Hazo posted:

Browsing through the tv guide to find something after the game:



"We put a question mark at the end; that means it's real journalism!"

BiggerBoat posted:

Didn't Geraldo Rivera do essentially the exact same that Brian Williams did once? I want to say it was during the second Iraq war. I can look it up, of course, but the fact that I can recall so little of it from memory speaks to how little people seem to care when a right wing pundit does it.

It's like they're used to it.

BiggerBoat posted:

Right, I'm not trying to excuse Williams or anything I just don't recall Geraldo's gently caress up being nearly the scandal that this is - or even what Dan Rather did. Williams and Rather or walking punchlines now and Geraldo just keeps on Geraldoing. I remember more poo poo about Al Capone's empty vault and the skinhead fight that erupted on his show than anything about what the link you posted.

Unrelated, but isn't that something else too? In the mid 80's or whenever it was, a fight broke out on a talk show and Geraldo got his nose broken or something. That was a big deal. Now it's simply expected to happen every day on Jerry Springer.

Radish posted:

One of the stereotypical right wingers in my office was next to my desk smugly asking another co-worker where people were going to get their made up news now?

Gravel Gravy posted:

Probably FOX.

mr. mephistopheles posted:

Limbaugh is incredibly butt hurt about all the praise Jon Stewart is getting.

Majorian posted:

Geraldo said a thing:


I'm sure Eric Garner will be relieved to hear it.

Duke Igthorn posted:

THERE'S your "very serious people" thread title

FuzzySkinner posted:

Sean Hannity @seanhannity ·
AMERICAN Sniper snubbed by liberal hwood Predictable. #CluelessOscars

uh.

Okay.

computer parts posted:

I was actually referring to the historical accuracy of the other Best Picture nominees this year but yes Selma was more accurate than Lincoln as well.

VitalSigns posted:

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

mr. mephistopheles posted:

And there's literally no reason for him to need to hold the baby in that scene. When the baby they were supposed to use got sick they should have just altered the scene. But Eastwood is so loving by-the-book as a director and apparently hates making any changes at all to the script which is why his movies are generally more decent than great.

Technical Analysis posted:

"UN Takeover of Internet"

I know it's the old two faced thing again, but I love that whenever the UN is doing something that could be seen as even slightly negative against the right wing, they're some organization with limitless resources, but when the UN is putting sanctions on the Middle East or trying to bring vaccinations to third world countries, they're a complete joke.

I just want someone high up to call them out on this. The UN can't be both, for the sake of simplicity, pick one narrative and stick with it.

ShortStack posted:

I figured there weren't any new posts in the rwm tread because everything went dark after the FCC decision.

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

StandardVC10 posted:

joeburz posted:

i have a constitutional right to fire projectiles through a car to kill someone

CommieGIR posted:

So that idiot that gave his adopted daughter to another guy who then raped her? He apparently also kept his daughters in locked rooms with security cameras and alarms and had them exorcised to remove demons

http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/justin_harris


Where the gently caress are you, CPS?

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

What a whiny bitch

Tab8715 posted:

Anyone read the New York Times this morning?

Huckabee Pursues Unconventional Ways to Fund a Campaign


I knew Huckabee was kind of a odd Bafoon but not an actual scam artist.

Intel&Sebastian posted:

Well at least you didn't sugarcoat it

Dirk the Average posted:

Of course, the hilarious thing is that even if everyone were white, we'd just go right back to hating the Irish.

Hasters posted:

As dumb as he is he does have a point, if your policy is going to be total acceptance no questions asked then you can't discriminate, even against idiots.

Radish posted:

You have to tolerate my intolerance or otherwise you are a hypocrite checkmate.

VitalSigns posted:

Bush hasn't been president since 1992. Yeah sure his job-killing tax hike was bad but it's time to stop blaming him for the obama-economy.

A Winner is Jew posted:

State of the Union's?

Deep Hurting posted:

Con-serv-a-tive cool gu-uuy...

CommieGIR posted:

Seriously, how anyone can claim the 'Drunk Bar Brawl' Palin's are the superior American family is an astounding leap of logic

robotsinmyhead posted:

That pizza place is in a really tiny, really lovely, literally one-horse town about 15min from where I live. The largest restaurant is a McDonald's. If this dust settles and they reopen, they're likely to get the Chik-fil-A treatment where a bunch of bigoted weirdos patronize the place for a few weeks, then business will fall off and they'll close.

