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The problem is that the media is so far in the tank for the Dems

The media is in the tank for controversy. They don't care who wins an election, so long as it's a colorful election. Given the "scary mormon" adds I've previewed at some of them DEM superpacs, I expect it's going to be colorful!

Something to look forward to.

You idiots nominated a Mormon. Do you know how trivial it is to get evangelicals to stay home rather than to go out and vote for a Mormon???

Fools.

Ya i mentioned that the last time gibberish boy tried to tell us why the vast majority of the first world was wrong. Even though they all pay less per person, and have access to better care.

He has no clue what he is talking about. **** he doesn't even understand how the current system works.

Not only are there a bajillion General Practicioners (Family Doctors) in small private practices practically everywhere there are people in Australia*, I've also called one out to visit me at home at 10:30 at night, which the taxpayer kindly refunded most of the visit for.

I tend to be able to pay doctors upfront and get an immediate government refund, these days. When I was younger and poorer, I generally signed a doctor's bill and they sent it in to Medicare (Fed. gov. agency), which cut a cheque directly to the private doctor, meaning I didn't have to pay myself sometime during the line. Now that Medicare has gone all direct debit on the refund-to-patients process, I don't know if they still use cheques or not to pay doctors.

*Outback doctors tend to be substandard, non-existent, or have closed patient books. But then there usually aren't any services of any kind in the Outback except petrol stations and pubs.

Edited, Apr 7th 2012 2:17pm by Aripyanfar

Oo, oo, then there was that time I was 8 and I had a fever. I got up in the middle of the night and went to the toilet, then started hallucinating that I was on the moon and there was no atmosphere. I shrieked the neighbourhood down for two or three minutes before my parents got to me and shook me and shook me and yelled enough to get me to finally snap out of the hallucination and stop screaming. They called a doctor out at what had to have been 2 or 3 am. It was the Flu.

Yes. But they are also in the tank for the Dems.



Wrong. They absolutely care who wins an election, and for most of them, it's the Dems they want to win. They usually accomplish this by repeating any colorful thing that comes along that makes the Dems look good or the GOP look back with the minimum amount of fact checking possible.



Uh huh. Case in point.

How about not pretending you don't know exactly why the overwhelming majority of the media will repeat and hype scary claims about Mormons (or whatever else comes along) this time around, but downplayed the Birther thing in the last election, and the Rev Wright thing, and the Aires thing, and a veritable laundry list of things that they *could* have made into colorful and scary stories for mass consumption but magically choose not to when it was a black Democrat running.



Far less trivial than it is to get liberals to think that it'll be trivial to get evangelicals to stay home rather than vote for a Morman. Delusion works in all directions Smash. But then you know that.



They should have expected the Spanish Inquisition, obviously!

Inorite?

At least CNN and MSNBC have a few conservative pundits/newscasters. As far as I can tell, Fox News has no liberal anything besides the occasional guest, and they never let them finish their sentences anyways. There are some liberal pundits who are guilty of this too of course, and it annoys me. In fact, that's one of the reasons I like Rachel Maddow so much. She doesn't yell or scream, and she doesn't interrupt people. There are other reasons I like her of course, but those are two things that make her really stand out as a pundit. I really liked Keith Olbermann for a long time, until he started showing what an *** he was, and began acting like a liberal version of Bill O'Reilley.

Wokka-wokka-wokka!

That's one reason I adore her, too. I recall one show where she called someone out for lying, and warned she wasn't going to dress it up in pretty terms like "misunderstanding." She looked straight at the camera, and like a kindergarten teacher said, "This is what we call lyyinnnng."

Edited, Apr 10th 2012 12:33pm by catwho

She has a PhD in politics from Oxford. She's allowed to be a little condescending, at least.

I, for one, did not see that coming at all.

Does it count as rumors when everyone not in the media crying for ratings knew what was going to happen?

She looks like Matthew Perry decided to have a sex change and started taking the pre-op hormones.

I was referring more to you referring to her as your "girl crush", which to me usually means somebody you'd be attracted to. Although I suppose you could be attracted to her for reasons other than looks.