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The Best Show on WFMU => Mike And His Ilk. => Topic started by: Smelodies on November 24, 2009, 02:35:27 AM
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-politics-beck24-2009nov24,0,2028308.story
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Glenn Beck is going to split the whacko vote which was already leaning toward Palin. I'm going to predict that the 2012 presidential campaign will be even more absurd than the last Newbridge Mayubernatorial.
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Maybe if you run, you'll win this time, Mike (though I'll still vote for Pudge).
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This dumb shit is sounding more like Jim Jones every day:
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201004190013
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Agreed, Smelodies. He's definitely developing a messianic complex and I wouldn't be surprised if he offs himself to promote his own martyrdom.
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I like that he announced his grand scheme at a Florida retirement community. Grab the future by the balls, Glen!
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He likes hearing his own voice too much to silence himself with death.
I'm just holding out for when we find out he's had some gay affair or is a meth head or something. CANNOT WAIT. (Even though it did nothing for Rush's popularity... still would feel good to see the guy cry for a good reason for once. Lunatic.)
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He likes hearing his own voice too much to silence himself with death.
That's a great point. Ugh, that guy.
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Why do conservative pundits always quote MLK? Don't they know he was a socialist?
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I think Ted Haggard might be making a comeback...
Beck is pretty televangelisticy. I keep thinking somebody already has serious dirt on Beck but is waiting for the ideal time to put it out there. It's all part of God's plan for Beck.
He likes hearing his own voice too much to silence himself with death.
I'm just holding out for when we find out he's had some gay affair or is a meth head or something. CANNOT WAIT. (Even though it did nothing for Rush's popularity... still would feel good to see the guy cry for a good reason for once. Lunatic.)
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Beck's an asshole, but he's no Obama.
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Beck's an asshole, but he's no Obama.
Beck is a pimple on Obama's ass.
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They're both pimples on the ass of humanity.
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I bet humanity has a HUGE ass.
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They're both pimples on the ass of humanity.
OK, I guess I'm mildly curious as to whether you're criticizing Obama from the right or from the left, though the answer probably won't change my estimate of your basic douchiness.
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They're both pimples on the ass of humanity.
OK, I guess I'm mildly curious as to whether you're criticizing Obama from the right or from the left, though the answer probably won't change my estimate of your basic douchiness.
I'm just taking advantage of how sensitive you guys seem to get when it comes to your liberal politics.
I'm a moderate, but the troll flame inside me from my teenage years is still a few years off from being extinguished. Most of the time, I try and limit my trolling to one post a month.
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They're both pimples on the ass of humanity.
OK, I guess I'm mildly curious as to whether you're criticizing Obama from the right or from the left, though the answer probably won't change my estimate of your basic douchiness.
I'm just taking advantage of how sensitive you guys seem to get when it comes to your liberal politics.
I'm a moderate, but the troll flame inside me from my teenage years is still a few years off from being extinguished. Most of the time, I try and limit my trolling to one post a month.
A less refined person than myself might suggest you try limiting your breaths to one an hour.
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Hey, it's not my fault he's a terrible president.
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Hey, it's not my fault he's a terrible president.
You really can't turn off that "troll flame", can you? There's a term for that. There's also a psychiatric term for it.
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There's also a psychiatric term for it.
"Too much Fox News"?
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I don't have cable, sorry.
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Let's not get off topic. This was about Jim Jones and Jamestown.
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Jamestown?? Yes, that was indeed a traumatic event in the early history of American settlement, when Captain John Smith distributed poisoned cyder to the terrified colonists and bade them drinke.
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I thought that was at Roanoke.
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No, we were talking about this load of excrement:
http://mediamatters.org/research/201004230047
If global warming wasn't around for Fox News to spend so much energy attempting to debunk, do you think they'd be focusing their skepticism on evolution?
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Jeez, Smelodies, you must not be a "moderate." If you were, you'd know that Obama is MUCH worse than Glenn Beck.
