The tensions are there......
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I'm speechless...
I want to cry and laugh at the same time.
And kill those people, in between.
I want to cry and laugh at the same time.
And kill those people, in between.
Bwahaha!
And I thought we had it bad with the Dutchies...
Perhaps we should try to invent a way to move countries around - so we can tow Canada to Europe and give them England in return.
And everybody's happy.
And I thought we had it bad with the Dutchies...
Perhaps we should try to invent a way to move countries around - so we can tow Canada to Europe and give them England in return.
And everybody's happy.
KillaKilla
Still Mildly Glowing
Fox news is a riot. They're the equally screwy right-wing counterpoint to all the leftist news media! Might as well fall over forwards as backwards. (I'm mostly a libertarian when it comes right down to it so I think both sides are equally fucked but in different ways) The hosts of that particular program go out of their way to piss people off; I'm sure that's what they did to Ann Coulter (the blonde). She's pretty smart, actually, but does get like that when she's pissed off. It's funny to watch. She's a political satirist, though, so you can't take her seriously, which, of course, those two guys proceeded to do because it would further their agenda.
Fox makes worst of Croatian and Serbian media houses look exemplary. I don't understand how a country as developed as US can have such brain-rotting crap. Even worse, I don't understand how such brain-rotting crap can be the most popular American TV network.
The Last Standing Super Power
The Last Standing Super Power
The United States did invade and was repulsed. And the then reigning super power, Great Britain, with a world wide navy primarily focused on blockading France, burned Washington D.C.
The Virginia planters in charge had to thank the militias of Maryland, large numbers of Irish Catholics, and the western states, poor white trash, for the only face saving victories that I can recall.
If we are to submit to FOX NEWS as the AUTHORITY of international etiquette, then the solar system must assume the it's proper role in the sadomasochistic hierarchy.
These days the U.S. of A. is puffed up as the "Last Standing Super Power Of The 20th Century". So it seems this lonely king of the hill no longer needs to be "Mr. Nice Guy" to get it's petulant way. The Last Standing Super Power Of The LAST Century entertains itself with ego injections of mean spirited and snotty one liners by pretty TV faced wanna bee FOX cele-BRAT-ies . Talking heads, floating through a self induced dementia, the world is no longer uncertain,nor 'uppity'. The world is their door mat.
Remember this is ALL about the U.S. It's to entertain a sensation saturated AMERICAN TV audience, first. The rest of the planet, eats the reruns.
Look at ME, MA, I'm bitch slapping the (insert the name of a tired "old" nation here) today!
What is pitiful about the self centered arrogance is the sociopathic manipulation that comes later. When seeking significant support of foreign policy, the insults never happened. Or. It was only a joke. Or the victim is made to feel wrong for being bothered about being spit on.
Hardly a nurturing relationship.
The Media Empire OF The United States and it's Co-dependant satellites.
""On your feet, or on your knees"".
4too
The Last Standing Super Power
The United States did invade and was repulsed. And the then reigning super power, Great Britain, with a world wide navy primarily focused on blockading France, burned Washington D.C.
The Virginia planters in charge had to thank the militias of Maryland, large numbers of Irish Catholics, and the western states, poor white trash, for the only face saving victories that I can recall.
If we are to submit to FOX NEWS as the AUTHORITY of international etiquette, then the solar system must assume the it's proper role in the sadomasochistic hierarchy.
These days the U.S. of A. is puffed up as the "Last Standing Super Power Of The 20th Century". So it seems this lonely king of the hill no longer needs to be "Mr. Nice Guy" to get it's petulant way. The Last Standing Super Power Of The LAST Century entertains itself with ego injections of mean spirited and snotty one liners by pretty TV faced wanna bee FOX cele-BRAT-ies . Talking heads, floating through a self induced dementia, the world is no longer uncertain,nor 'uppity'. The world is their door mat.
Remember this is ALL about the U.S. It's to entertain a sensation saturated AMERICAN TV audience, first. The rest of the planet, eats the reruns.
Look at ME, MA, I'm bitch slapping the (insert the name of a tired "old" nation here) today!
