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Newspapers continue to be insanely unprofitable:

Gannett made $117.2 million, or 49 cents per share, compared with $77.4 million, or 34 cents per share, a year earlier. Analysts expected 41 cents per share. Revenue fell 4 percent to $1.32 billion, matching forecasts.

If only one could make money at this journalism business:

Already Moody's Investors Service sees better indications for the business. The debt-rating agency raised its outlook on the newspaper industry to "stable" from "negative," saying that a recovery in ad spending will ease revenue declines. The rating change could make it less expensive for newspapers to borrow money.

But hey, there's always the iPad to save us!

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Lanny Davis and the Purple Revolution

What the:

Davis, a longtime friend of Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), framed the venture as rooted in his commitment to moderation. "In today's Washington, there is usually no 'Red' solution or 'Blue' solution but almost always the best solution is a 'purple' or bipartisan solution," he said.

Why, precisely? This is why I get to the point of thinking most self-identified moderates are basically pussies who cannot commit. Even if you are moderate on one issue or another, or you vote Dem sometimes or Republican others depending on which candidate can breathe with his mouth closed, if you spend all your time wanking about how both parties suck and what we need is some new party, generally you haven't been paying attention.

Plus you think there's something morally superior about holding yourself above those filthy things known as "politics" and "giving enough of a damn about issues to get upset and raise your voice," and declaring such in a room full of people. One thing drives me absolutely wild about the Lieberman/Davis/Whoever position that some milquetoast middle way is always better, is they can never articulate why that is with any specific examples. 

What are the issues on which mixtures of Republican and Democratic positions would be preferable to either? I mean, we are basically at the point where the opposition party has gone so batshit as to have abdicated its responsibilities to offer any compromises it will actually support in legislative form, so on abortion, immigration, health care, finance reform, national defense, you've got a choice between the people who want to do something and the guy in the corner rocking back and forth talking to himself about how the Easter Bunny and G. Gordon Liddy are out to get him.

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Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - "You're no fun anymore" edition

Good morning, everyone!

Well, as the Freeperati turn more and more of their purges and paranoia inward, there's bound to be more friendly fire incidents as they continue to knife each other over the length of their crewcuts.

Let's suit up and check them out, shall we?

President Obama Has NOT Cancelled National Day of Prayer (Don't Fall for a Hoax!)
Beliefnet ^ | 04/15/10 | Nicole Neroulias

Posted on Thursday, April 15, 2010 11:18:06 AM by Recovering_Democrat

For some reason this morning, there's a big rumor going around that President Obama has cancelled National Day of Prayer 2010, scheduled for May 6. It's not true, despite what your search engine and e-mails tell you.

(Excerpt) Read more at blog.beliefnet.com ...

Sounds like someone is trying to freak Tea Partiers out.

Which is, of course, very hard to do.

I'd like for a forensic internet expert find out who/where this first hit the web. I bet it is from a leftwing nut. Maybe Hussein's operations.

1 posted on Thursday, April 15, 2010 11:18:06 AM by Recovering_Democrat

To tell the truth, I kind of wondered if Jason Levin didn't have this in mind all the time.

FR is now filling up with threads about how this person or that person was chased out of tebagger rallies, for  doing nothing much crazier than the rank and file has always done.  The fire has become somewhat friendly, turning on birthers, "Lyin' African" types - you know - the teabagger base.

Was this Levin's intention, or just a chuckalicious byproduct of the monsters-are-due-on-maple-street mentality that bleeds out all fringe movements as they find themselves unable to stop drawing ideological lines in the sand?  Who knows? Let's just enjoy!

To: cripplecreek

How would we know if he canceled it or not?

4 posted on Thursday, April 15, 2010 11:20:50 AM by ilovesarah2012

Easy - just look in his "Allahu Akbar" day-planner. Or does that one go in the Dromedary Book?

To: Recovering_Democrat

He didn’t cancel it last year, but he didn’t observe it, either, OR host it in the White House. The lead paragraphs from the Washington Times a year ago:

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To: Recovering_Democrat

I heard there is going to be prayers 5 times pointing to the east that day.

11 posted on Thursday, April 15, 2010 11:26:35 AM by b4its2late (Bawney Fwank's mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.)

