Proof That New York Times Reporters Live in a Left-Liberal Cocoon

You are what you eat, and if you're a writer, you are what you read.

I've been saying this for a while: The press claims to be nonpartisan and to only be interested in "good stories," no matter which party they might damage.

They can't really make these claims in the age of Twitter. Because their reading list -- the Twitter accounts they follow daily -- is public information.

You'd think these guys would at least try to "make it look good" by adding in a few of the more credible, less strident twitter accounts of right-leaning writers. But no -- no one bothers even to follow University of Tennessee Law School Professor Glenn Reynolds.

On the other hand, many follow the over-the-top hard-left rantings of Jay Rosen of NYU University, a media critic who frequently declares that the media must drop even the pretense of impartiality and embrace a resolutely left-liberal advocacy position, because there is no "balance" possible between Truth and Lies.

Many others follow the leftwing sites of Gawker.

Note that many of these accounts are used for both personal and professional functions.

If they had separate accounts for their personal reading pleasure, and only chose to follow leftwing writers, I would have less of a point. I would still have one, mind you. But I would only be able to prove that they're stridently leftwing as a personal matter, almost to a man.

However, it's the dual use of these accounts for both public and professional functions that makes these alleged reporters' flat refusal to read anything written by right-leaning writers that damns them as professionals:

Do they not want to know about stories gaining traction on the right? Stories overlooked by the mainstream media? Stories broken by the right leaning media, like MZ Hemingway's scoop that we already have an ebola czar, and she is apparently being deliberately sidelined because of her involvement in a very unhelpful controversy?

The answer is, of course: No.

They don't want to know these things.

And yes, that then proves that they view their jobs as ones of partisan advocacy, not straight reportage of newsworthy stories.

They want the stories Gawker finds interesting, or that Steven Colbert thinks is important, or that Jay Rosen thinks should get more play.

The stories that anyone on the right thinks are being overlooked?

Nope. Not interested. Won't even pretend to be interested.*

Thanks to @rdbrewer4.

* Note there's an easy way to just pretend to have a balanced twitter-follow list; one can nominally follow an account, use software to screen it out so it's never seen. For example, one could, if one wanted to at least pretend, create a balanced list of accounts, but then create a smaller list of left-wing writers, and then only check the tweets from that sub-list.

But they don't even bother with that pretense.

They pretty much want you to know that they only find left-wing writers interesting or worthy.

Posted by: Ace at 03:26 PM

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1 This may help explain why nobody knows we already have a czar for Ebola. But she's in trouble so shhhh. Make a new one instead.

Posted by: Schwalbe: The Me-262 at October 17, 2014 03:23 PM (9Bdcz)

2 I don't know what you mean. I find @FemFreq to offer a very even handed and moderate view of the world.

Posted by: Lefty Journolister on Twitter at October 17, 2014 03:23 PM (BPMYx)

3 tweet.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 17, 2014 03:23 PM (mgE2f)

4 So get out there and vote!

Posted by: DM at October 17, 2014 03:23 PM (6ZO0g)

5 Not gonna stick a fork in the electric socket out of an abundance of caution.

Posted by: Electric Eddie at October 17, 2014 03:23 PM (5L5VR)

6 5th or so!

Posted by: Grimaldi at October 17, 2014 03:24 PM (hOPjs)

7 Damn...so close.

Posted by: Grimaldi at October 17, 2014 03:24 PM (hOPjs)

8 It looks like my Twitter feed.

Posted by: the new totally qualified, definitely not a partisan hack Ebla czar at October 17, 2014 03:25 PM (gZZvs)

9 Who does Charles Gibson follow?

He's never heard of anything.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 17, 2014 03:25 PM (D/504)

10 We only print the accepted truth. Why bother listening to evil dissenters?

Posted by: The New York Times at October 17, 2014 03:25 PM (lN8KC)

11 I have a story
Oh, it hurts a Democrat?
Bury that bitch deep

Posted by: Haiku Czar at October 17, 2014 03:25 PM (tv7DV)

12
Ok so have you heard the latest about how Twitter is gonna screw up their own service?

Well, they have decided that you aren't smart enough to follow just the people you want to follow, but they are gonna give you tweets that they think everybody should see.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 17, 2014 03:25 PM (mgE2f)

13 It's not that difficult to have one twitter account for business, and another for personal stuff.

Posted by: The Political Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) at October 17, 2014 03:26 PM (lN8KC)

14 No one THEY know voted for Nixon.

Posted by: Citizen X at October 17, 2014 03:26 PM (7ObY1)

15 The Pauline Kael Media.

Posted by: --- at October 17, 2014 03:26 PM (MMC8r)

16 couldn't even catch up on that other thread.

Posted by: rich@gmu at October 17, 2014 03:26 PM (OjnNr)

17 We need to turn this eboli situation around 360 degrees.

Posted by: Neil Tyson Degrassi Obama at October 17, 2014 03:26 PM (5L5VR)

18 I think it's cute, your suggestion how to create an ostensibly balanced Twitter list.

Almost as if you still believe they care what you think.

Posted by: Kate58 at October 17, 2014 03:26 PM (oLZsm)

19 http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qRC4Vk6kisY

This pretty much sums up the media-left wing-democrat world view.

Posted by: Czar Peter - Czar of Spades at October 17, 2014 03:27 PM (vs25L)

20 In before Toby!

Posted by: The Scorpion at October 17, 2014 03:27 PM (nJkgP)

21 They have lemmings we have corgis.

Yes, there is a difference! Corgis are way cuter!

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Igor Brand Pitchforks and Torches at the Outrage Outlet! at October 17, 2014 03:27 PM (hLRSq)

22 If they refuse to listen to you, you don't exist.

Ostriching.

Posted by: --- at October 17, 2014 03:28 PM (MMC8r)

23 >>>Stories broken by the right leaning media, like MZ Hemingway's scoop
that we already have an ebola czar, and she is apparently being
deliberately sidelined because of her involvement in a very unhelpful
controversy?<<<

No no no. She's the Ebolee czar.

The new hack, Klain, is the Ebola czar.

Posted by: Beary Obama at October 17, 2014 03:28 PM (aIm+1)

24 "around 360 degrees. "

That's sciency shit, bitches.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 17, 2014 03:28 PM (LA7Cm)

25 I'm curious how many people do the sub-list trick.
I use a lot of lists to manage my twitter feeds by topic - sports, econ, politics,etc. When I crisis breaks out in Ukraine or wherever, I'll create a list just for that.

A lot of people have hundreds and thousands of accounts they follow. That'd be impossible to read.

