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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Thanks, but what other response is there? If one voted for Bush two times, what can I say to such a person?
Check out a funny "Nobama" parody song at: www.myspace.com/rogerweber
I find your analysis of Sarah Palin refreshing coming from someone on the left. Couric's voice and incongruous prattle are like fingernails on a chalky board to me, I can't change channels fast enough. If I want sophomoric talk, I watch two and a half men.It convinced me that the left is still a party that I don't want to return to just yet. I will willingly give Obama a chance to prove himself, but If Palin runs in 2012 she has my vote. Keep making me think. THANKS
I know of no Democrats in office, Liberal or otherwise, who are actually trying to bring this back whatsoever. The only people who are talking about 'bringing it back' in any way whatsoever... are Conservatives who keep bringing it up as a strawman to show how evil all these (non-existent) Democrats are that are "trying to bring it back."
So, when you say, "That's a very good question" to someone who asks how dare Democrats try to bring it back, no, it isn't a very good question, it is a bullshit concern troll question, and to dignify it with any kind of response other than calling it out for the bullshit that it is pretty much marks the respondee as just as much of a bullshitter as the questioner.
Name one U.S. Congressman or Senator that is actively trying to reintroduce the fairness doctrine.
Hmm..? No? *crickets chirping* Camille, your response?
Camille, the reason Air America is a dud is pretty obvious to me. Liberals don't fall for the simple screeds and scapegoats that are more effectively used on conservative reactionary listeners, and which are the main pillar of AM radio: "Today's villain is..." All the liberals I know want engagement, not bullshit. In modeling their programs on the right-wing ranters, they failed to identify a more satisfying mode of listening than hate. I hate Bush and his cabal of criminal assholes, but I don't want to listen to someone hate him all day (Randi Rhodes). The opposite is true with conservatives. They have a bottomless appetite for vilification. People who are full of shit turn on the radio to hear that they're right about everything. Any liberal worth a damn instead wants thoughtful, believable answers, which is why they may be completely unsuited for radio, where that product doesn't sell. (To be sure... there are brainless liberals also)
The key to the white cool modernist/hot black African motif in Kanye West's video is the lyrics. The character sings about keeping his "love locked down," and by this he means that he does not trust the woman he loves and has decided he must hide or repress the love he has for her. The white condo, with furniture slip-covered in white as though to protect it, and devoid of any evidence of homemaking, symbolizes the spartan effect of his decision on his domestic and emotional life. The single object in the space is a telescope, because he can only observe the life he might have if he were to relax his self-imposed stricture.
The African dancing figures represent the life of passion, excitement and danger he imagines he would have were he to embrace this woman he does not trust.
One might complain about the African figures being used to connote the return of the repressed, because this equates Africans with savagery, primitivism, corporeality, and emotion rather than with civilized represssion. I'm not sure how bothersome this is. Isn't it like if a white guy used Vikings or knights to symbolize his inner self unharnessed? Is that so bad?
Dear Camille: We all KNOW that this Idiot Street Hustler, can't answer the telephone, with out his trusty Teleprompter, feeding him lines. But it hardly matters, when you've got a willing accomplice in the Main Stream Media, who pees its' pants,or worse-(if you figure MSNBC in to the mix)-every time this guy, The Greatest of all Community Organizers, breaks wind. They will cover for this Hard Left, Marxist, Socialist, Communist, Baby Killer, to the very end.
HEIL BARRY!
"(5) News consumers, particularly those of talk radio, are overwhelmingly exposed to a single point of view. A 2004 survey by Democracy Radio revealed that 90 percent of all broadcast hours on talk radio are characterized as conservative. This imbalance results in issues of public importance receiving little or no attention, while others are presented in a manner not conducive to the listeners' receiving the facts and range of opinions necessary to make informed decisions.
I can't say whether it's been reintroduced since then, but I wouldn't be surprised. The efforts of the Left to silence critics has a long history."
While nowhere in your points do you actually cite a legilator that is currently and actively trying to reintroduce the Fairness Doctrine, I think its kind of hilarious that, in the material you do cite, you seem completely oblivious to the fact that you yourself have kind of made a rather compelling argument *for* the Fairness Doctrine.
Witness:
1) "This imbalance results in issues of public importance receiving little or no attention, while others are presented in a manner not conducive to the listeners' receiving the facts and range of opinions necessary to make informed decisions."
Followed by:
2) "I can't say whether it's been reintroduced since then, but I wouldn't be surprised. The efforts of the Left to silence critics has a long history."
Yeah! How DARE those darned dirty Democrats try to get people to receive the facts and range of opinions necessary to make informed decisions! Rock on, dog! Fight that good fight! :-P
First time - first timer here. I share your appreciation of Frank Zappa's music. Where do you stand on Joe's Garage Act I & II? Like many I had an older sibling (a brother) who made sure I was up to date on what he and his friends were listening too and they in turn, benefitted from older siblings influencing their musical taste. Back to Frank - before Joe's Garage, I was familiar one or two of his songs - Yellow Snow comes to mind, but after listening to Joe's Garage (all 4 sides of the double album) at one sitting I was blown away. Between the lyrics and the hard driving guitars (and every other instrument some of which I'm betting he invented on the spot) it's a treat for the ears. Any road trip of more than 2 hours and into the CD player it goes. Clearly this is a question for the ages; every bit as topical as Hillary finding her thrill on Capital Hill but probably not up there with King of the Hill love it or hate it. Thanks.
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"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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