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* Capitalism sure is fragile if subprime borrowers can ruin it
“Ah, but truth is no ally to a conservative with his back to the wall. So much more helpful are the trusty narratives on which the movement was built.”
* CNN: Sarah Palin Has Never Seen Russia From Alaska
* Link directly to timecode in Youtube videos
* MPAA spokeslawyers insist that they not be identified by name in reports from press-conference
When gov’t officials pull this crap it is stupid, but WTF with journalists honoring it for the f***ing MPAA?
* New Study Details Massive Voter Roll Purges Underway in At Least 19 States (check voter registration here)
* Court Denies GOP Appeal on Ohio Early Voting
Republicans try to stop voting. Again.
* Cons blame gays for bank failures
* New SurveyUSA poll of Indiana has Obama down 3, winning only 82% of black vote. Do the math.
* MI6 agent forgets to delete work records from camera before selling on eBay
* Hannity’s Bullyboy Pique A Sure Sign McCain’s In Trouble
God willing the next 4-8 years will be a comic goldmine
* No Nazi pranks, America! No. Nazi. Pranks.
Um huh. White NYC workers (cops) can ride thru Harlem with a Black doll’s head on their city issued patrol car with impunity, so far. But it seems the line is drawn with wearing a a worker ‘Nazi sticker’ on their riding helmut. I guess Bloomberg does have limits to ethnic intolerance/hatred. It just does not jive with or extend to Black folk’s sensibility. Effing hyopocrites.
No intellectually honest link about Gwen Ifill being undeniably in the tank for Obama?
Disappointing.
Oh, like you think it matters.
Moderator of Palin Debate Has Pro-Obama Book Coming Out on Inauguration Day
Oh, and she also written fawning stories about the Obama family in Essence magazine.
Here’s a sample:
Nope, no bias there. I’m sure Gwen will be completely objective during the debates, what with her big book deal hinging on the ascendency of Obama to the Presidency and all.
The media isn’t even trying to pretend to be objective anymore. They should all be drawing paychecks from the Obama campaign and the DNC. God knows they’re earning it.
In the insanely unlikely event that a conservative news anchor who was writing a gush-fest book about John McCain, set to be going on sale the day of the inauguration, was going to be the moderator for tomorrow night’s debate, I can guarantee you Glenn Reynolds, the man accused here of being intellectually dishonest and a fabricator of stories on his blog, would have something to say about it.
Does it matter to me? No. Liberal media bias is just the way it is. What matters is the blatant intellectual dishonesty of the left-wing blogosphere that went completely berserk the days after the ABC presidential debate when George Stephanopolous dared to ask Barack Obama about William Ayers. ‘Stick to the issues!’ was the cry, and ‘Stephie is in the tank for Hillary’. None of that matters to them now. None of them care about the issues now with Sarah Palin.
is dennis serious? are there really conservatives out there who believe that there is some monolithic liberal media? or is this just a tactic conservatives still employ even though it makes them look idiotic to do so? gibson and stephanopolous were practically writing an ad for the gop when they quizzed obama in that debate.
liberals are hypocrites? i heard plenty of conservatives out there yelling about the edwards infidelity story when it was broken by the enquirer but they’re suddenly silent on the palin/hanson affair. oh, wait. they’re saying the enquirer is a tabloid rag and the story’s not true. oops.
people do care about issues with palin. it’s obvious that she’s an idiot, that’s the issue liberals are concerned with. why aren’t conservatives worried about that? why are they making excuses for her which, in light of their criticisms of barack obama, simply do not make sense?
she’s over-prepared and that’s why she sounds so stupid? ok.
If liberal media bias were really as pervasive and powerful as conservatives whine, then we wouldn’t have dealt with eight years of disastrous Bush policies. Surely the powerful liberal media and their allies, the powerful Hollywood liberal elite, would have by now remade the country in their liberal liberal image.
