Fuck Don Imus. But you know what…? Fuck civility. And fuck the Seattle Times.
Really… who the fuck do they think they are pontificating about who should or should not have access to the public airwaves? [“Airwaves no place for Imus and his ilk“] And who the fuck can possibly take seriously this colorless, bland, bourgeois cabal of towheaded ho’s anointing themselves arbiters of “diversity and decency”?
I mean… what the fuck is up with that?
Does Imus come off as a racist, misogynistic, insensitive, mean-spirited prick? Hell yeah… that’s his whole schtick! That’s his stock in trade! What part of “shock jock” doesn’t the Times understand?
No doubt Imus should be raked over the public coals for his awful comments, and he deserves whatever punishment the marketplace delivers. But calling on the FCC to pull WFAN’s license? That’s censorship, pure and simple. That’s state control of the media. That’s fascism. And the Times — a newspaper for chrissakes, that owes its very existence to the unfettered rights enunciated in the First Amendment — should be just as ashamed of its offensive statement as Imus should be of his.
What’s next? Who else should be yanked from the airwaves and denied their livelihood because they offend the Times’ oh-so-sensitive sensibilities? If radio hosts should be held to standards exceeding FCC regulations, how far should the purge go? How careful must we tread? Should KIRO, as some angry letter writers have demanded, dump my show because I (gasp) repeatedly use the word “fuck” on my personal blog? Well fuckity-fuck, fuck, fuck to that!
And don’t give me any of that holier-than-thou bullshit about radio stations having a legal obligation to “serve the community.” That lie gave up the ghost back during the Reagan administration with the death of the Fairness Doctrine and the birth of an anti-regulatory crusade that inevitably led to the relentlessly homogenizing, profit-driven, media consolidation we have seen ever since. Today, the vast majority of commercial radio stations fulfill the totality of their community service with a handful of PSAs and a weekly test of the Emergency Alert System.
At least WFAN airs local content, as opposed to the hundreds of radio stations in small markets nationwide, whose absentee, monopolist owners would continue to obliviously broadcast their automated, computer-controlled, top-McForty programming, uninterrupted, while a chlorine gas-leak slowly smothered their uninformed local audience in agonizing death. If that’s what they mean by community service, then the Times editorial board has its swollen head stuck so far up its tight little ass it makes the Enumclaw horse incident look like a prostate exam.
What kind of goddamn fantasy world is the Times living in? For decades now, right-wing talk radio hosts have villified liberals like me, questioning our patriotism, smearing us as traitors, cowards and terrorists, and accusing us of treason… a crime they repeatedly make clear is punishable by death. Ann Coulter publicly “jokes” about executing a few liberals to keep us in line, calls for Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens to be poisoned, and laments that Timothy McVeigh didn’t blow up the New York Times building instead… but I don’t hear the Times complaining about her frequent appearances on FOX News. And G. Gordon Liddy once infamously instructed his audience how to deal with ATF agents: “Head shots, head shots…. Kill the sons of bitches!” Hmm. No FCC licenses revoked; no fines issued. Is that what the Times means by serving the community?
And what the fuck is “decency” anyway? Polite language? Polite lies? Does anybody but a fourth or fifth generation Blethen really want the standards of civic discourse to be defined by literary somnambulists who can’t discern the difference between seriousness and solemnity, and who wouldn’t recognize nuance if it jumped right out in front of them and shot their dog?
I’ve got news for the Times: there’s a reason why assholes like Imus and Howard Stern have millions of fans, while former newspaper subscribers flee to the blogs in droves, no matter how foulmouthed, uncivil or indecent some of us might be. It is because anything is better than the stultifying, turgidly-written, equivocating prose that often passes for journalism these days, and the arrogant, moralistic grammarians who apparently revel in using as little of the English language as possible. The Times’ market keeps growing, and yet its circulation keeps shrinking — and they have the nerve to lecture others on how best to serve the community? Give me a fucking break!
Criticize to your heart’s content. Excoriate the trash-talkers and hate-mongers for their hurtful and violent words — even do so selectively if that is what your conscience allows. But when you call for using the power of the state to silence others, you abdicate any and all of the moral authority you believe your printing presses confer upon you.
If that’s civility… if that’s decency… then I want nothing the fuck to do with it.
Voice of Chalk Scratching:
Welcome to the world of political correctness. Your side pushed for it now you are reaping it’s “benefits”!
Waaaaaa haaaaaa haaaaaa HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR!
Nuff Said!
Oh BTW, the first sentence is some of your best work!
Furthermore, Imus says some very funny stuff about idiot bush. What about when Rush took off after Michael J. Fox! Let the market speak. MSM spends all day yesterday going between who the fuck the daddy is and the Imus story, while 10 of our kids get killed in bushies war on Sunday. What about their families and those kids who will never know their parent. Our kids are getting killed in a war that most Americans don’t support, poison is in TONS of imported wheat gluten that even humans may be eating and who the hell cares who the daddy is and Imus dominate the news.
What Imus said was wrong but let the market and future guests if any determine the outcome.
1.) not so fast what about Rush’s little dance in the chair mocking Michael J. Fox? He’s still on the air and what he did was equally mean.
Does anybody who comments here actually listen to this Imus guy? I know I don’t, and I could care less about him. He’s another radio-land huckster, trying to make an easy buck because he can’t find a real job.
That’s my OPINION, so it can’t be declared a lie by you-know-who.
You’re right Rush was tacky and wrong and he admitted it too. Rush said Mike Fox was using his disease to make a political statement. Fox did admit he was using his disease to make the statement for stem cell research on CBS shortly thereafter for Claire McCaskill!
So… How does this compare to what libtard Imus said? There is no comparison.
Lib@4:
You know who?
You mean the whack-nut-jobs of Voice of Chalk Scratching’s NorthWest Platoon of Lunatic Libtards, starting with Mr PelletHead and Mr FrogKisser?
Actually, Pudwash, what they have in common is that neither is anywhere as obnoxious as you are.
