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Originally posted by Penske_Account
I love all of all y'all like fellow lawyers at an ethics CLE, but I'm bored with this board. Keep pontificating from your Ivy Towers, secure in the knowledge that y'all are smarter than the majority of the people of Amerika who elected the president and the Congress.

You Dimwits will continue to intellectualise yourselves into the land of marginalised loserdom. But you can take solace in the fact that you posted substance here.

Enjoy!

Me and the 59M plus Patriots of the Red States will laugh all the way to the bank to cash our tax refund checks.

Good to see you've got my back, but I didn't see you in Church on Sunday. We prayed to God that he would smote the homosexuals, the bi-sexuals, the metrosexuals and all the other sexuals, yankees and liberals out there and bring forth a plague on their homes. Good Times!

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Aha! The dreaded "Screw you, I have a bigger dick!" defense. Well played, sir.

S_A_M

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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
Aha! The dreaded "Screw you, I have a bigger dick!" defense. Well played, sir.

S_A_M

I believe "Dick" is supposed to be capitalized.

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Originally posted by Penske_Account

Me and the 59M plus Patriots of the Red States will laugh all the way to the bank to cash our tax refund checks.

Will you keep rejoicing when you prove Marx prophetic? Red states indeed.

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I won't argue with you all anymore on whether there is bias in the MSM. But if you have the ability to question, read this:
http://www.zombietime.com/sf_rally_s..._a_photograph/

The guy focuses on the star on the back of the one chick's t-shirt to baldly assert that she is a commie without telling us what the text on the front of the shirt says?

His point about stage management creating images is valid, though, and non-partisan. When Bush (or Clinton or whoever) has their picture taken, the cameras don't usually show the work that's gone into setting up the shot.

Reagan's people were the masters of this, of course. But Clinton's folks did a pretty good job at it, too.

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Originally posted by Southern Patriot
Good to see you've got my back, but I didn't see you in Church on Sunday. We prayed to God that he would smote the homosexuals, the bi-sexuals, the metrosexuals and all the other sexuals, yankees and liberals out there and bring forth a plague on their homes. Good Times!

Hmmm. I don't think he got the message. Either that, or he got the address wrong. Then again there probably are a few yankees and liberals in TX, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama -- but being God and all, you think He'd go for a higher-percentage shot by smiting the yankees where most of them live.

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Originally posted by dtb
Hmmm. I don't think he got the message. Either that, or he got the address wrong. Then again there probably are a few yankees and liberals in TX, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama -- but being God and all, you think He'd go for a higher-percentage shot by smiting the yankees where most of them live.

The Lord works in mysterious ways.

Excuse me now, I have to go pay $50 to some Texans for a bit of gas so I can drive to my brokers and talk about a bit more of that there Hallibruton stock.

And, Ma'am, may I ask if you have been to New Orleans?

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Foul words, Palestinian flags, marshals and bandanas at an anti-war march? Absolutely shocking. Until I saw all that context, I thought that kid with the bandana on in the original photo was part of the Campus Republicans on her way to a fundraising tea. You can't pull the wool over our eyes, MSM!

If you really find this kind of stuff illuminating you should get out more.

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Feh. I liked Jon Stewart's demolition of the protests much better.

For a written critique, even the liberals hated it, apparently. Says James Wolcott:

I only lasted about ten minutes watching the rally on C-SPAN, which made Stepford Wives selling Christmas kitsch on QVC--no fooling, at QVC the "Christmas Countdown" has already begun--must-see viewing by comparison. Here are the problems with mass rallies and marches on TV.

1) They all look alike. They're interchangeable pedestrian jams. If you didn't know what year it was, you wouldn't have known whether this demo was taking place in 2003 or 2004 or spring of 2005, because apart from Cindy Sheehan and a few others, it was the same cast of characters you always get at these protest smorgasbords, which remind me of WBAI at its most doctrinaire PC, where every faction and caucus has to be represented and heard no matter how boring or splintery or tangential to the event they are. What you get is an event that seems to have been exhumed from a time capsule buried in some aging ponytailed radical's back yard.

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2) The scale is all wrong for TV.

To be heard before thousands of gatherers, speakers feel they have to shout into the mike and every every phrase sound STENTORIAN. But for the larger audience at home, it's like being harangued, and who wants to be harangued, especially by speakers pounding you with played-out slogans? And no matter how large the crowd, on TV it looks like congested clutter, a sea of tiny, ugly billboards. It really doesn't help that so many of the signs are homemade and hackneyed. As the camera panned over the crowd yesterday, I saw placards featuring Mumia and Malcolm X, and I thought, What have they got to do with what's happening now in Iraq? The placards looked as dated as punk Mohawks in the East Village, and watching protesters wave them around as if they were in the studio audience trying to get Monty Hall's attention on Let's Make a Deal didn't help.