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    Image of shostakobitch shostakobitch
    04:02 AM

    In reply to Dateline: Slumberland
    pff. more like Global Boring am I right?
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    12/18/09

    In reply to Dateline: Slumberland
    If these are the end-time people, I believe there is hope for humanity.

    And by end-time I mean, are these the ones that don't survive?
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    Image of Swifter Swifter
    12/18/09

    In reply to Dateline: Slumberland
    I thought this was the cloakroom of the Alaska State Legislature.
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    Image of Grandpapular Grandpapular
    11/06/09

    In reply to Did You Have an Off-the-Record Lunch With the President Today?
    The war with Fox seems understaffed. Where are the ground troops when you need em? #media
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    Image of watertiger watertiger
    11/06/09

    In reply to Did You Have an Off-the-Record Lunch With the President Today?
    Oh, dear. Expect another column mocking "Obama the Effeminate" from MoDo on Sunday.

    Nobody puts Modo in the corner . . . unless there's a fifth of scotch in it. #media
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    Image of Magister Magister
    11/06/09

    In reply to Did You Have an Off-the-Record Lunch With the President Today?
    If you watch that one show on Fox less than regularly, when you hear Mara Liasson, you think NPR.

    One assumes that she got her invite because like a lot of Americans, Ms Liasson has been the White House staffers' commuter buddy for years #media
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    Image of TheUptightMidwesterner TheUptightMidwesterner
    11/07/09

    @Magister: Still, as a true NPR -listening, insufferable liberal, it is very hard to fathom that she works for Fox. #media
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    Image of TheologicalSong TheologicalSong
    11/06/09

    In reply to Did You Have an Off-the-Record Lunch With the President Today?
    that's fitting, because Marshall's about as grown up as it gets. #media
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    Image of Astigmatism Astigmatism
    09/17/09

    In reply to Baghdad Shoe Hurler: Journalistic Role Model
    Sorry, this guy is a fucking disgrace of a journalist. Maybe you think he's a great human being, maybe he should have a column somewhere, but you can't be a reporter and pull this shit, because if reporters start hurling shoes at the people they're trying to interview, then those people will very reasonably be reluctant to give such interviews. And if that's not important, then reporting as a whole can't be that important, and you should all go and get real jobs and hurl shoes as an extracurricular activity.
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    Image of once once
    09/17/09

    @Astigmatism: I'm pretty sure this guy identifies w/ being a political activist before a reporter
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    Image of Unsolicited Advice Unsolicited Advice
    09/17/09

    In reply to Baghdad Shoe Hurler: Journalistic Role Model
    A professional does not assault the individual he or she is reporting on.* That's when you transition from journalist to revolutionary, which is dandy, but it is tangential to the profession of being an objective, empirical Journalist. Thanks for playing, Muntander! Hopefully prison didn't suck too bad.

    *Exempt: Hunter S.
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    Image of HPGrl04 HPGrl04
    09/15/09

    In reply to Tortured Iraqi Shoe Hurler: Adios, Iraq
    how stupid is Iraq to torture a journalist and then let him go? i mean thats just asking for him/her to write a book about it in later years...

    and if you are going to torture at least make sure theres some permanent brain damage. that way if he does make it out alive, his writing will be complete gibberish... or better yet, wouldnt remember the torture at all
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    09/15/09

    @HPGrl04: You're a classy, classy man.
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    09/15/09

    In reply to Tortured Iraqi Shoe Hurler: Adios, Iraq
    If you compare Shoe Thrower's accuracy and aim with the accuracy and aim of Cutler, one can surmise that it's only a matter of time before Shoe Thrower is signed on to play quarterback for the Chicago Bears.
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    Image of tigolbitties tigolbitties
    09/15/09

    @morninggloria: do you mean jay cutler? also, despite the fact that i bleed black & gold for my alma mater and i was sad all the other vandy players on bears had to witness that shitty quarterbacking, i definitely indulged in some schadenfreude at cutler's expense... what a dumb douchey dick he is!
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    09/15/09

    @tigolbitties: I have no idea why I typed that in the first place. Fixed.
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    09/15/09

    In reply to Tortured Iraqi Shoe Hurler: Adios, Iraq
    Hey! We're exporting something! Torture!

    USA! USA! USA!
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    09/15/09

    In reply to Tortured Iraqi Shoe Hurler: Adios, Iraq
    Dude should totally take a meeting with whoever got Jessica Simpson her shoe deal.
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    Image of Thomas Paladino Thomas Paladino
    09/15/09

    In reply to Tortured Iraqi Shoe Hurler: Adios, Iraq
    I'm pretty sure he's milking this now. And I doubt he was tortured, if for no other reason than the fact that he's extremely high profile and would be in a major spotlight once released. Unless they figured that he'd claim to be tortured either way, so what the hell.

