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    Image of senatormayer senatormayer
    12/04/09

    In reply to Outrage-Off: Tennessee Mayor Charlie Brown Jesus vs. Fox News
    Somebody please, remind me why I live in Tennessee. Come on, there's gotta be something good here.
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    12/04/09

    @senatormayer: Nashville, BBQ and Jack Daniel's.
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    12/04/09

    @senatormayer: Pigeon Forge.
    Mmm, fudge factores.
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    Image of Mrs. Beeton Mrs. Beeton
    12/04/09

    @senatormayer: Dolly Parton, Snowbird, and we'll always be better than Alabama.
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    12/04/09

    @senatormayer: Hatch Show Print
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    Image of Balsa Wood Balsa Wood
    12/04/09

    @senatormayer: The Arrested Development song...?
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    Image of Mrs. Beeton Mrs. Beeton
    12/04/09

    @Balsa Wood: No question mark needed.

    Dixie Carter, Bettie Page, Tina Turner and Dinah Shore are all from Tennessee.

    And cigarettes are still cheap.
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    12/04/09

    @senatormayer: ELVIS!

    His spirit, anyhoo.
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    12/04/09

    In reply to Outrage-Off: Tennessee Mayor Charlie Brown Jesus vs. Fox News
    Just as I thought, the voting's not even close.

    The Fox outrage was actually committed years ago, when they lambasted the guy for telling the truth. What they did more recently is perfectly fine. I mean, hypocritical in context, but not particularly outrageous, especially since it's just so par for their course.

    Whereas if this TN mayor is actually for real, Jesus is hurling as we speak.
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    12/04/09

    @MissNormaDesmond:
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    12/04/09

    @Lysergic Asset: "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." Mahatma Gandhi
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    12/04/09

    In reply to Outrage-Off: Tennessee Mayor Charlie Brown Jesus vs. Fox News
    Prevented from watching the Peanuts Xmas Special, I must conclude that Jesus wasn't The Son O' God. If the news pre-empts the Year Without a Santa Claus , I might even lose faith in the existence of a Heat Miser.
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    12/04/09

    In reply to Outrage-Off: Tennessee Mayor Charlie Brown Jesus vs. Fox News
    The surname Wiseman, in this instance, is hilarious on so many levels.
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    12/04/09

    @AzureTexan: It blows the whole Christian supremacy thing and the literal translation simultaneously.
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    12/04/09

    @AzureTexan: I am pronouncing it as in German, Weissmann, meaning “white man.” Yes?
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    12/04/09

    @iplaudius: @Lysergic Asset: Great calls. And yet there's so much more! — there's the Magi connection (I mean, is the mayor bringin' the myrrh?) and the fact that Wiseman is typically a Jewish surname, is it not?

    I swear, this is just comedy gold. And comedy frankincense.
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    12/04/09

    @AzureTexan: Yep, that's what I meant about "blowing the Christian supremacy thing" - I had a good friend with that last name and I attended her bat mitzvah. Of course, now I see that this troglodyte is also blowing the Christian supremacy thing with his abject stupidity.

    Of course, what he really meant to say was, "I resent this brilliant black man who somehow became President, because he doesn't have a slave name, he's half white and he demonstrates the best "practice what you preach" principles of the God I pretend to follow. His excellence constantly reminds me that I am noting more than a self-loathing Jew who will never amount to more than mayor of a town made up of 3000 card carrying members of the KKK."
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    12/04/09

    @Lysergic Asset: Yes, I read your "Christian supremacy" comment slightly differently than you had intended, but the point — both points, re: supremacy — still hold.

    As for the KKK: I'm sure Arlington, like any place, has some great people, but yes indeed, it's just a couple hundred miles from Pulaski, Tennessee, birthplace of the Klan.

    I keep hoping we've left that history behind, but it keeps rearing its pointy-white-hooded head, doesn't it.
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    12/04/09

    @AzureTexan: As I said, I think the fact that Obama's mother is white and the fact that he has an African name - in other words, his family was not owned by any of the ancestors of the white right-wingers who so loathe him - are the things that are most viscerally agonizing to the racists.