The other night, Alberto Gonzalez was at Yankee Stadium to throw out the First Amendment. . . .
Badda-Bing. . . .
Puddinghead @5,
Imus is a liberal? That must explain why the liberal blogs are leading the way publicizing this, and supporting advertising boycotts of Imus’s shows.
Imus is an equal opportunity asshole. I don’t like his show. But there is a HUGE double-standard (and a disturbing precedent) when people start talking about yanking WFAN’s license unless they dump him.
Uhhh ArtFart, ohhhhhhhhhhhh yes they are!
I point out the hypocrisy of your side’s arguments using your own web sites to make my point. Especially, when I use URLs like Media Morons, to prove the Moonbat! politics of Imus!
Thumbsucker Darrell has all the enduring charm and grace of a hemorrhoid. . .
Is that yer momma calling, thumbsucker. . .or perhaps a siren so you can play fireman?
And I commend them for their delayed response actions Scratchy Voice! But why did it take CBS and MSNBC so long to react?
Imus is a liberal guttersnipe plain and simple.
When ‘tards Chris Matthews and Frank Rich defend him – mea culpa!
Mr Frogkisser: I wondered why you were so quiet. So you were lanced today?
No, I thought Mr Stupid was making the momma visit to your house!
“That’s censorship, pure and simple. That’s state control of the media. That’s fascism.”
So Goldy, are you going on record here as being against the restoration of the “fairness doctrine” which Dennis Kucinich and a whole raft of lefties passionately want?
Or are you just confused when you say later in this rant,”And don’t give me any of that holier-than-thou bullshit about radio stations having a legal obligation to “serve the community.” That lie gave up the ghost back during the Reagan administration with the death of the Fairness Doctrine and the birth of an anti-regulatory crusade that inevitably led to the relentlessly homogenizing, profit-driven, media consolidation we have seen ever since.
Which is it?
re 1: Guns, God, Gays, the “free market”, fake “supporting our troops” (If magnets could save them, none would die). Lowering taxes on the rich.
This is a by no means extensive list of Right Wing PC. So, spare me your BS about the strictures of liberal PC.
You use the race card in a cynical attempt to broadstroke liberals as racist.
So: If I were African American, would you still be demanding an apology from me?
YOUR REFUSAL TO DEAL WITH MY QUESTION IS ANSWER ENOUGH.
HYPOCRITE.
PudWax = Potty Mouth Wingnut Hypocrite
When I was bringing myself up to speed on Imus, I saw the following entry on Wikipedia:
“Imus took on the Veterans Administration when the Washington Post published a story uncovering the deplorable living conditions at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Consequently, Imus’s rants preceded many Army resignations, including that of Gen. Kevin Kiley, the Army’s now former Surgeon General. Kiley apparently lived adjacent to the troubled building; he testified before Congress that he had no idea of the deplorable conditions because performing barrack inspections was not in his job description. This totally outraged Imus, who unleashed a daily relentless attack on Kiley’s personal fitness for military duty and dedication to his wounded troops.”
Could this be bush Family Evil Empire payback and/or an attempt to remind Imus of his place?
Brenda Helverson – You’ve got to be kidding!
Brenda, who on the right is clamoring for Imus’s head?
10 Fine. So he happens to be an asshole, and he’s a “liberal. From my point of view, if he was a winger, then in addition to being an asshole, he’d be an idiot.
Just like you are, Pudwhack.
I work with the National Association of Broadcasters and I can tell you that broadcast media is not consolidated and studies have shown that diversity in radio programming has expanded in recent years, despite what you personally have experienced.
The Fairness Doctrine did nothing to help increase the number of voices on the airwaves and should not be introduced again. The 21st Century has brought us more media choices than ever before.
Thanks ArtFart: Your additions to this blog are so thought inspiring.
Another jack booted mind numbed non-thinker!
Voice of Chalk Scratching:
It’s Nappy headed ho’s. Man I waited for one on your side to correct the tag line!
Puddinghead @23,
Are you really that dense? Geez… your inability to abstract explains a lot.
21 Then how come I can tune across either the AM or FM band and so many of those stations sound the same?
Let’s just call it what it really is:
The Blethen family and their prostitutes want to see the hand of big government employed to silence the voices with whom they disagree.
It’s got absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with PC. Let ’em criticize. Let ’em call for boycotts. Let ’em scold all day long – that’s about all their good for anymore. But the minute they start calling for station licenses to be pulled, they leave PC waaay behind, and enter the realm of book-burning and political imprisonments – a realm in which the heel-clicking Blethen family obviously feels more comfortable.
#15: Headlice, you seem to forget, as always, I have always decried the double standard. Go back and look at my posts. Look at what I wrote today in the other thread regarding respect. DumbASS! I have always said this! You just can’t read or process information. Your fogged mind of GWB hatred can’t allow you to see and think properly!
I always said Jesse Hi-Jackson was a charlatan on this point. I was the one here who wrote about the attacks on Bill Cosby when he mentioned this. I was the one who wrote here about the attacks on Juan Williams when he wrote a book on it. And I have said it’s the only thing I agree with Al Notso Sharpton on!
So I WILL NOT EVER ANSWER YOU UNTIL… Why waste my time on the likes of you? You dwell on it 24/7 cause you know what it’s like being around blacks don’t you?
Scratchy Voice: Apparently you don’t understand word history and word origins. It’s called word etyomology. Tow comes from the German word touw which means hemp fiber.
So your abstraction is hemp fiber head? Waaaaaa haaaaaa haaaaaa HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR!
Yes, you are so great with your wordsmithing!
I’m still waiting for Lush Flimbaugh to attack Publican Fred Thompson for running for President even though he has cancer and an 8-month-old daughter. Come on righties, you didn’t mind attacking Mrs. Edwards. Let’s watch your hypocrite side come out.
Mr Stupid, who on our side attacked Mrs Edwards.
URL Citations please!!!!
Had Enough Yet?
Lesson #1 for the eighth time.
Fascists in Germany took the guns away from the populace in 1931-1932.
