The Media's Shocked by Sinclair Media Using the Same Words to Advertise Their Collective Brand, and, To Show How Concerned They Are By This Propganda, They're Going to Use the Same Words Over and Over about Their Concern About This Propaganda

The Weekly Standard's Editors nod in deepest, most pecuniary agreement.

Yeah, the media doesn't coordinate messaging with each other and with their Democrat masters or anything.

[H]aving read the panicky coverage before watching the Sinclair videos, I was surprised by the innocuousness of the spots. The anchors were plainly reading a scripted public service announcement that claimed there was a "troubling trend of irresponsible, one-sided news stories" at major news outlets, then offering themselves as an alternative.
They then cautioned viewers to avoid the "sharing of biased and false news" on social media, which is, I am often told, a plague on democracy. "But we are human and sometimes our reporting might fall short," the script goes on to say. "If you believe our coverage is unfair, please reach out to us."
The rhetoric was a less-sanctimonious version of CNN’s "apples and bananas" spot from a few months ago--another finger-wagging aimed at political foes and competitors. It's clear that the oversized reaction to the Sinclair script is because it flaunted the wrong bias.

The leftwing media routinely rolls out communicated messaging -- also called "advertising" in other contexts -- to tout their own brands.

How could CNN fault Sinclair for a promo asserting its commitment to the truth? For months, the network has run a pretentious group of "Apple" ads touting its own commitment to "Facts First."
How could MSNBC be so upset? Loyal viewers are frequently subjected to "This Is Why You Watch" ads featuring their personalities doing things like pumping up the Parkland high school students advocating gun control. Another one from 2016 featured Hillary Clinton telling Andrea Mitchell how she loved her.
After Barack Obama was re-elected in 2012, a Rachel Maddow-narrated commercial aired for months spiking the football over his victory. For years, the progressive network ran "Lean Forward" ads espousing messages like children belonging to their communities and Republicans being like thieves stealing blueberry pie.

David Ruiz then offers a lot of his own supercuts showing the leftwing media using the exact same wording to register their shock and horror about whatever it is they were shocked and horrified by that particular day.

Below, a good Daily Caller supercut showing the media express its "concern" over Sinclair's "propaganda" of a coordinated ad campaign by using the words "concern" and "propaganda" over and over again.

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 07:18 PM

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1 Ha Ha

Posted by: mrp at April 04, 2018 07:14 PM (Pqytn)

2 Poochie!

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a Zappa song at April 04, 2018 07:14 PM (UdKB7)

3 I'm concerned. It's obvious propaganda.
Now where's my show!?

Posted by: mansplainer extraordinaire at April 04, 2018 07:17 PM (2835Q)

4 Kristol and Williamson are courtiers. Their duty is to serve their masters with due diligence for as long as their banks cash their paychecks.

Posted by: mrp at April 04, 2018 07:17 PM (Pqytn)

5 GRAVITAS!!

Posted by: SMOD Keeper at April 04, 2018 07:17 PM (TvRUZ)

6 Why would you sibling humping nuts in flyover country ever think we coordinate our messages or hate you?

//Your MEdia

Posted by: sven10077 at April 04, 2018 07:18 PM (SzZnW)

7 So what you are saying is this is a giant, rhetorical circle jerk?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 04, 2018 07:18 PM (IPHPq)

8
Cromwell's words to the Rump Parliament apply to the Vichy Republicans -- You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately ... Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 04, 2018 07:18 PM (pNxlR)

9 These people wouldn't be self-aware in a hall of mirrors.

Posted by: pep at April 04, 2018 07:18 PM (LAe3v)

10 We gotta protect our phoney-baloney jobs!!!!

Posted by: The Weekly Standard's Editors at April 04, 2018 07:18 PM (8rNrN)

11 Les Hypocrites!

Posted by: JackStraw at April 04, 2018 07:19 PM (/tuJf)

12
Meanwhile, Farcebook & Google is STILL Data-Mining while the Fake News pretends it only happened "in secret" by the Trump campaign.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at April 04, 2018 07:19 PM (krbmJ)

13 8

Cromwell's words to the Rump Parliament apply to the Vichy Republicans -- You
have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately ... Depart, I
say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)

That's okay, I guess. "Bite me" has it on concision and punch, though.

Posted by: pep at April 04, 2018 07:19 PM (LAe3v)

14
Phew. Pep saved by the nood.

Posted by: fixerupper at April 04, 2018 07:20 PM (vIjh1)

15 Wait how can Ace be commenting down there and there be a nood up here!? by Ace!? What the hell is going on!!!

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 04, 2018 07:20 PM (o7tuA)

16
You know what's most hilarious about the Farcebook farce?

Both fake news cnn and msnbc are on Facebook.
And IT'S NO SECRET that Facebook Data-Mines FOR cnn and msnbc and sends them the data.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at April 04, 2018 07:21 PM (krbmJ)

17 lol

Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 04, 2018 07:21 PM (0O7c5)

18
Meanwhile, Farcebook & Google is STILL Data-Mining while the Fake News pretends it only happened "in secret" by the Trump campaign.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at April 04, 2018 07:19 PM (krbmJ)

If you were a Disney princess, which princess woukd you be? Take this quiz!

Hey, Facebook friends, I got "moron"!!!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 04, 2018 07:21 PM (pNxlR)

19
*coughTIMEMACHINEcough*

Posted by: fixerupper at April 04, 2018 07:21 PM (vIjh1)

20 Phew. Pep saved by the nood.certainement

Posted by: pep at April 04, 2018 07:21 PM (LAe3v)

21 Journoblitz

Posted by: Under Fire at April 04, 2018 07:22 PM (r9UYA)

22 The idiots that regularly just parrot the DNC press release as if its news are deeply concerned about Sinclair's coordination.

