olberliberal. I will leave now. Edited June 18, 2008 by Cknolls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuskyCaucasian Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 OMG! The women of "The View" are terrorists!!! Well, maybe it isnt that far from the truth. lol Michelle Obama On "The View": Fist Bumps All Around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 18, 2008 -> 10:57 AM) From McCain himself... ...here's what McCain had to say about Rudy's expertise, or lack thereof, on national security last September: "I think the nation respects the mayor's leadership after 9/11, and I do, too, and I think he displayed leadership at a time that Americans needed some steady hand, and I think that his conduct was very laudatory following 9/11," Mr. McCain said, when asked why so many voters identify Mr. Giuliani with the issue of terrorism. But he went on to say: "I don't thin k it tran s late s , nece s s arily, into foreign policy or national s ecurity experti s e. I k now of nothing in hi s bac k ground that indicate s that he ha s any experience in it, with him or Romney." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuskyCaucasian Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jun 18, 2008 -> 02:24 PM) From McCain himself... I really do love this blog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 In another classic move, our good friends at Blackwater have asked an American court to rule that a lawsuit filed against their company for a plane crash involving some sort of negligence should be tried not under U.S. law, but under Sharia law, because under Islamic Sharia law the lawsuit would have to be thrown out. Brilliance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuskyCaucasian Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Hypocrisy's a b****.... It's just so hard to take the buffoons on the far right seriously when it comes to their incessant hysteria regarding anything involving Barack Obama (D). Their latest rant is that Obama is breaking federal law by using the likeness of the presidential seal with his new seal: Well, it took me about 15 minutes on Google Images to discover that John McCain's ® own caucus -- the National Republican Senatorial Committee -- uses three different likenesses of the official seal...for fundraising purposes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kapkomet Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 23, 2008 -> 02:01 PM) Hypocrisy's a b****.... The difference is that you don't see McCain's name there, nor do you see the altered eagle with Obama's logo across the chest. Obama turned this into his own doing. This is a stupid arguement, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BearSox Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 23, 2008 -> 01:51 PM) The difference is that you don't see McCain's name there, nor do you see the altered eagle with Obama's logo across the chest. Obama turned this into his own doing. This is a stupid arguement, though. Didn't you realize that McCain and the republicans are always wrong though? Whatever the messiah does must be correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 (edited) QUOTE (BearSox @ Jun 24, 2008 -> 03:18 AM) Didn't you realize that McCain and the republicans are always wrong though? Whatever the messiah does must be correct. At this point it seems like Dem only and GOP only is no longer being honored. It's anything goes in both threads. Edited June 24, 2008 by BigSqwert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jun 24, 2008 -> 06:03 AM) At this point it seems like Dem only and GOP only is no longer being honored. It's anything goes in both threads. That's not what you guys meant to have happen, is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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