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Pittypat? What time is it just now EST?
*in phony happy voice*
Pitty’s not available right now. This is Shortright acting as her secretary, EST is 4:08pm. Is there anything else I can help you with at this time?
Thank you!
…And you didn’t put me on hold.
So what time zone is on the PK clock?
7 minutos to go!
AC, just add 3 hours to the time on the postings since the site is Pacific time.
Oops. I went backwards. *sigh* Stoopid time zones.
Thanks.
I thought PK was based somewhere in the middle of America?
Nope, AC. The time is California/pacific time on the site. I don’t know, but I *hope* the owners didn’t get their own time zone wrong. O.O
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Run past the heather and down to the old road
Start turning the grain into the ground,
Roll a new leaf over
In the middle of the night, there’s an old man treading around in the gathered rain
Well mister, if you’re going to walk on water
Could you drop a line my way?”
How did this make front page? Does not make sense….
check the little letter by Sanford’s name
Funny! One ‘little’ indiscretion, and Fox news declares Sanford a Democrat?!?!
Fox tends to do that whenever a Republican is involved in a scandal. Once could plausibly be a mistake, but half a dozen times is a pattern. (Others who magically switched parties include Larry Craig, Mark Foley, etc.)
Heck, you can go all the way back to Susan Smith’s stepdad over a decade ago. According to them, his sexual abuse of her from childhood up until she killed her children was “a perfect example of Democrat family values.”
A rather creative leap of logic, considering he was on the South Carolina State Republican executive committee and Christian Coalition advisory board until all this came out.
Yeah, And that’s “Fair and Balanced” for you.
Oh, this is far from the first time Fox Noise has done this. They labeled Mark Foley of chatroom infamy as a Dem. They mixed up the parties of Rhode Island Senate candidates Lincoln Chaffee (the Republican) and Sheldon Whitehorse (the Democrat) when Whitehorse won.
And they call themselves a “news” channel?
they pad the numbers to make some of them get front page.
The votes are counted by Ahmadinejad’s staff.
RECOUNT!!!
but this was the healthiest and fairest vote in human history…
WIN.
Dont we all?
Uh, yeah. 3 Sanfords in a row? I think that’s enough, PK, thanks.
Yeah, I’m all for tearing down the wrong doers, but lets mix it up a bit.
It’s tempting to point and laugh when someone who puts themselves on a moral pedestal gets caught with their pants around their ankles. Okay, really tempting, almost irresistibly so.
But when all’s said and done, this is nothing but a stupid distraction from the real issues. It was true with Moonica Lewinsky, and it’s true now. It’s a horrible shame for his wife, who deserves far better than to be treated that way – but that’s not really any of my business.
I know it does get boring after a while. So we can at least wait, what 5 or 6 before the next Sanford. We could always throw in an Ensign….. Or perhaps Palin for good measure..
They did the exact same thing with Mark Foley, wooer of underage male pages.
Yeah, Faux News tends to do that a lot.
Is that legal? What about slander?
If they called everything false that Fox News said slander, the station would be shut down for good by now. Which would be nice, for sure.
It seems so sad and wrong there is no juridical means to do anything about so blatantly undermining democracy.
All those stations are equally false and spin-based reporting. Fox is neither better nor worse than any of the others, it’s just the only one that leans right.
Wrong. They all lean to the right except MSNBC, which is slightly left leaning. And they are ALL better than Fox.
Remember, Fox News is the only station to have sued for their free speech right TO LIE TO YOU. They won. Free speech means you have the right to lie, as long as it isn’t libel or another form of non-protected speech. But only Fox made a federal case out of it, because they are the only station that routinely, and as a matter of policy, lies to the public.
Darling, Darling Seth…….EVERY station is to the right of you
MARX is to the left of Seth.
Right! I meant Right!
I have been hit by the Idiot Ball today.
Shutting up and going away now, as I have failed the funny.
Just a quark or two……if you squeeze it real tight, you might fit a hair in between the differences in the right and left of Seth and Marx.
Left is the the right of Seth.
No, Fox was the defendant in the original case, and they appealed because a Florida jury didn’t know how to read state law. (Which, for those of you who follow Florida news, shouldn’t come as a surprise.)
One day George Bush and the Pope were in Row Boat on the Potomac River, when a big gust of wind came and blew the Pope’s hat off. GW got up and walked on the water to pick up the Pope’s hat. The next day CNN, MSNC, New York Times and Washington Post all ran stories “Bush Can’t Swim”.
Bush was doing better than usual if he could walk on land, much less water.
i stopped following Florida news for a while, state just gets too damn frustrating. I think I put off even bothering to vote there for a while when Jeb was stilling running it due to some votes he felt didn’t go accordingly, so he demanded a revote or a recount and it went form overwhelmingly pro to, amazingly, in support of what he wanted, which was to vote down the proposition. Wasn’ the first time, but it was the most frustrating..
Anyway, just wanted to vent.
Amen to that! They are all biased; Fox just gets the brunt of the criticism because it’s right-wing. :/
FOX just gets the brunt because their the shock jocks of TV News. They have people like Beck and Hannity on every night saying wild “truthiness” that sadly, some people believe. CNN is pretty centered and MSNBC is to the left, but they usually support what they say with facts they can back up, and like to use Republicans own words against them.
Why’s that? A station with a differing view than CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, Washingotn Post, etc….. SHUT IT DOWN!! You forgot your pitchforks!!
It’s a typo, and all they did was assign him the wrong party. It’s not like they made up the mistress in Argentina.
Speaking of parties …
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Can’t think of a pun, my brain’s charr’d.
Happy Birthday!
Why, what a charroming pun, AC.
Hey Charro, BOO!
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Happy Birthday, I’m doing a Charro-grilled burger in your honor..
Yay Eds, you must have run like those guys in Charrots of Fire to get here on time.
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Oh, well, I don’t think she’s online anyway. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Charro!
Tyler, you better get Charro-ss out of that bed boy and post su-um.
Hm? Tyler? Sorry, I just woke up. A little sick today :/
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Thank you for the punny birthday wishes!!!
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There should be statistical means to show the probability of that. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if it’s more than a typo.
Yeah I am sure they just made an honest mistake, but it still is funny to poke fun at them for things like that.
(link)
They’ve actually done it several times.
I just love that you hold Fox News to a higher standard than those Democrats that sanctioned torture.
And the two things are related how?
Just cuz! That’s why! *flounces off*
Congrats, Froo! You managed to post a comment referring to me that (a) is somewhat comprehensible and (b) won’t get the NAACP after you!
I’m so proud…
Gee, my life is complete now.
If only you could add on a few IQ points and learn to be civil…
You’re right. I’ll try to be more like you.
Ooooh, burn!
Well, at least you didn’t threaten to shoot me. That’s something, I guess.
As fun as this has been, if you ever find the urge to discuss something like an adult in the future, I’ll be happy to stop ignoring you. Until then…
Can’t even take a compliment. Typical.
-Sighs and bangs head against wall- It’s a metaphor for your guys’ conversations.
Who got it?
