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Beck - giving pigs a bad name

by: Mr.FrenchFri Nov 27, 2009 at 17:48:18 PM CST

Thanks, SL. Due to exhaustion yestereve (was a very long day, what with having to scream at clouds, profusely apologize to the KING, point out some Faulty* reasoning, worry about misdirected or legally detained joggers and inquire about mid-life virgins), I had to choose between topics: The War On Thanksgiving, or the cancellation of the Moose and Flying Squirrel show. You've handled it nicely.

I liked AlterNet's subtitle for their article:

The Beck/Palin dream ticket is not to be? NOOOOO!!!

As one who enjoys satirical writing, I'm sure they'd be the, um, ticket to hours of fun and frivolity; but the narrow chance that the electorate could prove the Universality of Hydrogen and Stupidity Theorem to be true was unnervingly frightening.

Now they're free to go their separate ways, bagging both tea and moose, finding death panels in architectural paneling and squirreling away ACORNs.

Sad to see the Scheme Team break up before the first album of crazy, but I'm sure the Steele-trap minds at the GOP will find alternate delusionals.

*For the record: let me point out it is an incontrovertible fact that one simply cannot have KING without I inside it.

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Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. - John Stuart Mill

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Thankful for chairs

by: Still LearningFri Nov 27, 2009 at 18:08:38 PM CST

Not surprisingly, I was eating while reading your response. I managed to laugh between bites (after swallows, of course), but tried to inhale my turkey sandwich while I read that last line...epic fail, on my part.

So now that I have Heimliched myself on the back of the dining room chair, let me address your point.

The mere chance that they could win an election chills my bone marrow. Anyone who remembers the 2000 and 2004 elections knows that ignorant masses are indeed capable of anything. Let's just hope that that genius plant of ours running the GOP doesn't fail his mission. ;)

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I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying. - Rachel Corrie

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cue the onerous music...

by: Mr.FrenchFri Nov 27, 2009 at 23:56:04 PM CST

...and the deep voiceover: "it could happen here... again."

Stupidity does seem to be limitless. Case study, as you cited:

December 2000: Bush wins the US Presidency by one vote.

February 2002: "There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on....... shame on you... Fool me...... You can't get fooled again."

November 2004:

UK Daily Mirror cover

The Wren and Skimpy show may have been canceled before the first episode was shot, but the characters still command (in several senses of the word) legions of sheeple. We can laugh at them - and will - but their (and others') lies travel pretty damn fast.

Vigilant counter-insurgency needed.

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Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. - John Stuart Mill

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
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To all the men of the LefTake Community

by: SuzeB1964Fri Nov 27, 2009 at 20:06:11 PM CST

Please don't be offended, cuz I really do love your bodies, but could Glenn Beck be any more of a dick?

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No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. - Annie Besant

no offense take

by: faultguyFri Nov 27, 2009 at 21:52:22 PM CST

The funny thing is that a year ago, I remember hearing Beck pleading on the radio "Sarah, please, don't let them destroy you!"

I guess the sweetness has soured.

Or he is just playing us.

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I find it truly amazing how certain human beings aren't a PART of humanity as a whole.

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Connect the Dots, Folks

by: Craig DFri Nov 27, 2009 at 22:24:06 PM CST

This whole Palin-Beck / Beck-Palin business is 100% pure McGuffin. A red state herring, if you will.

Right idea, but the wrong media personality, says I.

Think, people, think!

Remember last week?

Sarah appeared on the Oprah show on Thursday?

Then on Friday, the very next day(!), Oprah announces she's going to quit her show next year, but tellingly didn't announce any plans beyond that?

The only question is whether it will be a Winfrey-Palin or Palin-Winfrey ticket.

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Well played, Craig.

by: Still LearningFri Nov 27, 2009 at 22:38:28 PM CST

But you forget one thing...Oprah has a brain - and she uses it. Even Dr. Denis Leary admires and respects her. She's too liberal-y and elitist and intellectual and philantropic (and black) for poor li'l Mrs. Palin.

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I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying. - Rachel Corrie

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O, not so fast

by: Mr.FrenchSat Nov 28, 2009 at 02:17:30 AM CST

Not a bad idea, Craig, but I think SL has valid points. The likelihood of someone like Oprah teaming up with The Resignator Bunny, Queen of the Wasilla Hillbillies? I don't think it's possible. Hell, there's even video of Oprah pallin' around with terrerists!!

(Obama, specifically. Remember Oprah in tears at his victory speech? And having him as a guest? Mark of a terrerist, I tell ya!)

Here's a thought - maybe Oprah wants to run to succeed Obama. She's black, female, not a conservative, popular as hell and probably could BUY the damn election.

