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The National Laughingstock's Margaret Sullivan: Now That Our Enemy the Right Is Using the Term "Fake News," It's Time to Retire It
Margaret Sullivan seems to be saying that Fake News From Approved Sources Can't Be Fake News.
If you'd prefer not to click on the National Laughinstock, Michael Walsh quotes the best bits at PJ Media.When Jim DeMint wanted to dis a TV interviewer’s suggestion that Obamacare has merits as well as flaws, the former senator and tea partyer used a handy putdown: "You can put all that under the category of fake news." When conspiracy theorist Alex Jones wanted to deny a CNN report that Ivanka Trump would take over the East Wing offices traditionally occupied by the first lady, he used the same label. And when a writer for an arch-conservative website needed a putdown for ABC's chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl, he reached for the obvious: "fake-news propagandist."No, when I say "fake news" I also mean deceptive news articles intended to mislead the public. Like, for example, the Fake News Media always calling the DNC/Podesta emails hack "election hacking," which is responsible for 52% of all Democrats believing actual election vote tallies were hacked and altered, or CBS radio news deliberately implying that a racist attack of four blacks cutting on a disabled white man was actually a case of whites wolfpacking a black victim. How is that not fake news according to the definition Sullivan offers? "Macedonian teenagers" are not the only people who write deliberately-false stories in efforts to get clicks and shape US politics. The art of fake news has been developed and weaponized by (somewhat) well-paid liberals sitting in cozy offices in our "professional" newsrooms for 40 years.
Fake news has a real meaning -- deliberately constructed lies, in the form of news articles, meant to mislead the public. For example: The one falsely claiming that Pope Francis had endorsed Donald Trump, or the one alleging without basis that Hillary Clinton would be indicted just before the election. But though the term hasn't been around long, its meaning already is lost. Faster than you could say "Pizzagate," the label has been co-opted to mean any number of completely different things: Liberal claptrap. Or opinion from left-of-center. Or simply anything in the realm of news that the observer doesn’t like to hear.
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Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 09, 2017 02:36 PM (kTF2Z)
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I'll call the corgis.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 09, 2017 02:36 PM (kTF2Z)
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When this term was first being coined, I knew it would end up helping conservatives dismiss partisan MSM coverage far more than whatever mileage liberals got out of it.
It's just a pitch right down the middle.
It's just a pitch right down the middle.
Posted by: Maritime at January 09, 2017 02:36 PM (miHsA)
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These assholes...
Posted by: SMFH at January 09, 2017 02:38 PM (CRotO)
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For the record, has anyone seen any concrete examples of what liberals/MSM/DNC were talking about when they say "fake news"?
I heard it was nonsense like a clickbait info ad on Facebook?
Do they have any evidence this really swayed any segment of the population?
I'm honestly trying to understand what exactly they were pointing out.
I heard it was nonsense like a clickbait info ad on Facebook?
Do they have any evidence this really swayed any segment of the population?
I'm honestly trying to understand what exactly they were pointing out.
Posted by: Maritime at January 09, 2017 02:38 PM (miHsA)
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Watch Fake News become Real News using this one weird trick.
Watch Fake News become Real News using this one weird trick.
Posted by: fixerupper at January 09, 2017 02:38 PM (8XRCm)
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Willowed from previous:
AP has actually Fact checked whether Streep is over-rated
http://tinyurl.com/jgul2mp
Their conclusion is
[ ] over-rated
[ x ] TRUMP IS A LIAR !!!!!
AP has actually Fact checked whether Streep is over-rated
http://tinyurl.com/jgul2mp
Their conclusion is
[ ] over-rated
[ x ] TRUMP IS A LIAR !!!!!
Posted by: McCool at January 09, 2017 02:39 PM (TQxRy)
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They are going to regret spawning that term and moving it into the everyday lexicon. Because it aptly describes very succinctly what a majority of people think about he media.
Do they really think it's just "rubes" in flyover country that can't discern the media has turned into the Democrat Party Propoganda Division?
Give me a break.
Do they really think it's just "rubes" in flyover country that can't discern the media has turned into the Democrat Party Propoganda Division?
Give me a break.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 09, 2017 02:39 PM (BP2E4)
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Fake but accurate?
Posted by: deplorable donna at January 09, 2017 02:39 PM (O2RFr)
Posted by: steevy at January 09, 2017 02:39 PM (r/0kC)
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Oh, you mean the KGB:
"Macedonian teenagers" are not the only people who write deliberately-false stories in efforts to get clicks and shape US politics. The art of fake news has been developed and weaponized by (somewhat) well-paid liberals sitting in cozy offices in our "professional" newsrooms for 40 years.
They had a directorate for that.
Actually old hat, copycats.
Yawn.
"Macedonian teenagers" are not the only people who write deliberately-false stories in efforts to get clicks and shape US politics. The art of fake news has been developed and weaponized by (somewhat) well-paid liberals sitting in cozy offices in our "professional" newsrooms for 40 years.
They had a directorate for that.
Actually old hat, copycats.
Yawn.
Posted by: 80's music fan at January 09, 2017 02:39 PM (PHcLa)
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A FB shitstom ensues every time I call out click-bait as fake. It's almost becoming a hobby now, quiet enjoyment much like popping liberal kid's balloons on the playground.
Posted by: IP at January 09, 2017 02:40 PM (4byLl)
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Willowed from last thread:
Did you see where we just agreed to let them have 130 tons of Uranium?
/facepalm....
Posted by: Don Q. at January 09, 2017 02:35 PM (qf6WZ)
Ironically, they are getting it from Russia.
Which means Clinton oversaw the selling of American uranium to the Russians, so that they could sell it to the Iranians.
Did you see where we just agreed to let them have 130 tons of Uranium?
/facepalm....
Posted by: Don Q. at January 09, 2017 02:35 PM (qf6WZ)
Ironically, they are getting it from Russia.
Which means Clinton oversaw the selling of American uranium to the Russians, so that they could sell it to the Iranians.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 09, 2017 02:40 PM (8hICw)
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I'm honestly trying to understand what exactly they were pointing out.
Posted by: Maritime at January 09, 2017 02:38 PM (miHsA)
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I think most of what they were pointing out were things that even most of us deplorables would go go..... yeah, thats fake.
Internet Enquirer Stuff.
Posted by: Maritime at January 09, 2017 02:38 PM (miHsA)
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I think most of what they were pointing out were things that even most of us deplorables would go go..... yeah, thats fake.
Internet Enquirer Stuff.
Posted by: fixerupper at January 09, 2017 02:40 PM (8XRCm)
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"Fake news has a real meaning -- deliberately constructed lies, in the form of news articles, meant to mislead the public. For example: The one falsely claiming that Pope Francis had endorsed Donald Trump, or the one alleging without basis that Hillary Clinton would be indicted just before the election."
Convenient how this is constructed so as to give them cover for their own bullshit.
George Zimmerman's edited 911 call? Not fake news, just an editorial decision to save time.
The Jackie Coakley rape gang story? Not fake news, just an unfortunate oversight in editing.
Hey, assholes. If we don't get to say which of your actions qualify as "deliberately misleading" then you don't get to do so to anyone else.
Convenient how this is constructed so as to give them cover for their own bullshit.
George Zimmerman's edited 911 call? Not fake news, just an editorial decision to save time.
The Jackie Coakley rape gang story? Not fake news, just an unfortunate oversight in editing.
Hey, assholes. If we don't get to say which of your actions qualify as "deliberately misleading" then you don't get to do so to anyone else.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 09, 2017 02:40 PM (KUaJL)
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11 Oh, you mean the KGB:
"Macedonian teenagers" are not the only people who write deliberately-false stories in efforts to get clicks and shape US politics. The art of fake news has been developed and weaponized by (somewhat) well-paid liberals sitting in cozy offices in our "professional" newsrooms for 40 years.
They had a directorate for that.
Actually old hat, copycats.
Yawn.
Posted by: 80's music fan at January 09, 2017 02:39 PM (PHcLa)
The concept of dezinformatsiya should be much, much better known than it is.
"Macedonian teenagers" are not the only people who write deliberately-false stories in efforts to get clicks and shape US politics. The art of fake news has been developed and weaponized by (somewhat) well-paid liberals sitting in cozy offices in our "professional" newsrooms for 40 years.
They had a directorate for that.
Actually old hat, copycats.
Yawn.
Posted by: 80's music fan at January 09, 2017 02:39 PM (PHcLa)
The concept of dezinformatsiya should be much, much better known than it is.
Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at January 09, 2017 02:41 PM (RD7QR)
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Or simply anything in the realm of news that the observer doesn't like to hear.
Isn't this exactly what the left's definition was??
Isn't this exactly what the left's definition was??
Posted by: Rick in SK at January 09, 2017 02:41 PM (/CIN4)
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'M' auto completes to Macedonian Teenagers on Harry Reid's laptop
Posted by: SchlongStrong at January 09, 2017 02:41 PM (48M9E)
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This bitch has got something here.
Posted by: zombie Walter Duranty Pulitzer prize winner and ass reporter for the NYT at January 09, 2017 02:41 PM (326rv)
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Next thing ya know, those zany right wingers will doubt me!
Posted by: TANG memo at January 09, 2017 02:42 PM (326rv)
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It's a faaake!
Posted by: the Romulan guy from DS9 at January 09, 2017 02:42 PM (WidQN)
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It is like a small dick...,OK around town but one wouldn't want to take it on the road.
Posted by: R. DUKE at January 09, 2017 02:42 PM (ONH2e)
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Changing the meaning of words is the specialty of the left. Expect a copyright infringement lawsuit.
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at January 09, 2017 02:43 PM (PNcou)
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faux news.
Posted by: 13times at January 09, 2017 02:43 PM (WHVu+)
Posted by: SchlongStrong at January 09, 2017 02:43 PM (48M9E)
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Gallup did a poll in September. It states that 32% of the people had a great or fair deal of trust in the media.
Personally I think that's high and it's probably lower.
But that being said, who exactly do these media frauds think the other 68% don't trust and why? Can it be all the fake news the have not been fooled by?
Personally I think that's high and it's probably lower.
But that being said, who exactly do these media frauds think the other 68% don't trust and why? Can it be all the fake news the have not been fooled by?
Posted by: Marcus T at January 09, 2017 02:43 PM (BP2E4)
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22 It is like a small dick...,OK around town but one wouldn't want to take it on the road.
Posted by: R. DUKE at January 09, 2017 02:42 PM (ONH2e)
No no no, it really IS 8 inches.
Posted by: R. DUKE at January 09, 2017 02:42 PM (ONH2e)
No no no, it really IS 8 inches.
Posted by: The Washington Post at January 09, 2017 02:43 PM (RD7QR)
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I didn't click on the National Laughinstock link. Is Maragaret Sullivan the one who is a spitting image of Velma from Scooby Doo?
Posted by: Independent George at January 09, 2017 02:43 PM (BDZWU)
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Like, for example, the Fake News Media always calling the DNC/Podesta emails hack "election hacking," which is responsible for 52% of all Democrats believing actual election vote tallies were hacked and altered,
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That really is something that should be shoved in reporters' faces all the time.
"Do you believe that Russia hacked voting machines?"
"No."
"Then why do 52% of Democrats now believe it? It didn't happen in a vacuum."
If I were someone like Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, or Donald Trump, I'd be tempted to start every press conference with that.
"Because of the work of fake news produced by NBC News, ABC News, CBS News, and the New York Times, 52% of Democrats believe that Russia hacked voting machines. Now, first question?"
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That really is something that should be shoved in reporters' faces all the time.
"Do you believe that Russia hacked voting machines?"
"No."
"Then why do 52% of Democrats now believe it? It didn't happen in a vacuum."
If I were someone like Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, or Donald Trump, I'd be tempted to start every press conference with that.
"Because of the work of fake news produced by NBC News, ABC News, CBS News, and the New York Times, 52% of Democrats believe that Russia hacked voting machines. Now, first question?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 02:43 PM (zdM/+)
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"Fake News" fewer syllables and easier to pronounce and remember than "disinformation."
Dumbed down, duh.
Thank a Marxist soon since they are buying shelters from the Y2K fools.
Dumbed down, duh.
Thank a Marxist soon since they are buying shelters from the Y2K fools.
Posted by: 80's music fan at January 09, 2017 02:43 PM (PHcLa)
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Hey, if they want to retire terms after the right adopts them, I'm all for it.
Maybe we need to start telling them to "check their privilege," to stop "womanplaining" and to tell them we're triggered by all the anti-Trump hysteria.
That might be the way to ensure we never hear those stupid catchphrases ever again.
Maybe we need to start telling them to "check their privilege," to stop "womanplaining" and to tell them we're triggered by all the anti-Trump hysteria.
That might be the way to ensure we never hear those stupid catchphrases ever again.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at January 09, 2017 02:44 PM (ZM2xo)
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And in other news, an indigenous nomad was attacked by a European ship recklessly speeding through ancestral grounds...(or waters...whatever).
Posted by: A Titanic rewrite at January 09, 2017 02:44 PM (326rv)
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As I remember it, the "fake news" meme started right about the time people started noticing cryptic references to pizza in John Podesta's e-mails.
Posted by: rickl at January 09, 2017 02:44 PM (zoehZ)
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I tagged an Albanian chick back in college. She said the Macedonians were a bunch of punks.
You take that back.
You take that back.
Posted by: Alexander the Great at January 09, 2017 02:44 PM (u0s1P)
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There is also CONTRIVED News, which is real but not necessarily "news" and is only packaged and mentioned in a way for political value.
There is also CONTRIVED News, which is real but not necessarily "news" and is only packaged and mentioned in a way for political value.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 09, 2017 02:44 PM (PeVdw)
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I'm so old , I remember when Trump going around the MFM with his tweets to talk directly to the people was "unpresidential" and "must be stopped".
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at January 09, 2017 02:44 PM (toH8T)
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That might be the way to ensure we never hear those stupid catchphrases ever again.
Take back the night!
Take back the night!
Posted by: Men Everywhere at January 09, 2017 02:45 PM (u0s1P)
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>>>27 22 It is like a small dick...,OK around town but one wouldn't want to take it on the road.
Posted by: R. DUKE at January 09, 2017 02:42 PM (ONH2e)
No no no, it really IS 8 inches.
Posted by: The Washington Post at January 09, 2017 02:43 PM (RD7QR)
___________
Prove it. Please
~Harry Reid
Posted by: R. DUKE at January 09, 2017 02:42 PM (ONH2e)
No no no, it really IS 8 inches.
Posted by: The Washington Post at January 09, 2017 02:43 PM (RD7QR)
___________
Prove it. Please
~Harry Reid
Posted by: SchlongStrong at January 09, 2017 02:45 PM (48M9E)
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33 As I remember it, the "fake news" meme started right about the time people started noticing cryptic references to pizza in John Podesta's e-mails.
Posted by: rickl
just cause I like pizza with extra virgin pepperoni doesn't mean anything
Posted by: rickl
just cause I like pizza with extra virgin pepperoni doesn't mean anything
Posted by: John Podesta at January 09, 2017 02:45 PM (/CIN4)
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I think most of what they were pointing out were things that even most of us deplorables would go go..... yeah, thats fake.
Internet Enquirer Stuff.
Posted by: fixerupper
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That's what I thought, I knew it was REALLY about attacking conservative sources like DrudgeReport or Breitbart, but the examples they gave of "fake news" were just so ridiculous that I couldn't believe that so many really thought they could blame this for Hillary's loss with a straight face.
Internet Enquirer Stuff.
Posted by: fixerupper
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That's what I thought, I knew it was REALLY about attacking conservative sources like DrudgeReport or Breitbart, but the examples they gave of "fake news" were just so ridiculous that I couldn't believe that so many really thought they could blame this for Hillary's loss with a straight face.
Posted by: Maritime at January 09, 2017 02:45 PM (miHsA)
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Ahhh.... but you see... this is how you fight the Left...
Do not LET them dictate the meaning of things...
Fake News is anything published in the News, that if false... ie ... Fake...
Its a self explanatory term... simple to understand...
Yet that simple meaning is not good enough for the Left... they only want it used if its an anti LEFT meme being pushed.
To paraphrase Thomas Sowell.... the truth is usually simple, it only gets complicated when you try to deny the truth...
Do not LET them dictate the meaning of things...
Fake News is anything published in the News, that if false... ie ... Fake...
Its a self explanatory term... simple to understand...
Yet that simple meaning is not good enough for the Left... they only want it used if its an anti LEFT meme being pushed.
To paraphrase Thomas Sowell.... the truth is usually simple, it only gets complicated when you try to deny the truth...
Posted by: Don Q. at January 09, 2017 02:45 PM (qf6WZ)
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To paraphrase Thomas Sowell.... the truth is usually simple, it only gets complicated when you try to deny the truth...
lol whut
lol whut
Posted by: Current tax laws at January 09, 2017 02:46 PM (u0s1P)
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 09, 2017 02:46 PM (PeVdw)
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Maybe we need to start telling them to "check their privilege," to stop "womanplaining" and to tell them we're triggered by all the anti-Trump hysteria.
I have started telling some to stop 'otherizing' me.
I have started telling some to stop 'otherizing' me.
Posted by: Grump928(c) at January 09, 2017 02:46 PM (QQ+il)
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Trump has what- 20 million followers on Twitter?
Does he really need the free-wheeling, bullshitting, traveling sodomize your neighbor media clown show?
Does he really need the free-wheeling, bullshitting, traveling sodomize your neighbor media clown show?
Posted by: Marcus T at January 09, 2017 02:46 PM (BP2E4)
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And pizzagate is the ONLY example of fake news the Fake News has that isn't THEIR fake news!
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 09, 2017 02:46 PM (PeVdw)
====================
"I believe the electoral college counts."
-NYT Editor
And pizzagate is the ONLY example of fake news the Fake News has that isn't THEIR fake news!
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 09, 2017 02:46 PM (PeVdw)
====================
"I believe the electoral college counts."
-NYT Editor
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 02:46 PM (zdM/+)
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36 I'm so old , I remember when Trump going around the MFM with his tweets to talk directly to the people was "unpresidential" and "must be stopped".
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at January 09, 2017 02:44 PM (toH8T)
They are still saying that...
MSN Headline this morning.... EX CIA Director warns Trump about Tweets
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at January 09, 2017 02:44 PM (toH8T)
They are still saying that...
MSN Headline this morning.... EX CIA Director warns Trump about Tweets
Posted by: Don Q. at January 09, 2017 02:47 PM (qf6WZ)
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MSN Headline this morning.... EX CIA Director warns Trump about Tweets
Yeah, that's who I'd take advice from...
MSN Headline this morning.... EX CIA Director warns Trump about Tweets
Yeah, that's who I'd take advice from...
Posted by: deplorable donna at January 09, 2017 02:48 PM (O2RFr)
Posted by: Farticus at January 09, 2017 02:48 PM (v5iqM)
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I have no opinion on this until Meryl Streep pontificates about this at the Oscars.
Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at January 09, 2017 02:48 PM (RJpK+)
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A classic case of they can dish it out but can't take it.
Posted by: Insomniac at January 09, 2017 02:48 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Grump928(c) at January 09, 2017 02:48 PM (QQ+il)
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This "fake news" cannot be stopped!
It's all over youtube in the comments, even!
Up until 2015, youtube's comments on political videos were 90% leftist bullshit. Not anymore. People are dropping comments on youtube pointing out all the lies.
This "fake news" cannot be stopped!
It's all over youtube in the comments, even!
Up until 2015, youtube's comments on political videos were 90% leftist bullshit. Not anymore. People are dropping comments on youtube pointing out all the lies.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 09, 2017 02:48 PM (PeVdw)
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MSN Headline this morning.... EX CIA Director warns Trump about Tweets
===
Did he have any comments on FDR's radio chats?
Yeah. Thought not.
===
Did he have any comments on FDR's radio chats?
Yeah. Thought not.
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at January 09, 2017 02:49 PM (toH8T)
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45 Trump has what- 20 million followers on Twitter?
Does he really need the free-wheeling, bullshitting, traveling sodomize your neighbor media clown show?
Posted by: Marcus T at January 09, 2017 02:46 PM (BP2E4)
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It less a question of whether he needs them to get his message out (he doesn't), and more of, does the MSM have enough power to hurt his presidency?
That answer is an easy yes.
This sort of fight (where we somehow managed to turn Fake News around on them so completely) is a small battle and a win for us. But we're still in the middle of a war.
Maybe the Obama presidency could be equated to the Battle of the Bulge, where the media managed to counter attack and hold serious ground for a while. But, there was still fighting to be done after that was over and pushed back.
Does he really need the free-wheeling, bullshitting, traveling sodomize your neighbor media clown show?
Posted by: Marcus T at January 09, 2017 02:46 PM (BP2E4)
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It less a question of whether he needs them to get his message out (he doesn't), and more of, does the MSM have enough power to hurt his presidency?
That answer is an easy yes.
This sort of fight (where we somehow managed to turn Fake News around on them so completely) is a small battle and a win for us. But we're still in the middle of a war.
Maybe the Obama presidency could be equated to the Battle of the Bulge, where the media managed to counter attack and hold serious ground for a while. But, there was still fighting to be done after that was over and pushed back.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 02:49 PM (zdM/+)
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Oh and for those who missed it. Meryl Streep also got a shot off at birthers. She was a busy girl with her "dog whistles" last night.
No birth certificates needed in Israel for Natalie Portman.
See it's only because Obama is black that we have a problem with his fake birth certificate. It couldn't be that we have a problem with it because it's fake, illegal, and treasonous.
No birth certificates needed in Israel for Natalie Portman.
See it's only because Obama is black that we have a problem with his fake birth certificate. It couldn't be that we have a problem with it because it's fake, illegal, and treasonous.
Posted by: Fuq the Media at January 09, 2017 02:49 PM (8Q043)
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Up until 2015, youtube's comments on political videos were 90% leftist bullshit. Not anymore. People are dropping comments on youtube pointing out all the lies.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 09, 2017 02:48 PM (PeVdw)
Its like people suddenly woke up and realized...
Wait.... there ARE other people out there who see this as bullshit...
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 09, 2017 02:48 PM (PeVdw)
Its like people suddenly woke up and realized...
Wait.... there ARE other people out there who see this as bullshit...
Posted by: Don Q. at January 09, 2017 02:49 PM (qf6WZ)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 09, 2017 02:49 PM (BK3ZS)
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Fake news? You mean like that the Vermont electrical grid was hacked by the Russians?
I'm only about 75% joking when I say that why should I believe that the National Laughingstock even had government sources for that contention rather than just making it up.
Seriously, why should I believe that WaPo had some unnamed source who told the reporters that? Because WaPo says so?
Maybe it's because I'm more of a certain age than I care to admit, but I do seem to recall a time when reporters wouldn't just believe lock stock and barrel what a government source said and if a source burnt the reporter the way this one did the WaPo, well, the reporter would burn the source in turn.
So, yeah, the National Laughingstock can shut its whore mouth.
I'm only about 75% joking when I say that why should I believe that the National Laughingstock even had government sources for that contention rather than just making it up.
Seriously, why should I believe that WaPo had some unnamed source who told the reporters that? Because WaPo says so?
Maybe it's because I'm more of a certain age than I care to admit, but I do seem to recall a time when reporters wouldn't just believe lock stock and barrel what a government source said and if a source burnt the reporter the way this one did the WaPo, well, the reporter would burn the source in turn.
So, yeah, the National Laughingstock can shut its whore mouth.
Posted by: alexthechick - ho ho ho now I've got a Ravage at January 09, 2017 02:49 PM (dEQP3)
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MSN Headline this morning.... EX CIA Director warns Trump about Tweets
Go get your fuckin' shine box
Go get your fuckin' shine box
Posted by: Rick in SK at January 09, 2017 02:49 PM (/CIN4)
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53
This "fake news" cannot be stopped!
It's all over youtube in the comments, even!
Up until 2015, youtube's comments on political videos were 90% leftist bullshit. Not anymore. People are dropping comments on youtube pointing out all the lies.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 09, 2017 02:48 PM (PeVdw)
Good Lord, you read the comments on YouTube videos? Why do you hate yourself so much?
This "fake news" cannot be stopped!
It's all over youtube in the comments, even!
Up until 2015, youtube's comments on political videos were 90% leftist bullshit. Not anymore. People are dropping comments on youtube pointing out all the lies.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 09, 2017 02:48 PM (PeVdw)
Good Lord, you read the comments on YouTube videos? Why do you hate yourself so much?
Posted by: joncelli, Present at the Autopsy at January 09, 2017 02:50 PM (RD7QR)
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50 I have no opinion on this until Meryl Streep pontificates about this at the Oscars.
You mean that thoughtful carefully thought out message.... According to Josh Earnest today....
50 I have no opinion on this until Meryl Streep pontificates about this at the Oscars.
You mean that thoughtful carefully thought out message.... According to Josh Earnest today....
Posted by: deplorable donna at January 09, 2017 02:50 PM (O2RFr)
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Look at cnbc's fake news reporter John Harwood's twitter page -- he is bombarded every single day with tweets about his fake news and lies.
What's he gonna do, block Everyone on twitter?? He'll have to. They will ALL have to.
Look at cnbc's fake news reporter John Harwood's twitter page -- he is bombarded every single day with tweets about his fake news and lies.
What's he gonna do, block Everyone on twitter?? He'll have to. They will ALL have to.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 09, 2017 02:50 PM (PeVdw)
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Sounds a lot like "Fake News" is the New "White Privilege" - where a non-white person can't be a racist, now an establishment news organization can't generate fake new.
Which means the MSM really needs to check their damn privilege!!
Which means the MSM really needs to check their damn privilege!!
Posted by: Thomas Beattie, a.k.a at January 09, 2017 02:50 PM (NOIQH)
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It's like we can't trust anyone anymore....
Posted by: Haven Monahan at January 09, 2017 02:51 PM (326rv)
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So, yeah, the National Laughingstock can shut its whore mouth.
Posted by: alexthechick - ho ho ho now I've got a Ravage at January 09, 2017 02:49 PM (dEQP3)
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One of my favorite examples is the "at least 20 electors will turn on Trump". It was based on talk from one guy who was trying to organize it. That's it.
It's about as well sourced as the PizzaGate stories, to be honest.
So, yeah, the National Laughingstock can shut its whore mouth.
Posted by: alexthechick - ho ho ho now I've got a Ravage at January 09, 2017 02:49 PM (dEQP3)
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One of my favorite examples is the "at least 20 electors will turn on Trump". It was based on talk from one guy who was trying to organize it. That's it.
It's about as well sourced as the PizzaGate stories, to be honest.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 02:51 PM (zdM/+)
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Womansplaining? Is that like explaining why a fact can't be true because it contradicts her feelings?
Posted by: cool breeze at January 09, 2017 02:51 PM (StZrq)
Posted by: 13times at January 09, 2017 02:51 PM (WHVu+)
69
Here's some fake news from last week:
Trump's unprecedented firing of ambassadors:
http://tinyurl.com/jeplkgk
Except that Obama did the same thing in 2008:
http://tinyurl.com/jor9w6z
Trump's unprecedented firing of ambassadors:
http://tinyurl.com/jeplkgk
Except that Obama did the same thing in 2008:
http://tinyurl.com/jor9w6z
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at January 09, 2017 02:51 PM (1JnAL)
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Which means Clinton oversaw the selling of American uranium to the Russians, so that they could sell it to the Iranians.
Yet Putin would rather have Trump as president than weakened, blackmailable Hillary.
Yet Putin would rather have Trump as president than weakened, blackmailable Hillary.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2017 02:51 PM (dSqvH)
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67 Womansplaining? Is that like explaining why a fact can't be true because it contradicts her feelings?
Posted by: cool breeze at January 09, 2017 02:51 PM (StZrq)
It's not about the nail!
Posted by: cool breeze at January 09, 2017 02:51 PM (StZrq)
It's not about the nail!
Posted by: Insomniac at January 09, 2017 02:52 PM (0mRoj)
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This reminds me of the time in 2002 or so when Tim Robbins addressed the National Press Club in DC about how Bush was chilling his free speech.
Um, yeah, he did not see the irony of it.
Um, yeah, he did not see the irony of it.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 09, 2017 02:52 PM (NOIQH)
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MSN Headline this morning.... EX CIA Director warns Trump about Tweets
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**scans founding documents
**scans security protocols
**scans administrative rules
NOPE. EX-CIA Chiefs have no authority to "warn" current President elects...... about anything.
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**scans founding documents
**scans security protocols
**scans administrative rules
NOPE. EX-CIA Chiefs have no authority to "warn" current President elects...... about anything.
Posted by: fixerupper at January 09, 2017 02:52 PM (8XRCm)
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Fake News is anything published in the News, that if false... ie ... Fake...
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Fake News is also anything trivial that the Media chooses to explode into The Story. Or convert into a pattern proving a culture of...
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Fake News is also anything trivial that the Media chooses to explode into The Story. Or convert into a pattern proving a culture of...
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at January 09, 2017 02:52 PM (PNcou)
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Ace wants everyone to quit the cesspool known as twitter.
It's better that we kill these shits on twitter and ruin their twitter time!
But definitely quit facechimp, tho.
Ace wants everyone to quit the cesspool known as twitter.
It's better that we kill these shits on twitter and ruin their twitter time!
But definitely quit facechimp, tho.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 09, 2017 02:52 PM (PeVdw)
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Speaking of fake news, did anyone else see the commercials for the Boston bombing movie? They talk about how they are going to search the entire city.
I wonder if they'll show innocent people being ordered out of their homes at gunpoint, for nothing.
I wonder if they'll show innocent people being ordered out of their homes at gunpoint, for nothing.
Posted by: Haven Monahan at January 09, 2017 02:52 PM (326rv)
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Their Narrative is Fake News, and their new mantras are just the latest Orwellian NewSpeak to try to separate their GoodMindThink from BadMindThink.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at January 09, 2017 02:52 PM (oVJmc)
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>>Womansplaining? Is that like explaining why a fact can't be true because it contradicts her feelings?
