Election 2010: Teabaggin' the Ds & Rs

[Penske 2.0]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

IWhich tends to prove how much he probably knows about running a profitable business. .

2. I will increase revenue in 2010, during my tenure, by 350%. Maybe dumb luck.....

[Adder]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

The Sanchez firing was almost as unjustified. .

You're kidding, right? A confirmed idiot says that he was only picked on because Stewart is a Jew, and you think that's unjustified?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I think it was stupid, and will now place NPR, something I listen to everyday, in the crosshairs of the right wing smear machine.

The irony being that they were trying to protect their reputation by getting rid of someone who was getting too opinionated on Fox, thereby diminishing their journalistic integrity.

[Penske 2.0]

Originally Posted by Adder

You're kidding, right? A confirmed idiot says that he was only picked on because Stewart is a Jew, and you think that's unjustified?

Given that Sanchez offered an apology, I am not going to defend his statements, although Stewart is incredibly biased and confuses journalism with comedy/satire and uses the latter characterization to justify biased and elitist and offensive statements. Is it funny? Sure, if it's stand up comedy. But its not, its faux journalism and he knows it. Colbert is close, but at least with him he is in character, which defines it more clearly as comedy.

Sanchez on the other hand was held to a more professional journalistic standard. Thus, his firing does not seem so equitable, and aren't equity and anti-bias big progressive lib themes....or is that only when its convenient to their issues?

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Penske 2.0

Stewart is incredibly biased and confuses journalism with comedy/satire

Exhibit 2 that you most likely drool while typing.

Whatever Stewart is, he isn't a tool of a Jewish cabal that runs the media.

But its not, its faux journalism and he knows it.

Right. He has never claimed otherwise. The funny thing is, he is about the only real journalist on tv today because those who think they aren't "satire" think that "journalism" means putting on what liar X says as long as it is followed by liar Y.

In other words, the sad state of affairs is that almost no one else is willing to say, "but isn't this true?" Which is what journalism used to be about.

Just to be perfectly clear, there is fact and there is opinion. Most of the media has forgotten the difference, leaving fact questions up to whatever wingnut comes along. We are all the worse off because of it.

Sanchez on the other hand was held to a more professional journalistic standard.

That's a pretty big "on the other hand" as Sanchez was never a comedian, or even real commentator.

Thus, his firing does not seem so equitable, and aren't equity and anti-bias big progressive lib themes....or is that only when its convenient to their issues?

Congratulations, you have again succeeded in saying something totally absurd. Do you masturbate to completion each time?

[Penske 2.0]

Originally Posted by Adder

Exhibit 2 that you most likely drool while typing.

Whatever Stewart is, he isn't a tool of a Jewish cabal that runs the media.
?

Exhibit 592 that you are possessed of an incredibly naive and immature
intellect and personality and your life experience is comprised of the very insular experience of an undergraduate degree and a law degree and a few years experience as a junior associate in the incredibly dysfunctional environment of biglaw, and very little sex to offset any of that.

Further, I didn't say what you write above. I said he is biased and confuses his comedy for journalism (intentionally). I stand by that standpoint, which has nothing to do with jewish cabals controlling media, but everything to do with his personal biases.

Originally Posted by Adder

Right. He has never claimed otherwise. The funny thing is, he is about the only real journalist on tv today because those who think they aren't "satire" think that "journalism" means putting on what liar X says as long as it is followed by liar Y.

In other words, the sad state of affairs is that almost no one else is willing to say, "but isn't this true?" Which is what journalism used to be about.

While he may never claim otherwise, he knows what the affect of his "comedy" show is and he has become a de facto journalist, and in that role he is biased.

Originally Posted by Adder

Just to be perfectly clear, there is fact and there is opinion. Most of the media has forgotten the difference, leaving fact questions up to whatever wingnut comes along. We are all the worse off because of it.

I can agree with that.

Originally Posted by Adder

Congratulations, you have again succeeded in saying something totally absurd. Do you masturbate to completion each time?

Exhibit 593 that you are possessed of an incredibly naive and immature
intellect and and personality your life experience is comprised of an undergraduate degree and a law degree and a few years experience as a junior associate in the incredibly dysfunctional environment of biglaw, and very little sex to offset any of that.