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To: Recovering_Democrat

Okay, but if we have to face East on prayer mats, I’m going to be angry.

17 posted on Thursday, April 15, 2010 11:29:11 AM by DoughtyOne (Be still & kneel before the know-nothing Omnipotent One, Il Douche' Jr., may fleas be upon him.)

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To: Recovering_Democrat

Has been posted twice so far today....

 Christianity, Obama, Persecution, Prayer... This is chilling …

22 posted on Thursday, April 15, 2010 11:35:08 AM by Responsibility2nd (PALIN/MCCAIN IN 2012 - barf alert? sarc tag? -- can't decide)

This thread has been pulled.
Pulled on 04/15/2010 3:27:15 PM PDT by Admin Moderator, reason:

Hoax

To: Recovering_Democrat

Hope it has been pulled from FR, because I seen it posted no more than an hour ago. Along with a couple of Palin/Romney 2012 headlines that led to non-stories, and a few other headlines designed to get us to fight with each other. All part of the plan.

40 posted on Thursday, April 15, 2010 12:33:52 PM by NavyCanDo

Well, it seems to be working.....

More fratricide after the lemon curry....

There Is No Future Here

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Weekend Question Thread: Blogroll Edition

I need to go through the thing and take down ones that don't exist anymore, so who's not on the roll that needs to be?

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Saturday Blogwhoring Thread

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Malaka Of The Week: Haley Barbour

Every state in the union has a neighboring state they both mock and look down on. Here in the Gret Stet of Louisiana, we're glad that Mississippi exists, otherwise we'd have to make it up. Both states tend to be at the bottom of lists you want to be on top of and at the top of lists you don't even want to be on at all. Oddly, both states have conservative Republican Governors with Presidential ambitions. That brings me to this week's "honoree" Haley Barbour.

In many ways this is a lifetime "achievement" award. Barbour has been a malaka for decades. He was close to the Bushes, father and son. He's a former RNC Chairman and big shot lobbyist who pretends to be a good ole boy. In short he's a complete phony, which is what malakatude is all about; at least this week. Barbour is also coyly flirting with running for President. Just what we need: another Southern Gooper in the White House.Yikes. Sheesh.

In the last week, the Barbour of Pascagoula (my favorite Magnolia state town name) has had a bout of foot in mouth disease as far as I'm concerned. And my voice is all that matters when it comes to the malaka of the week. I do, however, enjoy getting suggestions; the world is malakatudinous.

Where the hell was I? Oh yeah, the quotable Haley Barbour. He's been sparring with all sorts of people of late. Here's a snippet from an AP story about his wee kerfuffle with Chairman Mouth of the RNC:

Race and "fat rednecks" and Republicans.

First there's national Republican Party chairman Michael Steele, who has come under criticism for his leadership. Steele says he thinks he's being held to a higher standard because he's black.

Then there's a former GOP chairman, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour. He disagrees with Steele's assessment. Barbour says that's like saying, "I think I'm held to the higher standard because I'm a fat redneck with an accent like this."

Gee, now I wish I hadn't called Bob McDonnell a cracker the other day. It makes it harder for me to bash Barbour for being a rich fat cat lobbyist who plays at redneckery and good ole boydom. Oops, I guess I just bashed for him it. Oh well, I never claimed to be consistent...

Governor Barbour was just getting warmed up. In the same CNN appearance, he said that the flap over Bob McDonnell's Confederate history month thingee was overblown and that the slavery issue "didn't amount to diddly." Why? Because that citadel of malakatude, the Mississippi ledge had passed a similar resolution. Uh, Haley if you're running for President you have to win some non-Southern states and the myth of the lost cause doesn't (pronounced dudn't in the deep South) amount to diddly in much of the country. I suspect that there aren't a lot of chapters of the Sons of the Confederacy in the battleground states of the Midwest.

Finally, the Guvnuh got on his hind legs at the SRLC in New Orleans and made bogus and overblown claims about the glories of his state's recovery from Hurricane Katrina. He went on to called President Obama's policies a "man made disaster." Not a bad phrase but some of us would call Obama the guy who won the 2008 election with 53% of the vote and not via the Supreme Court. The real man made disaster on the Gulf Coast was the Federal Flood of New Orleans, which was made worse by Haley's buddies Beavis and Turd Blossom:

"Candidly I want to say thank you to the federal government," he said. "The federal government gets a very bad rap about what happened after Katrina. The federal government was very generous to us after the storm and I want to say thank you for that."