I figure they must create a "daily read" list or something that only has the twitter feeds they actually read.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at October 17, 2014 03:28 PM (ZPrif)

26 No shit.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at October 17, 2014 03:29 PM (nnkXw)

27 And if you make your lists private then nobody can see what's in them, so nobody can see who you *really* read. You can fake follow a million people, and then only read a few dozen.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at October 17, 2014 03:29 PM (ZPrif)

28 Ace, ALL "progressives" are this coccooned.

They don't know diddly about the EXISTENCE of a rightwing viewpoint on any topic.

I recently had houseguests, a couple who are longtime friends, and they are very very very "progressive," and THEY WORK IN THE MEDIA, and about a thousand times over the week they were visiting, it was revealed that they were totally unaware that a non-progressive stance even existed on almost every topic.

Total cocoon. DESPITE BEING THE ARBITERS OF THE NATIONAL DIALOGUE.

Posted by: zombie at October 17, 2014 03:29 PM (K4YiS)

29 Perhaps they aren't bright enought to come up with subsets. They obviously failed math & history,.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian in the lab of the utility muffin research kitchen at October 17, 2014 03:29 PM (dVQOA)

30 The MSM are Kool-Aid drinkers all...

Posted by: Ian Galt at October 17, 2014 03:30 PM (dmepw)

31 "Lies, damn lies, and the bullshit we get from the New York Times'" Mark Splain. The best part of Twitter is not that they can be shamed but that they reveal their true selves during the shaming. Remember when a guy was committing mass murder twisting the heads off babies in Philly? The attempt to shame them into covering Gosnell was met with "We don't cover local crime stories." Three words you lying sacks o' shit- Jon Benet Ramsey. You clowns do it all the time. They can't be shamed on Twitter but they can be held up for ridicule. That's good to.

Posted by: Mac at October 17, 2014 03:30 PM (0J18b)

32 Oh, and 31st...

Posted by: Ian Galt at October 17, 2014 03:30 PM (dmepw)

33
Conservative media is the brown acid of woodstockachik reporters.

Posted by: Peace Love and Misunderstanding at October 17, 2014 03:30 PM (1sVzz)

34 more partisan hacks ... they can all get jobs in the Ebola Czar's office.

Posted by: rich@gmu at October 17, 2014 03:30 PM (OjnNr)

35 Dammit!

Posted by: Ian Galt at October 17, 2014 03:31 PM (dmepw)

36 You know... when the only people you follow are Ezra Klein, Michael Moore, and Russell Brand, odds are good you've got something of a perspective bias happening.

Posted by: Keith Arnold at October 17, 2014 03:31 PM (iIzG7)

37 Probably part of the Journolist message coordination effort. Retweet is an easy method for amplifying a message real-time.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 17, 2014 03:31 PM (D/504)

38 Frist!

Posted by: Barack Obama at October 17, 2014 03:31 PM (sDapq)

39 Progressives write for each other just like Hollyweirdos act for each other.

Public consumer? Eh, they're byproduct of the institutional core mission to perpetuate Progressive groupthink.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at October 17, 2014 03:31 PM (1CroS)

40 Well, if getting a balanced list means putting Sheppard Smith on it, I'll go along with the left.

I just tried watching that asshole for 15 minutes. Couldn't be done.

Why does FOX keep this jerk and those people on the morning show?

Fuck.

Posted by: jwest at October 17, 2014 03:31 PM (u2a4R)

41
This is important because they are the gatekeepers, but it also reflects most of America left and right.

A few years ago some academics did a study based on Amazon's "people who've read A also read B and C". They did a massive neural-net-looking graphic showing the clusters of readers of political books.

There was little overlap. People who read left read only left, people who read right read only right. We are two countries. We don't talk to each other, we shout at each other.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at October 17, 2014 03:31 PM (JtwS4)

42 "When the "truth " is found, to be lies..."

Posted by: Jocko the red-assed baboon at October 17, 2014 03:32 PM (5+mPY)

43 21 They have lemmings we have corgis.

Yes, there is a difference! Corgis are way cuter!
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Igor Brand Pitchforks and Torches at the Outrage Outlet! at October 17, 2014 03:27 PM (hLRSq)

But shed more

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian in the lab of the utility muffin research kitchen at October 17, 2014 03:32 PM (dVQOA)

44 1 This may help explain why nobody knows we already have a czar for Ebola. But she's in trouble so shhhh. Make a new one instead.

Posted by: Schwalbe: The Me-262 at October 17, 2014 03:23 PM (9Bdcz)

Personally, I think the whole concept of a "czar", is stupid. It's meaningless , even if said person possesses credentials. It's all eyewash.

But, yeah, I had to dig to find out that one actually existed, who of course is embroiled in another non-scandal scandal that is all cHeNyRoverEichwINgnuZeLeBitytEaPartY!!!11111.

*muttering under breath*

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Suntanning in Bizzaro World at October 17, 2014 03:32 PM (fGIVK)

45 Off sock.

Posted by: Kraken at October 17, 2014 03:32 PM (5+mPY)

46 o read left read only left, people who read right read only right. We are two countries. We don't talk to each other, we shout at each other.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at October 17, 2014

You can have the kids I'll keep the boat

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian in the lab of the utility muffin research kitchen at October 17, 2014 03:33 PM (dVQOA)

47 Good news everybody, Obama is working on a secret plan to bring infected foreigners to America for treatment.

Obama Plans to Let Ebola-infected Foreigners Into U.S. for Treatment http://jwatch.us/uFPQPY

Washington, DC -- Judicial Watch has learned that the Obama administration is actively formulating plans to admit Ebola-infected non-U.S. citizens into the United States for treatment. Specifically, the goal of the administration is to bring Ebola patients into the United States for treatment within the first days of diagnosis.

It is unclear who would bear the high costs of transporting and treating non-citizen Ebola patients. The plans include special waivers of laws and regulations that ban the admission of non-citizens with a communicable disease as dangerous as Ebola.

One source tells us that the Obama administration is keeping this plan secret from Congress. The source is concerned that the proposal is illegal; endangers the public health and welfare; and should require the approval of Congress

Posted by: Costanza Defense at October 17, 2014 03:33 PM (ZPrif)

48 Haven't we known this for quite awhile now? The proof is in the fact that a majority of this country is turning into a leftist shithole.

Posted by: Soona at October 17, 2014 03:33 PM (c3x1H)

49 The NYT reporters learned that if you wanted a Pullitzer like Walter Duranty you had to side with the commies and lie like the Devil. Since that time the Times hasn't been worth a shit.