Thomas Frank had you guys pegged: “liberal media bias” is just more of your precious-little-victim syndrome. You don’t want the big bad news media to jump all over Palin’s gaffes and clear lack of intelligence? Don’t do something stupid like nominate Sarah Palin.
Gaffes and clear lack of intelligence? No one cares when it’s Joe Biden the one being the frontrunner in that category. Hillary was literally buried in the media for her Tuzla fabrication. Biden’s Tuzla moment isn’t even discussed among the media elites.
‘Oh, that’s just Joe being Joe. Ha ha.’
I don’t care, the fix was in for Obama for a long time before this. It’s just amusing reading here about other bloggers being intellectually dishonest.
I can assure you that conservatives sincerely believe that the media has a liberal bias. Why wouldn’t they think so? They listen to Talk Radio, which tells them every day that FOX is fair and the NYT is slanted. Even though the NYT led the cheers for Pres. Bonehead’s Iraq Folly, repeated ad nauseum that Gore “claimed to have invented the Internet”, and has Krauthammer, Kristol, and (formerly) Safire as editorial writers, somehow it’s a “liberal rag.”
See, conservatives aren’t smart enough to figure something out: that the only way one can believe the crap Limbaugh is spewing is if one can be convinced that “they” can’t be trusted. “They” meaning those smartypants college boys at CBS, the NYT, and the WaPo.
Conservatives have a HUGE inferiority complex. They absolutely distrust “book-larnin’”, preferring gut instinct. Problem is, that’s no recipe for a successful democracy, as we’ve seen the last 7 1/2 years.
And just so you know, I’m aware that some conservatives are educated. I’m talking about your typical conservative voter here. You know, as Frank would say, Joe Six Pack.
Good job Bruce. A major lesson of propoganda is to get people to distrust their own eyes and ears. Since the 1960’s, radical cons have been taught not to believe their lying eyes, that only “their” sources can be trusted.
Court Denies GOP Appeal on Ohio Early Voting
They gotta hurry up and get the voting done before that pesky ACORN investigation has a chance to ruin The Obamessiah’s chances in Ohio.
Cuyahoga board probes ACORN voter registration drive
Republicans try to stop voting fraud. Again.
There, fixed it for you, Oliver.
Next stop on the ObamaNation Voter Fraud Tour: Michigan!
Bad voter applications found – Clerks see fraudulent, duplicate forms from group
Dave, how many fraudulent votes have been uncovered in all these investigations?
i heard plenty of conservatives out there yelling about the edwards infidelity story when it was broken by the enquirer but they’re suddenly silent on the palin/hanson affair. oh, wait. they’re saying the enquirer is a tabloid rag and the story’s not true. oops.
Let’s compare the two Enquirer stories, shall we?
Palin:
Wait, this star witness is the former (Former? For how long?) brother-in-law… of Hanson’s… wife’s… brother. Just how many links away from the actual family is this guy? And his proof? Well he knew that Brad had an affair. but just found out (maybe from one of those 30 Democratic operatives in Wasilla offering cash for dirt on Palin) that… GASP! it was Palin all along!
Edwards:
The Enquirer has photos of Edwards meeting clandestinely with Rielle Hunter in an LA hotel.
The media isn’t even trying to pretend to be objective anymore. They should all be drawing paychecks from the Obama campaign and the DNC. God knows they’re earning it.
Thanks for setting me straight on this, Dave in SoCal. All this time I thought Sarah Palin was an ignorant fraud and scary right wing religious nut and that John McCain was an angry old man drooling for power like a fruit bat with rabies, willing to flail about however he could merely to win the day’s news cycle.
But it was the media the whole time.
You sound like you know a lot. Do you also read all the newspapers like Governor Palin does?
You sound like you know a lot. Do you also read all the newspapers like Governor Palin does?
Palin should’ve just told Katie Couric that she was shot at while in Iraq and that her helicopter was ‘forced down’ while in Afghanistan, then you guys would obviously have no problem with anything else she said.
“Liberal Bias” = lack of conservative bias. So bugger off, Dennis.