"Nagsplaining"?
"Nagsplaining"?
Posted by: Lizzy at January 09, 2017 02:52 PM (NOIQH)
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Womansplaining? Is that like explaining why a fact can't be true because it contradicts her feelings?
It's like explaining how to parallel park.
It's like explaining how to parallel park.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2017 02:52 PM (dSqvH)
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Womansplaining? Is that like explaining why a fact can't be true because it contradicts her feelings?
Posted by: cool breeze at January 09, 2017 02:51 PM (StZrq)
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No.
Thats a Femprimand.
Posted by: cool breeze at January 09, 2017 02:51 PM (StZrq)
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No.
Thats a Femprimand.
Posted by: fixerupper at January 09, 2017 02:53 PM (8XRCm)
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68 The fake news scam was pretext to censor right wing voices on social media sites.
Posted by: 13times at January 09, 2017 02:51 PM (WHVu+)
Which is still moving forward...
Posted by: 13times at January 09, 2017 02:51 PM (WHVu+)
Which is still moving forward...
Posted by: Don Q. at January 09, 2017 02:53 PM (qf6WZ)
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I tagged an Albanian chick back in college. She said the Macedonians were a bunch of punks.
Posted by: SchlongStrong at January 09, 2017 02:43 PM (48M9E)
We had some Macedonian family friends back when I was in high school. She was older-woman-with-good-genes hot (and an excellent cook); he was some sort of commodities market savant. Wouldn't have expected people who basically enacted an escape from the Soviet-controlled Balkans to end up supporting leftists here, but yeah, we kind of drifted apart.
Posted by: SchlongStrong at January 09, 2017 02:43 PM (48M9E)
We had some Macedonian family friends back when I was in high school. She was older-woman-with-good-genes hot (and an excellent cook); he was some sort of commodities market savant. Wouldn't have expected people who basically enacted an escape from the Soviet-controlled Balkans to end up supporting leftists here, but yeah, we kind of drifted apart.
Posted by: hogmartin at January 09, 2017 02:53 PM (8nWyX)
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67 Womansplaining? Is that like explaining why a fact can't be true because it contradicts her feelings?
Posted by: cool breeze at January 09, 2017 02:51 PM (StZrq)
What about the converse - that something MUST be true because that's how she feeeeeelz?
Posted by: cool breeze at January 09, 2017 02:51 PM (StZrq)
What about the converse - that something MUST be true because that's how she feeeeeelz?
Posted by: Insomniac at January 09, 2017 02:53 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Joe Biden at January 09, 2017 02:53 PM (u0s1P)
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Well, the Left has been calling Fox News "Faux News" for ages.
This annoys me because it's only a sight rhyme, as faux is pronounced foh.
I am peevish about these things.
This annoys me because it's only a sight rhyme, as faux is pronounced foh.
I am peevish about these things.
Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at January 09, 2017 02:55 PM (mgbwf)
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Here's some fake news from last week:
Trump's unprecedented firing of ambassadors:
http://tinyurl.com/jeplkgk
Except that Obama did the same thing in 2008:
http://tinyurl.com/jor9w6z
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac
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All those ambassador's are basically just Democrat "who's who" of bundlers, so I applaud the idea of them getting fired on Day 1 rather than causing any mischief for Trump.
If it were up to me, every federal employee should be fired and we start all over.
Here's to hoping Trump follows through on some swamp draining.
Trump's unprecedented firing of ambassadors:
http://tinyurl.com/jeplkgk
Except that Obama did the same thing in 2008:
http://tinyurl.com/jor9w6z
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac
_____________________
All those ambassador's are basically just Democrat "who's who" of bundlers, so I applaud the idea of them getting fired on Day 1 rather than causing any mischief for Trump.
If it were up to me, every federal employee should be fired and we start all over.
Here's to hoping Trump follows through on some swamp draining.
Posted by: Maritime at January 09, 2017 02:55 PM (miHsA)
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>>It's about as well sourced as the PizzaGate stories, to be honest.
Except Reddit is not the MSM.
Except Reddit is not the MSM.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 09, 2017 02:55 PM (NOIQH)
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Its a "no true Scotsmen" argument: when the legacy media on the left publishes something false, it is a "mistake" because legacy media does not publish fake news.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 02:55 PM (39g3+)
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87 >>It's about as well sourced as the PizzaGate stories, to be honest.
Except Reddit is not the MSM.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 09, 2017 02:55 PM (NOIQH)
Reddit also put a lot more effort into assembling the story.
Except Reddit is not the MSM.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 09, 2017 02:55 PM (NOIQH)
Reddit also put a lot more effort into assembling the story.
Posted by: Insomniac at January 09, 2017 02:56 PM (0mRoj)
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I'm getting used to or, rather, trying to get used to new meds & keep falling asleep.
It drives me nuts that any time I click to WaPo link, they track it & only allow so many per month before they want me to pay for a subscription. I don't think they could pay me to subscribe.
It drives me nuts that any time I click to WaPo link, they track it & only allow so many per month before they want me to pay for a subscription. I don't think they could pay me to subscribe.
Posted by: Carol at January 09, 2017 02:56 PM (sj3Ax)
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Macedonian Teenagers sounds like an erotic tale that has yet to be told. (Looking at you Ace).
Posted by: Pepe at January 09, 2017 02:56 PM (tPC7s)
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Ah Ms. Sullivan. As they saying goes "suck on this".
Posted by: Skeptical Voter at January 09, 2017 02:57 PM (Sda6L)
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69 Here's some fake news from last week:
Trump's unprecedented firing of ambassadors:
http://tinyurl.com/jeplkgk
Except that Obama did the same thing in 2008:
http://tinyurl.com/jor9w6z
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it sure is unprecedented! Trump has NEVER done that before.
Trump's unprecedented firing of ambassadors:
http://tinyurl.com/jeplkgk
Except that Obama did the same thing in 2008:
http://tinyurl.com/jor9w6z
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it sure is unprecedented! Trump has NEVER done that before.
Posted by: MSM at January 09, 2017 02:57 PM (PNcou)
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I never printed fake news! I AM the news!
Posted by: The MFM at January 09, 2017 02:57 PM (0mRoj)
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88 Its a "no true Scotsmen" argument: when the legacy media on the left publishes something false, it is a "mistake" because legacy media does not publish fake news.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 02:55 PM (39g3+)
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Don't forget that it "reveals a deeper truth" and "started a conversation".
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 02:55 PM (39g3+)
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Don't forget that it "reveals a deeper truth" and "started a conversation".
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 02:57 PM (zdM/+)
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53
This "fake news" cannot be stopped!
It's all over youtube in the comments, even!
Up until 2015, youtube's comments on political videos were 90% leftist bullshit. Not anymore. People are dropping comments on youtube pointing out all the lies.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 09, 2017 02:48 PM (PeVdw)
It's throughout the interwebs now. Facebook, Twitter and on other sites, conservatives are now fighting back because there is a politician that actually has our back now instead of rolling over whenever the Dems cry "racist, misogynist, homophobe" or whatever the new buzzword is.
Andrew, while not a Trump fan, is the genesis of this movement.
This "fake news" cannot be stopped!
It's all over youtube in the comments, even!
Up until 2015, youtube's comments on political videos were 90% leftist bullshit. Not anymore. People are dropping comments on youtube pointing out all the lies.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 09, 2017 02:48 PM (PeVdw)
It's throughout the interwebs now. Facebook, Twitter and on other sites, conservatives are now fighting back because there is a politician that actually has our back now instead of rolling over whenever the Dems cry "racist, misogynist, homophobe" or whatever the new buzzword is.
Andrew, while not a Trump fan, is the genesis of this movement.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at January 09, 2017 02:57 PM (1JnAL)
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I saw Macedonian Teenagers open for Slavic Youths in '02.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 09, 2017 02:57 PM (KUaJL)
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One of my favorite examples is the "at least 20 electors will turn on Trump". It was based on talk from one guy who was trying to organize it. That's it.
It's about as well sourced as the PizzaGate stories, to be honest.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 02:51 PM (zdM/+)
At least that was sourced.
It's about as well sourced as the PizzaGate stories, to be honest.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 02:51 PM (zdM/+)
At least that was sourced.
Posted by: alexthechick - ho ho ho now I've got a Ravage at January 09, 2017 02:57 PM (dEQP3)
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Its a "no true Scotsmen" argument: when the legacy media on the left publishes something false, it is a "mistake" because legacy media does not publish fake news.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 02:55 PM (39g3+)
Walter Duranty: Preach it brother
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 02:55 PM (39g3+)
Walter Duranty: Preach it brother
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 09, 2017 02:58 PM (493sH)
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When this term was first being coined, I knew it would end up helping conservatives dismiss partisan MSM coverage far more than whatever mileage liberals got out of it.
It was a cry of desperation, just like "Russians Hacked the Election." The press was caught with its pants down blatantly exposed as not just idiotic stooges of the Democratic Party, but incompetent ones at that. They're scrambling to find some way to deflect attention and retain their last loyal customers: leftists.
Same thing with the DNC leadership, they're scrambling to find a way to justify their existence and position. They violated their own rules, the trust of their voters, and the entire system of democracy to force the single least likable, least electable candidate in American history upon the voters and now they're trying to get their constituents to forget it by screaming squirrel at the top of their lungs.
It was a cry of desperation, just like "Russians Hacked the Election." The press was caught with its pants down blatantly exposed as not just idiotic stooges of the Democratic Party, but incompetent ones at that. They're scrambling to find some way to deflect attention and retain their last loyal customers: leftists.
Same thing with the DNC leadership, they're scrambling to find a way to justify their existence and position. They violated their own rules, the trust of their voters, and the entire system of democracy to force the single least likable, least electable candidate in American history upon the voters and now they're trying to get their constituents to forget it by screaming squirrel at the top of their lungs.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 02:58 PM (39g3+)
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just heard tickets to Pres. Obama's "goodbye again" speech tomorrow night in Chicago are scalping for $5000.
Posted by: booknlass at January 09, 2017 02:59 PM (hNFnI)
102
What happened to standards and decency?
Posted by: batboy at January 09, 2017 02:59 PM (326rv)
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I just finished reading the National Laughingstock this morning. That does it. I'm not letting Trump use my fake Office of the President-Elect seal.
Posted by: O'Bathhouse Barky at January 09, 2017 02:59 PM (8Q043)
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You mean TV.
Posted by: Joe Biden
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Well shyeah, duh.
In the pre black and white era.
All sepia all the time.
Posted by: Joe Biden
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Well shyeah, duh.
In the pre black and white era.
All sepia all the time.
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at January 09, 2017 02:59 PM (toH8T)
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just heard tickets to Pres. Obama's "goodbye again" speech tomorrow night in Chicago are scalping for $5000.
Posted by: booknlass
Geepers. That's almost as cheap as a book.
Posted by: booknlass
Geepers. That's almost as cheap as a book.
Posted by: my dear leader said it, so I must swallow, not spit at January 09, 2017 03:00 PM (326rv)
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The "pepe the frog is a nazi" thing is still out there and being repeated by legacy media sites. They were trolled by 4chan and still haven't got it yet. Its the biggest and best rickroll of all time.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 03:00 PM (39g3+)
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Millions of Russians No Longer Starving After Stalin Implements Agrarian Reforms.
Posted by: Marmo at January 09, 2017 03:01 PM (xujbM)
108
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And pizzagate is the ONLY example of fake news the Fake News has that isn't THEIR fake news!
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 09, 2017 02:46 PM (PeVdw
Except it's not fake news. The code used is and has been known to investigators in the FBI and police departments.
And pizzagate is the ONLY example of fake news the Fake News has that isn't THEIR fake news!
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 09, 2017 02:46 PM (PeVdw
Except it's not fake news. The code used is and has been known to investigators in the FBI and police departments.
Posted by: Pepe at January 09, 2017 03:01 PM (tPC7s)
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"Fake news? You mean like that the Vermont electrical grid was hacked by the Russians? "
Uh, but...the merits of the story were true.
Courage.
Uh, but...the merits of the story were true.
Courage.
Posted by: Dapper Dan Rather, bein' all emeritusy and stuff... at January 09, 2017 03:01 PM (kVX3W)
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Smerconish is on CNN right now. He was two years behind me in high school.
This is where I point out that I have a full head of thick hair and he doesn't.
This is where I point out that I have a full head of thick hair and he doesn't.
Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at January 09, 2017 03:01 PM (mgbwf)
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88 Its a "no true Scotsmen" argument: when the legacy media on the left publishes something false, it is a "mistake" because legacy media does not publish fake news.
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What about when you tell the Captain it'll take 9 hours to fix the warp drive when it will only take two? Leaving you seven to get hammered on Saurian Brandy.
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What about when you tell the Captain it'll take 9 hours to fix the warp drive when it will only take two? Leaving you seven to get hammered on Saurian Brandy.
Posted by: Montgomery S. at January 09, 2017 03:02 PM (PNcou)
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Hey, Chi! Beckett had half an ounce of pedialyte an hour ago and has kept it down. In another 2 hours, he gets 1 Oz of formula. If he keeps that down, he goes to 2 oz every three hrs. If he barfs, start over with half oz of pedialyte. Just handed him over to Mrs IMG.
Posted by: Iron_Mike_Golf at January 09, 2017 03:02 PM (dKvxO)
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What about when you tell the Captain it'll take 9 hours to fix the warp drive when it will only take two? Leaving you seven to get hammered on Saurian Brandy.
That's just "Scottsmen making themselves seem like geniuses" argument
That's just "Scottsmen making themselves seem like geniuses" argument
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 03:03 PM (39g3+)
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The only reason I am not 100% on board with using the term "fake news" is that, all too often, it's redundant.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 09, 2017 03:03 PM (wB8Tg)
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I find it very interesting that the MSM was very quick to declare pizzagate fake news. How did they determine that? Did they do a thorough investigation of the matter and after it was concluded they were confident it was false? Somehow I highly doubt it. Their actions indicate they want it to go away. It would be very interesting to see Journolist emails on the subject.
Posted by: Independent George at January 09, 2017 03:04 PM (BDZWU)
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"Yet Putin would rather have Trump as president than weakened, blackmailable Hillary."
Exactly x 10 leventybillions.
Exactly x 10 leventybillions.
Posted by: Twin Cities Daydrunk - no mo snow, dangit at January 09, 2017 03:04 PM (kVX3W)
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To defeat the enemy, you have to take their weapons and kill them.
A famous Colonel said that one time. Think it was Hackworth.
A famous Colonel said that one time. Think it was Hackworth.
Posted by: Eromero at January 09, 2017 03:04 PM (zLDYs)
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Did they do a thorough investigation of the matter and after it was concluded they were confident it was false?
They did the same thing everyone who scoffs at it did: this has to be bullcrap so let's ignore it.
They did the same thing everyone who scoffs at it did: this has to be bullcrap so let's ignore it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 03:04 PM (39g3+)
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50 I have no opinion on this until Meryl Streep pontificates about this at the Oscars.
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and shaves her armpits
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and shaves her armpits
Posted by: wth at January 09, 2017 03:04 PM (HgMAr)
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The whole Ferguson thing was fake news.
At first it was just believing tweets without waiting to see what was true.
Then it was twisting things to fit a narrative.
Then, when thee FACTS became known, outright LYING.
At first it was just believing tweets without waiting to see what was true.
Then it was twisting things to fit a narrative.
Then, when thee FACTS became known, outright LYING.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 09, 2017 03:05 PM (Nox3c)
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@113
That's just "Scottsmen making themselves seem like geniuses" argument
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I thought that was the "Make Geordi look like a genius" argument?
That's just "Scottsmen making themselves seem like geniuses" argument
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I thought that was the "Make Geordi look like a genius" argument?
Posted by: junior at January 09, 2017 03:05 PM (XJqcQ)
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I'm a pretty avid consumer of news and the, "Pope endorses Trump", story is new to me.
Anyone relying on facebook as their primary source of news deserves to be misinformed.
Anyone relying on facebook as their primary source of news deserves to be misinformed.
Posted by: Javems at January 09, 2017 03:05 PM (yOqwj)
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All sepia all the time.
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at January 09, 2017 02:59 PM (toH8T)
Nah, I'm referencing one of the great Biden lines, about FDR going on TV after the stock market crash.
It's such a great bit, because A) while TV existed, only a very few people had one, and B) FDR wasn't President yet.
Anyway, I probably wouldn't've known about it if not for the HQ. Or his shotgun advice.
Is there a greatest hits-type list of Biden's pontifications? And yes, I'm thinking of the The Onion article about him washing his TransAm in there.
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at January 09, 2017 02:59 PM (toH8T)
Nah, I'm referencing one of the great Biden lines, about FDR going on TV after the stock market crash.
It's such a great bit, because A) while TV existed, only a very few people had one, and B) FDR wasn't President yet.
Anyway, I probably wouldn't've known about it if not for the HQ. Or his shotgun advice.
Is there a greatest hits-type list of Biden's pontifications? And yes, I'm thinking of the The Onion article about him washing his TransAm in there.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 09, 2017 03:05 PM (u0s1P)
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just heard tickets to Pres. Obama's "goodbye again" speech tomorrow night in Chicago are scalping for $5000.
Posted by: booknlass
Pssssst! Hey buddy! Yeah you. Awesome deal. Two center, front row tickets, normally $5000 for $25 cause you're such a nice person.
Posted by: booknlass
Pssssst! Hey buddy! Yeah you. Awesome deal. Two center, front row tickets, normally $5000 for $25 cause you're such a nice person.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2017 03:06 PM (dSqvH)
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One needs distinguish between 'Fake News' and 'Fake But Accurate News'
We're Professionals. Just leave it to us and don't let it worry your pretty little heads.
We're Professionals. Just leave it to us and don't let it worry your pretty little heads.
Posted by: CBS at January 09, 2017 03:06 PM (PNcou)
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Oh good their going to stop using fake news, so maybe they will start doing to do real journalism
Posted by: Skip at January 09, 2017 03:06 PM (yx0Ld)
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>>
I find it very interesting that the MSM was very quick to declare pizzagate fake news.
Heck, they just drove right past the whole Spirit Cooking thing, where there was no disputing that it happens, pictures, etc.
I find it very interesting that the MSM was very quick to declare pizzagate fake news.
Heck, they just drove right past the whole Spirit Cooking thing, where there was no disputing that it happens, pictures, etc.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 09, 2017 03:06 PM (NOIQH)
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Anyone relying on facebook as their primary source of news deserves to be misinformed.
Posted by: Javems at January 09, 2017 03:05 PM (yOqwj)
Agreed. There's obviously something wrong there, in my professional opinion.
Posted by: Javems at January 09, 2017 03:05 PM (yOqwj)
Agreed. There's obviously something wrong there, in my professional opinion.
Posted by: Dr. Amy Bishop at January 09, 2017 03:06 PM (326rv)
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"Anyone relying on facebook as their primary source of news deserves to be misinformed."
Do like me, and read all the magazines at the Walmart checkout line, for free!
Do like me, and read all the magazines at the Walmart checkout line, for free!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 09, 2017 03:07 PM (J+eG2)
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Back in 1967-68 Pres Johnson was alleged to have said, "If I've lost Walter Cronkite then I've lost" or words to that effect.
Meaning that Cronkite wasn't going to cover for LBJ any more.
Back during the reign of FDR, nobody but nobody reported that FDR was a paraplegic confined to a wheelchair. He was elected 4 times to the presidency but not one reporter deemed it newsworthy to report the man was disabled, in fact they actively covered that up and made sure all photos of him were staged appropriately.
The internet & WWW have finally given citizen journalists the ability to gather facts and make their own decisions. No wonder the elites are howling.
Meaning that Cronkite wasn't going to cover for LBJ any more.
Back during the reign of FDR, nobody but nobody reported that FDR was a paraplegic confined to a wheelchair. He was elected 4 times to the presidency but not one reporter deemed it newsworthy to report the man was disabled, in fact they actively covered that up and made sure all photos of him were staged appropriately.
The internet & WWW have finally given citizen journalists the ability to gather facts and make their own decisions. No wonder the elites are howling.
Posted by: Boots at January 09, 2017 03:07 PM (EBwPV)
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117 To defeat the enemy, you have to take their weapons and kill them.
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seems like it would be easier to do that in the reverse order
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seems like it would be easier to do that in the reverse order
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at January 09, 2017 03:07 PM (PNcou)
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Yes, the media obviously had too much vulnerability on a charge of 'fake news' for them to make too much mileage off it.
Of course, the censorship they were advancing under the banner will continue apace, they just won't be able to sell it under that brand now.
Of course, the censorship they were advancing under the banner will continue apace, they just won't be able to sell it under that brand now.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at January 09, 2017 03:08 PM (oVJmc)
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btw, isn't it obvious now that the Fake News wants to become an "Only The Headline" news reporter?
Fake News does best when it only gives quick blurbs on the radio and tv in which they condense a story for you to absorb in under twenty words.
For example, the way CBS twisted the Chicago torture story mentioned in post below.
btw, isn't it obvious now that the Fake News wants to become an "Only The Headline" news reporter?
Fake News does best when it only gives quick blurbs on the radio and tv in which they condense a story for you to absorb in under twenty words.
For example, the way CBS twisted the Chicago torture story mentioned in post below.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 09, 2017 03:08 PM (PeVdw)
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@130 The internet & WWW have finally given citizen journalists the ability to gather facts and make their own decisions. No wonder the elites are howling.
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And smart phones with cameras so that they can shoot video of things like Hillary having to be manhandled into her van.
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And smart phones with cameras so that they can shoot video of things like Hillary having to be manhandled into her van.
Posted by: junior at January 09, 2017 03:08 PM (XJqcQ)
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I find it very interesting that the MSM was very quick to declare pizzagate fake news. How did they determine that? Did they do a thorough investigation of the matter and after it was concluded they were confident it was false? Somehow I highly doubt it. Their actions indicate they want it to go away. It would be very interesting to see Journolist emails on the subject.
Posted by: Independent George
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I'm someone that's pretty skeptical of conspiracies, but isn't it funny that the MSM refuses to so much as ask a question about this when clearly these emails were done in some sort of coded language?
All sorts of strange uses of the word "pizza" that clearly do not mean the food pizza.
Can you imagine of emails like this from Karl Rove had come out how many times he would have to answer questions about what was the code words he was using actually meant?
Podesta was into some sick shit, a very creepy guy.
Posted by: Independent George
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I'm someone that's pretty skeptical of conspiracies, but isn't it funny that the MSM refuses to so much as ask a question about this when clearly these emails were done in some sort of coded language?
All sorts of strange uses of the word "pizza" that clearly do not mean the food pizza.
Can you imagine of emails like this from Karl Rove had come out how many times he would have to answer questions about what was the code words he was using actually meant?
Podesta was into some sick shit, a very creepy guy.
Posted by: Maritime at January 09, 2017 03:09 PM (miHsA)
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"For example, the way CBS twisted the Chicago torture story mentioned in post below."
Wait......CBS did what!
Wait......CBS did what!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 09, 2017 03:09 PM (J+eG2)
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131 117 To defeat the enemy, you have to take their weapons and kill them.
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seems like it would be easier to do that in the reverse order
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at January 09, 2017 03:07 PM (PNcou)
Well, you don't get any blood on the weapons when you do it the other way. Gotta think of these things.
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seems like it would be easier to do that in the reverse order
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at January 09, 2017 03:07 PM (PNcou)
Well, you don't get any blood on the weapons when you do it the other way. Gotta think of these things.
Posted by: joncelli, Present at the Autopsy at January 09, 2017 03:09 PM (RD7QR)
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MFM: We don't lie. We go with a version of the truth that we decide you need to see and hear that just so happens to promote our agenda
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 09, 2017 03:09 PM (493sH)
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Really disappointed in Margaret Sullivan. She was so great with Jimmy Stewart in The Shop Around the Corner and The Mortal Storm. When did she turn into a moonbat?
Posted by: LawLurker at January 09, 2017 03:09 PM (Oav92)
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Do like me, and read all the magazines at the Walmart checkout line, for free!
I love the bit in So I Married An Axe Murderer about "the paper." "The paper prints facts. These are facts."
Though that movie was really an excuse for Mike Myers to have fun with his Scottish accent that he used on Saturday Night Live and then repurposed for Shrek and then re-used in everything else he's ever done ever.
I love the bit in So I Married An Axe Murderer about "the paper." "The paper prints facts. These are facts."
Though that movie was really an excuse for Mike Myers to have fun with his Scottish accent that he used on Saturday Night Live and then repurposed for Shrek and then re-used in everything else he's ever done ever.
Posted by: So I Married An Axe Murderer at January 09, 2017 03:09 PM (u0s1P)
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O/T, the left can't do anything right - read on Breitbart that designers are chomping at the bit to dress Melania for the inauguration. So much for the stupid call to boycott dressing her.
Posted by: IC at January 09, 2017 03:10 PM (a0IVu)
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See it's only because Obama is black that we have a problem with his fake birth certificate. It couldn't be that we have a problem with it because it's fake, illegal, and treasonous.
Posted by: Fuq the Media at January 09, 2017 02:49 PM (8Q043)
I didn't buy into the birther stuff, but I never understood why it was "racist" to believe it? What's exactly racist about thinking someone wasn't born in the US?
Posted by: Fuq the Media at January 09, 2017 02:49 PM (8Q043)
I didn't buy into the birther stuff, but I never understood why it was "racist" to believe it? What's exactly racist about thinking someone wasn't born in the US?
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at January 09, 2017 03:11 PM (ZM2xo)
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>>>82
We had some Macedonian family friends back when I was in high school. She was older-woman-with-good-genes hot (and an excellent cook); he was some sort of commodities market savant. Wouldn't have expected people who basically enacted an escape from the Soviet-controlled Balkans to end up supporting leftists here, but yeah, we kind of drifted apart.
Posted by: hogmartin at January 09, 2017 02:53 PM (8nWyX)
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I have a friend who escaped from USSR Azerbaijan.
Also smoking hot and a leftist.
Seems like that place would have been a glorious paradise full of hot chicks, if it wasn't for all the murder and communism.
We had some Macedonian family friends back when I was in high school. She was older-woman-with-good-genes hot (and an excellent cook); he was some sort of commodities market savant. Wouldn't have expected people who basically enacted an escape from the Soviet-controlled Balkans to end up supporting leftists here, but yeah, we kind of drifted apart.
Posted by: hogmartin at January 09, 2017 02:53 PM (8nWyX)
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I have a friend who escaped from USSR Azerbaijan.
Also smoking hot and a leftist.
Seems like that place would have been a glorious paradise full of hot chicks, if it wasn't for all the murder and communism.
Posted by: SchlongStrong at January 09, 2017 03:11 PM (48M9E)
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Wow, that was a bizarre sock fail.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 09, 2017 03:11 PM (u0s1P)
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No, when I say "fake news" I also mean deceptive news articles intended to mislead the public
Ace, you're leaving out the PRIMARY FORM of "fake news":
Liberal newspapers intentionally not reporting on stories that make leftism look bad.
This has become so de rigueur and so embedded that they don't even know they are doing it anymore.
Obama hands a couple billions taxpayer dollars to his crony buddies in Solyndra for a doomed-to-fail solar power company, the company implodes and takes the billions with it? NOT REPORTED.
The fact that the military dictatorship in Burma was for decades actually a Marxist-Leninist communist coup? NEVER REPORTED.
99% of the stuff that has appeared on right-of-center blogs for the last 17 years? NOT REPORTED.
That, my friend, is the real fake news.
The WaPo and the NYT can published factual and accurate stories all day long, but it all still counts as "fake news" because these "accurate" stories only exist to cover up and distract the public from the actual important events of the day.
Fake news can consist entirely of truths.
Irrelevant truths, that is.
Ace, you're leaving out the PRIMARY FORM of "fake news":
Liberal newspapers intentionally not reporting on stories that make leftism look bad.
This has become so de rigueur and so embedded that they don't even know they are doing it anymore.
Obama hands a couple billions taxpayer dollars to his crony buddies in Solyndra for a doomed-to-fail solar power company, the company implodes and takes the billions with it? NOT REPORTED.
The fact that the military dictatorship in Burma was for decades actually a Marxist-Leninist communist coup? NEVER REPORTED.
99% of the stuff that has appeared on right-of-center blogs for the last 17 years? NOT REPORTED.
That, my friend, is the real fake news.
The WaPo and the NYT can published factual and accurate stories all day long, but it all still counts as "fake news" because these "accurate" stories only exist to cover up and distract the public from the actual important events of the day.
Fake news can consist entirely of truths.
Irrelevant truths, that is.
Posted by: zombie at January 09, 2017 03:11 PM (jBuUi)
Posted by: Pepe at January 09, 2017 03:11 PM (tPC7s)
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Meanwhile, in 2003, Meryl Streep gives unapologetic child rapist Roman Polanski a standing ovation, demonstrating her clear commitment to the weak and oppressed.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 03:11 PM (39g3+)
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just heard tickets to Pres. Obama's "goodbye again" speech tomorrow night in Chicago are scalping for $5000.
Posted by: booknlass
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What a deal. That's only 50 cents for every "I" and "me". (We're not counting the "uh's" and "er's".
Posted by: booknlass
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What a deal. That's only 50 cents for every "I" and "me". (We're not counting the "uh's" and "er's".
Posted by: wth at January 09, 2017 03:11 PM (HgMAr)
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Though that movie was really an excuse for Mike Myers to have fun with his Scottish accent that he used on Saturday Night Live and then repurposed for Shrek and then re-used in everything else he's ever done ever.
"Git in mah belly!"
"Git in mah belly!"
Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2017 03:11 PM (dSqvH)
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So the FL Airport shooting sure has dropped off the radar.... I wonder why?