And yes, they love Obama, he is a social justice commie.

Posted by: Vic at October 17, 2014 03:34 PM (T2V/1)

50 They don't just remain unaware of the other side, they demonize it.

Posted by: --- at October 17, 2014 03:34 PM (MMC8r)

51 It's amazing we can't get Shep fired.

Blaze no doubt is thankful Shep is still on the air.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at October 17, 2014 03:34 PM (ZPrif)

52 47 Posted by: Costanza Defense at October 17, 2014 03:33 PM (ZPrif)

In any other Administration, I would dismiss this as a loony conspiracy theory....

Posted by: Ian Galt at October 17, 2014 03:34 PM (dmepw)

53 Damn it, the Horde are just too fast, and beat me to it with Pauline Kael and Nixon.

Meanwhile, though, I'm still trying to figure out what to do with this darn schadenboner which resulted from hundreds of layoffs reported at CNN. Does someone have a stack of glass they need cut? I'm ready.

When the comparably sized layoffs hit the NYT newsroom, I figure the schadenboner will become capable of being airdropped on a rogue-state deeply buried nuclear bomb factory. I can do my country that one service, I guess.

Posted by: torquewrench at October 17, 2014 03:35 PM (noWW6)

54 I can see not following NRO or the Federalist or Breitbart.

Not following Insty? Doesn't he get as many if not more hits than the NYT most days?

Posted by: alexthechick - Yup, still a unicorn at October 17, 2014 03:35 PM (mf5HN)

55 51
It's amazing we can't get Shep fired.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at October 17, 2014 03:34 PM (ZPrif)

Shep must have pictures of his superiors with farm animals, or some equivalent thereof....

Posted by: Ian Galt at October 17, 2014 03:35 PM (dmepw)

56 One source tells us that the Obama administration is
keeping this plan secret from Congress. The source is concerned that
the proposal is illegal; endangers the public health and welfare; and
should require the approval of Congress

Posted by: Costanza Defense at October 17, 2014 03:33 PM (ZPrif)

I AM the law!

Posted by: Judge Obama at October 17, 2014 03:36 PM (tv7DV)

57 Yes, there is a difference! Corgis are way cuter!

Plus, lemming and journalists are types of weasels.

Posted by: fluffy at October 17, 2014 03:36 PM (Ua6T/)

58 FTSB: 0 days 01:18:40 Remaining to cast your vote for the conservative Tom Steyer video.

https://mayday.us/campaigns/maydayin30/

Posted by: toby928(C) at October 17, 2014 03:36 PM (rwI+c)

59 >>Obama Plans to Let Ebola-infected Foreigners Into U.S. for Treatment http://jwatch.us/uFPQPY

Jesus Christ.
I'm outta here...can't take any more of this.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 17, 2014 03:36 PM (D/504)

60 47 Good news everybody, Obama is working on a secret plan to bring infected foreigners to America for treatment.

Obama Plans to Let Ebola-infected Foreigners Into U.S. for Treatment http://jwatch.us/uFPQ

If this is true impeachment is too good for him. More like a firing squad

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian in the lab of the utility muffin research kitchen at October 17, 2014 03:36 PM (dVQOA)

61 Blaze no doubt is thankful Shep is still on the air.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at October 17, 2014 03:34 PM (ZPrif)

YeS we Ar! And Heer's tHe ShoKKing Five ReEsons whY!

Posted by: The Blaze Copy Editor at October 17, 2014 03:36 PM (vgIRn)

62 Well thanks for leaving me on the other thread. I'm going home now, so there!

Posted by: Jen at October 17, 2014 03:36 PM (H2RaY)

63 Obama Plans to Let Ebola-infected Foreigners Into U.S. for Treatment http://jwatch.us/uFPQPY

Posted by: Costanza Defense at October 17, 2014 03:33 PM (ZPrif)

He's trying to destroy us. It is the only explanation.

Posted by: Sambo at October 17, 2014 03:36 PM (cgHJr)

64
That's also why they believe 86% of the country is ghey.

Posted by: Shepard Anderson Maddow at October 17, 2014 03:38 PM (1sVzz)

65 "If this is true impeachment is too good for him. More like a firing squad..."

He's nothing but a low-down, double-dealing, backstabbing, larcenous
perverted worm! Hanging's too good for him. Burning's too good for him!
He should be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried alive!

(Bonus points to whoever recognizes THAT quote...)

Posted by: Keith Arnold at October 17, 2014 03:38 PM (iIzG7)

66 Have a good weekend. It's time to enter the tunnel for my trip over the Potomac to my bunker.

Posted by: wrg500 at October 17, 2014 03:38 PM (kQBSd)

67
http://jwatch.us/uFPQ

linky no worky

Posted by: Bandersnatch at October 17, 2014 03:39 PM (JtwS4)

68 You want a story. Here is a story straight from the WSJ.

>>Fannie Freddie Deal May Open the Loan Spiggot<<

I'll give you the short version since I know this well.

They are going to bring back liar loans and many of the other product that caused the financial crisis. The DF Act basically said banks had to tighten standards and keep a piece of the origination. That is now not only off the table, but if banks make these loans they won't get sued.

Remember the government took zero responsibility for the crisis. They were the real culprits and now they are back!

They want to use the housing market as a way to jumpstart the economy.

This won't end well. Again.

All while you've been distracted by EBOLA OMG!

Posted by: Marcus T at October 17, 2014 03:39 PM (GGCsk)

69 Costanza Defense: "Judicial Watch has learned that the Obama administration is actively formulating plans to admit Ebola-infected non-U.S. citizens into the United States for treatment."

You cannot tell me that this is not being done to collapse the system.

This is not a mistake. This is malevolence.

Obama has two years to finish his fundamental transformation. He has just been given a mallet. Open borders and pandemic, short of war, are the single most efficient ways of creating chaos.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at October 17, 2014 03:39 PM (1CroS)

70 Good news everybody, Obama is working on a secret plan to bring infected foreigners to America for treatment. Obama Plans to Let Ebola-infected Foreigners Into U.S. for Treatment http://jwatch.us/uFPQ

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

He wants to kill great numbers of us. There, I said it.

Posted by: Soona at October 17, 2014 03:40 PM (c3x1H)

71 Liz Claman is very easy on the eyes with her red hair, full lips and big rack, but geez, she needs to take a freaking chill-pill....

