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GoatSeeGuy posted:When the original name for the show was Hannity and a liberal to be named later, I don't think balance was ever something to even be pretended. At the time Hannity was the rising star in NY radio and they were just looking to see if they could make something of him. People forget Fox News launched by just throwing poo poo at the wall to see what would stick. Ailes might be a GOP shithead, but before Rupert Murdoch he was working at what would turn into MSNBC. If they had given Carmen Electra a shift instead of someone like Burt Sugar or Paula Zahn and she took off in the ratings instead of Hannity and O'Reilly there's a greater than 0 chance we would have T&A News on basic cable right now. There's a greater than zero chance we already have that, in FOX.
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Pope Guilty posted:Christopher Hitchens was a loving rear end in a top hat, but I respect the fact that he thought waterboarding wasn't torture and volunteered for it to prove it. They gave him these things to hold so he could drop them as a signal to stop, and I don't think he held on to them for even a second. They uncovered his face and sat him up, and he looked like he'd just watched his parents get hit by a bus. Total trauma. He immediately declared it torture and stopped saying it wasn't. Talk radio host Mancow did it too, and thought he'd be able to keep saying it isn't torture. Everyone who's been through it knows it's torture. How are people still saying it's not? Has anyone been able to both go through it and reaffirm it's not a torture?
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HootTheOwl posted:Talk radio host Mancow did it too, and thought he'd be able to keep saying it isn't torture. Everyone who's been through it knows it's torture. How are people still saying it's not? Has anyone been able to both go through it and reaffirm it's not a torture? Because they're either morons or inhuman morons.
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AsInHowe posted:There's a greater than zero chance we already have that, in FOX. Certainly not in prime time.
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greatn posted:Certainly not in prime time. Well, there's always "the leg chair".
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Okay, Carmen Electra != Carmen Miranda, I was confused for a moment. Fruit Hat News would be the best news. But I'd worry about them being a mouthpiece for Chiquita.
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greatn posted:Certainly not in prime time. Sippy Cup disagrees.
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Monkey Fracas posted:Well, there's always "the leg chair". Leave it to Murdock to find a way to translate page three girls to right-wing 24-hour cable news.
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Monkey Fracas posted:Well, there's always "the leg chair". The leg chair is really a thing, isn't it? For a long time I thought that it was just bullshit because I couldn't imagine people with sex lives that were so pathetic that they thought that seeing an anchorwoman's legs was titillating.
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Rockopolis posted:Okay, Carmen Electra != Carmen Miranda, I was confused for a moment. Chiquita, aka United Fruit Company is the corporation responsible for the term "Banana Republic", as it maintained a monopoly in certain (central, carribean and south American) regions, and used that monopoly to dominate local economies and brutally repress the population through servile dictators if they dared take radical communist actions like striking for a living wage. In at least one instance in Colombia in 1928, between 47 and 2000 (wide range shows how little anyone gives a poo poo) people were massacred by the army during a strike. The expropriation of sugar mills in Cuba by the Castro government is also one of the main reasons the US got such a stick up its rear end about Cuba to this day. So yeah, Chiquita, probably a worse company than Fox News.
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Orange Devil posted:Chiquita, aka United Fruit Company is the corporation responsible for the term "Banana Republic", as it maintained a monopoly in certain (central, carribean and south American) regions, and used that monopoly to dominate local economies and brutally repress the population through servile dictators if they dared take radical communist actions like striking for a living wage. In at least one instance in Colombia in 1928, between 47 and 2000 (wide range shows how little anyone gives a poo poo) people were massacred by the army during a strike. The expropriation of sugar mills in Cuba by the Castro government is also one of the main reasons the US got such a stick up its rear end about Cuba to this day. Is there a place where we could read more about this sort of thing?
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Orange Devil posted:Chiquita, aka United Fruit Company is the corporation responsible for the term "Banana Republic", as it maintained a monopoly in certain (central, carribean and south American) regions, and used that monopoly to dominate local economies and brutally repress the population through servile dictators if they dared take radical communist actions like striking for a living wage. In at least one instance in Colombia in 1928, between 47 and 2000 (wide range shows how little anyone gives a poo poo) people were massacred by the army during a strike. The expropriation of sugar mills in Cuba by the Castro government is also one of the main reasons the US got such a stick up its rear end about Cuba to this day. Chiquita also paid protection money to right-wing terror squads starting in 1997, funding their terrorization of the locals.
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SquadronROE posted:Is there a place where we could read more about this sort of thing? http://www.business.illinois.edu/Working_Papers/papers/06-0115.pdf This paper seems like it might be a good primer with a lot of sources. The slant of the author seems rather apologist in the first couple pages I just read though, so I don't know where he's going to take it later on. I mean, it's a business/economy paper coming out of Illinois, so for all I know he might end up defending that poo poo.
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Orange Devil posted:http://www.business.illinois.edu/Working_Papers/papers/06-0115.pdf The University of Illinois is not the same thing as the University of Chicago. 
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Nice Davis posted:The University of Illinois is not the same thing as the University of Chicago. I get that, but really, there's only one way to be sure.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Are you guys ready to see "Stand Your Ground" on Fox News, starring George Zimmerman?" "Sponsored by Skittles" didn't clue you in to the fact that it's meant as a joke?
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Jul 15, 2013 20:12
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To be fair Skittles commercials are getting more and more hosed up.
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HootTheOwl posted:Talk radio host Mancow did it too, and thought he'd be able to keep saying it isn't torture. Everyone who's been through it knows it's torture. How are people still saying it's not? Has anyone been able to both go through it and reaffirm it's not a torture? Still waiting for Hannity to do it after he said he would absolutely do it on his show and has been called out by several people. The fact that he said he would and never has should have eliminated any potential respect anyone could have still had for him.