    I also find it funny how throwing a shoe at one president is good, and interrupting the speech of another one is bad. Of course, of those two, only one is the messiah, so I guess I see it.
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    09/15/09

    @Thomas Paladino: I also find it funny how throwing a shoe at one president is good, and interrupting the speech of another one is bad.

    Maybe I can help you. They guy who threw the shoe? Not a U.S. Congress member attending a joint session of a legislative body with a 233 year history of civility. The guy who yelled, "You lie?" never lived in a country bombed mercilessly and occupied by an invading army whose leader smugly said his presence was a "going away" present just before the offending shoe was hurled. In fact, the guy who yelled "You lie," was distorting the truth of the situation in order to cynically exploit our treasuring draining healthcare crisis.

    It's called context, Sherlock. Get some.
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    Image of Thomas Paladino Thomas Paladino
    09/15/09

    @Mediahohoho: Ok, no. Democrats booed Bush during the State of the Union when he talked about Social Security Reform. So there goes the '233 year history of civility'.

    And everything else comes down to the fact that you agree with one of those guys, and disagree with the other one.
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    Image of kappakappaspankme kappakappaspankme
    09/15/09

    @Thomas Paladino: There is nothing more I hate that having to repeat myself. Last week, Mr Paladino, I had to correct you regarding the heckling of President Obama.

    Again - Heckling the President in a Joint Session of Congress = BAD.

    Throwing a shoe at the President of an occupying nation during war = NOT SO BAD

    Alas, I'm sure I'll be posting the same thing next week and hoping that someone will approve this frustrated n00b's comment.
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    tigolbitties promoted this comment lionel-mandrake approved this comment kappakappaspankme was starred kappakappaspankme was unstarred
    Image of lionel-mandrake lionel-mandrake
    09/15/09

    @Mediahohoho: Ooh ooh, I can help with this too!

    Shoe thrower: A private citizen, not an elected official. A Muslim showing one of the most extreme forms of symbolic contempt that exists in his culture. An aggrieved man protesting the rape and destruction of his country at our hands.

    Joe Wilson: NOT A PRIVATE CITIZEN, an elected official, of whom a certain level of civility and decorum is not only expected, but required. An unreconstructed Confederate apologist whose motives had less to do with a disagreement over the President's policy and a lot to do with his aggravation at being spoken to by an uppity negro.
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    Image of Dickdogfood Dickdogfood
    09/15/09

    @Thomas Paladino: So...if these two acts are really equivalent, does that mean you're OK with Joe Wilson going to jail for what he did?
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    Image of Charolastra Charolastra
    09/15/09

    @Dickdogfood: Brilliant point. I am so sick of self-righteous idiots who equate two completely different situations to support an intellectually dishonest argument.
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    PaisleyPajamas promoted this comment Edited by Charolastra at 09/15/09 10:26 AM Charolastra was starred Charolastra was unstarred
    Image of Swifter Swifter
    09/15/09

    @lionel-mandrake: So, what is it about unreconstructed Confederate apologism that you have such a special problem with? Oh, and would you like a Mint Julip?
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    09/15/09

    @Thomas Paladino: Er, also the fact that the Iraqi shoe bomber is, um, Iraqi. There's a vast difference, and one of the most important is that what I think about what he did doesn't matter because he's, again, Iraqi.

    Boy, are you guys glad some dems booed Bush's ridiculous Social Security proposal in 2005. It's all you've got. I'm also glad they booed it, mostly because it would have been insane to put SS dollars into the stock market in 2005.

    But go ahead and keep putting an equal sign between everything the two parties do if it makes you happy.
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    09/15/09

    @Swifter: We should have let them secede. Can we revisit that decision?
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    09/15/09

    @Dickdogfood: And getting the fuck beaten out of him by Shi-ite thugs. Even if he hasn't the first idea what a Shi'ite is?
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    Image of Swifter Swifter
    09/15/09

    @Mediahohoho: How about a nice Black Eyed Susan then?
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    09/15/09

    @Swifter: Kudzu.
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    Image of zibby zibby
    09/15/09

    In reply to Tortured Iraqi Shoe Hurler: Adios, Iraq
    It's part of the culture now - this guy probably would have felt disgrace if he went to prison and didn't withstand a little torture he could tell his friends about.
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    Image of Hamilton Nolan Hamilton Nolan
    09/15/09

    @zibby: Uh... remember that next time you're in prison.
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    Image of zibby zibby
    09/15/09

    @Hamilton Nolan: Well, stateside I'd be more concerned with non-consensual manlove. That sort of thing would not fall under the category of martyr-iffic exploits, so I reckon I'd skip telling my friends about that.
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