Posted by: Ian Galt at October 17, 2014 03:40 PM (dmepw)

72 If the opposite of explosive diarrhea is implosive constipation, NYT's reporters have it.

Posted by: andycanuck at October 17, 2014 03:42 PM (ohlbE)

73 48 Haven't we known this for quite awhile now? The proof is in the fact that a majority of this country is turning into a leftist shithole.
Posted by: Soona at October 17, 2014 03:33 PM (c3x1H)
It's pretty well accomplished, in terms of sheer numbers. The place is breaking down into regions of Socialism, and Capitalism. Bodes ill for the future. The post is about the liars that control the news. My Father-in-law is glued to the TV every Sunday morning and Sunday evening listening to the nuanced bullshit. He doesn't consider himself a Liberal, even.
My kids are all-in Lefties, because they went to Government Schools, and then Universities. If something does not fit there Socialist world view, they just don't think about it. Problem solved!!

Posted by: Kraken at October 17, 2014 03:42 PM (5+mPY)

74 He wants to kill great numbers of us. There, I said it.
Posted by: Soona at October 17, 2014 03:40 PM (c3x1H)

----

Texas
Nebraska
Georgia

Three for three on the red states.

Posted by: fixerupper at October 17, 2014 03:42 PM (NaV4z)

75 This won't end well. Again.

All while you've been distracted by EBOLA OMG!

Posted by: Marcus T at October 17, 2014 03:39 PM (GGCsk)

Thanks for the heads up. I'll have to sell at the top of the market this time.

Posted by: Barack Obama at October 17, 2014 03:42 PM (sDapq)

76 I think the Prog Ruling Class argument is:

The real threat is not an Ebola pandemic in America. That won't happen.

The real threat is an Ebola pandemic in the third world, that infects the dense cities in Nigeria, that escapes to the rest of Africa and goes on to India and any county with a weak public health system.

These west african countries' doctors and nurses are dying, so we have to supplement them. If we, the US, can care for some of the Ebola patients then we can take pressure off the Liberian health care system.

This theory would involve off-loading many of the Ebola patients to the rich nations in the West, in an attempt to save the Liberian health care system.

I think that's their logic. If so, it would make sense for the US to take in sick foreigners.

I don't agree with this at all, but that seems to be what their logic is.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at October 17, 2014 03:43 PM (ZPrif)

77
Abbas suggest banning Jews from holy site

EU and State seen nodding in agreement

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 17, 2014 03:43 PM (nzKvP)

78 Posted by: Keith Arnold at October 17, 2014 03:38 PM (iIzG7)

It's a straight up guess, but Young Guns?

Posted by: Sambo at October 17, 2014 03:43 PM (cgHJr)

79 All while you've been distracted by EBOLA OMG!
--
What's your problem, dude.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at October 17, 2014 03:43 PM (ZPrif)

80 And all the hope within you dies.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at October 17, 2014 03:44 PM (KK+mC)

81 A good example of the mind-boggling ignorance of my friends noted in comment #28:

The male half of the couple is an "environmental reporter" and is considered an "expert" on "climate change."

At one point we were in [location name redacted for security reasons] and we encountered an odd-looking white box.

"What's that?" he inquired. "A beehive?"

"No," I replied. "It an old-school temperature-recording station. Look inside through the slats and you can see the old thermometer and barometer."

We do so.

I note, "It's been here since the 1920s. Kind of a local landmark."

"Oh, interesting."

And then I said, forgetting who I was speaking, "Urban heat island effect."

He said "What?"

I said, "You know -- the urban heat island effect. This is a good example. When this was built in the '20s, it was in the countryside. Now it's next to all these buildings. See that air conditioning exhaust vent over there?"

He looked at me blankly. "What?"

Me, "C'mon, you know -- the 'urban heat island effect.'"

Him: "Neve heard of it. What is it?"

Now, I wouldn't expect maybe the average person to be aware of this, but an ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTER who flies around the country GIVING SPEECHES ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE really must all about the urban heat island effect, and how it may or may not have influenced temperature recordings.

I'm not insisting that he even agree with the theory that urbanization around temperature stations has artificially increased the apparent amount of warming over the last century. I'm sure that even if he had known of the theory, he'd find a way to dismiss it. BUT HE HAD NBVER EVEN HEARD OF THE CONCEPT.

And why not? Because he ONLY reads "warmist" sources. Exclusively. He knows absolutely nothing o the "denialist" point of view, other than that they'e some sort of vague shadowy cabal of villains funded by the oil industry.

Cocooning? It's the new normal.

Posted by: zombie at October 17, 2014 03:44 PM (K4YiS)

82 I think that's their logic. If so, it would make sense for the US to take in sick foreigners.

I don't agree with this at all, but that seems to be what their logic is.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at October 17, 2014 03:43 PM (ZPrif)

That's all well and good. Do it at Gitmo or some other remote facility.

Posted by: Barack Obama at October 17, 2014 03:45 PM (sDapq)

83 My theory about Obama's self-destructive policies: he's now aware that he'll be regarded as a catastrophic mistake, so he's going to pull the temple down even if he's in it, because spite.

Posted by: pep at October 17, 2014 03:45 PM (LzeK5)

84 "Young Guns?" Posted by: Sambo at October 17, 2014 03:43 PM (cgHJr)

Good guess, but no. Hints: large-breasted women, animated, 1981.

Posted by: Keith Arnold at October 17, 2014 03:46 PM (iIzG7)

85 really must all about the urban heat...
=
really must KNOW all about the urban heat...

Posted by: zombie at October 17, 2014 03:46 PM (K4YiS)

86 "He's nothing but a low-down, double-dealing, backstabbing, larcenous
perverted worm! Hanging's too good for him. Burning's too good for him!
He should be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried alive!"

Heavy Metal

(but I did cheat)

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 17, 2014 03:46 PM (LA7Cm)

87 That's all well and good. Do it at Gitmo or some other remote facility.
Posted by: Barack Obama at October 17, 2014 03:45 PM (sDapq)
--------
Well, f*** you.

Posted by: Ciudad de Guantanamo at October 17, 2014 03:47 PM (SaMXZ)

88 Damn. Posted this on the wrong thread:

Ha. Just saw a on FB -

EBOLA (With the Obama logo for the O) -
Enjoy Barack Obama's Legacy America

Unfortunately, the 52% aren't the only ones affected by this idiot and his administration.

Posted by: PAgirlinNC at October 17, 2014 03:47 PM (LMKjz)

89 The Left has been pretty clear that they believe we have to do everything possible to contain the outbreak in West Africa -- not to protect America, but to protect other poor nations with weak public health systems. Everything possible would include America, Europe, and other wealthy nations taking Ebola patients and lessening the load on the Liberian health care system.

