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Zewle posted:I nominate Talk Radio Hero Mark Levin. To me he sounds like some radio signal from the 1930s to the point that it's almost haunting and unreal, like I'm half imagining that at some point Rod Serling's going to narrate something about it originating from The Twilight Zone.
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800peepee51doodoo posted:It's not though? That idiot brought a gun into Mexico and is surprised he got arrested? There are huge signs as you approach the border that say ALL GUNS ARE ILLEGAL DONT BRING GUNS HERE YOU WILL GO TO JAIL FOREVER. It's impossible to not know that you can't bring any guns at all into Mexico. They make it really really clear. According to some sites I've looked at, you can take a rifle into Mexico for hunting if you get the proper permits from Mexican authorities and follow some rules on what kind of weapon and how much ammo. The 'no gun' warnings might be to dissuade gun owners from just casually taking weapons with them.
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Dec 20, 2012 09:05
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Oddly enough, I seem to remember Rush Limbaugh railing against polls back during the Bush administration because he always cited such public opinion polls were completely misleading because the questions were always along the lines of, "Would you vote for Bush in 2004?", to which his reply was that unless people are given a specific candidate they would internally vote their personal fantasy favorites in the poll rather than realistic or specific candidates.
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Feb 13, 2013 09:41
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For me, 50s-style Retro Animation would have 2 characters running while the passing the same looped background multiple times and being cartoonishly affected by the laws of physics. Also, a mouse pulling a giant mallet from behind his back and walloping a cat with it. Give me that, because it works, too: The cheese represents gold, mouse trap is taxes, the mouse represents true patriots, the mallet represents guns, and the cat represents the militant enforcers of the Feds' authority.
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Mar 1, 2013 22:02
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Sephyr posted:If you're interested, this documentary from 1999 is a sobering The last part of what you quoted reminded me of a book I was reading on comparative legal systems throughout the world and a thing about how Japan dealt with regional law enforcement during some cultural changes of a century ago. If I remember correctly, what we'd probably consider a 'sheriff' and their family would be moved around the country to work in various regions for relatively short periods of time. I think they said the logic was that so long as a constant stream of new peacekeepers were always rotated in an out, there was less and less chance for corruption to occur, less chance for the law officers to become abusive with their power, to not have the chance to get 'too' familiar with their locals they were there to police, etc.
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Mar 20, 2013 09:47
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The response to the Gallop poll reminds me of something from the Philip K Dick book, "Radio Free Albemuth" A survey is sent out from the gov't where the protagonist figures that there is no way you can answer some of the multiple choice questions without having your answer potentially used against you looking like a communist or anti-American.
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Apr 2, 2013 21:20
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I could have sworn the talk has been that the Sajak show event actually is what catapulted him through a larger threshold of public awareness, despite his existing radio popularity. I wonder if there is some alternate reality where no one from the audience started to flip out at him, resulting in him not having the ability to present himself as a polarizing figure as much as he did within a few years.
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May 30, 2013 08:34
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Vertical Lime posted:Yeah, Sinclair is notorious for forcing it's stations to run right-wing propaganda. I wonder if that that had anything to do with their dropping the TheCoolTV subchannel on their digital stations about a year ago without much explanation. It was a great MTV replacement that was not only free, but played a great assortment of videos of every genre.
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Jul 3, 2013 09:16
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I could sort of also see that exchange as more like a Rush and the caller were almost saying: "No, I don't think she feels any guilt, at all, for her hand in this." "You're right. How selfish."
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Jul 18, 2013 02:53
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So, I'm envisioning something like Conservative No-Magic School Bus, (The Only Good Poet is a) Dead Poet Society meets Peggy Hill sort of thing.
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Sep 6, 2013 04:01
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JerksNeedLoveToo posted:
That cover makes me think two things: 1) Angela Anaconda flashbacks... 2) His entire body looks to have the exact tubular shape and color of a hot dog. edit: drat, he looks so mirthless in that picture for a kids' book. JediTalentAgent fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Sep 8, 2013 |
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Sep 8, 2013 21:04
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During the 2000 primaries, though, I seem to remember at least a few vocal conservative voices really hating on McCain, though. I think Limbaugh, especially, hated him. But I wonder how much of that was due to talk at the time of him being seen as a sort of moderate Republican which made him more appealing to liberals.