They were generous to their political allies like Barbour and Trent Lott but there are a lot of folks in this region who vehemently disagree with the Mississippi Malaka. I have a funny feeling that the Governor won't be thanking the Obama administration for its share of the stimulus money. Ingratitude is another mark of malakatude.

It's hard to imagine *any* Governor of Mississippi winning the Presidency. I know one thing for sure: Haley would make the executive mansion the Whiter House. I suspect his flirtation with running for the GOP nomination is another exercise in both vanity and malakatude. Barbour would, however, do better than Sister Sarah whose percentage of the popular vote would be in Landon, Goldwater or McGovern territory.

Never Forget

It will be 15 years on Monday. She should be old enough to drive.

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Friday Ferretblogging

Bucky, in a sack, with his toys:

 

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Friday Catblogging: Pulp Fiction Edition

I have more snaps of Della Street's box obsession but decided to go pulpy this week as I do every Thursday at my own little corner of the internet. But to escape the wrath of Della, I decided to feature one Perry Mason cover. 

Future Management Compensation

The Internet. Its murderous rampage continues.

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Race is Poverty is Shiftless Undeservingness

Why crazy people are crazy:

What we have here, in other words, is the bedrock, indestructible, and apparently timeless conviction of white conservatives that the federal income tax is a device for stealing their hard-earned (or not) dollars and giving them to crack whores and their pimps (or ACORN, or all three) so that they can go out and buy shiny new Cadillacs and Kentucky fried chicken. Nothing -- and certainly nothing factual, like the actual allocation of tax revenues by the federal government (that "insurance company with an army," as Krugman calls it) -- is going to disabuse them of this belief. It is embedded so deep in the redneck psyche I'm beginning to suspect it's burned into their DNA.

People like this, and goddamn I know tons of 'em, associate black and Hispanic with poor. I'll never forget a relative who came down to visit the city and swung by my place for dinner shying away from my upstairs neighbor, a lawyer who worked for one of the foreign consulates downtown and made more money than Mr. A and I combined. "Do you live in a bad neighborhood?" she whispered. My upstairs neighbor was black, and to her, that meant poor. And poor meant dangerous.

There's a lot that goes into making your brain into something that makes that assumption, like the kind of segregation most people live with that says this side of the street is okay but not that one ten feet away because "they" live over "there." If you don't live around people you don't get the range that exists; if the only people different from you are the ones you see on TV or hear about in Sarah Palin's speeches you're gonna get smacked in the face with reality and be totally confused.

People associate minority with poverty, and I know all the stats about white welfare families and so do you. And they associate poverty with the choice to be poor, because if you're up to your ass in debt and don't have close friends or family to love you and are holding onto your job with your fingernails and you think you have to think that way or you will go bugfuck insane. It has to be some choice the poor people made to have nine babies and a Cadillac or something, because if it's just ordinary cruel chance and the world is random and God is a motherfucker, I mean, it takes a lot of Three Buck Chuck to kill that kind of fear.

Which kind of fear still makes it COMPLETELY NO OKAY to scrawl n*gger on signs and yell it at congressmen, but a huge part of what we're dealing with here is that people have convinced themselves that a) deserving help is the point of help existing and b) nobody is deserving which means c) we're all fucked in the end. Enjoy your dinner. 

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Channeling Their Inner Voices

From Album3

Just as I've considered George W. Bush to be a blend of the worst blue-blooded arrogance and redneck "intellect," so too the Rethugs these days seem to combine that same Bush acumen with the psyche of one Dick Nixon...

Conflating a stylized symbol of a hydrogen molecule with "Muslim" flags? Calling them unhinged would be giving a little too much credit...

'50,000 Homeless Who Are Hungry'

How to help in Mexicali.

Number in headline corrected. First Draft and the ferrets regret the error.

