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I don't know about him, but I don't.
We get it already, the Republican Party is full of problems and is going through a tough time right now. What Rachel Maddow is doing isn't anything new or clever. Her show is basically like mental masturbation for the liberal democrats, so that when they lay their heads down at night they can feel like the good guys because they haven't had the chance to fuck up the country in the past 8 years and olol stupid pubbies. Fuck you Rachel.
That's because you're a republican shil. Of course you wouldn't like your own hypocrisy thrown back in your face.
Most sane people would take Maddow leaps and bounds above anyone the Right has to offer.
That said, the more the current republican party can be marginalized by social forces, the better. There's room for a second party, but what's left of the republicans after the Dixiecrat+Religious Right merger isn't worth defending.
Well, one of them is actively trying to make jokes, the other one is reporting on the news, in this case with a particular style. Having grown up on the Internet, her sarcasm is rather mild though it might seem totally out of whack if you're comparing it to CNN or 'mainstream' which tend to report the news like a robot.
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I don't really know what you're saying here.
The redheaded woman on the show, Ana Marie Cox? Can you guess?
I'm not a republican shill, it only seems that way because any where I post here it's like I'm surrounded by flaming liberals.
I don't really subscribe to any pundits, right or left. The republican pundits are generally stupid most of the time and the liberal ones are way too obnoxious.
people don't like people who point out all of their physical flaws and innuend it to mean they are bad people either.
if she had some actual jokes, she still wouldn't be funny... but im biased here in that i don't think political jokes and comments are that funny in the first place.
Haha whoops! Well, I've only read wonkette since well after she left, so I dunno anything about her humour style really, but it's pretty much my dislike of Maddow I was focusing on in that video.
Not everyone here is a liberal. Some of us were republicans until the party became entirely fucked up and no longer worth allying with.
We just tend to agree with the liberals on the current issues because most of the people here want the world to be a better place, not simply for one side or another to win.
Your a shill because you support the republican party platform straight up and down, and yet I've never seen you be able to support a single one of those positions. Ever.
Regardless... it's almost axiomatic that in order to get ratings on cable news you have to be at least partly crazy and exceedingly obnoxious. Naturally, watching someone you agree with ideologically is going to reduce those feelings somewhat.
You do realize we have quite a few conservatives and former Republicans that post here frequently, right? This board has a liberal edge, yes, but you're not exactly surrounded.
It was annoying where she was derisive and was just saying that Jindal had wrong policy ideas without giving examples to back it up, but she did bring up several good points, the one I liked the most being what people said jokingly on this board was the Republican strategy:
Fuck up gov't so bad that future Republicans can point to it as an example that "all gov't is bad," even though they were the ones who fucked it up.
I mean, the failure to respond to Katrina adequately was because Bush took FEMA, a sort of national emergency crew for use in devastating natural disasters, much like firemen or paramedics, and literally filled it with political appointees who had no experience in emergency situations management. The ridiculousness of the argument is astounding.
Most Democrats from the Midwest are Republicans who came to their senses and cast off the beliefs impressed on them by their parents.
edit: also I stumbled on this recently: Tax cuts! From 2006, it says. Huh.
For me, I was a republican until I heard W. use the phrase "Axis of Evil."
Something in my head clicked and I realized that he was an incredibly dangerous man to have in power, and I renounced the party right then and there.
My dad, a lifelong republican, dropped out of the party when we admitted that there were in fact no WMDs in Iraq, and that we started a war under false pretenses.
I guess when I think "Midwest" I mean Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Iowa.
edit: crap, this is not worthy of totp. I guess I'll post this thing on tax cuts again.
You have to like Maddow and Olbermann to be on this board?
Honestly I don't really care for them either. I AGREE with them most of the time, but I don't like their method of delivery.
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He said "this sort," so it at least reads like he's talking about discourse from other forum members. add in the fact that this forum uses more sarcasm than pretty much any site, and it does beg the question.