Posted by: buzzion at April 04, 2018 07:22 PM (lKs2v)

23 There is the occasional victory. For instance Pepsi replace the pseudo Obama campaign bottle label with the pre-Obama red-and-blue on white backgound graphic image. The one Cindy Crawford made famous in the "Whoa, what a ... can" ad.

Posted by: mrp at April 04, 2018 07:22 PM (Pqytn)

24 I'm still disturbed that this Trent Gowdy sneaked into Congress. Did he slough off of his departing host-creature Trey?

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at April 04, 2018 07:22 PM (Dn4Uq)

25
Nicole Wallace is Mika without the idiot intern-murdering-banjo playing kid from Deliverance look-a-like sidekick.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at April 04, 2018 07:22 PM (krbmJ)

26 Remember all those years of us being able to blackmail you? Cause we have every dirty little thing you did, or even the hint of every little thing you did?
And we could get you to vote the way we wanted?
Yeah, well... Trump has that little black book now.

Posted by: NOT your NSA, CIA FBI friends at April 04, 2018 07:23 PM (2835Q)

27 Yeah definitely they do this. We all know this and have for years. It's even made it into popular culture when Conan O'Brien (I think it was him) showed clips from various local news stations and they were all using the exact same words about a Christmas story or something similar.

A lot of it, not necessarily the bias which is often the talking heads or the narrative spinners who work behind the scenes to craft the stories, is because they're running out of money. They've been losing money for years and years. It's why the foreign reporting is so bad as they don't have anyone overseas anymore to do it. There's definitely a centralization at work and you see it a lot on the local level. Most of the fluff stories come from the same source. Their websites look exactly the same. They pay for these packages of things and they're all the same. Local news is useless. The only one making any money are the main anchors and the station manager; they gutted everything else out years ago.

I suspect the same thing will happen at the national level. What's really going to be fun is when they replace these dummies with actual robots who can be programmed to spew the same narratives. At least they'll look better and they'll be much smarter than Don Lemon.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at April 04, 2018 07:24 PM (4ErVI)

28 As I wrote on the other thread... And the Left and the Salon 25 also don't mind leftist shit being
recycled from the AP or the NYT and being read over the airwaves as if
it was written by the station's news staff. Remember the GOP convention
(or similar) that literally every news service, print and over-air,
independently decided to describe as "overwhelmingly white"?

BTW, Ace, you were right about hermitage too.

Posted by: andycanuck at April 04, 2018 07:24 PM (ewxPW)

29 Trump has that little black book now.

Posted by: NOT your NSA, CIA FBI friends

Oh, hell, he's looking for leads.

Posted by: pep at April 04, 2018 07:24 PM (LAe3v)

30 I'm so old, I remember when Ezra Klein was a somebody.

Posted by: mrp at April 04, 2018 07:25 PM (Pqytn)

31 What's really going to be fun is when they replace these dummies with
actual robots who can be programmed to spew the same narratives.

Seriously, who looks to these mannequins for intelligence and insight? Their only talent is suction.

Posted by: pep at April 04, 2018 07:25 PM (LAe3v)

32 Someone needs to get to the bottom of all this Fol-de-rol and Twiddle dee dee, and do so Toot Sweet!

Posted by: Mary Poppins at April 04, 2018 07:26 PM (jS2zB)

33 Jawohl!

Posted by: Propagandaleiter Hogg at April 04, 2018 07:26 PM (bJ0w+)

34

Get your ducks tout de suite

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 04, 2018 07:26 PM (IqV8l)

35 Sacre Bleu!

Un nouveau post deja existe!

Posted by: Sjg at April 04, 2018 07:27 PM (gDSJf)

36 There is going to be a wall some day. Not to keep people out, but rather to act as a backstop, or to add contrast to the scene so that so many rounds don't miss their mark. Our bulldozers are so much better than the ones that they had to work with 70 years ago. And the chemicals are so much better now! Tell me that progress isn't a good thing!

Posted by: goon at April 04, 2018 07:27 PM (PEcU2)

37 Nunes double dares DOJ and FBI. They have until April 11th to come clean. LOL

Posted by: Under Fire at April 04, 2018 07:27 PM (r9UYA)

38 Seems like teh Medias are in quite the tizzy.

A veritable foofaraw.

Posted by: Tanner Boyle at April 04, 2018 07:27 PM (ROV4u)

39 I ain't just a river in Egypt!

Posted by: Projection at April 04, 2018 07:27 PM (0UCQh)

40 Someone needs to get to the bottom of all this Fol-de-rol and Twiddle dee dee, and do so Toot Sweet!
Posted by: Mary Poppins at April 04, 2018 07:26 PM (jS2zB)

---------------

Oh contra air, moon fear.

Posted by: fixerupper at April 04, 2018 07:27 PM (vIjh1)

41 Someone needs to get to the bottom of all this Fol-de-rol and Twiddle dee dee, and do so Toot Sweet!
Posted by: Mary Poppins at April 04, 2018 07:26 PM (jS2zB)

We're on it baby, we're ON IT!