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Dodd: POPPYCOCK

I knew I loved this man:

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I Reply Fast

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*W.W.T.F.U.S. — The Fourteenth of April, That is Ruination Day

Lincoln, the Titanic, Black Sunday, and now Palin and Boston Tea Partiers.

                                                                                                                       Patrick Semansky/Bloomberg News

Let's be extra careful out there today, people. The crazy is strong with them, and yea verily I say unto thee, their batshit runs deep as does a mighty river.

Let us also fervently hope this week passes without becoming even more ruinous.

April is cruel enough already.

*Wednesday Wake the F*ck Up Song

Bob McDonnell Scrapes More Shit Off His Shoes

I considered making Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell malaka of the week but I couldn't use this nifty post title so he's getting his dose of snark now. In a word, McDonnell is a moron; no, he's a McMoron. He had a weak and inarticulate opponent whom he'd already defeated in a statewide race so he got away with running as a moderate. Since becoming Governor, he's shown off his right wing bona fides but when he gets bad press he ducks and covers like some little dude in a Fifties nuke drill movie.

McDonnell's primary political talent seems to be climbing out on a limb and sawing it off behind him. First there was his anti-gay benefits move, which he pretended not to mean but didn't cancel. Then there was the revival of Confederate history month fiasco. He didn't cancel it but he had to say, confederates good, slavery bad. I bet that went over really well in Northern Virginia. Here's the latest flap:

For the second time in a week, Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell has angered black leaders and civil rights groups, this time when they learned of his plans to add another step for nonviolent felons to have their voting rights restored.

McDonnell (R) will require the offenders to submit an essay outlining their contributions to society since their release, turning a nearly automatic process into a subjective one that some say may prevent poor, less-educated or minority residents from being allowed to vote.

"It's another roadblock," Sen. Yvonne B. Miller (D-Norfolk), a member of the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus, said when she was told of the change.

Hmm, I wonder if the F stands for Fuckmook?

Anyway, I saw a piece on the Rachel Maddow Show about how McDonnell is now squirming, squealing-n-sweating like a contestant in a greased pig contest (an experiment in rural imagery since he's a cracker) and claiming that the policy is in the planning stages. Unfortunately for Governor McMoron, letters have gone out demanding that felons write an essay telling the Govnuh that they're good boys now and will attend a teabagger and/or gun nut rally to prove it. I made that last bit up but between McDonnell and his Attorney General, it's plausible. Btw, the AG's name is Cuccinelli. I've heard of Italian wingnuts and racists before but never a Paisano cracker. Hmm, I wonder what kind of cheese he spreads on himself: marscapone or mozzarella? Yikes, what a disgusting image. I kinda, sorta apologize for that one, he said, fingers crossed behind his back.

Governor McDonnell has forgotten that while part of Virginia is still as Southern as spoon bread, Northern Virgina is Northeastern or as some of McMoron's cracker supporters would surely put it, populated by YANKEES. I hear the thundering hoofbeats of rednecks grabbing their shotguns and running for the hills at the very thought of Yankees in the Commonwealth; Yankee cocksuckers in Stonewall Jackson country. That's right: baby killing, gay loving, atheistic, gun confiscating, fornicating Yankees. Shee-it. The world has gone plumb crazy, right, Bob? Remember: Virginny is a purple state, Bob. That's why you can't use the far right playbook and never admit to a mistake and lie, lie, lie and then lie some more.

The only advice I have for Gov. McMoron is to heed the sage advice of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards:

A note to the mook who posted this on YouTube, Tokyo is spelled with a Y. Hmm, I wonder if McDonnell is behind this screw up?

Cross-posted at Adrastos since Dr. A grew up in Virginia.

White House Press, Quit Yer Bitchin'

OMG ROBERT GIBBS IS SO MEEN:

Unlike press secretaries past, who would make rounds of calls to reporters as they neared deadlines, Gibbs is notoriously tough to get on the phone. His soliloquies are full of "first and foremost" and "I will say this," and he relies on escape-hatch promises to "check and get back to you." This month, Gibbs neglected to tell reporters traveling back from Prague on Air Force One that Justice John Paul Stevens had announced his retirement and refused to talk to them when they found out. Last weekend, Obama broke longstanding tradition by giving the slip to a pool reporter. Later this month, representatives of various news organizations will meet with Gibbs to express what they feel is the administration's contempt for the press.