Posted by: deplorable donna at January 09, 2017 03:11 PM (O2RFr)
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Fake News was the crisis coined when they thought Bitchface had it wrapped up and they were going to pass a "Fairness Doctrine" for the internet.
Posted by: Mega at January 09, 2017 03:12 PM (Eeeim)
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112 Hey, Chi! Beckett had half an ounce of pedialyte an hour ago and has kept it down. In another 2 hours, he gets 1 Oz of formula. If he keeps that down, he goes to 2 oz every three hrs. If he barfs, start over with half oz of pedialyte. Just handed him over to Mrs IMG.
Posted by: Iron_Mike_Golf
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I just stepped in here, scroll to bottom to read back, and ths is the first comment I see... serendipitous.
That's great news, Mike! So glad everything is looking rosy.
Keep it up, little Beckett.
Posted by: Iron_Mike_Golf
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I just stepped in here, scroll to bottom to read back, and ths is the first comment I see... serendipitous.
That's great news, Mike! So glad everything is looking rosy.
Keep it up, little Beckett.
Posted by: Chi at January 09, 2017 03:12 PM (6KU1U)
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The Traytable-Zimmerman story was sheer agit-prop, with the facts twisted and the images manipulated beyond decency.
Fake news --- because, whatever else one might think of the protagonists, it had NOTHING to do with race. NOTHING.
Fake news --- because, whatever else one might think of the protagonists, it had NOTHING to do with race. NOTHING.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 09, 2017 03:12 PM (Nox3c)
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Polling itself is a kind of fake news. Nothing has actually 'happened' but you can use it to affect what is going to happen.
And if you don't like the poll results, they don't need to be reported.
And if you don't like the poll results, they don't need to be reported.
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at January 09, 2017 03:12 PM (PNcou)
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Media conglomerates are big businesses with lots of business in front of the government. They have been exposed by Podesta email hacks and their failure to stop Trump and are desperately seeking to maintain their control of the commanding heights of information creation and dissemination. They are trying to reestablish their authority by destroying Trump. Fake News, the Russian hack, Comey, etc., are all tropes they are creating to undermine Trump and excuse their own massive failure in reporting the election.
Posted by: IanDeal at January 09, 2017 03:12 PM (teGBX)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? - Takin' My Time on my Ride at January 09, 2017 03:12 PM (ul9CR)
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>>So the FL Airport shooting sure has dropped off the radar.... I wonder why?
Because Meryl Streep had stuff to say.
Because Meryl Streep had stuff to say.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 09, 2017 03:13 PM (/tuJf)
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147 Meanwhile, in 2003, Meryl Streep gives unapologetic child rapist Roman Polanski a standing ovation, demonstrating her clear commitment to the weak and oppressed.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 03:11 PM (39g3+)
Hey now, Polanski had to leave the country to get 13-year-old nookie. That's oppressive!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 03:11 PM (39g3+)
Hey now, Polanski had to leave the country to get 13-year-old nookie. That's oppressive!
Posted by: joncelli, Present at the Autopsy at January 09, 2017 03:13 PM (RD7QR)
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Triumph the Insult Dog calls woman-speak "vag-splaining."
Also knowns as blather, jibberish, yada yada yada
Also knowns as blather, jibberish, yada yada yada
Posted by: FredB at January 09, 2017 03:13 PM (c5sfq)
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@142
And because the "birth certificate" they vomited forth was a farce.
You can go straight to White House dot gov download the BC load it up in Adobe Illustrator and see all of the composited layers.
THEY DIDN'T EVEN HIDE THE FACT THAT IT WAS A FRAUD!
And because the "birth certificate" they vomited forth was a farce.
You can go straight to White House dot gov download the BC load it up in Adobe Illustrator and see all of the composited layers.
THEY DIDN'T EVEN HIDE THE FACT THAT IT WAS A FRAUD!
Posted by: Kreplach at January 09, 2017 03:13 PM (Gh/jd)
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I didn't buy into the birther stuff, but I never understood why it was "racist" to believe it? What's exactly racist about thinking someone wasn't born in the US?
There's enough *something* there, I think. From the birth announcements, to his youthful travels and schooling... It's like Ancient Aliens. Mayyybe *one* of those crazy theories is true-- they can't all be-- but even one would be interesting.
There's enough *something* there, I think. From the birth announcements, to his youthful travels and schooling... It's like Ancient Aliens. Mayyybe *one* of those crazy theories is true-- they can't all be-- but even one would be interesting.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 09, 2017 03:13 PM (u0s1P)
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150 So the FL Airport shooting sure has dropped off the radar.... I wonder why?
Posted by: deplorable donna at January 09, 2017 03:11 PM (O2RFr)
The perp suffered from Insufficient Whiteness.
Posted by: deplorable donna at January 09, 2017 03:11 PM (O2RFr)
The perp suffered from Insufficient Whiteness.
Posted by: joncelli, Present at the Autopsy at January 09, 2017 03:13 PM (RD7QR)
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82 I tagged an Albanian chick back in college. She said the Macedonians were a bunch of punks.
Posted by: SchlongStrong at January 09, 2017 02:43 PM (48M9E)
She wouldn't say that to my face!
Posted by: SchlongStrong at January 09, 2017 02:43 PM (48M9E)
She wouldn't say that to my face!
Posted by: Alexander the Great at January 09, 2017 03:14 PM (ZM2xo)
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read on Breitbart that designers are chomping at the bit to dress Melania for the inauguration
Yeah, dressing a hot ex model for the inaguration who sells out any outfit she appears in, that's something every designer is desperate to avoid.
Yeah, dressing a hot ex model for the inaguration who sells out any outfit she appears in, that's something every designer is desperate to avoid.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 03:14 PM (39g3+)
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150 So the FL Airport shooting sure has dropped off the radar.... I wonder why?
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Because it served its purpose of taking the Facebook Four out of the headlines.
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Because it served its purpose of taking the Facebook Four out of the headlines.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 09, 2017 03:14 PM (4AVeu)
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" Hillary Clinton is in great health was fake news. "
oh hayl yes it was- got her in the 2017 Dead Pool, with extra prop bet on date (April 17) and place (rooftop bar).
oh hayl yes it was- got her in the 2017 Dead Pool, with extra prop bet on date (April 17) and place (rooftop bar).
Posted by: Twin Cities Daydrunk - no mo snow, dangit at January 09, 2017 03:14 PM (kVX3W)
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I have a friend who escaped from USSR Azerbaijan.
Also smoking hot and a leftist.
Seems like that place would have been a glorious paradise full of hot chicks, if it wasn't for all the murder and communism.
Posted by: SchlongStrong at January 09, 2017 03:11 PM (48M9E)
Was she ethnic Russian? Actual ethnic Azeris tend to be of the bundled up Muslim type.
I have a friend who escaped from USSR Azerbaijan.
Also smoking hot and a leftist.
Seems like that place would have been a glorious paradise full of hot chicks, if it wasn't for all the murder and communism.
Posted by: SchlongStrong at January 09, 2017 03:11 PM (48M9E)
Was she ethnic Russian? Actual ethnic Azeris tend to be of the bundled up Muslim type.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 09, 2017 03:14 PM (ujg0T)
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>>>145 No, when I say "fake news" I also mean deceptive news articles intended to mislead the public
Ace, you're leaving out the PRIMARY FORM of "fake news":
Liberal newspapers intentionally not reporting on stories that make leftism look bad.
This has become so de rigueur and so embedded that they don't even know they are doing it anymore.
Obama hands a couple billions taxpayer dollars to his crony buddies in Solyndra for a doomed-to-fail solar power company, the company implodes and takes the billions with it? NOT REPORTED.
The fact that the military dictatorship in Burma was for decades actually a Marxist-Leninist communist coup? NEVER REPORTED.
99% of the stuff that has appeared on right-of-center blogs for the last 17 years? NOT REPORTED.
That, my friend, is the real fake news.
The WaPo and the NYT can published factual and accurate stories all day long, but it all still counts as "fake news" because these "accurate" stories only exist to cover up and distract the public from the actual important events of the day.
Fake news can consist entirely of truths.
Irrelevant truths, that is.
Posted by: zombie at January 09, 2017 03:11 PM (jBuUi)
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Like the Iron Curtain MFM Embargo around the fact that Shaun King IS Talcum X
Ace, you're leaving out the PRIMARY FORM of "fake news":
Liberal newspapers intentionally not reporting on stories that make leftism look bad.
This has become so de rigueur and so embedded that they don't even know they are doing it anymore.
Obama hands a couple billions taxpayer dollars to his crony buddies in Solyndra for a doomed-to-fail solar power company, the company implodes and takes the billions with it? NOT REPORTED.
The fact that the military dictatorship in Burma was for decades actually a Marxist-Leninist communist coup? NEVER REPORTED.
99% of the stuff that has appeared on right-of-center blogs for the last 17 years? NOT REPORTED.
That, my friend, is the real fake news.
The WaPo and the NYT can published factual and accurate stories all day long, but it all still counts as "fake news" because these "accurate" stories only exist to cover up and distract the public from the actual important events of the day.
Fake news can consist entirely of truths.
Irrelevant truths, that is.
Posted by: zombie at January 09, 2017 03:11 PM (jBuUi)
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Like the Iron Curtain MFM Embargo around the fact that Shaun King IS Talcum X
Posted by: SchlongStrong at January 09, 2017 03:14 PM (48M9E)
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142 I didn't buy into the birther stuff, but I never understood why it was "racist" to believe it? What's exactly racist about thinking someone wasn't born in the US?
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at January 09, 2017 03:11 PM (ZM2xo)
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You know what sounds impossible? A young, politically ambitious man, goes to Hawaii and manages to get a forged birth certificate placed in the records.
You know what sounds possible? The US government staging 9/11.
(For the record, I believe neither of these things.)
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at January 09, 2017 03:11 PM (ZM2xo)
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You know what sounds impossible? A young, politically ambitious man, goes to Hawaii and manages to get a forged birth certificate placed in the records.
You know what sounds possible? The US government staging 9/11.
(For the record, I believe neither of these things.)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 03:15 PM (zdM/+)
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Posted by: hogmartin at January 09, 2017 02:53 PM (8nWyX)
I know a Macedonian family. The daughter is very pretty. The parents are really hard workers. I'm not sure if they are liberals but the dad wants us to grow peppers for him and he talks about all organic so I wonder. I like him, we trade tomato seeds. The daughter is probably in her 30's or 40's.
The parents have very pronounced accents.
I know a Macedonian family. The daughter is very pretty. The parents are really hard workers. I'm not sure if they are liberals but the dad wants us to grow peppers for him and he talks about all organic so I wonder. I like him, we trade tomato seeds. The daughter is probably in her 30's or 40's.
The parents have very pronounced accents.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 09, 2017 03:15 PM (IgBFP)
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Actually its been fake news on almost every BLM rampage
Posted by: Skip at January 09, 2017 03:15 PM (yx0Ld)
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OT -
You know that old joke about a job asking for contradictory work requirements?
I just applied for a job that "requires" two years of Windows 10 experience. Given that Windows 10 came out about 17 months ago, that would be quite the accomplishment.
You know that old joke about a job asking for contradictory work requirements?
I just applied for a job that "requires" two years of Windows 10 experience. Given that Windows 10 came out about 17 months ago, that would be quite the accomplishment.
Posted by: junior at January 09, 2017 03:15 PM (XJqcQ)
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There's enough *something* there, I think.
Yeah, I figure his name isn't really Barack Hussein Obama, or something like that. Nothing major, just a slight embarrassment that the One cannot bear to have public.
Yeah, I figure his name isn't really Barack Hussein Obama, or something like that. Nothing major, just a slight embarrassment that the One cannot bear to have public.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 03:15 PM (39g3+)
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142 I didn't buy into the birther stuff, but I never understood why it was "racist" to believe it? What's exactly racist about thinking someone wasn't born in the US?
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at January 09, 2017 03:11 PM (ZM2xo)
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Especially since Obama himself had told his literary agent back in the day that he was born in Kenya, which was why the publishers' promo material for at least his first book identified him as being born in Kenya.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at January 09, 2017 03:11 PM (ZM2xo)
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Especially since Obama himself had told his literary agent back in the day that he was born in Kenya, which was why the publishers' promo material for at least his first book identified him as being born in Kenya.
Posted by: Boots at January 09, 2017 03:15 PM (EBwPV)
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Don't worry,our crack FBI is on the airport shooter case.
Posted by: steevy at January 09, 2017 03:15 PM (r/0kC)
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166 " Hillary Clinton is in great health was fake news. "
oh hayl yes it was- got her in the 2017 Dead Pool, with extra prop bet on date (April 17) and place (rooftop bar).
Posted by: Twin Cities Daydrunk - no mo snow, dangit at January 09, 2017 03:14 PM (kVX3W)
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If Hillary dies this year, will we get panaceas about how we could have had a white male as president in the form of Tim Kaine?
oh hayl yes it was- got her in the 2017 Dead Pool, with extra prop bet on date (April 17) and place (rooftop bar).
Posted by: Twin Cities Daydrunk - no mo snow, dangit at January 09, 2017 03:14 PM (kVX3W)
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If Hillary dies this year, will we get panaceas about how we could have had a white male as president in the form of Tim Kaine?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 03:16 PM (zdM/+)
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Yeah, dressing a hot ex model for the inaguration who sells out any outfit she appears in, that's something every designer is desperate to avoid.
Well I still remember Moooochs Gown from the first Figuration....It looked like a bunch of wadded up kleenex stuck to it..... And that's being kind....
Well I still remember Moooochs Gown from the first Figuration....It looked like a bunch of wadded up kleenex stuck to it..... And that's being kind....
Posted by: deplorable donna at January 09, 2017 03:16 PM (O2RFr)
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Actually its been fake news on almost every BLM rampage
Posted by: Skip at January 09, 2017 03:15 PM (yx0Ld)
Why it's almost like the MFM is stoking them into action
Posted by: Skip at January 09, 2017 03:15 PM (yx0Ld)
Why it's almost like the MFM is stoking them into action
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 09, 2017 03:16 PM (493sH)
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Faux News!
Ring a bell? They've been trying to equate so called right wing news as fake for years. It got expanded to any blog or source with a not-left-enough tilt, but unlike the big corporate Fox, the other sites were going to put up with exactly 0% of that bullshit.
Blowback successful, so now they want to retire the term.
I say it is time to shove it up their asses so far they can taste it.
Ring a bell? They've been trying to equate so called right wing news as fake for years. It got expanded to any blog or source with a not-left-enough tilt, but unlike the big corporate Fox, the other sites were going to put up with exactly 0% of that bullshit.
Blowback successful, so now they want to retire the term.
I say it is time to shove it up their asses so far they can taste it.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 09, 2017 03:16 PM (kKHcp)
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Fakestream Media has been churning out Fake News for decades. With the innerwebs they are caught quickly and the word spreads (see Nat'l Laughingstock article on Virginia power grid "hack" by Ruskies). Now, that the meme has rightfully been turned against them, this scrunt whines. Pineapple. Sideways. Repeatedly.
Posted by: oddnot enjoying #winning still with schadenboner to prove it at January 09, 2017 03:16 PM (g1MTt)
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164 read on Breitbart that designers are chomping at the bit to dress Melania for the inauguration
Yeah, dressing a hot ex model for the inaguration who sells out any outfit she appears in, that's something every designer is desperate to avoid.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 03:14 PM (39g3+)
Dressing...hot model...BRB.
Yeah, dressing a hot ex model for the inaguration who sells out any outfit she appears in, that's something every designer is desperate to avoid.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 03:14 PM (39g3+)
Dressing...hot model...BRB.
Posted by: joncelli, Present at the Autopsy at January 09, 2017 03:16 PM (RD7QR)
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What comes next is horrifying and heartbreaking.
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Infested With Russians? Use Commie-B-Gon! Available at the Outrage Outlet at January 09, 2017 03:16 PM (hLRSq)
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>>>>>Fake News does best when it only gives quick blurbs on the radio and tv in which they condense a story for you to absorb in under twenty words.
Exactly. And most people won't read much more than that.
Exactly. And most people won't read much more than that.
Posted by: booknlass at January 09, 2017 03:16 PM (hNFnI)
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175 Don't worry,our crack FBI is on the airport shooter case.
Posted by: steevy at January 09, 2017 03:15 PM (r/0kC)
Is it the FBI w/o James Comey overseeing? Or with? Because I think they do good work when left alone to do their work.
Posted by: steevy at January 09, 2017 03:15 PM (r/0kC)
Is it the FBI w/o James Comey overseeing? Or with? Because I think they do good work when left alone to do their work.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 09, 2017 03:17 PM (8hICw)
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I wish Trump wouldn't fight criticism and slights by calling Streep--or the Hamilton play--over -rated. I'm all for him calling Streep out for her selective outrage and not mentioning the 4 blacks who attacked a disabled white kid, but when he adds on that she "is over-rated", he just looks small.
Posted by: JoeF. at January 09, 2017 03:17 PM (gJT5J)
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"What a deal. That's only 50 cents for every "I" and "me". (We're not counting the "uh's" and "er's"."
And don't forget the if fif fif fif fif fifs...
The youtube video of obama's "if fif fif fif fif" song is high larious.
And don't forget the if fif fif fif fif fifs...
The youtube video of obama's "if fif fif fif fif" song is high larious.
Posted by: Twin Cities Daydrunk - no mo snow, dangit at January 09, 2017 03:17 PM (kVX3W)
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>>>163 82 I tagged an Albanian chick back in college. She said the Macedonians were a bunch of punks.
Posted by: SchlongStrong at January 09, 2017 02:43 PM (48M9E)
She wouldn't say that to my face!
Posted by: Alexander the Great at January 09, 2017 03:14 PM (ZM2xo)
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Because you were more interested in Hephaestion than hawt commies
Posted by: SchlongStrong at January 09, 2017 02:43 PM (48M9E)
She wouldn't say that to my face!
Posted by: Alexander the Great at January 09, 2017 03:14 PM (ZM2xo)
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Because you were more interested in Hephaestion than hawt commies
Posted by: SchlongStrong at January 09, 2017 03:17 PM (48M9E)
188
Wait. . . so I really wasn't punched in the dick by Trump?
Posted by: A Baby at January 09, 2017 03:17 PM (4AVeu)
189
Figuration= Inauguration ... stupid auto- correct....
Posted by: deplorable donna at January 09, 2017 03:17 PM (O2RFr)
190
I didn't buy into the birther stuff, but I never understood why it was "racist" to believe it? What's exactly racist about thinking someone wasn't born in the US?
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time)
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I agree that the "racist" angle of this was never pushed back on effectively, every Republican (including eventually Trump) just wanted to drop it so the MSM would make birther=racist charge and never get questioned on it.
They knew they could beat this dead horse and no one would call them on it, so they did.
It was an issue also for Barry Goldwater, yet no one ever said it was racist back then.
For the record, something was clearly fishy with Obama and where he was born or what he told people. His own autobiography said he was born in Kenya.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time)
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I agree that the "racist" angle of this was never pushed back on effectively, every Republican (including eventually Trump) just wanted to drop it so the MSM would make birther=racist charge and never get questioned on it.
They knew they could beat this dead horse and no one would call them on it, so they did.
It was an issue also for Barry Goldwater, yet no one ever said it was racist back then.
For the record, something was clearly fishy with Obama and where he was born or what he told people. His own autobiography said he was born in Kenya.
Posted by: Maritime at January 09, 2017 03:17 PM (miHsA)
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oh hayl yes it was- got her in the 2017 Dead Pool, with extra prop bet on date (April 17) and place (rooftop bar).
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That would be awesome since it's my birthday!
oh hayl yes it was- got her in the 2017 Dead Pool, with extra prop bet on date (April 17) and place (rooftop bar).
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That would be awesome since it's my birthday!
Posted by: Kudzu King at January 09, 2017 03:18 PM (HSmrB)
Posted by: eleven at January 09, 2017 03:18 PM (qUNWi)
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@166 oh hayl yes it was- got her in the 2017 Dead Pool
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Wait... what!?
No WAY you could offer me enough chimichangas to allow that woman anywhere near my films!
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Wait... what!?
No WAY you could offer me enough chimichangas to allow that woman anywhere near my films!
Posted by: Deadpool at January 09, 2017 03:18 PM (XJqcQ)
194
In a move reminiscent of what the New York Times has recently done, The Boston Gaylobe is downsizing and reinventing itself...
http://preview.tinyurl.com/gp45894
http://preview.tinyurl.com/gp45894
Posted by: Zettai R'lyeh at January 09, 2017 03:18 PM (kP16F)
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read on Breitbart that designers are chomping at the bit to dress Melania for the inauguration
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Out with the tent makers, in with the designers.
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Out with the tent makers, in with the designers.
Posted by: wth at January 09, 2017 03:19 PM (HgMAr)
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190 It was an issue also for Barry Goldwater, yet no one ever said it was racist back then.
Posted by: Maritime at January 09, 2017 03:17 PM (miHsA)
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He was such a polite man with an integrated business. Probably just latent racism.
Posted by: Maritime at January 09, 2017 03:17 PM (miHsA)
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He was such a polite man with an integrated business. Probably just latent racism.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 03:19 PM (zdM/+)
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177, Well I still remember Moooochs Gown from the first
Figuration....It looked like a bunch of wadded up kleenex stuck to
it..... And that's being kind....
Posted by: deplorable donna at January 09, 2017 03:16 PM (O2RFr)
Donna, I googled her 2008 inauguration dress and yeah, whoever dressed her in that white monstrosity should be hounded out of business. She has no fashion sense herself..,.
Figuration....It looked like a bunch of wadded up kleenex stuck to
it..... And that's being kind....
Posted by: deplorable donna at January 09, 2017 03:16 PM (O2RFr)
Donna, I googled her 2008 inauguration dress and yeah, whoever dressed her in that white monstrosity should be hounded out of business. She has no fashion sense herself..,.
Posted by: IC at January 09, 2017 03:19 PM (a0IVu)
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194 In a move reminiscent of what the New York Times has recently done, The Boston Gaylobe is downsizing and reinventing itself...
http://preview.tinyurl.com/gp45894
Posted by: Zettai R'lyeh at January 09, 2017 03:18 PM (kP16F)
Reinventing itself? So, they're going to be a toaster now? Or a hat?
http://preview.tinyurl.com/gp45894
Posted by: Zettai R'lyeh at January 09, 2017 03:18 PM (kP16F)
Reinventing itself? So, they're going to be a toaster now? Or a hat?
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 09, 2017 03:19 PM (8hICw)
199
You know what sounds impossible? A young, politically ambitious man, goes to Hawaii and manages to get a forged birth certificate placed in the records.
How about a guy claiming to be foreign-born when selling a book he wrote, then changes his story when running for office?
Again, I don't know. But there's some weirdness. Maybe the real birth certificate lists him as Muslim, and that's Unhelpful. Maybe there's nothing at all. But the way they freak out about it... You generally only take flak when you're close to a target.
(The capper here, of course, is that once he was inaugurated-- and maybe before-- it ceased to actually matter, except as historical trivia.)
How about a guy claiming to be foreign-born when selling a book he wrote, then changes his story when running for office?
Again, I don't know. But there's some weirdness. Maybe the real birth certificate lists him as Muslim, and that's Unhelpful. Maybe there's nothing at all. But the way they freak out about it... You generally only take flak when you're close to a target.
(The capper here, of course, is that once he was inaugurated-- and maybe before-- it ceased to actually matter, except as historical trivia.)
Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 09, 2017 03:19 PM (u0s1P)
Posted by: Pepe at January 09, 2017 03:19 PM (tPC7s)
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For the record, something was clearly fishy with Obama and where he was born or what he told people. His own autobiography said he was born in Kenya.
His own grandmother said she was present at his birth. In Kenya.
His own grandmother said she was present at his birth. In Kenya.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2017 03:19 PM (dSqvH)
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185 I wish Trump wouldn't fight criticism and slights by calling Streep--or the Hamilton play--over -rated. I'm all for him calling Streep out for her selective outrage and not mentioning the 4 blacks who attacked a disabled white kid, but when he adds on that she "is over-rated", he just looks small.
Posted by: JoeF. at January 09, 2017 03:17 PM (gJT5J)
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What I really wish Trump would do is point out Streep applauding the child rapist Roman Polanski. Then watch the left and the MSM twist themselves in knots to defend it. Keep them on defense.
Posted by: JoeF. at January 09, 2017 03:17 PM (gJT5J)
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What I really wish Trump would do is point out Streep applauding the child rapist Roman Polanski. Then watch the left and the MSM twist themselves in knots to defend it. Keep them on defense.
Posted by: Independent George at January 09, 2017 03:20 PM (BDZWU)
203
Elizabeth Warren came out of her "election recount" 2 million dollars richer. See that reported anywhere?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 03:20 PM (39g3+)
204
5 For the record, has anyone seen any concrete examples of what liberals/MSM/DNC were talking about when they say "fake news"?
I heard it was nonsense like a clickbait info ad on Facebook?
Do they have any evidence this really swayed any segment of the population?
I'm honestly trying to understand what exactly they were pointing out.
Posted by: Maritime
Sorry to be so slow here....I have a theory it's the liberals complaining about people like me posting links to Breitbart on Facebook, for instance, detailing the Wikileaked emails, etc, because the Establishment 4th Estate wouldn't do it. liberal friends STILL complain about conservative FB posts. they don't want to hear it, and the more intelligent ones "question the source." they believe NPR but call Breitbart alt-right.
I heard it was nonsense like a clickbait info ad on Facebook?
Do they have any evidence this really swayed any segment of the population?
I'm honestly trying to understand what exactly they were pointing out.
Posted by: Maritime
Sorry to be so slow here....I have a theory it's the liberals complaining about people like me posting links to Breitbart on Facebook, for instance, detailing the Wikileaked emails, etc, because the Establishment 4th Estate wouldn't do it. liberal friends STILL complain about conservative FB posts. they don't want to hear it, and the more intelligent ones "question the source." they believe NPR but call Breitbart alt-right.
Posted by: booknlass at January 09, 2017 03:20 PM (hNFnI)
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at January 09, 2017 03:20 PM (PNcou)
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199 How about a guy claiming to be foreign-born when selling a book he wrote, then changes his story when running for office?
Again, I don't know. But there's some weirdness. Maybe the real birth certificate lists him as Muslim, and that's Unhelpful. Maybe there's nothing at all. But the way they freak out about it... You generally only take flak when you're close to a target.
(The capper here, of course, is that once he was inaugurated-- and maybe before-- it ceased to actually matter, except as historical trivia.)
Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 09, 2017 03:19 PM (u0s1P)
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I have no real opinion on any specific charges. I was mostly trying to make fun of people who think it's absolutely impossible that Obama could be from anywhere but Hawaii, who also think that Bush probably had something to do with 9/11, like...orchestrated the whole thing as a red flag operation to gain more control of the US government.
Again, I don't know. But there's some weirdness. Maybe the real birth certificate lists him as Muslim, and that's Unhelpful. Maybe there's nothing at all. But the way they freak out about it... You generally only take flak when you're close to a target.
(The capper here, of course, is that once he was inaugurated-- and maybe before-- it ceased to actually matter, except as historical trivia.)
Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 09, 2017 03:19 PM (u0s1P)
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I have no real opinion on any specific charges. I was mostly trying to make fun of people who think it's absolutely impossible that Obama could be from anywhere but Hawaii, who also think that Bush probably had something to do with 9/11, like...orchestrated the whole thing as a red flag operation to gain more control of the US government.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 03:21 PM (zdM/+)
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203 Elizabeth Warren came out of her "election recount" 2 million dollars richer. See that reported anywhere?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 03:20 PM (39g3+)
Between her and Jill Stein, I've got to get myself into the election recount business.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 03:20 PM (39g3+)
Between her and Jill Stein, I've got to get myself into the election recount business.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 09, 2017 03:21 PM (8hICw)
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>>>167
Was she ethnic Russian? Actual ethnic Azeris tend to be of the bundled up Muslim type.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 09, 2017 03:14 PM (ujg0T)
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Neither, Ashkenazi Jewish.
Was she ethnic Russian? Actual ethnic Azeris tend to be of the bundled up Muslim type.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 09, 2017 03:14 PM (ujg0T)
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Neither, Ashkenazi Jewish.
Posted by: SchlongStrong at January 09, 2017 03:21 PM (48M9E)
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For the record, something was clearly fishy with Obama and where he was born or what he told people. His own autobiography said he was born in Kenya.
His own grandmother said she was present at his birth. In Kenya.
Posted by: rickb223
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And then there was the time Michelle Obama "accidentally" said Obama was born in Kenya during a speech.
I can't tell you how many times my wife mixed up that I was born in Africa.
His own grandmother said she was present at his birth. In Kenya.
Posted by: rickb223
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And then there was the time Michelle Obama "accidentally" said Obama was born in Kenya during a speech.
I can't tell you how many times my wife mixed up that I was born in Africa.
Posted by: Maritime at January 09, 2017 03:21 PM (miHsA)
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Yeah, I figure his name isn't really Barack Hussein Obama, or something like that. Nothing major, just a slight embarrassment that the One cannot bear to have public.
"Barry Soetero"
"Barry Soetero"
Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 09, 2017 03:21 PM (u0s1P)
211
Meryl Streep is overrated.That's an opinion ad I share it.I suspect Hamilton is also overrated but have no desire to see it and confirm.
Posted by: steevy at January 09, 2017 03:21 PM (r/0kC)
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I wish I could find the tweet from a few months back, in which some idiot journalist or pundit (either/or, they're basically the same) deigned to educate his followers about what was and wasn't fake news. I can't remember the exact wording, but essentially it was:
"Sloppy editing isn't fake news. Bad reporting isn't fake news. Fake news is written w/ the explicit intent to mislead the audience."