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Sep 27, 2013 19:05
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RadicalR posted:Wasn't the whole King Arthur a girl shtick something the Japanese came up with? I think there was a DC comic in the 80s called Camelot 3000 where all the characters are reincarnated and I think Sir Tristan comes back a woman.
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Oct 29, 2013 19:14
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I think it's more because he didn't choose to wipe out the Bajorans when he had the chance.
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Nov 15, 2013 06:35
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I do sort of wonder what would happen if a single strong Christian-themed church organization was formed to pour all the conservative power and influence into rather than having it split up between all the various Judeo-Christian branches that exist and what the hell it would look like.
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Dec 9, 2013 23:09
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The_Rob posted:It just baffles me that the Highest rated news channel is a white supremacy channel. There's a bit from the documentary, "Blood in the Face" where they've got a meeting from various white separatist spokesmen and one of them discusses about how they'll never get their own channel on TV, but to get the message out they're to use a tactic of exchanging their video tapes between themselves to share with friends and family to bring them on board. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a844g6dz_x0 (8m10s mark) There's one thing in all that that gives me the chills, and that's the guy who is giving the advice on bringing your friends into it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYg_9U1_9oE (50 second mark)
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Dec 15, 2013 06:43
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Rushcoin ads will show up in the show, where they'll send you a voucher good for Rushcoins that you can obtain without using a computer to get. Also, Rushcoins will have to be the exact opposite of bitcoins where instead of 1 btc being worth a $100, it's $1 for 100 r$c. You can be a r$c MILLIONAIRE for only an investment of a few thousand dollars!
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Dec 23, 2013 23:01
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I'm not sure of the political or religious affiliations, but I seem to recall about 20 years ago there was a bit of a case of a couple that were giving low-income women money to have their tubes tied. http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/09/labruzzo_sterilization_plan_fi.html I did find this trying to find the story
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Feb 13, 2014 03:35
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There's also a thing that I noticed, too, where the pundits would cite things like, "You see how they're attacking this conservative on this talk show or whatever in their comedy bits?! They'd never do that to a liberal!" Then, when they DO it to a liberal, it's either ignored or flipped around to prove they're right because, "You see how unpopular and corrupt this liberal figure is now that even the leftist media is mocking them! They're finally waking up, people!"
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Feb 19, 2014 23:23
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ToxicSlurpee posted:I'm pretty sure that's happened more than once but if memory serves THE time that everybody talks about happened on Crossfire. The premise of that show was they had a conservative host and a liberal host and they would invite two people on the show of opposing opinions to verbally duke it out. This generally went exactly as well as you'd expect but on a special edition they invited John Stewart on alone apparently with the intent on destroying him thanks to how much he makes fun of and criticizes the GOP. Along the lines of that: A few years ago didn't some pundits bring up the his old post-9/11 episode where he got a bit emotional during a monologue and started just trying to insult and humiliate him for his response to the events?
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Feb 20, 2014 18:37
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I'm really surprised that someone hasn't tried to push a really quick and cheap Bengazi movie at this point.
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Feb 25, 2014 20:40
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Star Man posted:I don't get it. What's so special about the number 299? I have NO clue, but part of me wants to say it might be a 300 reference to all but the one guy who died, but that seems stretching it.
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Mar 4, 2014 06:38
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I ended up watching about 10 minutes of what looked like a serious Fox News interview going on about NSA investigating Chinese hacking with only the closed captions on. Then, in the background and all through the interview, they kept highlighting a guy on set slamming a computer and breaking it apart in comedic fashion attempting to interrogate it.