Dave, the ACORN smear has gotten no traction. NONE WHATSOEVER. Put it on the shit-pile of failure together with Wright/Rezko/Ayres etc.
President Barack Obama. Learn to love it.
Yes, because we all psychotically rallied to the defence of Hillary Clinton on general principles when she fucked up, because she was Our Side and Our Side Can Do No Wrong.
Oh wai
Let’s compare the two Enquirer stories, shall we?
So, you’re saying that if there was a photograph of Palin in a hotel, then it would be credible?
“I don’t care, the fix was in for Obama for a long time before this. It’s just amusing reading here about other bloggers being intellectually dishonest.”
I love it. Conservatives are already laying the ground work for the whine fest that will commence on Nov 5 and last, if Obama wins reelection, about 8 years.
You know, Dennis, couldn’t you hold it in for one more month, at least? If not for us, for your own sake. Eight years is a long, long time to sit around with poop in your diapers. You should enjoy this time while you can.
“I love it. Conservatives are already laying the ground work for the whine fest that will continue on Nov 5 and last, if Obama wins reelection, about 8 years. ”
Fixed. Because cons have been whining for as long a I have been alive and will continue to whine. That’s what they do, that’s who they are. Meanwhile, if everything goes according to plan, America won’t have to listen to the whines because they will be out of power in the Oval Office as well as Congress, maybe even with a filibuster proof majority in the Senate. A fella can dream, can’t he?
Dave, the ACORN smear has gotten no traction. NONE WHATSOEVER.
So the Michigan Secretary of State reports “a sizeable number of duplicate and fraudulent applications”, with the majority of them coming from the group ACORN. An investigation is started.
But that’s just a smear. Right. Like an ad about Obama’s ties to unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers is just a smear.
The story also noted that “In recent years, ACORN’s voter registration programs have come under investigation in Ohio, Colorado, Missouri and Washington, with some employees convicted of voter fraud.”
Yep, it’s all just a smear.
I guess “smear” has become the new “swift-boat”, which is defined as “uncomfortable truths for Democrats”.
Our side will stop registering nonexistent voters if your side will stop suppressing real ones. Deal?
Our side will stop registering nonexistent voters if your side will stop suppressing real ones. Deal?
So voter fraud is just another tool in the Progressive toolbox, eh? And it’s justified in your eyes because “the other side does it!”.
You know, in Ohio, the Democrats are doing both: registering nonexistant voters (as noted above) as well as suppressing real ones.
It’s all in the service of bring the The One to power, so it’s OK, right?
And on the subject of ‘Get out the Vote” efforts, we now know exactly what Colorado Democrats think of minorities: Idiots.
It was a joke, Dave.
I’m all for prosecuting real voter fraud.
Are you for prosecuting real voter suppression?
You do remember the US attorney scandal of last year, right? The one Rove and Meiers refuse to testify about?
If it had been Panetta and Reno that did what Rove and Gonzales did, I’m sure you would have wanted them to testify. Where do you stand on Rove, Gonzales, and Meiers claiming “executive privilege” to avoid prosecution for voter suppression and the malicious prosecution of Siegelman?
You do remember the US attorney scandal of last year, right?
You mean when Bush had Gonzales fired 8 US attorneys, who I believe all serve at the leisure of the president?
And as I recall, the allegations were that some of the attorneys were fired because they were failing to investigate or aggressively pursue voter-fraud cases. And this is “voter suppression” how? Seems like just the opposite.
If it had been Panetta and Reno that did what Rove and Gonzales did</i
You mean when Clinton had Reno fire ALL 93 US attorneys at the start of his presidency?
Are you for prosecuting real voter suppression?
Sure I am. But not the voter suppression that only exists in your head. The ones where there is actual. documented evidence that voter fraud is occurring. Like the example above.
Oh, and during that one day Register/Vote event in Ohio yesterday? Poll observers banned by direct order of the Democratic Sec of State (referenced in the article above).
Change You Can Believe In!