Fascists in Germany separated the populace into Jews and Gentiles and the Holocaust happened. How did they do this? Pulled down the pants when they weren’t sure and the circumcised ones were branded.
Fascist today want to remove guns from the US Populace.
Fascists in the future…
Who are these “new’ Fascists – Your “friendly” libtards, the Donkocrapic Party Some populate this board and even attacked known Moonbat!s.
Puddybud…is it fun to watch these people freak out over this topic or what? They’re so confused about their beliefs that they don’t know port from starboard.
Bill Cruchon: Single word answer:
YES
Hmmmm … I wondered why there were so many Emergency Alert System tests. I naively assumed it had something to do with homeland security or civil defense. But no! Their purpose is to fulfill the stations’ public service duty to keep their license.
You learn something new every day.
Poody@28
Well, Mr. Etymologist, perhaps an expert of your calibre should learn to use A DICTIONARY. It helps to spell correctly the word you’re trying to define.
Hey Don Imus — pay your $100 gambling debt to Goldy or I’m gonna out you!!!
Has anyone besides me noticed the uncanny resemblance between what Don Imus says and what Mark the Redneck says?
Chadt: Wow, that’s a BLISTERING attack! Many people misspell words on this site! Glad you are the king of the queen’s English.
Me I speak ebonic. Didya miss da memo?
Well, the breaking news is Darrells kissin’ cousin, the racist Don Imus is no longer with MSNBC. You know, Darrell, Recklessly/sucking/Pud/Butter, who-me-I’m-not-racist=I-just denigrate-reservations-Darrell.
Imus must be the Doppelganger of which you were so proud.
The word I defined was tow (touw)! And… your argument was again Chadt? Are you a hemp fiber head too?
Goldy in his original comments, “No doubt Imus should be raked over the public coals for his awful comments, and he deserves whatever punishment the marketplace delivers”
Exactly. And how refreshing to see a leftie actually acknowledge the existence of “the marketplace”. Can you say catharsis?
Brenda@17 Everybody’s got a “crazy in the family”, and Imus was the crazy uncle at MSNBC, just like Darrell-Muddle-Head is the crazy here. MSNBC decided to get rid of their “Crazy Uncle”. Lord I wish we could get rid of ours. . . . .
“Puddybud Who Left The Reservation” says:
re #15: …
“So I WILL NOT EVER ANSWER YOU UNTIL… Why waste my time on the likes of you? You dwell on it 24/7 cause you know what it’s like being around blacks don’t you?”
So, you would hold an African American to a different standard than a “lily white boy” (your words, not mine).
So, once again: If I were African American, would you still be demanding an apology from me?
YOUR REFUSAL TO DEAL WITH MY QUESTION IS ANSWER ENOUGH.
HYPOCRITE.
You are caught on the horns of a dilemma.
The way you negotiate the horns of a dilemma is to try to pass through the middle of the two horns, and hope there isn’t a whole lotta bull to wade through. . .
Badda-bing!
There is a bit of a difference in how something’s recieved depending on who’s saying it. A lot of black comics used to (and some still do) do schtick based on jive talk. When Richard Pryor would do an imitation of one of the “brothers in the hood” hollering “Hey, nigga…what you doin’ out in the middle of the street? Wha’ you think you are, a stop sign?” it would have everyone in the audience siezed in gut-splitting laughter. If, say, Bob Hope tried the same line, people would go “Huh?” Similarly, Sarah Silverman can pull off her “neurotic oversexed Jewish girl” stuff, but it wouldn’t work coming from Bill Cosby.
To be fair to Puddybud:
Rush Limbaugh did get railroaded off ESPN for his remarks about McNab.
Well, as long as we are on “The Fairness Doctrine”, what did Darrell-Muddle-Head have to say about Bill Bennet. . . .
See, part of the problem is: For Miss Manners to be your Arbiter Dicta of all things right and proper, you have to cede her some authority based on her good sense, knowledge, consistency. . .etc.
Now for Darrell to achieve the status of the Arbiter of all things racial, the same standards shoud apply. . . . .
Puddbud:
Is some “lily white boy” trying to talk “black folk” stuff to you?!?!
Shiiiiit, tha’ honky mo’ fo’ bes’ be knowin’ better dan dat!
Throw down wit’ him, bro, knock is teef out his head.
GBS, we seem to have come a long, tortured way from someone going through the marketplace counting aloud in Mandingo to find someone to assist in the defense of the slaves from the Amistad. . . . .
By the way, I didn’t think The Jerk was funny.
@ 50
Mandingo??
You mean like “Man-a-dingo ate me baby!”
There were people of good will on both sides of the color barrier attempting to heal the horrendous canker on the human soul that was Negro African Slavery for 150 years before economics, self interest
, cycnicism and piggish capitalism dragged this country into its civil war.
I can only hope that men of good will continue to struggle to heal this canker. But the operative words are “Good Will”.
Let’s clear the air here regarding slavery. I am NOT for slave reparations, even though many of my family are. Why? I was not injured by slavery, my dead ancestors were. Now if you want to give $$$ to a charitable cause in my name and I can take a partial tax deduction this and next year, I can support that.
GBS: Ebonics is the use of words misspelled and mispronounced or combined to create new words. Just because you cut off the trailing consonant doesn’t make it ebonics.
Was – wuz for example
Because – cuz for example
Woppnin is a Jamaican word meaning What’s Happening? We hijacked it because it works well. Two syllables to say four.
“Hey! My Lily white Crackah Boy! Care for a Coors Lite?”
I think losing some of the hypersensitivity on both sides would go a long way toward creating some good will in the social mine field that exists between the Black and White races.
If you are as old as I am, you can Remember Bill Cosby (on his own variety show) doing a devastatingly funny imitation of a redneck.
It can be done — but not with assholes like Puddy seeking to exploit it for partisan gain.
I meant to post this here!
Where are the headlices’ and their faux outrage over how Mike Nifong pandered to the po blacks peeps to get their vote by trumping up bad charges against those three guys. He wanted another term so he could retire. Then he’s magically out of touch for today’s activities.