Wait a minute… did Dhoti just try to pull the “Civil conversation” card after throwing out an insult…
Klassy….. Kapital K.
OMG the whole site would improve by exponential levels. When may we expect that exactly?
Aw, Dhoti. C’mon, let’s play nice now
It was also C- Answering the question!
Yep, with the usual (read: “kiddie pool”) level of intellectual depth I expect from her.
Be kind, rewind.
We all have our odd, silly moments, Dhoti.
As examples of ProjectionMark’s moral cowardice and lack of a spine, of course. Since when did you become the defender of that sniveling, lying drunk?
(I was also hoping to see another one of PM’s tortured “condemnations” of torture. His self-delusion always brightens my day.)
Can’t we all just get along? Oh, right, this is PK.
I’m not defending him so much as continuing my investigation of what’s gotten up your butt the last couple days, the WBC lol excepted. I’m intrigued.
I am also.
Dhoti seems angry lately. :/
Lately?
-Snorts and giggles- Sorry Dhoti, a joke like that I couldn’t resist.
Another link, with pictures, showing several examples: Sanford, Foley, McCain (!), etc.:
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102×3939172
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and another:
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http://intershame.com/on/Fox_News
It’s a typo, and all they did was assign him the wrong party. It’s not like they made up the mistress in Argentina.
True, but it’s sad when you can praise Faux News by saying “This time they only got one detail wrong rather than just making the whole thing up.” ^_~
If this was the first time they did it, I’d be inclined to believe it was an error. But every time a Republican gets caught with his pants down or is in an unfortunate position, Fox magically changes his (and it is often a he) political party. I just hope they didn’t try to convince their viewers that Scary Palin is a Democrat.
I believe that your brush is a little broad there. Want some help trimming it down?
Well, I suppose… I mean, after all, it IS bathing suit season, and those scissors are pretty sharp, and… oh, BRUSH. Um, never mind.
They were just using their “politician has an affair” template and forgot to change it. Why do these guys need to give news conferences anyway? I don’t care what they have to say. I don’t want to hear them crying and apologizing to everyone. I don’t want to hear their “love” letters read on the news. Just get out and don’t come back. NEXT!
It could be worse.. they could have someone like Tammy Faye Baker up there, boo-hooing mascara everywhere.
I think that would make the press conferences worthwhile! That, and the TittiePrompter ™ .
???
What, exactly, is the Titty Prompter supposed to be reminding us of?
“Unhook bra in 3… 2…”
Don’t be silly, Tessie. I for one wouldn’t EVER need it then.
/whiny/
No, come on, you guys!
\whiny\
As a Woman-American of the female persuasion, it is of vital importance that I keep abreast [haw] of all boob-related matters. What if The Girls forget to do something important, just because I don’t know what a Titty Prompter is?
Enlighten me, oh, enlightened ones.
Lol…I’ll help you out, Tessie. It’s from the comments on the “Mistress in Argentina” lol:
(Credit for invention of the term “TittiePrompter” goes to Froofrou for that one, btw.)
[bows in turn to dis and frou]
I am grateful, O Enlightened Ones.
This week, it would seem our choices are limited to: 1) politician apologizing for affair, 2) maudlin and/or dirt-digging tribute to dead celebrity(ies). Perhaps it’s a good time to go for a walk outside.
Really. I certainly wouldn’t put it past them, but do you have proof? That would make for a GREAT segment on the Daily Show!
Just do a search for “mark foley democrat fox news” Try it for for Larry Craig and Ted Stephens, too.
And Pat Toomey.
Fail.
Yeah, I know: imagine them mixing the parties up like that!
/facetious
Did anyone else notice during his news conference that his staff was having giggle fits behind him? Awkward city.
“I will not have my fwiends widiculed by the common soldiewy! – - Anybody else feel like a little… giggle… when I mention my fwiend… Biggus… Dickus?”
WIN!!! ^_^
“Do you find something… wisible?”
“He has a wife, you know!”
Really? What’s her name?
Wow, THREE Sanford “lols” (sarcasm) in a row. Good NIGHT.
I don’t care what he did in Argentina, as long as he didn’t do it in the street and frighten the horses…what mattered was that he ran off without telling anybody. What would’ve happened in a major emergency? Sure, being the governor isn’t the same as a theocracy but you do have certain obligations.
Maybe someday we’ll grow up enough to realize that people’s private sexual shenanigans have nothing whatsoever to do with their executive ability (as long as they’re not spilling state secrets to their bed-partners). The French are just a whole lot cooler about this. OF COURSE powerful men have affairs. Why wouldn’t they? And what does it have to do with government? Nothing.
Why should powerful men have affairs? Does being in charge of a state/country/company/whatever give you a free pass? Are men with big paychecks just free to screw around with no consideration for their loved ones and no moral compass? When they get their first large paycheck is a note included saying “congratulations, now you can be an irresponsible whore?”
Yes. Yes they do.
Of course their women-folk could have said at the start of the relationship that infidelity would result in either immediate divorce…or better than a Bobbitizing–add a flushing rather than a flinging. But vikings are known to be bloody-minded. And aware of STIs
….no the fine print actually says: “Congratulations, now you can afford to do an irresponsible whore.” ….at least that’s what mine said. But of course maybe that’s because I live in Reno, NV
(completely kidding) ….well except for the whore part.
No, being a big shot does not give you a free pass to behave irresponsibly, cheat on your spouse, etc. Yes, it does make it easier for those who indulge in that kind of behavior to get away with it, which means it will happen from time to time whether or not I approve (I don’t for the record). No, having consensual sex (not with a co-worker, etc.) should not jeapordize [sp] your job. Yes, I would make life very unpleasant for any spouse or significant other of mine who was contemplating such a jack-ass move.
Of course, this error was only an error for 7 seconds… and was surrounded by the correct information about a dozen times. It’s not like it was left there… it’s just a typo.
But by all means, haters keep hating… but are rarely funny. Back to FailBlog…
Please go there. Look at PM’s post above, if you’re saying it’s isolated.
But that doesn’t really help — we only know that Fox misidentified two Republican politicians for two unknown periods of time. We don’t know how long the error stayed up, how often they do it to Democrats, or, for comparison purposes, how common it is on other networks. (Or, as is common in print media here, if the party affiliation for Democrats is just dropped.)
If nothing else, I’d actually say this shows it’s *less* likely to happen frequently. Look at how quickly these two examples were caught and spread around the web — it certainly seems like there are a lot of people just waiting to catch Fox in this kind of trap, doesn’t it? And if so, why haven’t we heard about it more often?
I don’t know, Dhoti, I have no idea how many times it has happened. I stopped watching after realizing they dump all the good shows for crappy reality television.
You gotta admit to that point, right?
You’re mixing up FOX and FOXNews.
Don’t you guys have the 24-hour cable/satellite/whatever Fox News Channel out there? That’s where all these came from.
Hm. Didn’t know they were different stations.
BUT THEY’RE STILL DUMPING ALL MY SHOWS. /sigh
Read any 10 randomly selected articles about a D being caught at something, and any 10 randomly selected articles about an R being caught at something. Record how many words into the article before each is associated with their party.
