Wednesday Morning Rant

Yet They Wonder

I still manage to marvel at the utter absence of introspection within the press. For as much as they complain about "loss of trust" and caterwaul about the "dangerous culture of disrespect," they still decline to consider why nobody trusts them and everybody hates them. It isn't hard to figure out, but they also have a vested interest in not figuring it out.

I recently read a lengthy article by the Denver Post that is a shining example of why people hate the press. It's an "expose" of an X account called "DoBetterDNVR," which covers the vagrancy and illegal alien problems in that city. The city government hates it, as does the city's main newspaper. The account is apparently both popular and not faith-promoting, so the Post decided to cover it.

I am not familiar with the account, but this article was fascinating. It's such an obvious hit piece that it almost defies belief and it's worth reading the whole thing.

DoBetterDNVR is a household name in some Denver circles and has grown to a point where it impacts city politics, drawing the attention of Denver officials and prompting at least one city investigation.
...
The account routinely excoriates Denver's current leaders for the way the city approaches addiction and homelessness, and calls instead for tough-on-crime solutions like making it a felony to possess small amounts of drugs, shifting away from harm-reduction programs and forcing people into mandatory treatment.

They're mean to city officials and don't toe the party line. That's it. That's the problem, and why the Post decided to write a hit piece where they dox various contributors to the account and made it clear that they want to dox the operator.

But, of course, that isn't why the Post claims it had to do a rare piece of investigative reporting in this case. The stated reason for the article is that the account isn't run by "real" journalists and so sows "misinformation."

"Regular people can commit acts of journalism," said Patrick Ferrucci, chair of the Department of Journalism at the University of Colorado Boulder. "They can disseminate important information, and that's great. But that's only a piece of what journalism does. Journalism often puts that information into context, which makes it more useful for people. And, more importantly, journalism is not just defined by the end product. It is defined by the process that goes into it. Ethics, norms, verification -- all these things that make the information that goes out different."

What a nasty bit of condescension. Journalism isn't about facts and events, it's about "contextualizing" the facts and events. It isn't an means to an end, it's its own end. It's a "process," not a product. It's odd to see the chair of the J-School define "journalism" as performance art, but we've also long since gone through the looking glass.

The Post also has no information straight from the horse's mouth. When someone claiming to run the account called them, they made it clear that they didn't want it:

The Post's policy on using anonymous sources requires the reporter to know the person's identity even if the person's name is not published. Additionally, The Post declined to grant anonymity to the caller, who then refused to do an interview in which they would be named.

Gee, I wonder why. The Post declined to extend to this person the same courtesy they give to your average drug dealer, spent a big chunk of this article outlining the process it used to identify and then dox various DoBetterDNVR contributors and then feigned bafflement when someone claiming to be in charge showed them the level of trust they'd earned. Even if the person was faking his or her role in the account, the Post could have agreed to anonymity and then done verification. If didn't pan out, they could have not used it. But they didn't even try.

Their vaunted journalistic standards and practices aside, just what is all this dangerous misinformation being peddled by DoBetterDNVR? The Post deigns to provide an example - and in so doing, provides a much stronger example of their own tendencies in this regard:

In October, DoBetterDNVR alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua at the Cedar Run apartments on Oneida Street and at a second complex were meeting Denver firefighters when they arrived on site for emergency calls, questioning the firefighters about their purpose and then "escorting" the first responders through the apartment complex. Denver police, the account claimed, were usually "too busy" to provide backup for the firefighters.
"It's obvious that TdA has infiltrated both of these complexes in Denver," read the post, which cited no sources.
The unverified claim prompted an investigation within the Denver Fire Department, according to emails between Chief Desmond Fulton and Councilwoman Amanda Sawyer. Fulton told Sawyer that a fire operations chief immediately called over to the fire station in the area to ask about the claim, and that a police commander, fire division chief and fire district chief also visited the fire station to hear from firefighters directly.
The officials found the firefighters had no "negative interactions with TdA," Fulton wrote in a Nov. 1 email, referring to the gang. They also discovered that Denver police "have been very responsive and have been onsite for most of our calls to these addresses."
"Members at Station 19 have been followed and watched by male members while on medical calls, but not interfered with in the course of performing their duties," Fulton wrote.

Absolutely fascinating, and I don't know if the Post writer even realizes what she did here.

Assertion: Tren de Aragua meets and "escorts" firefighters and EMTs when they come to the apartment complex.
Evidence presented that the assertion is misinformation: "Members at Station 19 have been followed and watched by male members while on medical calls, but not interfered with in the course of performing their duties," Fulton wrote.
See the problem? Chief Fulton did not dispute DoBetterDNVR's assertion, he confirmed it. Tren de Aragua intercepts firefighters and EMTs at the complex and follows them around. DoBetterDNVR didn't say that TdA attacks the emergency personnel, just that they intercept and "escort" the emergency personnel - something their Chief confirmed in a quote that the Post uses to prove that the assertion is "misinformation." The mind fairly boggles.

Assertion: Denver PD is usually "too busy" to provide backup.
Evidence presented that the assertion is misinformation: "They also discovered that Denver police "have been very responsive and have been onsite for most of our calls to these addresses."
These are not quite the same thing. Is "onsite" the same as "providing backup?" If they are onsite, why are TdA affiliates allowed to insinuate themselves into fire department activities? Not sure. DoBetterDNVR's claim could be overblown, or it could be face-saving by the various departments, outright lies all around or anything in between. It's hard to tell because the Post does the same thing here that it lambastes DoBetterDNVR for doing - relying on anonymized summaries. They quote officials by name, but present none of the evidence for their claims. If the police are there for "most" calls, how many is "most?" Did they actually count? Ordinarily, this wouldn't be a problem but the Post is spilling out thousands of words about their reliability and thoroughness and how awful DoBetterDNVR is. The onus is on them to be complete, and they haven't done it.

This article is latest act in the city's war on DoBetterDNVR:

Until this spring, the Denver Police Department's X account regularly answered DoBetterDNVR's public questions about incidents. The department stopped doing so in March, police spokesman Doug Schepman said, in a decision that came about "with guidance from the mayor's office."
"The volume and frequency of the requests reached levels that became onerous," Schepman said, noting that the mayor's office also determined the account's content was "not solution-oriented."

And then the Post does a hit piece. It had to. It is part of the power system in Denver. If an organization - however loose - is not faith-promoting, it must be destroyed.

And the Post is unrepentant about its doxing of the thoughtcriminals in Denver:

Palacios had little sympathy for concerns that revealing the women connected to DoBetterDNVR constitutes doxing.
"Don't dish out what you can't take," she said.

Charming.

And yet, tomorrow, the press will once again be full of stories wherein journalists feign confusion about why they are held in such contempt.

Posted by: Joe Mannix at 11:00 AM

Comments

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1 And here we go!!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2025 11:01 AM (W/lyH)

2 The press has devolved into a propaganda arm of the left. They don't ever "investigate" anything. They're spoon fed what the Democrats want the public to believe.

They're also almost entirely made up of egotistical assholes.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 06, 2025 11:04 AM (Q4IgG)

3 Robert Mueller was subpoenaed to testify wrt RussiaGate. He was found in a Memory Care Home.

https://tinyurl.com/3xdwfx4x

Posted by: IrishEi at August 06, 2025 11:04 AM (3ImbR)

4 Let me just say this:

Harrumph!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 06, 2025 11:06 AM (hY4dx)

5 This is a parody excerpt from Kamala's book. At least, I think it’s a parody.

https://is.gd/R4z88N

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 06, 2025 11:06 AM (L/fGl)

6 3 Robert Mueller was subpoenaed to testify wrt RussiaGate. He was found in a Memory Care Home.

https://tinyurl.com/3xdwfx4x
Posted by: IrishEi at August 06, 2025 11:04 AM (3ImbR)

Of which he just entered yesterday...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 06, 2025 11:06 AM (VE6XX)

7 Yeah, actually imprisoning criminals is just reichwing Nazzie stuff.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2025 11:07 AM (bss/y)

8 Journalists? No, "State Stenographers."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 06, 2025 11:07 AM (hY4dx)

9 Denver is toast

Write it off, total loss

Posted by: Zeera. I voted for ALL of this at August 06, 2025 11:07 AM (iPUBf)

10 Introspection ? What year was it when morons began to realize that the Afghan war was unwinnable and unnecessary? It was 2 years into Trump's first term before I remember seeing Ace raise some doubts.

The American public has many different media companies to choose from
They consistently choose the mainstream media that the right-wing hates. No one forces them to watch ABC News
Should they be forced to watch Breitbart?

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at August 06, 2025 11:09 AM (OYIP7)

11 Thx Joe.
I can see members of the Denver Post in the lunchroom,"if we wrote the truth about Tren de Aragua , they'd kill us. The readers wouldn't like that "

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2025 11:09 AM (r/xMY)

12 My apologies. I did not want to hijack this thread--I thought I was on the art thread. Again, very sorry.

Posted by: IrishEi at August 06, 2025 11:09 AM (3ImbR)

13 I have more respect for OF "models" because they are more honest about the service they provide.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 06, 2025 11:10 AM (lXoJ5)

14 Wasn't it the Denver 9 channel (NBC affiliate iirc) that employed a klantifag in some type of security job, who murdered a politically-incorrect protestor while still employed by the teewee station?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 06, 2025 11:10 AM (ULPxl)

15 The goal of the TdA in allowing the fire department to do its job is clear: they (TdA) are in control, and the residents better not challenge them.

Imagine if this was a group of rightwing militia types.

The media can play their little game all they want. The human lifespan is not on their side. The people who grew up listening to them as an honest source of news are dying off. The rest of the population views them with unbridled contempt.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2025 11:10 AM (Riz8t)

16 Willowed:

We saw "Final Destination 5: Bloodlines" last night. Streaming on HBOMax.

If you're unfamiliar with the FD series, the basic premise is that if you somehow escape the death that you slated to have by the fates, Death will come after you until he gets you with some ornate, grotesque Rube Goldbergian death trap, Death being the prankster he is and all.

I have to say that FD5 was surprisingly well done. Not just for an FD movie. So, I suppose it earned all the good reviews.

This is meant to be the final FD movie so it has a bit of a tie-in to the previous flicks.

Anyway, not a great movie. More like Grand Guinol-style entertainment. Well-directed. Well acted. Spectacular death scenes that will probably make you cringe delivered with a soupçon of philosophy.

If it sounds like your kind of thing, it is.

Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 06, 2025 11:11 AM (iJfKG)

17 You’re not expected to actually believe the lie, it is merely a loyalty test.

Posted by: Farmers & Ranchers at August 06, 2025 11:12 AM (6eCpD)

18 THE MIGRANTS ARE EATING CATS AND DOGS IN SPRINGFIELD OHIO!!!

Now that is true journalism !

