To succeed, a talk show host must perpetuate the notion that his or her listeners are victims, and the host is the vehicle by which they can become empowered. The host frames virtually every issue in us-versus-them terms. There has to be a bad guy against whom the host will emphatically defend those loyal listeners.
Sometimes it takes these sorts of comprehensive explanations to nail down that pit in your stomach you feel when you happen upon a recording of Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, or Bill O’Reily that you find particularly hypocritical.
Though, I do find that something that’s missing from this account is the obvious self-aggrandisement of the host’s power or masculinity. It’s definitely the case with Bill O’Reily, who’s sex scandals, subsequent pay-offs, and active “bully” technique do little to mask a petty, fearful man. In regards to the last clip, he would certainly be fearful of losing a shouting match to “a gay“. lol
The simultaneous pandering to country, troops (unless they disagree with you), “Joe Six-Pack“, and anyone from a hero-worshipping, halcyon, by-gone (if it ever even existed) era, exposes the article’s claim of casting listeners as victims. The biggest problem with this, I can see, is that it manufactures an idilic “red-blooded”, “Rock-Ribbed” American archetype that only exists in these hosts’ wet-dreams. Instead of getting upset that a host is speaking to them while assuming that they are a member of this elite, the audience is of course flattered, thus buying into it. It’s what brought us lower-middle-classmen like “Joe the Plumber” arguing from a standpoint of being rich. Somehow he has been trained to be concerned about how people earning well over $250,000. That’s the only reason we have so many poor people supporting the GOP these days. They’ve been tricked into believing that they should be concerned about the Estate Tax, when they would have to inherit an estate valued at over $2,000,000 for that to even be an issue.
You moose hunting, brainwashed puppet. How many times do you think she’s sucked John McCain’s dick to get on his ticket? Either that or he’s sitting next to her ventriloquist style with his hand up her ass. If these two chumps get elected, I’m moving to Canada.
I fucking DARE you to watch the clip above and NOT LAUGH at this colossal fuck-brained ape of an idiot! If we elect this fucking moron anywhere NEAR the goddamn white house, we ARE ALL FUCKED!!! I can’t believe this clip, I just can’t believe that this fucking IDIOT is on the national stage, with all the ways we’ve been fucked by the current administration, the wars, and the wall street meltdown… Bravo McCain! Bra-fucking-vo, you fucking asshole. The moment you stop trying to trick-fuck the American people is the moment you get your goddamn integrity back. Jesus CHRIST!
That’s great! That’s like when Bill Cosby received an honorary doctorate for starring as Dr. Heathcliff “Combustible” Huxtabul. For fuck sake! Just because your hockey-mom sidekick was the governor of Alaska for under two years, doesn’t mean she automatically deserves the medal for “biggest knowledges of puissance in them thar neck of the woods award”. There’s a lot of pissed off Department of Energy eggheads right now. I guess they’ll have to have her carry around a giant cardboard lightning bolt around, or a bunch of metallic hullahoops swirling around her like she’s a walking nuclear symbol. McCain, I don’t care how many of your soulless aids take turns fucking lantern-cells up her ass. She will never live up to that stack up bullshit you call her “credentials”. The only other explanations for your answer I could come up with are: you didn’t hear the question, you didn’t understand the question, or you decided, in your bent-cock wisdom, to answer a totally different question that was more to your liking.
It’s becoming quite apparent what strategy the GOP is taking after having announced Sarah Palin’s candidacy. Similar that if you happen to ask John McCain about how many houses he owns, why he doesn’t support universal healthcare, what he thinks about supporting a museum for Woodstock, or why he listens to the music he listens to, he will respond seriously, that it’s because he was shot down over Vietnam and held as a prisoner of war. Obviously. Why would you even ask such a thing?
Let’s not ignore the fact that McCain used the same “you can put lipstick on a pig remark” in regards to Senator Hilary Clinton this year, without the same complaints.
From CNN:
In Iowa last October, McCain drew comparisons between Hillary Clinton’s current health care plan and the one she championed in 1993: “I think they put some lipstick on the pig, but it’s still a pig.” He used roughly the same line in May, after effectively claiming the Republican nomination.
