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Lloyd Little

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Wednesday, March 28, 2007 10:44 PM
Original article: Fox's Ann Coulter 2.0

What's comes after the word incredible?

That this NUT, who "graces" the stage of the ever so formidable Fox News, gets plenty of time to make noise is hard to believe for many reasons.

There's going to actually be an entire addition to our lexicon to describe how they are consistently absurd.

In time, when the dust has settled from all the noise that they've made while people we're attempting to be serious, we'll see they simply specialized in missing the point. There’ll be examples in our dictionaries, incidents of their various farces, which will serve for words. The one making up this story may not even make the list.

In fact, this woman proves beyond doubt that's all they're capable of. They think its spin, by which they really mean manipulation, to do what's different. After doing so they claim propriety isn't violated, they blame liberal media's standards instead.

But Marsden isn’t different, she’s simply crazy.

They’ve done things like this repeatedly and it's difficult to understand how they get away with it. Why assume over the most serious things that someone is incapable of making a contribution of some sort. That’s just mean; only Fox does that, actually. The differences they bring to the table, therefore, throw a wrench in the gears of any social process worthwhile. While all along, the fact of the matter is, they've simply been incompetent and arrogant.

I love the last line of this story...Boyd's claiming insight into American's collective psyche.

Maybe it's just the case that we've got these Right-Wing Weirdoes running around and reaching new lows so regularly that has us thinking in religious terms.

Here's some spin, though, they may appreciate;

The claim was made that Canadians can't get on our airwaves. Taking a page from their book that focuses on immigration, because of Marsden's background the point should be raised as to whether or not we now have to worry about Canada sending us their prisoners.

Doing so is both fair and balanced!

Thank you for telling this story before Fox messed it up….viva La Salon!

Sunday, April 1, 2007 11:44 PM
Original article: Gospel according to Judas

Props to Salon for gettin its Gospel on. However, there's an issue left unsaid here.

Why should we believe anything that's written in a Gospel written by Judas?

Another issue this article raises is the custom of laying all the violence of the world on religion's doorstep. After all, Africa's genocide is getting along just fine without Christ.

In other words, it would be nice to have a fuller interpretation of redemption than just saying per Religion, it's bound to lead to violence in ways that wars need.

Religion always comes into play during significant human interactions. That's our nature. To say that it causes the worst of those, though, without giving due credit to positive potentiality is unbalanced.

Great article though.

Thanks!

Wednesday, April 4, 2007 09:10 PM

Sidney, you're not prone to humor, what gives?

Why would you want to send that frat boy Dowd off on a serious mission and bare his inabilities that much more? Send him to Africa for ten years Sidney, and chances are he'll ruin everything he comes in contact with anyway!

True, there's no doubt that his "conversion" lacked as much depth as his "analysis". But that's no reason to make someone who's never worked a day in his life go cold turkey.

Dowd is crazy, though. Whether or not some Republicans feel the need to promote that fact, doesn't change that he's actually been crazy for quite some time. Believing that lies to instigate a mob during a political campaign have no consequences is all the evidence needed to prove it too.

Now because he's the first rat to leave a sinking ship he's looking for sympathy, that's crazy too.

Sorry about his personal misfortunes, but the best thing to do is give him no sympathy at all. Sending him to Iraq as a fucking contractor would be the best cure. Then send his crazy ass to Afghanistan after that!

Thanks for your efforts Mr. B.

I love the looks at the Bush inner circle your writing gives.

Love em!

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