The Left wants us to poor every available resource into West Africa now to stop Ebola. It's why the UN has been saying we have 60 days to stop it or all hell will break loose.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at October 17, 2014 03:47 PM (ZPrif)

90 I've never been to Bermuda. Oh well I guess I am to late

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 17, 2014 03:47 PM (nzKvP)

91 I've never been to Bermuda. Oh well I guess I am to late

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 17, 2014 03:47 PM (nzKvP)

92 Posted by: Costanza Defense at October 17, 2014 03:43 PM (ZPrif)

I think that we'd better prove that we have a first class health system before we start worrying about other countries and their protocols.

We haven't shown anyone anything yet.

In a month and there's only been another handful of cases and all of them stemming from exposure to Duncan then maybe, maybe we can start telling other countries how to handle it.

Right now, Nigeria has stepped up and made the US look like a 3rd world cesspool staffed by the Keystone Kops.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at October 17, 2014 03:47 PM (KK+mC)

93 Heavy Metal?

Posted by: Sambo at October 17, 2014 03:47 PM (cgHJr)

94 Time to go and paint. That at least is relaxing even tho I suck as an artist.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian in the lab of the utility muffin research kitchen at October 17, 2014 03:47 PM (dVQOA)

95 "I recently had houseguests, a couple who are longtime friends, and they are very very very 'progressive,' and THEY WORK IN THE MEDIA, and about a thousand times over the week they were visiting, it was revealed that they were totally unaware that a non-progressive stance even existed on almost every topic."

My own experience in the SF Bay Area is that liberals here are perfectly well aware that "non-progressive" stances and opinions exist.

But not that they exist here.

Those sorts of wrong opinions, heretical stances, doubleplusbadthink, are imagined to be harbored elsewhere, geographically. By "flyovers". Bitter clingers. Trailer trash. Unpeople in Jesusland.

Posted by: torquewrench at October 17, 2014 03:47 PM (noWW6)

96 He's nothing but a low-down, double-dealing, backstabbing, larcenous

perverted worm! Hanging's too good for him. Burning's too good for him!

He should be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried alive!

(Bonus points to whoever recognizes THAT quote...)

Hanover Fist, Heavy Metal. I have it on VHS around here somewhere.

Posted by: The monkeys at October 17, 2014 03:48 PM (4WhSY)

97 This is a well known fact. A strong reason why reporters get less respect than a sleezy used car salesman.

Posted by: maddogg at October 17, 2014 03:48 PM (xWW96)

98 " Time to go and paint."

Enjoy and have a good weekend, MH.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 17, 2014 03:49 PM (LA7Cm)

99 Off, simian sock!

Posted by: Blanco Basura at October 17, 2014 03:49 PM (4WhSY)

100 I've never been to Bermuda. Oh well I guess I am to late <<<<<<<<<<<

No worries, its just a big triangle.

Posted by: Joe Biden at October 17, 2014 03:49 PM (mgE2f)

101 "He's nothing but a low-down, double-dealing, backstabbing, larcenous
perverted worm! Hanging's too good for him. Burning's too good for him!
He should be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried alive!"

Heavy Metal

Lol, John *loved* that quote.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at October 17, 2014 03:49 PM (GDulk)

102 86 and 93: Heavy Metal is correct! Probably ought to be mandatory viewing for the Horde.

Posted by: Keith Arnold at October 17, 2014 03:50 PM (iIzG7)

103 Costanza Defense: "I think that's their logic. If so, it would make sense for the US to take in sick foreigners. "

But we have proven incapable of handling the disease any better than the West Africans. So far anyway. Yes, outwardly, we have shinier rooms and nice transport vehicles and many-fold more assets. And it's an illusion to great degree. They are actually managing the epidemic better than we are given the circumstances.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at October 17, 2014 03:50 PM (1CroS)

104 Did somebody say cocoon?

Just keep Steve Guttenberg out of the pool.

Die uh beetus.

Posted by: Wilford Brimley at October 17, 2014 03:50 PM (1Rvxr)

105 My own experience in the SF Bay Area is that liberals here are perfectly well aware that "non-progressive" stances and opinions exist.

But not that they exist here.

Those sorts of wrong opinions, heretical stances, doubleplusbadthink, are imagined to be harbored elsewhere, geographically. By "flyovers". Bitter clingers. Trailer trash. Unpeople in Jesusland.
Posted by: torquewrench

In my friends' case, it's not that the Wrong Thinkers live in flyover Jesusland country - -it's that they are all astroturfed shills working for evil corporations and the Kochs/Halliburton/Monsanto/Big Oil. The opposing opinions don't really exist naturally -- they're all fake corporate messaging.

Posted by: zombie at October 17, 2014 03:51 PM (K4YiS)

106 "Star Wars" fans rejoice! Warwick Davis, the actor who played Wicket the Ewok in "Return of the Jedi" announced that he is joining the cast of director J.J. Abrams' "Star Wars: Episode VII."

Hmmm....

Wicket? That you?

Posted by: tcn at October 17, 2014 03:51 PM (J4q/W)

107 Twitter? Never heard of it

Posted by: Charlie Gibson at October 17, 2014 03:51 PM (aTXUx)

108 Okay. Enough for now. I'm going to pick up around the house and clean up under the couch (It hasn't been cleaned in the last two years so this could be interesting).

Posted by: Soona at October 17, 2014 03:51 PM (c3x1H)

109 I saw Urban Heat Island play with Ebola Gay in Dallas last week.

Posted by: Ian Galt at October 17, 2014 03:51 PM (dmepw)

110 And why not? Because he ONLY reads "warmist" sources. Exclusively. He knows absolutely nothing o the "denialist" point of view, other than that they'e some sort of vague shadowy cabal of villains funded by the oil industry.

Cocooning? It's the new normal.
Posted by: zombie at October 17, 2014 03:44 PM (K4YiS)
A Left phenomena. I can't pick up my local newsrag without getting the chapter and verse of the Socialist gospel. Same for television, unless you dig. Even the play actors we idolize have to blather the Socialist Party Line. If you aren't cocooning, you are a committed individualist.

Posted by: Kraken at October 17, 2014 03:51 PM (5+mPY)

111 I'm going out to eat at the local Jap steak house for my daughters birthday and I expect to get drunk. Hey maybe CBD can drive me home?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 17, 2014 03:52 PM (nzKvP)

112 They pretty much believe that after zippy was elected, then re-elected, there's no reason to mask their disdain for conservatives and the general public. It's the flyover country doesn't count mode.