If it’s an R, the association will be in the headline or the first paragraph at least 8 times out of 10, and if it’s a D, the association will be absent or after the midpoint of the article at least 8 times out of 10.
What are the odds that this happens by pure chance?
Does PM have comparable stats of how frequently CNN or MSDNC, oops, MSNBC have typos in their chyrons? Otherwise, claims of a Fox conspiracy resulting in something like 0.000001% of their chyrons containing typos are totally useless.
Citation for that, please?
And with Mark Foley, it took them 2 T.V shows and 3 website posts to realize it.
I’ll be honest, when Blagovitch was going through his crap, I actually had to do a Google search to find what party he was in.
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It’s not the most common thing in the world, but it irks me.
Egggggggggggsactly. I had to as well.
His hair had us all hypnotized.
It was too hilarious to even think any political party would endorse something like THAT.
Let’s see, AP, NY Times, NY Times Newswire, Washington Post, LA Times, take your pick. You won’t believe any source I provide, so pick your own 20 articles at random and count for yourself. You may not get exactly 8 out of 10, but you’ll get more than a 50/50 split.
Why do you assume I won’t believe any source you provide? I just wanted to see the article, or wherever you read it.
Why do I assume? Years of experience. If I picked the 20 articles to use as an example, cherrypicking would be alleged.
I’m not repeating somebody else’s claim, I’m going by my own daily experience of reading mass media political coverage for the last 40 years.
Again, pick any major newspaper considered to be mainstream (i.e. not Barrons, WSJ, IBD, CSM) and find the most recent 10 corruption articles from each side of the aisle. With the wonders of Google, this might take 10-20 minutes, including the reading. Don’t take my word for it, seeing is believing.
BTW, it’s tough enough to get one link to work in PK, say nothing of putting 20 links in one post.
If you put it inside these cute little [ ], they might work. Sometimes they don’t, but it’s your best bet.
yeah,{ } works.
Kid, you just made up all of that. You just pulled those numbers out of thin air, and you’ve never actually sat down and measured this. You simply feel that it’s true, and didn’t have any moral compulsions about making up a bunch of stuff meant to support your personal prejudice.
Usually people don’t call folks like you out on this kind of behavior, but the fact of the matter is that when right wingers complain about “liberal media bias”, it’s utterly obvious to the rest of us that they’re just making stuff up. Just because people don’t usually point out that you’re lying doesn’t mean that we’re not aware of it.
Thought you might like to know that. it’ll save you some damage to your reputation.
Personal prejudice notwithstanding, I’ve mentioned previously having to actually break out the Google search to figure out which party Blago was associated with. It’s happened before. On an anecdotal level, I can back Reader’s personal claim.
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Now calm down and have a cookie.
Here’s a lefty chiming in to say that I had that same experience (as froo’s). Sort of a wait, what party is this? moment. Or a couple of them. I definitely took note of it as it was happening.
Did you have a surreal feeling as you were watching it? Almost as if it was a joke? Between the circumstances and the lack of a party mention, I kept checking the calender to make sure it wasn’t April 1.
Yes, it was surreal – perfect word for it. But I don’t think that sort of thing is the norm.
I’d hope not. But like I said before, anecdotally, nothing I can point to exactly, I can back up what Reader is saying.
It’s a well-known phenomonenon – so well known that it has a name – “Name That Party!” When a dim does something bad you will be hard pressed to find his party affiliation anywhere; when a Republican does, it shall be shouted from the rooftops. The “Name That Party” phenomenon has been extensively documented at the Media Research Center, otherwise known as the non-partisan genuine journalistic site, Newsbusters.
“non-partisan genuine journalistic site”?
Newsbusters is the right wing response to and attempt at Media Matters. Which is great, there should be counters on both sides, but let’s be a little bit honest about the fact that it is.
Calling Newsbusters non-partisan and journlastic is like calling Ann Coulter an independent or Keith Olbermann a moderate.
LOL OLBEMANN A MODERATE. But to be honest, I’m not familiar with Newsbusters, so I’ll just base it on your analogy that it’s blatantly not non-partisan. Double negatives.
…oh my god I think Annie was serious.
Going by the standards of the “totally looks like” channel here on the Cheeznet, you’ve got it backwards. Media Matters (2004) is the response to and attempt at the Media Research Center (1987).
Regardless of that, you are verifying that Media Matters is the opposite side from the MRC, which to use your phrasing, makes Media Matters left-wing, correct? May I quote you on that?
Newsbusters has succeeded in being what FAIR only pretended to want to be. I never knew media matters pretended to be anything other than the typical leftist drivel.
Newsbusters has never pretended to be anything other than Republican BS. Please stop pretending that because you AGREE with it’s bias and spin that it doesn’t have any.
I agree with Media Matters, I’m honest enough to admit that they’re slanted to the left.
Well let’s see. Media Matter’s stated mission goal is “to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.”
Newsbusters “to provide immediate exposure of liberal media bias, insightful analysis, constructive criticism and timely corrections to news media reporting”
So yeah, Media Matters is left wing the same as Newsbusters is right wing.
I think that as long as you’re reading both, and trying to read between the lines (because the truth is almost always somewhere in the middle of the far right and left), you’d be doing pretty well for yourself. It’s all about being open to other opinions, and then making your own based on what you yourself see.
It’s the kind of mindset that guys have when they see people make mistakes in math: if it’s a guy, then he is bad at math; if it’s a girl, then girls in general are bad at math. If a Republican messes up, then Republicans are hypocritical pigs. If it’s a Democrat, it is an isolated incident. There are just as many pig Democrats and pig Republicans (approximately).
Pauly,
Project much?
normally i’d say “i got nothing.” but in this case, it’s not me that had nothing.
EPIC WIN RIGHT THAR
This is news how?
How dare you post actual news on this site!
I don’t find this funny because that’s literally exactly what happened. Not only that, Limbaugh blamed it on Obama specifically. If he had an ounce of credibility left, he just blew it.
Do you have a cite for that?
Link. There are many other sources to choose from if this one doesn’t suit you.
I can’t get Youtube at work
Do you have a text copy?
Don’t think I’m being lazy and not looking for it myself, I’m just at work and got caught up
I’m doing a google search now to see what I can find. I’m more interested in the context of the entire thing than a specific quote.
No worries! Here you go.
[Obama's] trying to kill spirit. All this ‘hope’ and ‘change’–he’s trying to kill it. You know how many frustrated Americans there are out there at what’s happening?
This Sanford business: I’ve got to tell you, one of the first thoughts that crossed my mind…. What he did defies logic…. He up and leaves for five days, doesn’t leave anyone in charge of the state in case there’s an emergency. This is almost like, ‘I don’t give a damn, the country’s going to hell in a handbasket. I just want out of here.’ He had just tried to fight the stimulus money coming to South Carolina. He didn’t want any part of it. He lost the battle. He said, ‘What the hell. I mean, I’m — the federal government’s taking over — what the hell, I want to enjoy life.’…
I’m not [kidding]. My first thought was he said, ‘To hell with this. The Democrats are destroying the country. We can’t do anything to stop it. I gave everything I had to stop it here in South Carolina.’ … Folks, there are a lot of people looking at life and saying, ’screw it.’ They’re saying, ’screw it.’ Before Obama takes away their money, before Obama takes away their house, or the economy takes away their house, there are people who are saying, “To hell with all this…. I’m just going to try to enjoy it as much as I can.’