To which Alex Dering responds:

If Gibbs won't answer questions FIND SOMEONE WHO WILL. That's covered in the fifth class in your first journalism course in college. Am I seriously to believe that the press corps can be derailed in toto by one guy wielding a podium?

Can Gibbs also change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands, etc.?

Maybe:

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Democrats. So Uncouth.

Seriously:

The First Lady should be careful not to repeat a mistake made by Hillary Clinton during a 1999 visit to the Middle East. When Palestinian Suha Arafat delivered a sharply-worded speech falsely accusing Israel of using poisonous gas on Palestinians and distributing chemical materials to ruin the water, Mrs. Clinton silently gave Mrs. Arafat a hug and a kiss at the end of the lecture. The First Lady's politeness was taken as substantive agreement with Arafat's inflammatory charges.

The president's wife also needs to respect local protocol. The British press had a field day during a 2009 visit to Great Britain when Mrs. Obama touched Queen Elizabeth's back, and thereby violated long-standing rules forbidding body contact. For days thereafter, the First Lady was subjected to critical media attention questioning her personal judgment and lack of social awareness.

Above all else, First Ladies should heed the awkward mistake made by President Jimmy Carter during his 1979 visit to Mexico. As an offended Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo looked on, Carter joked that he had been "afflicted with Montezuma's revenge". This reference to the travel-related illness named after the Aztec emperor who was murdered by Spanish invaders so upset his Mexican hosts that it scuttled a planned immigration reform agreement. When using humor on foreign trips, it always is better to make fun of oneself than local hosts.

But if only she'd give Angela Merkel an uninvited back rub, or walk out the wrong door, or, you know, BLOW UP ANOTHER COUNTRY UNDER FALSE PRETENSES, then everything would be fine.

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Deep Nuke Thought

The current generation of Goopers *love* to talk about Ronald Reagan. How come they always skip the bit about Ronnie's wanting to ELIMINATE nuclear weapons from the face of the earth? he asked, knowing the answer.

Today in 'Andrew Breitbart is Wrong' News

Has he ever been right about anything?

"Listen, I was there," Carson, D-Ind., said in an interview. "In many regards I think (the challenges are) a veiled attempt to justify actions that are simply unjustifiable. I think we need to move toward a dialogue that explores why this kind of divisive and reprehensible language is still making it into our political debate."

A fourth Democrat, Rep. Heath Shuler of North Carolina, who is white, backed up his colleagues, telling the Henderson (N.C.) Times-News that he heard the slurs.

A reconstruction of the events shows that the conservative challenges largely sprang from a mislabeled video that was shot later in the day.

Breitbart posted two columns on his Web site saying the claims were fabricated. Both led with a 48-second YouTube video showing Lewis, Carson, other Congressional Black Caucus members and staffers leaving the Capitol. Some of the group were videotaping the booing crowd.

Breitbart asked why the epithet was not captured by the black lawmakers' cameras, and why nobody reacted as if they had heard the slur. He also questioned whether the epithets could have been shouted by liberals planted in the crowd.

But the 48-second video was shot as the group was leaving the Capitol — at least one hour after Lewis, D-Ga., and Carson walked to the Capitol, which is when they said the slurs were used.

Questioned about using a video on his Web site from the wrong moment, Breitbart stood by his claim that the lawmakers were lying.

"I'm not saying the video was conclusive proof," he said.

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They Got the Band Back Together

I didn't find out this was happening until about an hour beforehand, otherwise I would have been SO THERE:

CHICAGO – Surviving Apollo 13 astronauts and several flight directors reunited on Monday to remember a failed moon mission 40 years ago this week that they managed to turn into one of the greatest triumphs in the history of space exploration.

Those who gathered included Apollo 13 commander James Lovell, fellow crew member Fred Haise and NASA's legendary flight director, Gene Kranz — all three of whom were immortalized in the 1995 movie "Apollo 13," which starred Tom Hanks as Lovell.

"There's truly a unique bond. There is a brotherhood," Kranz said about how the crisis forged a lifelong bond between everyone involved.