Here is the diff tween me and headlice. Mike Nifong needs to be stripped of his legal profession rights just like you all are NOW coming around on IMUS! Make the Moonbat! pay.
Where is the outrage? Scummy actions are scummy actions!
Speaking of ASSholes: Headlice
Nothing more needs writing…
Where is the moral outrage over Jesse Jackson and Al Sharption and the libtard MSM accusing these three guys.
Moonbat!s: Always accusing someone before the final evidence is provided.
Merry Fitzmas Moonbat!s
Here is the official term for headlice. I had to look it up cuz I had to get it right.
wigger: A male caucasion, usually born and raised in the suburbs that displays a strong desire to emulate African American Hip Hop culture and style through “Bling” fashion and generally accepted “thug life” guiding principles.
I think headlice wants to be one of us. He knows what it’s like to hang with us 24/7!
Headlice, ask Robert Three Sheets Byrd all about them. He explained it on 3600 Seconds.
Pudd: What about Scooter Libby, Alberto Gonzalez, Karl Rove and the entire criminal conspiracy that is the Republican fascist dictatorship?
Where’s your outrage.
W
Don Imus is a liberal and deserves his fate. I love watching Nazis devour each other. hehehehehehe
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18020519/
Why do publicans hate people who are sick and want to deny them lifesaving treatment?
So much for PRO LIFE.
I personally hope that Puffybutt and his ilk die of horrible illnesses that could have been cured by stem cell research. Better yet, let Publican asswipes watch their own children die for lack of stem cell research. That’s what they deserve.
Even Ronnie Raygun’s widow sees the value in Stem Cell research.
Mr Stupid: Still stupid.
I appreciate you wanting me to die of a horrible illness. You already have one per Michael Savage. Can you figure it out Mr Stupid?
Puddybud?
First, it was that great “libtard” news outfit, MSNBC, that was the network that did a lot of the investigative reporting on the incident, and has been calling, along with other MSM, for investigations of Mr. Nifong.
The MSM has been onboard with the idea that these young men were being railroaded for some time now. Lots of “libtard” opinions in the MSM that these young men were being “rushed to judgement” and that Mr. Nifong was out of control.
Next, Rev Jackson and Rev Sharpton have been almost completely silent about the whole affair from the beginning. Considering that they usually jump right in after any headlines along these lines, their silence speaks volumes.
Lots of us “libtards” have been of the opinion that those young men were the victim of a prosecutor pandering to voters, trying to look “strong” and “decisive”.
Oh, and Puddybud? While I realize that you’re having fun calling us “libtards” and “dumbasses” and “Donkocraps” and any number of other names, I wonder if you realize that many of the non-Christians here judge all of us by your words?
Somehow, I cannot imagine that if I were not a Christian already, that your words would encourage me to become one.
But what do I know? After all, I’m just a dumbass libtard Donkocrap.
I’ve read Galatians several times, including once after you mentioned it. Now maybe you should look at Matthew 7, especially verses 2 through 5 and 15 through 20.
This whole Imus thing has the left whirling in confused circles trying to figure out how to spin it. Political correctness comes home to haunt its inventors. How sweet it is.
And on the same day the Duke guys get exonerated. Will the left apologize for their rush to judgement and racism? Nah, they haven’t got the class.
Geez, what a great day this has been for the good guys!
robin says:
1.) not so fast what about Rush’s little dance in the chair mocking Michael J. Fox? He’s still on the air and what he did was equally mean.
This is an easy one. Conservatives are not politically correct so therefore they are exempt. Next question please.
I think you all have it wrong. The point of focus here should be in “global” terms. Not just a racial issue, the issue is that America has become mean spirited. Do you think for one minute that it comes down to whether people in control think that Imus was wrong, or is it because all the sponsors want to pull the plug. No CEO gives a shit about what Imus said, they only give a shit about their sponsors all leaving. So you all can go fuck yourselves!
RightEqualsStupid says:
I personally hope that liberals and their ilk die of horrible illnesses that could have been cured by stem cells. Better yet, let liberal asswipes watch their own children die for lack of stem cells.
Wait…. we already have that. Abortion. Nevermind.
What do little Bush and big Bush have in common. They both don’t know when to pull out.
#63 view #31.
And on the same day the Duke guys get exonerated. Will the left apologize for their rush to judgement and racism? Nah, they haven’t got the class.
Geez, what a great day this has been for the good guys!
Yes, it will turn out to be a good week if we can see some law suits being slapped on that liberal POS prosecutor Nifong. I hope those Duke boys get the money to take that guy to the cleaners.
Rather. Define “politically correct” without using the word “liberal.” If you can’t, go look up the word “equivocate” in the dictionary, understand its meaning, and strive ever harder to do it less often.
<feigned hurt>
Boy, I trot out Matthew 7, and I get no credit for it. Thanks, John.
</feigned hurt>
Good guys? Or did you mean Dickwads!
I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry about this whole thing. A whole bunch of people are getting their undies in a bundle about Don Imus. Meanwhile, our President is so incompetent that he can’t even find someone else to carry out the basic duties of a Commander in Chief.
One thing is abundantly certain: if you voted for George W. Bush, you have absolutely no business referring to the rest of us as “libtards”.
Don Joe:
Consider yourself credited. You’re welcome.
73
Hey I can be politically correct. I would never call anyone a “gun nut”; however I do call them a “2nd amendment advocate”. Does that count?
If Imus were a Republican, instead of a Democrat, Goldy would joyously join the chorus calling for his termination.
John Barelli: So far in my search I have Brendan Nyhan of MSNBC at attacking Sean Hannity early April 2006 over Sean saying wait there is a rush to judgment on the case. Seems Sean is right again John.
Is that what you are talking about?
On the Commie News Network they mentioned CBS is having a cow because Imus is ~25% of their revenues now that Howard Stern went to satellite!
Found Brendan Nyhan 040506 saying some inconsistencies but he still agrees with her story.