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Radish posted:To be fair Skittles commercials are getting more and more hosed up. TASTE THE RAINBOW! 
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Radish posted:To be fair Skittles commercials are getting more and more hosed up. And none will ever top this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Zma2_n5CA
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Zeroisanumber posted:The leg chair is really a thing, isn't it? For a long time I thought that it was just bullshit because I couldn't imagine people with sex lives that were so pathetic that they thought that seeing an anchorwoman's legs was titillating. But they are not just anchorwomen. Back before Murdock-gate, they were looking like they stepped right out of a pr0n shoot. Pretty slinky, tight outfits, plenty of leg showing, different goils about every night. They've toned it down considerably. And I don't know if it was just my imagination, but it really seemed a couple times or more like little Greg would walk over to stand directly across from the leg girl and looked like he might just be getting a little of the ol' upskirt. The girls, in my not very attentive eye (at the weightroom) sometimes seemed noticeably uncomfortable about it. I imagined frat boys doing bong hits or shots or whatever every time little Greg would pull this one.
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greatn posted:Certainly not in prime time. Wait until Megyn Kelly's nighttime show starts.
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mr. mephistopheles posted:Still waiting for Hannity to do it after he said he would absolutely do it on his show and has been called out by several people. The fact that he said he would and never has should have eliminated any potential respect anyone could have still had for him. One of us should call him offer to do it at the same time. Triple dog dare him. Not me, of course, but, you know...someone.
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mr. mephistopheles posted:Still waiting for Hannity to do it after he said he would absolutely do it on his show and has been called out by several people. The fact that he said he would and never has should have eliminated any potential respect anyone could have still had for him. Color me shocked that Hannity is a gigantic coward who talks a mean game.
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BiggerBoat posted:One of us should call him offer to do it at the same time. Triple dog dare him. Not me, of course, but, you know...someone. I would legit let someone waterboard me if it meant Hannity getting waterboarded too. Somebody high profile needs to do it. Al Franken or someone. People have even offered to donate to charity if he does it.
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I say we kick his door in in the middle of the night, drag him out of bed, put him on a plane to an island half the world away, and then waterboard him a couple dozen times. Oh wait.
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Orange Devil posted:I say we kick his door in in the middle of the night, drag him out of bed, put him on a plane to an island half the world away, and then waterboard him a couple dozen times. Oh wait. I'll make a kickstarter. How much does Academi (Blackwater) cost?
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mr. mephistopheles posted:I'll make a kickstarter. How much does Academi (Blackwater) cost? Too much. I'm certain we can find some third-world mercenaries who'll do it for fun. Just have them watch a couple hours of his show (include some from his radio show for the more hardened veterans) and pay for the expenses and I'm sure we'll find plenty of volunteers.
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BiggerBoat posted:Also notable for the National Review Cruise, offering the opportunity to pay thousands of dollars to spend a week trapped on a boat with a bunch of conservative hacks.
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I have to say I'm a little surprised that there has never been a sustained campaign from someone like /b or r/politics to try to call in to Hannity's radio show every day for like a month and ask when he's going to get waterboarded
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pacerhimself posted:I imagine that no matter how traumatic it was, that when they removed the towel and tilted the board forward he'd still have that same loving smug look on his face. It has to have been surgically altered permanently. Yeah, if he's not smiling like a good doggie the whole way through he'll get fired.
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Nice Davis posted:I have to say I'm a little surprised that there has never been a sustained campaign from someone like /b or r/politics to try to call in to Hannity's radio show every day for like a month and ask when he's going to get waterboarded Unfortunately Hannity runs a professional program so there are call queues and call screeners.
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Nice Davis posted:I have to say I'm a little surprised that there has never been a sustained campaign from someone like /b or r/politics to try to call in to Hannity's radio show every day for like a month and ask when he's going to get waterboarded Actually, I heard him have a hissy fit on the air when someone brought it up. Leenk: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/hannity-tears-into-liberal-guest-for-trying-to-bring-up-five-year-old-issue/
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Phone posted:Unfortunately Hannity runs a professional program so there are call queues and call screeners. I've said it before but it's really not hard to get on these types of shows if you can get past the constant busy signals. If they think you're a dumb liberal that will be easy to steamroll you'll probably go to the head of the line. a training manual from a guy that does this regularly posted:There are a few shows (Monica Crowley, Andrew Wilkow, Mark Levin and Michael Savage come to mind) that seem to truly fear losing an honest debate to a liberal, but even these folks (with the exception of the remarkably stupid Monica Crowley, whose screener once told me she doesn’t accept calls from people that disagree with her) will put you on the air. Yes, they may make you hold for hours. Or they’ll mute you as soon as you get the upper hand. Or they’ll hang up on you after 15 seconds, spout a bunch of lies, and hurl a bunch of invective at you after you’ve been cut off. But you can get on… The only real trick is to sound smart enough that the screener doesn't think you'll drool into the phone (Unless it's the Mike Huckabee show and you're agreeing with him) without sounding smart enough to be dangerous, and then not sounding like a moron in the 15 seconds you'll get before the host cuts your mic.
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Orange Devil posted:I say we kick his door in in the middle of the night, drag him out of bed, put him on a plane to an island half the world away, and then waterboard him a couple dozen times. Oh wait. You know, I had originally had this in my post, but figured that it was lowering myself to his level to wish violence on him. On further reflection, though, I just don't have any more compassion or sympathy for fuckers like him reaping the consequences of their utterly craven bullshit.
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CarterUSM posted:You know, I had originally had this in my post, but figured that it was lowering myself to his level to wish violence on him. How about if people just kept calling him a pussy to his face on camera until he's goaded into doing it?
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