Posted by: All the guys who now work for Jeff Sessions at April 04, 2018 07:27 PM (2835Q)

42 I'd like to bitch-slap Nicole Wallace into the next century. Smug, elitist, McCain-bot, NeverTrumper.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2018 07:27 PM (ptqGC)

43
Anyone surprised the FBI shits didn't find a MAGA hat on her person when they rushed to scene to do damage-control for the Democrat party?

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at April 04, 2018 07:28 PM (krbmJ)

44 Haven't heard this in a hermit's age.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 04, 2018 07:28 PM (IqV8l)

45 That's okay, I guess. "Bite me" has it on concision and punch, though.
Posted by: pep at April 04, 2018 07:19 PM (LAe3v)

It's Byte Me!

We was appropriated.

Posted by: Tech Nerds at April 04, 2018 07:28 PM (jS2zB)

46 "so Toot Sweet!"

Ah oui, a fellow Francophile I see. C'est bene!

Posted by: Bill Kristol at April 04, 2018 07:28 PM (0UCQh)

47 Russian Bots!!!

Posted by: Your Media Overlords at April 04, 2018 07:28 PM (v3DL/)

48 shut d'door, muncher

Posted by: pep at April 04, 2018 07:29 PM (LAe3v)

49 Is toot sweet cocaine with sugar added?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 04, 2018 07:29 PM (IqV8l)

50 BBC and NPR's launch party promoting 'the census is racist' meme within minutes of each other was just coincidence.

Posted by: 13times at April 04, 2018 07:29 PM (K3B2k)

51 Sinclair?

The gas station with the dinosaur?

Posted by: Tanner Boyle at April 04, 2018 07:29 PM (ROV4u)

52 Nunes double dares DOJ and FBI. They have until April 11th to come clean. LOL

Posted by: Under Fire at April 04, 2018 07:27 PM (r9UYA)
*************************

Devin Nunes- He's what every Republican in Congress should aspire to be.
I love that man!

Posted by: redridinghood at April 04, 2018 07:30 PM (PvFoN)

53 Devin Nunes- He's what every Republican in Congress should aspire to be.

I love that man!

Posted by: redridinghood at April 04, 2018 07:30 PM (PvFoN)

Let's hope and pray he doesn't go Full Gowdy.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2018 07:30 PM (ptqGC)

54 Ah oui, a fellow Francophile I see. C'est bene!
Posted by: Bill Kristol at April 04, 2018 07:28 PM (0UCQh)

Kanpai monsieur.

Posted by: Kevin Williamson at April 04, 2018 07:31 PM (gDSJf)

55
Mexico is about to elect a leftist so extreme, he makes Bernie Sanders look like George W Bush.

Mexico is electing a radical who is pretty much promising them to make Mexico just like Venezuela.

Build the dang wall!

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at April 04, 2018 07:31 PM (krbmJ)

56 Liszt's "Toot Suite" was inspired by a cocaine fueled night in Paris.

Posted by: It's True! at April 04, 2018 07:31 PM (UdKB7)

57 Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at April 04, 2018 07:24 PM (4ErVI)
--

Where did all the margin go?

Posted by: Revenant at April 04, 2018 07:31 PM (G+VT+)

58 Is toot sweet cocaine with sugar added?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 04, 2018 07:29 PM (IqV8l)

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NINE! Toot Sweet is a good smelling fart

Posted by: fixerupper at April 04, 2018 07:31 PM (vIjh1)

59 8
Cromwell's words to the Rump Parliament apply to the Vichy Republicans -- You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately ... Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 04, 2018 07:18 PM (pNxlR)

"Sod off, swampy!" works pretty well too.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2018 07:31 PM (NWiLs)

60 Wait, does Trent Gowdy != Trey Gowdy? I'm confused.

Posted by: Chris M at April 04, 2018 07:31 PM (6XZdO)

61 Is toot sweet cocaine with sugar added?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 04, 2018 07:29 PM (IqV8l)

Yes, when we were allowed.

Posted by: Vintage Coco Cola at April 04, 2018 07:31 PM (jS2zB)

62 Trump has that little black book now.
Posted by: NOT your NSA, CIA FBI friends
Oh, hell, he's looking for leads.
Posted by: pep at April 04, 2018 07:24 PM (LAe3v)

Mitch & Murray have the new leads, downtown.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 04, 2018 07:32 PM (EoRCO)

63 The only louvre that matters is the one on a Buick. You get a whole bunch of louvre's on a Buick and the French only have one. And it looks like Egypt built it.

Posted by: goon at April 04, 2018 07:32 PM (PEcU2)

64 Good thing we have THE Jeff Beauregard Sessions as AG, otherwise a lot of this stuff wouldn't even get prosecuted, eh?

Posted by: All the guys who now work for Jeff Sessions at April 04, 2018 07:32 PM (2835Q)

65 >>Let's hope and pray he doesn't go Full Gowdy.

We're working on him.

Posted by: The Filthy Globalist Lucre at April 04, 2018 07:32 PM (r9UYA)

66 Mexico is electing a radical who is pretty much promising them to make Mexico just like Venezuela.

What a beautiful country being destroyed by the drug cartels and corrupt politicians.

My BFF and her husband have literally abandoned their gorgeous beach house on the East Cape of Cabo.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2018 07:32 PM (ptqGC)

67 Imonna go sit on the screened porch and sip this Tito vodka on ice.

Later, hordlings.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2018 07:34 PM (ptqGC)

68 I had a family friend and they used "toot" and "tooted" instead of fart. I don't know why, bcz everyone always blamed the dog.