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Hey. Stop crying.
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Believe me, I'm laughing.
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Prove to me that he's a good president, then.
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What is your idea of a "good" president? Do you have an example? (I'm not being snarky. really want to know.)
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I don't, actually. My standards are too high. Obama's not far enough to the left for me.
Geez, if I had said something about Bush nobody would have replied.
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What are your standards? And if no one meets them and you can't articulate anything specific, what's the point of having the conversation?
Do you not want people to ask you to explain yourself? If you posted something that broadly negative about Bush on a site that had more conservatives on it, I'm sure people would reply.
PS. Here's another video of Glenn Beck crying. Just cuz.
[youtube]8APd0OBfOlc[/youtube]
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The truth is, my political opinions change dramatically from day to day.
I'm passionate about nothing.
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Pidgeon how old ARE you?
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Twenty, why?
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You're not so far removed from your teenage troll years :)
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It's just that if it's so easy to troll and it's on a board with people of mostly one political persuasion, it's kind of unfair to me. I'm young and weak.
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Obama isn't far enough to the left for me, either. There are a lot of people like that, and there's nothing particularly shocking about this. Despite the corporate media's efforts to paint him as a wild-eyed radical socialist loon, he's pretty fucking centrist. Most of us realize that, and unless our purity of soul is such that we're mortally scandalized by the idea that politicians make compromises, we accept that he's still a big improvement over the prancing jagoff who preceded him, or anyone the opposition has to offer. Or anyone who's likely to get 51% of the votes in this not-very-bright country.
But when I hear a self-described moderate say he's worse than Beck, my idiot-dar goes off.
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Are you the one person on this board who's younger than me (and Petey, I guess)?
Do you not realize that I only bash Obama because his fans get so sensitive?
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I do realize that and think you ought to get smacked down for it, ya little punk.
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The truth is, my political opinions change dramatically from day to day.
They got Prozac for that.
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The truth is, my political opinions change dramatically from day to day.
They got Prozac for that.
You think I haven't tried that?
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Haven't given it much thought. If I were a shrink, I'd be counseling unrepentant nymphomaniacs, not message board twerps.
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I don't care what the rest of you are talking about, I like Jim Jones' music.
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Haven't given it much thought. If I were a shrink, I'd be counseling unrepentant nymphomaniacs, not message board twerps.
This conversation has run its course.
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I like the song where he goes 'Who? Jim Jones! Who? Jim Jones!' many times.
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The two main political parties have outlived their usefulness, IMO.
That's why I've registered as a member of the Greenback Party.
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I don't, actually. My standards are too high. Obama's not far enough to the left for me.
Geez, if I had said something about Bush nobody would have replied.
So what you're saying is that your President is one that could never be elected in this backwards country in 500 years. I like unicorns too!
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I do realize that and think you ought to get smacked down for it, ya little punk.
Ditto! Who invited James back on the board, anyway? PIDGEON PIDGEON PIDGEON YOU GOT PIDGEONED!
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The two main political parties have outlived their usefulness, IMO.
That's why I've registered as a member of the Greenback Party.
Greenback is a small community not 20 miles from me. I can assure you, there's not one scrap of their community's politics that your brain could tolerate.
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I don't, actually. My standards are too high. Obama's not far enough to the left for me.
Geez, if I had said something about Bush nobody would have replied.
So what you're saying is that your President is one that could never be elected in this backwards country in 500 years. I like unicorns too!
I like Clinton.
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"Today Me" wants to punch "Yesterday Me's" teeth down his throat. I need to work on my brain.
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Do you not realize that I only bash Obama because his fans get so sensitive?
"Do you not realize that I only say crazy stuff to get a reaction?"
You've got a great career in TV, Pidgeon.
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Do you not realize that I only bash Obama because his fans get so sensitive?
"Do you not realize that I only say crazy stuff to get a reaction?"
