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01-08-2019 , 10:04 AM

#1776

Namath12

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Dominic

I'm dying

That's gotta be Gore Tex

01-08-2019 , 10:05 AM

#1777

Namath12

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lol these idiots

01-08-2019 , 11:15 AM

#1778

cuserounder

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Namath12

lol these idiots

This really is the quintessential post-factual American political argument.

About 55-60% of the country still believes that a fact is a provable thing on an intellectual level, knows the argument for the wall is utter bull**** and opposes it.

About 30-35% of the country believes that facts are proven by how they feel, and they feel like brown people are dangerous and scare the daylight out of them so they want their wall. But if you ask them, they "KNOW" that immigrants are dangerous.

About 10% are so disinterested in the world around them that they have failed to read a newspaper, watch the news, talk about the news with friends, or absorb an iota of content on the issue for 3+ years.

Given how each side is 100% sure it KNOWS what's right, we're tearing the country apart. This post isn't anything groundbreaking, and this dynamic has been discussed plenty... but this issue really is the quintessential one to illustrate it.

(By the way, a nation that cannot agree on what a fact is and who is an neutral arbiter of the facts is considered one of the key precursors for civil war.)

01-08-2019 , 11:18 AM

#1779

Namath12

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One of the darkest days in the history of Fox News was the day MTV fired Kennedy

01-08-2019 , 11:22 AM

#1780

Trolly McTrollson

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I wonder what Bill Bellamy is up to these days.

01-08-2019 , 11:49 AM

#1781

lozen

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Namath12

One of the darkest days in the history of Fox News was the day MTV fired Kennedy

Thank you I was watching last week and was were have I seen that lady before.

01-08-2019 , 02:28 PM

#1782

Zimmer4141

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MSNBC should go full troll mode tonight.

"And now, from the Oval Office, here is a statement from the President"

and just show the clip of him saying "We'll shut the government down. We won't even blame the Democrats for it"

01-08-2019 , 11:45 PM

#1783

dlk9s

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Zimmer4141

I'm trying to figure out if Yglesias is criticizing MSNBC (I think he is). If he is, I think he's misguided, as the "maverick" label reads like sarcasm to me.

01-09-2019 , 11:10 AM

#1784

Namath12

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How does this guy stay employed

01-09-2019 , 12:05 PM

#1785

Namath12

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MSM but still...duh?

01-11-2019 , 04:03 PM

#1786

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Has Tucker actually been a socialist the whole time, just so incredibly racist that no one could tell him apart from normal conservatism?

Vox: Tucker Carlson has sparked the most interesting debate in conservative politics

Quote:

Last Wednesday, the conservative talk show host Tucker Carlson started a fire on the right after airing a prolonged monologue on his show that was, in essence, an indictment of American capitalism.

America’s “ruling class,” Carlson says, are the “mercenaries” behind the failures of the middle class — including sinking marriage rates — and “the ugliest parts of our financial system.” He went on: “Any economic system that weakens and destroys families is not worth having. A system like that is the enemy of a healthy society.”

He concluded with a demand for “a fair country. A decent country. A cohesive country. A country whose leaders don’t accelerate the forces of change purely for their own profit and amusement.”

The monologue was stunning in itself, an incredible moment in which a Fox News host stated that for generations, “Republicans have considered it their duty to make the world safe for banking, while simultaneously prosecuting ever more foreign wars.”

Apparently this has set the conservative world AFLAME

Quote:

The monologue and its sweeping anti-elitism drove a wedge between conservative writers. The American Conservative’s Rod Dreher wrote of Carlson’s monologue, “A man or woman who can talk like that with conviction could become president. Voting for a conservative candidate like that would be the first affirmative vote I’ve ever cast for president.” Other conservative commentators scoffed. Ben Shapiro wrote in National Review that Carlson’s monologue sounded far more like Sens. Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren than, say, Ronald Reagan.

lol

01-11-2019 , 04:48 PM

#1787

Effen

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lol tucker

3/4 of that wouldn't have been out of place by any socialism advocate speaking on any college campus. just vomited the word family and republican a bunch in there randomly.

dudes not dumb, he sees the way the winds are blowin

01-11-2019 , 04:54 PM

#1788

suzzer99

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Socialism for white people. We always knew it was coming.