Posted by: Upgrayedd, running my pimp game at October 17, 2014 03:53 PM (Ph479)

113 Ah. Over 100. In NC news:
One week ago, during open debate, Thom Tillis vs. Kay Hagan:
---------------
Tillis said preventing people from African countries where the Ebola outbreak is worst from traveling to the U.S. right now makes sense to give federal health officials time to more effectively respond to the virus's threat at home. "We need to protect the safety and the security of the American people," he said. Hagan said the travel restrictions are one of several steps the government should consider but also accused Tillis of using scare tactics with his response.
---------------
Fast forward to today:

Kay Hagan: "I am calling on the Administration to temporarily ban the travel of non-U.S. citizens from the affected countries in West Africa."

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 17, 2014 03:53 PM (l1zOH)

114 What? Another 'media-are-biased' story?

Spike it!

Posted by: Dean Baquet at October 17, 2014 03:53 PM (HBAcW)

115 Heavy Metal is correct! Probably ought to be mandatory viewing for the Horde.

It's less entertainting when you are not stoned out of your gourd.

Posted by: toby928(C) at October 17, 2014 03:54 PM (rwI+c)

116 NY Times reporters may only follow their fellow proggies because it cuts down on the two-way conversation and criticism from those they feel are beneath them

Those who agree with your tweet tend to simply retweet it, not debate it

Posted by: kbdabear at October 17, 2014 03:54 PM (aTXUx)

117 Someone's cranky and needs a time out.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 17, 2014 03:54 PM (6RoUP)

118 102 86 and 93: Heavy Metal is correct! Probably ought to be mandatory viewing for the Horde.

Along with the South Park parody episode "Major Boobage."

"This must be decided at the Breastriary in Nippopolis!"

Posted by: wooga at October 17, 2014 03:55 PM (1Rvxr)

119 Next up:

Fire is hot!

Posted by: Ciudad de Guantanamo at October 17, 2014 03:55 PM (SaMXZ)

120 It's less entertainting when you are not stoned out of your gourd.

Good nyborg, man!

Posted by: Blanco Basura at October 17, 2014 03:56 PM (4WhSY)

121 And it's an illusion to great degree. They are actually managing the epidemic better than we are given the circumstances.

The Nigerians definitely have been.

Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at October 17, 2014 03:56 PM (HBAcW)

122 115
Heavy Metal is correct! Probably ought to be mandatory viewing for the Horde.

It's less entertainting when you are not stoned out of your gourd.

Posted by: toby928(C) at October 17, 2014 03:54 PM (rwI+c)

I never saw the movie, but I am a big BOC fan.

Posted by: Ian Galt at October 17, 2014 03:56 PM (dmepw)

123 Is this the ebola-free thread?

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Ebola Czarina at October 17, 2014 03:57 PM (dMEBN)

124 I think I may be coming down with the flu.

Posted by: Man with Clipboard at October 17, 2014 03:57 PM (SaMXZ)

125 weft cut-loop: "Someone's cranky and needs a time out."

FTR, I'm always cranky. And while you're noticing, get off my lawn!

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at October 17, 2014 03:57 PM (1CroS)

126 Movie quotes are immensely useful. My wife and I were looking at the list of Ebola screwups early last night, and we turned to each other and said, in unison, "This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it."

If that ain't true love, I don't know what is.

Posted by: Keith Arnold at October 17, 2014 03:58 PM (iIzG7)

127 I tend to assume that since I live in NYS I really can't avoid the left-liberal viewpoint and so don't bother to read any of it in my online life - I mean life's too short, you know?

But I find the assumption is incorrect. I'm always blindsided by the obvious retardness of the things they spew in real life, only later to find out it was all something topical to left-leaning sites.

So, beams and motes, they see us the same way. Obviously.

Posted by: Bigby's Stinky Pinky at October 17, 2014 03:59 PM (3ZtZW)

128 Horde, please enlighten me. What does AtC stand for? I have not been able to decode through context...

Posted by: Ian Galt at October 17, 2014 03:59 PM (dmepw)

129 Given this atrociously ham-handed government response to one patient, I assume we can plan on infected jihadis vaporizing themselves in crowded public places soon.

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at October 17, 2014 03:59 PM (vgIRn)

130 The left believes that those who read conservative blogs and watch Fox News are mental defectives, easily subject to brainwashing from the Koch Brothers.

They dont believe these news sources are the other side of the story - they think they are all LIES

If they followed a conservative on Twitter, they would be bullied by their own followers to not give him/her the benefit of a follower. They know this because thats how THEY would react.

Posted by: McCool at October 17, 2014 03:59 PM (nCSwS)

131 AtC= AlextheChick

Posted by: T.Jeff at October 17, 2014 04:00 PM (/Ho8c)

132 >>>FTR, I'm always cranky.

*saggy diaper that leaks*

Posted by: Bigby's Stinky Pinky at October 17, 2014 04:00 PM (3ZtZW)

133 Ian - Alex the Chick. Approach with caution..., and respect.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 17, 2014 04:00 PM (l1zOH)

134 What does AtC stand for?

Her Grace, The Empress of Despair, Alex The Chick.

Posted by: toby928(C) at October 17, 2014 04:00 PM (rwI+c)

135 "What does AtC stand for?"

That's not a what, that's a who. Alex the Chick is a who.

Posted by: Keith Arnold at October 17, 2014 04:00 PM (iIzG7)

136
Another country doing something smart? Krautistan.

They are going to issue replacement identity cards to their jihadists. Suspected jihadists will not be allowed to travel to Iraq or Syria, because their IDs will say "this guy is a jihadist".

I can already think of a million ways this can be circumvented because of the EU no-borders thing, but they're at least trying.

http://bit.ly/11FgkLR

Link is in krautish, but can be machine translated if you're curious.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at October 17, 2014 04:00 PM (JtwS4)

137
Another country doing something smart? Krautistan.

They are going to issue replacement identity cards to their jihadists. Suspected jihadists will not be allowed to travel to Iraq or Syria, because their IDs will say "this guy is a jihadist".

I can already think of a million ways this can be circumvented because of the EU no-borders thing, but they're at least trying.

http://bit.ly/11FgkLR

Link is in krautish, but can be machine translated if you're curious.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at October 17, 2014 04:00 PM (JtwS4)

138 131
AtC= AlextheChick

Posted by: T.Jeff at October 17, 2014 04:00 PM (/Ho8c)

Lover of all things spidery.

Posted by: flounder at October 17, 2014 04:00 PM (sDapq)

139 We resent the implication that our fine press institutions in the United States don't do everything they can to assemble all the relevant facts.

But since you stupid proles can't be trusted, we obviously can't be expected to actually publish them.