The Adler Planetarium, where the reunion took place, is holding a series of events this month commemorating the Apollo 13 flight. One exhibit includes a lunar helmet and gloves that Lovell was supposed to wear on the moon had the mission gone as planned.

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You're Doing It Wrong

Yeah:

From an American Society of News Editors (ASNE) press release:

*ABOUT PRESS COVERAGE OF THE ASNE CONVENTION*

Press coverage of the convention is welcome, and procedures for registering as press are available online:

http://asne.org/annual_conference/press_procedures.aspx .

Registration will also be available on-site beginning at 10 a.m. Sunday at the ASNE Registration desk, Ballroom Level.

*Question and answer sessions during conference sessions and luncheons are for ASNE members only.* Questions from the media will not be permitted. [Boldfaced by Romenesko.]

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Stupidity

Looking back sometimes I really cannot believe how fucking dumb the 2004 election was.

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Once Again, Mike Huckabee Thinks About Gays Doing Very Gay Things

Like raising children, and buying furniture, but in a really gay way, of course:

"You don't go ahead and accommodate every behavioral pattern that is against the ideal," he said. "That would be like saying, well, there are a lot of people who like to use drugs, so let's go ahead and accommodate those who want who use drugs. There are some people who believe in incest, so we should accommodate them. There are people who believe in polygamy, so we should accommodate them."

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Treme

By the way, I'm writing with a bunch of much smarter people over at the Back of Town blog about HBO's Treme:

Who should tell your story? Who has the right to tell it? Who gets to see it, to come inside, to take what they want? To skim from the surface or drink deep? Can you even control that? Should you?

My answers to these questions are biased, because I tell others’ stories for a living, because in order to get out of bed and look in the mirror every day I have to convince myself this is a worthwhile endeavor, because I’m never able to separate how much of what I think is important about what I do is justification and how much is actually not total bullshit. And I fucking hate talking about process. I feel like talking about process is what writers do when they’re too lazy to write.

But, question’s been raised. Who has the right to tell your story and hear your story? Who has the right to be let in that deep? Telling a story is letting someone into your heart, into the things for you that are like the things of the church, the things you don’t talk about, that are knit into your muscle and bone.

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Today onTommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - Masters of the Universe Edition

Good morning, gentle people - let's suit up and get going, shall we?

You know - you don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to be a Freeper - but it sure helps.

These guys have a tendency to attribute way too much power to the Dems, to themselves, and to anything that smacks of The New World Order.   They seem to breathe in cause and effect, and exhale paranoia.

par·a·noi·a - noun

Psychiatry. a mental disorder characterized by systematized delusions and the projection of personal conflicts, which are ascribed to the supposed hostility of others, sometimes progressing to disturbances of consciousness and aggressive acts believed to be performed in self-defense or as a mission

We're going to examine some of the nuttier aspects of this syndrome today, starting with -

If Fox News turns to the dark side, what do we have left ?‏

Latest Fox estimate on OmabaCare
Fox News Channel | 3/20/10
Posted on Saturday, March 20, 2010 12:13:49 PM by pabianice
Fox has it passing 217-214 as of this afternoon if all "undecideds" vote as they did in November. Dems have dumped the Stupak crew off the fantail and picked-up pro-abortion Dems in return. Obama now working to increase the win margin. Bummer.

1 posted on Saturday, March 20, 2010 12:13:49 PM by pabianice

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To: pabianice

Stop posting DNC propaganda.

2 posted on Saturday, March 20, 2010 12:15:00 PM by Perdogg ("Is that a bomb in your pants, or are you excited to come to America?")

Perdogg appears to have gotten FOX "news" and the DNC mixed up.

Or - just maybe - they're in cahoots!!!

To: pabianice

That is only an estimate on the part of Fox.

3 posted on Saturday, March 20, 2010 12:15:06 PM by fortheDeclaration ("Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people".-John Adams)

And, as it turned out, a pretty accurate one. Ah - but check out the dates on these posts...

To: Perdogg

Fox News has turned into DNC propaganda. I’ve noticed lately that they have been cheering Obama..sad to see. If Fox News turns to the dark side, what do we have left

5 posted on Saturday, March 20, 2010 12:16:13 PM by Sarah Barracuda

See your handle for the answer to that one, chump.