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at August 06, 2025 11:12 AM (OYIP7)

19 Nick Sortor@nicksortor
JUST IN: SiriusXM has CANCELED The Howard Stern Show after the Trump hater’s ratings PLUMMET
At least Stern will have time to tend to his TDS now
“After you saw what happened with Stephen Colbert, it's like they just can't afford to keep him going,” a SiriusXM insider told The Sun

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I'm already not listening to him as hard as I can.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 06, 2025 11:12 AM (L/fGl)

20
Robert Mueller was subpoenaed to testify wrt RussiaGate. He was found in a Memory Care Home.

________

He's roomies with Joe Biden.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 06, 2025 11:13 AM (kkTda)

21 Palacios had little sympathy for concerns that revealing the women connected to DoBetterDNVR constitutes doxing.
"Don't dish out what you can't take," she said.

Oh, I love this attitude.

I wonder what her opinion would be if she were thoroughly doxxed.

I suspect that it would change.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 06, 2025 11:13 AM (iJfKG)

22 The first time I ever questioned Canadian media was after the Montreal Massacre - I think it was 1989. A gunman went into a Montreal engineering school, ordered the men out and killed 14 women.

The press reported him as Marc LePine. A good french name, non?

But it bothered me. Why no pictures? Even in that day and age, why no pictures?

Years later I learned from a Mark Steyn article that the gunamn was an Algerian muslim immigrant. Mark gave the name. I forget it now. But of course the Canadian Press just hid that fact and led Canada to believe he was 'definitely white' and this was an attack on women.

Assholes. I celebrate with chocolate when journalists die.

Happier note. A very sweet, pretty young woman just won a car on 'The Price is Right!' I hope that brings her years of happiness.

Everyone have a happy day.

My basement is entirely washed and I'm restocking my Armagheddon - Zombie Apocalypse supply. Have fun.

Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, LOVED, APPRECIATED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.5% at August 06, 2025 11:14 AM (jvJvP)

23 You get the respect that you show.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at August 06, 2025 11:15 AM (GD2xa)

24 19 Nick Sortor@nicksortor
JUST IN: SiriusXM has CANCELED The Howard Stern Show after the Trump hater’s ratings PLUMMET
At least Stern will have time to tend to his TDS now
“After you saw what happened with Stephen Colbert, it's like they just can't afford to keep him going,” a SiriusXM insider told The Sun

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I'm already not listening to him as hard as I can.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 06, 2025 11:12 AM (L/fGl)

Maybe he can do a podcast now.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2025 11:15 AM (bss/y)

25 "Journalism often puts that information into context, which makes it more useful for people."

Sure -- they do this, and then they remove the actual information from the story, leaving only the "context", i.e. the message corresponding to the pre-existing narrative.

Posted by: pikkumatti at August 06, 2025 11:15 AM (FY8nG)

26 The media continues to lose its relevancy. I'd feel sorry for them but nah.

Heck, I have a cousin who has been a journalist for many years. Love her dearly but if I ever had to deal with her in her professional capacity, I'd have three recording devices nearby and would keep my answers to no more than three words.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 06, 2025 11:15 AM (lXoJ5)

27 No dicksmoker ever smoked dick the way "journalists" smoke their own dicks. I don't know how they breathe.

Journalists are one of the lowest forms of barely-literate retards that ever slithered out of the Precambrian ooze to ejaculate their guts on the beach.

Yet they think they are Sherlock Holmes indominable geniuses. Nobody ever had a more undeserved opinion of themselves. They can all suck a really fat acid-junkie dick and die of AIDS. I'll laugh at their funeral.

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 06, 2025 11:15 AM (iFTx/)

28 Over the years I have had the opportunity to meet with various "journalists" in a variety of ages. The really old guys are capable of some introspection, but still believe they are on the right side of history. All the rest are just clones, stamped from the same mold and are generally incapable of independent thought. It's really fascinating to behold. They just can't grasp the idea of even the simplest conservative concept.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2025 11:15 AM (W/lyH)

29 19 Nick Sortor@nicksortor
JUST IN: SiriusXM has CANCELED The Howard Stern Show after the Trump hater’s ratings PLUMMET
At least Stern will have time to tend to his TDS now
“After you saw what happened with Stephen Colbert, it's like they just can't afford to keep him going,” a SiriusXM insider told The Sun

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I'm already not listening to him as hard as I can.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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What a shame that a mentally disabled senior citizen like Stern loses his job in the Trump dystopian economy.

Posted by: The media at August 06, 2025 11:15 AM (ctrM5)

30 I celebrate with chocolate when journalists die.

I have said that my first reaction when a journalist gets killed is "What did he do to deserve it?"

Posted by: NR Pax at August 06, 2025 11:16 AM (lXoJ5)

31 @15. "The rest of the population views them with unbridled contempt."

You got that right.

Posted by: Case at August 06, 2025 11:17 AM (fSxdA)

32 Palacios had little sympathy for concerns that revealing the women connected to DoBetterDNVR constitutes doxing.
"Don't dish out what you can't take," she said.

Oh, I love this attitude.

I wonder what her opinion would be if she were thoroughly doxxed.

I suspect that it would change.
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At this point if I were them I'd be tempted to publish the home addresses and phones for every Denver Post employee. But I'm funny like that.

Posted by: Crusader at August 06, 2025 11:17 AM (TN0g+)

33 willowed:
271 I'm just here for the snark and boobs.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 06, 2025 11:03 AM (hlNLQ)

272 but mostly boobs
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 06, 2025 11:04 AM (hlNLQ)

https://tinyurl.com/4yz4bkma

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2025 11:17 AM (bss/y)

34 Nick Sortor@nicksortor
JUST IN: SiriusXM has CANCELED The Howard Stern Show after the Trump hater’s ratings PLUMMET
At least Stern will have time to tend to his TDS now
“After you saw what happened with Stephen Colbert, it's like they just can't afford to keep him going,” a SiriusXM insider told The Sun

-
I'm already not listening to him as hard as I can.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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What a shame that a mentally disabled senior citizen like Stern loses his job in the Trump dystopian economy.
Posted by: The media at August 06, 2025 11:15 AM (ctrM5)
______

Who? If not for some comments here shitting on Stern, I never would have known that this mucky pud is still on the air at all. Not joking.

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 06, 2025 11:17 AM (iFTx/)

35 What a shame that a mentally disabled senior citizen like Stern loses his job in the Trump dystopian economy.
Posted by: The media at August 06, 2025 11:15 AM (ctrM5)

Isn't he like 87?

Biden and he can play shuffleboard together now.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 06, 2025 11:18 AM (iJfKG)

36 12
‘ I did not want to hijack this thread--I thought I was on the art thread’

You wanted to hijack the art thread?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 06, 2025 11:18 AM (jbnUc)

37 At this point if I were them I'd be tempted to publish the home addresses and phones for every Denver Post employee. But I'm funny like that.

I've seen that happen to journalists that release lists of gun owners. Apparently, sowing is just fine but they don't like reaping.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 06, 2025 11:18 AM (lXoJ5)

38 @29

>>JUST IN: SiriusXM has CANCELED The Howard Stern Show after the Trump hater’s ratings PLUMMET

What I would like to know is why was South Park given a 1.5B dollar extension for a show that gets around 250k eyeballs per show?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 06, 2025 11:18 AM (XV/Pl)

39 3 Robert Mueller was subpoenaed to testify wrt RussiaGate. He was found in a Memory Care Home.

https://tinyurl.com/3xdwfx4x

Posted by: IrishEi at August 06, 2025 11:04 AM (3ImbR)

Vice Presidential material at least.

Posted by: javems at August 06, 2025 11:19 AM (8I4hW)

40 Of which he just entered yesterday...
Posted by: It's me donna

So it is feasible Mueller used and is using dementia as an excuse for "I can't remember (all my crimes)".

Posted by: illiniwek at August 06, 2025 11:19 AM (vbXSk)

41 There are a couple of new data points which suggest that at least some of the news industry (well, their owners anyway) is starting to understand what a deep hole they've dug for themselves.

Bezos is firing most of his staff at WaPo. He pretends he's giving them a choice, but he isn't really.

Paramount / CBS is getting rid of a bunch of their newsies, but it may be too late. I wouldn't be surprised if the evening news disappears altogether. It would not be missed, with the possible exception of nursing homes.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2025 11:19 AM (Riz8t)

42 The press claims to "speak truth to power" but mostly what they do is protect the narrative and those in power creating the narrative.

I am again reminded when the Haitian eating wildlife story was big that a press bimbo interviewed Vance and asked him to denounce the story because the local government said it was false.

Vance pointed out there were sworn statements and picture evidence of the incident and the bimbo repeated her request for him to denounce it.

He then told her isn't your job as a reporter to GO to the scene of the story, TALK with the people making the claims, and then as best as you can fairly present their evidence alongside the government claims?

The bimbo looked confused and pointed out the local government said the story was false so there was nothing to look into

Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2025 11:20 AM (t0Rmr)

43 Stern has been making big money for decades, if he hasn't completely squandered it, the dude is going to be ok.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 06, 2025 11:20 AM (XV/Pl)

44 28 Over the years I have had the opportunity to meet with various "journalists" in a variety of ages. The really old guys are capable of some introspection, but still believe they are on the right side of history. All the rest are just clones, stamped from the same mold and are generally incapable of independent thought. It's really fascinating to behold. They just can't grasp the idea of even the simplest conservative concept.
Posted by: Diogenes
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My interactions with media including an interview with a NYT reporter (not published) is that they only want confirmation of what narrative they already plan to publish. So you see the whackjobs lefty sources published while those of normal people ignored.

Friend's wife was a local reporter and then ascended to the AP and the statewide paper of record for the hubbie (photographer).
Inlaw of a cousin ran the three generation family owned local paper before selling out at the best possible time to a chain in the 90's. Lots of topics were never covered because they would piss off advertisers. Other topics were never or badly covered because it would piss off various interests in town like real estate developers or local govt.

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2025 11:20 AM (ctrM5)

45 Never listened to Stern. No interest. Saw his tv show once and just shrugged. The TDS he suffers from knocked him off air because of his ratings slump. Enjoy retirement Howard

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2025 11:20 AM (r/xMY)

46 I spent 30 years with a conservative small town newspaper but I was never smart enough to be a journalist. I was just a reporter.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 06, 2025 11:20 AM (kTd/k)

47 43 Stern has been making big money for decades, if he hasn't completely squandered it, the dude is going to be ok.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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Covid broke the guy--apparently he can barely go out nowadays (from his own admissions) because he is afraid of catching it from others.

Sad sack of shit nowadays.