Posted by: The New York Times at October 17, 2014 04:00 PM (HBAcW)

140 That wasn't Pixy, that was my fault for double clicking.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at October 17, 2014 04:01 PM (JtwS4)

141 Whenever I meet new left wing people and THEY raise politics and ask me about my position they all have the same follow up question; Oh you don't just get your news from Fox, do you? Nope. but to a man not one of them has ever been on a right of center source. They cannot even wrap their minds around the contextual stupidity of their answers when I ask them about their sources of information.

Posted by: Mac at October 17, 2014 04:01 PM (0J18b)

142 128 Horde, please enlighten me. What does AtC stand for? I have not been able to decode through context...
Posted by: Ian Galt at October 17, 2014 03:59 PM (dmepw)
I think it is "all the chocolate".

Posted by: Kraken at October 17, 2014 04:01 PM (5+mPY)

143 AtC = Keeper of The Ravage

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 17, 2014 04:02 PM (l1zOH)

144 AtC= AlextheChick

============

In a bearded Spock kind of way

Posted by: Bigby's Stinky Pinky at October 17, 2014 04:02 PM (3ZtZW)

145 Thanks! And:

129
Given this atrociously ham-handed government response

Isn't this prohibited ("ham-handed"), since we have a crypto-muzzie in the office?

Posted by: Ian Galt at October 17, 2014 04:02 PM (dmepw)

146 AtC = Keeper of The Ravage

She of the Orb and Stepstool.

Posted by: toby928(C) at October 17, 2014 04:02 PM (rwI+c)

147 Free Beacon @FreeBeacon 9m
Ebola czar worked as a lobbyist for a prescription drug co. that denied experimental drugs to dying cancer patients http://goo.gl/zldAcW

Posted by: Costanza Defense at October 17, 2014 04:03 PM (ZPrif)

148 >>>Alex the Chick is a who.

Chanting: 'she is here she is here she is HERE!'

/boilthatdustspeck

Posted by: Bigby's Stinky Pinky at October 17, 2014 04:03 PM (3ZtZW)

149 Hey maybe CBD can drive me home?
Timmeh!!!11!1!

Posted by: timmy at October 17, 2014 04:04 PM (ohlbE)

150 DRUDGE REPORT @DRUDGE_REPORT 25m
Feds to allow Haitians to immigrate faster... http://drudge.tw/1yKV0Ck

Posted by: Costanza Defense at October 17, 2014 04:04 PM (ZPrif)

151 Whereas most conservatives are curious about the other sides ideas and arguments, democrat party progressives react to ideas outside the progressive bubble like Dracula reacts to the crucifix.

Posted by: Bram's Toker at October 17, 2014 04:05 PM (2Hkbk)

152 148 >>>Alex the Chick is a who.

Chanting: 'she is here she is here she is HERE!'

/boilthatdustspeck
Posted by: Bigby's Stinky Pinky at October 17, 2014 04:03 PM (3ZtZW)
Or, " with the pricking of my thumb..." Time to cower.

Posted by: Kraken at October 17, 2014 04:05 PM (5+mPY)

153 I think I may be coming down with the flu.
Posted by: Man with Clipboard at October 17, 2014 03:57 PM

Oh, great. Will you be flying or taking a cruise

Posted by: Shitty jobs but seem to have gobs of vacation at October 17, 2014 04:05 PM (0J18b)

154
alexthechick is a unicorn who doesn't exist.

Also, nude.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at October 17, 2014 04:05 PM (JtwS4)

155 This incessant call for travel bans is nothing but a thinly disguised outbreak of Birtherism, no doubt egged on by those bitter clingers of the hapless 2012 Romney campaign, still seething from their impotent attempt to depose our Dear Leader.

Posted by: The L.A. Times Editorial Board at October 17, 2014 04:05 PM (HBAcW)

156 Chanting: 'she is here she is here she is HERE!'

Exit backwards bowing.

Posted by: toby928(C) at October 17, 2014 04:05 PM (rwI+c)

157
really must all about the urban heat...
=
really must KNOW all about the urban heat...

Posted by: zombie at October 17, 2014 03:46 PM (K4YiS)

What's funny is that a significant part of the warmists' argument is that increased urbanization also increases the amount of heat reradiated back into the atmosphere, due to the differing heat absorbing/reflecting qualities of vegetation, concrete, blacktop paving etc.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 17, 2014 04:05 PM (TIIx5)

158 God, the whining about the news media from the right is incessant. Do you think that this helps sell conservatism or the GOP to potentially persuadable people? It makes you look pathetic. Instead of focusing on policy, you cry about how the media is treating you so unfairly. It makes you look small and weak.

Posted by: Really? at October 17, 2014 04:06 PM (ibvmu)

159 158 God, the whining about the news media from the right is incessant. Do you think that this helps sell conservatism or the GOP to potentially persuadable people? It makes you look pathetic. Instead of focusing on policy, you cry about how the media is treating you so unfairly. It makes you look small and weak.
Posted by: Really? at October 17, 2014 04:06 PM

Go blow it out your butt...

Posted by: helloit's me Donna and I know nuthink! at October 17, 2014 04:06 PM (Bn6aD)

160 It makes you look small and weak.

Your concern is noted.

Posted by: toby928(C) at October 17, 2014 04:06 PM (rwI+c)

161 100k minimum! Each the start of new chain migration.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Thousands of Haitian immigrants approved to move to the United States to join relatives already living here will soon be able to immigrate before a visa is available, the Obama administration announced Friday.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Homeland Security Department agency that oversees immigration benefits cases, said the Haitian Family Reunification Parole Program will allow Haitians who are scheduled to receive a visa within two years to move to the U.S. While they are waiting for their visas, the immigrants will be granted a work permit, USCIS said.

A limited number of family immigrant visas are issued yearly, and in some cases approved would-be immigrants from Haiti can wait more than a decade for a visa to become available.

Starting in early 2015 the State Department's National Visa Center will notify Haitians already living in the United States that their relatives may be eligible to come to the U.S. sooner. USCIS said only those people contacted by the government will be eligible for the program.

It is unclear how many immigrants may benefit from the program initially. There are about 100,000 Haitians already approved to come to the U.S. awaiting a visa.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at October 17, 2014 04:07 PM (ZPrif)

162 Nude Pod People.

Posted by: toby928(C) at October 17, 2014 04:07 PM (rwI+c)

163 Hey, I've got a question. If all of Mexico and Haiti and West Africa are coming here, doesn't it follow there's someplace now getting emptied that we can sort of overrun, take over, and turn into some sort of free-market, Galt's-Gulch, constitutional paradise? I hear that Costa Rica is really nice this time of year. Or Nicaragua.