John Barelli: Tough search on this because there are some $$$ to google stacking my search strings with some worthless URLs popping up!
John Barelli: Many libTARD outlets attacking Sean Hannity over his where’s the real evidence in April 2006.
Hmmm John… Is this what you are talking about?
Durham County has the biggest Democrat numerical margin of any county in North Carolina — both in terms of Democrat vs. Republican voter registration, and in terms of Democrat vs. Republican votes in presidential elections. So it is not surprising that Durham County would be the setting for a baseless malicious prosecution of innocent people for political gain.
Here is some global warming news for you moonbats:
Snow closes schools, grounds airlines
By NATHANIEL HERNANDEZ
Associated Press Writer
CHICAGO — Hundreds of airline flights were grounded Wednesday, a major league baseball game was called and six people were killed in accidents on icy roads as yet another spring snowstorm hit the upper Midwest.
North Dakota and South Dakota both measured about 7 inches, and 5 inches fell in Madison, Wis.
“It’s kind of flying sideways,” hardware store owner Harvey Neu said in Menomonee Falls, Wis. “It’s not like a gently falling snowfall. It’s more of a get-out-of-my-face type of thing.”
About 500 flights were canceled at O’Hare International Airport because of poor visibility, said city aviation spokesman Gregg Cunningham.
Milwaukee’s General Mitchell International Airport also had delays and cancellations.
“I think we are all cranky about the weather,” said Pat Rowe, spokeswoman for General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee. “We are ready to be done with winter, but that’s the month of April in Wisconsin. … There’s really nothing that anyone can do besides book a flight to a warm location before the storm hits.”
Six people were killed in two separate accidents in Iowa, including a woman and her two children when their minivan collided with another minivan in the state’s south-central region.
Wednesday’s Houston Astros at Chicago Cubs game was postponed because of the storm. During the weekend, heavy snow wiped out scheduled Angels-Indians games for four straight days at Cleveland, and their contest was finally moved to Milwaukee’s enclosed field.
In Minnesota, truckers pulled over in droves to wait out the storm.
“It’s snowing and blowing and sloppy and slushy,” said Katie Toots, a cashier at the Shell’s truck stop in Albert Lea, near the Iowa state line in south-central Minnesota. “A lot of drivers just decided to stay put, ’cause further south it’s not any better.”
Nearly two dozen school districts canceled classes Wednesday across southern Minnesota, where up to 6 inches of snow was forecast. More closed in Iowa, where numerous vehicles had slid off slippery highways.
You moonbats can’t get anything right can you. hehehehehehehehehehehehehe
harharharhar hahahahahahahha
John: While searching to prove you true or not, I forgot about this one: ABC News Fair and Balanced:
http://thecablegame.blogspot.c.....-fair.html
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Wherever a liberal prosecuter reigns, there will be baseless charges filed for political gain. In fact wherever liberal journalists roam you will find the same outcome. I should know, I am still looking for that 1970s typewriter that wrote my last story. hehehe
I wonder how blowhard Gloria Allred now feels when she mysteriously appears to defend the accuser who now looks awfully dumb?
Rather. So, you don’t grok global warming. What do you expect us to do about it?
By the way, what’s your take on Chimpy’s failed attempts to get someone to do his job for him?
I grew up in New York. Don Imus was a prattling waste of time back then. He seems to have learned how to get attention. Bully for him. I hope he’s fired.
He had a privilege, and he abused it. Fire him. It has never, not ever, been acceptable for a powerful and wealthy white man to use such abusively demeaning language against innocent persons of color. Jesse Helms must be about to blow a gasket (and I hope he does)– for decades, he was our country’s No. 1 unapologetic white racist, and in all of that time, even he never dared to use such language in public. (And maybe in private– even his most bitter critics claimed he was a soft-spoken fellow when not campaigning.)
We have standards in this country, and the people who caterwaul the loudest about the slipping of such standards always do the most to degrade our lives. Start firing them right here, and reinstate the Fairness Doctrine. That alone will end most of the broadcast filth, because corporate owners will never stand to hear a left-wing Limbaugh or Imus skewer actual corporate whores in the terms Imus used for talented collegiate athletes.
Speaking of data manipulation, who can say they didn’t see this coming?
By the way, I’m not really the retired newscaster. I’m actually a right-wing nutjob who substitutes rancid snark for logic, understanding and empathy.
Yup, I’m a real schmuck. Best to ignore me.
Ok, Puddybud, let me help.
From April 24, 2006 “Duke Lacrosse Party Timeline”:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12...../newsweek/
(this article points out discrepancies between the stories.)
From June 18, 2006 “Doubts About Duke”:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13...../newsweek/
From June 11, 2006: “Lacrosse Scandal: The Duke Accuser—New Credibility Questions”:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13...../newsweek/
Considering that the charges were originally filed in April/May 2006, I think they started questioning the official story rather quickly.
Actually I was forced into retirement. The job market for lefty, lying journalist sure ain’t* what is use to be.
*ain’t- Ratherism for isn’t**
**-is*** not
***is- A word that needs to be defined when talking to liberals.
re 31: You’ve got it all wrong. You reason like a John Bircher from the 50’s.
31 Continued:
Nazis also employed teachers like the one posting comment 95.
Puddybud:
There’s a post stuck in the filter with several MSNBC stories dated between April and June of last year.
The titles are:
Exclusive: Battle Lines Are Drawn Over Duke Rape Charge (April 2006)
Doubts About Duke (June 2006)
Lacrosse Scandal: The Duke Accuser—New Credibility Questions (also June 2006)
Todays lessons:
1) Those who live by political correctness will die by political correctness
2) Wherever a liberal prosecuter reigns, there will be baseless charges filed for political gain.
Nuff said. Night all.
97
Yes, three stories vs thousands on the other side which all turned out to be lies. This is what we call in the MSM business as “fair and balanced”. Yes, you are one of the enlighten ones John. You will go far in the world of lefty journalism. Courage John, courage.
Yes, three stories vs thousands on the other side which all turned out to be lies.