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Mar 25, 2014 05:18
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No, it apparently was some Fox News staff guy doing the crazy computer breaking stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW58N4RrT1A
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Mar 25, 2014 05:42
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Intel&Sebastian posted:Not only that but we have such a hard on for taking them away from people we give away free Obamaphones for the express purpose of having more people to take them away from. This is what they want, though! They want the ONLY way you can have anything is if 'Emperorbama' is the one doling it out to you! You can't HAVE nice things that you earn on your own! You will take whatever the government wants and LIKE IT and get on your knees and thank them for blessing you with a phone they can use to monitor your every move! Dependency, people. (tapping sound of notecards)
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Mar 26, 2014 20:11
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Intel&Sebastian posted:I'm not veg in any way but I've always thought I would love to take someone up on this someday. Send them a weekly report of every chance I had to eat an animal along with a reminder that I avoid eating animals out of sense of a personal values rather than an actual counting of how many of them I've saved by not having a chicken nugget, chiding them for not having the same dedication to their word and personal values seeing as they haven't had a massive coronary yet. This almost needs to be a horror movie in the vein of Seven where some insane murderous Liberal is killing people based on smug Tshirt memes. Some poor bastard is found dead in his apartment, tied to a chair with his mouth pried open, piles of food on his plate. "What the hell happened to this guy?" "Our killer was kind enough to leave a menu: Looks like someone fed him Bear Liver, poisonish fish, undercooked pork and raw chicken... The killer had a salad." (Someone opens jacket, sees the shirt... everyone gasps)
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Mar 31, 2014 20:01
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Along these lines, has there been any anger yet about the talk that the administration grant clemency, etc. to potentially thousands of folks who are serving extremely long-term sentences over non-violent drug crimes?
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Apr 22, 2014 18:14
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People in Federal Breast Inspector shirts get killed by militia men who mistake them for the real FBI.
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Apr 26, 2014 01:11
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I think fast-food is a really stressful job. If you've worked a 'real job' and done fast food, you'd be surprised with how much more stressful and difficult the fast-food one is. Maybe in part due to no job security, low pay, zero authority, customers abusing you, etc. Into this, I remember years ago where people would mockingly say, "Oh, people should flip burgers and sweep floors before going on welfare!" Now, I suspect those same people turn around and mock people flipping burgers and sweeping floors because they aren't 'real jobs'.
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May 1, 2014 19:31
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Von Sloneker posted:
This is on Youtube, but I'm not sure if it's the full thing or not. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJJeNMFXLJQ
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May 6, 2014 03:51
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There was a quote from William S. Burroughs: "If you’re doing business with a religious son of a bitch, get it in writing. His word isn’t worth poo poo, not with the good Lord telling him how to gently caress you on the deal."
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May 9, 2014 08:07
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I grew up around someone who was supposedly Satanic, then Wiccan, into heavy metal and trying to piss off anyone who was Christian for quite a while in their teens. As soon as they hit their mid-20s: Hardcore conservative Christians.
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May 13, 2014 00:27
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keiran_helcyan posted:Batman is one giant stealth argument in favor of capital punishment, particularly for the mentally ill. Why is Metropolis such a great city? Because in the animated series, Metropolis isn't scared to execute murderers.
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May 17, 2014 21:17
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Pulled himself up by his broomstraps?
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May 28, 2014 20:50
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BiggerBoat posted:Fake edit: where did this whole "right wing/shock/outrage/be a mean rear end in a top hat" as a vehicle to success start, really? The first person I can think of is Morton Downey, Jr. There was a fairly okay documentary on Morton Downey, Jr. on Netflix (I think it was called "Evocateur") and there is an eventual focus in the documentary on the similarity in style to the modern post-MDJr right wing pundits of today. I think it could have been better, but it was interesting enough.
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May 29, 2014 08:10
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Zeroisanumber posted:The guy posting the Twitter feed said that Bergdahl acted like a guy who lived his life like he was the protagonist of a movie. He was always talking about walking out of Afghanistan or quitting the military to join the French Foreign Legion. One of those guys who doesn't understand consequence very well. Would joining the French Foreign Legion be all that preferable to the US Military? What's the benefit to it?
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Jun 1, 2014 08:12
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Actions Obama takes should be presented, framed and defended in with the words of a conservative pundits who have previously strongly supported that action, right down to naming the act after them.
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Jun 4, 2014 21:17
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Here's what you do to save the Redskins name: Declare that the team is named after the delicious red apples of Washington state. Sure, they're based out of DC and not WA, but who cares about details, it's all in the details! Otherwise, you go with my other option: The Washington White-mixed-with-Redskins, named for the pink Cherry Blossoms of DC.
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Jun 19, 2014 17:16
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Is there still that big Ayn Rand essay scholarship they do? I could see teachers in a school pushing that book to some classes on the basis of, "Hey, you do a good enough essay on it, you can win money for college!"
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I'm sort of surprised they aren't just dismissive of Hobby Lobby for selling a lot of imitation 'Americana' stuff that's made in China.
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