What is pitiful about the self centered arrogance is the sociopathic manipulation that comes later. When seeking significant support of foreign policy, the insults never happened. Or. It was only a joke. Or the victim is made to feel wrong for being bothered about being spit on.
Hardly a nurturing relationship.
The Media Empire OF The United States and it's Co-dependant satellites.
""On your feet, or on your knees"".
4too
Hey, I understood that. What did you do to the real 4too?
I think he sobers up for a few seconds when something pisses him off.
quietfanatic
Ancient One
Ratty said:
Welcome to the human race Ratty.
The Song Remains The Same
The Song Remains The Same
Pick a decade, any decade, and the elite at either end of the social, political spectrum pampered their world view with a warm and fuzzy cultural smugness. Then, bullied the rest into silence and compliance.
Example: In those fabulous (late) '60's, that era of peace and love, your hair was either TOO long or TOO short.
Being casual about when, or how short, one got the head growth handled was going to upset somebody. Their personal life mission became to bitch and whine, beat and bully, you into their politically correct standard.
Your "freak flag", your crew cut, your personal appearance was an icon, a single, easy to grasp panacea. The complexities and hypocrisies of that time were soothed into unconsciousness by the outward image of conformity.
The propagandist, the political agent cares little, at first, about what one 'thinks'. The initial goal is to get the target to 'act' properly, to use the right words, to answer the questions correctly at each incremental check point. Over time the thoughts will conform to the 're-education'.
Consider this FOX NEWS format as a vehicle to re-educate the American TV audience, and how this shaping of viewer tastes can go beyond theatrical insults. It is an emotional nationalism that rewards the gut (single) issues of conservative talk radio, the world in black and white, and denies those intellectual observations, the world in all it's shades of gray. Too many scary doubts hide in the gray shadows.
If "Us Against Them". "Island America", "Fortress America","The American Empire", "America Versus The Universe" sells commercial time on 'mean daddy' FOX, and weans the country from the 'mother' of "the liberal media", then consider how ready that audience will be for the 'right' message.
4too
The Song Remains The Same
Pick a decade, any decade, and the elite at either end of the social, political spectrum pampered their world view with a warm and fuzzy cultural smugness. Then, bullied the rest into silence and compliance.
Example: In those fabulous (late) '60's, that era of peace and love, your hair was either TOO long or TOO short.
Being casual about when, or how short, one got the head growth handled was going to upset somebody. Their personal life mission became to bitch and whine, beat and bully, you into their politically correct standard.
Your "freak flag", your crew cut, your personal appearance was an icon, a single, easy to grasp panacea. The complexities and hypocrisies of that time were soothed into unconsciousness by the outward image of conformity.
The propagandist, the political agent cares little, at first, about what one 'thinks'. The initial goal is to get the target to 'act' properly, to use the right words, to answer the questions correctly at each incremental check point. Over time the thoughts will conform to the 're-education'.
Consider this FOX NEWS format as a vehicle to re-educate the American TV audience, and how this shaping of viewer tastes can go beyond theatrical insults. It is an emotional nationalism that rewards the gut (single) issues of conservative talk radio, the world in black and white, and denies those intellectual observations, the world in all it's shades of gray. Too many scary doubts hide in the gray shadows.
If "Us Against Them". "Island America", "Fortress America","The American Empire", "America Versus The Universe" sells commercial time on 'mean daddy' FOX, and weans the country from the 'mother' of "the liberal media", then consider how ready that audience will be for the 'right' message.
4too
I come back and 4too not only makes sense, but makes sense in two posts in a row?! I'm sure The Devil is putting on some extra layers to fight off the cold about now.
calculon000
Sonny, I Watched the Vault Bein' Built!
I always knew that Fox was biased to the right, but it's never been so horribly obvious to me than now.Ratty said:
I was literally LMAO at this. This is good stuff.Insane Woman On Fox News said:
Asshole guy in the last clip said:
WHAT. THE. FUCK?!?!?!?!Asshole guy in the last clip said:
It's the fact that he was COMPLETELY serious is what gets me.
What pisses me off is that any American would actually have the opinions expressed in this clip. Fuck, what arrogance.