To: pabianice

I turned off Fox.... I am so disgusted with them today!!

7 posted on Saturday, March 20, 2010 12:16:45 PM by Momto2 ("A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use" Irving - Rip Van Winkle)

Yeah - how dare they tell me things I don't want to hear! If I want that, I'll go read polls on Palin's electability.

To: fortheDeclaration

Fox ought to be horsewhipped. They are aiding the enemy!

9 posted on Saturday, March 20, 2010 12:17:08 PM by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINOS)

   "Why, I'd horsewhip you, if I had a horse!"

To: stephenjohnbanker

Is there anywhere to contact them to register our feelings about their coverage?

When FOX wants your opinion, they'll give it to you.

I thought they would at least cover some of the speakers at the rally - but NO... only a sentence or two ... then Cavuto had to interrupt with his “brilliant comments” like calling them locusts.

15 posted on Saturday, March 20, 2010 12:19:13 PM by Momto2 ("A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use" Irving - Rip Van Winkle)

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To: pabianice

What’s with FNC? I don’t think I can look at Cameleon Carl one more second?(Remember his vicious attack on Cuda after the last election for her clothing allowance?)
Cavuto is okay but he looks like he is just going through the motions. We need Levin! and where is Rove this weekend?

16 posted on Saturday, March 20, 2010 12:19:18 PM by Mountain Mary

You know - I thought I saw him rehearsing a PSA to try and get the wingnut contingent to not set fire to their census forms, or write "human" for race, or shoot census workers from their Pyracantha bushes.

Freeper reaction? Predictable.

To: Mountain Mary

I can’t watch them anymore, seems like they’re all gloating just as much as the self-admitted liberals are. The coverage yesterday was disgusting, they could barely contain their glee all afternoon. And Cavuto this morning couldn’t stop bashing the tea partiers (”locusts,” etc.). FOX is revealing themselves for what they really are, largely just another sham.

20 posted on Saturday, March 20, 2010 12:22:12 PM by Borax Queen

To: Momto2

I register my feelings with the on/ off switch which remains off.

25 posted on Saturday, March 20, 2010 12:24:45 PM by chris37

To: pabianice

I think you all need to realize that no matter what happens tomorrow, this thing is far from over. Really, the whole issue goes to the Senate parliamentarian as the senate needs to approve the reconciliation bill. There is a bunch of crap in here that doesn’t have anything to do with the budget. At that point it’s kicked back to the House. Sit back and take a deep breath.

29 posted on Saturday, March 20, 2010 12:27:03 PM by NoobRep

OK.  you can exhale now. Hindsight's a gold-plated bitch, innit?

To: Momto2

I have noted FNC is not as informative as I had hoped. I want to see MORE of the tea party going on at the mall and I’d expect FNC to cover more of it. I typically love Neil Cavuto but he was ‘weak’ today in his interviews. I agree with some others here- FNC needs to improve today - very disappointing. However, without FNC- we’d really be sunk so let’s not start the circular firing squad. You can always send comments to the management of FNC and individuals at their web site. Make your feelings known vs. just writing about it.

32 posted on Saturday, March 20, 2010 12:28:21 PM by Faithfull

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To: fortheDeclaration

Fox is good at political talk shows. But when it comes to “news” they’ll report it long after msnbc or cnn.  If a plane crashes Fox will report on it from the hospital.

40 posted on Saturday, March 20, 2010 12:37:51 PM by Terry Mross (I shed tears for my country.)

Well, well.  Even the blind squirrel finds an occasional acorn.

To: pabianice

As I have said many times, the only option to bring back Constitutional government. Violence is the only solution.

43 posted on Saturday, March 20, 2010 12:44:29 PM by FightThePower! (Fight the powers that be!)

(forwarded to the FBI)

More emasculated rants against the all-powerful "them" after the flying leap.

Wingers Over NOLA

The Southern Republican Leadership Conference has been confabbing here. I don't have a lot to say about it BUT my friend Gambit Tabloid Editor, Kevin Allman has been covering the conference for his paper and its blog and has thus far posted here and here. He's also tweeting the shebang. I hope he hasn't set off the liberal alarm and gotten thrown out of there by burly teabaggers.