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I love how the righty-winger media machine is now in total overdrive. I'm just surprised it took them this long to come up with something. They're doing precisely what they do best, which is try and redirect attention to ignorant, idiodic stories like these. And of course their eager listeners are just lappin' it up as usual.

What? Obama ain't lettin' people into the WW2 memorial?! Why- nevermind that it was the GOP that shut down the government, I heered this story on my fav-o-rite AM talk show and they said it's alllll Obama's fault! So by golly, I won't bother to even question this at all, it MUST be twue!

edvard2 says

I love how the righty-winger media machine is now in total overdrive. I'm
just surprised it took them this long to come up with something. They're doing
precisely what they do best, which is try and redirect attention to ignorant,
idiodic stories like these. And of course their eager listeners are just lappin'
it up as usual.

And then the morons repeat the drivel that they hear, just like some of the recent posts that you mentioned.

Fox knows their audience well, and also knows how they will effectively and endlessly echo the most ludicrous BS without question.

Too bad that those Fox watching idiots aren't as entertaining as watching a chicken play the piano on cue.

Its tiresesome. The right doesn't actually get their "news" from actual news agencies, but from conspiracy-laced talk shows hosted by big windbags with commercials that peddle quackery. Its just amazing how absolutely trusting their listeners are and how reliable they can be at simply regurgitating exactly what they hear as the "truth". In fact, I was listening to the news yesterday and it was actually precisely about this very thing, how that almost immediately after the shutdown, right wing media instantly started blatantly calling it Obama's fault. Its the most hollow, meaningless rhetoric. Its like just because they say it they assume ( correctly) that their listeners will instantly an unquestionably agree.

Its just mind-blowingly stupid. The reasons this happened is so transparent its not even funny. Of course they knew that if the government were to shut down, the blame would be heavily laden on the GOP. This had been demonstrated by polls for weeks. And so of course they were all primed and ready to crank up the bullshit the second it did shut down.

edvard2 says

Its tiresesome. The right doesn't actually get their "news" from actual news
agencies, but from conspiracy-laced talk shows hosted by big windbags with
commercials that peddle quackery. Its just amazing how absolutely trusting their
listeners are and how reliable they can be at simply regurgitating exactly what
they hear as the "truth".

My f.i.l. is a smart(but very ideological based) person, and NEVER questions anything that he hears from Fox. He rambled on for awhile about some stupid blurb of nonsense that one of their sycophants puked up about Obama adding more debt than all previous presidents combined. It took 2 minutes and some serious convincing for him to even look at his laptop where I had looked up the treasury site to show him some facts, that he didn't trust and thought that they were "fixed". He's got considerably worse since he's retired and spends WAYYYYY TOOOO much time watching their propaganda BS, and it has made him angry and irrational also. When I mentioned that he took it in stride but I also mentioned that they were trying to create his thought/opinion of a given subject, instead of giving him as many facts as they could to let HIM decide for himself.
The tipping point was asking him if he wanted to be an angry old crank that is powerless to change the things that he's coerced to be angry at, or to turn off the nonsense and enjoy his retirement. I think that he just watches it mostly at night, if at all now.

edvard2 says

Its tiresesome. The right doesn't actually get their "news" from actual news agencies, but from conspiracy-laced talk shows hosted by big windbags with commercials that peddle quackery. Its just amazing how absolutely trusting their listeners are and how reliable they can be at simply regurgitating exactly what they hear as the "truth".

Its tiresesome. The left doesn't actually get their "news" from actual news agencies, but from conspiracy-laced talk shows hosted by big windbags with commercials that peddle quackery. Its just amazing how absolutely trusting their listeners are and how reliable they can be at simply regurgitating exactly what they hear as the "truth".

zzyzzx says

Its tiresesome. The left doesn't actually get their "news" from actual news
agencies, but from conspiracy-laced talk shows hosted by big windbags with
commercials that peddle quackery. Its just amazing how absolutely trusting their
listeners are and how reliable they can be at simply regurgitating exactly what
they hear as the "truth".

How original, and quite a display of the normal right wing thought process and logic.

Yes, somehow you're the "victim".

zzyzzx says

Its tiresesome. The left doesn't actually get their "news" from actual news agencies, but from conspiracy-laced talk shows hosted by big windbags with commercials that peddle quackery. Its just amazing how absolutely trusting their listeners are and how reliable they can be at simply regurgitating exactly what they hear as the "truth".

Your news source is classified by the FCC as "Political Satire". I get my news from a source that is classified as actual news. Need I say more?

Nope. NPR, BBC, CBC, Wikipedia, and NY times. BTW, something like 45% of all NPR listeners are conservative and vote Republican.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=boehnercade

So who does the classifying? Rachael Mandow?

edvard2 says

I get my news from a source that is classified as actual news.