Posted by: Keith Arnold at October 17, 2014 04:08 PM (iIzG7)

164 t makes you look small and weak.

I'll take that under advisement, thanks.

BUT FIRST YOU MUST BLOW ME!!

Posted by: Mel G at October 17, 2014 04:08 PM (0J18b)

165 Posted by: Really? at October 17, 2014 04:06 PM (ibvmu)

It's tough to persuade people when your arguments are distorted and mangled by those who are purportedly "reporters", when in actuality they are propagandists...

Posted by: Ian Galt at October 17, 2014 04:08 PM (dmepw)

166
Posted by: Man with Clipboard at October 17, 2014 03:57 PM

Oh, great. Will you be flying or taking a cruise>>

Crop duster.

Posted by: pep at October 17, 2014 04:09 PM (LzeK5)

167 Hector?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 17, 2014 04:09 PM (l1zOH)

168 Mac: "Whenever I meet new left wing people and THEY raise politics and ask me about my position they all have the same follow up question; Oh you don't just get your news from Fox, do you?"

Notice the only - the ONLY - source they point to is FOXNews. It's not like FOX doesn't have its share of Liberals/Democrats on for "True and Balanced," even that is too much.

Meanwhile, these Lefties have the entire of broadcast of the airwave spectrum, everyone else on cable "news," essentially all of The Press, the vast majority of Academia, and most of our nation's governmental institutions. They're soaking in Progressivism and fear one voice of dissent which isn't all that doctrinaire.

Talk about useful idiots.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at October 17, 2014 04:09 PM (1CroS)

169 Baylor Hospital says patient screened positive for ebola. Has not tested positive. Transferred to Presbyterian Hospital.

Presbyterian Hospital says, "Whut?"

http://cbsloc.al/1voIGoO

Posted by: rickb223 at October 17, 2014 04:09 PM (ppMZM)

170 Average Joe

Posted by: toby928(C) at October 17, 2014 04:09 PM (rwI+c)

171 It's less entertainting when you are not stoned out of your gourd.
Posted by: toby928(C) at October 17, 2014 03:54 PM (rwI+c)

At the risk of needing turn in my Horde membership card, I've never been stoned out of my gourd. But I can vouch that it's pretty stupid when you are sober.

Posted by: Sambo at October 17, 2014 04:11 PM (cgHJr)

172 "But I can vouch that it's pretty stupid when you are sober."

I didn't exactly watch it for the plot, IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: Keith Arnold at October 17, 2014 04:13 PM (iIzG7)

173 nood.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 17, 2014 04:13 PM (ppMZM)

174 Concern Troll: Instead of focusing on policy, you cry about how the media is treating you so unfairlyPosted by: Really? at October 17, 2014 04:06 PM (ibvmu) .

Normal person: OK, let's talk about policy.

Concern Troll: Raaaaaacist!

Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at October 17, 2014 04:15 PM (HBAcW)

175 Good, just what south Florida needs, 100,000 more Haitians. And their work permits, so they can be maids, gardners, chauffeurs, home health care aids for all the wealthy Democrats living out their retirement dreams in Boca Raton and Palm Beach.

Posted by: Jen at October 17, 2014 04:16 PM (H2RaY)

176 Costanza,
Nope, I think a fairer reading is that the Feds loathe Americans. We are the source of all evil in the world and need to be dealt with. The health and wellbeing of the people in West Africa is more important than Americans. If that means bringing them over here for treatment and thousands of us die in the process, well, that's no big loss to the Feds. Hell, we had it coming.

Posted by: Ken at October 17, 2014 04:18 PM (LXJ1e)

177 Posted by: Costanza Defense at October 17, 2014 04:07 PM (ZPrif)

Obama is racing against the clock, trying to get as many potential Democrats as possible into the U.S. before election day, to take advantage of same day registration/provisional ballot rules.

I wonder if he thinks that impeachment is a real possibility, even with the Crying Orange in charge. Does he know something we don't?

Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at October 17, 2014 04:19 PM (HBAcW)

178 Baylor Hospital says patient screened positive for ebola. Has not tested positive. Transferred to Presbyterian Hospital.

Presbyterian Hospital says, "Whut?"

http://cbsloc.al/1voIGoO
Posted by: rickb223 at October 17, 2014 04:09 PM (ppMZM)

I read that also and don't understand it. Why would the patient have been transferred to a hospital that has zero success rate in treating Ebola patients and has gotten two of it's staff infected via improper protocol?

Posted by: Jen at October 17, 2014 04:25 PM (H2RaY)

179 I, for one, find it absolutely unironic that an equal number of Times folks follow Tom Friedman, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and David Frum.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at October 17, 2014 04:45 PM (XrGnJ)

180 Actually they are too stupid to knowthats how Twitter works.

Actually, they fear backlash if their liberal cocoon mates see them allowing in the awful te baggerz.

Either one, toots.

Posted by: Truman North, Moron Emeritus at October 17, 2014 04:48 PM (PLIfi)

181 There's only one way to change the press.

Those Republican billionaires have to start BUYING the press, and wholesale cock-walking the liberal newsroom onto the curb.

You know what? I'd love to be an influential writer on the right. But the right doesn't understand the power of the press. It really is tragic that the leadership of the Republican polity (not politicians) don't understand that the way you take over institutions is to first WANT to take over institutions, for your larger purpose.

The right simply isn't interested in sculpting the media landscape. Controlling the narrative.

Or that's what the right would be doing.

You're fighting an unwinnable battle, Ace, and whinging about it only makes you seem like whinger.

Posted by: someguy at October 17, 2014 05:47 PM (3z91g)

182 So "Realy?" You are identifying your self as a sadistic psychopath - since that is what Internet trolls are. Have you considered seeking professional help with that? You do know that sadistic psychopaths don't live very long don't you?

People in that category tend to make the mistake of screwing with the wrong person and then they die of natural causes. For example it is natural to die when somebody in their immediate family causes a large hole to appear in their heads. You might want to keep a very close watch on the others in your family, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree - if you know what I mean, and I think that you do.

Posted by: An Observation at October 17, 2014 06:20 PM (ylhEn)

183 What's the wall-of-red-text (error message) captioned "500 Internal Server Error"?

I've been trying to comment for a half-hour and get the damn thing over and over again.

Posted by: A_Nonny_Mouse at October 18, 2014 03:55 AM (ch2lv)

184 If it helps, the last line of the Wall-Of-Red-Text reads
UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character
u'\u2014' in position 409: ordinal not in range(256)

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