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Mediahohoho
07/18/09

In reply to Our Contribution to the Rapidly Expanding 'Shreiking Glenn Beck' Mashup Genre
He's right, though. It's a great system for the super affluent and influential.
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Nice Beaver
07/17/09

In reply to Our Contribution to the Rapidly Expanding 'Shreiking Glenn Beck' Mashup Genre
This fella (and his ilk) is really only half the problem. Like DC, the media is so polarized, it's impossible to get a straight answer on anything.

For example, I don't have the fucking time to read the health care bill, nor do I have a team of interns to read and distill it for me. So, I look to various media sources. According to Beck, Obama's programs represent the end of American democracy and will inevitably lead to the US becoming an evil hybrid of Nazi Germany and the USSR. On the other hand, opinion in the mainstream media (kinda liberal (let's not be silly and quibble about this)) seems to be "This bill sucks because it doesn't put private insurers out of business and create a single payer system, but it must be a good idea because Super Barack [for whom I voted] supports it." Neither of these ridiculous points of view answers any fucking questions I have about the legislation.

So, fuck this guy, but fuck everyone else in the media, too.

God bless America.
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Mike Byhoff
07/17/09

@Nice Beaver: You're not going to Glenn Beck to hear intellectual discourse; you go for entertainment and banshee-like shrieking. I think NPR is a fairly calm and balanced perspective. Or at least the closest we have right now.
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Nic Fit
07/17/09

@Nice Beaver: The members of congress don't have time to read the whole thing either, but I will break it down for you:

1) Everybody's gotta get some insurance or pay a penalty.

2) Companies have to insure their employees or pay a penalty

3) People who are uninsured can get the Public Option, which will most probably be much cheaper and better run than anything these private insurer dipshits are offering right now.

4) Eventually, people will say, why do we put up with these weasly corporations making a buck off of denying people the healthcare that they need, and ditch the whole, stupid, unworkable private health insurance system.
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Nice Beaver
07/17/09

@Mikey-B: You raise an important point: Beck and Rush are clearly just trying to entertain and make some bucks, and it seems that they both try to accomplish these goals by making people laugh. But here's the thing: Neither of them are remotely funny. At least Hannity delivers his bullshit in a straight-forward, C-plus-GPA-at-SUNY-Cortland kind of way. Beck and Rush go for laughs (in between calls for armed revolution (Beck yesterday)) and fail miserably, yet these fuckers make tens (or hundreds) of millions of dollars. This country needs a smart, funny centrist on the airwaves to put these shitheaps out of business.

All I need is a microphone (and a billionaire radio station owner willing to bet that Americans will listen to someone who doesn't tell them that Barack is a commie and the Mexicans are taking over).
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Mike Byhoff
07/17/09

@Nice Beaver: Tell Jim C. Texas in Amarillo that Glenn Beck isn't funny as he polishes his gun collection. Your next move should be to duck.

To them, Glenn Beck is taken as their comedian/pundit/preacher all rolled into one.
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trucha
07/17/09

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Someone please do a remix with this video...
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onebadclam
07/18/09

@trucha:And so it shall be.
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badasscat
02/24/09

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Somebody has *got* to remix one of the debates so that Obama starts a rebuttal looking McCain directly in the eye, pointing his finger at him and saying "there are white folks, and then there are ignorant motherfuckers like you." It HAS to be done. Come on, people.
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narnio
02/24/09

In reply to Barack Obama's Cussy Press Briefing
the mashup hasn't been done because its not funny.
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
02/23/09

In reply to Barack Obama's Cussy Press Briefing
Late at night he gets under the covers and texts on the potusberry things like: "Shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker tits" back and forth with Rahm-Bomb, Cheney and Rumsfeld.

Bonus:

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FatalFlaw
02/23/09

In reply to Barack Obama's Cussy Press Briefing
Looking forward to the Barack Obama-cussing-like-a-sailor meets Sarah Palin-flubbing-Couric-interview VS Mashups.

"I read all newspapers."

"****'s getting way too complicated for me."
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Schm
02/23/09

@FatalFlaw: YES. This needs to happen!
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