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2025 11:21 AM (ctrM5)

48 I'm not so sure that legacy media is as close to dying as we might wish. Keep in mind that around 35-40 percent of this country is hard-core abortion mongers, and they get their "hate Trump" fixes at 5 pm, 6 pm, and 10 pm on a nightly basis. They have no problem with the legacy product--its pure adrenaline to them.

Just because their ratings are abysmal in a comparative fashion doesn't mean that they won't be still pumping out poison for the next 20 years.

Posted by: Crusader at August 06, 2025 11:21 AM (TN0g+)

49 "journalism is contextualizing the information" - so that people think the "right" thoughts - is just more lefty mouth noises that take place before the killing starts.

Everything the progs do is just mouth noises until the killing starts.

I don't know why anyone is surprised at the behavior of the word-whores, they'll keep furiously spinning all the way to the killing fields. That's not hyperbole; they fully expect to retain their same lifestyle and presumed privilege while gleefully reporting on ever-escalating prog atrocities. Look at how they defend releasing rapists and murderers on the rest of us plebs with a straight face.

We're still hurtling towards the same conflict; PDT just gives us a more favorable order of battle.

Posted by: heya at August 06, 2025 11:21 AM (DpNgD)

50 45 Never listened to Stern. No interest. Saw his tv show once and just shrugged. The TDS he suffers from knocked him off air because of his ratings slump. Enjoy retirement Howard
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2025 11:20 AM (r/xMY)

He was a... example of counter culture. He offered titillation, saying outrageous things in the context of a certain type of society. When that society goes away, so does his schtick.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2025 11:22 AM (bss/y)

51 He then told her isn't your job as a reporter to GO to the scene of the story, TALK with the people making the claims, and then as best as you can fairly present their evidence alongside the government claims?

The bimbo looked confused and pointed out the local government said the story was false so there was nothing to look into

You can understand her confusion. It isn't as if someone in power would lie about their screw ups.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2025 11:22 AM (Riz8t)

52 It isn't hard to figure out, but they also have a vested interest in not figuring it out.
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What is that quote saying that it is difficult to get a man to understand something when he is being paid not to understand it?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 06, 2025 11:22 AM (WvZaB)

53 The last time Mueller appeared before Congress, he seemed to be in great mental difficulty, so when I saw the House Oversight Committee was calling him to testify about Epstein, I got a good chuckle, as they might as well question a doorknob.

Posted by: SMOD at August 06, 2025 11:22 AM (RHGPo)

54 Mueller's fine , I was just talking to him about nuclear physics. No joke - stuff Joey is babbling

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2025 11:22 AM (r/xMY)

55 I'm not so sure that legacy media is as close to dying as we might wish. Keep in mind that around 35-40 percent of this country is hard-core abortion mongers, and they get their "hate Trump" fixes at 5 pm, 6 pm, and 10 pm on a nightly basis. They have no problem with the legacy product--its pure adrenaline to them.

Just because their ratings are abysmal in a comparative fashion doesn't mean that they won't be still pumping out poison for the next 20 years.

CNN's ratings say otherwise.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2025 11:23 AM (Riz8t)

56 45 Never listened to Stern. No interest. Saw his tv show once and just shrugged. The TDS he suffers from knocked him off air because of his ratings slump. Enjoy retirement Howard
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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I first heard Howard in DC at WWDC in the early 80's. WWDC was a rock station so he became the first shock jock in DC (Imus was national at that point I think) simply to differentiate the station from the other ones. His schtick was afflicting management and sex on the air.

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2025 11:23 AM (ctrM5)

57 "48 I'm not so sure that legacy media is as close to dying as we might wish. Keep in mind that around 35-40 percent of this country is hard-core abortion mongers, and they get their "hate Trump" fixes at 5 pm, 6 pm, and 10 pm on a nightly basis. They have no problem with the legacy product--its pure adrenaline to them.

Just because their ratings are abysmal in a comparative fashion doesn't mean that they won't be still pumping out poison for the next 20 years.
Posted by: Crusader at August 06, 2025 11:21 AM (TN0g+)"

The 60+ crowd is going to start dropping off real quick, and the millenials - who make up the bulk of the remaining shrieking lefties - aren't really all that into cable news.

Gen X and *expecially* the zoomers aren't having it, relatively speaking.

Posted by: heya at August 06, 2025 11:23 AM (DpNgD)

58 oh the denver post. back in 1992 my late wife worked at a hotel that had hosted the democrat view party. i would drop her off at work since i had free parking and she didn't. the hotel was near the denver post offices.

one would think the attendees of the dem party would have been ecstatic, slick willy won and they held the senate seat that was up for grabs that year. well, there was also a major ballot initiative - the best and most necessary one ever - that prohibited special legal status for sociopathic sexual degenerates (in those days i think they may still have used the term "sexual preference", but it might have been "orientation")

on that Wednesday morning it was obvious there had been a riot and what the cause was. the denver post building was damaged, along with the courthouse and multiple other government buildings. "kill homophobes" was one of the common tags. the riot was not covered because it might serve to confirm the wrongthink that perverts have no place in society.

i've followed do better dnvr for quite a while. i'm surprised it took tbtb as long as it did

Posted by: DenverGregg at August 06, 2025 11:23 AM (/l6IL)

59 Say what you like about Howard Stern, he provided a service to the large number of mammiform protuberance-oriented 'rons by getting Megyn to reveal her 'girls' cup size (B), and their pillow talk nickname ("the Killer B's").

Posted by: J. Random Moron at August 06, 2025 11:24 AM (0sNs1)

60 Stern: 56/100% entertainment
99 44/100% dog shit

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 06, 2025 11:24 AM (VPPG8)

61 Bezos is firing most of his staff at WaPo. He pretends he's giving them a choice, but he isn't really.

-
Made them an offer they couldn't refuse.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 06, 2025 11:24 AM (L/fGl)

62 @47

>>Sad sack of shit nowadays.

I think that is all an act, he's got a hot wife and I can't imagine she's letting herself be cooped up with him.

I've never got the interest in Stern and am grateful that the whole BabaBooey call-in show trolling ended a decade ago.

Hopefully he just slinks away into obscurity but somehow I doubt it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 06, 2025 11:24 AM (XV/Pl)

63 I've done a few business interviews with trade publications over the years. I don't do that anymore.

The last interview I did I was struck by how much the author literally made up and put words in my mouth. And these were just business interviews not politics.

The media is almost exclusively loathsome.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2025 11:25 AM (viF8m)

64
The 60+ crowd is going to start dropping off real quick

_________

*pulls collar nervously*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 06, 2025 11:25 AM (kkTda)

65 So where are the Broncos going to play next?

Posted by: pudinhead at August 06, 2025 11:25 AM (W3T6M)

66 Never listened to Stern. No interest. Saw his tv show once and just shrugged.
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I was a Democrat for much of the '90s during which Stern was in his prime. Even then, I believed his "shock" material to be a bad influence on society. He wasn't funny or edgy to me--just crude.

Posted by: Crusader at August 06, 2025 11:26 AM (TN0g+)

67 45 Never listened to Stern. No interest. Saw his tv show once and just shrugged. The TDS he suffers from knocked him off air because of his ratings slump. Enjoy retirement Howard
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2025 11:20 AM (r/xMY)

COVID totally broke Stern too. From what I read, he basically became a recluse & germophobe. His schtick became stale 25 years ago. Well past his time to ride off into irrelevancy.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 06, 2025 11:26 AM (N39Ws)

68 An idiot name Eliot Cohen at the Atlantic pendantically insists that Hegseth is dumbing down the military.
It's all part of a multifront war to tear down tear at anything Trump.

Apparently in only eight months the military has lost 100 IQ points. And it's going negative.
This idiot has made a living clawing at people's faces who don't even get the courtesy of an ambush interview like O'Keefe manages to get. He's lazy to a fault.

Posted by: torabora at August 06, 2025 11:26 AM (7caDm)

69 Stern just devolved into berating and belittling his staff.

One of his peons snorted so much coke his nose literally rotted away.

Posted by: eleven at August 06, 2025 11:28 AM (fV+MH)

70 Don’t call the Denver police. Call ICE.

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2025 11:28 AM (VofaG)

71 48 I'm not so sure that legacy media is as close to dying as we might wish. Keep in mind that around 35-40 percent of this country is hard-core abortion mongers, and they get their "hate Trump" fixes at 5 pm, 6 pm, and 10 pm on a nightly basis. They have no problem with the legacy product--its pure adrenaline to them.

Just because their ratings are abysmal in a comparative fashion doesn't mean that they won't be still pumping out poison for the next 20 years.
Posted by: Crusader

Papers are dead more or less other than as something elites like to claim they've read. Broadcast news is literally aging out and dying as their audience does. Cable news is even worse because people had to pay for it and now they've cut the cord. The average age of fox is somewhere around 60-61, MSNBC is 69, and CNN was 68 and that was a year or so ago. 18-54 year old audiences are essentially gone.

The last redoubt was the SNL, Late Night, etc. and that is falling too as bloated salaries and expenses plus unentertaining political clowns like Colbert, Stewart, Kimmel, etc. have audiences shrinking along with their relevance.

The mass media age is over. What comes next is disaggregation.

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2025 11:28 AM (ctrM5)

72 Modern journalists do not go out and investigate and report on what they find- no matter what they find. That's being a reporter.

They decide what they want the story to be, so they either interview the people who will give them the story they want- or they will just make it up.

That's it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2025 11:28 AM (bss/y)

73 Nobody reads "newspapers." Nobody watches the "news."

Posted by: It's 2025 at August 06, 2025 11:28 AM (+goNh)

74 Every part of the legacy media is garbage… every single employee and “reporter” in legacy media is garbage. Trump didn’t know how accurate he was when he said the press was the enemy of the people. When he said it, I suspect it was rhetorical flourish… no it’s literally true

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 06, 2025 11:28 AM (ANuwa)

75 Back when the whole obamacare act was being foisted on the public I bought ad space in the local newspaper every two weeks. Ran the ads under the title of " Not -Right or Left- Just the facts".

Posted by: Ben Had at August 06, 2025 11:29 AM (HFcKg)

76 Kevin Dahlgren has worked with the homeless in Portland for many years and covers it on X. He has been saying the same thing this Denver group says. The harm reduction programs are a joke. People on the streets can go years without getting help. And if they do get housing, there's no help for them to make the transition. These programs exist to provide a paycheck for bureaucrats and nothing else. Kevin said that, the homeless he talked to were happy about the aslyums opening back up. They thought that maybe they would finally get some help.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 06, 2025 11:29 AM (kUxzU)

77 Apparently in only eight months the military has lost 100 IQ points. And it's going negative.
This idiot has made a living clawing at people's faces who don't even get the courtesy of an ambush interview like O'Keefe manages to get. He's lazy to a fault.
Posted by: torabora
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Ms. Steve Jobs owning the Atlantic is upset that useless trans and other wankers are being fired in the military. So voila, the hit piece.

