U MAD BRO?
There’s an old saying that I’m a big fan of: Never try to teach a pig to sing — it wastes your time and annoys the pig. I think of this every time I get the urge to lash out at Fox News for some irresponsible, grossly unethical thing or other that the network has done or has had the gall to broadcast under the guise of being a real news organization. My criticism, like everyone else’s, won’t matter one bit — the attack will just bounce off of Roger Ailes’s prodigious belly like he was Kung-Fu Panda. Not only does Fox News not fret over its many detractors and their grievances, it generally welcomes the outrage as an opportunity to once again let its pit-bullish media relations department off the chain to maul the crap out of the poor bastard with the bad sense to hassle its master… It’s with all of this in mind that I sit here wallowing waist deep in what I know is the futility of saying a damn thing about Fox News’s latest nakedly obvious and indefensibly biased attack on Barack Obama. If you haven’t seen what I’m talking about yet — the four-minute video clip that Doocy the Clown and the rest of the crew of local news rejects on Fox & Friends aired earlier this week, benignly calling it a “look back” at the last three years of the Obama presidency — then I’m not going to go into detail for you. Suffice it to say that you really do need to see it with your own eyes to both believe it and — eventually, after it sinks in that you really are watching what you think you are — appreciate the sheer scope of its horribleness. It’s not news. It’s not even news by the very flexible standards of Fox News. At the risk of violating Godwin’s Law, it’s 1939-style propaganda and nothing more — not a thing more — and it quite frankly stands as Fox News’s darkest hour. It’s honestly so freaking shameless that even I wasn’t sure Fox was capable of creating and disseminating something like it, despite the fact that anyone as cynical as I am should’ve understood fully that it merely represents the Fox model taken to its logical conclusion.
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| — | Chez Pazienza for the Huffington Post, in Fox News Doesn’t Care About Your Outrage. (via reallyfoxnews) |
The United States is a low-wage country. (Here a chorus of Republicans pipes up: Yes, but it’s the greatest low-wage country in the world, and don’t you forget it!) In fact, in 2009 the United States led developed nations, with 24.8 percent of workers earning less than two-thirds of the…
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A message to
Planned Parenthoodwomen’s rights supporters from President Obama.Obama y u so perfect <3
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GOP presidential challenger Rick Santorum faced three tough questions from high school students Friday afternoon on his education, health care and economic policies.
The questions he faced afterward from reporters at an Italian restaurant in suburban Chicago about the year he lived in Illinois seemed almost gentle by comparison.
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Seventeen minutes into his speech, the faculty advisor interrupted him.
“Excuse me — I know we’re on a tight schedule here. We have some students who would like to ask some questions if you’re ready to entertain those,” the faculty member said. Santorum nodded.
The 3 questions students got to ask:
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“You recently commented on how you don’t believe everyone should go to college,” Becky Pauwels, 17, told Santorum. “Yet countries such as Germany and Japan, whose governments offer college to any motivated student, experience high rates of socio-economic mobility, which, by your own admission and all academic studies, is lagging in the United States.”
Since President Barack Obama proposes expanded access to college and training programs, how do his proposals differ from Obama’s, she asked.
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“Your main competitor, Mitt Romney, donated 16.3 percent of his income to charity and you donated only 1.7 percent of your $923,000 salary to charity,” Vucicevic said. “Your explanation was that you have to provide for seven children, one of which has special needs. … How do you expect middle-class Americans who are in similar situations to pay for it? Isn’t your situation the exact reason why we need a universal health care system like most other nations have?”
The auditorium erupted in applause at the question.
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Hannah Johnstone asked if Santorum’s economic policies weren’t “just giving the upper 1 percent more of the advantages they had under George Bush’s lower tax rates and deregulatory policies which is very similar to what you are proposing?”
THIS WAS ME! I WROTE THOSE QUESTIONS!!!
Proud to be among such an intelligent group of students.
I was there to ask a question, but got shooed away by Santorum’s staff when they decided that Hersey kids were TOO SMART for Senator Dumbass!
Tumblrs represent!
I hate to break the news but you will never be able to kill enough people to make up for the fact that liberalism is perceived as ‘woman’s work’ and the Democrats as ‘the mommy party.’ If that’s what you seek then you might as well join the rest of the bullies and become a Republican.
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digby, on professional troll Rush Limbaugh’s recent tirade against liberal men. Although it’s clear that Rush has discovered my secret Crazed Female Sex Demons For Progressivism and World Domination weekly meetings, I will always be proud to be with the party that operates, to quote FDR, through the following premise: “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” (via pantslessprogressive) |
For those of you who don’t know about Twitter, you send out tweets to ‘tweeples’ so everybody who’s on Twitter is a tweeple.
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| — | Newt Gingrich explaining Twitter. (via officialssay) |
