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Steverino Begins
09/11/09

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Between that unfortunately coiffed lady and Tom Cruise, that couch has seen a lot of crazy.
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maryn
09/11/09

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Oh, satanic ritual abuse scare, how I miss you.

The book that flashes at the beginning - Satan's Underground - is amazing. Sadly, the number of books I own about this stuff - I studied it in college - makes my bookshelf look a little creepy.
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Tremonius
09/11/09

@maryn: Just funny crackpot kooks in the news. I read something like this on the back pages, and I seek the reassurance from the dateline it's a long way off. But long prison sentences are handed down in places like Texas on these garbage pitiful pogroms, including a neighboring town which we played in football Back When. Don't never be born in Texas, is my moto.
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SpyMagician
09/12/09

@maryn: You know, one thing I discovered about objects like books, CDs, VHS tapes, bits of hair... Once you’ve used them, you can get rid of them.
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Tattertotter
09/11/09

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Harpo Productions has just purchased Gawker Inc and you are all fired, effective immediately. You said it yourself, you don't mess with Miss O.
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Tremonius
09/11/09

@Tattertotter: One of my favorite quotes is from Will Smith, around the filming of "Ali." He was asked about civil rights of the era, sit-ins and such, and he said something like, `We don't know nuthin' about sit-ins. We drive Bentleys, man. You don't want me sitting in your diner; I'll buy the building and throw your own keester out in the street.'
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Fry_Bread_Power
09/11/09

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I think Oprah's rise to megalomania started when she switched to all that 'I'm okay, you're okay,' spiritual life-coach crystal visions listen to your inner voice self-help craze. You know, the one where she sang her own show intro and viewers brought notebooks and pens so they could write down all the wisdom Iyanla Vanzant shared, which lead to Dr. Phil, then to 'The Secret,' and now Dr. Oz?

I just remember a room full of women in our TV Room at the dorm watching Oprah and God FORBID if you made one noise while Iyanla was speaking. GOD FORBID.

God forbid...
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Tremonius
09/11/09

@Fry_Bread_Power: Dr Dean Edell regularly contributes to the record of Oprah ignorance as a tool of medical malpractice, featuring not only fruit-loops but has-been movie stars who somehow grock the deep secrets of the universe with zero education and less training, like vaccinations as a cause of autism and the mathematical certainty of everyone on earth reigning supreme with positive reinforcement affirmations and true life renderings.
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TheUptightMidwesterner
09/11/09

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I really wish that Oprah would just do a retospective of all these shows. She is acting like they never happened, which is totally phony and ridiculous.
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FattyCatty
09/11/09

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I grew up in Chicago and used to LOVE Oprah when she was still doing Good Morning Chicago. When she first started, she was bald - completely, head shaved bald. And her show was awesome. I loved her then.

Of course, I was in middle school then and I also loved Ricky Schroeder, so my taste may be questionable....
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unclevanya
09/11/09

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The Young Linda Tripp Chronicles?
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pony_express
09/11/09

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3 points
1). You would think the title of the video would be: The Shocking Video Muslims WANT you to see, though it's still kind of random.
2). Wouldn't cops have been all over this if small children had been murdered?
3). Perhaps taking the word of self proclaimed multiple personality, not such a great idea? Maybe this is Sandra, the one who lies for attention...
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Tremonius
09/11/09

@pony_express: 2). Wouldn't cops have been all over this if small children had been murdered?

You are attacking dust with a broom. Pay attention. You have to understand something about the field.

A prosecution of a couple who operated a preschool near Austin was based upon RSA; ceremonies in which children were whisked away to hell to be tortured all night and then returned to day care by dawn. To the question, why were no marks ever discovered on any child, nor any other evidence? the circular reaction was: If those devils could fly the children to far away lands to be tortured, they could certainly erase all the evidence.

A lot of reasonable folk like to pretend, for their own assurance, that southern tripe are just like you and me, only a bit more addled. It ain't necessarily so.

The child care couple drew 45 years each, according to Texas Monthly.
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nystar2000
09/11/09

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There are men in the audience! Holy shit!
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pureblarney
09/11/09

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Jews: Sacrificing Gentile Babies Since 1000 B.C.

Seriously, how do we know this woman isn't just some kind of hardcore-repressed anti Semitic whackadoo?
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Tremonius
09/11/09

@pureblarney: This is my Sandra Tsing Loh story I always look for an Oprah moment to trot out. It was in Atlantic, maybe. She works in poor communities because she be essentially a poor, and one of her set actually went on Oprah to sell her neighborhood school idea and hope for support. `Here's my e-mail; won't you help?' She saw support; $50 in checks, plus around a thousand e-mails, all on the same theme, "How can I get on Oprah?"
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Airvault
09/11/09

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But all daytime television talk shows were like this back then. Donahue, Geraldo, Sally Jesse.

Oh, Sally Jesse! That was some good TV right there.
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ronniedobbs
09/11/09

@Airvault: And it seems like the moment that changed everything was when that chair got broken over someone's back on Geraldo. From then on, there were only two kinds of questions to ask guests on talk shows: "Are you the father?" or "Are you living your best life?"
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Magister
09/11/09

@Airvault:
Yeah. Oprah was just a fluffier female Donahue.

Though for some reason, Joan Rivers kept having her as guest on The Tonight Show, back before Oprah was syndicated and shown outside of Chicago and then when she started getting stations, it was like Rivers used all of her power to further Big O's star.
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DoctorEcks
06/30/09

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Now comes my favorite part of Gawker. The Talkback. The time where people go out on a limb and support murdering child molesters and rape in prison. Nice to see society's ills addressed so cleverly. Ahh... does everyone feel better now? Good. I'm still having a bit of uneasiness over the fact that this is the state of "news' in the twenty-first century. Fuck the lack of flying cars. I'd like a five minute respite from all the vulgarity.
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DoctorEcks
06/30/09

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Gee. Walter Cronkite really IS on his deathbed.
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ArtfulSlinger
06/30/09

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Its difficult because I honestly have no issue with people killing pedophiles and rapists. And if there was a way that people who were simply writing the wrongs of these men and women by murdering them and it was that simple, Id have no problem.

But to watch two newsmen and journalists on primetime television equate murdering an innocent doctor in cold blood in church and murdering a serial child rapist is beyond wrong. Because what it does is it equaes these two crimes, which I cant agree with. It also gives the dumbest minority of people in America - those who support O'Reilly and his elk - a moral ground for murder. Again, if moms and dads would seek retribution in murdering their child abusers - no issues. But I know its not that simple and this language is icky on multiple levels.
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CHIC NOIR
06/30/09

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This isn't something for me to be angry about. I'm angry that Earl was only given one year when he should serve nothing less than 20 years without parole.
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ArtfulSlinger
06/30/09

@CHIC NOIR: The one thing - ONE THING - I agree with O'Reilly on is his stance on child abusers. After all those murder cases popped up in the mid 2000's, I actually found myself agreeing with him and what he would do if he had stake in the justice system. Problem is the laws are not on the children's side AT ALL! America is responsible for the majority of child porn - the creation and exporting of it - we lead in child trafficking. Not a third world country, AMERICA. I would prefer all of out legislators to get in their and fix this beyond broken system, but they are just getting acquainted with the internet and how it has made this disgusting act so freaking easy to perpetrate and make money off of.
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ArtfulSlinger
06/30/09

@ArtfulSlinger: Ugh child porn is apparently messing up my spelling.
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