That’s a scrabbled misquote, as I quoted exactly what he said (in context) earlier.
There’s audio of the same bit.
I heard the audio, live, this afternoon, and it’s a stretch to think that he’s actually blaming Obama directly. Like I said earlier today, Rush is extremely open about blaming Obama for as much as he can blame him for, and if he was actually doing that in this case, it would have been much more blatant than the stretching here. At worst, he’s blaming the government, which is run by Obama, or the Democrats, who are run by Obama, but that’s still indirect. Rush has been talking about this for the last three or four days, he’s had plenty of time to blame Obama directly, and he hasn’t done it. I posted the text of his actual first quote on the issue. No blame there, except of the government.
You think he’d blame the guy with his dick in the Argentinian woman but maybe that’s expecting too much.
OK, that was even funnier than zombie turtle boy.
Why bring the Democrats into it at all? Rush found yet another way to twist current events into an attempt to rip on the left.
Right. It’s a vast left-wing conspiracy. I forgot.
Oh RUSH. Only you would find a way to make it acceptable for a “family values” man to leave his family for his mistress (who I heard had another boyfriend…so much for an affair of the heart).
What I think is funny is that he denounces any physical relationships outside of marriage but if the dems are in control, he’s like well why not go for a romp, have fun? Steal money from the taxpayer before Obama takes it, right?
Um, did you listen to Rush today? He was laughing at the “chickification” of the news, and blasting female reporters for not putting this guy’s nuts on a spit for cheating on his wife. He was making fun of the news stories about Sanford loving the girl, and how that somehow, according to the news media, made the affair ok. He was pretty brutal to Sanford today.
I don’t listen to Limbaugh. Ever. But WTF does chickification mean? Am I supposed to laugh, because right now I’m just offended.
He was using the term as a satire, meaning that for some reason, the women on the news were giving Sanford a pass because he “loved the girlfriend”. He was pretty harsh on Sanford, and was amazed that the women would even sort of allow him to get away with it.
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As far as not listening to Limbaugh, I understand, but just try to take into account that his statements are usually part of a much larger thought that is 9 times out of 10 taken out of context.
I wouldn’t say they’re taken out of context nearly that often. He’s a grandstanding, far-right bully. He cuts off callers if they start making arguments against him, even going so far as to pretend they don’t have an argument when in fact they’re trying to respond while muted. (This happened to me, personally.)
I really don’t care about Democrat or Republican, but there is something incredibly annoying about people being fanatic about their party, to the point of condoning propaganda and using generalized stereotypes about the ‘other side.’ It’s childish and stupid.
Ummm what I’m seeing here is he’s mad at Sanford for leaving for five days. He’s saying that Sanford gave into the democrats since they were taking over. No where do I see Rush saying “Sanford porked the Argentinian b/c of the democrats.” But then again I wasn’t able to read between the lines. Oh and I don’t listen to Rush, y’al spend too much time trying to care what an entertainer says rather than what the politician’s do and say.
I don’t know if I want to look at this video, maybe I want to retain whatever scraps of sanity I have left?
BS. He didn’t blame Obama anywhere.
LIMBAUGH: This Sanford business! I’ll tell you, one of the first thoughts that crossed my mind, with Mark Sanford … this is the first thought: What he did defies logic. This is … more than being 180 degrees out of phase because of lust, or love. To split the scene for five days, and we know he’s been separated, and he knows, by the way, that the newspaper in his state has the emails between him and his concubine down there in Argentina, he knows this. He knows that somebody knows what’s going on. He knows his wife knows. So he ups and leaves for five days, doesn’t leave anybody in charge of the state, in case there’s an emergency.
Right about now, you imagine that Limbaugh is building up to some “thinking with his penis” type of statement, right? But no!
LIMBAUGH: This is almost like: I don’t give a damn! Country’s going to hell in a handbasket. I just want out of here!
Uhm. .. what?
LIMBAUGH: He had just tried to fight the stimulus money coming to South Carolina. He didn’t want any part of it. He lost the battle and said “What the hell? The Federal government is taking over! I want to enjoy life!”
Where’s it say “Obama” anywhere? Looks like someone’s reading too much into it, or else has a guilty conscience.
I’ve been searching around, and I can’t find any actual blame of Obama either.
He didn’t say Obama. He said “feds.” The rest is projection.
Or else a certain subset of libs are accepting responsibility for the declination of the great American ideal?
Either way, he didn’t say “Obama.”
Minds HAD to go there, and it’s a stretch.
I agree with that. Nowhere in that statement (and that’s the only thing I can find on it too…..my source is from Huffington) does he actually blame Obama. He blames (as you point out) the Federal Government taking over, but that can easily be stretched the other direction, as Bush was the first perpetrator of the government taking over.
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It’s a major stretch for me. Especially since I was listening to the show today (first time in a while I’ve heard it live) and it in no way laid the blame at Obama’s feet, even in the slightest. Usually Rush is pretty adament about it ALL being Obama’s fault, and he wasn’t today.
In the version I posted above, Limbaugh begins with commentary on Obama and how he’s killing the nation’s spirit before he gracefully segues into the Sanford situation.
And there’s audio too.
Lack of grace =/= blaming Obama.
Again, your mind had to make that stretch: the organization and presentation of the material was designed to give your mind a little nudge in that direction, but ultimately it was YOU, and not RUSH, that put those two concepts together.
Fine line between genius and moron.
So who was the “he” that Limbaugh was referring to in the sentence before went off on his little rant about Sanford?
Who do the voices tell you it is?
No DT, Limbaugh starts out talking about Obama and then moves directly into reasoning that Sanford chose to be so indiscreet because Obama is “trying to kill spirit.” No stretch there, it’s what he said, check out the audio.
If you want to get technical, if you’re using the statement about the country going to hell in a handbasket as “proof” that Limbaugh is blaming Obama, the country being in a handbasket to hell can also be blamed on Bush. Why are we not blaming Bush for Sanford sleeping with another woman?
We ARE blaming bush.
ROFL! Had to be said…
LOL, well played. I hope it was good bush, and worth the trip!
*has an image of Babs stroking W’s head cooing “good lil bush*
*dies with extreme prejudice*
*erk* Um, brainbleach please?
IKR!!!
Thanks for that… ERGHZSS…
I really think I need an old priest and a young priest for this one….
Bullshit:
Obama wants you to—he—the best way to put it—and it’s working—he’s trying to kill spirit. All this ‘hope’ and ‘change’—he’s trying to kill it. You know how many frustrated Americans there are out there at what’s happening?