To which I responded that, under these guidelines the UVA rape hoax wasn't "fake news," because that was just a mix of bad reporting (no follow-up with witnesses, no attempt to contact the accused) and sloppy editing (no one said, "Until you have these things, we can't in good faith publish this story"). But I think just about anybody with a brain in their head would recognize that:
A) Yes, in fact, the UVA rape hoax WAS fake news, in that it was literally based on an event that NEVER HAPPENED, and
B) The bad reporting and sloppy editing were DELIBERATE on the part of Rolling Stone, because the story was what they WANTED to be real, and pursuing any actual investigation would have risked damaging their precious confirmation bias.
"Sloppy editing isn't fake news. Bad reporting isn't fake news. Fake news is written w/ the explicit intent to mislead the audience."
To which I responded that, under these guidelines the UVA rape hoax wasn't "fake news," because that was just a mix of bad reporting (no follow-up with witnesses, no attempt to contact the accused) and sloppy editing (no one said, "Until you have these things, we can't in good faith publish this story"). But I think just about anybody with a brain in their head would recognize that:
A) Yes, in fact, the UVA rape hoax WAS fake news, in that it was literally based on an event that NEVER HAPPENED, and
B) The bad reporting and sloppy editing were DELIBERATE on the part of Rolling Stone, because the story was what they WANTED to be real, and pursuing any actual investigation would have risked damaging their precious confirmation bias.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at January 09, 2017 03:22 PM (4df7R)
213
"I didn't buy into the birther stuff, but I never understood why it was "racist" to believe it? What's exactly racist about thinking someone wasn't born in the US?"
Well, it is fake. That's been proven by Sheriff Joe. So it doesn't matter whether you buy into it or not. Watch his last press conference and take your head out of the sand. Reasons for a fake birth certificate are open to interpretation at this point, but it is fake.
And the fact the you can tell by the direct correlation of hysterical - "you're a racist" - to the common sense provable facts that it is fake.
They jump on true stories with overwhelming ferocity to shut them down. And they succeeded with their 'birther' name calling with an assist from conservatives like Michelle Malkin.
Just wait, after Jan. 20, a whole lot of truths are going to come pouring out.
And birthers are going to be getting a lot of apologies coming their way.
Well, it is fake. That's been proven by Sheriff Joe. So it doesn't matter whether you buy into it or not. Watch his last press conference and take your head out of the sand. Reasons for a fake birth certificate are open to interpretation at this point, but it is fake.
And the fact the you can tell by the direct correlation of hysterical - "you're a racist" - to the common sense provable facts that it is fake.
They jump on true stories with overwhelming ferocity to shut them down. And they succeeded with their 'birther' name calling with an assist from conservatives like Michelle Malkin.
Just wait, after Jan. 20, a whole lot of truths are going to come pouring out.
And birthers are going to be getting a lot of apologies coming their way.
Posted by: Fuq the Media at January 09, 2017 03:22 PM (8Q043)
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@143
I have a friend who escaped from USSR Azerbaijan.
Also smoking hot and a leftist.
Seems like that place would have been a glorious paradise full of hot chicks, if it wasn't for all the murder and communism.
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I'm guessing that most people who are motivated enough to try and escape from a murderous Hellhole are also motivated enough to try and make themselves look nice.
I have a friend who escaped from USSR Azerbaijan.
Also smoking hot and a leftist.
Seems like that place would have been a glorious paradise full of hot chicks, if it wasn't for all the murder and communism.
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I'm guessing that most people who are motivated enough to try and escape from a murderous Hellhole are also motivated enough to try and make themselves look nice.
Posted by: junior at January 09, 2017 03:22 PM (XJqcQ)
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Even the parakeet thinks they're beneath him.
Posted by: DaveA at January 09, 2017 03:22 PM (8J/Te)
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at January 09, 2017 03:22 PM (PNcou)
217
For the record, something was clearly fishy with Obama and where he was born or what he told people. His own autobiography said he was born in Kenya.
Posted by: Maritime at January 09, 2017 03:17 PM (miHsA)
...............
I pointed that out to a family member who actually bought that garbage book (but never read it) and drew one of those classic Stupid Liberal Blank Stares.
Posted by: Maritime at January 09, 2017 03:17 PM (miHsA)
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I pointed that out to a family member who actually bought that garbage book (but never read it) and drew one of those classic Stupid Liberal Blank Stares.
Posted by: wth at January 09, 2017 03:22 PM (HgMAr)
Posted by: eleven at January 09, 2017 03:22 PM (qUNWi)
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(The capper here, of course, is that once he was inaugurated-- and maybe before-- it ceased to actually matter, except as historical trivia.)
Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 09, 2017 03:19 PM (u0s1P)
If he was disqualified due to location of birth, nothing would change that.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 09, 2017 03:19 PM (u0s1P)
If he was disqualified due to location of birth, nothing would change that.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2017 03:23 PM (dSqvH)
220
145---Fake news can consist entirely of truths.
Irrelevant truths, that is.
Posted by: zombie at January 09, 2017 03:11 PM (jBuUi)
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Lying by omission.
Kermit Gosnell's serial killing is just "local news."
Jodi Arias kills boyfriend in Utah --- wow! that never happens! --- national news!!!
Irrelevant truths, that is.
Posted by: zombie at January 09, 2017 03:11 PM (jBuUi)
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Lying by omission.
Kermit Gosnell's serial killing is just "local news."
Jodi Arias kills boyfriend in Utah --- wow! that never happens! --- national news!!!
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 09, 2017 03:23 PM (Nox3c)
221
"I didn't buy into the birther stuff, but I never understood why it was "racist" to believe it? What's exactly racist about thinking someone wasn't born in the US?"
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Remember when Rick Perry was racist because his dad rented some space that had a racial epithet spray painted on it? And his dad covered it up?
Yeah...it doesn't need to make sense.
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Remember when Rick Perry was racist because his dad rented some space that had a racial epithet spray painted on it? And his dad covered it up?
Yeah...it doesn't need to make sense.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 03:23 PM (zdM/+)
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read on Breitbart that designers are chomping at the bit to dress Melania for the inauguration
...........
Out with the tent makers, in with the designers.
Posted by: wth at January 09, 2017 03:19 PM (HgMAr)
Aunt Esther Obama: Watch it, sucka!
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Out with the tent makers, in with the designers.
Posted by: wth at January 09, 2017 03:19 PM (HgMAr)
Aunt Esther Obama: Watch it, sucka!
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 09, 2017 03:23 PM (493sH)
223
I have no real opinion on any specific charges. I was mostly trying to make fun of people who think it's absolutely impossible that Obama could be from anywhere but Hawaii, who also think that Bush probably had something to do with 9/11, like...orchestrated the whole thing as a red flag operation to gain more control of the US government.
That's what I thought, but 9-11 Trutherism is just so way out there. Most of the big conspiracies are, if you look at the numbers of people that would need to be involved and quiet and competent.
That's what I thought, but 9-11 Trutherism is just so way out there. Most of the big conspiracies are, if you look at the numbers of people that would need to be involved and quiet and competent.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 09, 2017 03:24 PM (u0s1P)
224
A Macedonian teenager hacked my chariot!
Posted by: Darius III fleeing Issus at January 09, 2017 03:24 PM (axPw1)
225
"Out with the tent makers, in with the designers."
c'mon...from 2009 to 2016, canvas was the new taffeta.
c'mon...from 2009 to 2016, canvas was the new taffeta.
Posted by: Twin Cities Daydrunk - no mo snow, dangit at January 09, 2017 03:24 PM (kVX3W)
226
I wish Trump wouldn't fight criticism and slights by calling Streep--or the Hamilton play--over -rated. I'm all for him calling Streep out for her selective outrage and not mentioning the 4 blacks who attacked a disabled white kid, but when he adds on that she "is over-rated", he just looks small.
Posted by: JoeF. at January 09, 2017 03:17 PM (gJT5J)
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What I really wish Trump would do is point out Streep applauding the child rapist Roman Polanski. Then watch the left and the MSM twist themselves in knots to defend it. Keep them on defense.
Posted by: Independent George
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I know we're never allowed to criticize Trump because it looks like concern trolling, but when Trump lashes out at things like SNL or Meryl Streep he looks terrible.
He's just not good at it, he sounds like a 6 year old having a temper tantrum.
He needs to get someone like Kellyanne to write some better slams against these people
Posted by: JoeF. at January 09, 2017 03:17 PM (gJT5J)
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What I really wish Trump would do is point out Streep applauding the child rapist Roman Polanski. Then watch the left and the MSM twist themselves in knots to defend it. Keep them on defense.
Posted by: Independent George
________
I know we're never allowed to criticize Trump because it looks like concern trolling, but when Trump lashes out at things like SNL or Meryl Streep he looks terrible.
He's just not good at it, he sounds like a 6 year old having a temper tantrum.
He needs to get someone like Kellyanne to write some better slams against these people
Posted by: Maritime at January 09, 2017 03:24 PM (miHsA)
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You know what sounds impossible? A young, politically ambitious man, goes to Hawaii and manages to get a forged birth certificate placed in the records.
Yeah, that's pretty impossible.
But the president of the United States?
Yeah, that's pretty impossible.
But the president of the United States?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 03:24 PM (39g3+)
228
Well, it is fake. That's been proven by Sheriff Joe. So it doesn't matter whether you buy into it or not. Watch his last press conference and take your head out of the sand. Reasons for a fake birth certificate are open to interpretation at this point, but it is fake.
How about the Connecticut social security number issued to the dog eater since he never lived there?
How about the Connecticut social security number issued to the dog eater since he never lived there?
Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2017 03:24 PM (dSqvH)
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219 (The capper here, of course, is that once he was inaugurated-- and maybe before-- it ceased to actually matter, except as historical trivia.)
Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 09, 2017 03:19 PM (u0s1P)
If he was disqualified due to location of birth, nothing would change that.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2017 03:23 PM (dSqvH)
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Until you get a SCOTUS that would be willing to declare every act of his presidency as unconstitutional because of it, then it doesn't matter in any practical terms.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 09, 2017 03:19 PM (u0s1P)
If he was disqualified due to location of birth, nothing would change that.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2017 03:23 PM (dSqvH)
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Until you get a SCOTUS that would be willing to declare every act of his presidency as unconstitutional because of it, then it doesn't matter in any practical terms.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 03:24 PM (zdM/+)
230
He needs to get someone like Kellyanne to write some better slams against these people
Agreed....
Agreed....
Posted by: deplorable donna at January 09, 2017 03:25 PM (O2RFr)
231
Elizabeth Warren came out of her "election recount" 2 million dollars richer. See that reported anywhere?
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Wasn't that the crazy cat lady Jill Stein?
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Wasn't that the crazy cat lady Jill Stein?
Posted by: Boots at January 09, 2017 03:26 PM (EBwPV)
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That's what I thought, but 9-11 Trutherism is just so way out there. Most of the big conspiracies are, if you look at the numbers of people that would need to be involved and quiet and competent.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 09, 2017 03:24 PM (u0s1P)
As South Park taught us, the 9/11 conspiracy is a 9/11 conspiracy. In order to restore faith in government, the CIA and FBI orchestrated to and did spread lies that the government took down the towers.
That's what I thought, but 9-11 Trutherism is just so way out there. Most of the big conspiracies are, if you look at the numbers of people that would need to be involved and quiet and competent.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 09, 2017 03:24 PM (u0s1P)
As South Park taught us, the 9/11 conspiracy is a 9/11 conspiracy. In order to restore faith in government, the CIA and FBI orchestrated to and did spread lies that the government took down the towers.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 09, 2017 03:26 PM (8hICw)
233
Macedonian Teenagers opened for Painful Discharge at the Agora in '73.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 09, 2017 03:26 PM (tr2D7)
234
"Maybe the real birth certificate lists him as Muslim, and that's Unhelpful."
If that were the case they'd only have to change that one section and use his original one as the base to do it.
The fake birth was made up from another person's because he didn't have one of his own to use as the base.
If that were the case they'd only have to change that one section and use his original one as the base to do it.
The fake birth was made up from another person's because he didn't have one of his own to use as the base.
Posted by: Fuq the Media at January 09, 2017 03:26 PM (8Q043)
235
Apparently he's not joking:
@sirjameswilcox
@michaelianblack @seanmdav @AndyRichter love how right wing oppose federal gov't control yet get their info from source called TheFederalist
James Wilcox
@sirjameswilcox
Actor guy you might recognize from a film or two. An Otherwise Craft Beer Connoisseur, KU Grad, History-Hack, Backyard Astronomer & Armchair Theologian.
At least he isnt' lying in the bio.
@sirjameswilcox
@michaelianblack @seanmdav @AndyRichter love how right wing oppose federal gov't control yet get their info from source called TheFederalist
James Wilcox
@sirjameswilcox
Actor guy you might recognize from a film or two. An Otherwise Craft Beer Connoisseur, KU Grad, History-Hack, Backyard Astronomer & Armchair Theologian.
At least he isnt' lying in the bio.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 09, 2017 03:26 PM (V3IFq)
236
You know what sounds impossible? A young, politically ambitious man, goes to Hawaii and manages to get a forged birth certificate placed in the records.
You know what sounds possible? The US government staging 9/11.
(For the record, I believe neither of these things.)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 03:15 PM (zdM/+)
Sorry, but under Hawaii Law, if both Parents are dead, you can go and get your birth certificate amended...
Its also normal procedure to amend Birth Certs in the case of adoptions...
In 1965 his Mom married Lolo Soetoro in Hawaii... and she moved to Indonesia 2 years later to be with him..
If, as it looks like in Indonesian records, he was adopted by Lolo... his birth cert would have been modified as standard practice.
Which would have muddied the waters....
Thus, needing a further Modification when the Birth stuff started coming up... to conceal the fact he was an Indonesian citizen (which could have been great Political ammunition...)...
Which was perfectly legal for him to do, as both his adoptive parents were dead by then...
Thus, the 'chain' of documents becomes non conclusive of... well... anything except his word...
You know what sounds possible? The US government staging 9/11.
(For the record, I believe neither of these things.)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 03:15 PM (zdM/+)
Sorry, but under Hawaii Law, if both Parents are dead, you can go and get your birth certificate amended...
Its also normal procedure to amend Birth Certs in the case of adoptions...
In 1965 his Mom married Lolo Soetoro in Hawaii... and she moved to Indonesia 2 years later to be with him..
If, as it looks like in Indonesian records, he was adopted by Lolo... his birth cert would have been modified as standard practice.
Which would have muddied the waters....
Thus, needing a further Modification when the Birth stuff started coming up... to conceal the fact he was an Indonesian citizen (which could have been great Political ammunition...)...
Which was perfectly legal for him to do, as both his adoptive parents were dead by then...
Thus, the 'chain' of documents becomes non conclusive of... well... anything except his word...
Posted by: Don Q. at January 09, 2017 03:26 PM (qf6WZ)
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>>>116
"Yet Putin would rather have Trump as president than weakened, blackmailable Hillary."<<<
Perhaps he hoped Trump could spell "Reset" correctly, or sell them our remaining uranium.
"Yet Putin would rather have Trump as president than weakened, blackmailable Hillary."<<<
Perhaps he hoped Trump could spell "Reset" correctly, or sell them our remaining uranium.
Posted by: Javems at January 09, 2017 03:26 PM (yOqwj)
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That's what I thought, but 9-11 Trutherism is just so way out there. Most of the big conspiracies are, if you look at the numbers of people that would need to be involved and quiet and competent.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 09, 2017 03:24 PM (u0s1P)
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That's just the fun little irony. On the one hand, "This simple act is 100% impossible!" On the other hand, "This wildly complicated conspiracy is totally in the realm of possibility!"
I just bring it up to hopefully give someone out there ready a bit of ammo when it comes up in conversation.
That's what I thought, but 9-11 Trutherism is just so way out there. Most of the big conspiracies are, if you look at the numbers of people that would need to be involved and quiet and competent.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 09, 2017 03:24 PM (u0s1P)
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That's just the fun little irony. On the one hand, "This simple act is 100% impossible!" On the other hand, "This wildly complicated conspiracy is totally in the realm of possibility!"
I just bring it up to hopefully give someone out there ready a bit of ammo when it comes up in conversation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 03:26 PM (zdM/+)
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I hate fake gnus..
Posted by: Chester Cheetah at January 09, 2017 03:27 PM (4byLl)
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>>>214
I'm guessing that most people who are motivated enough to try and escape from a murderous Hellhole are also motivated enough to try and make themselves look nice.
Posted by: junior at January 09, 2017 03:22 PM (XJqcQ)
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That's probably true and the sexy accent helps.
I'm guessing that most people who are motivated enough to try and escape from a murderous Hellhole are also motivated enough to try and make themselves look nice.
Posted by: junior at January 09, 2017 03:22 PM (XJqcQ)
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That's probably true and the sexy accent helps.
Posted by: SchlongStrong at January 09, 2017 03:27 PM (48M9E)
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Just wait, after Jan. 20, a whole lot of truths are going to come pouring out.
And birthers are going to be getting a lot of apologies coming their way.
The post-Presidency tell-alls (If Only They Had Listened to Me) will be epic and wonderful. There'll be so much popcorn, you'll get sick of it. Believe me.
And birthers are going to be getting a lot of apologies coming their way.
The post-Presidency tell-alls (If Only They Had Listened to Me) will be epic and wonderful. There'll be so much popcorn, you'll get sick of it. Believe me.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 09, 2017 03:27 PM (u0s1P)
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As I remember it, the "fake news" meme started right about the time
people started noticing cryptic references to pizza in John Podesta's
e-mails.
Posted by: rickl at January 09, 2017 02:44 PM (zoehZ)
*****This. They feared their pedophiles being revealed as #pizzagate was breaking and THAT was the reason for the 'fake news' meme. It became convenient to use after Hillary lost but it was the Podesta CP code words that created the need for the script.
As I remember it, the "fake news" meme started right about the time
people started noticing cryptic references to pizza in John Podesta's
e-mails.
Posted by: rickl at January 09, 2017 02:44 PM (zoehZ)
*****This. They feared their pedophiles being revealed as #pizzagate was breaking and THAT was the reason for the 'fake news' meme. It became convenient to use after Hillary lost but it was the Podesta CP code words that created the need for the script.
Posted by: oddnot enjoying #winning still with schadenboner to prove it at January 09, 2017 03:27 PM (g1MTt)
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You know what sounds impossible? A young, politically ambitious man, goes to Hawaii and manages to get a forged birth certificate placed in the records.
Well, except they aren't necessarily in the records. His hospital conveniently burned down, and he released a scan of a photocopy of what he claims is his birth certificate. Neither the hospital nor the state of Hawaii released any records.
I do believe a guy with an IT department can get a crappy faked PDF done. That's not even hard.
Well, except they aren't necessarily in the records. His hospital conveniently burned down, and he released a scan of a photocopy of what he claims is his birth certificate. Neither the hospital nor the state of Hawaii released any records.
I do believe a guy with an IT department can get a crappy faked PDF done. That's not even hard.
Posted by: sunny-dee at January 09, 2017 03:27 PM (QAOZh)
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Maybe the real birth certificate lists him as Muslim, and that's Unhelpful.
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I'll put 250 quatloos on is lists Frank Marshall Davis as the father.
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I'll put 250 quatloos on is lists Frank Marshall Davis as the father.
Posted by: fixerupper at January 09, 2017 03:28 PM (8XRCm)
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226, He's just not good at it, he sounds like a 6 year old having a temper tantrum.
He needs to get someone like Kellyanne to write some better slams against these people
Posted by: Maritime at January 09, 2017 03:24 PM (miHsA)
Agreed; though I bet him calling her overrated must sting. These Hollywood divas are so used to sycophants telling how wonderful, talented, etc. they are that I doubt they get to hear 'you are an overrated flunkie' very often.
He needs to get someone like Kellyanne to write some better slams against these people
Posted by: Maritime at January 09, 2017 03:24 PM (miHsA)
Agreed; though I bet him calling her overrated must sting. These Hollywood divas are so used to sycophants telling how wonderful, talented, etc. they are that I doubt they get to hear 'you are an overrated flunkie' very often.
Posted by: IC at January 09, 2017 03:28 PM (a0IVu)
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at January 09, 2017 03:28 PM (lKyWE)
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Aside from her acting skills, which arent that great, Meryl Streep is very very un-sexy.
Meryl Streep has ZERO sex appeal. She looks so plain. She has nothing attractive about her. She's not ugly like Rosie Odonnell or Amy Poehler. She's just plain, with a terribly pointy nose.
And her mouth is ugly.
Aside from her acting skills, which arent that great, Meryl Streep is very very un-sexy.
Meryl Streep has ZERO sex appeal. She looks so plain. She has nothing attractive about her. She's not ugly like Rosie Odonnell or Amy Poehler. She's just plain, with a terribly pointy nose.
And her mouth is ugly.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 09, 2017 03:28 PM (PeVdw)
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173 There's enough *something* there, I think.
Yeah, I figure his name isn't really Barack Hussein Obama, or something like that. Nothing major, just a slight embarrassment that the One cannot bear to have public.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 03:15 PM (39g3
He is fucked. This is not going away. Too many crimes were committed. There are 9 points of forgery on the 2011 BC he posted. Independent investigators and forensic analysist from both Hawaii and Italy came to the same conclusions with out even knowing that the other was working on the same document. Thus even located the BC where things were lifted. The cold case posse even discovered more crimes. They will not release their findings until after Trump is sworn in.
He also used a Connecticut social security number which is not his.
The MSM is avoiding this story like the plague.
Yeah, I figure his name isn't really Barack Hussein Obama, or something like that. Nothing major, just a slight embarrassment that the One cannot bear to have public.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 03:15 PM (39g3
He is fucked. This is not going away. Too many crimes were committed. There are 9 points of forgery on the 2011 BC he posted. Independent investigators and forensic analysist from both Hawaii and Italy came to the same conclusions with out even knowing that the other was working on the same document. Thus even located the BC where things were lifted. The cold case posse even discovered more crimes. They will not release their findings until after Trump is sworn in.
He also used a Connecticut social security number which is not his.
The MSM is avoiding this story like the plague.
Posted by: Pepe at January 09, 2017 03:28 PM (tPC7s)
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I know we're never allowed to criticize Trump because it looks like concern trolling, but when Trump lashes out at things like SNL or Meryl Streep he looks terrible.
First, I criticize him all the time and never get any flack or bannings. Now, its possible that I'm so beneath everyone's notice that they don't care what I say, but its not true that "we're never allowed to criticize Trump."
Second, I agree it looks petty and stupid but... it seems to work. I wish it didn't, and I wish we lived in a smarter, more mature society, but we don't.
Instead of everyone talking about Streep and the Golden Globes (which every year happens and almost nobody is aware of), they're starting to talk about Donald Trump. Its controlling the narrative.
And Streep is overrated. She's skillful, but not as an actress. What I mean is this: when she does a role, she's not playing for the audience or the story, she's playing for the reviewers and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She's not acting, she's performing for their approval. People don't walk away going 'what a great movie' they walk away going 'wow Streep was great.'
First, I criticize him all the time and never get any flack or bannings. Now, its possible that I'm so beneath everyone's notice that they don't care what I say, but its not true that "we're never allowed to criticize Trump."
Second, I agree it looks petty and stupid but... it seems to work. I wish it didn't, and I wish we lived in a smarter, more mature society, but we don't.
Instead of everyone talking about Streep and the Golden Globes (which every year happens and almost nobody is aware of), they're starting to talk about Donald Trump. Its controlling the narrative.
And Streep is overrated. She's skillful, but not as an actress. What I mean is this: when she does a role, she's not playing for the audience or the story, she's playing for the reviewers and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She's not acting, she's performing for their approval. People don't walk away going 'what a great movie' they walk away going 'wow Streep was great.'
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 03:28 PM (39g3+)
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194 In a move reminiscent of what the New York Times has recently done, The Boston Gaylobe is downsizing and reinventing itself...
http://preview.tinyurl.com/gp45894
Posted by: Zettai R'lyeh at January 09, 2017 03:18 PM (kP16F)
Oh, that epistle of gobbledegook is priceless!
Howie Carr: The Globe now exists only as a billionaire's vanity project. You've heard of nonprofits? The Globe is an unprofit.
194 In a move reminiscent of what the New York Times has recently done, The Boston Gaylobe is downsizing and reinventing itself...
http://preview.tinyurl.com/gp45894
Posted by: Zettai R'lyeh at January 09, 2017 03:18 PM (kP16F)
Oh, that epistle of gobbledegook is priceless!
Howie Carr: The Globe now exists only as a billionaire's vanity project. You've heard of nonprofits? The Globe is an unprofit.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 09, 2017 03:29 PM (BK3ZS)
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Prager was pointing out to a caller today that the charge Racist is just a way to shut down and dismiss the one being called without acknowledge.
Posted by: Skip at January 09, 2017 03:29 PM (yx0Ld)
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121 @113
That's just "Scottsmen making themselves seem like geniuses" argument
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I thought that was the "Make Geordi look like a genius" argument?
Posted by: junior at January 09, 2017 03:05 PM (XJqcQ)
Geordi wouldn't do that and was admonished by Scotty. "Don't you want a reputation as a miracle worker?
That's just "Scottsmen making themselves seem like geniuses" argument
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I thought that was the "Make Geordi look like a genius" argument?
Posted by: junior at January 09, 2017 03:05 PM (XJqcQ)
Geordi wouldn't do that and was admonished by Scotty. "Don't you want a reputation as a miracle worker?
Posted by: Hugh Jorgen at January 09, 2017 03:29 PM (R5EqA)
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Do know why Meryl Streep is a "great" actress?
Same reason as why obama is "smart."
The Fake News media said so, over and over and over and over.
Do know why Meryl Streep is a "great" actress?
Same reason as why obama is "smart."
The Fake News media said so, over and over and over and over.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 09, 2017 03:29 PM (PeVdw)
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But even if Obama was born in Kenya, wouldn't it be irrelevant just like the fact that Cruz was born in Canada did not disqualify him?
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at January 09, 2017 03:29 PM (PNcou)
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@236, it wouldn't have been ammunition if he were an Indonesian citizen, it would have been disqualifying.
Posted by: sunny-dee at January 09, 2017 03:29 PM (QAOZh)
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>>Liberal newspapers intentionally not reporting on stories that make leftism look bad.
This has become so de rigueur and so embedded that they don't even know they are doing it anymore.
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Yeah, kinda like how they always forget to include party ID when a Democrat is arrested, or how they withhold the name when an attack is committed by a muslim, or how they refer to the unnamed criminal by the city of residence ("a resident of Aurora was arrested for armed robbery...") when it's an illegal alien, and on and on.
As was said of Pravda, you can figure out who they're talking about by the info they withhold.
This has become so de rigueur and so embedded that they don't even know they are doing it anymore.
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Yeah, kinda like how they always forget to include party ID when a Democrat is arrested, or how they withhold the name when an attack is committed by a muslim, or how they refer to the unnamed criminal by the city of residence ("a resident of Aurora was arrested for armed robbery...") when it's an illegal alien, and on and on.
As was said of Pravda, you can figure out who they're talking about by the info they withhold.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 09, 2017 03:29 PM (NOIQH)
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"How about the Connecticut social security number issued to the dog eater since he never lived there?"
Yeah, and his fake selective service card.
Yeah, and his fake selective service card.
Posted by: Fuq the Media at January 09, 2017 03:29 PM (8Q043)
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248 He is fucked. This is not going away.
Posted by: Pepe at January 09, 2017 03:28 PM (tPC7s)
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Well, gee golly. Now Obama's sure to never be president.
Posted by: Pepe at January 09, 2017 03:28 PM (tPC7s)
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Well, gee golly. Now Obama's sure to never be president.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 03:29 PM (zdM/+)
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Perhaps the biggest mistake the media made in this whole debacle for them is the creation of the term "fake news", that accidentally exposed what they've been doing for decades and gave it a handy label.
Posted by: can of spam at January 09, 2017 03:29 PM (g0aRc)
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Until you get a SCOTUS that would be willing to declare every act of his presidency as unconstitutional because of it, then it doesn't matter in any practical terms.
Yes, thank you, exactly. Better said than I could.
Yes, thank you, exactly. Better said than I could.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 09, 2017 03:30 PM (u0s1P)
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@228
Or you can take the actual BC pdf that you can download directly from the White House's own website and load it into Adobe Illustrator or GIMP and see all of the different composited layers that make up the "official Birth Certificate"
It's a joke.
I Charles Johnson was still a white hat he would have torn this shit apart in a nano second.
Or you can take the actual BC pdf that you can download directly from the White House's own website and load it into Adobe Illustrator or GIMP and see all of the different composited layers that make up the "official Birth Certificate"
It's a joke.
I Charles Johnson was still a white hat he would have torn this shit apart in a nano second.
Posted by: Kreplach at January 09, 2017 03:30 PM (Gh/jd)
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Meryl Streep's "great" acting ability is just a Reinforced Lie we've been beaten over the head with for 4 decades.
Meryl Streep's "great" acting ability is just a Reinforced Lie we've been beaten over the head with for 4 decades.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 09, 2017 03:30 PM (PeVdw)
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Aside from her acting skills, which arent that great, Meryl Streep is very very un-sexy.
Shrug. She's elegant and carries herself well. How she looks doesn't mean anything to me. Jack Elam is one of my favorite actors and he's one of the ugliest guys to ever walk the earth.
Shrug. She's elegant and carries herself well. How she looks doesn't mean anything to me. Jack Elam is one of my favorite actors and he's one of the ugliest guys to ever walk the earth.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 03:30 PM (39g3+)
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Yeah, I figure his name isn't really Barack Hussein Obama, or something like that. Nothing major, just a slight embarrassment that the One cannot bear to have public.
"Barry Soetero"
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Barry (son of) Frank Marshall Davis
"Barry Soetero"
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Barry (son of) Frank Marshall Davis
Posted by: Boots at January 09, 2017 03:30 PM (EBwPV)
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>.But even if Obama was born in Kenya, wouldn't it be irrelevant just like
the fact that Cruz was born in Canada did not disqualify him?