Further, your comment shows that you know little of progressive philosophy, concepts of equity or anti-bias. Unlike you, i am little more experienced and have worked in both right and left environments and for causes on both sides of the aisle and understand what those concepts are. Sanchez got a raw deal in that regard and got that raw deal from the left side of the aisle, which espouses the ideals that they disregarded there. You also don't appear to know much about employment law or HR, although that is not surprising as you haven't had any meaningful management experience, other than maybe a labour law class.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Adder

Exhibit 2 that you most likely drool while typing.

Whatever Stewart is, he isn't a tool of a Jewish cabal that runs the media.



Right. He has never claimed otherwise. The funny thing is, he is about the only real journalist on tv today because those who think they aren't "satire" think that "journalism" means putting on what liar X says as long as it is followed by liar Y.

In other words, the sad state of affairs is that almost no one else is willing to say, "but isn't this true?" Which is what journalism used to be about.

Just to be perfectly clear, there is fact and there is opinion. Most of the media has forgotten the difference, leaving fact questions up to whatever wingnut comes along. We are all the worse off because of it.



That's a pretty big "on the other hand" as Sanchez was never a comedian, or even real commentator.



Congratulations, you have again succeeded in saying something totally absurd. Do you masturbate to completion each time?

when there's lightening outside do you get sick headaches?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Penske 2.0

2. I will increase revenue in 2010, during my tenure, by 350%. Maybe dumb luck.....

my juan the marine started posting in infirm, greedy IP and page hits co-incidentally spiked. I'm talking to sock for the man right now, seeing if I can get paid.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Because he has already been fired, so it's really besides the point now to talk about all of the things NPR could have considered before it acted.

smh

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

If she wins the nomination and the economy is bad enough, it won't matter how flaky her people are.

so you reject that palin voters are stupid, you just feel they are desparate for something to hope for?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

so you reject that palin voters are stupid, you just feel they are desparate for something to hope for?

TM and I look alike, so I can understand why you'd confuse us.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

TM and I look alike, so I can understand why you'd confuse us.

thurgreed cant go left. i know the difference between you two.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

well do you think the general public has decreased in IQ, or do you think the TP encourages people who were once smart enough to realize they're stupid and would shut up, to start speaking up?

I told you what I thought. I think idiots are emboldened and encouraged by idiot candidates and the Becks/Limbaughs/O'Reillys of the world. I think the fact that there are candidates who are succeeding because they are actively stupid (or are pretending to be dumber than they are) is amazing. I think Rove and Bush opened up a can of worms by manipulating the morons in their base to vote. Now, these morons realize they have power and want to see themselves (as opposed to intelligent candidates representing their interests) in office.

In short, I don't think the general public's collective IQ has decreased. I think the dumbest people in the Republican party have broken out on their own as Tea Partiers.

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

the John Wayne clip I posted, a woman who I thought was pretty smart posted that as if it was something wise to share. lots of other are doing similar posts on their public facebooks. it shocks me.

most of the people i'm "friends" with from my high school post "I love Jesus" shit.

now I"m from a backward lower class town, so maybe I just know a higher percentage of the truly nuts, but i always thought I had filtered that out.

Okay. Not sure if you are telling me this because you think your HS classmates represent what is happening out there (i.e., otherwise reasonably intelligent people posting ridiculous garbage for some reason other than their reduced brain capacity) or if you just think it's weird.

Either way, people who seemed smart in HS don't necessarily continue to grow intellectually past where they were in HS. I see it all the time. In fact, some of them go the opposite way once they aren't forced to learn things. They get stuck in an unstimulating job, shelter themselves from exposure to things not related to their immediate tastes and are influenced by talk radio and the community they live in which is now empty of the people who have moved on to bigger and better things.

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

anyhoo, I"m shocked and confused about some of the people who buy into whatever the TP message is. i thought that had some value in the discussion of "whose party has ore stupid voters", because the fact that perhaps some of the people aren't stupid, might impact the question.

Honestly, you post a lot of minimal stuff that you think is just packed with meaning. But we're not in your brain and often, the steps you are taking internally to get to whatever point you think you're making are not apparent to us on the board. Think about it.

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

in sum, I do feel that it added at least the value of the average PB post.

Can't argue with that.

TM

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Penske 2.0

Smarter career decision than lots of smart people whom I know have made.

Maybe those people have other priorities. And pursuing those priorities instead of cash does not make that decision less intelligent.

TM

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

I love Jesus.