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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
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Same reason Huckleberry is losing, because he DOESN'T! The culture war was always a species of fraud and nobody perpetuated the Piltdown Man con of a "moral majority" better then Santorum. I personally don't think he really believes his own rhetoric any more then any other elephant candidate but he even managed to fool some liberal commentators into thinking he did.
A man who claims to believe in "less government" while lobbying to change the constitution just so you can exclude all those icky gay people from society? Please!
If 30% of the population still believe that Bush was appointed by God, I'm not surprised that Santorum thinks he can get away with revisionist history.
Last time I checked "liberals" weren't the ones trying to change the constitution to deny our fellow Americans equality under the law!
I'm sure once Brittney gets out of rehab they'll stop reporting on this and go back to her!
And BookTV can go back to pretending people like Ann Coulter and Laura Ingram have actual observatins on the state of the country!
STOP THE PRESSES!!! THAT'S NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE!!!
Bill O'LIElly is offended by "cunt", gee, there's a shocker. Wouldn't it just be easier to name all the things he ISN'T pretending to be offended by?
the issue isn't about "victory", it's about the fact that THE WAR WAS BASED ON LIES. PERIOD. The actual outcome is irrelevant. It wouldn't have mattered if we would have been welcomed as liberators the next day, we still would have opposed the war. Telling us how great things are going now does not address this concern. I'm more concerned about Bush and company being punished for this then I am about withdrawl anyway. Something McCain wouldn't do.
So some hospital in some town you probably couldn't be able to find on a map of Iraq anyway has working lights again, woo-hoo. Meanwhile, how many Americans can get the healthcare THEY need? How many of you even bothered to ask why we were really going in there the first time around? How many of you believed the "WMDs" lie? Nothing we were told about this war turned out to be true, and instead of getting onto us for not backing it, maybe you should be more concerned with that.
I KNEW IT!!! I FUCKING KNEW IT!!! HA HA!!! WHAT DID I SAY? I SAID THE MOMENT THEY REALIZED HE WAS THEIR ONLY CHANCE TO STAY RELEVANT HE WOULD IMMEDIATLY BECOME ACCEPTABLE!!!! I SHOULD HAVE PUT MONEY ON IT!!!!
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Of course if they aren't endorsing him, then it means they may fall off into obscurity (well, more so then they already are). I honestly don't know since I wouldn't be caught dead listening to Rush. I'm hoping that they don't however and that Obama wins which means they'll have to spend the next four years at least trying to rebuild their own party in their image and then wonder why it won't work. Hopefully by then most of their geriatric audience will either be dying off or so torn that the party won't be able to put itself back together. Wonder what Captain Blowhard and Bombastic Lad will do then?
It would mean that every best picture would go to some romantic comedy that looks like the one before. I think part of the problem is that many audiences have come to associate independent films as "message movies", films that are designed more to preach at you about some kind of social injustice (in the case of something like "Brokeback Mountain", the kind of injustice that much of the movie going audience itself is happily complicite in and sees no reason to stop being so) then entertainment and this isn't entirely wrong. People go to the movies to get away from their problems, not to be reminded of someone else's.
I am a comic book geek and I can tell you that things like "Good Night and Good Luck" and all the "war for profit" movies look a lot like the independant comic projects many popular artists and writers undertake in the comic book industry. These projects usually get picked up by a publisher only due to the name of the creator attached to them, are so obscure and away from the mainstream that they never really find an audience (or don't look different enough from everything else on the shelf to pay full price for) and last about three issues before being dumped in the $1.00 box at your local comic shop never to be mentioned agian. And the creator is back to writing X-Men the following month until he comes up with another idea he wants to try and the cycle begins anew.
Some of these ideas, like "Good Night and Good Luck", manage to gain enough of a cult following to stay afloat or at least make some of the money back that was used publishing them and a collected edition is put out, or, in the case of the movie industry, DVD sales, but for the most part, most of them fail. George Clooney making a jillion "Oceans" sequels works the same way. He knows a "Micheal Clayton" will never rake in that kind of money, but these are his dream projects. And the "Oceans" movies help fund them just like the X-Men fund Mecha Girl or whatever.
The comic book industry would never survive just handing out honors to all the Mecha Girls, they have to give some to the X-Men in order to survive. The academy, as much as it may not like it, will hav to throw a bone to a "Definitaly, Maybe" at Oscar time if it wants to stay relevant. No matter how much it may like "Micheal Clayton".
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
