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Testi is a sensitive lad.

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Ed Zachary wrote:Testi is a sensitive lad.
No point in trying to debate with the few tards here, you know?

So we cut straight to the meat of the matter!
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protobuilder wrote:I'm driving around at lunchtime and I hear Huckabee on Fox News Radio and he's complaining that the moron from Missouri that made the "legitimate rape" comment (Akin?) is being pilloried by the media.

As proof of a so-called double standard, he says he can't remember a similar outcry when a 'certain President committed moral wrongdoing in the White House with an intern' (obviously referencing Clinton).

I scratched my head and said WTF??????

Not only was their an outcry, the entire government ground to a halt while Republicans tried to impeach Clinton. Millions upon millions were spent by Ken Starr to investigate. The media could talk about nothing else for months and months.

Is Huckabee really that stupid? Akin being taken to task is somehow different than the rightwing going apeshit over Clinton?

I hear similar "double standard" complaints from rightwingers. But the right has tons of media outlets these days. Turn on AM radio. Watch Fox. Browse the blogs. Read National Review.

This persecution complex is ridiculous. It's just strawman after strawman after strawman to whip up the base. The worst part is, judging from Facebook, that is all politics is anymore. LOL
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Prayer in prison, death penalty in school, right?
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baffled wrote:This thread went downhill quick.
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Gene wrote:
Testiclaw wrote:Then there's this gem...

Because nothing says democracy better than calling for armed revolution when voting doesn't go your way.
Nothing says "democracy" like a creating your own Sturmabteilung... right, Testes?

Negro please.


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baffled wrote:Prayer in prison, death penalty in school, right?
If you include banning abortion and birth control along with making health care as expensive as possible, you have my entire platform.
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BucketHead wrote:
DrDonkeyLove wrote:the mainstream media
What exactly constitutes the MSM today, in 2012?

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The legacy media you're supposed to trust for objectivity and who set the agenda for what is considered news by most people: NY Time, Wash Post, major networks, etc. All of them are center left to left.

Hannity, Maddow, RW radio, blogs have changed the game for the MSM a lot but one has to look hard for objectivity. I like realclearpoliitcs.com but I should be able to get it from the people our parents trusted.
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I was interested..and then...
RealClearPolitics is a political news and polling data aggregator[2] based in Chicago, Illinois. The site's founders say their goal is to give readers "ideological diversity."[3] They have described themselves as frustrated with what they perceive as anti-conservative, anti-Christian media bias,[4]
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johno wrote:
baffled wrote:This thread went downhill quick.
That's all Testicle has.
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RCP is mostly an editorial aggregator. If you don't like someone, don't click on their article. Lots of different opinions, but definitely right of center.

The Five (Fox News) is excellent for TV opinion-- Gutfeld and Beckel are excellent, it's a solid opinion program with genuine diversity of opinion.
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Turdacious wrote:RCP is mostly an editorial aggregator. If you don't like someone, don't click on their article. Lots of different opinions, but definitely right of center.

The Five (Fox News) is excellent for TV opinion-- Gutfeld and Beckel are excellent, it's a solid opinion program with genuine diversity of opinion.
I find opinion based news is anti-useful, editorials are just bloggers with tenure. Much prefer analytical work. Though to be fair, I rarely seek news out and when I do it's hyper local and or global...Stratfor and the Economist.
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Blaidd Drwg wrote:
Turdacious wrote:RCP is mostly an editorial aggregator. If you don't like someone, don't click on their article. Lots of different opinions, but definitely right of center.

The Five (Fox News) is excellent for TV opinion-- Gutfeld and Beckel are excellent, it's a solid opinion program with genuine diversity of opinion.
I find opinion based news is anti-useful, editorials are just bloggers with tenure. Much prefer analytical work. Though to be fair, I rarely seek news out and when I do it's hyper local and or global...Stratfor and the Economist.
If you dig deeper into the RCP site, Real Clear World, Real Clear Markets, Real Clear Science, etc. can be very interesting regardless of ones political perspective.
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I'll give it a longer look.
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Testiclaw wrote:
Your Mother fucks for bricks to build your Sister her whorehouse.
That got a legit laugh out of me.