The place of birth was always a red herring to ignore all of the other missing info from Obama's past - no school records, etc.
the fact that Cruz was born in Canada did not disqualify him?
The place of birth was always a red herring to ignore all of the other missing info from Obama's past - no school records, etc.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 09, 2017 03:31 PM (NOIQH)
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@254, both of Cruz's parents were American citizens and filed the appropriate paperwork for him to be a natural citizen. The same thing happened when my aunts were born in Germany -- you just need to register it with the consulate.
However, you have to be 19 or older when the baby is born for that to be possible -- Ann Dunham was 18 (therefore, not an adult when he was conceived) and could not have filed the appropriate paperwork. Hussein Sr obviously couldn't, and neither of her parents were in Kenya.
However, you have to be 19 or older when the baby is born for that to be possible -- Ann Dunham was 18 (therefore, not an adult when he was conceived) and could not have filed the appropriate paperwork. Hussein Sr obviously couldn't, and neither of her parents were in Kenya.
Posted by: sunny-dee at January 09, 2017 03:31 PM (QAOZh)
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hope it's creamy caesar
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at January 09, 2017 03:20 PM (PNcou)
Ranch. Because it fits with the reverse cowgirl theme so well.
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at January 09, 2017 03:20 PM (PNcou)
Ranch. Because it fits with the reverse cowgirl theme so well.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 09, 2017 03:31 PM (kKHcp)
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Showed wife a picture in a article once of Frank Marshall when he was young and asked her who it was, she thought it was Barak.
Posted by: Skip at January 09, 2017 03:32 PM (yx0Ld)
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He needs to get someone like Kellyanne to write some better slams against these people
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Look. I agree. To a point. Some of the stuff he puts outs on Twitter makes me wince.
On the other hand..... Im not tired of the winning yet. Im also a big proponent of "if aint broke do go fixin it". It hasnt hurt him and it pisses off all the right people.
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Look. I agree. To a point. Some of the stuff he puts outs on Twitter makes me wince.
On the other hand..... Im not tired of the winning yet. Im also a big proponent of "if aint broke do go fixin it". It hasnt hurt him and it pisses off all the right people.
Posted by: fixerupper at January 09, 2017 03:32 PM (8XRCm)
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I've always envisioned myself undressing a hot ex model
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at January 09, 2017 03:28 PM (lKyWE)
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isn't that a challenge when you've got her hogtied?
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at January 09, 2017 03:28 PM (lKyWE)
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isn't that a challenge when you've got her hogtied?
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at January 09, 2017 03:32 PM (PNcou)
Posted by: Darius III fleeing Issus at January 09, 2017 03:32 PM (axPw1)
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"It was an issue also for Barry Goldwater, yet no one ever said it was racist back then."
Goldwater didn't forge a birth certificate. That's a felony.
Goldwater didn't forge a birth certificate. That's a felony.
Posted by: Fuq the Media at January 09, 2017 03:32 PM (8Q043)
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off, historic loser sock
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at January 09, 2017 03:33 PM (axPw1)
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Wait... what!?
No WAY you could offer me enough chimichangas to allow that woman anywhere near my films!
Posted by: Deadpool at January 09, 2017 03:18 PM (XJqcQ)
Punk.
No WAY you could offer me enough chimichangas to allow that woman anywhere near my films!
Posted by: Deadpool at January 09, 2017 03:18 PM (XJqcQ)
Punk.
Posted by: Not Inspector Harry Callahan at January 09, 2017 03:33 PM (+PUD7)
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There's only one real news item I 'm tracking:
10 days and 20 hours to go until noon on Friday Jan 20, 2017.
That's finally and officially the End of an Error, and the Beginning of the Great Trumpening.
Trump, instead of Hillary.
Hillary Rodham Clinton will never be President.
10 days and 20 hours to go until noon on Friday Jan 20, 2017.
That's finally and officially the End of an Error, and the Beginning of the Great Trumpening.
Trump, instead of Hillary.
Hillary Rodham Clinton will never be President.
Posted by: Clock watcher at January 09, 2017 03:33 PM (ZKlDy)
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"254 But even if Obama was born in Kenya, wouldn't it be irrelevant just like the fact that Cruz was born in Canada did not disqualify him?"
No, because of the way the law was written. BO's mom didn't fit the minimum residency requirement based on age (too young) for automatic citizenship to children of US citizens born abroad, whereas Cruz's mother did meet those requirements (as did McCain's [born in Panama]).
No, because of the way the law was written. BO's mom didn't fit the minimum residency requirement based on age (too young) for automatic citizenship to children of US citizens born abroad, whereas Cruz's mother did meet those requirements (as did McCain's [born in Panama]).
Posted by: can of spam at January 09, 2017 03:33 PM (g0aRc)
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275
There's only one real news item I 'm tracking:
10 days and 20 hours to go until noon on Friday Jan 20, 2017.
That's finally and officially the End of an Error, and the Beginning of the Great Trumpening.
Trump, instead of Hillary.
Hillary Rodham Clinton will never be President.
Posted by: Clock watcher at January 09, 2017 03:33 PM (ZKlDy)
Amen to that.
There's only one real news item I 'm tracking:
10 days and 20 hours to go until noon on Friday Jan 20, 2017.
That's finally and officially the End of an Error, and the Beginning of the Great Trumpening.
Trump, instead of Hillary.
Hillary Rodham Clinton will never be President.
Posted by: Clock watcher at January 09, 2017 03:33 PM (ZKlDy)
Amen to that.
Posted by: IC at January 09, 2017 03:33 PM (a0IVu)
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ABC fakes crime scene for a fake on-the-spot tv report:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YwIkknxE8E
ABC fakes crime scene for a fake on-the-spot tv report:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YwIkknxE8E
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 09, 2017 03:33 PM (PeVdw)
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I know you are, but what am I? I know you are, but what am I?
Posted by: The MFM (with it's wiener out in a porn theater) at January 09, 2017 03:34 PM (pMGkg)
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>>>70 Which means Clinton oversaw the selling of American uranium to the Russians, so that they could sell it to the Iranians.
Yet Putin would rather have Trump as president than weakened, blackmailable Hillary.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2017 02:51 PM (dSqvH)
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Hillary is a sick drunk with probable mental issues, a list of health problems almost longer than my dick who started a meme war with an ugly cartoon frog (and lost) then was too drugged up to even concede on election night and now is OK with an open race war as long as she's got her millions.
Putin may or may not have employed some email-bruh who phished the password "password"
Yet Putin would rather have Trump as president than weakened, blackmailable Hillary.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2017 02:51 PM (dSqvH)
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Hillary is a sick drunk with probable mental issues, a list of health problems almost longer than my dick who started a meme war with an ugly cartoon frog (and lost) then was too drugged up to even concede on election night and now is OK with an open race war as long as she's got her millions.
Putin may or may not have employed some email-bruh who phished the password "password"
Posted by: SchlongStrong at January 09, 2017 03:34 PM (48M9E)
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I dunno what is going on with Pizzagate, only that something very strange is being discussed in those emails. If there's something there, it will eventually come out. It may be years, but it will come out. Sometimes you have to just sit and wait.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 03:34 PM (39g3+)
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Was wondering this morning if very soon will Baraks college records will come out, or in the tell all books to follow up.
Posted by: Skip at January 09, 2017 03:34 PM (yx0Ld)
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174. If Hillary dies this year, will we get panaceas about how we could have had a white male as president in the form of Tim Kaine?
If Hillary dies who will get all of her organs?
If Hillary dies who will get all of her organs?
Posted by: R. DUKE at January 09, 2017 03:34 PM (ONH2e)
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Trump is not trying "sound good" with his slams. He wants to make people regret opening their mouth, and sometimes bait them into a silly response. When it works, which is often, it's thing of beauty.
Posted by: Mega at January 09, 2017 03:34 PM (Eeeim)
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Was she ethnic Russian? Actual ethnic Azeris tend to be of the bundled up Muslim type.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 09, 2017 03:14 PM (ujg0T)
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Neither, Ashkenazi Jewish.
Posted by: SchlongStrong at January 09, 2017 03:21 PM (48M9E)
Well, there you go.
1. Why so many Jews remain mindlessly leftist is quite frustrating.
2. Whenever a multi-national empire like the USSR breaks up, there will be either (a) refugees from the displaced ethnic group or (b) civil wars between ethnic groups in the new nation-state being carved out.
So in retrospect, the Crimea situation was entirely predictable. The USSR was as ethnically fractured as Austria-Hungary, and furthermore was without the market economy that can ameliorate such ethnic differences.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 09, 2017 03:14 PM (ujg0T)
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Neither, Ashkenazi Jewish.
Posted by: SchlongStrong at January 09, 2017 03:21 PM (48M9E)
Well, there you go.
1. Why so many Jews remain mindlessly leftist is quite frustrating.
2. Whenever a multi-national empire like the USSR breaks up, there will be either (a) refugees from the displaced ethnic group or (b) civil wars between ethnic groups in the new nation-state being carved out.
So in retrospect, the Crimea situation was entirely predictable. The USSR was as ethnically fractured as Austria-Hungary, and furthermore was without the market economy that can ameliorate such ethnic differences.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 09, 2017 03:34 PM (ujg0T)
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264 Yeah, I figure his name isn't really Barack Hussein Obama, or something like that. Nothing major, just a slight embarrassment that the One cannot bear to have public.
"Barry Soetero"
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Barry (son of) Frank Marshall Davis
Posted by: Boots at January 09, 2017 03:30 PM (EBwPV)
He went to Indonesia as Barry Soetoro.... where he was acknowledged as Lolo's Son (by adoption)...
Suddenly, when he returned to his Grandparents in Hawaii, he was back to Barrack Obama...
No name change documents have been produced to change his name back... nor giving up his Indonesian Citizenship.
"Barry Soetero"
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Barry (son of) Frank Marshall Davis
Posted by: Boots at January 09, 2017 03:30 PM (EBwPV)
He went to Indonesia as Barry Soetoro.... where he was acknowledged as Lolo's Son (by adoption)...
Suddenly, when he returned to his Grandparents in Hawaii, he was back to Barrack Obama...
No name change documents have been produced to change his name back... nor giving up his Indonesian Citizenship.
Posted by: Don Q. at January 09, 2017 03:34 PM (qf6WZ)
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Until you get a SCOTUS that would be willing to declare every act of his presidency as unconstitutional because of it, then it doesn't matter in any practical terms.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Just like we've got to build the wall before we start deporting. PE Trump is so dang smart. YES!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Just like we've got to build the wall before we start deporting. PE Trump is so dang smart. YES!
Posted by: booknlass at January 09, 2017 03:35 PM (hNFnI)
Posted by: Barry at January 09, 2017 03:35 PM (Eeeim)
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ABC fakes crime scene for a fake on-the-spot tv report
That isn't fake news because it doesn't hurt a Democrat
That isn't fake news because it doesn't hurt a Democrat
Posted by: The Legacy Media at January 09, 2017 03:35 PM (39g3+)
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as opposed to Bill's health problems which, literally, ARE written on his dick...
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at January 09, 2017 03:36 PM (axPw1)
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249 I know we're never allowed to criticize Trump because it looks like concern trolling, but when Trump lashes out at things like SNL or Meryl Streep he looks terrible.
First, I criticize him all the time and never get any flack or bannings. Now, its possible that I'm so beneath everyone's notice that they don't care what I say, but its not true that "we're never allowed to criticize Trump."
Second, I agree it looks petty and stupid but... it seems to work. I wish it didn't, and I wish we lived in a smarter, more mature society, but we don't.
Instead of everyone talking about Streep and the Golden Globes (which every year happens and almost nobody is aware of), they're starting to talk about Donald Trump. Its controlling the narrative.
And Streep is overrated. She's skillful, but not as an actress. What I mean is this: when she does a role, she's not playing for the audience or the story, she's playing for the reviewers and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She's not acting, she's performing for their approval. People don't walk away going 'what a great movie' they walk away going 'wow Streep was great.'
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 03:28 PM (39g3+)
Yes. It has always seemed, to me at least, that she is trying to demonstrate how awesome she is rather than actually taking on a character and performing for the audience.
First, I criticize him all the time and never get any flack or bannings. Now, its possible that I'm so beneath everyone's notice that they don't care what I say, but its not true that "we're never allowed to criticize Trump."
Second, I agree it looks petty and stupid but... it seems to work. I wish it didn't, and I wish we lived in a smarter, more mature society, but we don't.
Instead of everyone talking about Streep and the Golden Globes (which every year happens and almost nobody is aware of), they're starting to talk about Donald Trump. Its controlling the narrative.
And Streep is overrated. She's skillful, but not as an actress. What I mean is this: when she does a role, she's not playing for the audience or the story, she's playing for the reviewers and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She's not acting, she's performing for their approval. People don't walk away going 'what a great movie' they walk away going 'wow Streep was great.'
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 03:28 PM (39g3+)
Yes. It has always seemed, to me at least, that she is trying to demonstrate how awesome she is rather than actually taking on a character and performing for the audience.
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 09, 2017 03:36 PM (hJrjt)
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>>Do know why Meryl Streep is a "great" actress?
Hollywood seems a lot like high school - they are favorites/cool kids that are loved because they're beloved (yeah, it's circular). Like a lot of long-time actors she's become quite good at being "[character] as played by Meryl Streep" - we're so familiar with her ticks and tricks that it's hard not to see Streep predominantly in any role she takes on.
Hollywood seems a lot like high school - they are favorites/cool kids that are loved because they're beloved (yeah, it's circular). Like a lot of long-time actors she's become quite good at being "[character] as played by Meryl Streep" - we're so familiar with her ticks and tricks that it's hard not to see Streep predominantly in any role she takes on.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 09, 2017 03:36 PM (NOIQH)
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O/T - but the latest bullshit (at Politico):
Costs of eliminating Obamacare worries hospital officials.
One paragraph of the story warns of an unprecedented health crisis if sick people are unable to get care. Then in the next paragraph, the cost of uncompensated care is bemoaned to reach $1.1 trillion over the next decade.
So which is it? If "sick" people aren't going to be able to get care, then why is there all of a sudden going to be $1.1 trillion in uncompensated care?
Costs of eliminating Obamacare worries hospital officials.
One paragraph of the story warns of an unprecedented health crisis if sick people are unable to get care. Then in the next paragraph, the cost of uncompensated care is bemoaned to reach $1.1 trillion over the next decade.
So which is it? If "sick" people aren't going to be able to get care, then why is there all of a sudden going to be $1.1 trillion in uncompensated care?
Posted by: bicentennialguy at January 09, 2017 03:36 PM (vg8iE)
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Geordi wouldn't do that and was admonished by Scotty. "Don't you want a reputation as a miracle worker?
Didn't Kirk once point out that he had long ago figured out what Scotty was doing?
Anyway, I never considered it padding, exactly I think of Scotty's estimates as "I'd like to do it right, but if I have to slap something together so we don't all die, sure, fine, okay."
Though really it was just a writer's device for suspense.
There was an episode of Voyager where the captain mentions inflated numbers and the chief engineer says something like, "No. If I say five hours, I mean five hours. Minimum." That was a cool scene. (The rest of Voyager, whatever. But that scene, in my eyes, makes it not total garbage.)
Didn't Kirk once point out that he had long ago figured out what Scotty was doing?
Anyway, I never considered it padding, exactly I think of Scotty's estimates as "I'd like to do it right, but if I have to slap something together so we don't all die, sure, fine, okay."
Though really it was just a writer's device for suspense.
There was an episode of Voyager where the captain mentions inflated numbers and the chief engineer says something like, "No. If I say five hours, I mean five hours. Minimum." That was a cool scene. (The rest of Voyager, whatever. But that scene, in my eyes, makes it not total garbage.)
Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 09, 2017 03:36 PM (u0s1P)
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Hillary fan girl Streep loves fake news
Posted by: Cheri at January 09, 2017 03:36 PM (TmVQX)
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>.But even if Obama was born in Kenya, wouldn't it be irrelevant just like
the fact that Cruz was born in Canada did not disqualify him?
The place of birth was always a red herring to ignore all of the other missing info from Obama's past - no school records, etc.
Actually, it would. Unlike Cruz, both parents WEREN'T American and momma wasn't old enough to confer citizenship upon the dog eater.
the fact that Cruz was born in Canada did not disqualify him?
The place of birth was always a red herring to ignore all of the other missing info from Obama's past - no school records, etc.
Actually, it would. Unlike Cruz, both parents WEREN'T American and momma wasn't old enough to confer citizenship upon the dog eater.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2017 03:37 PM (dSqvH)
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>>>288 If Hillary dies who will get all of her organs?
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I call the penis.
Posted by: Barry at January 09, 2017 03:35 PM (Eeeim)
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Over Huma's Dead Body.
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I call the penis.
Posted by: Barry at January 09, 2017 03:35 PM (Eeeim)
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Over Huma's Dead Body.
Posted by: SchlongStrong at January 09, 2017 03:37 PM (48M9E)
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The place of birth was always a red herring to ignore all of the other missing info from Obama's past - no school records, etc.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 09, 2017 03:31 PM (NOIQH)
Barry's grades were sooooo good they've had to keep them under lock and key so the other students couldn't see them and feel really bad about themselves
Posted by: Lizzy at January 09, 2017 03:31 PM (NOIQH)
Barry's grades were sooooo good they've had to keep them under lock and key so the other students couldn't see them and feel really bad about themselves
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 09, 2017 03:37 PM (493sH)
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TRUE news! I figured out the Russian Hack!
Russia turned China Communist.
China builds computer and server parts.
Hillary bought computers and servers.
WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED TO KNOW?!
Russia turned China Communist.
China builds computer and server parts.
Hillary bought computers and servers.
WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED TO KNOW?!
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at January 09, 2017 03:37 PM (Kucy5)
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First, I criticize him all the time and never get any flack or bannings. Now, its possible that I'm so beneath everyone's notice that they don't care what I say, but its not true that "we're never allowed to criticize Trump."
Second, I agree it looks petty and stupid but... it seems to work. I wish it didn't, and I wish we lived in a smarter, more mature society, but we don't.
Instead of everyone talking about Streep and the Golden Globes (which every year happens and almost nobody is aware of), they're starting to talk about Donald Trump. Its controlling the narrative.
And Streep is overrated. She's skillful, but not as an actress. What I mean is this: when she does a role, she's not playing for the audience or the story, she's playing for the reviewers and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She's not acting, she's performing for their approval. People don't walk away going 'what a great movie' they walk away going 'wow Streep was great.'
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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I think he looks really stupid when he does it, and he elevates these people to something greater.
He then gets defensive about some old charge against him and tries to explain through Twitter.
Imagine instead if he just said something pithy like "hope the Golden Globes audience doesn't drown in the Hillary tears!"
rather than getting into Meryl Streeps acting chops.
The problem is, once Trump won, from now on any criticism will be met with "shows what you know, he always wins!!!"
That doesn't mean every decision he makes going forward is the right one.
Second, I agree it looks petty and stupid but... it seems to work. I wish it didn't, and I wish we lived in a smarter, more mature society, but we don't.
Instead of everyone talking about Streep and the Golden Globes (which every year happens and almost nobody is aware of), they're starting to talk about Donald Trump. Its controlling the narrative.
And Streep is overrated. She's skillful, but not as an actress. What I mean is this: when she does a role, she's not playing for the audience or the story, she's playing for the reviewers and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She's not acting, she's performing for their approval. People don't walk away going 'what a great movie' they walk away going 'wow Streep was great.'
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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I think he looks really stupid when he does it, and he elevates these people to something greater.
He then gets defensive about some old charge against him and tries to explain through Twitter.
Imagine instead if he just said something pithy like "hope the Golden Globes audience doesn't drown in the Hillary tears!"
rather than getting into Meryl Streeps acting chops.
The problem is, once Trump won, from now on any criticism will be met with "shows what you know, he always wins!!!"
That doesn't mean every decision he makes going forward is the right one.
Posted by: Maritime at January 09, 2017 03:37 PM (miHsA)
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Azerbaijan was secular Turkish last I looked, some of the lowest mosque attendance in the Muslim world.
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at January 09, 2017 03:37 PM (axPw1)
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"
Yeah, that's pretty impossible.
But the president of the United States?"
Hardly, have you seen our government for the last eight years. Lois Lerner ring a bell? James Comey ring a bell? Eric Holder ring a bell? SOS Clinton ring a bell? Loretta Lynch ring a bell?
God, there is no one decent in our government. Not only is it possible it is almost certain.
Yeah, that's pretty impossible.
But the president of the United States?"
Hardly, have you seen our government for the last eight years. Lois Lerner ring a bell? James Comey ring a bell? Eric Holder ring a bell? SOS Clinton ring a bell? Loretta Lynch ring a bell?
God, there is no one decent in our government. Not only is it possible it is almost certain.
Posted by: Fuq the Media at January 09, 2017 03:37 PM (8Q043)
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258 248 He is fucked. This is not going away.
Posted by: Pepe at January 09, 2017 03:28 PM (tPC7s)
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Well, gee golly. Now Obama's sure to never be president.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 03:29 PM (zdM/+)
Every time you use a forged document, it is a felony. Every single time. Also, depending on what will be revealed after Trump is POtUS, and there are many things coming, then this is a major issue for Both parties, the media, and government institutions.
Posted by: Pepe at January 09, 2017 03:28 PM (tPC7s)
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Well, gee golly. Now Obama's sure to never be president.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 03:29 PM (zdM/+)
Every time you use a forged document, it is a felony. Every single time. Also, depending on what will be revealed after Trump is POtUS, and there are many things coming, then this is a major issue for Both parties, the media, and government institutions.
Posted by: Pepe at January 09, 2017 03:38 PM (tPC7s)
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281 I dunno what is going on with Pizzagate, only that something very strange is being discussed in those emails. If there's something there, it will eventually come out. It may be years, but it will come out. Sometimes you have to just sit and wait.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 03:34 PM (39g3+)
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We should all watch the movie Doubt and discuss.
Combine cryptic possible crimes with Meryl Streep!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 03:34 PM (39g3+)
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We should all watch the movie Doubt and discuss.
Combine cryptic possible crimes with Meryl Streep!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 03:38 PM (zdM/+)
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283 174. If Hillary dies this year, will we get panaceas about how we could have had a white male as president in the form of Tim Kaine?
If Hillary dies who will get all of her organs?
Posted by: R. DUKE at January 09, 2017 03:34 PM (ONH2e)
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"They're mine! All mine! We will be one!"
-Huma
If Hillary dies who will get all of her organs?
Posted by: R. DUKE at January 09, 2017 03:34 PM (ONH2e)
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"They're mine! All mine! We will be one!"
-Huma
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 03:39 PM (zdM/+)
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Was wondering this morning if very soon will Baraks college records will come out, or in the tell all books to follow up.
Not for decades, I expect. Someone will get famous by ripping the lid off the scandal 50 years previous.
Not for decades, I expect. Someone will get famous by ripping the lid off the scandal 50 years previous.
Posted by: The Legacy Media at January 09, 2017 03:39 PM (39g3+)
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276----as did McCain's [born in Panama]).
Posted by: can of spam at January 09, 2017 03:33 PM (g0aRc)
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McCain was not born in Panama (the Republic of Panama.) He was born in the United States Canal Zone, which was American territory.
And both of his parents were natural-born US citizens.
Of course, with McCain, and Goldwater, and Cruz, we are allowed to discuss these things. With Lord Obama, .....no.
Posted by: can of spam at January 09, 2017 03:33 PM (g0aRc)
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McCain was not born in Panama (the Republic of Panama.) He was born in the United States Canal Zone, which was American territory.
And both of his parents were natural-born US citizens.
Of course, with McCain, and Goldwater, and Cruz, we are allowed to discuss these things. With Lord Obama, .....no.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 09, 2017 03:39 PM (Nox3c)
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Maybe the real birth certificate lists him as Muslim, and that's Unhelpful.
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Like little Barry's school registration form in Indonesia.
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Like little Barry's school registration form in Indonesia.
Posted by: wth at January 09, 2017 03:39 PM (HgMAr)
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>>>285
Well, there you go.
1. Why so many Jews remain mindlessly leftist is quite frustrating.
2. Whenever a multi-national empire like the USSR breaks up, there will be either (a) refugees from the displaced ethnic group or (b) civil wars between ethnic groups in the new nation-state being carved out.
So in retrospect, the Crimea situation was entirely predictable. The USSR was as ethnically fractured as Austria-Hungary, and furthermore was without the market economy that can ameliorate such ethnic differences.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 09, 2017 03:34 PM (ujg0T)
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Funny you mentioned that, her husband is a Ukrainian Jew.
He secretly voted for the TrumpTrain.
Well, there you go.
1. Why so many Jews remain mindlessly leftist is quite frustrating.
2. Whenever a multi-national empire like the USSR breaks up, there will be either (a) refugees from the displaced ethnic group or (b) civil wars between ethnic groups in the new nation-state being carved out.
So in retrospect, the Crimea situation was entirely predictable. The USSR was as ethnically fractured as Austria-Hungary, and furthermore was without the market economy that can ameliorate such ethnic differences.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 09, 2017 03:34 PM (ujg0T)
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Funny you mentioned that, her husband is a Ukrainian Jew.
He secretly voted for the TrumpTrain.
Posted by: SchlongStrong at January 09, 2017 03:39 PM (48M9E)
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TheQuietMan: that was one of Steve Sailer's stupider theories, that Barky's grades were so super awesome that they'd have made him look like a nerd and not relatable to average voting Americans
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at January 09, 2017 03:39 PM (axPw1)
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One paragraph of the story warns of an unprecedented health crisis if sick people are unable to get care. Then in the next paragraph, the cost of uncompensated care is bemoaned to reach $1.1 trillion over the next decade.
Why? Same amount of people after 404Care don't have insurance as before 404Care.
Why? Same amount of people after 404Care don't have insurance as before 404Care.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2017 03:39 PM (dSqvH)
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301 Azerbaijan was secular Turkish last I looked, some of the lowest mosque attendance in the Muslim world.
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at January 09, 2017 03:37 PM (axPw1)
Be that as it may, it has had a long running war with Armenia.
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at January 09, 2017 03:37 PM (axPw1)
Be that as it may, it has had a long running war with Armenia.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 09, 2017 03:40 PM (ujg0T)
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I always thought Barky was a math dunce, specifically.
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at January 09, 2017 03:40 PM (axPw1)
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"The place of birth was always a red herring to ignore all of the other missing info from Obama's past - no school records, etc. "
So that's why he forged his birth certificate? It's no red herring. Place of birth counts even lyin Ted knows it but thought he'd get on the gravy train while the getting was good.
Forgery is a felony at a minimum.
So that's why he forged his birth certificate? It's no red herring. Place of birth counts even lyin Ted knows it but thought he'd get on the gravy train while the getting was good.
Forgery is a felony at a minimum.
Posted by: Fuq the Media at January 09, 2017 03:40 PM (8Q043)
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Can we talk about Raquel Welch next?
Or Raquel Darrian?
Or Raquel Darrian?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at January 09, 2017 03:41 PM (sh70B)
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Ive always found Streep's acting soulless, like there's no person in there. She gets everything else exactly right and forgets the humanity.
Heck, she couldn't even muster up crocodile tears for her speech last night. Sad!
Heck, she couldn't even muster up crocodile tears for her speech last night. Sad!
Posted by: Mega at January 09, 2017 03:41 PM (Eeeim)
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That doesn't mean every decision he makes going forward is the right one.
I agree, but so far he's been doing well with his infantile Twitter schtick, so who knows?
One way I do know he won, and won big: he made an announcement on Twitter about a speech, but contacted no news organizations about it. They had to report that he'd said so on Twitter, bypassing them entirely. He's turning them into Twitchy.
I agree, but so far he's been doing well with his infantile Twitter schtick, so who knows?
One way I do know he won, and won big: he made an announcement on Twitter about a speech, but contacted no news organizations about it. They had to report that he'd said so on Twitter, bypassing them entirely. He's turning them into Twitchy.
Posted by: The Legacy Media at January 09, 2017 03:41 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: wth at January 09, 2017 03:41 PM (HgMAr)
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313 I always thought Barky was a math dunce, specifically.
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at January 09, 2017 03:40 PM (axPw1)
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He graduated with honors. Do you have to have great grades to get the honors, or is there some way to get the honors despite less than stellar grades?
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at January 09, 2017 03:40 PM (axPw1)
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He graduated with honors. Do you have to have great grades to get the honors, or is there some way to get the honors despite less than stellar grades?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 03:41 PM (zdM/+)
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315 Raquel Darrian was a better actress than Meryl Streep.Or,at least,her movies were more fun to watch.
Posted by: steevy at January 09, 2017 03:41 PM (r/0kC)
Posted by: IP at January 09, 2017 03:42 PM (4byLl)
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Ive always found Streep's acting soulless, like there's no person in there.
She has dead eyes. Lifeless eyes.
And a really ugly mouth.
Ive always found Streep's acting soulless, like there's no person in there.
She has dead eyes. Lifeless eyes.
And a really ugly mouth.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 09, 2017 03:42 PM (PeVdw)
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Can we talk about Raquel Welch next?
Or Raquel Darrian?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at January 09, 2017 03:41 PM (sh70B)
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Or Raquel Pomplun?
Or Raquel Darrian?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at January 09, 2017 03:41 PM (sh70B)
........
Or Raquel Pomplun?
Posted by: wth at January 09, 2017 03:42 PM (HgMAr)
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You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.
Posted by: Wm Randoplh Hearst at January 09, 2017 03:42 PM (vI+F1)
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@311 - But people are still getting treatment - they have to treat you at the ER.
It sounded to me as if they were saying people without insurance were not going to get care period. Then they were going on to say that uncompensated care was going to increase, suggesting that they were going to get care.