THANK YOU DOOFUS FOR ENLIGHTENING US ABOUT FAUX NEWS. WE KNEW IT ALREADY BUT YOU HAVE TO GIVE CREDIT WHEN IT’S DUE.
IT’S HILARIOUS WHEN RIGHT-WINGERS TALK ABOUT LIES.
The right isn’t concerned about the three black men recently accused of raping a woman at their college. The right wants to hang the blacks and praise the whites. Racist assholes.
Ah, Mr. Rather.
Actually, these were the main stories from MSNBC between April and June 2006. There were lots more just from that one network.
CNN had stories as far back as May 2006 pointing out that the DNA evidence did not back up the accusations.
The Washington Post had similar stories also dating back to May 2006, as did the AP, Reuters, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, etc…
But of course you actually know this. You’re just enjoying wasting my time. In fact, I have had difficulty finding any major mainstream media outlet that was not reporting on the lack of DNA evidence, and the changing story of the alleged victim.
If I just post that “most of the mainstream media was telling this story many months ago”, you ask for specifics. Actually, Puddybud wanted specifics.
When I post specifics, you complain that I only post three. How many would you like? Will ten do? Fifty? A hundred? My going hourly rate for doing research is $100.00 per hour. Let me know where to fax the contract. I’ll start pulling more references as soon as I have the signed contract and a $500.00 retainer.
No, “Dan”. When I posted those three stories, it was because those three were some of the furthest back. Printed soon after the charges were filed, and on both MSNBC and NewsWeek.
So, where are your “thousands” of mainstream media stories?
In reply to #86:
Lots of people don’t seem to understand that the term “Global Warming” refers to a rise in the overall average temperature of the earth. This can cause both warming and cooling at the same time in different areas. The earth warms, and glaciers melt. Melted glaciers introduce more fresh water into the seas, causing certain northern harbors that usually remain ice-free in winter to see more ice-buildup,year after year.
This upward trend in average global warming can cause a change in regional climates, upward or downward on the temperature scale.
No doubt there were plenty of skeptics when Noah started babbling about how it was going to rain for 40 days and 40 nights.
#107: Those skeptics were called liberals back then. They all DIED!
#97: Too bad you can’t rewrite that history and hide it from your students. WHEN GUNS WERE TAKEN FROM THE GERMAN POPULACE HITLER RAN AMOK!!!
In Federal Way they are using new elementary history textbooks that skip WWII facts, like:
Japanese using Koreans as slaves
Hitler and the Holocaust
Why do you politically correct “progressives” believe in brainwashing the little ones so they become mind numbed jack booted goose stepping fascists?
John Barelli: I am not arguing your point MSNBC was openly questioning the Duke Rape Case. You are saying they were first. I seriously doubted it and I have Google to back me up. And I also wrote above how Sean was one leading the charge because of the attacks you can easily find on left wing turd sites attacking him for “How dare he question “the evidence””!
I remember watching Sean on the show and how Alan attacked him as being wrong last year just after the case started. If you are blind like Clueless then I can’t help you.
I posted this search “Sean Hannity says duke accuser is wrong March 2006” and “MSNBC says duke accuser is wrong March 2006”.
The first entry from Google was 4/19/04 for attacking Hannity. That’s before 4/24!
http://www.newshounds.us/2006/....._again.php
You have to wade through the paid postings to view other things.
Admit it John, Sean was on this case like MSNBC, but your side hates Sean and LOOKS LIKE HE WAS SPOT ON, EARLY ON!
Ok, Puddybud.
I hadn’t known that Mr. Hannity had put up a story that early. I suppose that I should make the point that he had also apparently rushed to judgement (albeit correctly) before most of the facts were known, but there is no disputing that he was correct on this story, and very early on.
An old saying about a “stopped clock” comes immediately to mind.
re 109: Imus hates Bush — but he IS a Republican and always has been.
Your Nazi Liberal meme isn’t going to work. Your whole thing is that Liberals are soft on national defense.
Another guy the left loves to hate, Bill O’reilly also had it right on the Duke case. Here’s his conversation with Al Sharpton back in April 2006, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,192277,00.html
Sharpton couldn’t wait to play the race card. What a surprise.
To get back to the original topic,(I know that’s difficult for many of you), here’s Goldy’s words at the end of his post: “But when you call for using the power of the state to silence others, you abdicate any and all of the moral authority you believe your printing presses confer upon you.”
Again I ask Goldy and the rest of the liberals who post here, are you therefore opposed to the restoration of the FCC “fairness doctrine” which is being pushed by the left?
Frankly, we are fast becoming the epitome of a Jerry Springer society. It seems to have become more important to have an audience and notoriety when confronting conflict than it is to attain resolve and mutual respect. That model seems to serve the needs of the exploited and those who seek to exploit; reinforcing all that relegates objectivity to the outhouse while making the frailty and imperfection of the human condition a spectacle that harkens back to the Coliseum.
This situation isn’t and shouldn’t be about whether liberals or conservatives, this race or that race, hip hop or honky-tonk, one group or another, are more offensive and therefore more responsible for all that is wrong with America. I am not capable of judging the whole of Don Imus nor am I capable of crafting a recipe to fix all of America…and neither are the countless pundits and partisans who have sought to frame it so.
I’m not a religious person…but I often find kinship with the imagery surrounding the portrayal of one called Jesus and his teachings of understanding and forgiveness. For all the banter I hear about the Bible and Christian values, it certainly seems to me that we are fast abandoning what many view as the sacred “tablets” in favor of the sacrosanct tabloids. If I’m right, all I can say is heaven help us.
Read more about the dynamics that lead a situation to become larger than the sum of its parts…here:
http://www.thoughttheater.com
re 114: If by “fairness doctrine” you mean that someone could go on the air and deconstruct everything Limbaugh says and expose them for the lies they are , then, YES. I’D be for it.
Would you be against exposing liars on the Airwaves that are owned by the American People?
If so, WHY?
#115. Way to dodge the question. Amazing the deafening silence here.