AsInHowe posted:

Same thing with Chick-Fil-A. Most people have no idea what that business actually did or said. They just know that Chick-Fil-A is vaguely persecuted Christian, so give them your money.

AsInHowe posted:

As someone in Michigan, where I don't think there's any real chick-fil-a restaurant, I sort of knew about the company from afar just be a national advertising on college football and things like that.

It wasn't until the anti gay stuff though, that I had people trying to tell us that we need to drive hours south to go to Ohio, just to patronize chick-fil-a restaurants.

Radish posted:

Haha what are they even asking the money for? This really gets to the meat of the issue of "charity" vs a government safety net. People want their money going to support idiotic grifting bigots not starving children or the unemployed.

FuzzySkinner posted:

You know, it's sad.

Can you imagine that 500k going to something useful? You know how many people are having trouble getting food on the table right now? You know how many bright people will never go to college? Imagine if that money actually went to something useful instead of a couple dipshits that made lovely pizza and have awful opinions?

But this is America, and the christian right we're discussing. Frauds.

VideoTapir posted:

Where were the international students from? This story would be extra special if they were all from like Japan or Hong Kong or Europe.

Honestly, though, it sounds like they got a uniquely American experience that they'll remember forever. They learned more about America in a couple hours than they'd learn in semesters of classes.

Good Citizen posted:

This article:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/04/02/americas-civilian-in-chief-exploited-militarys-sacred-bond-for-sake-politics/

"Let me spend several paragraphs telling you how 'never leave a man behind' is a sacred vow that should never be broken. In summary, we should have left that man behind.

PS: Benghazi "

gently caress you

Kellsterik posted:

I like how using "Civilian in Chief" subtly suggests a problem with civilian control of the military.

Armyman25 posted:

Anyone else sick of SEALs being held up as the end all, be all of the US military?

I mean, I am just a lowly National Guardsmen, I guess my years of service in Iraq don't count?

Sir Tonk posted:

To be fair, Guardsmen are pretty lazy compared to active duty.

Republicans posted:

As we've seen with Michael Brown he could have just been getting the distance he needed to turn around and bull charge the officer. Good thing this guy was a better shot. Good shoot.

Vahakyla posted:

Reminder that the State Law Enforcement Division did charge and get a conviction against Charleston County Sheriff Al Cannon for a third degree battery for slapping a dude in handcuffs with an open hand.

I posted these in the cop bash thread here http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3701648

Recent South Carolina things:


-State Trooper Gubert, shot a dude reaching for licence. Didn't die. Fired, booked, waiting for trial.
-Charleston County Sheriff Cannon, slapped a dude in handcuffs. Convicted of third-degree assault and battery. Got diversion on condition of counseling like the usual state standard is for first timers. Hilariously booked into "Sheriff Al Cannon Detention Center".
-Berkeley CountySheriff H. Wayne DeWitt, arrested and booked into Al Cannons county jail. Resigned, State troopers charged him with evading and DUI. Awaiting trial.
-Orangeburg, A white police chief who fatally shot an unarmed black man in South Carolina in 2011 was charged with murder, and his lawyer accused prosecutors of taking advantage of national outrage toward police to get the indictment. It ended up in a Mistrial in 2014, but Solicitor General said he is preparing another set of charges and another trial in late-2015.

Intel&Sebastian posted:

I never even considered the idea of saying "he stole my taser" as justification for a shooting. That's pretty convenient. It's like you're walking around with completely above board tax payer funded evidence to plant right there on your belt.


Yep. As far as I'm concerned the body camera debate is over. We need them on every officer and we need stiff penalties for incidents where they're magically turned off or not worn.

Edit: However I still think the better solution is citizens recording every interaction with the police they see along with memorization of the phrase "It's rendering directly to youtube". It's not even like we need to catch every one of these shootings for it to be effective. Just the more you do catch the more an officer has to think twice before doing something lovely. Just don't end up like the dude filming Eric Garner....hand your phone to a less shady friend I guess.

Intel&Sebastian posted:

I still do a double take every time I'm reminded that SC re-elected Mark Sanford.

NoEyedSquareGuy posted:

Did he provide names, or is it like having an anonymous black friend to excuse racism?