So he [Sanford] ups and leaves for five days, doesn’t leave anyone in charge of the state in case there’s an emergency. This is, this is almost like, “I don’t give a damn—country’s going to hell in a handbasket; I just want out of here.” He had just tried to fight the stimulus money coming to South Carolina; he didn’t want any part of it; he lost the battle. He said, “What the hell. I mean, I’m—the federal government’s taking over—what the hell, I want to enjoy life.” First, one of the first things, I thought.
The point is, there are a lot of people whose spirit is just—they’re fed up, saying, “The hell with it. I don’t even want to fight this anymore; I just want to get away from it.”
Who’s trying to kill hope? He claims Obama is. Why did this jerk cheat on his wife? He claims because he lost hope.
Now go sit down. We’re tired of your selective quoting.
Your misquote is showing.
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From Rush Limbaugh’s website, a transcript of his comments IN THEIR ENTIRETY from Thursday:
“This Sanford business. I’ve got to tell you one of the first thoughts that crossed my mind with Mark Sanford. This is the first thought: “What he did defies logic.” This is more than being 180 degrees out of phase because of lust or love. To split the scene for five days, and we know he’s been separated — and he knows, by the way, that the newspaper in his state has the e-mails between him and his concubine there in Argentina. He knows this. He knows that somebody knows what’s going on. He knows his wife knows. So he ups and leaves for five days. He doesn’t leave anybody in charge of the state in case there’s an emergency. This is almost like: “I don’t give a damn. The country is going to hell in a handbasket and I just want out of here.” He had just tried to fight the stimulus money coming to South Carolina. He didn’t want any part of it. He lost the battle.
He said, “What the hell? The federal government’s taking over. What the hell? I want to enjoy life.” One of the first things I thought, now today he’s saying he doesn’t want to give up office, he wants to stay in office. (sigh)”
The rest of the statement:
“But even Charles Krauthammer said last night: this is like self-inflicted political suicide. And it certainly appeared to be. The point is there are a lot of people whose spirit is just broken. They’re fed up with it and saying, “To hell with it. I don’t want to fight it anymore. I just want to get away from it,” and here’s Obama admitting: “Well, we can’t start making judgments based on people’s spirit.” Imagine if we had had presidents in the past who said we couldn’t make judgments on any number of political issues using “people’s ‘spirit.’” It’s the American exceptionalism the spirit-can-doism that built the country. Spirit’s everything. Energy, desire, get-up-and-go. Ambition! The woman’s mother had ambition to live. She just needed a pacemaker. It didn’t matter. She should take a painkiller! I’m telling you, this is a coldhearted, ruthless guy. Not a cool, calm, and collected one. ”
Still not a condemnation of Obama in the case of Sanford. It’s a condemnation of Obama in the case of healthcare.
Blargh. Too much Limbaugh on this page.
blargh indeed.
limbaugh should only be taken as seriously as howard stern
^^^^^^^^^^^^
That! With a bullet.
And what does the official transcript say in the three sentences BEFORE the words “This Sanford business”?
You’re selectively editing that part out repeatedly to make your claim.
I gave you the damn clip, just shut up.
You gave me a partial clip from Huffington Post. I gave you source material from the actual show.
Screw off, fu(knut. Go see your conspiracies somewhere else.
Nice work, froo.
Whether anyone likes it or not, it’s projection, nothing else.
STRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEETCH ARMSTRONG, FTF!
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200906250024
There’s the audio clip, if you can bare listening to this abominable ass.
ROFL! You said BARE ASS!
Yer dum.
Pretty much of a stretch anyway as apparently Sanford’s been seeing the side-chickie for some time now, not just after the whole thing with the stim money. His WIFE found out about it around the beginning of the year…
Apparently everyone has forgotten that the affair started in 2007, so even if Rush WANTED to blame Obama for it, he can’t.
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And like I’ve said before, Rush is very vocal about blaming Obama for everything, so why would he couch this particular blame in a stretch?
I do think Jenny Sanford’s handled the situation with more grace and self respect than the average cheated-on politician’s wife.
Yay for NOT standing on the stage ‘to be supportive’!
I especially liked this quote: “Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little bit of support, and a little bit of freedom.” Oh … you said Jenny Sanford, not Jerry Seinfeld? Never mind.
I liked the fact that she didn’t cover for him when he disappeared. She said something to the effect of “how the hell should I know where he is?”; with the implication that the press juuuust might want to do a little hunting.
Why the hell is it when that Rod thing come up, no one ever stressed that he was a Democrat but when this Sanford thing came up everyones like “OMG OMG look he’s a Republican!!”
Think that shows Republicans integrity more than anything.
Discussion happened on other thread.
Doesn’t need to be repeated.
The fact that everyone’s freaking out that he left the state for five days without letting anyone contact him in case of emergency shows the Republican party’s integrity?
I don’t think leaving your state to fend for itself constitutes integrity, but it IS one case of one guy making everybody else look pretty bad…
I disagree. I think it’s one man making one man look bad.
That’s the case it -should- be, Froo. However, some people are up in arms about it far too much. He made himself look like an idiot, made mistakes he shouldn’t have made, end of story. People think/worry wayyy too much about this and sometimes, really need to think *gee, is this really representative of the whole party, or am I just throwing out biased crap?*
If you want to go down that road, there is a wealth on both sides that make both sides look bad.
I agree. But I’m not saying that actually makes the parties look bad. I’m saying it should make the individuals look bad, but a lot of people don’t think of it that way. Which is stupid.
Agreed.
it is a case of him making himself look bad, but the issue arises when he goes around condemning such actions in a professional sense and bringing about legal action due to it.
if he wasn’t so “high and mighty” (for lack of a better phrase) and crusaded on points in that line of thinking, then this wouldn’t be an issue, it’d be a “bad politician, go say five hail maries (marys?), etc. etc.”
make sense?
but, that being said – too much attention is always focused on these things. they get their attention, they get known, their constituents become aware, all that is fine but continuing the show beyond what is necessary is ridiculous and makes all of us look like idiots.
the Lewinski thing especially – the degree to which that was stretched out made all of us look like buffoons across the world. very sad. but… America loves drama – look how well “reality tv” is doing and that’s probably a more accurate reason why it’s being stretched out. entertainment.
Okay, for froufrou, Anniee451 et al., here is THE POINT: FOX News identified Mark Sanford as a Democrat. He is a Republican. FOX News has, on other occasions, identified Republican politicians caught in scandals as Democrats. The clear implication is that FOX News does this on purpose, especially as other television news outlets do not do this with such regularity. Thus, it is logical to conclude that FOX News is partisan towards Republicans, and so should not be seen as a trustworthy news source.
I understand that froufrou, Anniee451, et al. will simply dismiss this with a “Well, ALL television news outlets are not trustworthy,” but that of course will be the wrong conclusion. The correct conclusion, if froufrou, Anniee451, et al. are honest, is that they should denounce FOX News for this practice. They won’t, I understand this, but that is what would be right, honest, and ethical.
Wait a second, why am I being lumped in here? I don’t recall ever having said anything about FOX being right or wrong in this situation, nor have I commented on the mismatching party name. Keep my name out of fights you wish to start unless you have a reason to drag me in. Troll.