Posted by: Mary Poppins at April 04, 2018 07:34 PM (jS2zB)

69 I will say one thing in favor of Bill Kristol. A few years ago, he and a few members of the Weekly Standard staff took advantage of a Bill Ayers fundraiser where the grand prize was a gourmet meal at Ayer's pad, prepared and served by Ayers and his terrorist wife Bernadine Dohrn. Kristol secured the prize and Ayers paid up though through gritted teeth. It made for hilarious reading.

Posted by: mrp at April 04, 2018 07:35 PM (Pqytn)

70 Imonna go sit on the screened porch and sip this Tito vodka on ice.

I'm not sure a vodka enema counts as sipping.

Posted by: pep at April 04, 2018 07:35 PM (LAe3v)

71 Come on. They're not very smart, so it's unfair to expect them to know more than a few words. And that's just "know" as in "know how to pronounce." Expecting them to understand and think about actual statements is phallocentric or something.

Posted by: George LeS at April 04, 2018 07:35 PM (+TcCF)

72 67 Imonna go sit on the screened porch and sip this Tito vodka on ice.

Later, hordlings.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2018 07:34 PM (ptqGC)

Good stuff. So is New Amsterdam.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2018 07:35 PM (NWiLs)

73 But don't sit on the ice too long. You'll get polaroids.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2018 07:35 PM (NWiLs)

74 68
I had a family friend and they used "toot" and "tooted" instead of fart. I don't know why, bcz everyone always blamed the dog.

It's good to be a dog. You have no ass to speak of, so every fart is SBD. People blame the dog, but nobody believes it. Good thing they don't have burrito kibble.

Posted by: pep at April 04, 2018 07:36 PM (LAe3v)

75 I almost got arrested at the airport in Cancun. For nothing ! Haven't been to that f'ing place since. Lawless dump, even in tourist areas.

Posted by: runner at April 04, 2018 07:36 PM (4yCau)

76 Tell me, do you have a rhume?

Posted by: JackStraw at April 04, 2018 07:36 PM (/tuJf)

77 French zombies are so effeminate that they don't even chase you! They sit and remember when they used to have a nation, and wait patiently to be shot in the forehead.

Posted by: goon at April 04, 2018 07:37 PM (PEcU2)

78 67
Imonna go sit on the screened porch and sip this Tito vodka on ice.

Later, hordlings.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2018 07:34 PM (ptqGC)

Yep, but tequila. luego.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 04, 2018 07:37 PM (o7tuA)

79 76
Tell me, do you have a rhume?

Posted by: JackStraw

Why, do you have a minkey?

Posted by: pep at April 04, 2018 07:37 PM (LAe3v)

80 Expecting them to understand and think about actual statements is phallocentric or something.
Posted by: George LeS at April 04, 2018 07:35 PM (+TcCF)

Man's stealing my schtick.

Posted by: mansplainer extraordinaire at April 04, 2018 07:37 PM (2835Q)

81

Maryland approves billions in Amazon incentives

President Trump may not be a fan of Amazon and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, but Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) is.

Hogan is likely to sign a massive new incentive package passed by legislators Wednesday morning aimed at enticing the online retail giant to locate its second headquarters in the Washington suburbs. The measure includes nearly $8.5 billion in incentives, making it one of the largest incentive packages ever offered to a corporation. -The Hill

Of course he did.

Posted by: Under Fire at April 04, 2018 07:37 PM (r9UYA)

82 75 I almost got arrested at the airport in Cancun. For nothing ! Haven't been to that f'ing place since. Lawless dump, even in tourist areas.
Posted by: runner at April 04, 2018 07:36 PM (4yCau)

That's been a long-running racket the Mexican cops pull on tourists. They'll arrest your ass for nothing, and if you don't pay them, they take you to jail. Then you have to pay them, the jailer, and the judge if you want to get out.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2018 07:37 PM (NWiLs)

83 But don't sit on the ice too long. You'll get polaroids.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2018 07:35 PM (NWiLs)
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From the over-exposure.

Posted by: bluebell at April 04, 2018 07:38 PM (oMtOd)

84 Posted by: mrp at April 04, 2018 07:35 PM (Pqytn)

Ahh such fond memories. That's when they formally recruited me to the Ray-ziss-taunce.

Posted by: Bill Kristol at April 04, 2018 07:38 PM (gDSJf)

85 >>Why, do you have a minkey?

I fart in your general direction.

French is such a lovely language.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 04, 2018 07:38 PM (/tuJf)

86 83
But don't sit on the ice too long. You'll get polaroids.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2018 07:35 PM (NWiLs)

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From the over-exposure.

Posted by: bluebell

Chaps are distinctly unhelpful here.

Posted by: pep at April 04, 2018 07:39 PM (LAe3v)

87 Look out!!! It's a bhoomb!!!

Posted by: andycanuck at April 04, 2018 07:39 PM (ewxPW)

88 Why, do you have a minkey?
Posted by: pep at April 04, 2018 07:37 PM (LAe3v)

A what?

Posted by: eleven at April 04, 2018 07:39 PM (+lOpA)

89 83 But don't sit on the ice too long. You'll get polaroids.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2018 07:35 PM (NWiLs)
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From the over-exposure.

Posted by: bluebell at April 04, 2018 07:38 PM (oMtOd)

For some the effects are instant.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2018 07:39 PM (NWiLs)

90 That's been a long-running racket the Mexican cops pull on tourists. They'll arrest your ass for nothing, and if you don't pay them, they take you to jail. Then you have to pay them, the jailer, and the judge if you want to get out.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2018 07:37 PM (NWiLs)

now you tell me ...

