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Did I miss the "Olbermann gets an envelope filled with white powder" thread?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Inky_Wretch, Sep 27, 2006.

  1. terrier

    terrier Well-Known Member

    Nah, it'll be a lib host. Libs don't get passionate enough about talk radio to want to kill somebody, unlike the cons (some site earlier this year gave the NYT publisher's address). People like Savage and O'Reilly are waving the bloody shirt at their enemies, practically begging some deranged audience members to take down their targets.
    At least Olbermann isn't susceptible to a car bombing - he doesn't drive.
     
  2. pallister

    pallister Guest

    Translation: Only a right-winger would kill someone over political beliefs. I knew that post was coming.
     
  3. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    How did the political climate get as hostile as it is?
    Does it really need to be that way?
     
  4. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member

    Karl Rove, knowing the only way the GOP could sweep all branches was to split the population
    the way he did.

    Smart man.

    Dirtbag, though.
     
  5. tommyp

    tommyp Member

    Here it is:

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15036633/
     
  6. markvid

    markvid Guest

    He basically accuses the Post of having something to do with it.
    Unfotunately, he took what could have been a very coherent response to the scumbags at the Post and heads towards the paranoid fool range.
     
  7. Webster

    Webster Well-Known Member

    It was a very coherent response.
     
  8. JackS

    JackS Member

    Whether he's paranoid or not, he's got one thing right.

    The Post is a rag.
     
  9. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    1 Lie.

    Cut.

    Paste.

    Send.

    Now it's 1,000,000 lies.

    Cut.

    Paste.

    Send.

    Now it's 10,000,000 lies.

    There can be no other explanation why a Google search of the terms "Bill Clinton" AND "silver platter" (as in "he was offered OBL on a . . .") will result in a whopping 41,600 hits.
     
  10. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    Funny, I seem to recall an awful lot of mean-spirited mudslinging in the 90s.
     
  11. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Here's what I remember from the 90s:

    "The Dow set a record for the 12th consecutive day . . . "

    "Friday's employment report showed a gain of 700,000 jobs in February . . . "

    "Tribune announces stock split after reaching $74 per share . . . "
     
  12. Birdscribe

    Birdscribe Active Member

    Yes, you did AQB. Courtesy of Newt Gingrich.

    This point has been made before, both by me and others, but it bears repeating here because of the gaping hole (as opposed to gaping BUNGhole, which Gingrich is) you've presented here.

    When Gingrich spearheaded the GOP's takeover of the house -- which came along with the subsequent taking of the Senate -- he began a scorched-earth policy of non-cooperation with the now-minority Democrats, who were guilty of laziness and arrogance, but still kept a modicum of bipartisanship in their role as the majority party.

    Not after 1994. After 1994, it was game-on. No dealing with lobbying firms who dealt with Democrats, no working out problems that could help the vast majority of Americans. It was demonize Bill and Hillary Clinton as socialist tools (a policy that continues to this moment), throw red meat to the Christian right (without actually doing anything for them), and work slavishly toward policies that enrich the few at the expense of the many.

    It was the GOP's way or the highway, a policy continued with crooked and ruthless efficiency by the twisted Tom DeLay (R-Prison), enhanced by the right-wing media echo chamber and ingested by the body politic like a piece of e-coli infected spinach.

    And America is the worst for it
     
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