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2025 11:30 AM (ctrM5)

78 DoBetterDNVR sounds suspiciously like Mannix and/or Yudhishthira's Dice.

Posted by: ShainS -- Run. Gavin. Run. Toss your hair into the ring! at August 06, 2025 11:30 AM (3Gbwc)

79 Sad sack of shit nowadays.

I think that is all an act, he's got a hot wife and I can't imagine she's letting herself be cooped up with him.

I've never got the interest in Stern and am grateful that the whole BabaBooey call-in show trolling ended a decade ago.

Hopefully he just slinks away into obscurity but somehow I doubt it.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 06, 2025 11:24 AM (XV/Pl)
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I don't think it's an act. She was publicly upset at him for never leaving the house. She ain't stupid. She didn't marry him to mope around the house while he jerks off in the basement. She married him to spend his money. I think at this point she's just waiting him out until he falls over dead and she gets all the money.

Posted by: Elric at August 06, 2025 11:30 AM (iFTx/)

80 76 Kevin Dahlgren has worked with the homeless in Portland for many years and covers it on X. He has been saying the same thing this Denver group says. The harm reduction programs are a joke. People on the streets can go years without getting help. And if they do get housing, there's no help for them to make the transition. These programs exist to provide a paycheck for bureaucrats and nothing else. Kevin said that, the homeless he talked to were happy about the aslyums opening back up. They thought that maybe they would finally get some help.
Posted by: Notsothoreau
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Give some people drugs and they could care less about anything else. And people on drugs commit more crimes just as drunken people do because the thinking is all lizard brain at that point.

Posted by: whig at August 06, 2025 11:31 AM (ctrM5)

81 This time it's personal.

Mel Gibson to release "Resurrection of the Christ" in two parts on two Christian holidays 👀

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 06, 2025 11:31 AM (L/fGl)

82 The Grease Man was moar entertaining that Stern. My wife was an avid listerner to Stern in the late 80s, early 90s. Then we moved to DC and really had no further contact with him. My wife was a big fan of Trump in the early 90s and now hates him. Weird.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 06, 2025 11:32 AM (W3T6M)

83 I listened to Stern a lot when I lived in NY. It was great though Stern was the least funny of the bunch. It was a hilarious soap opera made for guys. At the time he made fun of celebrities . He turned when he became part of the celebrity circle which caused him to become 100% woke.

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2025 11:32 AM (VofaG)

84 The MSM is really just rearranging deck chairs. Most of the outlets are bleeding money by the millions... sometimes weekly. High paid mouthpieces that bash Trump, parrot the Democrat's latest bitch-out and champion all things fake, ghey and bullshit are not pulling in the eyeballs to justify their salaries.

But... they'll be rehired in a heartbeat once the left has regained the levers of power.

IOW... this is all window dressing to stem the losses on the ledger sheets.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 06, 2025 11:32 AM (Q4IgG)

85 "Journalism often puts that information into context, which makes it more useful for people. And, more importantly, journalism is not just defined by the end product. It is defined by the process that goes into it. Ethics, norms, verification -- all these things that make the information that goes out different."

He's straight up admitting "journalism" is propaganda.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 06, 2025 11:32 AM (2ocoG)

86 an idiot at the Atlantic, (ne need to go further)

Posted by: miguel cervantes at August 06, 2025 11:33 AM (bXbFr)

87 Yay! Trump talking about federalizing DC because Big Balls (DOGE) was jumped and beat up because he came to the aid of a woman being harassed.

Dear President Trump,

Do it and start flattening asses.

Thank you,
America

Posted by: rickb223 at August 06, 2025 11:33 AM (iU+/7)

88 Beto Box O'Rourke's PAC paid for the getaway jet that took Dems from Texas to blue Illinois.
I guess the billions for EV charging stations has been skimmed to provide a lifetime of revenue for covert ops..

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 06, 2025 11:34 AM (VPPG8)

89 But... they'll be rehired in a heartbeat once the left has regained the levers of power.

I'm more optimistic. Relying on the media for news is a learned behavior, and once lost, will be difficult to regain. Sure, you'll always have a few troglodytes who don't get the message, but they can't sustain a news infrastructure, which is now in the process of disappearing. Why would anyone try to rebuild it after that?

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2025 11:34 AM (Riz8t)

90 Kevin Dahlgren has worked with the homeless in Portland for many years and covers it on X. He has been saying the same thing this Denver group says. The harm reduction programs are a joke.
__________ _______________

It's cheaper to dispose of a body that died of an overdose than it is to put someone in an institution. It's the progressive version of social Darwinism.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 06, 2025 11:35 AM (q04Io)

91 I think that is all an act, he's got a hot wife and I can't imagine she's letting herself be cooped up with him.

She doesn't have to. She'll go out for her thrice weekly "Gosh, I hate Trump" meeting with Chad and Tyrone and then return and tell him all about the zombies shuffling through the streets eating the brains of the people smart enough to avoid covid.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2025 11:35 AM (ExV1e)

92 I always thought Stern was a creepy weirdo who secretly snuck around at night in a white panel van. I never got his schtick or his audience. Still don't.

Posted by: Elric at August 06, 2025 11:35 AM (iFTx/)

93 71
‘ What comes next is disaggregation.’

Disaggregation…

Are you Harrison Ford?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 06, 2025 11:35 AM (jbnUc)

94 I never understood why Howard Stern was popular… even when I’d take a look as a college guy I found him crass and juvenile…. In recent years he’s totally lost his mind. Covid broke him

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 06, 2025 11:35 AM (ZiaCc)

95 The Left doesn’t read or listen to news and never has. They only read or listen to headlines.

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2025 11:35 AM (VofaG)

96 He's straight up admitting "journalism" is propaganda.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 06, 2025 11:32 AM (2ocoG)
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Yup.

And he also described it as a performance.

And he's the *chair* of the department at the flagship state university.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 06, 2025 11:36 AM (6bTRc)

97 Posted by: It's 2025 at August 06, 2025 11:28 AM

I read the “NY Post”. Well, sometimes I avoid it when all the news is bad. Spouse reads it . I see people buying it and the Post has just expanded to the West Coast ,so somebody’s buying and reading some newspapers,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2025 11:36 AM (2GCMq)

98 >So where are the Broncos going to play next?
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@ San Francisco 49ers, Saturday night, 8:30 Eastern

Posted by: Don Black. Message: at August 06, 2025 11:37 AM (AOsQT)

99 Its Denver town, Jake.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 06, 2025 11:37 AM (W3T6M)

100 I read the “NY Post”. Well, sometimes I avoid it when all the news is bad. Spouse reads it . I see people buying it and the Post has just expanded to the West Coast ,so somebody’s buying and reading some newspapers,

Or they've found a sugar daddy with more money than brains.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2025 11:37 AM (Riz8t)

101 Denver metro used to have two newpapers way back when. We used to subscribe to the Rocky Mountain News decades ago. They were the more conservative option. I canceled the subscription some months after they merged and they kept delivering the damn paper. I had to get pissed and write a nasty note rubber banded to several papers that I was going to report them for littering if they didn't cease, to stop that B.S. (I put in a P.S. to the carrier that I knew it was not their fault that the stupid newspaper was refusing to drop us).

Posted by: PaleRider at August 06, 2025 11:37 AM (bP/i4)

102
I get lots of action at the Stern home

Posted by: flyin' green dildo at August 06, 2025 11:38 AM (5hfjS)

103 a gang following the paramedics around what is this Daredevil

Posted by: miguel cervantes at August 06, 2025 11:38 AM (bXbFr)

104 Alert: MA governor says if TX gerrymanders, she'll have to follow suit.

(ed. note: MA has no Republican seats)

https://is.gd/4zysKG

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2025 11:39 AM (Riz8t)

105 Mannix!

*jazzy music plays*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 06, 2025 11:39 AM (xcxpd)

106 Sirius needs to fire Stern and hire Adam Carolla to a big contract.

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2025 11:39 AM (VofaG)

107 Stern reminds me of a French poodle that hasn't seen a groomer in years

Posted by: Don Black. Message: at August 06, 2025 11:39 AM (AOsQT)

108 Denver is full of CA, NY, and MN ex-pats.
Coming to your town soon.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 11:40 AM (O6HaA)

109 Alert: MA governor says if TX gerrymanders, she'll have to follow suit.

(ed. note: MA has no Republican seats)

https://is.gd/4zysKG
Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2025 11:39 AM (Riz8t)
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"Whatever you do, don't throw me in the brier patch!"

Fuck these cocksuckers. They already redistricted the living shit outta their states. They can't squeeze any more Democrap seats than they already have. TX and all the red states should do the same. Now. No mercy.

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 06, 2025 11:40 AM (iFTx/)

110 The account is apparently both popular and not faith-promoting, so the Post decided to cover it.
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WTF is meant by "faith-promoting".

Something smells wrong with this.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 06, 2025 11:41 AM (od0dV)

111 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 11:41 AM (Zz0t1)

112 ed by: Archimedes at August 06, 2025 11:37 AM (Riz8t)

Maybe, or maybe a paper that is moderate and had positive things to say about Trump and his agenda fills a niche need for people who don’t want to mess up their eyes any further by starting at a screen/ and particularly a phone screen a lot unless they’re being paid to do so.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2025 11:42 AM (2GCMq)

113 Journalism often puts that information into context, which makes it more useful for people. And, more importantly, journalism is not just defined by the end product. It is defined by the process that goes into it. Ethics, norms, verification -- all these things that make the information that goes out different."

Everything that guy just said is bullshit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 11:42 AM (Zz0t1)

114 81 This time it's personal.