It seems misleading to me.
It sounded to me as if they were saying people without insurance were not going to get care period. Then they were going on to say that uncompensated care was going to increase, suggesting that they were going to get care.
It seems misleading to me.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at January 09, 2017 03:42 PM (vg8iE)
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McCain was not born in Panama (the Republic of Panama.) He was born in the United States Canal Zone, which was American territory.
And both of his parents were natural-born US citizens.
Of course, with McCain, and Goldwater, and Cruz, we are allowed to discuss these things. With Lord Obama, .....no.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 09, 2017 03:39 PM (Nox3c)
And McCain's was actually debated... with some from the Left saying he was unqualified because of this...
Congress actually passed a bill in 2008 saying he was Eligible... something they never even debated for Obama.
And both of his parents were natural-born US citizens.
Of course, with McCain, and Goldwater, and Cruz, we are allowed to discuss these things. With Lord Obama, .....no.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 09, 2017 03:39 PM (Nox3c)
And McCain's was actually debated... with some from the Left saying he was unqualified because of this...
Congress actually passed a bill in 2008 saying he was Eligible... something they never even debated for Obama.
Posted by: Don Q. at January 09, 2017 03:42 PM (qf6WZ)
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Reinventing itself? So, they're going to be a toaster now? Or a hat?
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 09, 2017 03:19 PM (8hICw)
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Yoga pants!
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 09, 2017 03:19 PM (8hICw)
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Yoga pants!
Posted by: The guy with the hair at January 09, 2017 03:42 PM (Cn/96)
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@319, there's another theory out there that he never graduated. So, with honors is easy to get when you're bull-shitting the whole story, anyway.
Posted by: sunny-dee at January 09, 2017 03:42 PM (QAOZh)
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Not dead like a doll's eyes. Streep has dead eyes like a corpse.
Not dead like a doll's eyes. Streep has dead eyes like a corpse.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 09, 2017 03:42 PM (PeVdw)
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For the record, I do think Meryl Streep is highly over rated as an actress and just incredibly boring.
Does anyone really get excited to see Meryl Streep take on a role? She's not inept or anything like that, just boring.
It was just this decided thing in Hollywood that she would be the Queen yet I have yet to meet a single person that is a fan of hers.
Does anyone really get excited to see Meryl Streep take on a role? She's not inept or anything like that, just boring.
It was just this decided thing in Hollywood that she would be the Queen yet I have yet to meet a single person that is a fan of hers.
Posted by: Maritime at January 09, 2017 03:43 PM (miHsA)
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Raquel really put everything into her roles. I suspect future generations will get a lot more out of her performances than Streep's.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at January 09, 2017 03:43 PM (sh70B)
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that was one of Steve Sailer's stupider theories, that Barky's grades were so super awesome that they'd have made him look like a nerd and not relatable to average voting Americans
Yeah, no. I expect he got D's and C's and a few F's but accolades anyway because "exotic foreign student" vibe. Remember, they thought he was from Kenya.
Yeah, no. I expect he got D's and C's and a few F's but accolades anyway because "exotic foreign student" vibe. Remember, they thought he was from Kenya.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 03:43 PM (39g3+)
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One way I do know he won, and won big: he made an announcement on Twitter about a speech, but contacted no news organizations about it.
He also made an announcement, and when the media covered him, he turned it into a campaign commercial and the media had to cover it waiting for him to get to the part he was supposed to speak about.
He also made an announcement, and when the media covered him, he turned it into a campaign commercial and the media had to cover it waiting for him to get to the part he was supposed to speak about.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2017 03:44 PM (dSqvH)
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>>Second, I agree it looks petty and stupid but... it seems to work. I
wish it didn't, and I wish we lived in a smarter, more mature society,
but we don't.
Instead of everyone talking about Streep and the Golden Globes
(which every year happens and almost nobody is aware of), they're
starting to talk about Donald Trump. Its controlling the narrative.
This.
On the one hand, tweets like that make me cringe.
On the other hand, I haaaated the way Bush never fought back. Ever. Streep and Hugh Laurie didn't just insult Trump, they lashed out at everyone who voted for him. They do this *all the time*. The Globes was just extra-special since Streep first criticized Trump for bullying from a position of power before she went and attacked all of us deplorables from the stage of the very exclusive and privileged Hollywood awards circuit.
wish it didn't, and I wish we lived in a smarter, more mature society,
but we don't.
Instead of everyone talking about Streep and the Golden Globes
(which every year happens and almost nobody is aware of), they're
starting to talk about Donald Trump. Its controlling the narrative.
This.
On the one hand, tweets like that make me cringe.
On the other hand, I haaaated the way Bush never fought back. Ever. Streep and Hugh Laurie didn't just insult Trump, they lashed out at everyone who voted for him. They do this *all the time*. The Globes was just extra-special since Streep first criticized Trump for bullying from a position of power before she went and attacked all of us deplorables from the stage of the very exclusive and privileged Hollywood awards circuit.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 09, 2017 03:44 PM (NOIQH)
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Maybe the real birth certificate lists him as Muslim, and that's Unhelpful. ...........
It probably identified his race as Caucasian.It was 1962 after all and the Civil Rights Act was still a few years away.
Maybe the real birth certificate lists him as Muslim, and that's Unhelpful. ...........
It probably identified his race as Caucasian.It was 1962 after all and the Civil Rights Act was still a few years away.
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at January 09, 2017 03:44 PM (lKyWE)
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Yoga pants!
Posted by: The guy with the hair at January 09, 2017 03:42 PM (Cn/96)
That might work... who will wear them?
If you say Hilary, you go straight to the barrel.
Yoga pants!
Posted by: The guy with the hair at January 09, 2017 03:42 PM (Cn/96)
That might work... who will wear them?
If you say Hilary, you go straight to the barrel.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 09, 2017 03:44 PM (8hICw)
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@332, Christopher R Taylor ... do you think he faked an accent? I would just love to imagine 20 year old Obama doing a fake Kenyan accent on campus, trying to get laid.
Posted by: sunny-dee at January 09, 2017 03:44 PM (QAOZh)
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Can we talk about Raquel Welch next?
Or Raquel Darrian?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at January 09, 2017 03:41 PM (sh70B)
........
Or Raquel Pomplun?
Posted by: wth at January 09, 2017 03:42 PM (HgMAr)
Had to Google her, but oh God, yes.
Or Raquel Darrian?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at January 09, 2017 03:41 PM (sh70B)
........
Or Raquel Pomplun?
Posted by: wth at January 09, 2017 03:42 PM (HgMAr)
Had to Google her, but oh God, yes.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at January 09, 2017 03:44 PM (sh70B)
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Obviously the Russians hacked Obama's birth certificate.
Posted by: wth at January 09, 2017 03:44 PM (HgMAr)
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He graduated with honors. Do you have to have great grades to get the honors, or is there some way to get the honors despite less than stellar grades?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 03:41 PM (zdM/+)
With a degree in Bogus Ethnic Propaganda Studies, that probably is not hard to do.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 03:41 PM (zdM/+)
With a degree in Bogus Ethnic Propaganda Studies, that probably is not hard to do.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 09, 2017 03:45 PM (ujg0T)
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And a really ugly mouth.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 09, 2017 03:42 PM
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And NOBODY likes that.
And a really ugly mouth.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 09, 2017 03:42 PM
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And NOBODY likes that.
Posted by: Dude from Deliverance at January 09, 2017 03:45 PM (pMGkg)
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Liberal newspapers intentionally not reporting on stories that make leftism look bad.
This has become so de rigueur and so embedded that they don't even know they are doing it anymore.
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Several years ago, we had to sit through a how to do customer service presentation at my crappy part time job. I was sitting with a friend, who, at one point, made a funny, but very rude comment.
He was reported to HR by a girl in another department.
When said friend heard about this, he was in the middle of an emotional melt down, and came to me. When he re-told the story he said I made the very rude comment. I was so shocked, I didn't correct him, since he was on the verge of tears. He was given a talking to and I was never involved, since I didn't do anything.
My point? It's not that liberals ignore these things. Many have deeply disturbing personality disorders that color everything they do.
They are the functional members of society who are actually mentally ill.
This has become so de rigueur and so embedded that they don't even know they are doing it anymore.
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Several years ago, we had to sit through a how to do customer service presentation at my crappy part time job. I was sitting with a friend, who, at one point, made a funny, but very rude comment.
He was reported to HR by a girl in another department.
When said friend heard about this, he was in the middle of an emotional melt down, and came to me. When he re-told the story he said I made the very rude comment. I was so shocked, I didn't correct him, since he was on the verge of tears. He was given a talking to and I was never involved, since I didn't do anything.
My point? It's not that liberals ignore these things. Many have deeply disturbing personality disorders that color everything they do.
They are the functional members of society who are actually mentally ill.
Posted by: shibumi, who requires a cute kitty story stat! at January 09, 2017 03:45 PM (J5mC3)
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Ive always found Streep's acting soulless, like there's no person in there. She gets everything else exactly right and forgets the humanity.
Heck, she couldn't even muster up crocodile tears for her speech last night. Sad!
Posted by: Mega at January 09, 2017 03:41 PM (Eeeim)
I believe Katherine Hepburn said that Streep wasn't a very good actress. That everything she did was just a calculated move very robotic. The quote went something like, You can almost hear the gears clicking in her head as she's doing a scene
Heck, she couldn't even muster up crocodile tears for her speech last night. Sad!
Posted by: Mega at January 09, 2017 03:41 PM (Eeeim)
I believe Katherine Hepburn said that Streep wasn't a very good actress. That everything she did was just a calculated move very robotic. The quote went something like, You can almost hear the gears clicking in her head as she's doing a scene
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 09, 2017 03:45 PM (493sH)
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Streep is overrated. Streep has two Best Actress Oscars, which is the same number as Hillary Swank, Jane Fonda and Jodie Foster, all of whom are still living.
How does her two Best Actress Oscars make her the best actress of our time when others have the same?
She does have one Best Supporting Actress from 1979 (Kramer vs. Kramer). I don't think that puts her ahead.
Can anyone name a portrayal of hers that is epic that people can identify and mimic, like Vivian Leigh in GWTW? Or Katherine Hepburn in "On Golden Pond"? Or Elizabeth Taylor in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf"? Have you ever seen someone say "Here is my impression of Streep in Sophie's Choice"? I can bet never.
I think Streep's characters are flat and one dimensional - personalities yearning for meaning in a pathetic and tearful way. Always the same template. Meh. Overrated.
How does her two Best Actress Oscars make her the best actress of our time when others have the same?
She does have one Best Supporting Actress from 1979 (Kramer vs. Kramer). I don't think that puts her ahead.
Can anyone name a portrayal of hers that is epic that people can identify and mimic, like Vivian Leigh in GWTW? Or Katherine Hepburn in "On Golden Pond"? Or Elizabeth Taylor in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf"? Have you ever seen someone say "Here is my impression of Streep in Sophie's Choice"? I can bet never.
I think Streep's characters are flat and one dimensional - personalities yearning for meaning in a pathetic and tearful way. Always the same template. Meh. Overrated.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 09, 2017 03:45 PM (4AVeu)
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oops how did that happen?
oops how did that happen?
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at January 09, 2017 03:45 PM (lKyWE)
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Meryl Streep's acting is bland and pale with an almost albino like reflection much like Shaun King in vat of glue
Posted by: SchlongStrong at January 09, 2017 03:46 PM (48M9E)
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"Macedonian teenagers" are not the only people who write deliberately-false stories in efforts to get clicks and shape US politics.
Back in my day, when we wanted to influence the politics of another nation, we'd just shove a sword into your throat and let you bleed out.
Kids these days are such pansies.
"Macedonian teenagers" are not the only people who write deliberately-false stories in efforts to get clicks and shape US politics.
Back in my day, when we wanted to influence the politics of another nation, we'd just shove a sword into your throat and let you bleed out.
Kids these days are such pansies.
Posted by: Zombie Alexander the Great at January 09, 2017 03:46 PM (XWkhW)
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>>Yeah, no. I expect he got D's and C's and a few F's but accolades
anyway because "exotic foreign student" vibe. Remember, they thought he
was from Kenya.
Yeah - Kinda figured he applied to schools as a foreign student and then didn't do well thanks to the choom, which is why the records had to be disappeared.
anyway because "exotic foreign student" vibe. Remember, they thought he
was from Kenya.
Yeah - Kinda figured he applied to schools as a foreign student and then didn't do well thanks to the choom, which is why the records had to be disappeared.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 09, 2017 03:46 PM (NOIQH)
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Nah, I'm referencing one of the great Biden lines, about FDR going on TV after the stock market crash.
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Posted by: Lance McCormick
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Somehow I missed that.
That is awesome. And terrifying. And awesome.
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Posted by: Lance McCormick
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Somehow I missed that.
That is awesome. And terrifying. And awesome.
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at January 09, 2017 03:46 PM (toH8T)
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Yeah, no. I expect he got D's and C's and a few F's but accolades anyway because "exotic foreign student" vibe. Remember, they thought he was from Kenya.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 03:43 PM (39g3+)
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I've never really doubted the Obama was smart. I just think that he realized that he could get good grades by parroting what teachers told him, and that habit made him intellectually lazy overall.
If he had had Clarence Thomas' childhood, I'd bet he'd have become a premiere legal mind, had he decided to follow the law, because he would have had to fight for nearly every inch for it. As it was, it really seems like Obama was given everything and he never needed to try that hard, so his intellectual ability atrophied.
Yeah, no. I expect he got D's and C's and a few F's but accolades anyway because "exotic foreign student" vibe. Remember, they thought he was from Kenya.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 03:43 PM (39g3+)
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I've never really doubted the Obama was smart. I just think that he realized that he could get good grades by parroting what teachers told him, and that habit made him intellectually lazy overall.
If he had had Clarence Thomas' childhood, I'd bet he'd have become a premiere legal mind, had he decided to follow the law, because he would have had to fight for nearly every inch for it. As it was, it really seems like Obama was given everything and he never needed to try that hard, so his intellectual ability atrophied.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 03:46 PM (zdM/+)
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Can we really have just one national laughing stock in the media? This is a group effort, after all.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 09, 2017 03:46 PM (92kX2)
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On the other hand, I haaaated the way Bush never fought back. Ever. Streep and Hugh Laurie didn't just insult Trump, they lashed out at everyone who voted for him. They do this *all the time*. The Globes was just extra-special since Streep first criticized Trump for bullying from a position of power before she went and attacked all of us deplorables from the stage of the very exclusive and privileged Hollywood awards circuit.
Posted by: Lizzy
I agree that the "Bush" way was also not the right way.
I like that Trump is willing to throw punches, would just prefer if he was better at landing some of them and being more strategic about when to punch.
Like going on a tirade over SNL a week after you got elected President is not the time to use the bully pulpit. Or to address Meryl Streep's silly speech at the Golden Globes.
On the other hand, I haaaated the way Bush never fought back. Ever. Streep and Hugh Laurie didn't just insult Trump, they lashed out at everyone who voted for him. They do this *all the time*. The Globes was just extra-special since Streep first criticized Trump for bullying from a position of power before she went and attacked all of us deplorables from the stage of the very exclusive and privileged Hollywood awards circuit.
Posted by: Lizzy
I agree that the "Bush" way was also not the right way.
I like that Trump is willing to throw punches, would just prefer if he was better at landing some of them and being more strategic about when to punch.
Like going on a tirade over SNL a week after you got elected President is not the time to use the bully pulpit. Or to address Meryl Streep's silly speech at the Golden Globes.
Posted by: Maritime at January 09, 2017 03:46 PM (miHsA)
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All this birth certificate talk is reminding me of that glorious trolling press conference & infomercial Trump did on the issue.
Fuck the MFM
Fuck the MFM
Posted by: SchlongStrong at January 09, 2017 03:47 PM (48M9E)
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Christopher R Taylor ... do you think he faked an accent?
As arrogant as he is? I doubt he even bothered. What were they going to do, say he's a liar? Nobody would call him on it. Anyone who speaks English from Kenya is very likely to have a British accent, but are people in Harvard or Columbia likely to even know that?
As arrogant as he is? I doubt he even bothered. What were they going to do, say he's a liar? Nobody would call him on it. Anyone who speaks English from Kenya is very likely to have a British accent, but are people in Harvard or Columbia likely to even know that?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 03:47 PM (39g3+)
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He graduated with honors. Do you have to have great grades to get the honors, or is there some way to get the honors despite less than stellar grades?
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He was the editor of the Law Review at Harvard but never wrote anything that was published therein.
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He was the editor of the Law Review at Harvard but never wrote anything that was published therein.
Posted by: Boots at January 09, 2017 03:47 PM (EBwPV)
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"But even if Obama was born in Kenya, wouldn't it be irrelevant just likethe fact that Cruz was born in Canada did not disqualify him?"
First of all, stay focused. Forgery is a crime. A crime has been committed.
Second of all, Cruz was ineligible. He was never going to be allowed to usurp POTUS like Obama did.
He didn't get the nomination so the Dems held their fire for Cruz. Wake up. The game only works their way.
If you think for one second that Hillary would have let a Canadian take the White House over her when she has a direct line to SCOTUS you're nuts. Hillary had to let Obama go because she couldn't alienate the black vote. Otherwise she would have nuked him back in 2008. She would of had no compunctions about taking Ted out with his ineligibility.
First of all, stay focused. Forgery is a crime. A crime has been committed.
Second of all, Cruz was ineligible. He was never going to be allowed to usurp POTUS like Obama did.
He didn't get the nomination so the Dems held their fire for Cruz. Wake up. The game only works their way.
If you think for one second that Hillary would have let a Canadian take the White House over her when she has a direct line to SCOTUS you're nuts. Hillary had to let Obama go because she couldn't alienate the black vote. Otherwise she would have nuked him back in 2008. She would of had no compunctions about taking Ted out with his ineligibility.
Posted by: Fuq the Media at January 09, 2017 03:48 PM (8Q043)
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Remember the forged BC was posted in 2011 to the white house web site. (Trump was the one to challenge him to produce it). Then he ran in 2012. That is fraud in every county in America.
There are powerful people working in the Nationalist Deep State faction that will not allow this issue to go away.
There are powerful people working in the Nationalist Deep State faction that will not allow this issue to go away.
Posted by: Pepe at January 09, 2017 03:48 PM (tPC7s)
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bicentennialguy >Costs of eliminating Obamacare worries hospital officials.
Good story at http://tinyurl.com/jn8v66a containing truth, I think.
Good story at http://tinyurl.com/jn8v66a containing truth, I think.
Posted by: booknlass at January 09, 2017 03:48 PM (hNFnI)
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@330
Streep was a good actress but then after the dingo ate here baby role she became a caricature of themselves.
Similar to the way Deniro and Pacino became caricatures.
Streep was a good actress but then after the dingo ate here baby role she became a caricature of themselves.
Similar to the way Deniro and Pacino became caricatures.
Posted by: Kreplach at January 09, 2017 03:48 PM (Gh/jd)
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You can almost hear the gears clicking in her head as she's doing a scene
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 09, 2017 03:45 PM (493sH)
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Thats not how your quote Katherine Hepburn.
THIS is how you quote Katherine Hepburn
Yo-o-u can-n-n almost hear-r-r the gears clicking-ing in-n-n-n her head-d-d-d as she's do-o-oing a scen-n-n-e
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 09, 2017 03:45 PM (493sH)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 09, 2017 03:45 PM (493sH)
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Thats not how your quote Katherine Hepburn.
THIS is how you quote Katherine Hepburn
Yo-o-u can-n-n almost hear-r-r the gears clicking-ing in-n-n-n her head-d-d-d as she's do-o-oing a scen-n-n-e
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 09, 2017 03:45 PM (493sH)
Posted by: fixerupper at January 09, 2017 03:48 PM (8XRCm)
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"Fake News"? Asserted by the MFM? I've always just called it "News". The fake was always understood.
I'm still pleased the New Conservatism With More Ballz is turning MFM-designed phraseology on its ear and right up their ass.
I'm still pleased the New Conservatism With More Ballz is turning MFM-designed phraseology on its ear and right up their ass.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at January 09, 2017 03:49 PM (1CroS)
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shibumi, I wonder how many careers will be saved by "SJWs Always Lie". if he'd had that book he'd not have involved you, and he might even have got that rat called up to HR for being a rat.
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at January 09, 2017 03:49 PM (axPw1)
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"Now Obama's sure to never be president."
True...he halfarsed sorta tried at it for the last 8 years or so, but nothin' really came of it.
True...he halfarsed sorta tried at it for the last 8 years or so, but nothin' really came of it.
Posted by: Twin Cities Daydrunk - no mo snow, dangit at January 09, 2017 03:49 PM (kVX3W)
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Like going on a tirade over SNL a week after you got elected President is not the time to use the bully pulpit. Or to address Meryl Streep's silly speech at the Golden Globes.
Posted by: Maritime at January 09, 2017 03:46 PM (miHsA)
Is it wrong that I would have preffered him to use a more sarcastic respone: "Isn't a lifetime achievement award one of those things they give you when you are no longer useful?"
Like going on a tirade over SNL a week after you got elected President is not the time to use the bully pulpit. Or to address Meryl Streep's silly speech at the Golden Globes.
Posted by: Maritime at January 09, 2017 03:46 PM (miHsA)
Is it wrong that I would have preffered him to use a more sarcastic respone: "Isn't a lifetime achievement award one of those things they give you when you are no longer useful?"
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 09, 2017 03:50 PM (92kX2)
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Yeah - Kinda figured he applied to schools as a foreign student and then didn't do well thanks to the NASTY HEAD INJURY RESULTING IN A HUGE SCAR, which is why the records had to be disappeared.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 09, 2017 03:46 PM (NOIQH)
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$.02
Posted by: Lizzy at January 09, 2017 03:46 PM (NOIQH)
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$.02
Posted by: wth at January 09, 2017 03:50 PM (HgMAr)
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357 There are powerful people working in the Nationalist Deep State faction that will not allow this issue to go away.
Posted by: Pepe at January 09, 2017 03:48 PM (tPC7s)
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This, my friends, is a great example of lost opportunity costs.
This "fight" is never going to achieve anything. It won't overturn a single EO or uproot a single law. It's just a fight with no point. These people's time and money (if they actually exist, which I kind of doubt) could be spent on things that could actually come true. Instead, they're going to enrich trial lawyers and waste taxpayer money filing lawsuits that will go nowhere.
But don't let my feelings stop you. Go ahead with your plan. Just don't come whining when nothing comes of it.
Posted by: Pepe at January 09, 2017 03:48 PM (tPC7s)
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This, my friends, is a great example of lost opportunity costs.
This "fight" is never going to achieve anything. It won't overturn a single EO or uproot a single law. It's just a fight with no point. These people's time and money (if they actually exist, which I kind of doubt) could be spent on things that could actually come true. Instead, they're going to enrich trial lawyers and waste taxpayer money filing lawsuits that will go nowhere.
But don't let my feelings stop you. Go ahead with your plan. Just don't come whining when nothing comes of it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 03:50 PM (zdM/+)
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I've never really doubted the Obama was smart. I just think that he realized that he could get good grades by parroting what teachers told him, and that habit made him intellectually lazy overall.
Sure, I think he's a smart guy. But he was stoned out of his gourd during college and I doubt he put any more work into it than he did his presidency. Could he have gotten good grades? Sure. But I really doubt he did. If he pulled an A average, they would have plastered those things all over creation.
I like that Trump is willing to throw punches, would just prefer if he was better at landing some of them and being more strategic about when to punch.
Sure, I'd like that better too. It would appeal to me if he was smarter and more clever about it.
But would it appeal to the average American in Idiocracy? That's who he's talking to, and who elected him.
Sure, I think he's a smart guy. But he was stoned out of his gourd during college and I doubt he put any more work into it than he did his presidency. Could he have gotten good grades? Sure. But I really doubt he did. If he pulled an A average, they would have plastered those things all over creation.
I like that Trump is willing to throw punches, would just prefer if he was better at landing some of them and being more strategic about when to punch.
Sure, I'd like that better too. It would appeal to me if he was smarter and more clever about it.
But would it appeal to the average American in Idiocracy? That's who he's talking to, and who elected him.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 03:50 PM (39g3+)
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He graduated with honors. Do you have to have great grades to get the honors, or is there some way to get the honors despite less than stellar grades?
I, too, had stellar grades and graduated with high honors, sum laude, for my major, Campus Wildlife, 2.5 GPA.
I, too, had stellar grades and graduated with high honors, sum laude, for my major, Campus Wildlife, 2.5 GPA.
Posted by: R. DUKE at January 09, 2017 03:50 PM (ONH2e)
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Well the "media" and all Her sycophant Hollyweird peers are celebrating Streeps fantastic, amazing brave inspiring "speech" today... They are all in twitter heaven!
Posted by: deplorable donna at January 09, 2017 03:51 PM (O2RFr)
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Yo-o-u can-n-n almost hear-r-r the gears clicking-ing in-n-n-n her head-d-d-d as she's do-o-oing a scen-n-n-e
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 09, 2017 03:45 PM (493sH)
_________________________
L-L-L-M-A-A-O.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 09, 2017 03:45 PM (493sH)
_________________________
L-L-L-M-A-A-O.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 09, 2017 03:51 PM (4AVeu)
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Unlike any republican except maybe Teddy Roosevelt, Trump takes no crap from anybody.
Insult him and he insults right back.
I would argue that the reason we got Barky in the first place was because Bush never ever defended himself during the 8 years he was the lefty's punching bag. It was not just safe but cool to insult Bush, his voters, republicans in general, etc.
The only socially acceptable position was to be against Bush and anything associated with him.
Insult him and he insults right back.
I would argue that the reason we got Barky in the first place was because Bush never ever defended himself during the 8 years he was the lefty's punching bag. It was not just safe but cool to insult Bush, his voters, republicans in general, etc.
The only socially acceptable position was to be against Bush and anything associated with him.
Posted by: Boots at January 09, 2017 03:51 PM (EBwPV)
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On one had I'd like PE Trump to stay above the fray and not twitter and insult his enemies. On the other hand how's that work for us before when the Left attacked us: NOT SO GOOD.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 09, 2017 03:51 PM (sRFAL)
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The fact that Obama had this swirling around him and never took it head on until Trump made the media focus on it tells me he was hiding something.
Think about it, if you could earn even one extra vote by showing the public a copy of your birth certificate to put this issue to bed, you would do it.
Yet Obama wouldn't until he was forced to.
Think about it, if you could earn even one extra vote by showing the public a copy of your birth certificate to put this issue to bed, you would do it.
Yet Obama wouldn't until he was forced to.
Posted by: Maritime at January 09, 2017 03:51 PM (miHsA)
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Posted by: Maritime at January 09, 2017 03:46 PM (miHsA)
Soooo... apparently you don't think its in his interest to fight the Culture War?
That he should not bother to answer the Media / Hollywood critics who attack him?
The Streep speech was not only on the show itself, but all over the Main Media the next day...
THEY made it an issue... and Trump responded.
Soooo... apparently you don't think its in his interest to fight the Culture War?
That he should not bother to answer the Media / Hollywood critics who attack him?
The Streep speech was not only on the show itself, but all over the Main Media the next day...
THEY made it an issue... and Trump responded.
Posted by: Don Q. at January 09, 2017 03:51 PM (qf6WZ)
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But would it appeal to the average American in Idiocracy? That's who he's talking to, and who elected him.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 03:50 PM (39g3+)
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Wow.
Meryl Steep posts here as a Dude.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 03:50 PM (39g3+)
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Wow.
Meryl Steep posts here as a Dude.
Posted by: fixerupper at January 09, 2017 03:52 PM (8XRCm)
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Somehow I missed that. That is awesome. And terrifying. And awesome.
I'll try to find the actual quote. It's way better than my paraphrase.
I'll try to find the actual quote. It's way better than my paraphrase.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 09, 2017 03:52 PM (u0s1P)
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Unlike any republican except maybe Teddy Roosevelt, Trump takes no crap from anybody.
Insult him and he insults right back.
I would argue that the reason we got Barky in the first place was because Bush never ever defended himself during the 8 years he was the lefty's punching bag. It was not just safe but cool to insult Bush, his voters, republicans in general, etc.
The only socially acceptable position was to be against Bush and anything associated with him.
Posted by: Boots at January 09, 2017 03:51 PM (EBwPV)
Yep, playing 'nice' just lets people walk all over you. You can only play nice with someone who also agrees to play nice. If they fight dirty, you gotta fight back.
Insult him and he insults right back.
I would argue that the reason we got Barky in the first place was because Bush never ever defended himself during the 8 years he was the lefty's punching bag. It was not just safe but cool to insult Bush, his voters, republicans in general, etc.
The only socially acceptable position was to be against Bush and anything associated with him.
Posted by: Boots at January 09, 2017 03:51 PM (EBwPV)
Yep, playing 'nice' just lets people walk all over you. You can only play nice with someone who also agrees to play nice. If they fight dirty, you gotta fight back.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at January 09, 2017 03:52 PM (sh70B)
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"It probably identified his race as Caucasian.It was 1962 after all and the Civil Rights Act was still a few years away."
Again, if it were only one section that needed to be changed they could have changed it on Obama's birth certificate. HE DIDN'T HAVE ONE TO USE.
Please, please, please, watch Sheriff Joe's press conferences and use your brain.
So many opine on a topic they don't know anything about.
Again, if it were only one section that needed to be changed they could have changed it on Obama's birth certificate. HE DIDN'T HAVE ONE TO USE.
Please, please, please, watch Sheriff Joe's press conferences and use your brain.
So many opine on a topic they don't know anything about.
Posted by: Fuq the Media at January 09, 2017 03:52 PM (8Q043)
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Is it wrong that I would have preffered him to use a more sarcastic respone: "Isn't a lifetime achievement award one of those things they give you when you are no longer useful?"