Posted by: runner at April 04, 2018 07:39 PM (4yCau)

91 Tell me, do you have a rhume?

Why, do you have a minkey?
...

Does your dogue bite?

Posted by: Tanner Boyle at April 04, 2018 07:39 PM (ROV4u)

92 I am concerned this concern will tip over and capsize.

Posted by: Hank Johnson at April 04, 2018 07:39 PM (aQdbh)

93 >>From the over-exposure.

Frost bit.

Posted by: Under Fire at April 04, 2018 07:39 PM (r9UYA)

94 83 But don't sit on the ice too long. You'll get polaroids.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2018 07:35 PM (NWiLs)
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From the over-exposure.

Posted by: bluebell at April 04, 2018 07:38 PM (oMtOd)

I bow.

Posted by: mansplainer extraordinaire at April 04, 2018 07:39 PM (0BFUD)

95
Hey, get this:

Last week as I just left the house for work at 5:45am, I get pulled over by the local fuzz.

The Voice says to me, [I couldn't see the officer because he approached my window and stood askew? askance? behind it], he says, "The reason I stopped you is because your license plate is out."

I says to him, I says, "You're shitting me? I just had this inspected the other day." Which was true.

Officer say, "Regardless, I'm not gonna hem you up for it." Exactly like you'd hear on PBS tv shows!!

He was a Brit!! He was also a black man. I live in a very rural town in Massachusetts. Took me by surprise that I even blurted out "You're a Brit??" Officer laughed and nodded.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at April 04, 2018 07:40 PM (krbmJ)

96 But don't sit on the ice too long. You'll get polaroids.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2018 07:35 PM (NWiLs)

As long as you don't shake around too much, they won't develop quickly.

Posted by: Sjg at April 04, 2018 07:40 PM (gDSJf)

97 88
Why, do you have a minkey?

Posted by: pep at April 04, 2018 07:37 PM (LAe3v)

A what?

Posted by: eleven

A minkey. A MINKEY. Did you get a bimp on the head?

Posted by: pep at April 04, 2018 07:40 PM (LAe3v)

98 But don't sit on the ice too long. You'll get polaroids.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2018 07:35 PM (NWiLs)
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From the over-exposure.

Posted by: bluebell at April 04, 2018 07:38 PM (oMtOd)

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F-STOP with the Fn camera puns... *shutter*

Posted by: fixerupper at April 04, 2018 07:40 PM (vIjh1)

99 I didn't realize there was a noveaux called

willowed:

367 199 i had tried watching a french law and order rip-off called "Spirals" or "Gears" but it was boring and also my french was really bad and I couldn't undertstand a word they said, except for simple shit like "l'advocate."
Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 06:52 PM (8rNrN)

==
I watched a couple of foreign Netflix shows this week - Hotel Beau Sejour (really good) and Tabula Rasa (slow but interesting).
They both claim to be in "Flemish" but they sound different.
Although they do both sound like pidgin German with some English thrown in but spoken with a French accent.

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at April 04, 2018 07:41 PM (hMwEB)

100
I hate fucking minkeys.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at April 04, 2018 07:41 PM (krbmJ)

101 TRUMP!

Posted by: MAGA at April 04, 2018 07:41 PM (LnOh3)

102 i think it is prudent to learn how to swear in as many languages as possible

Posted by: runner at April 04, 2018 07:41 PM (4yCau)

103 90 That's been a long-running racket the Mexican cops pull on tourists. They'll arrest your ass for nothing, and if you don't pay them, they take you to jail. Then you have to pay them, the jailer, and the judge if you want to get out.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2018 07:37 PM (NWiLs)

now you tell me ...
Posted by: runner at April 04, 2018 07:39 PM (4yCau)

If I'd known you were going to Mexico I'd have warned you. Seriously, I've been advised by people in the know that if you're a gringo and the cops start approaching you like they want to talk to you, walk on and get lost in a crowd.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2018 07:41 PM (NWiLs)

104 I'm sorry, but since the Journo-list controversy, I'm supposed to give a shit what Sinclair does?

Posted by: Dean Wormer at April 04, 2018 07:41 PM (fftfA)

105 I will say one thing in favor of Bill Kristol. A few years ago, he and a few members of the Weekly Standard staff took advantage of a Bill Ayers fundraiser where the grand prize was a gourmet meal at Ayer's pad, prepared and served by Ayers and his terrorist wife Bernadine Dohrn. Kristol secured the prize and Ayers paid up though through gritted teeth. It made for hilarious reading.

Posted by: mrp at April 04, 2018 07:35 PM (Pqytn)
************************
I thought Tucker Carlson won the dinner and took Andrew Breitbart.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 04, 2018 07:41 PM (PvFoN)

106 100
I hate fucking minkeys.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at April 04, 2018 07:41 PM (krbmJ)

So stop fucking them.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2018 07:42 PM (NWiLs)

107 69 I will say one thing in favor of Bill Kristol. A few years ago, he and a few members of the Weekly Standard staff took advantage of a Bill Ayers fundraiser where the grand prize was a gourmet meal at Ayer's pad, prepared and served by Ayers and his terrorist wife Bernadine Dohrn. Kristol secured the prize and Ayers paid up though through gritted teeth. It made for hilarious reading.
Posted by: mrp at April 04, 2018 07:35 PM (Pqytn)
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Breitbart talked about this in his CPAC speech, thanking Tucker Carlson for securing the invitation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixB9vDN5_vk

The bit starts around 7:10 minutes in.