Mel Gibson to release "Resurrection of the Christ" in two parts on two Christian holidays 👀
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 06, 2025 11:31 AM (L/fGl)

Beating The Chosen to the punch also

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 06, 2025 11:42 AM (xcxpd)

115 I first heard Howard in DC at WWDC in the early 80's. WWDC was a rock station....
Posted by: whig

In 1980-81 (8th grade), I was listening to WAVA for rock but in 9th grade electronics shop, the teach would play DC 101 before class started and Stern was on so I switched over (and b/c AVA was out of Baltimore and the signal wasn't as good). "WWDC fm Washington, kickass rock and roll". Good times. I also listened to Q107 but didn't get into the alt/college station (HFS?) because I realized my music tastes formed from '78-'81 and ossified which is why BOC became my favorite band even though they had passed their peak and new wave was the new wave.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at August 06, 2025 11:42 AM (KAi1n)

116 Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2025 11:39 AM (Riz8t)

80% of CA seats are Democrat
50% of TX seats are Democrat ( I did a lefty thing and rounded up from 48%. 12-25)

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2025 11:43 AM (VofaG)

117 Posted by: Eeyore at August 06, 2025 11:41 AM (od0dV)

Thanks. I was wondering about that as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2025 11:43 AM (2GCMq)

118 I saw Useless Trans and Other Wankers open for The Levellers at The Zap Club in '88.

Posted by: ShainS -- Run. Gavin. Run. Toss your hair into the ring! at August 06, 2025 11:43 AM (CM8PF)

119 Sirius needs to fire Stern and hire Adam Carolla to a big contract.
Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2025 11:39 AM (VofaG)

His current contract ends and he's working for a short term deal because he's thinking about his employees, you guys. Because he's a people person that cares about his staff.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 11:43 AM (Zz0t1)

120 117 Posted by: Eeyore at August 06, 2025 11:41 AM (od0dV)

Thanks. I was wondering about that as well.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2025 11:43 AM (2GCMq)

Not "Faith", "faith", I assume. Not promoting faith in local governance or journalism.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 06, 2025 11:44 AM (rIQZh)

121 Anyway, never really listened to Howard Stern. I did watch Private Parts, his movie, and found it entertaining. It's all about how he really wants some strange ass but 'never does anything about it'.

Eh. Everyone has their own fictional world.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 06, 2025 11:44 AM (xcxpd)

122 Hate America first!

Washington Post Columnist [Jonathan Capehart] Resigns, Says He Can’t Be Patriotic for America

Bezos has gone crazy!

Jeff Bezos@JeffBezos
I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning:
I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages.
We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 06, 2025 11:45 AM (L/fGl)

123 This guy did a breakdown of why the Dems are so scared of Republican gerrymandering.

https://is.gd/MGDxqY

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2025 11:45 AM (Riz8t)

124 A few still reliable journalists in Philly region, among them Linda Stein, News Editor, Delaware Valley Journal.

'Shapiro Joins Lawsuit Against Order Restricting Sex Change Procedures for Children' Posted to Politics August 04, 2025

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Philadelphia Inquirer/Daily News - Leftists to the core. (And they all must have taken some drama classes.)

However, ability to apply concrete thinking, investigative skills, and reasonable, independent judgement - nada, nowhere. I imagine all must cater to the Editorial Board - and it's a doozy.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 06, 2025 11:45 AM (NFX2v)

125 Posted by: It's 2025 at August 06, 2025 11:28 AM

I read the “NY Post”. Well, sometimes I avoid it when all the news is bad. Spouse reads it . I see people buying it and the Post has just expanded to the West Coast ,so somebody’s buying and reading some newspapers,
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2025 11:36 AM (2GCMq)
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My mom gets the NY Post so I read it when there. The paper actually does some real investigating, and has broken major stories over the years (mostly local NYC stuff, but still).

The Post slants conservative, but not unduly so. And the editorial pages are still infected with GOPe globohomo bullshit. They still think the USA should flush billions of dollars down the drain in Ukraine, for example.

Posted by: Elric at August 06, 2025 11:46 AM (iFTx/)

126 I was a big Don Imus (and Bernie McGuirk) fan -- and my understanding is that he hated Stern (probably mutual).

Posted by: ShainS -- Run. Gavin. Run. Toss your hair into the ring! at August 06, 2025 11:46 AM (CM8PF)

127 Remember:
Hillary had Garland as the 5th vote to find her new FCC and FEC rules that:
1) required all news disseminators to be registered and
2) required all comments on any news/news discussion site to be moderated and the users registered. With that user database subject to FEC/FCC inspection w/o a warrant.

That was what she was building toward with "fake news."
A censorship regime under the guise of combatting disinformation.
Look how much they did under Biden w/o the 5 votes to bless it as Constitutional.
Here, you see the Palace Media would have been eager enforcers of that regime.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 06, 2025 11:47 AM (WXsl0)

128 WTF is meant by "faith-promoting".

Something smells wrong with this.
Posted by: Eeyore at August 06, 2025 11:41 AM (od0dV)
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I meant it ironically. The account isn't "faith promoting" in the only way that matters to establishment power types - faith in the leadership, faith in the policies, faith in the Party, etc. Anything not faith promoting is evil and must be destroyed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 06, 2025 11:47 AM (6bTRc)

129
Eh. Everyone has their own fictional world.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 06, 2025 11:44 AM (xcxpd)

Yeah, it was a giant self masturbatory movie. That people went to and said was good. I'd look at the and ask: 'You realize you are watching him jack off in your face, right?'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2025 11:47 AM (bss/y)

130 Stupid math

CA Dems have 83% Dem
TX has 33% Dem

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2025 11:47 AM (VofaG)

131 It’s 2025. It is getting harder and harder for the “press” to distort and obfuscate the truth.

Posted by: DILDOS R US at August 06, 2025 11:48 AM (px4dC)

132 I never liked Stern and didn't give a sh*t what he had to say.

Posted by: Case at August 06, 2025 11:48 AM (fSxdA)

133 Jeff Bezos@JeffBezos
I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning:
I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages.
We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 06, 2025 11:45 AM (L/fGl)
++++
So every single employee at the WaPo, from the C-Suite to the janitorial closet, is going to be fired and replaced. Ambitious move.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 06, 2025 11:48 AM (6bTRc)

134 I was a big Don Imus (and Bernie McGuirk) fan -- and my understanding is that he hated Stern (probably mutual).
Posted by: ShainS -- Run. Gavin. Run. Toss your hair into the ring! at August 06, 2025 11:46 AM (CM8PF)

Stern hates everyone that isn't The Howard Stern Show.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 11:48 AM (Zz0t1)

135 Kevin said that, the homeless he talked to were happy about the aslyums opening back up. They thought that maybe they would finally get some help.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 06, 2025 11:29 AM (kUxzU)

I've never known a schizophrenic that was glad for being helped.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 06, 2025 11:48 AM (g8Ew8)

136 Jeff Bezos@JeffBezos
I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning:
I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages.
We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 06, 2025 11:45 AM (L/fGl)
++++
So every single employee at the WaPo, from the C-Suite to the janitorial closet, is going to be fired and replaced. Ambitious move.

The part I liked best was when he said something along the lines of "if you aren't on board with this, WaPo may not be the right place for you".

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2025 11:49 AM (Riz8t)

137 You really can't hate them enough.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at August 06, 2025 11:51 AM (tykPk)

138 I would argue context is important, as long as the context derives from the same place as the rest of the story. That being, facts, truth and reality. If you are controlling the context to fit a particular narrative, then that is at best spin, and at worst, well, most of modern mainstream media.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 06, 2025 11:51 AM (MZ+PY)

139 > I first heard Howard in DC at WWDC in the early 80's. WWDC was a rock station....
Posted by: whig
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WWDC
WPGC
WAVA

Capitol area go-to radio stations growing up in MD. Howard Stern vs. The Greaseman

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 06, 2025 11:51 AM (Q4IgG)

140 I still manage to marvel at the utter absence of introspection within the press. For as much as they complain about "loss of trust" and caterwaul about the "dangerous culture of disrespect," they still decline to consider why nobody trusts them and everybody hates them. It isn't hard to figure out, but they also have a vested interest in not figuring it out.
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I don't. The MSM is an industrial beast that requires 100% compliance with the herd, not the public they privately scorn and ridicule. Introspection invites suspicion within the "journalistic community". Best to keep troubling thoughts to yourself, or you'll wind up on the suspects lists.

Posted by: mrp at August 06, 2025 11:51 AM (rj6Yv)

141 I expect the problems with Tren De Aragua will disappear once ICE has rounded them all up and deported. But I also expect that "journalists" will be deeply unhappy about that.

Posted by: Decaf at August 06, 2025 11:52 AM (unUNN)

142 Jeff Bezos@JeffBezos
I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning:
I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages.
We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 06, 2025 11:45 AM (L/fGl)
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So every single employee at the WaPo, from the C-Suite to the janitorial closet, is going to be fired and replaced. Ambitious move.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 06, 2025 11:48 AM (6bTRc)
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How many times is Bezos gonna threaten this? Just do it, bro. I think what's really going on is he wants to drastically cut the headcount and lay off a lot of people. It's easier for him if they just leave. So he says things like this to try to get them to leave.

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 06, 2025 11:52 AM (iFTx/)

143 Maybe green is a message. Hey here is your pay raise bitches! lmao
Third Green Dildo Tossed Onto the WNBA Basketball Court — Angry Player Kicks It Off Court

https://tinyurl.com/mvcc56ev

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 06, 2025 11:52 AM (VPPG8)

144 defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.

Claiming to be in favor of free markets will let him attack Trump for the tariffs.

They are going to have a hard time attacking Trump on the personal liberties front but I guess they'll try...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2025 11:52 AM (t0Rmr)

145 I would have thought a lot of people here would have liked Stern in the 90’s. It was basically a flame war, boobs, great interviews, celebrity ridicule and boobs.

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2025 11:53 AM (VofaG)

146 I don't. The MSM is an industrial beast that requires 100% compliance with the herd, not the public they privately scorn and ridicule. Introspection invites suspicion within the "journalistic community". Best to keep troubling thoughts to yourself, or you'll wind up on the suspects lists.
Posted by: mrp at August 06, 2025 11:51 AM (rj6Yv)
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Right. They have a vested interest in not figuring it out, even to the point that their industry dies. It isn't dead yet, but it's not doing well.

But their scorn is anything but private. That's part of their problem.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 06, 2025 11:53 AM (6bTRc)

147 I listened to Stern in the 90's. I read his first book. I bought the limited edition poster.

He entertained me. By the time he got yanked from DFW radio, he'd run his course with me and was no longer as entertaining.

I didn't miss him much and grew less and less interested over time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 11:53 AM (Zz0t1)

148 How many times is Bezos gonna threaten this? Just do it, bro. I think what's really going on is he wants to drastically cut the headcount and lay off a lot of people. It's easier for him if they just leave. So he says things like this to try to get them to leave.

I assume it's because he doesn't want to have to pay them severance, nor deal with lawsuits. If they leave on their own accord, those problems disappear.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2025 11:53 AM (Riz8t)

149 I now want to see WAPO succeed. All of the recent writers who took the buyout or were fired Rubin, Kessler, Capeheart et al, can be pointed at and said to " you suck"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2025 11:53 AM (r/xMY)

150 Trump Administration Restricts Sports Visa Eligibility for Transgender Women

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And unicorns! Don't forget the unicorns!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 06, 2025 11:53 AM (L/fGl)

151 According to the San Francisco Chronicle, authorities detained 22‑year‑old Delbert Carver facing charges including disorderly conduct, public indecency, and criminal trespass over the July 29 incident.