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Yea, you can tell when he does the tweets like this, he comes off like he spitting mad and in a meltdown.
I would much rather a cool and collected Donald Trump slam Streep and Hollywood in a smarter way that could get under their skin.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Yea, you can tell when he does the tweets like this, he comes off like he spitting mad and in a meltdown.
I would much rather a cool and collected Donald Trump slam Streep and Hollywood in a smarter way that could get under their skin.
Posted by: Maritime at January 09, 2017 03:54 PM (miHsA)
Posted by: Bill Clinton at January 09, 2017 03:54 PM (/Nite)
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>>thanks to the NASTY HEAD INJURY RESULTING IN A HUGE SCAR
Heh. Yeah, about that...has that ever been explained?
There's also that trip to Pok-ee-stahn when Americans couldn't travel there, and Wayne Allyn Root's claims about the "ghost of Columbia" (no classmates recall seeing Obama in classes related to his major).
Just file all of these under 'things I'd like someone to dig up the answers to one of these days'.
Heh. Yeah, about that...has that ever been explained?
There's also that trip to Pok-ee-stahn when Americans couldn't travel there, and Wayne Allyn Root's claims about the "ghost of Columbia" (no classmates recall seeing Obama in classes related to his major).
Just file all of these under 'things I'd like someone to dig up the answers to one of these days'.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 09, 2017 03:54 PM (NOIQH)
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Similar to the way Deniro and Pacino became caricatures.
Please don't mention Deniro and Pacino in the same sentence.
Deniro is nothing compared to Pacino.
And yes Pacino did start mailing it in at some point.
Please don't mention Deniro and Pacino in the same sentence.
Deniro is nothing compared to Pacino.
And yes Pacino did start mailing it in at some point.
Posted by: eleven at January 09, 2017 03:54 PM (qUNWi)
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366 357 There are powerful people working in the Nationalist Deep State faction that will not allow this issue to go away.
Posted by: Pepe at January 09, 2017 03:48 PM (tPC7s)
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This, my friends, is a great example of lost opportunity costs.
This "fight" is never going to achieve anything. It won't overturn a single EO or uproot a single law. It's just a fight with no point. These people's time and money (if they actually exist, which I kind of doubt) could be spent on things that could actually come true. Instead, they're going to enrich trial lawyers and waste taxpayer money filing lawsuits that will go nowhere.
But don't let my feelings stop you. Go ahead with your plan. Just don't come whining when nothing comes of it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 03:50 PM (z
It's not my plan. It is Nationalist Pro American powerful interests in the Deep State.
You are being dismissive just like most conservatives were from day one months before the 2008 election. How did that work out allowing lawlessness to spread and inflection our Country like a Cancer.
Posted by: Pepe at January 09, 2017 03:48 PM (tPC7s)
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This, my friends, is a great example of lost opportunity costs.
This "fight" is never going to achieve anything. It won't overturn a single EO or uproot a single law. It's just a fight with no point. These people's time and money (if they actually exist, which I kind of doubt) could be spent on things that could actually come true. Instead, they're going to enrich trial lawyers and waste taxpayer money filing lawsuits that will go nowhere.
But don't let my feelings stop you. Go ahead with your plan. Just don't come whining when nothing comes of it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 03:50 PM (z
It's not my plan. It is Nationalist Pro American powerful interests in the Deep State.
You are being dismissive just like most conservatives were from day one months before the 2008 election. How did that work out allowing lawlessness to spread and inflection our Country like a Cancer.
Posted by: Pepe at January 09, 2017 03:54 PM (tPC7s)
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I don't honestly give a crap about Obama's birth certificate, I just am sure it was doctored in the image we got to change some detail that a petty schmuck like Barry didn't want coming out.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 03:54 PM (39g3+)
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Or I can just link to a Google search, and you can pick your source/format:
http://tinyurl.com/hrhww28
"When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.' "
I forgot about "princes of greed." Man, I'm gonna miss Biden's comments.
http://tinyurl.com/hrhww28
"When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.' "
I forgot about "princes of greed." Man, I'm gonna miss Biden's comments.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 09, 2017 03:55 PM (u0s1P)
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Their ages are approximately four years apart Helen Mirren is 71. Merely Street is 67) I find Mirren to be a far better, more interesting actress..
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2017 03:55 PM (tOcW/)
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Make that "Meryl" but merely that was a good auto correct for Meryl Streep.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2017 03:56 PM (tOcW/)
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Helen Mirren is 71. .. She is a fantastic actress
Posted by: deplorable donna at January 09, 2017 03:56 PM (O2RFr)
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386
Their ages are approximately four years apart Helen Mirren is 71.
Merely Street is 67) I find Mirren to be a far better, more interesting
actress..
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2017 03:55 PM (tOcW/)
Yes; I tend to enjoy Mirren a lot more - I find her a much more skillful actor.
Their ages are approximately four years apart Helen Mirren is 71.
Merely Street is 67) I find Mirren to be a far better, more interesting
actress..
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2017 03:55 PM (tOcW/)
Yes; I tend to enjoy Mirren a lot more - I find her a much more skillful actor.
Posted by: IC at January 09, 2017 03:56 PM (a0IVu)
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Soooo... apparently you don't think its in his interest to fight the Culture War?
That he should not bother to answer the Media / Hollywood critics who attack him?
The Streep speech was not only on the show itself, but all over the Main Media the next day...
THEY made it an issue... and Trump responded.
Posted by: Don Q.
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Not with individual actors in Hollywood and silly award show speeches, no.
Probably 97% of Americans didn't see Meryl Streeps speech, but Trump gave her a much bigger platform and he came off thin skinned. Sure it probably dinged up Meryl Streep also, but who gives a shit.
Same with SNL, if anything, I would argue Trump probably gave the show a bump in the ratings making it clear it really bothered him.
That he should not bother to answer the Media / Hollywood critics who attack him?
The Streep speech was not only on the show itself, but all over the Main Media the next day...
THEY made it an issue... and Trump responded.
Posted by: Don Q.
_________
Not with individual actors in Hollywood and silly award show speeches, no.
Probably 97% of Americans didn't see Meryl Streeps speech, but Trump gave her a much bigger platform and he came off thin skinned. Sure it probably dinged up Meryl Streep also, but who gives a shit.
Same with SNL, if anything, I would argue Trump probably gave the show a bump in the ratings making it clear it really bothered him.
Posted by: Maritime at January 09, 2017 03:57 PM (miHsA)
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Annette O'Toole in this episode of Gunsmoke from 1970.Hawt.
Posted by: steevy at January 09, 2017 03:57 PM (r/0kC)
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383 It's not my plan. It is Nationalist Pro American powerful interests in the Deep State.
You are being dismissive just like most conservatives were from day one months before the 2008 election. How did that work out allowing lawlessness to spread and inflection our Country like a Cancer.
Posted by: Pepe at January 09, 2017 03:54 PM (tPC7s)
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If you want to put forward an argument for being proactive against something that will come to pass, that's different from, "This thing that will literally never happen (the summation repeal of all actions done by Barack Obama as president) is gonna happen based on the 'Nationalist Pro American powerful interests in the Deep State'."
But, I'll be fair. If this "Deep State" comes along and somehow manages to invalidate every action of Obama's presidency based on his birth certificate (or hell, any way whatsoever), I will come back crawling with apologies.
I somehow doubt I'll have to, though.
You are being dismissive just like most conservatives were from day one months before the 2008 election. How did that work out allowing lawlessness to spread and inflection our Country like a Cancer.
Posted by: Pepe at January 09, 2017 03:54 PM (tPC7s)
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If you want to put forward an argument for being proactive against something that will come to pass, that's different from, "This thing that will literally never happen (the summation repeal of all actions done by Barack Obama as president) is gonna happen based on the 'Nationalist Pro American powerful interests in the Deep State'."
But, I'll be fair. If this "Deep State" comes along and somehow manages to invalidate every action of Obama's presidency based on his birth certificate (or hell, any way whatsoever), I will come back crawling with apologies.
I somehow doubt I'll have to, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 03:57 PM (zdM/+)
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Please, please, please, watch Sheriff Joe's press conferences and use your brain. So many opine on a topic they don't know anything about.
Posted by: Fuq the Media at January 09, 2017 03:52 PM (8Q043)
You're a Twitter freak aren't you?
Please, please, please, watch Sheriff Joe's press conferences and use your brain. So many opine on a topic they don't know anything about.
Posted by: Fuq the Media at January 09, 2017 03:52 PM (8Q043)
You're a Twitter freak aren't you?
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at January 09, 2017 03:57 PM (lKyWE)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2017 03:57 PM (tOcW/)
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>>I would much rather a cool and collected Donald Trump slam Streep and
Hollywood in a smarter way that could get under their skin.
Me, too. That Trump doesn't exist. He is a blunt-force instrument.
The next best thing would be for someone else to manage his twitter feed, but...he having so much fun terrorizing the press* that I'm OK with it for now.
*Someone here mentioned his wife recently seeing BBC's Katty Kay speak, and afterward she admitted that she was losing sleep because she never knew when Trump would tweet something at 3:00am and that tweet would then dominate the day's news. LOL
Hollywood in a smarter way that could get under their skin.
Me, too. That Trump doesn't exist. He is a blunt-force instrument.
The next best thing would be for someone else to manage his twitter feed, but...he having so much fun terrorizing the press* that I'm OK with it for now.
*Someone here mentioned his wife recently seeing BBC's Katty Kay speak, and afterward she admitted that she was losing sleep because she never knew when Trump would tweet something at 3:00am and that tweet would then dominate the day's news. LOL
Posted by: Lizzy at January 09, 2017 03:57 PM (NOIQH)
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>>And a really ugly mouth.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite
Oh, it's not that ugly.
Posted by: Bill Clinton at January 09, 2017 03:54 PM (/Nite)
..............
Bet you liked her in Silkwood too, Bubba.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite
Oh, it's not that ugly.
Posted by: Bill Clinton at January 09, 2017 03:54 PM (/Nite)
..............
Bet you liked her in Silkwood too, Bubba.
Posted by: wth at January 09, 2017 03:57 PM (HgMAr)
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Ummm....wasn't Hoover the president that would have gotten on TV if it had existed?
Posted by: eleven at January 09, 2017 03:58 PM (qUNWi)
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Wow.
Meryl Steep posts here as a Dude.
This is the same America that voted for Barack Obama twice despite an abysmal performance and disaster overseas, cause he's cool. Remember three years ago how everyone was bemoaning how stupid the country has gotten and how easily misled we are? That didn't change on November.
People commenting on this blog does not represent the average American. As a whole, we as a country are ill informed, ill educated by our education system, misled by our news sources, and not particularly deep or thoughtful.
That's not some snide elitist crack, its true about the public at large. its true everywhere. Most people don't know and don't give a crap about politics and world issues because they are too busy with life to have time or energy for that.
Meryl Steep posts here as a Dude.
This is the same America that voted for Barack Obama twice despite an abysmal performance and disaster overseas, cause he's cool. Remember three years ago how everyone was bemoaning how stupid the country has gotten and how easily misled we are? That didn't change on November.
People commenting on this blog does not represent the average American. As a whole, we as a country are ill informed, ill educated by our education system, misled by our news sources, and not particularly deep or thoughtful.
That's not some snide elitist crack, its true about the public at large. its true everywhere. Most people don't know and don't give a crap about politics and world issues because they are too busy with life to have time or energy for that.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 03:58 PM (39g3+)
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I've never seen Streep play a role that I cared about. I find her boring as hell.
Posted by: irright at January 09, 2017 03:58 PM (pMGkg)
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386 Their ages are approximately four years apart Helen Mirren is 71. Merely Street is 67) I find Mirren to be a far better, more interesting actress..
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2017 03:55 PM (tOcW/)
I agree she seems more classy, but do not look up her political views.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2017 03:55 PM (tOcW/)
I agree she seems more classy, but do not look up her political views.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 09, 2017 03:58 PM (92kX2)
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. If they fight dirty, you gotta fight back.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
Which is why Rove disappointed me. I thought he would be Georgie's alter ego bringing the pain.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
Which is why Rove disappointed me. I thought he would be Georgie's alter ego bringing the pain.
Posted by: Jean at January 09, 2017 03:59 PM (LWRKF)
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"Hillary is a sick drunk with probable mental issues, a list of health problems almost longer than my dick who started a meme war with an ugly cartoon frog (and lost) then was too drugged up to even concede on election night and now is OK with an open race war as long as she's got her millions. "
Yup, yup, yup, yup, and yup.
She's goin' cheap in most celebrity dead pools, too. Get in on it now, make some dough off this awful thang.
Yup, yup, yup, yup, and yup.
She's goin' cheap in most celebrity dead pools, too. Get in on it now, make some dough off this awful thang.
Posted by: Twin Cities Daydrunk - no mo snow, dangit at January 09, 2017 03:59 PM (kVX3W)
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Posted by: Maritime at January 09, 2017 03:57 PM (miHsA)
Sorry... but every MSM channel, including Fox News, was covering the Merely Streep dis of Trump... LONG before he Tweeted anything back.
His Tweet became the second Phase of the story... it was not the first.
Sorry... but every MSM channel, including Fox News, was covering the Merely Streep dis of Trump... LONG before he Tweeted anything back.
His Tweet became the second Phase of the story... it was not the first.
Posted by: Don Q. at January 09, 2017 03:59 PM (qf6WZ)
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Left entirely to his own devices, Trump often shows poor judgment about when and how to strike back.
He needs an editor, so to speak.
BUT, I'd rather have someone who makes blunders fighting back than someone who doesn't fight back at all.
He needs an editor, so to speak.
BUT, I'd rather have someone who makes blunders fighting back than someone who doesn't fight back at all.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 09, 2017 03:59 PM (Nox3c)
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The Streep speech was not only on the show itself, but all over the Main Media the next day...
Yes it was everywhere..... Trump responding had no effect on the coverage it is and was getting ... including from the WH which called it thoughtful and well delivered....
Yes it was everywhere..... Trump responding had no effect on the coverage it is and was getting ... including from the WH which called it thoughtful and well delivered....
Posted by: deplorable donna at January 09, 2017 03:59 PM (O2RFr)
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377 Unlike any republican except maybe Teddy Roosevelt, Trump takes no crap from anybody.
Insult him and he insults right back.
During the debates, he went on a little longer than was comfortable to me, but I've always admired brevity.
But PE Trump inspires me. I don't take lies laying down anymore. I reply with factual truth, if I can find it.
Insult him and he insults right back.
During the debates, he went on a little longer than was comfortable to me, but I've always admired brevity.
But PE Trump inspires me. I don't take lies laying down anymore. I reply with factual truth, if I can find it.
Posted by: booknlass at January 09, 2017 03:59 PM (hNFnI)
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I like that Trump is willing to throw punches, would just prefer if he was better at landing some of them and being more strategic about when to punch.
And that's why Republicans lose. And why we got Trump.
Every reply does not have to be a high-brow retort. In any struggle ... the rules of engagement are set by the dirtier player. And the dirtier player always has the advantage.
And their is no "strategy" regarding when to hit back. Trump must ALWAYS hit back, because the DNC suffers no penalty for their initial blows. Trump's counter-punch is their only downside. It should be a vicious and nasty as possible.
If he ruins a couple careers ... things may change. But not until.
And that's why Republicans lose. And why we got Trump.
Every reply does not have to be a high-brow retort. In any struggle ... the rules of engagement are set by the dirtier player. And the dirtier player always has the advantage.
And their is no "strategy" regarding when to hit back. Trump must ALWAYS hit back, because the DNC suffers no penalty for their initial blows. Trump's counter-punch is their only downside. It should be a vicious and nasty as possible.
If he ruins a couple careers ... things may change. But not until.
Posted by: ScoggDog at January 09, 2017 03:59 PM (3cOA7)
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And yes Pacino did start mailing it in at some point.
I think that point was established by Reddit or somewhere and then publicized by The Onion's A/V Club.
I'll look.
I think that point was established by Reddit or somewhere and then publicized by The Onion's A/V Club.
I'll look.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 09, 2017 03:59 PM (u0s1P)
409
Annette O'Toole in this episode of Gunsmoke from 1970.Hawt.
Posted by: steevy at January 09, 2017 03:57 PM (r/0kC)
There were a surprising number of hotties on Gunsmoke. A lot of starlets would show up in Miss Kitty's 'saloon' for some face time. Would have loved to have been James Arness.
Posted by: steevy at January 09, 2017 03:57 PM (r/0kC)
There were a surprising number of hotties on Gunsmoke. A lot of starlets would show up in Miss Kitty's 'saloon' for some face time. Would have loved to have been James Arness.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at January 09, 2017 03:59 PM (sh70B)
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I somehow doubt I'll have to, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 03:57 PM (zdM/+)
What version of chem trail mask do you use?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 03:57 PM (zdM/+)
What version of chem trail mask do you use?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 09, 2017 04:00 PM (92kX2)
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I agree she seems more classy, but do not look up her political views.
Yes Miren has had some nasty things to say about Trump....
Yes Miren has had some nasty things to say about Trump....
Posted by: deplorable donna at January 09, 2017 04:00 PM (O2RFr)
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397 Ummm....wasn't Hoover the president that would have gotten on TV if it had existed?
Posted by: eleven at January 09, 2017 03:58 PM (qUNWi)
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I don't know specifically, but there were multiple rises and falls in the Great Depression. It wasn't one solidly down line.
Could have happened during FDR's presidency, easily.
Posted by: eleven at January 09, 2017 03:58 PM (qUNWi)
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I don't know specifically, but there were multiple rises and falls in the Great Depression. It wasn't one solidly down line.
Could have happened during FDR's presidency, easily.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 04:01 PM (zdM/+)
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Diarhea
Posted by: Peter Griffen at January 09, 2017 04:01 PM (Re/7S)
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"Yet Obama wouldn't until he was forced to."
He was forced to show a forgery.
God, I can't wait until Jan. 20.
He was forced to show a forgery.
God, I can't wait until Jan. 20.
Posted by: Fuq the Media at January 09, 2017 04:01 PM (8Q043)
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399. I've never seen Streep play a role that I cared about. I find her boring as hell.
I'd like to see her buns up kneeling and squealing.
I'd like to see her buns up kneeling and squealing.
Posted by: R. DUKE at January 09, 2017 04:01 PM (ONH2e)
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And yes Pacino did start mailing it in at some point.
I think that point was established by Reddit or somewhere and then publicized by The Onion's A/V Club.
I'll look.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 09, 2017 03:59 PM (u0s1P)
You can spot the precise second in The Devil's Advocate. First part of the movie, he's Pacino the actor. Then he starts shout-acting and he becomes a caricature.
Eh. It's ok. He's made his bones long ago, if he wants to coast along, I guess he's earned it.
I think that point was established by Reddit or somewhere and then publicized by The Onion's A/V Club.
I'll look.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 09, 2017 03:59 PM (u0s1P)
You can spot the precise second in The Devil's Advocate. First part of the movie, he's Pacino the actor. Then he starts shout-acting and he becomes a caricature.
Eh. It's ok. He's made his bones long ago, if he wants to coast along, I guess he's earned it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at January 09, 2017 04:01 PM (sh70B)
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But, I'll be fair. If this "Deep State" comes along and somehow manages to invalidate every action of Obama's presidency based on his birth certificate (or hell, any way whatsoever), I will come back crawling with apologies.
I somehow doubt I'll have to, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 03:57 PM (zdM/+)
Will it mean anything Legally? No...
But it sure might shut him up....
I somehow doubt I'll have to, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 03:57 PM (zdM/+)
Will it mean anything Legally? No...
But it sure might shut him up....
Posted by: Don Q. at January 09, 2017 04:01 PM (qf6WZ)
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I find Mirren to be a far better, more interesting
actress..
I do too, and they probably are very similar in viewpoint and politics. Another really great actress most people know only through Harry Potter is Maggie Smith (professor McGonagall). They don't so much wow you with their acting as pull you into the role and make you impressed with the story.
Katherine Hepburn was another actress that never impressed me much. She was always Katherine Hepburn but had such a powerful personality she made the roles interesting (kind of like John Wayne).
actress..
I do too, and they probably are very similar in viewpoint and politics. Another really great actress most people know only through Harry Potter is Maggie Smith (professor McGonagall). They don't so much wow you with their acting as pull you into the role and make you impressed with the story.
Katherine Hepburn was another actress that never impressed me much. She was always Katherine Hepburn but had such a powerful personality she made the roles interesting (kind of like John Wayne).
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 04:01 PM (39g3+)
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>>Same with SNL, if anything, I would argue Trump probably gave the show a
bump in the ratings making it clear it really bothered him.
No, the MSM gives SNL a bump during the elections. They do a skit, then every news station, from PBS/NBC/CNN/ABC/CBS/Fox/MSNBC Joe to the late talk shows re-runs that skit (and prominent Lefty sites post 'em) and has a laugh at the GOP/conservative targets.
Why do you think whatsername's Palin skits were so well known? They were being aired/posted *everywhere*.
bump in the ratings making it clear it really bothered him.
No, the MSM gives SNL a bump during the elections. They do a skit, then every news station, from PBS/NBC/CNN/ABC/CBS/Fox/MSNBC Joe to the late talk shows re-runs that skit (and prominent Lefty sites post 'em) and has a laugh at the GOP/conservative targets.
Why do you think whatsername's Palin skits were so well known? They were being aired/posted *everywhere*.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 09, 2017 04:02 PM (NOIQH)
420
410 I somehow doubt I'll have to, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 03:57 PM (zdM/+)
What version of chem trail mask do you use?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 09, 2017 04:00 PM (92kX2)
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I was arguing against a conspiracy theory, but whatever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 03:57 PM (zdM/+)
What version of chem trail mask do you use?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 09, 2017 04:00 PM (92kX2)
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I was arguing against a conspiracy theory, but whatever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 04:02 PM (zdM/+)
421
I agree she seems more classy, but do not look up her political views.
Yes Miren has had some nasty things to say about Trump....
Posted by: deplorable donna at January 09, 2017 04:00 PM (O2RFr)
It's nice that the Limeys like Mirren or Hugh Laurie can mouth off about our PE, because it's not like their own country is being overrun by 7th Century savages or anything.
Yes Miren has had some nasty things to say about Trump....
Posted by: deplorable donna at January 09, 2017 04:00 PM (O2RFr)
It's nice that the Limeys like Mirren or Hugh Laurie can mouth off about our PE, because it's not like their own country is being overrun by 7th Century savages or anything.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 09, 2017 04:02 PM (493sH)
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402 "Hillary is a sick drunk with probable mental issues, a list of health problems almost longer than my dick who started a meme war with an ugly cartoon frog (and lost) then was too drugged up to even concede on election night and now is OK with an open race war as long as she's got her millions. "
now that is how to voxplain something.
402 "Hillary is a sick drunk with probable mental issues, a list of health problems almost longer than my dick who started a meme war with an ugly cartoon frog (and lost) then was too drugged up to even concede on election night and now is OK with an open race war as long as she's got her millions. "
now that is how to voxplain something.
Posted by: Lord Sir x at January 09, 2017 04:02 PM (nFwvY)
423
I don't honestly give a crap about Obama's birth certificate, I just am sure it was doctored in the image we got to change some detail that a petty schmuck like Barry didn't want coming out.
++++
Arpaio said his team found the original document, for a woman born a few days apart.
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Arpaio said his team found the original document, for a woman born a few days apart.
Posted by: Bigbys Olive Fingers at January 09, 2017 04:02 PM (H9fos)
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417 Will it mean anything Legally? No...
But it sure might shut him up....
Posted by: Don Q. at January 09, 2017 04:01 PM (qf6WZ)
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Your opinion of Obama is higher than mine.
Nothing will ever shut him up.
But it sure might shut him up....
Posted by: Don Q. at January 09, 2017 04:01 PM (qf6WZ)
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Your opinion of Obama is higher than mine.
Nothing will ever shut him up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 04:02 PM (zdM/+)
425
Speaking of actors, I'm kind of addicted to the BBC series 'Sherlock' with Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock. He really is quite brilliant in it.
Posted by: IC at January 09, 2017 04:03 PM (a0IVu)
426
But, I'll be fair. If this "Deep State" comes along and somehow manages to invalidate every action of Obama's presidency based on his birth certificate (or hell, any way whatsoever), I will come back crawling with apologies.
I somehow doubt I'll have to, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 03:57 PM (zdM/+)
Will it mean anything Legally? No...
But it sure might shut him up....
Posted by: Don Q.
In a just and honest world, it would.
In this one? No. The embarrassment would run too deep. Too many powerful people would have to admit they were played, yet the rubes saw thru it.
I somehow doubt I'll have to, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 03:57 PM (zdM/+)
Will it mean anything Legally? No...
But it sure might shut him up....
Posted by: Don Q.
In a just and honest world, it would.
In this one? No. The embarrassment would run too deep. Too many powerful people would have to admit they were played, yet the rubes saw thru it.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2017 04:03 PM (dSqvH)
427
If they fight dirty, you gotta fight back.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
Which is why Rove disappointed me. I thought he would be Georgie's alter ego bringing the pain.
Posted by: Jean at January 09, 2017 03:59 PM (LWRKF)
Yeah, I've come to the conclusion that Karl Rove wasn't the real fighter there. Not sure who was, but based on is post-2004 performance, it ain't him.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
Which is why Rove disappointed me. I thought he would be Georgie's alter ego bringing the pain.
Posted by: Jean at January 09, 2017 03:59 PM (LWRKF)
Yeah, I've come to the conclusion that Karl Rove wasn't the real fighter there. Not sure who was, but based on is post-2004 performance, it ain't him.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at January 09, 2017 04:03 PM (sh70B)
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424 417 Will it mean anything Legally? No...
But it sure might shut him up....
Posted by: Don Q. at January 09, 2017 04:01 PM (qf6WZ)
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Your opinion of Obama is higher than mine.
Nothing will ever shut him up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 04:02 PM (zdM/+)
OK... might lead the MSM to taking his microphone away?
But it sure might shut him up....
Posted by: Don Q. at January 09, 2017 04:01 PM (qf6WZ)
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Your opinion of Obama is higher than mine.
Nothing will ever shut him up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 04:02 PM (zdM/+)
OK... might lead the MSM to taking his microphone away?
Posted by: Don Q. at January 09, 2017 04:04 PM (qf6WZ)
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I was arguing against a conspiracy theory, but whatever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 04:02 PM (zdM/+)
That was kind of my point. Sorry, the ways of sarc tags are like black magic to me...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 04:02 PM (zdM/+)
That was kind of my point. Sorry, the ways of sarc tags are like black magic to me...
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 09, 2017 04:04 PM (92kX2)
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425 Speaking of actors, I'm kind of addicted to the BBC series 'Sherlock' with Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock. He really is quite brilliant in it.
Posted by: IC at January 09, 2017 04:03 PM (a0IVu)
Enjoy it. There's a very small number of episodes and the dude can't portray a non-sociopathic character to save his life.
Posted by: IC at January 09, 2017 04:03 PM (a0IVu)
Enjoy it. There's a very small number of episodes and the dude can't portray a non-sociopathic character to save his life.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 09, 2017 04:04 PM (KUaJL)
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eleven: "Deniro is nothing compared to Pacino."
Amen to that. Deniro always comes across as, oh, what's the word... slow. That is his cadence. Slow. His range goes from slow to slower.
I think his synapses have larger gaps than normal is I guess what I'm saying. Or his vision is so bad he can't see the stage hand holding up the script.
Amen to that. Deniro always comes across as, oh, what's the word... slow. That is his cadence. Slow. His range goes from slow to slower.
I think his synapses have larger gaps than normal is I guess what I'm saying. Or his vision is so bad he can't see the stage hand holding up the script.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at January 09, 2017 04:04 PM (1CroS)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2017 04:05 PM (dSqvH)
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I'm kind of addicted to the BBC series 'Sherlock' with Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock
He is quite good in everything I've seen him in. Very odd looking guy but once he starts going you forget it and he does a great job.
Not super fond of the series, it got worse every new season but it started out terrific and introduced the world to Cumberbund. He's been in a lot of stuff (he was in Amazing Grace for instance) but was always the other guy you never knew about).
He is quite good in everything I've seen him in. Very odd looking guy but once he starts going you forget it and he does a great job.
Not super fond of the series, it got worse every new season but it started out terrific and introduced the world to Cumberbund. He's been in a lot of stuff (he was in Amazing Grace for instance) but was always the other guy you never knew about).
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 04:05 PM (39g3+)
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Speaking of actors, I'm kind of addicted to the BBC series 'Sherlock' with Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock. He really is quite brilliant in it.
Posted by: IC at January 09, 2017 04:03 PM (a0IVu)
Enjoy it. There's a very small number of episodes and the dude can't portray a non-sociopathic character to save his life.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 09, 2017 04:04 PM (KUaJL)
He was pretty good as Dr. Strange, though it was mostly a Dr. House pastiche.
Posted by: IC at January 09, 2017 04:03 PM (a0IVu)
Enjoy it. There's a very small number of episodes and the dude can't portray a non-sociopathic character to save his life.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 09, 2017 04:04 PM (KUaJL)
He was pretty good as Dr. Strange, though it was mostly a Dr. House pastiche.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at January 09, 2017 04:05 PM (sh70B)
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428
OK... might lead the MSM to taking his microphone away?
Posted by: Don Q. at January 09, 2017 04:04 PM (qf6WZ)
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God, they love him so, don't they?
They'll dismiss it as old, debunked news, and never address it again. He'll be on friendly turf every time he does an interview and it will never come up.
Obama is going to be a more vocal and visible version of Jimmy Carter for the next 30-40 years.
Sorry, but I think we all know it's true.
OK... might lead the MSM to taking his microphone away?
Posted by: Don Q. at January 09, 2017 04:04 PM (qf6WZ)
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God, they love him so, don't they?
