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- BusterBoy0
Quite frankly my American friends, your country is quickly going to hell in a handbasket...and it has bugger all to do with your government. Your right wing uneducated looneys are awakening the lowest common denominator in your society and pretty soon you'll have a bunch of morons running your country.
In a macabre way, it would be quite funny seeing how your country goes with Palin as president and someone like Bachmann as VP...perhaps Glenn Beck as secretary of state. Newt Gingrich as secretary of defence, Rush Limbaugh as secretary of treasury and Rand Paul as attorney general.
- that would be like .. I don't know .. The End of Days!!!Ramanisky2
- ukit0
I'm hoping for Palin/ Paladino 2012.
It has the maximum amount of incompetence/weirdness/racism like you described, but with the extra advantage of being a really catchy sounding name to use in commercials.
- ukit0
In case you missed the news about Paladino, this is the guy the Republican Party is backing to become governor of New York:
- BusterBoy0
Seriously though...are there really that many idiots over there? Surely not.
- ukit0
Judging by internet comments, the answer is yes. But I don't meet them in real life.
America is kind of segregated, with the conservatives living mostly in the South and small towns, and the liberals in the big cities.
- BusterBoy0
I suppose this says it all. Not certain of its authenticity, but would explain a fair bit.
- ukit0
^ Aside from those statistics though, I think the biggest cause of the rank stupidity you see in American society today has got to be the media.
Back in the olden days (say, 10 years ago) there was this idea that journalism should be objective. You had the news on the front page, the opinion piece would be buried on page 5 or something.
Same thing with TV. If you ever watched 60 Minutes on CBS, about 57 of the 60 minutes were just straightforward, objective news. For the final 3 minutes their opinion guy, Andy Rooney, would come on and ramble about something.
Fox basically turned the entire prime time TV lineup (the only time most people watch) into one long Andy Rooney segment. Where once you had Tom Brokaw reading the news, people now come home from work to see Glenn Beck ranting about Socialism and whatever the fuck else.
In other words yes there's always been stupid people but if they seem more stupid now, keep in mind that they proabably didn't arrive at their crazy beliefs independently, they saw it on TV. When one political party is working hand in hand with an entire network, you can convince people of some pretty crazy shit.
- should read some neil postman. amusing ourselves to death sheds some nice insight on the topic********
- it seems fox is smarer in supplying the demand then the rest. jon stewart and colbert are also pretty good. satire good agendas as bad as fox********
- agendas as bad as fox********
- Pravda was also extremely popular in Soviet Russiaukit
- It's easy to be popular when you have the backing of the state (or half of it in this case)ukit
- its more human nature. entertainment is more pleasant then critical thinking. seriously a good read********
- youd dig the books cover with reagan and a clown nose********
- should read some neil postman. amusing ourselves to death sheds some nice insight on the topic
- IRNlun60
In the 10th Year of War, a Harder Army, a More Distant America
- ukit0
Chomsky on 9/11
- locustsloth0
40 Alaska Republicans Tell Joe Miller to Start Answering Questions
- 74LEO0
Anyone else notice local political adverts popping up before your video plays?
- DrBombay0
O’Donnell admits using campaign cash to pay rent
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/…
- Ramanisky20
this dumb dumb is delusional at best
- moronBusterBoy
- Think about it. A high enough % of repubs in DE thought she had chops to be Senator.TheBlueOne
- MORAN!74LEO
- ukit0
Michael Moore says Juan Williams is right about terrorists and political correctness
- ukit0
BTW, did anyone notice Juan Williams' defense when he made the remarks?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/2…
The United States was facing a “Muslim dilemma.” Mr. O’Reilly said, “The cold truth is that in the world today jihad, aided and abetted by some Muslim nations, is the biggest threat on the planet.”
Mr. Williams said he concurred with Mr. O’Reilly.
He continued: “I mean, look, Bill, I’m not a bigot. You know the kind of books I’ve written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.”
Uh, Juan...you may not be a bigot, but writing books about your own race's history doesn't exactly prove that one way or the other, does it?
- Nuclear proliferation, resource depletion, economic disparity, etc. & the #1 threat is muslims?TheBlueOne
- BOO! LOOK OUT! A MUSLIM! BEHIND THE TREE!TheBlueOne
- Better vote for BIG WHITE DADDY to protect you.TheBlueOne
- The Soviets could take out nations. What can the jihadists do? Seriously? Fucking joke.TheBlueOne
- There's ONE country that has a serious muslim problem. Israel. Funny how that becomes the biggest threat to USA too...TheBlueOne
- TheBlueOne0
“I mean, look, Bill, I’m not a bigot. You know the kind of books I’ve written about the Confederate States in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Malcolm X tshirts and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as African Americans, I get worried. I get nervous.”
- ukit0
In other words, this is NOT Juan Williams
- locustsloth0
<conspiracy theory>
NPR higher-ups had said that this wasn't the only instance that Juan crossed the line of their standards and practices. i wouldn't be surprised if Fox wanted Juan, but he needed to get out of the NPR contract in order to do that. So rather than opting out and looking like a shill, he just crossed another line and waited to get fired. And if he hadn't gotten fired, he probably would have crossed another in the coming week or two until he was fired and could claim the victim.
</conspiracy theory>i lost trust or the guy the second i saw he was on Fox, but i still think that NPR should have engaged in a public dialog about it first; make him explain his comments on air and "fight" for his job. Most likely he wouldn't have and would have taken the "i'm not participating in this witch hunt" line and gone over to Fox then.
- agree with 2nd part. make him explain his actions more. let him dig his hole and die in it.74LEO
- ukit0
Maybe so, but I'm not convinced it's so bad for NPR. It's publicity for them, and liberals who, let's face it, make up most of the NPR listener base, mostly agree with them.
And if I can engage in a little political incorrectness/stereotyping of my own, every time I've been in a cab with a Middle Eastern driver (which is pretty every time I've been in a cab, at least here in Seattle), they have NPR on. You'd have to think they have a sizeable listener base among Muslims.
BTW, one of the things I was surprised to learn is that NPR really isn't such a niche audience - it actually has something like 37 million listeners weekly, which is way more than Fox.