Delbert?!

Someone ask Scott Adams if he ever wrote a plot line like this...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2025 11:54 AM (t0Rmr)

152 But, of course, that isn't why the Post claims it had to do a rare piece of investigative reporting in this case. The stated reason for the article is that the account isn't run by "real" journalists and so sows "misinformation."
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Man journalists are good at promoting their usefulness as lackies.

Oh, it's disrupting city politics! Well, we'll DOXX them for you! And then run a campaign against them as "misinformation"!

Such good lackies.

Posted by: Axeman at August 06, 2025 11:54 AM (Q4cxx)

153 Claiming to be in favor of free markets will let him attack Trump for the tariffs. ...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2025 11:52 AM (t0Rmr)
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Which will change nothing in their coverage.

But it will - if Bezos actually does it - put them in competition with the WSJ.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 06, 2025 11:54 AM (6bTRc)

154 The Left have absolutely no self-awareness so don’t expect their journalists will have it.

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2025 11:54 AM (VofaG)

155 Maybe green is a message. Hey here is your pay raise bitches! lmao
Third Green Dildo Tossed Onto the WNBA Basketball Court — Angry Player Kicks It Off Court

How hard could it be to figure out which of their 3 fans threw it?

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2025 11:55 AM (Riz8t)

156 WNBA players are kicking green dildos at fans. Good marketing

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2025 11:55 AM (r/xMY)

157 The media can play their little game all they want. The human lifespan is not on their side. The people who grew up listening to them as an honest source of news are dying off. The rest of the population views them with unbridled contempt.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2025 11:10 AM (Riz8t)

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The contempt is merely being reciprocated.

Posted by: Decaf at August 06, 2025 11:55 AM (unUNN)

158 135
‘ I've never known a schizophrenic that was glad for being helped.’

I want the insane institutionalized for our protection not because they want it.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 06, 2025 11:55 AM (jbnUc)

159 You really can't hate them enough.

But I am making an effort.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 06, 2025 11:56 AM (lXoJ5)

160 Maybe green is a message. Hey here is your pay raise bitches! lmao
Third Green Dildo Tossed Onto the WNBA Basketball Court — Angry Player Kicks It Off Court

https://tinyurl.com/mvcc56ev
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 06, 2025 11:52 AM (VPPG

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What's odd about that video is the players -- including the one who was hit by a flying dildo -- were laughing and yucking it up over a flying dildo. They didn't seem angry to me. I smell a rat.

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 06, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

161 Maybe green is a message. Hey here is your pay raise bitches! lmao
Third Green Dildo Tossed Onto the WNBA Basketball Court — Angry Player Kicks It Off Court

https://tinyurl.com/mvcc56ev
Posted by: Captain Fantastic
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gonna be a rough landing! I'm coming in hard!

Posted by: flyin' green dildo at August 06, 2025 11:56 AM (5hfjS)

162 Daily Mail-
Active shooter guns down FOUR people at Georgia Army base
At least four people have been shot at an Army base in Georgia as officials have urgently locked down the surrounding area.
This is a developing story and will be updated as information is confirmed.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 06, 2025 11:56 AM (NpAcC)

163 I would have thought a lot of people here would have liked Stern in the 90’s. It was basically a flame war, boobs, great interviews, celebrity ridicule and boobs.

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2025 11:53 AM (VofaG)
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People said his show was "funny". I never found much to laugh at most of the time.

I gave it a shot, just way overhyped.

Sometimes Stern would say something worth listening to, most of the time not.

Posted by: Axeman at August 06, 2025 11:57 AM (Q4cxx)

164 stop throwing dildos on the court… you’re going to hurt one of us.

— Sophie Cunningham (@sophaller) August 2, 2025

they responded by throwing a green dildo at sophie… https://t.co/8SDIi1BwOV pic.twitter.com/leM5agupyB

— correlation (@nosyone4) August 6, 2025

I can't stop laughing.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 11:57 AM (Zz0t1)

165 Nick Sortor@nicksortor
JUST IN: SiriusXM has CANCELED The Howard Stern Show after the Trump hater’s ratings PLUMMET
At least Stern will have time to tend to his TDS now...

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 06, 2025 11:12 AM (L/fGl)

Oh, no! Dozens of people will be devastated!

Posted by: hobbitopoly at August 06, 2025 11:57 AM (k9OZB)

166 Third Green Dildo Tossed Onto the WNBA Basketball Court — Angry Player Kicks It Off Court

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It's a dildocalypse!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 06, 2025 11:57 AM (L/fGl)

167 WNBA finally came up with an effective marketing strategy. Neon green flying dildos!

Posted by: Elric at August 06, 2025 11:57 AM (iFTx/)

168 WNBA players are kicking green dildos at fans. Good marketing
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2025 11:55 AM (r/xMY)

WNBA players are missing a chance to DT it and bring in a whole other group of fans.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 11:58 AM (Zz0t1)

169 Posted by: redridinghood at August 06, 2025 11:56 AM (NpAcC)

I believe it’s going to get worse because of the Left’s leaders not so subtle orders and support for violence.

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2025 11:58 AM (VofaG)

170 John Hersey published a piece about Hiroshima bombing in The New Yorker on August 13 1945 and focused on the admittedly horrific effects on the inhabitants. Fvckery by the media is nothing new.

I have been binge reading some stuff about the Hiroshima bombing. They are often very slanted. Sometimes very subtly. The picture of the crew of the Enola Gay “smiling jubilantly after their return”. Those monsters! Except, the picture of the crew was taken before. And they didn’t know if they would succeed, or perhaps be killed. How’s that for your fucking “context” assholes?

Notice this anytime you read approved narrative on Senator McCarthy, they will have (in scare quotes” “Red Scare” or Witch Hunt in there somewhere. “Cold War Hysteria”, the entire debacle written as if Communists were just a figment of rightwingers fevered imaginations.

Got to thinking - the Soviets got their nuclear capability by 1949, several years earlier, due to spying. Would the Communists have been emboldened enough to invade Korea without it? Maybe not.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 06, 2025 11:58 AM (nn1Cr)

171 > I assume it's because he doesn't want to have to pay them severance, nor deal with lawsuits. If they leave on their own accord, those problems disappear.
Posted by: Archimedes
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This

Plus, it's up to the released employees to "sell themselves" to get another job. Which is probably a hard sell with a lot of them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 06, 2025 11:58 AM (Q4IgG)

172 Oh, it's disrupting city politics! Well, we'll DOXX them for you! And then run a campaign against them as "misinformation"!

Such good lackies.
Posted by: Axeman at August 06, 2025 11:54 AM (Q4cxx)
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Yup. Hilariously, the hard-left "alternative" paper in Denver - the Westword did a better job on this story. The alternative rag at least provided some context around why these people don't want to be doxed:

Then there are the threats: "Let me find this camera guy," said one person in a January reply, which landed in the @DoBetterDNVR's "Hall of Shamers" IG highlights. "I'll fk you up."
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It's because of messages like these that the women of @DoBetterDNVR, who also run an X account, do not reveal their identities to the public.

Compare to the DenPo:
... She and Pacheco both cited threats to DoBetterDNVR as a reason why their names should not be published.

Ferrucci, the journalism professor, dismissed both criticisms. DoBetterDNVR’s actions have turned the people behind it into partial public figures, he said, and receiving threats is an expected part of being a journalist. (He once received a dead bird in the mail, he said.)

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 06, 2025 11:59 AM (6bTRc)

173 Nick Sortor@nicksortor
JUST IN: SiriusXM has CANCELED The Howard Stern Show after the Trump hater’s ratings PLUMMET
At least Stern will have time to tend to his TDS now...

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 06, 2025 11:12 AM (L/fGl)

They've paid him over 1/2 a BILLION dollars.

Not only did you have to pay Sirius a monthly subscription, you had to pay, at the start, another $18 a month to get Stern. I'm sure it's more now.

No way in hell......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 11:59 AM (Zz0t1)

174 Marsha Blackburn announced that she's running for governor of TN.

Posted by: mrp at August 06, 2025 12:00 PM (rj6Yv)

175 It’s 2025. It is getting harder and harder for the “press” to distort and obfuscate the truth.
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Yet we're here (at the moment) because the Denver Post continues to do just that (distort and obfuscate the truth). I hate the msm as much as any of you do, but I really believe that we're pretending that their extinction date is much earlier in the future than it will turn out to be.

Posted by: Crusader at August 06, 2025 12:00 PM (TN0g+)

176 Without the Stern show, we would've never had this:

https://youtu.be/uMsE6VszEFY

Moderately NSFW.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 12:01 PM (Zz0t1)

177 Sometimes Stern would say something worth listening to, most of the time not.
Posted by: Axeman at August 06, 2025 11:57 AM (Q4cxx)

In the 90’s because that was his pinnacle. He went down hill fast after that. And it wasn’t Stern who made the show, though I thought his interviews were great. It was his staff and the soap opera interactions that made it funny to me.

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2025 12:01 PM (VofaG)

178 The Denver Post is a "rag" newspaper at best. The fact that it remains as a "news" source in Denver isn't well known. Here are the facts. The City and County of Denver lease a large majority of their office space from...The Denver Post. Yes, that is correct. The City and County of Denver is the reason this "newspaper" is still around. So of course The Denver Post will print, ignore, or go after anything that isn't pleasing or does not reflect positively on The City and County of Denver. Another bought and paid for government mouth piece.

Posted by: Michael at August 06, 2025 12:01 PM (w5abi)

179 >>> Kevin said that, the homeless he talked to were happy about the aslyums opening back up. They thought that maybe they would finally get some help.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 06, 2025 11:29 AM (kUxzU)
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Many/most mentally compromised people do well in a controlled environment. The structure and orderly function gives them comfortable security (and their meds regular and on time).

Several of the old asylums were self-supporting by the residents working gardens and smaller food animals like goats, rabbits and sheep.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 12:02 PM (O6HaA)

180 For a half billion dollars i would hate Trump too.
I'd even cut Donald in on a piece of the action. To keep the grift going.

Posted by: torabora at August 06, 2025 12:02 PM (7caDm)

181 Denver Wrangler >>> Denver Post

Posted by: Elric at August 06, 2025 12:02 PM (iFTx/)

182 It's a dildocalypse!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 06, 2025 11:57 AM (L/fGl)

Third time is enemy action.

Posted by: Reforger at August 06, 2025 12:02 PM (h5TUr)

183 In the 90’s because that was his pinnacle. He went down hill fast after that. And it wasn’t Stern who made the show, though I thought his interviews were great. It was his staff and the soap opera interactions that made it funny to me.
Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2025 12:01 PM (VofaG)

Jackie Martling, Billy West, Artie Lang.......the side cast made the show. Sure Howard had his moments, but it was the others that usually made me laugh hysterically.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 12:03 PM (Zz0t1)

184 ... Another bought and paid for government mouth piece.
Posted by: Michael at August 06, 2025 12:01 PM (w5abi)
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I didn't know about the office lease thing.