They'll dismiss it as old, debunked news, and never address it again. He'll be on friendly turf every time he does an interview and it will never come up.
Obama is going to be a more vocal and visible version of Jimmy Carter for the next 30-40 years.
Sorry, but I think we all know it's true.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 09, 2017 04:05 PM (zdM/+)
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Step back!
Time to report some new FAKE NEWS form the MSM:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38561883
"Customers at a restaurant in Virginia left their black waitress a racist note instead of a tip, local media report.
Kelly Carter says a couple at the diner in Ashburn had written on the receipt: "Great service -- don't tip black people."
Even from 3,000 miles away, I can instantly tell this is TOTALLY FAKE.
Even IF someone was a KKK member, such a person would NEVER intentionally tell the waitress in a written note that you were a racist. And EVN IF in some crazy universe where you would say that you weren't tipping them because you were a racist, you wouldn't start the note with "Great service! Oh and by the by, although you are great, I am a racist, so I won't tip you."
FAKEFAKEFAKEFAKE but will never be acknowledged as such by the MSM.
The waitress just scribbled that on the receipt herself, guaranteed.
Outside chance that the diners were left-sing activists ginning up an incident.
Time to report some new FAKE NEWS form the MSM:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38561883
"Customers at a restaurant in Virginia left their black waitress a racist note instead of a tip, local media report.
Kelly Carter says a couple at the diner in Ashburn had written on the receipt: "Great service -- don't tip black people."
Even from 3,000 miles away, I can instantly tell this is TOTALLY FAKE.
Even IF someone was a KKK member, such a person would NEVER intentionally tell the waitress in a written note that you were a racist. And EVN IF in some crazy universe where you would say that you weren't tipping them because you were a racist, you wouldn't start the note with "Great service! Oh and by the by, although you are great, I am a racist, so I won't tip you."
FAKEFAKEFAKEFAKE but will never be acknowledged as such by the MSM.
The waitress just scribbled that on the receipt herself, guaranteed.
Outside chance that the diners were left-sing activists ginning up an incident.
Posted by: zombie at January 09, 2017 04:05 PM (jBuUi)
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https://tinyurl.com/zuqgdvy
Jared Kushner will take role as top White House adviser
Progtards go nuclear in 3 .. 2.. ..1
Jared Kushner will take role as top White House adviser
Progtards go nuclear in 3 .. 2.. ..1
Posted by: EVLINC! at January 09, 2017 04:05 PM (y3aQB)
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I think once Trump takes over, the MSM will be too busy being outraged every day at what he is doing that they won't have time to pay attention to what Obama or Hollywood has to say. Unless they pull a Shep and chain themselves to trees or something.
Posted by: IC at January 09, 2017 04:06 PM (a0IVu)
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Yes. Maggie Smith is a very fine actress. I prefer actors who have some experience doing plays as well as movies.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2017 04:06 PM (tOcW/)
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I had a decent DVD collection in 2003. I went through the list of people who supported Roman Polanski and threw every movie that was theirs in the trash.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 09, 2017 04:06 PM (VdICR)
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DeNiro used to be amazing, but he's been phoning it in for the paycheck for like 2 decades now. Its kind of disappointing that someone that great is known only to new generations as the dad in Meet the Fockers.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 04:06 PM (39g3+)
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"You're a Twitter freak aren't you?"
No. No account either. Don't read it except for Trump.
Why would you call me a Twitter freak when Sheriff Joe, a law enforcement officer, has information about Obama's forged birth certificate.
Why do you want Obama to get away with forgery?
Why do you believe Obama over Sheriff Joe?
No. No account either. Don't read it except for Trump.
Why would you call me a Twitter freak when Sheriff Joe, a law enforcement officer, has information about Obama's forged birth certificate.
Why do you want Obama to get away with forgery?
Why do you believe Obama over Sheriff Joe?
Posted by: Fuq the Media at January 09, 2017 04:06 PM (8Q043)
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eleven: "Deniro is nothing compared to Pacino."
Amen to that. Deniro always comes across as, oh, what's the word... slow. That is his cadence. Slow. His range goes from slow to slower.
I think his synapses have larger gaps than normal is I guess what I'm saying. Or his vision is so bad he can't see the stage hand holding up the script.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at January 09, 2017 04:04 PM (1CroS)
Deniro has done some solid work. He isn't as flashy as Pacino but his work in Heat and Ronin were the last sparks of a great career before he too became a caricature.
Amen to that. Deniro always comes across as, oh, what's the word... slow. That is his cadence. Slow. His range goes from slow to slower.
I think his synapses have larger gaps than normal is I guess what I'm saying. Or his vision is so bad he can't see the stage hand holding up the script.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at January 09, 2017 04:04 PM (1CroS)
Deniro has done some solid work. He isn't as flashy as Pacino but his work in Heat and Ronin were the last sparks of a great career before he too became a caricature.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at January 09, 2017 04:06 PM (sh70B)
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Okay, no wonder I couldn't find it.
The article is about Robert DeNiro.
http://tinyurl.com/h3zd9ud
I regret the error but apologize for nothing.
The article is about Robert DeNiro.
http://tinyurl.com/h3zd9ud
I regret the error but apologize for nothing.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 09, 2017 04:07 PM (u0s1P)
Posted by: EVLINC! at January 09, 2017 04:07 PM (y3aQB)
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Before Streep became a STAR, she became known for immersing herself into her roles to the extent that she "became" the character (e.g. Silkwood) and people didn't recognize that she was the same actress they had seen in other films. Once this (truly) exceptional acting was recognized and she became a STAR, she lost the ability to do that. Somewhere along the way she stopped trying and became just another overrated diva.
Posted by: Formerly known as Skeptic at January 09, 2017 04:07 PM (91XRk)
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Vomit inducing nood
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 09, 2017 04:08 PM (kTF2Z)
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Sorry... but every MSM channel, including Fox News, was covering the Merely Streep dis of Trump... LONG before he Tweeted anything back.
His Tweet became the second Phase of the story... it was not the first.
Posted by: Don Q.
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So like I said, 97% of Americans didn't see her speech, even when the now irrelevant MSM covered it.
I mean "hollywood disses Trump" is pretty standard fare and nothing new.
I've got no problem with Trump punching back at Hollywood, but at least come off better than "TRUMP ANGRY!!!"
Let Kellyanne write the tweets when it comes to going after his critics.
His Tweet became the second Phase of the story... it was not the first.
Posted by: Don Q.
________
So like I said, 97% of Americans didn't see her speech, even when the now irrelevant MSM covered it.
I mean "hollywood disses Trump" is pretty standard fare and nothing new.
I've got no problem with Trump punching back at Hollywood, but at least come off better than "TRUMP ANGRY!!!"
Let Kellyanne write the tweets when it comes to going after his critics.
Posted by: Maritime at January 09, 2017 04:08 PM (miHsA)
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@zombie
Haven't we seen that kind of fake story before? I seem to recall someone else trying to pull something similar and the waitress setting up a GoFundMe or some crap.
Haven't we seen that kind of fake story before? I seem to recall someone else trying to pull something similar and the waitress setting up a GoFundMe or some crap.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at January 09, 2017 04:08 PM (sh70B)
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Jack Nicholson was amazing once, too, then he sort of fell into a rut. He was good in The Departed, but the movie is a confusing mess, so it detracts from his performance.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 04:08 PM (39g3+)
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Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 09, 2017 04:04 PM (KUaJL)
He wasn't sociopathic as William Pitt in the movie "Amazing Grace" and he did a fine job.
He wasn't sociopathic as William Pitt in the movie "Amazing Grace" and he did a fine job.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2017 04:08 PM (tOcW/)
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I'm enjoying the original half hour gunsmoke episodes, miss Kitty looks so different.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 09, 2017 04:08 PM (82zBi)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 09, 2017 04:09 PM (VdICR)
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Loved DeNiro in "Midnight Run."
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Decided to look at Trump's tweets as his version of "stray voltage" - like what Obama has been doing for years to distract/rile up conservative.
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Decided to look at Trump's tweets as his version of "stray voltage" - like what Obama has been doing for years to distract/rile up conservative.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 09, 2017 04:09 PM (NOIQH)
455
Yeah,Helen Mirren is a left wing nut too.
Posted by: steevy at January 09, 2017 04:09 PM (r/0kC)
Posted by: Bill Clinton at January 09, 2017 04:09 PM (/Nite)
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"Nah, I'm referencing one of the great Biden lines, about FDR going on TV after the stock market crash. "
Believe slow joey dropped that gem on Katie "fake gun documentary" Couric (a.k.a. the princess of the colon), on an Amtrak train some years ago.
Believe slow joey dropped that gem on Katie "fake gun documentary" Couric (a.k.a. the princess of the colon), on an Amtrak train some years ago.
Posted by: Twin Cities Daydrunk - no mo snow, dangit at January 09, 2017 04:10 PM (kVX3W)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 09, 2017 04:10 PM (92kX2)
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449 @zombie
Haven't we seen that kind of fake story before? I seem to recall someone else trying to pull something similar and the waitress setting up a GoFundMe or some crap.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
It's happened dozens of times before.
And yes, this waitress ALSO has a GoFundMe page (surprise surprise!).
Haven't we seen that kind of fake story before? I seem to recall someone else trying to pull something similar and the waitress setting up a GoFundMe or some crap.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
It's happened dozens of times before.
And yes, this waitress ALSO has a GoFundMe page (surprise surprise!).
Posted by: zombie at January 09, 2017 04:11 PM (jBuUi)
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The art of fake news has been developed and weaponized by (somewhat) well-paid liberals sitting in cozy offices in our "professional" newsrooms for 40 years.
Forty years? Try 70 years. Give Walter Duranty his due.
Forty years? Try 70 years. Give Walter Duranty his due.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 09, 2017 04:11 PM (SRKgf)
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Decided to look at Trump's tweets as his version of "stray voltage" - like what Obama has been doing for years to distract/rile up conservative.
Posted by: Lizzy
Usually though there was something going on in the background that Obama was doing to hide that he would implement this
If Trump had say gotten rid of a government agency and decided to use the Meryl Streep smokescreen, then carry on
Posted by: Lizzy
Usually though there was something going on in the background that Obama was doing to hide that he would implement this
If Trump had say gotten rid of a government agency and decided to use the Meryl Streep smokescreen, then carry on
Posted by: Maritime at January 09, 2017 04:11 PM (miHsA)
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The vast, vast majority of actors are Leftists. Maybe 10% are closeted conservatives.
That doesn't mean some of them can't be good people. Most of my theatre friends weren't conservative but they could still be friendly and supportive.
And some are just vile hate-filled drama monsters with huge egos and huge inferiority complexes who are terrified about being found out as frauds.
That doesn't mean some of them can't be good people. Most of my theatre friends weren't conservative but they could still be friendly and supportive.
And some are just vile hate-filled drama monsters with huge egos and huge inferiority complexes who are terrified about being found out as frauds.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at January 09, 2017 04:12 PM (sh70B)
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"I don't honestly give a crap about Obama's birth certificate, I just am sure it was doctored in the image we got to change some detail that a petty schmuck like Barry didn't want coming out."
Well, it's a forgery. A felony.
So you don't care about the Constitution, the rule of law and that a usurper sent soldiers to their deaths and stole trillions US treasury?
Jeez, why bother caring about anything.
Well, it's a forgery. A felony.
So you don't care about the Constitution, the rule of law and that a usurper sent soldiers to their deaths and stole trillions US treasury?
Jeez, why bother caring about anything.
Posted by: Fuq the Media at January 09, 2017 04:12 PM (8Q043)
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Nood. Hollywood.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 09, 2017 04:13 PM (92kX2)
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172 OT -
You know that old joke about a job asking for contradictory work requirements?
I just applied for a job that "requires" two years of Windows 10 experience. Given that Windows 10 came out about 17 months ago, that would be quite the accomplishment.
Posted by: junior at January 09, 2017 03:15 PM (XJqcQ)
_________________________________
Just say you were working with the beta. That should work.
You know that old joke about a job asking for contradictory work requirements?
I just applied for a job that "requires" two years of Windows 10 experience. Given that Windows 10 came out about 17 months ago, that would be quite the accomplishment.
Posted by: junior at January 09, 2017 03:15 PM (XJqcQ)
_________________________________
Just say you were working with the beta. That should work.
Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at January 09, 2017 04:13 PM (B11vO)
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The whole birth certificate thing, constitutional issues aside, is kind of meaningless at this point. I don't know if he was born outside the country. I know he was raised in several foreign countries by an absentee father, a flighty mother, a few communists, and Lolo Soetoro who appears to be the only actual sane and moral one out of all of them. Then he went to a few colleges, earning grades so magnificent that the peons can never gaze upon their majesty, spent a few years listening to how God damn America's chickens are coming home to roost in the US of KKKA, and got dropped into the chute for president.
And was elected twice.
As satisfying as a Columbo "just one more thing" about birth certificates might be, the "was elected twice" thing should be more worrying.
And was elected twice.
As satisfying as a Columbo "just one more thing" about birth certificates might be, the "was elected twice" thing should be more worrying.
Posted by: hogmartin at January 09, 2017 04:13 PM (8nWyX)
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Trump punches back because nobody else will or can do it for him.
Obama has been able to slow jam thru life, especially the last 8 years, because lots of other people are more than happy to jump in and do the dirty work, leaving him with the soft, clean, girly-hands.
Obama has been able to slow jam thru life, especially the last 8 years, because lots of other people are more than happy to jump in and do the dirty work, leaving him with the soft, clean, girly-hands.
Posted by: Boots at January 09, 2017 04:14 PM (EBwPV)
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@zombie
My default setting is any news story about 'racism' or 'Islamaphobia' is that it's a lie.
My default setting is any news story about 'racism' or 'Islamaphobia' is that it's a lie.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at January 09, 2017 04:14 PM (sh70B)
469
462 At one time the percentage was reversed.
Posted by: steevy at January 09, 2017 04:14 PM (r/0kC)
Posted by: Cthulhu at January 09, 2017 04:15 PM (SGpkM)
471
381
I'm guessing he slipped on a banana peel he was smoking, cracked his head open on a curb, woke up in Mooch's hospital, and thought he was heterosexual for a minute.
I'm guessing he slipped on a banana peel he was smoking, cracked his head open on a curb, woke up in Mooch's hospital, and thought he was heterosexual for a minute.
Posted by: wth at January 09, 2017 04:15 PM (HgMAr)
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Yeah, I've come to the conclusion that Karl Rove wasn't the real fighter there. Not sure who was, but based on is post-2004 performance, it ain't him.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at January 09, 2017 04:03 PM (sh70B)
Karl Rove seriously deluded himself into believing that the GOP could win a Hispandering contest.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at January 09, 2017 04:03 PM (sh70B)
Karl Rove seriously deluded himself into believing that the GOP could win a Hispandering contest.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 09, 2017 04:16 PM (ujg0T)
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The whole birth certificate thing, constitutional issues aside, is kind of meaningless at this point. I don't know if he was born outside the country. I know he was raised in several foreign countries by an absentee father, a flighty mother, a few communists, and Lolo Soetoro who appears to be the only actual sane and moral one out of all of them. Then he went to a few colleges, earning grades so magnificent that the peons can never gaze upon their majesty, spent a few years listening to how God damn America's chickens are coming home to roost in the US of KKKA, and got dropped into the chute for president.
And was elected twice.
As satisfying as a Columbo "just one more thing" about birth certificates might be, the "was elected twice" thing should be more worrying.
Posted by: hogmartin
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People don't care as much as long as the person in question shares their ideology.
I would argue that Cruz was ineligible being born in Canada, but I would have still voted for him had he been our nominee.
I do think though it would have Obama say publicly admitted he was born in Kenya, it would have hurt him with voters.
And was elected twice.
As satisfying as a Columbo "just one more thing" about birth certificates might be, the "was elected twice" thing should be more worrying.
Posted by: hogmartin
____________
People don't care as much as long as the person in question shares their ideology.
I would argue that Cruz was ineligible being born in Canada, but I would have still voted for him had he been our nominee.
I do think though it would have Obama say publicly admitted he was born in Kenya, it would have hurt him with voters.
Posted by: Maritime at January 09, 2017 04:16 PM (miHsA)
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OT -
You know that old joke about a job asking for contradictory work requirements?
I just applied for a job that "requires" two years of Windows 10 experience. Given that Windows 10 came out about 17 months ago, that would be quite the accomplishment.
Posted by: junior at January 09, 2017 03:15 PM (XJqcQ)
_________________________________
Just say you were working with the beta. That should work.
Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at January 09, 2017 04:13 PM (B11vO)
Most job requirements are 'nice to have' wishlists by the employers. If you think you can do the job, always submit a focused resume. Get the interview, prove you can do the job and that's all you need for most tech jobs.
Amazon/Apple/Microsoft can be a higher bar to cross but if you prove you can use Win 10, go for it.
You know that old joke about a job asking for contradictory work requirements?
I just applied for a job that "requires" two years of Windows 10 experience. Given that Windows 10 came out about 17 months ago, that would be quite the accomplishment.
Posted by: junior at January 09, 2017 03:15 PM (XJqcQ)
_________________________________
Just say you were working with the beta. That should work.
Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at January 09, 2017 04:13 PM (B11vO)
Most job requirements are 'nice to have' wishlists by the employers. If you think you can do the job, always submit a focused resume. Get the interview, prove you can do the job and that's all you need for most tech jobs.
Amazon/Apple/Microsoft can be a higher bar to cross but if you prove you can use Win 10, go for it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at January 09, 2017 04:17 PM (sh70B)
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Karl Rove seriously deluded himself into believing that the GOP could win a Hispandering contest.
Posted by: Curmudgeon
That's the war that he's still fighting and losing.
Posted by: Curmudgeon
That's the war that he's still fighting and losing.
Posted by: Maritime at January 09, 2017 04:17 PM (miHsA)
476
462 At one time the percentage was reversed.
Posted by: steevy at January 09, 2017 04:14 PM (r/0kC)
Years ago and miles away, I'm afraid.
But actors have always been decadent whores. That tends to skew them to the left.
(NTTAWW whores.)
Posted by: steevy at January 09, 2017 04:14 PM (r/0kC)
Years ago and miles away, I'm afraid.
But actors have always been decadent whores. That tends to skew them to the left.
(NTTAWW whores.)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at January 09, 2017 04:18 PM (sh70B)
477
Hollywood, Leni Riefenstahl just called. She said it was a bit over the top.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 09, 2017 04:22 PM (92kX2)
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zombie
Haven't we seen that kind of fake story before? I seem to recall someone else trying to pull something similar and the waitress setting up a GoFundMe or some crap.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at January 09, 2017 04:08 PM (sh70B)
1 was a Gay Lesbian Fake Vet with green hair.
2 a waitress that said a couple left a racist note on the tip line, she set up a a Go Fundme page and she posted the receipt on Facebook but you could see the guy's info. He hired a lawyer saying she forged his signature and he is suing her. She also had the job because she wrecked her car while driving drunk.
Haven't we seen that kind of fake story before? I seem to recall someone else trying to pull something similar and the waitress setting up a GoFundMe or some crap.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at January 09, 2017 04:08 PM (sh70B)
1 was a Gay Lesbian Fake Vet with green hair.
2 a waitress that said a couple left a racist note on the tip line, she set up a a Go Fundme page and she posted the receipt on Facebook but you could see the guy's info. He hired a lawyer saying she forged his signature and he is suing her. She also had the job because she wrecked her car while driving drunk.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 09, 2017 04:23 PM (dKiJG)
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It's such a great bit, because A) while TV existed, only a very few people had one, and B) FDR wasn't President yet.
Anyway, I probably wouldn't've known about it if not for the HQ. Or his shotgun advice.
Is there a greatest hits-type list of Biden's pontifications? And yes, I'm thinking of the The Onion article about him washing his TransAm in there.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 09, 2017 03:05 PM (u0s1P)
TV didn't even exist in the commercial marketplace until the late 1930's. The stock market crash happened in 1929. Various inventors were working on TV at the time, and I think some examples had been demonstrated. But TV broadcasting didn't really kick in (and then only in a very few markets) until the latter half of the 1930's.
Anyway, I probably wouldn't've known about it if not for the HQ. Or his shotgun advice.
Is there a greatest hits-type list of Biden's pontifications? And yes, I'm thinking of the The Onion article about him washing his TransAm in there.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 09, 2017 03:05 PM (u0s1P)
TV didn't even exist in the commercial marketplace until the late 1930's. The stock market crash happened in 1929. Various inventors were working on TV at the time, and I think some examples had been demonstrated. But TV broadcasting didn't really kick in (and then only in a very few markets) until the latter half of the 1930's.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2017 04:25 PM (bG+ug)
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"As satisfying as a Columbo "just one more thing" about birth certificates might be, the "was elected twice" thing should be more worrying."
And it should concern you that "conservatives" helped that occur.
Truth still needs to come out. And those who forged the documents should be doing time in a federal pen.
You all give up so easily. There a myriad of legal avenues open to Trump should he choose to use them. Lord, I hope he does use them.
Trump is the first guy on our side who actually fights and doesn't give up like your post seems to indicate doing because giving up has been such a successful strategy./s
I want accountability. I want the truth recorded even if nothing can be done about it, which is an arguable point.
If it turns out he wasn't even a citizen that's two Supreme Court Justices who need to go and a Muslim usurper who needs his ass in GITMO.
And it should concern you that "conservatives" helped that occur.
Truth still needs to come out. And those who forged the documents should be doing time in a federal pen.
You all give up so easily. There a myriad of legal avenues open to Trump should he choose to use them. Lord, I hope he does use them.
Trump is the first guy on our side who actually fights and doesn't give up like your post seems to indicate doing because giving up has been such a successful strategy./s
I want accountability. I want the truth recorded even if nothing can be done about it, which is an arguable point.
If it turns out he wasn't even a citizen that's two Supreme Court Justices who need to go and a Muslim usurper who needs his ass in GITMO.
Posted by: Fuq the Media at January 09, 2017 04:28 PM (8Q043)
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The perp suffered from Insufficient Whiteness.
Posted by: joncelli, Present at the Autopsy at January 09, 2017 03:13 PM (RD7QR)
That, and excess mooslimness.
Posted by: joncelli, Present at the Autopsy at January 09, 2017 03:13 PM (RD7QR)
That, and excess mooslimness.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2017 04:29 PM (bG+ug)
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"I do think though it would have Obama say publicly admitted he was born in Kenya, it would have hurt him with voters. "
Obama moved the window (illegally) so that Cruz thought he could be a usurper too. Self absorbed asshole that he is.
Obama moved the window (illegally) so that Cruz thought he could be a usurper too. Self absorbed asshole that he is.
Posted by: Fuq the Media at January 09, 2017 04:32 PM (8Q043)
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Although, I do love "The Burbs."
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 09, 2017 04:32 PM (92kX2)
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I see nothing wrong with enforcing the laws that were broken with the forged BC. This is not a Conspiracy Theory. It is a forgery. And using a forged document is a felony every single time it is used.
If the GOP looks bad and people go down then so be it.
If the GOP looks bad and people go down then so be it.
Posted by: Pepe at January 09, 2017 04:35 PM (tPC7s)
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@sirjameswilcox
@michaelianblack @seanmdav @AndyRichter love how right wing oppose federal gov't control yet get their info from source called TheFederalist
James Wilcox
@sirjameswilcox
Actor guy you might recognize from a film or two. An Otherwise Craft Beer Connoisseur, KU Grad, History-Hack, Backyard Astronomer & Armchair Theologian.
At least he isnt' lying in the bio.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 09, 2017 03:26 PM (V3IFq)
I gather there's some sweet snark there, but could you do us non-Twits a favor, and render it in human-readable syntax?
@sirjameswilcox
@michaelianblack @seanmdav @AndyRichter love how right wing oppose federal gov't control yet get their info from source called TheFederalist
James Wilcox
@sirjameswilcox
Actor guy you might recognize from a film or two. An Otherwise Craft Beer Connoisseur, KU Grad, History-Hack, Backyard Astronomer & Armchair Theologian.
At least he isnt' lying in the bio.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 09, 2017 03:26 PM (V3IFq)
I gather there's some sweet snark there, but could you do us non-Twits a favor, and render it in human-readable syntax?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2017 04:41 PM (bG+ug)
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"This is not a Conspiracy Theory."
Agreed. Keep in mind the same people that couldn't figure out that Trump was for real, wasn't a clown, and the only one that could beat Hillary are the same ones who from the beginning called conservatives - birthers - and aided (and still are) Obama and the Democrats.
The guilt must be overwhelming for them.
Agreed. Keep in mind the same people that couldn't figure out that Trump was for real, wasn't a clown, and the only one that could beat Hillary are the same ones who from the beginning called conservatives - birthers - and aided (and still are) Obama and the Democrats.
The guilt must be overwhelming for them.
Posted by: Fuq the Media at January 09, 2017 04:46 PM (8Q043)
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Any job description that says use Windows 10 isn't a technical job.
Posted by: Jean at January 09, 2017 04:49 PM (LWRKF)
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@zombie
My default setting is any news story about 'racism' or 'Islamaphobia' is that it's a lie.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at January 09, 2017 04:14 PM (sh70B)
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Yeppers - I adopt that approach with every MSM story Ms. Redux or others in the family mention, which they usually mention with a "did you hear that Trump did `X'? - or, back in the day - Bush said 'Y'" and I always would say/say: "It is a lie, everything they say is a lie. All of it. Believe nothing that you read and see in the MSM.Ever."
Even apart from the MSM, I have firm guideline in believing nothing that you read and are told and only half of what you see with your own eyes! Words to live by.
@zombie
My default setting is any news story about 'racism' or 'Islamaphobia' is that it's a lie.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at January 09, 2017 04:14 PM (sh70B)
___________________________________________
Yeppers - I adopt that approach with every MSM story Ms. Redux or others in the family mention, which they usually mention with a "did you hear that Trump did `X'? - or, back in the day - Bush said 'Y'" and I always would say/say: "It is a lie, everything they say is a lie. All of it. Believe nothing that you read and see in the MSM.Ever."
Even apart from the MSM, I have firm guideline in believing nothing that you read and are told and only half of what you see with your own eyes! Words to live by.
Posted by: Publius Redux at January 09, 2017 04:53 PM (Fb9aZ)
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Fake news best exemple aremedia polls after the conventions.
Dumb ass dems beleived their own lies and were shocked that Hillary really didn't have ~60% support nationwide.
Dumb ass dems beleived their own lies and were shocked that Hillary really didn't have ~60% support nationwide.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 09, 2017 05:42 PM (P/kVC)
Posted by: Spun and Murky at January 09, 2017 06:04 PM (4DCSq)
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#FakePress
Posted by: Steve in Tulsa at January 09, 2017 06:34 PM (rOlQq)
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By mixing what used to be separate, reporting and editorial contents, under one rubric as "journalism," what they are now defining as "fake news" became "the news" in every medium. Almost all news now is meant to sway someone's thinking/acting to a direction that the journalist wants. Writing opinions as if they are facts has become the normal.
This is considered successful when it manages to embed some fantasy version of a real event as conventional wisdom where it will warp the thinking of everyone from then on. So much CW is fantasy based that to counter some arguments requires backing up decades and demolishing a string of CW mythology before confronting the new one.
This fake news is National Enquirer level stuff where there are real things mixed with the lies and opinions. The "fake news" that was run but the left media in recent years has jettisoned truth and now has moved into the "Weekly World News" level of aliens got me preggers.
This is considered successful when it manages to embed some fantasy version of a real event as conventional wisdom where it will warp the thinking of everyone from then on. So much CW is fantasy based that to counter some arguments requires backing up decades and demolishing a string of CW mythology before confronting the new one.
This fake news is National Enquirer level stuff where there are real things mixed with the lies and opinions. The "fake news" that was run but the left media in recent years has jettisoned truth and now has moved into the "Weekly World News" level of aliens got me preggers.
Posted by: geoffb5 at January 09, 2017 06:51 PM (d3wbb)
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hey Ace
You want "fake news" look at how many media outlets reported Sophia wilansky had her arm blown off by a concussion grade from cops instead of what actually seems to have happened including dan rathers new standard of excellence, teen vogue.
Bobowens at bearing arms and the daily caller have both done stories, but I would like to see a list of how many outlets took the nodapl eco warriors at their word
You want "fake news" look at how many media outlets reported Sophia wilansky had her arm blown off by a concussion grade from cops instead of what actually seems to have happened including dan rathers new standard of excellence, teen vogue.
Bobowens at bearing arms and the daily caller have both done stories, but I would like to see a list of how many outlets took the nodapl eco warriors at their word
Posted by: Tz at January 09, 2017 07:39 PM (SJAal)
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"Macedonian teenagers" are not the only people who write deliberately-false stories in efforts to get clicks and shape US politics.
As being someone of Macedonian heritage, I have only two things to say:
1. I am very proud of my distant connection in humiliating the mainstream media.
2. It doesn't surprise me a bit that Macedonian teenagers would publish fake news stories, make hundreds of thousands of dollars and then laugh about it.
As being someone of Macedonian heritage, I have only two things to say:
1. I am very proud of my distant connection in humiliating the mainstream media.
2. It doesn't surprise me a bit that Macedonian teenagers would publish fake news stories, make hundreds of thousands of dollars and then laugh about it.
Posted by: Danny K. at January 09, 2017 07:59 PM (hBv5G)
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Man, what a shame... they coin a term, but it ends up resonating more when we use it (and for good reason).
So, of course it has to go.
So, of course it has to go.
Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 09, 2017 08:46 PM (0OG8D)
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You mean like "liberal", "cut", and "racist"?
"But though the term hasn't been around long, its meaning already is lost."
'bout time the Right learned to shape the battlespace.
"But though the term hasn't been around long, its meaning already is lost."
'bout time the Right learned to shape the battlespace.
Posted by: furious_a at January 10, 2017 03:27 PM (7C7xp)
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