Froofrou, I apologize for spelling your name incorrectly, first of all. Second, it is not my intention to start a fight – I truly do think that you and others such as Anniee451 will not denounce FOX News for their wrong, dishonest, and unethical behavior. That’s all.
Considering that news sources make clerical errors all the time, you’re probably right in this case. A blanket statement saying that I will never call FOXNews out for being wrong, dishonest, or unethical is just wrong wrong wrong, however. The intent of the captioner cannot be known in this case without asking him or her, and since it was fixed rather quickly, what’s the issue? Can you cite where FOXNews does this all the time?
Most I can find is these three. [Link] Not exactly an outbreak, but hey, it does irk me a little bit.
Ok, so what is your margin of error? I’d wager that most news sites would be happy to only have three. Clerical errors are pretty common, and I’ve seen them in other places besides FOXNews. The ballpark at Arlington comes to mind, when they incorrectly identified the relief pitcher at the last game I was at.
I didn’t comment on the margin of error or anything, Froo. I said it irked me as in it seemed a little strange, but then I would realize it was just a coincidence and shrug it off, and move on with my life. Sheesh.
I know you didn’t comment on the margin of error. I’m trying to tie something else in
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The controversy about this whole thing is silly. Of course news sources make mistakes. Of course people fat finger it on the captioner and on the crawler. Three instances in the grand scheme of things isn’t that big a deal. I’m sure MSNBC has never misidentified a Democrat as a Republican because such things are not done, but they make their own type of errors in naming. That’s all I’m saying. For people to get pissed over a momentary lapse is silly, especially when there are actual issues to get pissed about.
Dear Froo, please refrain from using the magical words of actual issues. You know that will spark a headache-worthy discussion, right?
We both know there’s SOME kind of troll just waiting for you to say that.
I’ve already had my headache-inducing quarrel tonight, lol. I hate being lumped in with others against my will, especially if I haven’t done anything to deserve it. And twice tonight that’s happened. It’s really getting irritating.
In my defense, you only *thought* you were being lumped in my post
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You weren’t the second instance, darling.
(sarcasm)
Geez, froofrou, would you stop taking Anniee’s side all the time? You guys are practically joined at the hip.
(/sarcasm)
Well, I’d hardly call it professional to make such silly mistakes. Whoever does their editing needs a swift kick in the pants. And, so I won’t look like I’m just picking on Fox, I get pissed off when I see stupid mistakes in my local newspaper (often considered one of the more liberal “rags” around), on other news networks, even on our sorry ass local news. I guess that’s just how I was taught learning journalism in high school and college. If I ever saw typos or mistakes in my work back then it was devastating. So yeah, I hold all news networks up to that standard where if someone screws something up, they suck, intentionally or not.
My favorite mistake was in my old hometown paper. A caption under the picture of a boy with his first deer had a dangling participle that was so bad that to read the caption made it look like the deer shot the kid.
A deer shot a kid? That IS news!
Okay, since you can’t spell Froo’s name correctly, make judgments when you say They won’t denounce it, and treat them like they are stupid by telling them something they already know, you get minus points. However, your statement is correct. They have done it on other occasions. -Shrug-
Wrong, Tyler. Unless you can cite it. And the blanket blaming here without proof or even a precipitating event on my part is really pissing me off.
Link isn’t working; PK is eating it, Froo. Mark has a Huffington Post link above which has the image in it that I’ve seen on several news sites, however, and I’m not blaming you, Froo- I’m saying he can’t have paid particular attention to your posts if he can’t spell your name right. Nawt blaming you
Really? “They have done it on other occasions” sounds like lumping me in with the rest.
I was referring to FOX, Froo. >.<
I.E.- mislabeling Republicans as Democrats mid-scandal.
Differentiate the subjects of the sentence. I’m in no mood tonight to try and parse out an insult that started with a troll, and was inadvertantly carried on by you.
Sheesh. I can tell O.O. Froo scary tonight.
Anyway, I was responding directly to this part of his post, so I may have seemed a little vague but- “FOX News has, on other occasions, identified Republican politicians caught in scandals as Democrats.”
Ok, that sounds a little better
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I’m aware of two cases, including this one. Is that not well within the normal margin of error for this type of thing?
For those who can count, PM’s link to the uber-partisan Puffington Roast only came up with ONE other instance of of a party mis-identification typo. Given the FDS of most Puffsters, I’m certain that they would have identified every instance.
Actually, they missed one. Link.
And they did it two episodes of the O’Reilly factor in a row, with Mark Foley.
Sorry, no link, it’s a PK thing, works great sometimes, not at all at other times.
Two episodes, or two airings of the same episode? In any case, let’s be generous and double your count, 2 from BOR and 1 from the web on Foley, 1 on Sanford, times 2 would be 8 typos in just under 13 years of running a 24/7 network.
I make decent bucks banging on a keyboard, working with the best editors, and I can guarantee you that more than 8 of my typos have made it into print in 13 years.
As for this being exclusive to Fox, do a wiki search on “lower third” or “chyron” and you’ll see that CNN and MSDNC aren’t immune from screwing up chyrons.
Oh, it’s not exclusive to Fox. Just want to clarify- the huffington posties missed one.
“The clear implication is that FOX News does this on purpose, especially as other television news outlets do not do this with such regularity.”
No, what they do REGULARLY is to leave out any mention of the party when a Dem is caught in any compromising position – to the point that it is often SCRUBBED from the AP mention. The reverse of this actual thing? Never happens. And this actual thing? Rare as a hen’s tooth. Which makes it notable of course. This is not a “practice” by Fox news, but it IS a practice by all major news sources to leave out the party name when that party name starts with D. Give it up, freakazoid. And clamboy, don’t bring my shit into it unless I’m IN it. I don’t give a good GD about most news networks except that they’re liars.
Actually, all chickens are born with an egg tooth that assists in breaking free of the shell when they hatch after puncturing the air sac. Hens and roosters alike have this tooth, so a hen’s tooth is actually required, without it the hen would die in the egg and never hatch.
Furthermore, when Blago got busted he was listed as a Democrat on every report I saw. Your conspiracy theory of “hiding party affiliation” when Democrats get into a scandal is just that, conspiracy theory.
Sorry, our mistake. Your one anecdote obviously shoots down our consistent and documented pattern.
dhoti… (sigh) ah nevermind, it’s not like you’ll listen anyway.
the bit bout the hen’s tooth is interesting though, never realised that.
but, in the essence of fair play: newschannels are run by people, mistakes are made. before something gets on the air it’s run through dozens of people where fonts, titles, script, copy are shifted, changed, reorganized, etc. if you’ve ever been in a newsroom prior to air, it’s actually kind of amazing they get anything on air at all
What a convenient excuse for offering absolutely no support or citation whatsoever! I’m sure convinced!
Oh, clearly. They’ll never get it. Brainpans aren’t broad enough.
Frankly, it seems IME that it doesn’t matter who the scandal is, there’s gonna be some reference to the political party, and probably some response from someone in the opposing party, or that person’s party, or both. Or maybe I’m just imagining that in a perfect world or something, I dunno. LOL
No, I’ve noticed that as well, Eric.