The whitefish was to die for!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 04, 2018 07:42 PM (qJtVm)

108 Man's stealing my schtick.
Posted by: mansplainer extraordinaire at April 04, 2018 07:37 PM (2835Q)

Surely that's a typo for "manstealing".

Posted by: George LeS at April 04, 2018 07:42 PM (+TcCF)

109 re: toot/tooting

I still remember the day my Pappaw sung a song at the dinner table:

Beans, Beans,
The wonderful fruit,
the more you eat,
the more you toot.
The more you toot,
the better you feel,
why not have beans,
for every meal.

My Mammaw: "Oh Ernest!" (Laughing, scandalized.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 04, 2018 07:42 PM (IPHPq)

110 Sooth - better a bloke than a Muzzy with a itchy tringer finger

Posted by: Skip Cats won it all at April 04, 2018 07:42 PM (aC6Sd)

111 I almost got arrested at the airport in Cancun. For nothing ! Haven't been to that f'ing place since. Lawless dump, even in tourist areas.
Posted by: runner at April 04, 2018 07:36 PM (4yCau)

Yup......why Americans enjoy vacationing in the midst of poverty stricken marxist hellholes is beyond me.

I haven't been in-country in a long time and I don't miss Detroit at all.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 04, 2018 07:42 PM (EoRCO)

112 So how about those celebrity commercials calling upon electors to renounce Trump before January 2017 where...where...where they were...they were...where they were finishing...finishing each others'...each others'...others'...others'...sentences?

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Free Sonobi With Purchase of Grumbling Gadgets at the Outrage Outlet! at April 04, 2018 07:42 PM (0QYMt)

113 remember when in unison the MSM all called the Bin Ladin raid a "gutsy call"

Posted by: Avi at April 04, 2018 07:42 PM (Gcl/7)

114
I was so mad at myself for not thanking him for "not putting me in the nick."

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at April 04, 2018 07:43 PM (krbmJ)

115
better a bloke than a Muzzy with a itchy tringer finger

Yeah.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at April 04, 2018 07:43 PM (krbmJ)

116 113 remember when in unison the MSM all called the Bin Ladin raid a "gutsy call"
Posted by: Avi at April 04, 2018 07:42 PM (Gcl/7)

Yes. Dear God. Yes.

Fucking pantywaist, limpwristed jackanapes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 04, 2018 07:43 PM (IPHPq)

117 If we're going to put troops on the border, then the least that we can do is to use Predators against the cartels HQ's and ammo caches. Anything less is folly. Let's hear it for walk-loudly and carry a small-stick! You know that's what it will be.

Posted by: goon at April 04, 2018 07:43 PM (PEcU2)

118 Mexico is electing a radical who is pretty much promising them to make Mexico just like Venezuela.

Would this be considered a in-kind contribution to the 2020 Trump re-election campaign and would it be considered illegal because its foreigners?

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 04, 2018 07:44 PM (crpQB)

119 Wait, does Trent Gowdy != Trey Gowdy? I'm confused.

Posted by: Chris M

You think you are confused? I was always confused about doing my job.

As long as they don't score too soon!!

Posted by: Zombie Curt Gowdy at April 04, 2018 07:44 PM (S6Pax)

120 If I'd known you were going to Mexico I'd have warned you. Seriously, I've been advised by people in the know that if you're a gringo and the cops start approaching you like they want to talk to you, walk on and get lost in a crowd.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2018 07:41 PM (NWiLs)

well, it was a while back, but the memory stayed and I swore off Mexico forever. it was not always like that, especially the pacific side.

Posted by: runner at April 04, 2018 07:44 PM (4yCau)

121 68 I had a family friend and they used "toot" and "tooted" instead of fart. I don't know why, bcz everyone always blamed the dog.

finally got around to binge-watching a big chunk of the HBO series Rome from a few years back, where I got introduced to the concept of the flatonic ether.

Our heroes are shipwrecked on a desert island, the only two survivors. Then "look how high that corpse is riding in the water! The flatonic ether inflates them!" and they build a raft from floating corpses to escape.

I imagine the flatonic ether as being a smellier counterpart to the luminiferous ether, and am now on the lookout for ways to work it into conversation.

Posted by: Anachronda at April 04, 2018 07:45 PM (sGtp+)

122
Trent Gowdy was that senator from Mississippi.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at April 04, 2018 07:45 PM (krbmJ)

123 I'm sorry, but since the Journo-list controversy, I'm supposed to give a shit what Sinclair does?
Posted by: Dean Wormer at April 04, 2018 07:41 PM (fftfA)

Vat iz dis "Journo- list" you speak of?

Posted by: Ezra Klein at April 04, 2018 07:45 PM (gDSJf)

124
Mexico is electing a radical who is pretty much promising them to make Mexico just like Venezuela.
...

So, an upgrade.

Posted by: Tanner Boyle at April 04, 2018 07:45 PM (ROV4u)

125 I hate fucking minkeys.
Posted by: Soothsayer

"Zat is not my minkey."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 04, 2018 07:46 PM (aPsQQ)

126 Doctor Jones! Doctor Jones!

Your ass looks quite shapely and not-at-all fat in those khaki capris.

Posted by: Marcus Brody at April 04, 2018 07:46 PM (bJ0w+)

127 Well, I'm back. Is it weird I think 70 degrees with a light breeze is chilly?

Anyhow, after reading some of the last posts, Andrew Breitbart and Tucker Carlson won that "My Dinner With Bill Ayers."

Tucker showed it on his show.

