Posts by Sacha
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Text of Obama's Arizona speech.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Marcus Turner,
Quality journalism!
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Andy Borowitz seems to have found a funnier take than Jon Stewart:
The Fox News Channel today attempted to bust what it called a “mainstream media myth” by reporting that there was no link between matches, gasoline and fire.
“Gasoline and matches don’t start fires,” said Fox host Glenn Beck. “People start fires.”
Mr. Beck went on to say that there was no link between “oxygen, hydrogen and water.”
And Palin tries to use the controversial term in a sentence:
"When you hunt a moose, blood libel to pour out of it," she told reporters.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
We call it public transport
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Neil Morrison,
Palin claims that acts of monstreous criminality begin and end with the individual and have nothing to do with the state.
she's making the exact opposite mistake that some of her critics are making.
That's because it's a good representation of their respective ideologies - collectivist vs individualist. Maggie Thatcher's "There's no such thing as society" was a classic of the genre, as was John Donne's "No man is an island."
Another recent example would be Cactus Kate in that Brian Edwards discussion about Amanda Hotchin asserting that the only people who are allowed to have an opinion are Hanover investors directly wronged. The state taking justice against criminals on behalf of all of us must be a troubling concept for her.
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"international bankers"
rhyming slang, innit
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to BenWilson,
often licked, never beaten
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Simon Grigg,
Witness the calls to hunt down and kill Julian Assange.
quite
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Rich Lock,
It was also quite impossible at such an early stage in proceedings what the cause or motivation was.
There had been an ongoing and very public discourse, so I don't believe people had any difficulty at all joining some dots immediately. That's a political judgement, not a legal one (where yes, waiting for evidence and a hearing might make more sense).
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Rich Lock,
to drown out nuanced discussion
Given that seems to be the prime function of Faux News and co, getting in early makes sense for the American left (such as it is). Head honcho Roger Aisles joins the chorus of whining from the blowhard bullies of the right called on their behaviour.
With at least two Fox News personalities taking heat over their perceived role in a mass shooting in Tucson, Ailes sought to defend them in an interview with hip hop mogul Russell Simmons.
“I told all of our guys, shut up, tone it down, make your argument intellectually,” he told Simmons. “You don’t have to do it with bombast. I hope the other side does that.”
Ignore, for just a moment, the irony of the man who called NPR executives “Nazis” from “the left wing of Nazism” instructing anyone, even Glenn Beck, to drop the bombast and “tone it down.” What’s more interesting is his “I hope the other side does that.
It’s interesting because, according to the official fiction Ailes has put forth since Fox’s founding, Fox isn’t pulling for one team or the other; it only seems that way because every other media institution is so far left.