You've got a great career in TV, PidgeonGlenn Beck.
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Oh, good lord.
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What's so GOOD ABOUT IT? Rawrrrrrr.
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I did s*** like that all the time when I was 20.
Er, no, actually I guess I didn't have a computer when I was 20. I wrote Letters to the Editor as angry old people, though.
Everybody has it too easy today.
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My "good lord" was addressed to DfK, not Pidgeon.
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My "good lord" was addressed to DfK, not Pidgeon.
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Just because I can't believe you're allowing yourself to be so bothered by Pidgeon's obvious (and surprisingly successful) fishing for attention that you're rising to the bait. (Please take my surprise as testament to my good opinion of you.)
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Yeah, ideally everyone should have just ignored me.
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You've got a great career in TV, PidgeonGlenn Beck.
Glenn Beck is Pidgeon?
Kudos to Pidgeon for keeping his identity under wraps.
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Just because I can't believe you're allowing yourself to be so bothered by Pidgeon's obvious (and surprisingly successful) fishing for attention that you're rising to the bait. (Please take my surprise as testament to my good opinion of you.)
He doesn't bother me so much as he invokes my pity. Everyone I have ever met who prides themselves on their ability to troll was, ummm, a prick. I doubt he can see that in himself. He probably thinks he's clever, in a douchy condescending way. If my son engaged in such behavior, I would make him go choose his own switch.
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Pidgeon is the Clifford of this board. Dave and I alternate as Charles Grodin.
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Just because I can't believe you're allowing yourself to be so bothered by Pidgeon's obvious (and surprisingly successful) fishing for attention that you're rising to the bait. (Please take my surprise as testament to my good opinion of you.)
He doesn't bother me so much as he invokes my pity. Everyone I have ever met who prides themselves on their ability to troll was, ummm, a prick. I doubt he can see that in himself. He probably thinks he's clever, in a douchy condescending way. If my son engaged in such behavior, I would make him go choose his own switch.
If it makes a different, I try to be completely polite in person (especially to my parents). I only troll online to get the sillies out.
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I think this:
Yeah, ideally everyone should have just ignored me.
shows this:
Everyone I have ever met who prides themselves on their ability to troll was, ummm, a prick. I doubt he can see that in himself.
to be wrong.
Is there a character in Clifford who reacted by at most raising an eyebrow?
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Why don't you go somewhere else with your trolling? Stupid thing to ask a troll, I know, but still. Quit it or go away?
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I would make him go choose his own switch.
I had to do that. Once I got the limb with as much leaves on it as possible (for cushion of course) and got beat with it until all the leaves came off.
Oh family.
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I'm taking a class all about cults and communes in the fall, so I'll re-open this thread then. MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
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I don't really care for his rap music.
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Lewis Black shits on Beck from a great height:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMOh9L60FKw
Starts at :58.
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I'm taking a class all about cults and communes in the fall, so I'll re-open this thread then. MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
I just bought a used CD of People's Temple speeches.
What's wrong with me?
Also...there's a Garrison Keillor gospel album that I swear is talking to me.
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Sicko!
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201005280025
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201005260027
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http://mediamatters.org/strupp/201007130067
Prediction: Glenn Beck is going to slip and advocate armed insurrection or something similar and Fox News is going to have to fire him.
Or maybe it will be as simple as calling Barack Obama a communist, a line he hasn't crossed yet.
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I hope you're right. My theory was a Glenn Beck sex tape would surface.
http://mediamatters.org/strupp/201007130067
Prediction: Glenn Beck is going to slip and advocate armed insurrection or something similar and Fox News is going to have to fire him.
Or maybe it will be as simple as calling Barack Obama a communist, a line he hasn't crossed yet.
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http://mediamatters.org/blog/201008030063
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It seems our boy is thin skinned, didn't like what Stewart had to say last night.