Best line of the night at the Ayers' domicile by Breitbart: "Bill, this dinner was the bomb."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2018 07:46 PM (ptqGC)

128
btw, why did Bobby Jindal fall off the face of the Earth?

What happened to this guy? He totally disappeared?

Why isn't he in the Trump cabinet?

Is he still an anti-Trump shit?

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at April 04, 2018 07:46 PM (krbmJ)

129 109 re: toot/tooting

I still remember the day my Pappaw sung a song at the dinner table:

Beans, Beans,
The wonderful fruit,
the more you eat,
the more you toot.
The more you toot,
the better you feel,
why not have beans,
for every meal.
the better you feel
the more you eat,
beans beans at every meal

my dad's variant.

Posted by: Anachronda at April 04, 2018 07:47 PM (sGtp+)

130 Jeez. It's getting so we should just take over everything south of us and appoint governors to run things so we can keep everyone from coming here...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Penitent Cylon at April 04, 2018 07:47 PM (lLeln)

131 I remember going to the Sinclair station as a kid, wandering around the piles of tires and wishing that I could ride that damn dinosaur.

Posted by: Tanner Boyle at April 04, 2018 07:47 PM (ROV4u)

132 The measure includes nearly $8.5 billion in incentives, making it one of the largest incentive packages ever offered to a corporation. -The Hill

Of course he did.
Posted by: Under Fire at April 04, 2018 07:37 PM (r9UYA)

*facepalm*

The government doesn't run numbers or do anything like due diligence or forecasting or cost/benefit analysis or anything at all, do they. They don't. They can't. Not with agreements like this.

I had a CEO of a company swear that a program one divison ran would be a cash cow. I did a pro forma balance sheet like thing, showing him it wasn't. So they kept having me take out costs to make it a cash cow which was not possible.

The story continues, but it was a fight to get him and others to see it was not a cash cow. But anyone can rationalize anything....especially powerful, top people. Anyway, long story short, they finally accepted it wasn't a cash cow. But see, this was a corporation that was responsible to its BOD & shareholders. The govt. doesn't have to do that I guess. So full steam ahead over the cliff.

Bezos must be thrilled but contemptuous of the guy who signed off on this deal.

Posted by: Mary Poppins at April 04, 2018 07:47 PM (jS2zB)

133 I imagine the flatonic ether as being a smellier counterpart to the luminiferous ether, and am now on the lookout for ways to work it into conversation.
Posted by: Anachronda at April 04, 2018 07:45 PM (sGtp+)

Oh that'll fit in almost anywhere,

Posted by: mansplainer extraordinaire at April 04, 2018 07:47 PM (0BFUD)

134 Mexico is electing a radical who is pretty much promising them to make Mexico just like Venezuela.

Would this be considered a in-kind contribution to the 2020 Trump
re-election campaign and would it be considered illegal because its
foreigners?

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 04, 2018 07:44 PM (crpQB)

By the time the Left is done the southern US border is going to have bioengineered cyborgraptors with laser beams on their heads and Hellfire missile packs patrolling a fortified wasteland of which Darth Vader is going to advise us all to "dial it down a notch".

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Free Sonobi With Purchase of Grumbling Gadgets at the Outrage Outlet! at April 04, 2018 07:47 PM (0QYMt)

135
Ahhh, I believe it's:

Beans, beans,
the musical fruit

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at April 04, 2018 07:48 PM (krbmJ)

136
and am now on the lookout for ways to work it into conversation.
Posted by: Anachronda at April 04, 2018 07:45 PM (sGtp+)

------------

So bartender..... Please use a fresh seltzer in my drink.... I dont like a flat tonic either

Posted by: fixerupper at April 04, 2018 07:48 PM (vIjh1)

137 It's getting so we should just take over everything south of us and appoint governors to run things so we can keep everyone from coming here...
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Penitent Cylon at April 04, 2018 07:47 PM (lLeln)

friendly dictators

Posted by: runner at April 04, 2018 07:48 PM (4yCau)

138 Do Not Go To Mexico. Who needs to be told this? You would not go to detroit or east st. louis where you have all the rights and privileges of an American citizen but you want to go to some place dirtier, filthier, more violent, more corrupt, where you do not have the rights and privileges of an American citizen?

Yeesh.

If you are intent on going to some spanish speaking hell hole at least go to puerto rico.

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 04, 2018 07:48 PM (MTjB1)

139 Dammit Mary Poppins. Stop socking me.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 04, 2018 07:48 PM (jS2zB)

140 Just because I am a cuck with a go-pro Paolo attachment camera for closeups, dosen`t mean I don`t care about my 'loving the long cock' wife!

Posted by: Balless Bill Kristol at April 04, 2018 07:49 PM (yhf6w)

141 I had a family friend and they used "toot" and "tooted" instead of fart.

My dear late mother used the same word instead of "fart."

She also refused to recognize her very gay co-worker in the bank where she worked was actually gay.

"He's just a confirmed bachelor." I always assumed it was a southern thing.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2018 07:50 PM (ptqGC)

142 The main course was Innocent Recruiter Stew. No one ever smoked enough dope to make them believe that being a terrorist bastard was an okay kind of thing. It had to be in them already.

Posted by: goon at April 04, 2018 07:50 PM (PEcU2)

143 116 113 remember when in unison the MSM all called the Bin Ladin raid a "gutsy call"
Posted by: Avi at April 04, 2018 07:42 PM (Gcl/7)

Yes. Dear God. Yes.

