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Bama Chick
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I'm saying I'd like to get in my car and ram it into Sean Hannity at high speed.

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1 hour ago, Blotto said:

Has anybody benefitted more from the Dotard disaster than Hope Hicks?

Stephen Miller would be on a corner giving handies for $5, instead he gets to implement his racist policies, and give handies to the most powerful man in the world for $179k/year. So I say the win goes to the creepy bald fellar.

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fox owned NY Post unironically complains about a company not paying enough taxes,

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Galloway cites some arresting statistics: Far fewer U.S. households have a gun than Amazon Prime, by 30 to 64 percent. More Americans have Prime than voted in 2016 (55 percent), or earn $50,000 or more a year (55 percent), or go to church (51 percent).

not really sure why more households having prime than owning a gun is an arresting statistic, guess you have to be afraid of something.  the voting thing is a sad commentary on our 'democracy' but that ain't amazon's fault. 

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imo, the editorial board for the WSJ is just as insane as FNC.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/brazilian-swamp-drainer-1539039700

This is the guy they are supporting in the Brazilian election.

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Over the years, Bolsonaro has repeatedly called for Congress to be closed, said the last military government’s biggest mistake was “to torture instead of kill,” and said that if elected president he would “start a dictatorship right away.” More recently, he has vowed to stack the Supreme Court with sympathetic judges. His distrust of civilian politicians means his Cabinet is likely to be composed mostly of former military men, aides say. Bolsonaro’s running mate, a recently retired general, has raised the possibility of a “self-coup,” in which the military would help the president secure greater powers, under certain circumstances. 

https://www.americasquarterly.org/content/what-expect-jair-bolsonaro#.W70SzxLOf2s.twitter

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Just now, Fozzz said:

imo, the editorial board for the WSJ is just as insane as FNC.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/brazilian-swamp-drainer-1539039700

This is the guy they are supporting in the Brazilian election.

https://www.americasquarterly.org/content/what-expect-jair-bolsonaro#.W70SzxLOf2s.twitter

Icono just creamed his pants.

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On 10/10/2018 at 11:08 AM, Fozzz said:

imo, the editorial board for the WSJ is just as insane as FNC.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/brazilian-swamp-drainer-1539039700

This is the guy they are supporting in the Brazilian election.

https://www.americasquarterly.org/content/what-expect-jair-bolsonaro#.W70SzxLOf2s.twitter

 Over the years, Bolsonaro has repeatedly called for Congress to be closed, said the last military government’s biggest mistake was “to torture instead of kill,” and said that if elected president he would “start a dictatorship right away.”

 

Well, at least he's honest. So stealth dictatorship there. Refreshing...

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Todays foxnews.com headlines:

1. Hillary 2020 (This is the actual lead)

2. Dem Sen. McCaskill's husband accused of abusing ex-wife, police records show

3. Ex-Trump campaign chairman Manafort shows up to court in wheelchair

4. Acosta says sorry after foul-mouthed message to ex-Melania staffer

5. Mysterious space debris that landed on ranch identified

6. Russian national charged with interfering in US political system, 2018 elections

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Matthew Yglesias and his over heliumed built ass provided a really insightful and interesting analysis on conservative media. 

In the fall of 2016, Hillary Clinton, asked at a fundraiser how she explained the political appeal of Donald Trump, said that “to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it.”

The rest, she allowed, were fundamentally good people, pushed by circumstance into embracing Trump, and she was hoping to win them over.

Insulting rank-and-file Republicans (even if it was only about half of them) was treated as a huge national scandal. Republican Party politicians and conservative pundits harped on the line, providing a point of party unity at a time when many party and movement stalwarts were reluctant to actually praise Trump. The mainstream press covered the controversy intensively, and left-of-center pundits weighed in with a range of takes, including one from yours truly, which concluded that Clinton really had messed up by violating “the norm against attacking the other party’s constituents” rather than its politicians.

This past Friday, meanwhile, President Trump said that 100 percent of people planning to vote Democratic in the upcoming midterms — a majority of the electorate, in other words — are “crazy.” Nobody cared and almost nobody even noticed.

The reason is something I’ve dubbed “the hack gap” over the years, and it’s one of the most fundamental asymmetries shaping American politics. While conservatives obsess over the (accurate) observation that the average straight news reporter has policy views that are closer to the Democratic Party than the Republican Party, the hack gap fundamentally does more to structure political discourse.

 

The hack gap explains why Clinton’s email server received more television news coverage than all policy issues combined in the 2016 election. It explains why Republicans can hope to get away with dishonest spin about preexisting conditions. It’s why Democrats are terrified that Elizabeth Warren’s past statements about Native American heritage could be general election poison in 2020, and it’s why an internecine debate about civility has been roiling progressive circles for nearly two years even while the president of the United States openly praises assaulting journalists.

The hack gap has two core pillars. One is the constellation of conservative media outlets — led by Fox News and other Rupert Murdoch properties like the Wall Street Journal editorial page, but also including Sinclair Broadcasting in local television, much of AM talk radio, and new media offerings such as Breitbart and the Daily Caller — that simply abjure anything resembling journalism in favor of propaganda.

The other is that the self-consciousness journalists at legacy outlets have about accusations of liberal bias leads them to bend over backward to allow the leading conservative gripes of the day to dominate the news agenda. Television producers who would never dream of assigning segments where talking heads debate whether it’s bad that the richest country on earth also has millions of children growing up in dire poverty think nothing of chasing random conservative shiny objects, from “Fast & Furious” (remember that one?) to Benghazi to the migrant caravan.

And more than Citizens United or even gerrymandering, it’s a huge constant thumb on the scale in favor of the political right in America.

https://www.vox.com/2018/10/23/18004478/hack-gap-explained

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Went to fix my elderly neighbors' computer after work yesterday.  The husband is in bad shape and I doubt if he will be around much longer.  He asks me what we are going to do to stop the horde of illegals coming towards us.  Then he switches to how much the kneeling bothers him.  This man was one of the nicest and funniest people I have ever known.  Now he sits in his recliner waiting to die while Fox news lies to him.  It's a fucking travesty what a cable news channel has done to elderly people in this country.

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8 hours ago, Catdaddyhorn said:

Matthew Yglesias and his over heliumed built ass provided a really insightful and interesting analysis on conservative media. 

 

 

Now that's really funny.

Edit: how the hell am I already out of rep for the day?

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On October 24, 2018 at 9:20 PM, Bama Chick said:

“Should ‘dimms’”

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Show me one time that CNN or MSNBC (or NBC, ABC, CBS...) has used a disparaging term for the GOP in a graphic like that. Fox is a de facto propaganda arm of the Republican Party. That the other cable news networks are not doesn't make them Democratic propagandists. Barack Obama didn't like CNN any more than Trump does. The independent media is a headache for any politician.

Fox is unique. And their use of pseudo-news and editorializing coupled with their success in getting ratings has had a negative impact on the other networks. CNN didn't have all the panel shows before Fox came along. 

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Okay serious question, this isn't slanted despite how it'll sound...

Why is the caravan such a scary, bad thing? It'll show up to the border, and border security will... do their job? Allow them to apply for asylum but it's not like the caravan is going to just blast through the gates, weapons raised...

What am I missing?

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5 minutes ago, Queen Bitch said:

Okay serious question, this isn't slanted despite how it'll sound...

Why is the caravan such a scary, bad thing? It'll show up to the border, and border security will... do their job? Allow them to apply for asylum but it's not like the caravan is going to just blast through the gates, weapons raised...

What am I missing?

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