EDIT: Hey everyone, I found this quite funny: http://www.cyclingforums.com/t171872-even-the-canadians-hate-us.html
calculon00 said:
This eventually brought me to this:
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0778562.html
I can't believe the Dutchies are one step ahead of us...
Fahrenheit Single Digital
Fahrenheit Single Digital
C.L.
Temperatures in the single digit fahrenheit have come to Columbus almost a month early. I-70 usually is just south of the normal freeze line, but the optimal 20 degree dry air mass has not arrived. Winter '04 has started wet, icy, and accumulating snow.
When I go out to clear the drive way, I will shovel a mound of snow in your honor.
.............
W.
My pre pube' (child like) and post pubescent (adolescent) rages are still inarticulate and capable of collateral damage, as deadly to myself as to the innocent bystander. Some time in my construction career, past my 20's, anger become a source of energy and motivation. At times the intense focus of crisis won the day.
Such 'mastery of the situation' was infrequent and short lived.
Trust it'll be there when you need it.
And life goes on.
I have a short fuse for any idealogy's media manipulations.
Rhetorical question I heard this U.S. Election 2004, ""how can lies support a greater truth?""
4too
Fahrenheit Single Digital
C.L.
Temperatures in the single digit fahrenheit have come to Columbus almost a month early. I-70 usually is just south of the normal freeze line, but the optimal 20 degree dry air mass has not arrived. Winter '04 has started wet, icy, and accumulating snow.
When I go out to clear the drive way, I will shovel a mound of snow in your honor.
.............
W.
My pre pube' (child like) and post pubescent (adolescent) rages are still inarticulate and capable of collateral damage, as deadly to myself as to the innocent bystander. Some time in my construction career, past my 20's, anger become a source of energy and motivation. At times the intense focus of crisis won the day.
Such 'mastery of the situation' was infrequent and short lived.
Trust it'll be there when you need it.
And life goes on.
I have a short fuse for any idealogy's media manipulations.
Rhetorical question I heard this U.S. Election 2004, ""how can lies support a greater truth?""
4too
3 in a row! The 1st Seal is now broken. To the Fallout shelters!
Stop it.
Apparently people around the world consider Fox News differently than we do in the US.
Now, for me, the liberal minded centrist, I see Fox News as what was coined "infotainment". Tailored to the lowest common denominator in society.
TV is about ratings...and publicity garners ratings. They are the most watched precisely because they are sensationalistic, and most people dont care where they get their news anymore. They provide entertainment and "news" to those willing to watch.
Now, pardon me for saying this, but what the hell is wrong with you all for taking ANN COULTER seriously? She called every liberal in the US a traitor. She makes money, and she doesnt give a fuck what others think. That may make her a royal bitch, but she is successful in her own misanthropic way.
I love how all of you judge the US based on Fox News. It is like me judging France based on a routine by Jerry Louis, or Germany on how they make a car, or the Netherlands based on a joke about wooden shoes. Stop whining, you hypocrites. Not every American likes Fox, not all of us desire to stand bestride the world, and not all of us in America are ignorant, arrogant, callous, or stupid. Fox News does not represent the country. It's so damn easy to lump a country under one label and write off 300 million people as hopeless, and then turn around and get puffy about a crack at your own home.
Now, for me, the liberal minded centrist, I see Fox News as what was coined "infotainment". Tailored to the lowest common denominator in society.
TV is about ratings...and publicity garners ratings. They are the most watched precisely because they are sensationalistic, and most people dont care where they get their news anymore. They provide entertainment and "news" to those willing to watch.
Now, pardon me for saying this, but what the hell is wrong with you all for taking ANN COULTER seriously? She called every liberal in the US a traitor. She makes money, and she doesnt give a fuck what others think. That may make her a royal bitch, but she is successful in her own misanthropic way.
I love how all of you judge the US based on Fox News. It is like me judging France based on a routine by Jerry Louis, or Germany on how they make a car, or the Netherlands based on a joke about wooden shoes. Stop whining, you hypocrites. Not every American likes Fox, not all of us desire to stand bestride the world, and not all of us in America are ignorant, arrogant, callous, or stupid. Fox News does not represent the country. It's so damn easy to lump a country under one label and write off 300 million people as hopeless, and then turn around and get puffy about a crack at your own home.