CRUCHON: GO BACK TO YOUR LIMBAUGH AND FAUX NEWS. THAT’S YOUR “TRUTH”.
Headlice@115: Why does it take the “Fairness Doctrine” to “deconstruct” Rush?
Are you saying it takes a law to “deconstruct” Rush because Moonbat!tism on the radio today has no answer?
Waaaaaa haaaaa haaaaaa HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR!
Nuff Said!
#117 – You can’t answer the question, can you? Just resort to the usual hot air about Rush and Fox News–neither of which you evidently know a thing about.
Bill: The web site should be rewritten to say:
We will try and recover those lost brain cells due to liberalism, drunken binges, and bong dalliances!
What’s totally cracking me up here is that I agree with Goldy’s post, yet I am unable to get even one response to my questions regarding the “fairness doctrine”.
Bill McCrutchbrain: How is giving the other side a chance to rebut your views giving the state the power to slence you — unless your speech can’t stand up to criticism.
“Your question is a non-sequiter” — and you are an idiot.
Bill McCrutchbrain: How is giving the other side a chance to rebut your views giving the state the power to silence you — unless your speech can’t stand up to criticism.
Your question is a non-sequiter — and you are an idiot.
Lucy, is that the best you can do, name call? It’s amazing how you liberals are unable to engage in dialouge, as much as you love the throw the word around.
How is my question regarding re-instituting the “fairness doctrine”,(supported by many on the left),a non-sequiter?
Honestly Lucy, maybe you need to re-read Goldy’s post, your response makes no sense.
“dialogue” sorry for the typo.
Bill Cruchon says: Honestly Lucy, maybe you need to re-read Goldy’s post, your response makes no sense.
Bill you are wasting your finger movements. Happens everyday with headlice!
“Bill you are wasting your finger movements. Happens everyday with headlice!”
I’m not surprised.
Notice how no one wants to touch this subject. What a great gotcha moment this is!
re 123 Fine. I’ll leave out the name-calling. Now what will you use to deflect attention from the fact that you have no argument ?
How is giving the other side a chance to rebut your views giving the state the power to silence you?
Unless what you are saying can’t stand up to criticism.
Sneering at what I’m saying is not an argument on behalf of your position. It’s meaningless.
“Notice how no one wants to touch this subject. What a great gotcha moment this is!” Bill Crutchbrain
You are a singleminded idiot.
Wow, I haven’t heard that kind of insult since the grade school playground.
Why do you even bother to post if you don’t want to have a discussion, Lucy?
re#27. I’m not arguing a point, I’m asking a question…which none of you lefties have the courage to answer, Lucy.
lily white (headless) cracker boy says:
“re 114: If by “fairness doctrine” you mean that someone could go on the air and deconstruct everything Limbaugh says and expose them for the lies they are , then, YES. I’D be for it.”
If any rightwinger lies on the air about something, I want a Democrat to be able to counter a lie with truth.
How can you be against that?
“If any rightwinger lies on the air about something, I want a Democrat to be able to counter a lie with truth.”How can you be against that?
Of course I’m not against that, but that’s not what restoring the “fairness doctrine” is about, it’s about muzzling conservative talk radio using the power of government.
Are you actually saying that Democrats are unable to counter what a “rightwinger” says on the air? My goodness, what do you think happens every day on ABC,NBC,CBS,MSNBC,CNN PBS, and NPR?
it’s about muzzling conservative talk radio
SO THE FREEDOM TO SPEW PROPAGANDA AND MAKE SHIT UP IS WHAT YOU’RE ALL ABOUT.
AND OF COURSE YOU BRING UP THE ALPHABET SOUP WHICH THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE WOULD APPLY TO AS WELL.
YOU SAY I DON’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT LIMBAUGH AND FAUX? THE BOTTOM LINE ABOUT THOSE TWO CAN BE SUMMED UP IN ONE WORD: LIES.
IN THE PUNY WORLD OF BILL CRUCHON THE TRUTH HAS A LIBERAL BIAS. 2+2=4 WOULD BE A CRYPTO-LIBERAL PLOT.
YOS LIB BRO, perhaps you’d like to give a few examples of the kind spewing “propaganda and make shit up” that you accuse Fox and Limbaugh of.
CRUCHON: WHAT? YOU CAN’T GOOGLE “LIMBAUGH LIES” OR “FOX NEWS CHANNEL LIES”? OF COURSE NOT, IT WOULD CAUSE YOUR WORLD TO COLLAPSE!!
LIMBAUGH: http://members.aol.com/Falconnn/rushlie.html
FAUX: http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/steinreich8.html
THAT’S NOT EVEN CLOSE TO SCRATCHING THE SURFACE!!!
Oh god, my world has collapsed thanks to a couple of lefty web sites! You can google “left wing lies” and get the same sort of thing.
Still my questions lingers…support reinstating the “fairness doctrine” or not. And perhaps a larger question, why are leftists so afraid of the free exchange of ideas? And please try to explain to me why you feel the left’s point of view is not being heard.
And by the way, I just watched a black man call Michelle Malkin,(substituting as host for Bill O’reilly on Fox) a “prostitute”. But there’s no free speech on Fox, no, not at all. Will he pay a price for his comments?
LEW ROCKWELL’S SITE IS LEFTY? YOU SURE WALKED INTO THAT ONE CRUCHON.
BUT THEN OF COURSE HE’S LEFTY – ANYONE WHO CALLS BS ON THE BANKRUPT VIEWS OF THE FAR RIGHT IS “LEFTY”.
WE’VE GIVEN LIARS LIKE LIMBAUGH THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT. HE’S FAILED. AFTER LAST NOV 7 HE SAID HE WAS NO LONGER “CARRYING WATER”.
SO ‘NUFF SAID ON THAT.
DON’T MAKE ME LAUGH ABOUT A “FREE EXCHANGE OF IDEAS” ON THE LIMBAUGH SHOW OR FAUX NEWS.
THAT FELLOW SUBBING FOR O’REILLY FITS RIGHT IN WITH FAUX NEWS.
