Great. Now Elizabeth Lauten lost her job.Follow

You should be happy that the first time you put me down for being wrong stuck with me over all these years.

You never forget your first time. For me, though, you were just cocktail waitress #4423.

Because in our strong left leaning media, the hypocrisy nearly always leans in that direction. One identifiable conservative writes a negative comment about the Obama girls on her facebook page, and it's a major media event showcasing the intolerance of conservatives. A few hundred negative comments about Palin's daughters goes relatively unnoticed though. Heck. It took Letterman saying something ridiculously offensive about one of her daughters to even garner notice, and a tepid apology.

That's some serious hypocrisy, and I'm going to point it out. For the record, I think that what was said about Obama's daughters was out of line. I'm reasonably sure that not many conservatives think differently. She was fired immediately over it. Was Letterman fired? Was anyone? If my response to hypocrisy within the political context is one-sided, it's because the hypocrisy is one-sided.

Edited, Dec 4th 2014 6:40pm by gbaji

I remember when Smash fucked me over.

It was back when Varrus was in his phase of randomly challenging people to a game of chess. Obviously, I decided it'd be hilarious to impersonate Smash and lose a game on purpose. It all went great, I lost and Varrus came bragging about beating Smash who never commented in the thread again.

Scheme scuttled, payoff denied. Have I mentioned this before? I probably have. It's the angriest I have ever been with any of you, with the exception of Timelord and his ironic inability to keep to any kind of schedule or commitment.

With original thinking like this, you'll surely go far!

Wait. Seriously? That was you? Lol. I do vaguely recall that. That sucks man. All that set up, and no pay off.

It was back when Varrus was in his phase of randomly challenging people to a game of chess. Obviously, I decided it'd be hilarious to impersonate Smash and lose a game on purpose. It all went great, I lost and Varrus came bragging about beating Smash who never commented in the thread again.

Wasn't really worth arguing about. Should have been obvious to anyone that if I played 1000 games of chess with any of you idiots I'd win 1000 games of chess.

That's some serious hypocrisy, and I'm going to point it out.

Limbaugh produced a song titled, literally, "Barrack the Magic Negro"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_the_Magic_Negro

I never heard much about it, really. Nexa mentioned it in passing once and it seemed so ludicrous I thought she was messing me with me. It was, of course, tame by normal conservative talk radio standards. The reality is that so much is ignored that comes from the right because it's just a constant stream of idiocy that there's serious fatigue trying to deal with all of it. It really takes a lot of effort, like insulting teenage girls, to get noticed. Also there is a vast, vast, vast, difference between "your kid is pregnant, she probably had sex, haha!" and "it's disgraceful that these black girls didn't act the way I want" with no trace of levity.

I'll just reiterate that her pregnancy only became a deal because of Palin's stance on abstinence.

Oh just stop with the imaginary liberal media already.

Our media is a reflection of what we want to consume. The direction it 'leans' is directly predicated by the slant of the observer.

That's not even remotely true. The media (journalists specifically) consistently polls significantly more liberal than the general public, and it's hard to imagine that this does not affect their choice of news stories and the slant they put into them. Interestingly enough, the higher you go up in the food chain in terms of the business of news, the more liberal the people get. So it's not just the rank and file reporters and copy editors but the folks who hire them, and the folks who hire those people, and so on.

We can debate how much this bias influences public opinion at large, but it's pretty ostrich like to deny that it exists.

Not sure what logic you're using here, but Fox News pretty consistently polls about middle of the road in terms of alignment with public opinion. It's the reason why it has by far the most evenly distributed viewership politically speaking. What should be telling is that it's labeled as "conservative" by everyone else in the field. I suppose when you're standing at the far left side of the field, the guy standing in the middle looks like he's far to the right.

Edited, Dec 8th 2014 4:09pm by gbaji

Conservative group finds media is too liberal. News at eleven.

Conservative group finds media is too liberal. News at eleven.

http://www.mrc.org/static/about-us

Dear lord, using that website as a cite for something. The tears of laughter are blinding me.

Rush Limbaugh
“Liberals hate Brent Bozell.

Liberals hate him! He used one simple trick to outsmart the media.

I assume most of the stories are cut together with ***** pill and gold coin ads?