But the Post has been a shitrag for a long, long time. Since well before it bought out its competitor (the Rocky Mountain News) during the post-internet round of press consolidation.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 06, 2025 12:03 PM (6bTRc)

185 “Shelter in Place” right?

On an Army base. Call the Police. LOL. Maybe they will know what to do. Ideally some butterball five by five deputies will get this area secure!

Stay Safe!

Posted by: Common Tater at August 06, 2025 12:03 PM (B4klT)

186 Stern had Trump on his show or call in dozens of time. Always made for good radio. I think that’s where Trump called Rosie a fat pig.

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2025 12:03 PM (VofaG)

187 172 Oh, it's disrupting city politics! Well, we'll DOXX them for you! And then run a campaign against them as "misinformation"!

Such good lackies.
Posted by: Axeman
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This is a job for DoJ.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 12:04 PM (O6HaA)

188 How can you forget Robin Quivers?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 06, 2025 12:04 PM (HFcKg)

189 Eh. Everyone has their own fictional world.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 06, 2025 11:44 AM (xcxpd)

Yeah, it was a giant self masturbatory movie. That people went to and said was good. I'd look at the and ask: 'You realize you are watching him jack off in your face, right?'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2025 11:47 AM (bss/y)

Every autobiography is a wank fest. Private Parts was at least competently made and had sexy girls and some decent jokes. If you don't expect more than that, it's ok.

I liked 'Better Man' because I'm a big Robbie Williams fan, but I realize it was also just a wankfest. Only with an anthropomorphic chimp playing the part of Robbie.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 06, 2025 12:04 PM (xcxpd)

190 Several of the old asylums were self-supporting by the residents working gardens and smaller food animals like goats, rabbits and sheep.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 12:02 PM (
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Tell more about goats 🐐 and 🐑 sheeps.

Posted by: Taliban at August 06, 2025 12:04 PM (7caDm)

191 The press is full of progressives. Progressives want to "progress" society. They have an agenda. They collect in groups to advance their agenda. They unite ranks to enlarge their groups to wage whatever battle they can to make life over to their own tastes.

It only makes sense that if their faction is in power, they would fall on grenades to keep the "progress" moving.

As Limbaugh used to point out, most J-grads say they went into journalism to "make a difference", and as a vast majority are "progressive", it is a simple hop to guess that they are laying down their lives for The Cause.

I always remember the on Taxi how Alex was explaining to Tony how they probably will never get fresh apples in the apple machine.

I feel that way about the press. It's just the nature of the beast.

Posted by: Axeman at August 06, 2025 12:04 PM (Q4cxx)

192 NBC "News" headline:

"In Trump-supporting Ohio, a beloved Haitian teacher faces deportation"

Posted by: mrp at August 06, 2025 12:04 PM (rj6Yv)

193 188 How can you forget Robin Quivers?
Posted by: Ben Had at August 06, 2025 12:04 PM (HFcKg)

I never understood why she stuck around. I hope she made good money.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 06, 2025 12:05 PM (xcxpd)

194 187 172 Oh, it's disrupting city politics! Well, we'll DOXX them for you! And then run a campaign against them as "misinformation"!

Such good lackies.
Posted by: Axeman
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This is a job for DoJ.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 12:04 PM (O6HaA)

I read that as 'Doof'

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 06, 2025 12:05 PM (xcxpd)

195 192 NBC "News" headline:

"In Trump-supporting Ohio, a beloved Haitian teacher faces deportation"
Posted by: mrp at August 06, 2025 12:04 PM (rj6Yv)

Why do I think there is more to this story than the headline suggests ?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 06, 2025 12:05 PM (VE6XX)

196 Eh. Everyone has their own fictional world.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 06, 2025 11:44 AM (xcxpd)
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Until they get punched in the face.

Posted by: Axeman at August 06, 2025 12:05 PM (Q4cxx)

197 In Trump-supporting Ohio, a beloved Haitian teacher faces deportation"

LOL

Posted by: ... at August 06, 2025 12:05 PM (jRYyy)

198 NBC "News" headline:

"In Trump-supporting Ohio, a beloved Haitian teacher faces deportation"
Posted by: mrp at August 06, 2025 12:04 PM (rj6Yv)
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OHIO MAN!

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 06, 2025 12:05 PM (iFTx/)

199 Jackie Martling, Billy West, Artie Lang.......the side cast made the show. Sure Howard had his moments, but it was the others that usually made me laugh hysterically.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 12:03 PM (Zz0t1)

The month long making fun of Bababooey for throwing out the first pitch and paying him to show the video he made for his ex girlfriend in attempt to get her back we’re great.

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2025 12:06 PM (VofaG)

200
I never understood why she stuck around. I hope she made good money.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 06, 2025 12:05 PM (xcxpd)

She did. She got paid handsomely to be the main reason Stern could get away with blatant racist skits and jokes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 12:06 PM (Zz0t1)

201 No to be out done by Florida's Alligator Alcatraz
Indiana has announced the opening of The Speedway Slammer ICE detention facility.
Florida not to be out done by Indiana has announced a second ICE detention facility built from a deserted WWII prisoner of war camp..

The Speedway Slammer: A New Partnership with DHS and the State of Indiana to Expand Detention Space
https://tinyurl.com/29bvrrdp

Florida prepares to build Camp Blanding ICE center
https://tinyurl.com/ycj43vyx

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 06, 2025 12:06 PM (VPPG8)

202
WDON

"Hitville In Wheaton"

across the street from Dabby's

Posted by: Don Black. Message: at August 06, 2025 12:06 PM (AOsQT)

203 NBC "News" headline:

"In Trump-supporting Ohio, a beloved Haitian teacher faces deportation"
Posted by: mrp at August 06, 2025 12:04 PM (rj6Yv)

Why do I think there is more to this story than the headline suggests ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 06, 2025 12:05 PM (VE6XX)
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You are too young to be this cynical ....

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 06, 2025 12:06 PM (iFTx/)

204 I apparently saved the entire conglomerate. I saw a headline yesterday that McDonald's sale have collapsed. I bought a quarter pounder. Today . . .

McDonald’s Sees U.S. Sales Rebound

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 06, 2025 12:07 PM (L/fGl)

205 Why do I think there is more to this story than the headline suggests ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 06, 2025 12:05 PM (VE6XX)
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Why do I not care if there isn't?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 06, 2025 12:07 PM (6bTRc)

206 ****
Tell more about goats 🐐 and 🐑 sheeps.
Posted by: Taliban
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If only, over there, you could be reunited with all your brothers and cousins from over here.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 12:07 PM (O6HaA)

207 I never understood why she stuck around. I hope she made good money.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 06, 2025 12:05 PM (xcxpd)

She did. She got paid handsomely to be the main reason Stern could get away with blatant racist skits and jokes.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 12:06 PM (Zz0t1)
________

[Slaps forehead in "why didn't I think of that" gesture]

-- Don Imus

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 06, 2025 12:07 PM (iFTx/)

208 I apparently saved the entire conglomerate. I saw a headline yesterday that McDonald's sale have collapsed. I bought a quarter pounder. Today . . .

McDonald’s Sees U.S. Sales Rebound
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 06, 2025 12:07 PM (L/fGl)

I've had a couple of those over the past couple years. They're not the gut bomb they used to be. Where they're not "delicious" as billed, they weren't all that bad.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 12:08 PM (Zz0t1)

209 Denver Wrangler >>> Denver Post
Posted by: Elric at August 06, 2025 12:02 PM (iFTx/
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This is about us, isn't it.

Posted by: Heath and Jake at August 06, 2025 12:08 PM (7caDm)

210
[Slaps forehead in "why didn't I think of that" gesture]

-- Don Imus
Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 06, 2025 12:07 PM (iFTx/)

Stern was getting away with "But I've got a black friend" before it was made verboten by the left.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 12:09 PM (Zz0t1)

211 I read that as 'Doof'
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 06, 2025 12:05 PM (xcxpd)

You rang?

Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2025 12:09 PM (wkXwO)

212 "In Trump-supporting Ohio, a beloved Haitian teacher faces deportation"

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I didn't have to take Haitian when I was school.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 06, 2025 12:09 PM (L/fGl)

213 I still get the local newspaper. Living in a rural area it's only published three days a week. The best part of it is they publish the names of adults who have been arrested for whatever they done. So if a married couple got in a fight the whole county knows about it. I think that makes people think twice before causing trouble.

Posted by: Case at August 06, 2025 12:09 PM (fSxdA)

214 Several of the old asylums were self-supporting by the residents working gardens and smaller food animals like goats, rabbits and sheep.
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Well, right. Every county in every state, if you look at the original platting on the maps, had a portion set aside for the “county farm”, it has always been the case there are residents who cannot take care of themselves. Not necessarily crazy, just unable to function for any number of reasons.

The Experts assured everyone that modern medicine had cured the crazies and they would become useful, productive members of society, and the courts basically forced the issue, and the asylums shut down.

Note well. - 1965 Medicare Act never addressed or provided mental case money for the crazies. Weird, huh?

Posted by: Common Tater at August 06, 2025 12:09 PM (IY3/h)

215 196 Eh. Everyone has their own fictional world.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 06, 2025 11:44 AM (xcxpd)
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Until they get punched in the face.
Posted by: Axeman at August 06, 2025 12:05 PM (Q4cxx)

yeah, reality trumps fantasy.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 06, 2025 12:09 PM (xcxpd)

216 Fast food is as expensive as a sit down restaurant now. Of course their sales aren’t going to increase.

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2025 12:09 PM (VofaG)

217 And anyway, the conservative radio guy from
NY , Mark Simone , who seems like a smart , well informed guy, who is heard in a lot of other places than. Just NY thinks that the LA edition of the NY Post might do well in the larger LA , because he thinks a lot of people in movies and TV are actually not left wing lunatics. They just don't "come out " politically speaking because they don't want to lose their jobs.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2025 12:09 PM (2GCMq)

218 They had a shooting at an army base in Georgia ?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 06, 2025 12:09 PM (VE6XX)

219 Democrats have often resorted to street troops.

That's why nothing is likely going to happen to you if Fox Doxxes you, but the left doxxes you to alert their street troops.

(KKK, Wildcat (often Communist) Union Strike Enforcers, Student Activists & Black Panthers, --> Pantifa) Not to forget that Kennedy had his ties to the mob.