Fucking pantywaist, limpwristed jackanapes.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 04, 2018 07:43 PM (IPHPq)

++

Makes me think of that image of him running around the swimming pool with his Super-Soaker.

Posted by: washrivergal at April 04, 2018 07:50 PM (Kcf2u)

144
nood

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at April 04, 2018 07:50 PM (krbmJ)

145
Mexico is electing a radical who is pretty much promising them to make Mexico just like Venezuela.

Why are we not hearing more about this on the "news?"

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 04, 2018 07:50 PM (IqV8l)

146 #107

Thanks for that. The Weekly Standard's Matt Labash attended, along with Andrew Breitbart, and Labash did the write-up in the WS. It was Tucker Carslson (not Kristol) who outbid everyone else in the auction. My post was on the IIRC level.

The original article is here:

LINK: http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-dinner-party/article/626646

Posted by: mrp at April 04, 2018 07:51 PM (Pqytn)

147 But see, this was a corporation that was responsible to its BOD shareholders.

I've heard of a lot of things to be responsible to, but this is a new one.

Posted by: pep at April 04, 2018 07:51 PM (LAe3v)

148 Do Not Go To Mexico. Who needs to be told this?
You would not go to detroit or east st. louis where you have all the
rights and privileges of an American citizen but you want to go to some
place dirtier, filthier, more violent, more corrupt, where you do not
have the rights and privileges of an American citizen?

Yeesh.

If you are intent on going to some spanish speaking hell hole at least go to puerto rico.

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 04, 2018 07:48 PM (MTjB1)

One of my "favorite" shows is House Hunters Int'l. You have idiots from MN and IL and other points north who have decided to retire and move permanently to Mexico. "Because it's paradise!" I keep praying they eventually do follow-up shows to see how these brave pioneers are faring.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2018 07:52 PM (ptqGC)

149 Mexico is electing a radical who is pretty much promising them to make Mexico just like Venezuela.

Well then we better get the wall built toot sweet.

This is what happens when you have a stupid, parasite sucking populace. They vote in Venezuela type governments. And they refuse to learn from history...or hell...current events.

And we've imported millions of them, and raised up a few million more just as stupid.

Now I'm bumming myself out.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 04, 2018 07:53 PM (jS2zB)

150 But see, this was a corporation that was responsible to its BOD shareholders.

I've heard of a lot of things to be responsible to, but this is a new one.
Posted by: pep at April 04, 2018 07:51 PM (LAe3v)

lol
I know. Wrong acronym for here.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 04, 2018 07:55 PM (jS2zB)

151 One of my "favorite" shows is House Hunters Int'l. You have idiots from MN and IL and other points north who have decided to retire and move permanently to Mexico. "Because it's paradise!" I keep praying they eventually do follow-up shows to see how these brave pioneers are faring.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April

lol. pretty much applies to anyone moving south of our border. lots of people moving to belize, nicaragua, honduras. none of these idiots have any knowledge of history or the fact that when the shtf and or the U.S. is no longer able to guarantee their safety, their neighbors are going to steal their stuff and eat them

nevermind the shitty quality of the construction.

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 04, 2018 07:56 PM (MTjB1)

152 Pete Hegseth is on Tucker... great guy!

Posted by: redridinghood at April 04, 2018 07:57 PM (PvFoN)

153 really, the ancestry of the mexicans is brutal overlords from spain who subjugated natives who were practicing industrial level human sacrifice in the 16th century. which of these do you want to bring into our democracy?

don't start with republic stuff.

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 04, 2018 07:58 PM (MTjB1)

154 149 Mexico is electing a radical who is pretty much promising them to make Mexico just like Venezuela.

Well then we better get the wall built toot sweet.

This is what happens when you have a stupid, parasite sucking populace. They vote in Venezuela type governments. And they refuse to learn from history...or hell...current events.

And we've imported millions of them, and raised up a few million more just as stupid.

Now I'm bumming myself out.
Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 04, 2018 07:53 PM (jS2zB)

It's things like this that make me despair for the future.

Venezuela wasn't a clear enough lesson? Now Mexico is going to repeat it? That will only increase the number of Mexicans who flee to America.

Meanwhile, we elected Obama twice and came within an eyelash of electing Hillary. If the Republican Party doesn't get its shit together, we will eventually elect a full-bore Marxist, maybe as soon as 2020 or 2024.

Posted by: rickl at April 04, 2018 08:03 PM (sdi6R)

155 Speaking of whacko impeachment theories:

Clinton was recently invited to speak at a women-only event in New York City - home to her pneumonia-induced fainting spell - where she promptly proclaimed that Fox News is "always trying to impeach her".

https://fxn.ws/2H9z109

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 04, 2018 08:33 PM (+y/Ru)

156 I will say one thing in favor of Bill Kristol. A few years ago, he and a few members of the Weekly Standard staff took advantage of a Bill Ayers fundraiser where the grand prize was a gourmet meal at Ayer's pad, prepared and served by Ayers and his terrorist wife Bernadine Dohrn. Kristol secured the prize and Ayers paid up though through gritted teeth. It made for hilarious reading.
Posted by: mrp at April 04, 2018 07:35 PM (Pqytn)

Wait... what?

He won the grand prize of giving the most money to Bill Ayers?

Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 04, 2018 08:37 PM (rnAwa)

157 So are the comments working ok for everyone else ?

Posted by: deadrody at April 04, 2018 10:40 PM (euy6u)

158 The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Posted by: RalphF at April 05, 2018 12:24 AM (B4RPl)

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