01-11-2019 , 06:04 PM

#1789

MrWookie

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White nationalism and socialism are two great tastes that taste great together!

01-11-2019 , 07:57 PM

#1790

goofyballer

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And why bother covering white nationalism when you can cover someone using the word "mother****er" instead

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/sta...48908399431680

01-11-2019 , 08:31 PM

#1791

suzzer99

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Came here to post that. SUCH ****ING BULL****

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/20...over-it/222498

Quote:

In an interview with The New York Times published Thursday morning, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) said, “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” TV news coverage of his remark that day was incredibly muted and often shied away from explicitly calling the comment racist; one show’s tweet merely called it “controversial.”

Fox News devoted a total of 42 seconds to the story the day King’s comments were published. The sole segment, which was on Special Report with Bret Baier, was framed as “Republican Congressman Steve King is fighting back against a New York Times article,” referring to a statement King released after the piece came out.

NBC News interviewed King about his comments and devoted a full segment to him during NBC Nightly News. But one of the show’s tweets about the interview simply labeled the comment “controversial,” adding that “some people are calling [it] racist.”

CBS Evening News and ABC World News Tonight did not mention King.

CNN ultimately covered King’s comment the most out of all the cable news networks on January 10 (nearly 11 ½ minutes). But the network didn’t mention King until after 9:30 p.m.

MSNBC, which was the first cable network to report on King’s comment, discussed the congressman for just over seven and a half minutes on January 10. During MTP Daily, which was the first cable news show to mention King, the conversation was largely framed around horse race politics and what this would mean for King’s re-election chances rather than the substance of what he said. The show didn’t even mention what King had said until nearly the end of the segment.

01-11-2019 , 08:33 PM

#1792

suzzer99

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Why is "racist" offensive is like a week away. Tucker's got dibs.

01-11-2019 , 08:48 PM

#1793

simplicitus

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Tucker thing seems appropriate given that the standard position of the Euro right is more goodies for white folks, less for browns/immigrants. The US is the exception, and the GOP's standard "screw the workers" position is an anomaly. When your party needs old white people to survive, there's only so far racial grievance will get you without some goodies. See, e.g., Kansas.

01-11-2019 , 08:51 PM

#1794

SirOsis

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Maddow has been doing a good job keeping at least some focus on Russia. Trump is effectively a Russian asset, he's got to be loving how he can draw so much attention away from that with the shutdown. I anticipate something truly desperate from him as Cohen's public testimony nears.

01-11-2019 , 11:46 PM

#1795

simplicitus

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Every lawyer and executive associated with this should be fired. Remember, though, they get outside salaries because they're so important to the company. There's no way NBC should pay her full contract even if they are assured to lose in litigation. Litigate for a while and offer to settle for $15M less.

https://twitter.com/hshaban/status/1083928489294774272

01-12-2019 , 08:36 AM

#1796

+rep_lol

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i dont have enough bad words to describe the decision to give her 69 million ****ing dollars to show her stupid face on tv

i just cant even

01-12-2019 , 01:34 PM

#1797

lozen

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She is an example of everything wrong with the 24 hour news. One point she is on Fox spewing their agenda and than over to NBC doing the lefts bidding. She will do anything they ask to get paid.

She asked a simple question which showed her stupidity but fired

01-12-2019 , 01:42 PM

#1798

Trolly McTrollson

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On the other hand, NBC News is a scummy organization and I don't mind seeing them lose a ****load of money on a terrible business decision. Hopefully Megyn Kelly spends her career in an AM radio wasteland.