Posted by: Axeman at August 06, 2025 12:10 PM (Q4cxx)

220 Why do I think there is more to this story than the headline suggests ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 06, 2025 12:05 PM (VE6XX)
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You are too young to be this cynical ....
Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 06, 2025 12:06 PM (iFTx/)

I have an idea. We should read the content... nevermind.
Forgot where I am.

Posted by: Reforger at August 06, 2025 12:10 PM (h5TUr)

221 >>>Florida not to be out done by Indiana has announced a second ICE detention facility built from a deserted WWII prisoner of war camp..
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Symmetry, super symbolism.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 12:10 PM (O6HaA)

222 Doof and Sponge are here. Now it's a party.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 06, 2025 12:10 PM (xcxpd)

223
You rang?
Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2025 12:09 PM (wkXwO)

Your ears...

Your ears....

Your ears are on fire....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 12:10 PM (Zz0t1)

224 Doof and Sponge are here. Now it's a party.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 06, 2025 12:10 PM (xcxpd)

WOOT!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 12:11 PM (Zz0t1)

225 Drivers, open your wallets and start your engines!

Wall Street Journal headline:

"Detroit Rediscovers Its Love for Giant Gas Guzzlers
Regulatory rollback has opened the door for Ford, GM, Stellantis to sell highly profitable pickups and SUVs for the foreseeable future"

Posted by: mrp at August 06, 2025 12:11 PM (rj6Yv)

226 Shorter Denver Post - "Dear Denver, you're stupid and here's why."

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 06, 2025 12:11 PM (BMD3P)

227 Doof and Sponge are here. Now it's a party.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 06, 2025 12:10 PM (xcxpd)

And it aint for the squeamish!!

Posted by: Doof at August 06, 2025 12:11 PM (wkXwO)

228
"Detroit Rediscovers Its Love for Giant Gas Guzzlers
Regulatory rollback has opened the door for Ford, GM, Stellantis to sell highly profitable pickups and SUVs for the foreseeable future"
Posted by: mrp at August 06, 2025 12:11 PM (rj6Yv)

Bullshit. They never stopped building them.

Cars, however.....

Make Musclecars Great Again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 12:12 PM (Zz0t1)

229 I have a Bible/Tyson mash-up that gives me a chuckle now and then:

"There is a way that seems right to a man, until he gets punched in the face."

Posted by: Axeman at August 06, 2025 12:12 PM (Q4cxx)

230 Indiana has announced the opening of The Speedway Slammer ICE detention facility.

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If they ever build an MLB stadium inside a NASCAR track, some home run hitter playing there might get the nickname "The Speedway Slammer."

Posted by: ShainS -- Run. Gavin. Run. Toss your hair into the ring! at August 06, 2025 12:12 PM (X87w/)

231 They had a shooting at an army base in Georgia ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 06, 2025 12:09 PM (VE6XX)
*******
Base on lockdown. Still an active shooter at Fort Stewart. Casualties.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 06, 2025 12:12 PM (NpAcC)

232 Mark Simone, I get him in the car sometime when he subs.
He's soooooo much better than Hannity.
Shouldn't compare him to Hannity he's in a better league.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 12:13 PM (O6HaA)

233
*******
Base on lockdown. Still an active shooter at Fort Stewart. Casualties.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 06, 2025 12:12 PM (NpAcC)

No word on how many allah ackbars have been heard thus far.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 12:14 PM (Zz0t1)

234 Another Nidal Hassan?

They recently had some idiot try to crash through the gates of an Air Force base. It was fatal for the idiot.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 06, 2025 12:14 PM (BMD3P)

235 Stern was very involved in the Sirius XM start up. Stern advertised to the point of seemingly having a share holder or owners stake in the company. Need to look that one up...

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 06, 2025 12:15 PM (VPPG8)

236
If they ever build an MLB stadium inside a NASCAR track, some home run hitter playing there might get the nickname "The Speedway Slammer."
Posted by: ShainS -- Run. Gavin. Run. Toss your hair into the ring! at August 06, 2025 12:12 PM (X87w/)

They have a golf course inside the Indianapolis Speedway.

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2025 12:15 PM (VofaG)

237 You knew NASCAR was in big trouble when someone came up with the idea to fill Bristol Motor Speedway with dirt and put those big pig cars on it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 12:15 PM (Zz0t1)

238 Until they get punched in the face.
Posted by: Axeman at August 06, 2025 12:05 PM (Q4cxx)
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Missed a chance there to sock Mike Tyson.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 06, 2025 12:15 PM (WvZaB)

239 From the story:
Several city employees and people working at local nonprofits also declined to publicly discuss the account out of fear that DoBetterDNVR would bully them if they did so.

Residents complaining online about the state of the city and the performance of it's elected officials and employees is now considered "bullying"?

Every time a lefty activist, bureaucrat or politician gets called out on something they can't their way out of, their immediate instinct is to claim to be a victim and change the subject.

Good post Mannix, this is quite a good example of what's wrong with modern "professional" journalism.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 06, 2025 12:15 PM (6ydKt)

240 Chris Plante is my favorite current broadcaster. I can remember when I first heard him. He kind of annoyed me. "This guy thinks he's funny."

I just started to think so too.

Posted by: Axeman at August 06, 2025 12:15 PM (Q4cxx)

241 Stern was very involved in the Sirius XM start up. Stern advertised to the point of seemingly having a share holder or owners stake in the company. Need to look that one up...
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 06, 2025 12:15 PM (VPPG

Correct and he sued them because of the stock price.

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2025 12:15 PM (VofaG)

242 nood big balls

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 06, 2025 12:15 PM (xcxpd)

243 228
"Detroit Rediscovers Its Love for Giant Gas Guzzlers
Regulatory rollback has opened the door for Ford, GM, Stellantis to sell highly profitable pickups and SUVs for the foreseeable future"
Posted by: mrp at Augus
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Maybe they'll strip the crap off one of them and sell it at a decent price.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 12:16 PM (O6HaA)

244 He lost

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2025 12:16 PM (VofaG)

245 OMG! Another public health crisis!

The Associated Press@AP
Survivors of Israel's pager attack on Hezbollah struggle to recover

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 06, 2025 12:16 PM (L/fGl)

246 > Another Nidal Hassan?
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Odds are it's "domestic." As in some one was boinking someone they shouldn't have been boinking.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 06, 2025 12:16 PM (Q4IgG)

247 Base on lockdown. Still an active shooter at Fort Stewart. Casualties.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 06, 2025 12:12 PM (NpAcC)

Damn. That was my home for two years. Prayers for a peaceful resolution.

Posted by: Reforger at August 06, 2025 12:16 PM (h5TUr)

248 Journalism majors thank the god they don't believe in everyday for Education majors keeping them off the bottom of the Enter Freshman SAT rankings.

Posted by: toby928 reminds you at August 06, 2025 12:16 PM (jc0TO)

249 Make Work Trucks Hot Again

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 12:16 PM (O6HaA)

250
They have a golf course inside the Indianapolis Speedway.
Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2025 12:15 PM (VofaG)

I want to play there just so I can say I shanked one onto the back stretch. Cuz I KNOW I would at some point.

And I believe the course is outside the track with only a couple holes inside the actual speedway.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 12:16 PM (Zz0t1)

251 Residents complaining online about the state of the city and the performance of it's elected officials and employees is now considered "bullying"?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 06, 2025 12:15 PM (6ydKt)
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Welcome to "Our (not YOUR) Democracy".

Posted by: Axeman at August 06, 2025 12:17 PM (Q4cxx)

252
The Associated Press@AP
Survivors of Israel's pager attack on Hezbollah struggle to recover
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 06, 2025 12:16 PM (L/fGl)

There has to be somewhere in the article where it's suggested they get Medicare coverage.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 12:17 PM (Zz0t1)

253 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 12:16 PM (Zz0t1)

Yes most just outside with a few holes inside.

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2025 12:17 PM (VofaG)

254 *they can't talk their way out of

I thought all my cylinders were firing by lunchtime, but nope.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 06, 2025 12:17 PM (6ydKt)

255
A picture is worth 1,000 words

https://tinyurl.com/mr3v9rd7

Posted by: Don Black. Message: at August 06, 2025 12:18 PM (AOsQT)

256 Bullshit. They never stopped building them.

Cars, however.....

Make Musclecars Great Again.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 12:12 PM (Zz0t1)

I bet they're on the design board right now. Maybe, just maybe, GM will resurrect the Pontiac brand.

Posted by: mrp at August 06, 2025 12:18 PM (rj6Yv)

257 >The Associated Press@AP
Survivors of Israel's pager attack on Hezbollah struggle to recover

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that's the whole point

Posted by: Don Black. Message: at August 06, 2025 12:21 PM (AOsQT)

258 Had a hard lefty aunt and uncle from Miami who bought a vacation ski place Colorado back in the late 70s. They would visit us in Michigan each year and whine about how conservative CO was back then. Well, their kind got their wish. The Dems kill everything decent and good.

Posted by: Ganges at August 06, 2025 12:21 PM (IwtSm)

259 Make Musclecars Great Again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 12:12 PM (Zz0t1)

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An EV Mustang SUV is a multi-dimensional abomination.

Lee Iacocca hardest hit -- and likely spinning in his grave ...

And I saw Multi-Dimensional Abomination open for Dark Star Orchestra at Martyrs' in '98.

Posted by: ShainS -- Run. Gavin. Run. Toss your hair into the ring! at August 06, 2025 12:21 PM (X87w/)

260 Interestingly, the Post forgets to mention that Amanda Sawyer worked for the Denver Fire Department before becoming a member of the City Council. They also fail to mention that her cousin, DFD Chief Desmond Fulton, was promoted to the position of Chief after her getting onto City Council. Chief Desmond Fulton is the same Fire Chief that was caught violating the City Charter that resulted in his fraudulently being paid more than $40,000 dollars in overtime money. Amazingly, he and his Division staff that received more than $150,000 among themselves were never charged with a crime and never received any discipline. Lest we forget, Chief Fulton was given an overwhelming vote of "No Confidence" by the members of the Department and yet he maintains his position as Chief.

Posted by: Michael at August 06, 2025 12:23 PM (w5abi)

261 @22/Stateless: Gamil Gharbi.

https://tinyurl.com/vk6deddv

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 06, 2025 12:24 PM (O7YUW)

262 Major Hasan is still sucking up our Oxygen. Ft. Hood should have hanged his ass on the parade ground at 0630 followed by a Division Run, and a 3 day weekend. Bunch of pussies in government these days.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 06, 2025 12:36 PM (fqXHl)

263 Thanks for running this article. I read the original Denver Post story trying to find out what it said about the "misinformation" that it charged DoBetterDenver with -- and found only that same example that you used here. My commenting about it in various blog posts does not have nearly the reach that your article does. Thank you for running it.

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