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flossy
06/22/09

In reply to Sad Donald Rumsfeld is Not Crazy, Just Misunderstood
Oh, Rummy, Rummy, Rummy. They're not eager to shake your hand, they're trying to stink-palm you. And may your hands forever smell like ass, you miserable creep.
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Dickdogfood
06/22/09

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Oh yes, they sure as fucking hell do say Colin and Condi lied, you incorrigible narcissist.
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MrInBetween
06/22/09

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The three-ring binders of love are Rummy's Rosebud. Did he draw little pink hearts on the covers, like a 50s high school girl?

Of course, if Rummy had meticulously collected all the hate-mail, hate-e-mail, etc. he had received while Defense Secretary, he'd need an Indiana Jones-final scene-sized warehouse to store it all.
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HurtsSoGood
02/17/09

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Do documentaries always have to be "fair"? Does ignoring erroneous points of view make a documentary "unfair"? Why do we need to be "fair" to nutjobs? Can't we just point out the clear fact that the Sarah Palin wing of the Republican party is not only heavily populated with nutjobs, but they (and their talk-radio puppetmasters) appear to be running the national GOP (or what's left of it)?
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Tart of Darkness
02/17/09

@HurtsSoGood: In fact, I always think of documentaries as having a specific point of view, so I don't think they have to be "fair and balanced".
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dippitydoo
02/17/09

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I caught the tail end of it and was aghast at the ridiculousness of the people she chose to interview. Total whack-jobs and so extreme. One lady completely broke down when discussing that Obama doesn't wear a flag pin. A pin. A little tiny American flag pin brought her world D O W N. Many of them said they'd move to Spain or Canada if Obama won, which is funny because socialism is way more the norm in those places.

Just made you wonder where they get their information and how they base their opinions - revealing thinly veiled bigotry and fear of the unknown.
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Tart of Darkness
02/17/09

@dippitydoo: I could probably find that lady in my immediate neighborhood. I live among them and many of them are really dumb.
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Mediahohoho
02/16/09

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The fact that there are more than 2 million people willing to sit through Glenn Beck's expressions of penis envy for hours at a time is cause for pride for exactly no one. It simply means suicide is not nearly prevalent enough.
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DavidWatts
02/16/09

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The only person Alexandra Pelosi is in the tank for is herself. Back in the early part of the decade, when everyone was nuts about W, she made that awful "Journeys With George" movie about what a fun-lovin' regular guy our First Dude was. Now that she's smelled a shift in the wind, it's all-Obama from HBO's favorite opportunist.
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Mediahohoho
02/16/09

@DavidWatts: Now that I can believe.
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Tart of Darkness
02/17/09

@DavidWatts: From what I remember about discussions and interviews about "Journeys with George" was that she points out through the documentary how insubstantial his credentials are, his determination to condescend to women and many male reporters and just how he was a jackass in general. He knew she wasn't on his side.
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bjonston
02/16/09

In reply to Racist Republican Hicks in Documentaries: Still Important?
Wait a second. You mean the black guy WON?!?!?
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Tart of Darkness
02/17/09

@bjonston: Well yes and no. He seems to have won the popular and electoral vote but we're pretty sure he can't prove he's a citizen of the United States.
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southernbitch
02/16/09

In reply to Racist Republican Hicks in Documentaries: Still Important?
this schism of "two americas" or whatevs she wants to call it has always existed, and it's not even as ridiculously virulent and bad. and yeah, we in the south sure as shit have a large population of stupid, hateful people, and even smart, hateful people, but so does every other state in america. just how it is. and there are actually many, many more nuances of this shit than just batshit crazy right and the enlightened left.
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FreddieBietzsche
02/16/09

@southernbitch: That would have been an interesting documentary. To show how politically disagreeing neighbors get along.

I suggest anyone who doesn't agree with southernbitch's points get the Southern Poverty Law Center's periodical and note the amount of hate crimes in supposedly liberal havens like California and New York.
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apocalypse-nowish
02/16/09

@FreddieBietzsche: California is the worst! Way too many White Supremecists nut jobs for my taste.
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gawkimo
02/17/09

@apocalypse-nowish: Mmmmm. Meth and Nazi paraphernalia. You can just smell the love.
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markscottmusic
02/16/09

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It would be fun to put the two pillars of Republican support -- idiot racist mouthbreathers and rich greedy executives -- in the same room and see how much they have in common.