But then, I don’t actually belong to any political party or vote based on party affiliation, so…
Don’t know if the link above will work, but if it does, see the related post elsewhere on the cheese-net.
And in a totally unrelated story, Tom Cruise and what’s her name.. Kat.. Kate.. erm, whatever, have arrived in Melbourne, Australia. Now I know why it’s so windy here today.. he sucks!
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(My apologies to those who admire and adore Mr. Cruise.)
(My apologies to those who admire and adore Mr. Cruise.)
Somewhere out there the “Leave Britney Alone!” guy is crying in his Cheerios….
Chris Crocker? No, he’s too busy taking nudes of himself. He had his genitalia removed. /shiver. My friend sent me a link of that one day. Scariest moment of my life.
And Eddie, it’s more that he’s completely crazy more than anything.
Crazy, yes.. but he still sucks. He sucks so badly I’m surprised it isn’t windy where you are!
Well, it made sense when you told me he was in a foreign country. It seemed like there was a bit less hot air floating around today..
And Oprah’s couch is sighing with relief..
Not if she’s sitting on it, it isn’t. /badjoke.
No, that would be the other couch (which you can hear a sub-auditory groan on your TV when her show is on.)
Wait, you can hear something that’s sub-auditory?! *headasplode*
Or maybe I’m confusing my terminology…*headreassamble*
That would be more original than blaming it on Satan, the usual cop-out for right-wing philanderers.
Oh, I thought they were one and the same.. but then, I don’t get FOX news here so I can’t confirm (it’s not that it isn’t on, I don’t have cable.)
It’s that damn Aussie censoring.
“Oh, I thought they were one and the same..”
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Who, Satan and Tom Cruise? Satan is taller and less crazy.
On a completely unrealated note, does anyone know anything about solar panels? I refuse to be a tree-hugging hippie, but anything that will save me money appeals to my greedy little fat cat ConservoBot heart.
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The few sites I went to tonight had solar panels starting around $8500 for a starter kit, but I’m a cheapskate. Does anyone have anywhere I can go for a DIY-type solar kit that won’t take over power production, but will ease it a little? And that is removable if I ever want to move?
Save a teddy bear, hug a tree. Leaf the hippies alone–try to take a lichen to their cause. Work overthyme to go green before the daisies of your life pass you by, it’ll give you instant grassification. This is nature world to destroy (okay that was a stretch, nature, not your…whatevah).
Putting the pun in PUNdit Kitchen! (Really, you ought to know better than to ask a serious question on this site!)
Holy shit that was awesome!
Ahaha I was hoping that people would continue my punnery but people actually typed out long, detailed answers. Where’s there sense of fun?
keep an eye on the new ones coming out of Silicon Valley; they are so flexible you can roll them up like a plastic mat, and I believe they can be used in place of roofing materials. Check out back copies of Popular Science and Popular Mechanics, I saw it mentioned in one or the other, probably PopSci. Good luck.
oo, thank you Cpt, i’ll look into it.
Froo – my neighbor just looked into that as well and the result he came out with was to hold off on Solar Panels until the prices drops. Currently, the cost of panels + installation or simply just panels, won’t pay themselves off for 15-20 years or something given the amount of energy they produce.
He went instad with a solar hot water heater or solar water pump or something like that – the payoff for that is near immediate and apprently works quite well.
hope that helps! I’m gonna go check out what CptChaos just mentioned though, sounds cool.
What’s your rate, and do you get any kickbacks?
In CA, you can have the system pay for itself in 5-10 years (and it would be an asset of the house; or at least I would call it as such).
In GA, 22+ year paybacks currently.
They’re movable, but you’d have to make new mounts for the new house to get all the angles right… I’m not sure if you would be better off (or able to) raising the price of the house (hey… it’s gotta be worth something — who else has a $5-$10 electric bill in the middle of summer?).
All pieces of the kit are expensive:
Solar Panels
Grid-Tie inverter (necessary unless you want to try to split your house into a “solar powered” and a “normal powered” section.
Wiring (and a warning: even on cloudy days it will shock the crap outta you)
I wouldn’t bother with batteries. I would think about adding a sprinkler system on the top edge of the panels to maybe make it easier to clean them (you can lose 20% of your output with pollen, but whether or not sprinklers would get rid of pollen without a mop, I’m not sure).
Note, if you add the cells today (and they are all you need), you can add the sprinkler system later and get a kickback on that as well (“solar equipment” – heh. There’s a company out there that makes an automated version for $50-$300K and sells it to govt buildings).
If you make your own panels out of B grade cells, you can cut the panel price down by half. But no warranty (commercial panels have a 20-30 yr warranty). These cells would have probably 75% of rated output, and probably 15+yr lifes. I’d do it if I wasn’t scrimping trying to get an EV Conversions business off the ground {www.thormacev.com}… maybe once we get income from it….
Forgot: Get the roof done first!
It would suck to put the system in, then have to pay the roofers extra to “move and work around it”. The good news is that the roof below the panels will last a *long* time.
If all this is too rich for your blood, consider a reflective coating for the roof. Depending on the size of the roof, it’ll cost ya about $250-300 for the paint and materials, and a day running around on top of your house. Reduces the ambient temperature in the house by about 10 degrees, which in turn reduces load on your AC system.
We’ve talked about it some, so I know there’s some stuff out there. Google found this, which I have to link, because “treehugger.com” as a site name cracked me up. {http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005/10/inexpensive_diy.php}
The electrician who fixed my kitchen light told me that it would cost about $10,000. for him to install a solar panel on my house, and that once it was installed, I could pretty much run all the electricity from it. It probably depends on the size of your house and how much sun you get year-round, though.
True, but not funny.
Not even the first time! They did that with the Mark Foley scandal too.
it´s so hilarious when they do this. then again, they tend to pretend that all bad republicans are actually democrats, or that all bad conservatives are actually liberals, like the argument that nazis are liberal.
Rush Limbaugh actually did blame it on the democrats.
google “rush limbaugh sanford”
Since when is Democrat an insult?
Does being a Republican automatically make you smarter, richer, and more pious than us heathen Democrats or what??
I didn’t realize voting for a particular political party had anything to do with religion, I thought we were voting on the issues at hand and the candidates involved.
“Democrat” is not an insult. It’s just that whenever a Republican is involved in a scandal (sex or otherwise), the Fox News graphics department apparently fears that the personalities will flip out.
You see, the personalities at FNC–excluding Shepard Smith and maybe a handful of others–have this worldview that the Republican Party can do no wrong. Of course, any Republican who gets caught in a scandal shatters that worldview, so the graphics department simply makes said Republican a Democrat to save whatever is left of their sanity so that way they can peddle Republican propaganda coherently.
At least, that’s the snarktastical story I made up to try and explain why Fox News does this all the time.
http://intershame.com/on/Fox_News
It was posted before, but in the middle of all the muckiness of nests. FOX NEWS has done this -7 TIMES-. I’m glad people manage to pick up on these, even though they have to actually view this garbage.
For some reason, I hypothesize that there is someone in FOX NEWS that is leaking these “typos”, because otherwise it means people watch it just to point out things like this.