If you are unaware of Sarah Palin and are trying to make sense of her in the short week we’ve had since she was announced, and since she hasn’t done any interviews with the press at this point, you may have hastily researched her via the web and come across some information that though not definitive proof, leaves a lot to be answered…well you’re just spouting lies about this secretive candidate.
Ok, and for the record, asking about banning books, telling the head of the library that she’s fired, then dropping the subject when pressured, does little to convince me that she didn’t have the lunatic intent to ban books, just that she didn’t get away with it.
So now we get to the real meat and potatoes of the GOP. Painting Barack Obama as wanting to “Destroy” Palin, the innocent, god-fearing, tongue-speaking, hockey-mom of a disabled child. Painting a black man as an aggressive, destructive force, wow, I wonder who they’re trying to target with that ad.
Fuck the GOP, and fuck those who happily eat their bullshit.
All that work to dress up his 360 and notice the horrible grinding noise the disc drive makes right before the end of the video. I sent in one of my 360’s due to that grinding, and the other destroys any disc you put in.
Summary: Microsoft Xbox 360 sucks heavy dick.
What the fuck good is the Oversight Committee if they can’t fight this bullshit? I can’t be any more frustrated at this process and it’s truly amazing that these fucktards can get away with doing exactly what Scooter Libbey was convicted of doing, namely obstruction of justice.
They can just make up some horseshitting excuse why they cannot provide key evidence to an ongoing congressional investigation and NOTHING HAPPENS.
The decision by the White House to refuse to honor the subpoena from Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman’s House Oversight and Government Reform Committee for Cheney’s interview was hardly unexpected, given the administration’s history of fiercely protecting presidential prerogatives. What was surprising to some legal scholars was the basis for shielding the FBI interview report. It was covered, Mukasey said, by what he called “the law-enforcement component of executive privilege.”
“As far as I know, this is an utterly unprecedented executive-privilege claim,” said Peter Shane, an Ohio State University law professor who is an expert on executive privilege and separation-of-powers issues. “I’ve never heard this claim before.”
Foreclosure isn’t that funny. Imagine, if you will, that you rent and you pay everything on time, but your landlord’s a deadbeat. Well, that just means that you lose. Fucking weak.
Here’s the kicker:
When he confronted the landlord, he says, he was given a terse response: “That’s none of your business.”
“I said, ‘I beg your pardon. It is my business. I mean, is somebody going to knock at the door and throw me out — throw my family out, or what?’ ” he said.
I hope someone finally roasts this fat-ass, criminal, shit-burger on the grill. He’s basically had his attorney send in polite little refusals to appear, even stating that he would reply to the inquiry via written letters, but while he would like the benefit of being able to take the time to trick-fuck congress with his pen, it looks like he’s finally going to appear before the House Judiciary Committee and be forced to explain his many crimes.
Turning the Department of Justice into a political engine to move all of the administrations criminal acts underground while suppressing rational and dissenting views through firings or transfers, as well as eviscerating former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman through trumped up charges and what can only be viewed as a complete corruption of the entire judicial, legislatorial, and executive body of that state, are just a few of the actions that Rove must account for. Conyers himself is excited (and rightfully so) to prosecute this jagoff to the fullest extent of his authorityl stating recently that they needed to “kick Rove’s ass”.
Jesus. Who gives a shit at this point? Even if you like the franchise you HAVE to be getting tired of a new game/controller coming out every couple of months. This isn’t like a Madden or a 2K sports series here. To me, it’s the equivalent of 3-4 versions of DDR coming out within 2 years and each one would offer up another version of the dance pad, then you end up with goddamn different dance pads all over the joint. Cool it with the fucking hardware.
I also understand that Guitar Hero IV will have a drum controller, again blurring the line between Guitar Hero and Rock Band. I think anyone who bought into the Rock Band package will be pissed to see another, more superior, fake-ass drum set available after shelling out 160 bucks for the original bundle.
In the end all this will do is add another useless husk to a boneyard of music-themed videogame accessories. Sort of like having a collection of U-Forces. Harmonix has a killer sales model with an initial controller then a library of micro-transactions for additional songs. I’m not sure that releasing controller after controller will continue to be effective.