    Please check this out for some comic relief: it's The Daily Show's Larry Wilmore talking to kids about the fact that whites will be a minority in the U.S. by 2050. Sooo funny! [www.thedailyshow.com]
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    12/04/09

    @Lysergic Asset: Agreed indeed. Great insight. And thanks for the link, I will check it out. Wilmore could read a phone book and crack me up.
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    12/04/09

    In reply to Outrage-Off: Tennessee Mayor Charlie Brown Jesus vs. Fox News
    The Faux News thing is irritating, ironic and kind of hilarious, but Wiseman's a goddamn elected official, for Jeebus sake.
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    12/04/09

    @Go Like Hell Machine: Double blasphemer! (Damn, I agree with you.)
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    12/04/09

    @Lysergic Asset: Heh, I consider myself to be a world-class, champion-level blasphemer and swearer.
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    12/04/09

    @Go Like Hell Machine: Get the fuck out of here! Me too! (Now I'm being silly.)
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    12/04/09

    In reply to Outrage-Off: Tennessee Mayor Charlie Brown Jesus vs. Fox News
    Everybody knows it's actually the Jews who are constantly trying to kill xmas. Maybe the Muslims and them can finally bond over trying to stop Charlie Brown.
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    Image of ihatetwitter ihatetwitter
    12/02/09

    In reply to Rupert Murdoch: Pugnacious
    Assuming some of you Garofalos work in media it's disheartening and predictable to see you mock and ridicule one of your industry's brightest hopes for a future in digital.
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    12/02/09

    In reply to Justin Timberlake Loves Diane Rehm, OMG
    Not the second round of layoffs at Newseum. At least the third- but don't ask me how I know. They'll come after me but they won't kill me. They'll just force me to watch their "4D" movie until my eyes are pinwheels and I'm sobbing on the floor like Nellie Bly's asylum-mates.
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    12/02/09

    @skeletonhead: Ha! I may or may not have seen this movie, and somehow lived to tell the tale.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    12/02/09

    In reply to Justin Timberlake Loves Diane Rehm, OMG
    Is it more than a little scary that NPR is just catching up to the world of pop culture and now finds Justin T'lake dreamy? It's like awakening a Kraken after 15 years hungry for Pizza Bagels and new episodes of Blossom.
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    12/02/09

    In reply to Justin Timberlake Loves Diane Rehm, OMG
    Looks like NPR is lovestoned.
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    12/02/09

    In reply to Justin Timberlake Loves Diane Rehm, OMG
    Now Rupert can suck up to a Middle Eastern prince like he sucks up to the Chinese.
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    12/02/09

    In reply to Justin Timberlake Loves Diane Rehm, OMG
    Nina Totenberg favors a 98 Degrees hoodie.
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    12/02/09

    @AzureTexan: Michele Norris prefers her O-Town tanktop.
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    12/02/09

    @contradicto: And Renee Montagne? She can't part with her NKOTB scoopneck.
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    12/02/09

    @AzureTexan: Diane Rehm STILL has her Beach Boys camisole.
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    12/02/09

    @AzureTexan: Bob Edwards STILL has his "Morning Edition was my show" sweater.

    (I still miss Bob Edwards and I'm too poor to fork over money for XM)
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    12/02/09

    @ndhapple: Ha!
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    Image of Miss Anita Manbadly Miss Anita Manbadly
    12/02/09

    @ndhapple: So, do you listen to him on the weekends? At least in Chicago, he has a Saturday afternoon show on NPR.
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    12/02/09

    @Miss Anita Manbadly: It took KUT until last year to carry 'Wait... Wait...' The chances of Bob Edwards returning to our local NPR affiliate during my lifetime are slim to none.
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    12/02/09

    In reply to Justin Timberlake Loves Diane Rehm, OMG
    I'm fairly certain that the entire auto industry museum is now being operated out of the back of a Toyota Tundra.
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    Image of manchops manchops
    12/02/09

    In reply to Rupert Murdoch: Pugnacious
    With the exception of Keith Kelly and Michael Riedel (yup I'm gay) I stopped reading anything but the headlines in the NY Post years ago. The Wall Street Journal? I think about once every six month I click a link from mediabistro that directs me to their paywall.

    I'm not exactly crying in my cookies about losing Murdoch's "expensive and distinguished" journalism.
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    12/02/09

    @manchops: Why are you reading Michael Riedel? He's a poisonous little weasel. Which is why he found the Post so cozy.
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    Image of smithhimself smithhimself
    12/02/09

    In reply to Rupert Murdoch: Pugnacious
    Rupert has extended his time on earth by drinking the blood of virgins and munching on freeze-dried placenta. But this might not be enough as he moves towards 80.
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    12/02/09

    @smithhimself: He's not 80 yet? Jesus, he looks like a scotch-drenched 90.
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    12/02/09

    @unclevanya:

    He's almost 79.
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