DO NOT let up on the Republicans. They have repeatedly proven they care everything about power and nothing about governing. If we let them, they'll slink back in and we'll be right back where we were. Be vigilant, people, and call a Republican spade a Republican spade every chance you get. You may even shame some of them into owning up to their backward beliefs and growing a little.
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i'm a bottle
02/16/09

@markscottmusic: This is the best suggestion I've heard all week -- though it's only Monday.
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smithhimself
02/16/09

In reply to Racist Republican Hicks in Documentaries: Still Important?
If Smithhimself wanted to hear people like this, he would just hang out with his relatives.

On the other hand, they are fun at a BBQ or floating a raft down the river. They don't talk about "their therapist" and they know how to fix a broken car engine.

So we drink beer, talk about their kids, drink more beer, play dominos, drink more beer (Smithhimself is good at this) and stay away from religion and politics.
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gawkimo
02/16/09

@smithhimself: Smith, I have cousins who live in trailers in a red square state and they have too many kids and mean dogs. I can attest that they're really not that fun at BBQs. They don't talk about "their therapist" but they do talk incessantly about paintball and noodling. Paintball and noodling is, to them, therapeutic.
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smithhimself
02/16/09

@gawkimo:

Okay. Just found out. "Noodling" is trying to catch a large catfish with your hands.

So it resembles an auction situation that used to exist in pre-2009 book publishing.
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gawkimo
02/16/09

@smithhimself: This is a must see:

[www.imdb.com]
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gawkimo
02/16/09

In reply to Racist Republican Hicks in Documentaries: Still Important?
These are the people voted for the right wing douche-tard elitists who ruined our economy, got us into two quagmires, drove us into history's largest deficit, and tore holes in the wall between church and state.

In the past (or presently in other countries) this would have been cause for sectarian violence and potential civil war.

Instead they're allowed to continue regurgitate bullshit they heard Glenn Beck say last night.

So they're poked fun of in a documentary? Boovhoo I'm so sad for them.
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GoFish
02/16/09

@gawkimo: Nobody has problem with mocking idiots, on the right or left, but pulling a few clowns aside at street rallies and implying that they represent the view of most republicans or democrats is ridiculous. Michael Moore has more objectivity than Pelosi.
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Mediahohoho
02/16/09

@GoFish: So you've seen the movie?
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GoFish
02/16/09

@Mediahohoho: I haven't seen the movie, the Washington Post called it slanted crap, and based on the clips I've seen and reviews I've read that seems to be the general consensus. Of course, I know how much you like slanted crap, to each his own.
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Mediahohoho
02/16/09

@GoFish: A conservative criticizing something they have no attention of seeing, but which they've heard is crap. Color me unsurprised.
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What I Meant Was...
02/16/09

@Mediahohoho: It's actually "intention", but on a figurative level, "attention" works too.
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Mediahohoho
02/16/09

@What I Meant Was...: Urg. Thanks. I make the weirdest typos anymore. I have no idea what happens between my brain and the keyboard; of course, "intention" was what I intended to type. I need to pay attention.
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gawkimo
02/17/09

@GoFish: Funny you say that: actually Michael Moore's entire career is built on the premise of finding idiots and mocking them.
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Nic Fit
02/16/09

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The point of the documentary is that this is the new base of the Republican party: dudes in Khakis with decent jobs who will tell you that they saw "666" on Obama's forehead.
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Botswana Meat Commission FC
02/16/09

In reply to Racist Republican Hicks in Documentaries: Still Important?
Racist Republican Hick Parking Lot.
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VoxPopuli
02/16/09

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Is Maddow always that smug? I'm a big ol' liberal pansy myself, but she really irked the hell out of me at the beginning of that clip.
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Balsa Wood
02/16/09

@VoxPopuli: Yeah, kinda. I'm a big ole angry liberal myself, and I can't really stand Maddow. Too many nerdy-smarty attempts at wit...hilarious, I'm sure, for those who do nothing but crouch by their hi-fi all day, listening to Air America and Terry Gross.
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Jasper Lamar Crabb
02/16/09

@VoxPopuli: I've never taken to Rachel Maddow. Yeah, she's cute/hot and gay and probably a lot more intelligent than the usual corporate parrot, but she's still a parrot.
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bytememehard
02/16/09

@Jasper Lamar Crabb: Must be a holiday. The Maddow hatrz feel comfortable coming out of the woodwork. Me, I lurvs her.
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BlinkyMcChuck
02/17/09

@Balsa Wood: Increasingly, I'm with you. And I didn't care for the way she wouldn't listen to Pelosi at the end. She wouldn't even entertain the idea that she's wrong.
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