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201008170019 (http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201008170019)
Also, on another matter, it seems like Fox is getting a little squeamish regarding Beck's insanity:
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201008170022 (http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201008170022)
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This fucking guy!
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201011090011 (http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201011090011)
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Perhaps he'll put his theory to the definitive test.
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Yeah, sounds like he's getting ready to jump in front of a cab under the delusion that he'll become a martyr. I'm all for it!
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Why doesn't Media Matters take on all media bias?
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Why doesn't Media Matters take on all media bias?
Well, that sounds tendentious. If you're thinking of some example of supposed "liberal" bias in the media (yeah, right) that they should be covering, that isn't part of their brief. They describe themselves on their website as "a web-based, not-for-profit, progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media."
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Why doesn't Media Matters take on all media bias?
"liberal" bias in the media (yeah, right)
You...you're kidding, right?
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Why doesn't Media Matters take on all media bias?
"liberal" bias in the media (yeah, right)
You...you're kidding, right?
This can lead to no good. If there WERE a "liberal bias" in the news, half of the W admin would be wearing all orange today.
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Must be talking about Democracy Now and Free Speech Radio News.
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Is this opposite day or something?
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Why doesn't Media Matters take on all media bias?
"liberal" bias in the media (yeah, right)
You...you're kidding, right?
Tell you what, Alex, if you still believe in that weird chimera dreamt up by William Safire for Spiro Agnew back in the 60s and relentlessly hyped by ref-playing wingnuts ever since, here's a media watchdog you'll be happy with: http://www.mrc.org/public/default.aspx. (http://www.mrc.org/public/default.aspx.) The Media Research Center really holds the Librul Media's feet to the fire! Right now they have a blistering expose of CBS for calling John Boehner a "hardline conservative"! How do they get away with such blatant bias???
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Why doesn't Media Matters take on all media bias?
"liberal" bias in the media (yeah, right)
You...you're kidding, right?
Tell you what, Alex, if you still believe in that weird chimera dreamt up by William Safire for Spiro Agnew back in the 60s and relentlessly hyped by ref-playing wingnuts ever since, here's a media watchdog you'll be happy with: http://www.mrc.org/public/default.aspx. (http://www.mrc.org/public/default.aspx.) The Media Research Center really holds the Librul Media's feet to the fire! Right now they have a blistering expose of CBS for calling John Boehner a "hardline conservative"! How do they get away with such blatant bias???
You spelled liberal as "librul." Clever!
I applaud you, nudist.
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The media has neither a liberal nor a conservative bias (the News Corp empire aside), but an elite/corporate bias. That's how we get nonsense like Bloomberg's centrist billionaires movement as somehow representing "the forgotten middle," when really they represent policies that almost no one likes (though I do think Bloomberg's tenure as mayor has been pretty much a wash -- about as much good as bad). It's basically the perspective of well-educated people who are deeply mistrustful of the mass of Americans (whether that is represented by union members, low-wage workers, people in "flyover states," or the Christian Right), who are doing very well for themselves, and who don't want to rock the boat.
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I think what Shaggy says is about 80% of the story, but that the conservative or at least pro-Republican bias of the American corporate media is real. It's more apparent in the portion of journalism that forthrightly allows opinionated commentary, as opposed to supposedly disinterested reportage. Take a look at the proportion of conservative/Republican to liberal/Democratic guests on the Sunday morning news shows sometime. Or the Op-Ed page of the Washington Post.
Also, what Shaggy says about their Bloomberg worship cuts two ways. Yes, he's more popular with them than with everyone else because he's a billionaire. But the fact that they can imagine him as speaking for "the forgotten middle" means that they see the present-day Democratic party as way out there on the left. Think about that for a minute.
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Is this opposite day or something?
The opposite of Jim Jones? The Liberal Media!
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Perhaps the last time Glenn Beck was challenged:
Glenn Beck challenged on his "racist" comment (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIscM5Vvobk#)
Good little clip.