You’ve counted Fox’s typoes.
Now count Obama’s halos.
Um
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“count”, not draw!
Touche, Tessie, Touche
Anyone whose screen name is Reader is OK in my book. When I went to the hospital last month, I had to fill in a form, and in the blank for Religion, I wrote “Books”.
Hey guys, let’s start unfounded conspiracy theories because we never make mistakes!
OK, here’s one: David Carradine, Farrah Fawcett, and Michael Jackson were all murdered by…
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[suspenseful pause]
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Billy Mays!
You mean like how Hillary Clinton tried to blame her husband’s “Democrat affair” on Republicans?
Just sayin’….
No, we’re talking about how FOX actually mislabeled him as a Democrat mid-scandal. Happened with Mark Foley too. Not saying anything to people who would argue the point about the % of correct postings they’ve had, just clarifying for what they’re trying to say for Jes. By the way, Jes, you really look like an idiot when you scroll to the bottom and comment on things that have been said before…. No one wants to deal with 200000 trolls asking the same question.
You’re playing board cop again.
Sorry for that, Anniee. Didn’t realize trying to help was a bad thing.
Calling people trolls isn’t helpful – don’t fall into the same trap of so many here labeling insults as helpful. To a casual peruser of the site, it is perfectly natural to simply leave a comment without realizing there’s a whole long thing going on, or without wanting to bother with it. It’s normal, it’s not even rude. So how about we leave the drive-bys do their thing and not call them all trolls, huh?
But it seems she didn’t understand the LOL, based on her comment. Why wouldn’t she want to know if there was some kind of backstory?
No, it seems like she was making a flip comment, one that fits the situation in the sense that she made it, not that she didn’t understand and was trying to start a conversation. But if that was your understanding, a simple “That’s been discussed above” would have sufficed as opposed to the 20 thousand troll thing, which was just…inappropriate, IMO.
I’d probably agree with Anniee here, even though I’m prone to pull up the snark for the rather trollish sounding drive bys on a bad day myself. We’re not supposed to feed the trolls anyway.
Bad day? Me? Neeevvarrrr…
Yeah, I wasn’t in the best of moods when I handled that comment. Apologies for insults, Jes- didn’t mean to call you a troll, but I do have frequent snarky moments
And Eric, you? Snarky for trolls? Heheheheh…
And btw, I responded as I did because I’m not sure she saw that the LOL said Sanford (D).
He got tired of playing good cop?
Good cop, board cop . . . *rimshot* I’m here all week, try the veal.
*Jes, Tyler & Anniee all groan in unison*
-Giggles and spaces out, staring blankly at the veal-
Do you guys have veal parmesan?
Parmesan politics are discouraged at PK.
Yeah yeah will ya just pasta cheese already?
This lol is even dumber than I thought. What in hell is a “Republican Affair”? Was Kennedy’s affair a “Democrat Affair”? There are affairs between individuals that really have little to nothing to do with the rest of the people in the party (except how they view such bad character and whether they choose to keep voting it in.) It doesn’t smear a party when one person does something disgusting. What a dumb lol; it keeps getting dumber the longer it sits there.
I think the intended caption is “Republican’S affair”. Not sure if they just forgot, or did the dumb bit deliberately, though.
It’s still retarded because it should say on A DEMocrat, not democratS. ***A*** democrat. Otherwise it makes it really obvious they’re tarring entire parties, just as one expects they are doing.
Which is also a reason I thought the poster above with the Hillary comment was a bit more astute than you did – Hillary actually blamed her husband’s affairs on a “vast right-wing conspiracy”. Hehe…actually that’s so hilarious I’m not even able to finish the thought. LOL
I know. It IS hilarious, I’ll give ya that.
I thought she had assumed that the caption meant that they were taking a picture from FOX, and captioning it just randomly with vitriol. However, I could easily be wrong. Just need Jes to come back… XP
*Comes back from the kitchen to play grammar referee*
Republican’s is singular possessive, Republicans’ would be the plural indicating the whole party.
*Tyler declines penalty, dumbness penalty still stands on the original caption, play resumes on the lol-field.*
Why am I being penalized?
I meant it in the singular possessive form.
Penalty is on the original captioner of the lol, your singular possessive is correct, thus the declined penalty. I may have got the ref-speak wrong, but I’m only a part-time ref, what with the standup routine and looking up those veal recipes in the kitchen.
No, you can only decline a penalty if it’s committed against you but it would be strategically better not to accept the penalty.
There is par for the course. Tearing Fox apart for an error, possibly and likely a purposeful error, yet… when the rest of the networks all known to be biased democrat mouth pieces who intentionally remove the (D) or other facts of a story that might make a democrat look bad it never even sees the light of day.
It is amazing how many hypocrites support this type of media. Meh, what does one expect in an AmeriKa where the republic has long been forgotten right along with individual rights in support of stealing what others work hard for to dole out to lazy assed bums who think and believe what someone else earns is theirs simply because they don’t have it. F-ing country has gone to the sh*tbags. The sooner this country implodes… the better. It does nto stand for freedom any more. It stands for coward punks who have exchanged freedom for slavery.
“stealing what others work hard for to dole out to lazy assed bums who think and believe what someone else earns is theirs simply because they don’t have it.”
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Like Bernie Madoff?
wow, they accidently put a d instead of an r, can we move on, or should we go yell about how stupid they are?
No, we can’t move on from criticizing a misleading “news source.”
What really gets me about this is that it’s the second time (that I know of) that Fox has deliberately changed the party affiliation on one of these scandals.
I can’t believe that this one doesn’t have a better rating! I mean, did you people who read it & gave a low rating not know the guy is a (R)? Or did you not read the part of the news bulletin that is real? Did you just forget to turn your brain on today?
I mean, it’s not hilarious…but every caption I’ve seen on this site that says something bad about Fox has a middle-of-the-road or low rating.
What are Fox people even doing on a site like this?
Rn’t y’all illiterate NEwaze……?
((this political humor has been provided free of charge))
Nah, Jag, it’s mostly they want new material.:/
No. It’s CNN blaming the democratic crap on us. Go f**k yourself Obama lover. He killed a fly and CNN is like “Holy crap!” but he’s turning America socialist and FOX i the only news company that actually says points that out.
“he’s turning America socialist”
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Black Russians for all! I’ll make the snack tray.
I’m guessing, from context, that you don’t actually know what “socialist” means.
You DO know that certain aspects of socialism are good ideas, yes?
No. And yes, I know exactly what it means.
Ah. Fair and balanced…wait. What?
but it WAS us democrates who caused the affrair…we planned it all…we lured him down to south america with our evil wiley ways. BA HA HA HA HA HA HA..now lets make some more holes in the ozone and blame it on global climate change..someone get a shovel!
Does it matter if you’re murdered by a Nazi or a Communist? The false dichotomy of left versus right. For all the people worried that fascism is “right” and communism is “left” and so insistent that “You don’t know what socialism is” (patently untrue to begin with.) What’s the difference when you have no personal liberty and your life is at stake to the state? Pfft.