CALLING MALKIN A PROSTITUTE IS THE LOWEST KIND OF INSULT TO THE WORLD’S OLDEST PROFESSION.
“THAT FELLOW (woman) SUBBING FOR O’REILLY FITS RIGHT IN WITH FAUX NEWS.
CALLING MALKIN A PROSTITUTE IS THE LOWEST KIND OF INSULT TO THE WORLD’S OLDEST PROFESSION.
This comment tells me all I need to know about you YOS LIB BRO. You ought to be ashamed of yourself. How low can you stoop?
WHOOPS MY BAD CRUCHON. I THOUGHT THE BLACK MAN WAS SUBBING FOR O’REILLY – SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER RIGHT THERE!!!
IN ANY CASE, GUESTS ARE CAREFULLY SELECTED FOR FAUX NEWS TO PLAY RIGHT INTO THEIR AGENDA.
MY COMMENT STANDS – THE GUEST FITS RIGHT IN AND CALLIN MALKIN, AS EMBARASSING A FRAUD AS ANY ON THE RIGHT, A PROSTITUTE IS AN INSULT TO PROSTITUTES!!!
AND CRUCHON, IF YOU’RE IMPLYING THAT MALKIN HAS ANY KIND OF INTEGRITY OR CREDIBILITY, THEN THAT TELLS ME ALL I NEED TO KNOW ABOUT YOU.
IAVA (Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America)
How did your congressional representative vote?
DEMOCRATS
Sen. Patty Murray gets a rating for supporting the troops of A-
Sen. Maria Cantwell gets a rating for supporting the troops of A-
Rep. Brian Baird gets a rating of supporting the troops of B
Rep. Adam Smith gets a rating of supporting the troops of A-
Rep. Norm Dicks gets a rating of supporting the troops A-
Rep. Jay Inslee gets a rating for supporting the troops of A
Rep. Jim McDermott gets a rating for supporting troops of C- SHAMEFUL
Rep. Rich Larsen gets a rating for supporting the troops of A
Washington Democrats GPA for supporting the troops: 3.625
TROOP HATERS i.e. Republicans
Rep. Dave Reichert gets a rating for supporting the troops a FUCKING D+ ALMOST A GOD DAMNED “F”!!!!!!!
Rep. Doc Hastings gets a rating for supporting the troops a whopping C At least Doc is a notch better than Jim McDermott.
Rep. Cathy McMorris gets a rating for supporting the troops a FUCKING D ALMOST A GOD DAMNED “F”!!!!!!!
Washington’s TROOP HATERS GPA for their unwillingness to support our troops: 1.33
The IAVA Rating is based on this legislator’s voting history on issues that affect US troops, Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans, and military families. ALL pieces of legislation that effect veterans are listed not just a select few as Puddybud tried to portray on an earlier thread. SHAME ON YOU PUDDYBUD for insinuating that Iraq and Afghanistan combat veterans would be so underhanded. STOP shitting on the troops at every chance you get just because conservatives HATE THE TROOPS!!
Fat, dumb, and unpatriotic is now way to go trough life, you TROOP HATERS!
Click on this link to take you to the web site of the non-profit, politically unbiased veterans group. http://www.capwiz.com/iava/dbq/officials/
Now, Puddybud, are you going to waiver from the truth or are you going to say Republican leaders DO NOT SUPPORT THE TROOPS!
Which is it Puddybud, your moral principles or your political leaders unprincipled hatred of our troops?????????????
“Honesty is above all else. I have never wavered from that
Pud
04/12/2007 at 2:44 pm”
Exposing the real TROOP HATERS is my new mission. I’m sick and tired of Ass Holes posting links pictures of unpatriotic Anarchists and then saying they’re on the side of Liberals. FUCK YOU ALL!
PacMan MTR, janet s., Right Stuff, Jack Burton, JCH, YO, PBJ, Jack Burton and the rest of you cowards, what do you think of your elected TROOP HATERS that you support?
I think you are ranting like an out of control looney. IAVA is a left wing group.
Good Points! I think Jesse Jackson can fuck himself too for having a short memory of when he had to apoligize for his anti semetic comments. Fuck ’em all.
It is my stance that the FCC has no purpose to exist other than to censor. It was created in a time when Americans had a choice of a handful of radio and television stations. Back when we didn’t just have the ability to change the station (which by the way, would have gotten Imus fired as well as anything else… IF and only if people were as offended by his statement as they pretended and actually stopped listening to his show). Now we have hundreds of television channels and radio stations to choose from. If you don’t want to see some guy giving his boyfriend a rimjob, change the fucking channel. If you don’t want your kids to see it… why the hell would you leave them unsupervised in front of an unrestricted television anyway.. what kind of parent are you?
There is NO valid reason for the FCC to exist anymore. Censorship protects nobody except those who are too lazy to change the station. Do we really believe that some sweet old grandmother would flip through the channels and come upon a scene so very horrid that she would drop dead of shock? Do we think that children can be ruined by watching filth on television.. and it would be anybody’s fault but their parents?
Its time we get rid of the FCC. It served its purpose and not goes above and beyond what it was ever intended for. Its a danger to the First Amendment. When something threatens the Second Amendment there is no shortage of Convervative opposition, why are Progressives so apathetic about losing the rights they are supposed to care about?
FUCK THE FCC.
David.. do me a favor.. drop a couple of F-bombs on your show. Don’t pay a fine. Fight it, based on grounds of being unconstitutional. If you want to give a warning, go right ahead “Sorry folks but I am about to use what some would consider offensive language, here is your ten second warning to change the station………. Fuckity fuck fucky mcfuckerson!”
Let it fly!
Fuck yeah!
These ‘arbiters of diversity and decency” are your people, goldy. Conservatives have been complaining about the PC police for years. The Leftists DON’T WANT free speech. However, the 1st amendment protects even jerks (unfortunately) like Imus, but the Left doesn’t want to hear it. If they are offended, people must shut up. Surely you’ve noticed for many years now?