As to Oprah's coincidental next-day resignation - maybe after interviewing Palin she thought "if this mental munchkin can come close to holding the VP job, I'm a cinch."

Let them run Beck against her. It'd be hilarious.

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Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. - John Stuart Mill

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
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hey

by: kyserkessFri Nov 27, 2009 at 22:38:44 PM CST

thanks for your vote for the sarah palin pic quote, i think my comment was funnier than the winners :/
we are the same age, I like in washington, dc , nice to meet you :)

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You're very welcome

by: Still LearningFri Nov 27, 2009 at 22:41:47 PM CST

Nice to meet you, too.

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I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying. - Rachel Corrie

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Oh my!

by: Still LearningFri Nov 27, 2009 at 22:46:54 PM CST

Thanks for the promotion. I humbly accept your approval. :)

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I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying. - Rachel Corrie

1 down....

by: KauclairSat Nov 28, 2009 at 03:58:14 AM CST

...1 1/2 to go.

OK... he's gone the Hollywood supermodel/ Anna Nicole (hopefully??) diet route... so...

1 1/4 to go.

Yes, folks, I'm speaking of our good friend Rush Limbaugh.

What could REALLY stick it to those Rams more than BECOMING VP?!?!

The only place I've heard talk of a Palin/Limbaugh ticket was here, via a resident troll... but it chilled me to the core, nonetheless. These are people content with gaining support using OUTRIGHT lies and fear mongering. Openly against equal rights for all Americans. Six inches right of the farthest right... and FUCKING BAT SHIT CRAZY.

If Obama doesn't gain the support of ... ANY FUCKING GROUP ... by 2012, the right has a serious chance of grabbing the election--ESPECIALLY if we're looking at a popular talking head and Mrs. American-housewife-gone-political-KINDA... Palin.

But ANYWAY....

I have to say, this news (heard it here first!!!!), was the best I've heard in a while.

I have had recent sexism issues in the workplace that have left me bitter and filled with spite--

I read the title "The Sweet Smell of Sexism" and cringed a bit--until I clicked and read... and then did a small dance... (yes, by myself in the office at work...)

So, I've realized, SEXISM CAN BE GOOD!!!

Instances are few and far between.... but I'd like to thank Sarah Palin & contributors:

For her vagina

For her like..18 kids

For her incompetence

For her Miss Alaska 1984 pageant (if I weren't aware of what a fucking media-whore-idiot-fear-mongering-scary-sex-symbol-wannabee-old-lady she was... I'd totally masturbate to her swim suit parade)

For her kids that play hockey (without them, she wouldn't be a hockey mom)

For Alaska (for being next to Russia)

For Runner's World (AND NOT FUCKING NEWSWEEK)

Ok... maybe Newsweek too

For Katie Couric

For her photo-shop expert that made her look angelic with a 3rd grader-esque cloud background on the seemingly improper titled "Going Rogue" memoir

And of course...

The men behind the scenes.

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One more thank you...

by: Still LearningSun Nov 29, 2009 at 18:03:17 PM CST

To the right for NOT stepping up to defend Mrs. Palin from the likes of Glenn Beck. I mean, really. How could the GOP pick which child they love more? By standing up to Glenn and calling him a sexist (which of course we know he is) they would be reducing his status as the heir apparent to the GOP truthless throne. By not standing up to him, they prove that Republicans really don't care about women, nor do they care about Sarah.

Sounds like a spectacle to behold...could it be an early Christmas present???

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I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying. - Rachel Corrie

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Wow!

by: spiral115Sat Nov 28, 2009 at 12:40:42 PM CST

This is awesome news. It seems that the Right just might eat itself! How friggin wonderful would that be!?

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Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul. ~Robert Green Ingersoll

RE: Idiocracy

by: mf-lTue Dec 01, 2009 at 07:51:40 AM CST

Seriously, has anyone seen the film Idiocracy? I think Sarah and Glenn are working on a sequel.

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loved that flick!

by: faultguyTue Dec 01, 2009 at 18:42:07 PM CST

except for the ending. very dumb ending. Otherwise, that was a great way to think of our future!

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I find it truly amazing how certain human beings aren't a PART of humanity as a whole.

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Religitroll

by: spiral115Sat Dec 12, 2009 at 21:38:52 PM CST

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Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul. ~Robert Green Ingersoll

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The sweet smell of sexism.

by: Still Learning

November 27, 2009 5:12 PM

Beck - giving pigs a bad name

Thankful for chairs

cue the onerous music...

To all the men of the LefTake Community

no offense take

Connect the Dots, Folks

Well played, Craig.

O, not so fast

hey

You're very welcome

Oh my!

1 down....

One more thank you...

Wow!

RE: Idiocracy

loved that flick!

Religitroll