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Ed Zachary wrote:
Testiclaw wrote:
Your Mother fucks for bricks to build your Sister her whorehouse.
That got a legit laugh out of me.
Well government can't take credit for building that business. Mama and daughter worked hard to get it running and creating jobs.
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Long as y'all can drive big cars, eat shit and watch movies, the conditions necessary for real change are absent. Get used to bullshit as politics. It's all you've got until either the oil runs out, the dollar collapses, China attacks, there is a meteor strike or a zombie apocalypse.
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Gorbachev wrote:Long as y'all can drive big cars, eat shit and watch movies, the conditions necessary for real change are absent. Get used to bullshit as politics. It's all you've got until either the oil runs out, the dollar collapses, China attacks, there is a meteor strike or a zombie apocalypse.
Dude, I liked a post on Facebook earlier today and have an Obama bumper sticker. I think that constitutes doing my part.
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Blaidd Drwg wrote:I was interested..and then...
RealClearPolitics is a political news and polling data aggregator[2] based in Chicago, Illinois. The site's founders say their goal is to give readers "ideological diversity."[3] They have described themselves as frustrated with what they perceive as anti-conservative, anti-Christian media bias,[4]
They do a good job of linking to both sides of the street. It's fun to read the opinion article titles first, and then opinionist and on-line source second. Usually easy to predict.

From Tuesday, goes right/left/right/left...

How Ryan Recasts the Race - Fred Barnes, Wall Street Journal
Paul Ryan: Smells Like Mean Spirit - Noreen Malone, The New Republic
"Issues" or America? - Thomas Sowell, Investor's Business Daily
The Romney-Ryan Campaign Is One Big Lie - Michael Tomasky, Daily Beast
For Obama, Cool Is All That Remains - Mona Charen, National Review
Clouds Begin to Part for Romney - Steve Huntley, Chicago Sun Times
Blaming the Victim, Again - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
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From Investor's Business Daily web site Long but illustrative.
The date was June 15, 1992. In an elementary school in Trenton, New Jersey, reading off a flash card that had been prepared by the teacher, the special guest counseled the child writing potato on the blackboard, "You're close, but you left a little something off. The 'e' on the end."

The media reacted swiftly and relentlessly.

The story was on all the front pages and was carried by all the major networks.

To the mainstream media, it was the moment that Dan Quayle confirmed "what a waste it is to lose one's mind."

It didn't matter that the flash card given to the vice president was prepared by a teacher and was itself misspelled. It was carried on every news wire, every news program and in every late night TV monologue.

Quayle's mind must have been on other things. It wasn't like he repeated the mistake in all 57 states, or more precisely in Beaverton, Ore., in May 2008; or while traveling on the "Intercontinental" railroad in Cincinnati on Sept. 23, 2011; or perhaps, while he was speaking to the "President" of Canada in Chicago on Aug. 7, 2007.

He might not have known how to say it in "Austrian" while in Strasbourg, France, on April 5, 2009; or perhaps he was thinking of "Polish Death Camps" at the White House on May 30, 2012; or thinking about when he met with world leaders in that splendid "Asian" city, Honolulu, on Nov. 16, 2011.

He might have been thinking of the brave Navy "corpse" man at the prayer breakfast in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 5, 2010, which may not sound so strange to someone who also said: "On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today..."

All these examples were unreported or under-reported gaffes of President Obama.

The mainstream media didn't seem to think these incidents were worthy of a media feeding frenzy, unlike those of poor Dan Quayle.

If Vice President Quayle had only been misspelling "Ohio" as "Oiho" with three college students instead of one elementary student, at an institution of higher learning like Ohio State University instead of an elementary school, the media would certainly have ignored it.

Or, perhaps, they would have been all over it, as the Washington Post was ... quick to defend President Obama, claiming the photo must have been "Photoshopped."

Unfortunately for the Post, the incident was captured by several different cameras from multiple angles. Oops. Apparently, misspellings are only important when they are done by someone with whom they philosophically disagree.

It was an unimportant issue that was wildly blown out of proportion by a biased media back in 1992 and now, completely ignored by a hypercritical and biased media in 2012.

And there's no better example of the double standards and inherent bias of the media today.

In a surprise March 6 press conference, the president again had an opportunity to repudiate the disgraceful Priorities USA ad blaming Mitt Romney for the death of Joe Soptic's wife.

He declined to do so.

It's an important story, one that reveals the character of both the Obama campaign and the president himself. And yet, the real story behind it remains virtually uncovered.

A quick refresher — an ad for Obama featured laid-off steel worker Joe Soptic, who blamed Romney for losing his job and his health insurance and, incredibly, for killing his wife after Bain Capital acquired the GST Steel plant in Kansas City, Kan., in 1993.

The story goes that because his wife was no longer covered by his health insurance, her cancer went undetected and she had no access to proper health care and subsequently died.

Accusing Mitt Of Murder

Unfortunately for Joe's story, Romney had left Bain two years before Joe lost his job. His wife had retained her own health insurance through her job. Six years later, she went into the hospital for pneumonia and they detected cancer. Tragically she died shortly after.

At that time, seven years after Romney left Bain and five years after Soptic had lost his job, Romney was governor of Massachusetts.

Initially, the White House denied any knowledge of the ad. Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki said, "We have nothing, no involvement, with any ads that are done by Priorities USA (the super-PAC that ran the ad). We don't have any knowledge of the story of the family."

Deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter continued that line, telling CNN, "I don't know the facts about when Mr. Soptic's wife got sick, or the facts about his health insurance."

These explanations were implausible because the Obama campaign had featured Joe Soptic and his story on a May 14, 2012, conference call set up by the Obama campaign.

This contemptible ad reflects the worst of politics. The fact the president does not have the character to publicly demand the ad be withdrawn and condemned reveals more about President Obama than it does about Mitt Romney.

But that's typical of an administration that routinely lies, distorts and fabricates to divert attention from its own abysmal record and that will do anything to get re-elected.

The real question is whether the Obama campaign and Priorities USA coordinated their message, which would be illegal.

The White House says no. Of course, they also claimed to have never heard of Joe's story.

But this story, like many others, can be found in the same place where the stories about William Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, the real cost of the GM bailout, Sec. 407 of the Welfare Reform act, the source of national intelligence leaks and the truth about Operation Fast and Furious reside.

And that, as far as the media are concerned, is nowhere.

Massive Media Failure

As White House reporter for ABC News Jake Tapper recently commented, "The media is failing the country."

I agree.

A July 16 Rasmussen poll revealed "59% of likely U.S. voters believe Obama has received the best treatment from the media so far" and "51% expect most reporters to help Obama." Only 9% expect the media to help Romney.

The media should, at bare minimum, be expected to reveal the truth. But it won't even do that.

Still the media focus nonstop on unsubstantiated reports about Mitt Romney's tax returns — not on anything substantial.

MSNBC analyst Mark Halperin, when asked about Mitt Romney's tax returns on the Today Show, said, "The press still likes this story a lot."

He added, "The media are very susceptible to doing what the Obama campaign wants, which is to focus on this."

The fact the media are susceptible to do what any campaign wants is disturbing enough.

But the way the media focus relentlessly on gaffes and ignores substantive issues when covering one side, while ignoring gaffes and issues critical of the other side, does serious damage to the integrity of news reporting.

In a letter to Dr. James Currie in 1786, Thomas Jefferson wrote, "Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost."

But what of a press that limits itself to only covering news that favors its own political ideology?

Where is the real news?

Since the recovery began in June 2009, real median household income has fallen 4.8%, according to a new report from Sentier Research. This report is especially damning because incomes only dropped 2.6% during the recession.

Shouldn't this be front page news?

The deficit is closing in on $16 trillion. That's $1 trillion more than our entire GDP in 2011. The U.S. is on its way to becoming Spain. The president's solution? Raise taxes on the upper 2%. But that takes in only about $45 billion. The CBO reports our deficit in 2012 is $1.1 trillion.

Where are the media truth tellers on this?

ABC's Tapper criticized the media for not covering the economy more.

"A lot of people are hurting out there," he said. "Unemployment is 8.3%. That doesn't even take into account the underemployed."

In recent polls, the most important issue to Americans continues to be the economy and jobs. What's not being reported is that there are fewer people employed today than at the end of the last recession — the longest spell without net jobs growth since at least World War II.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, at the end of the recession 59.4% of Americans had jobs. That's just 58.4% today.

As Joe Biden said in Athens, Ohio, on October 15, 2008, "The No. 1 job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, 'a three-letter word': jobs. J-O-B-S."

No one is more of an expert on gaffes than Joe Biden. But don't tell that to a biased media.

The media's No. 1 job should be to cover the substantive issues of this campaign without regard to party affiliation or philosophical bias.

That it's now acceptable for many in the media to flaunt their bias should be, to use Joe Biden's words, "a big f-ing deal." Sadly, it isn't.
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Cry about it some more, will you?

The media's bias is money.
Fox News knows that it makes money telling old white fucks what they want to hear. MSNBC knows that people who whine about Fox News need shows that stroke their cocks. Broadcast news relies on the dwindling percentage of old people who don't know how to change the channel at dinner.

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Blaidd Drwg wrote:
Turdacious wrote:RCP is mostly an editorial aggregator. If you don't like someone, don't click on their article. Lots of different opinions, but definitely right of center.

The Five (Fox News) is excellent for TV opinion-- Gutfeld and Beckel are excellent, it's a solid opinion program with genuine diversity of opinion.
I find opinion based news is anti-useful, editorials are just bloggers with tenure. Much prefer analytical work. Though to be fair, I rarely seek news out and when I do it's hyper local and or global...Stratfor and the Economist.
I guess I look at it differently. If an opinion is in the Washington Post, or to a lesser degree the WSJ or NYT-- a lot of people in DC start paying attention (both on the bureaucratic and political sides). And we all know which direction shit flows...
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What is a right wing?
Obama's narcissism and arrogance is only superseded by his naivete and stupidity.

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