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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 22, 2015 19:50:08 GMT -5
And now Jon Voight has a less than adequate understanding of the terms progressive and communist. Who knew that Teddy Roosevelt was a Commie. Which begs the bigger question of...who really cares what "celebrities" think about anything outside whatever it is that caused their celebrity? Because, for the most part James Woods', John Voight's or George Clooney's political opinions are no more insightful or interesting than Bob down at the Piggly-Wiggly or Benedict the barista. This is a phenomenon that I am never going to understand. Count me in the people that can't understand why people who pretend to be fictional characters for a living somehow have more valid political or social opinions. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2015 20:11:33 GMT -5
I have not been watching the Benghazi Witchhunt Hearings but I have been looking at the transcripts and it looks like Hillary is totally pwning the congressional GOP dingdongs, despite all their gotcha questions that probably looked good in the echo chamber. Read the comments over on Fox News website. Your head might fall off from shaking so hard. There are literally THOUSANDS who think she is proving how evil/corrupt/criminal she is in the hearings, and how she is going to jail after today. but yes, she is absolutely owning these idiots who are questioning her. |
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Post by the4thpip on Nov 7, 2015 4:08:37 GMT -5
Hillary came over surprisingly likable on Jimmy Kimmel:
I think she hit all the right notes here.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Nov 7, 2015 18:38:00 GMT -5
And now Jon Voight has a less than adequate understanding of the terms progressive and communist. Who knew that Teddy Roosevelt was a Commie. Which begs the bigger question of...who really cares what "celebrities" think about anything outside whatever it is that caused their celebrity? Because, for the most part James Woods', John Voight's or George Clooney's political opinions are no more insightful or interesting than Bob down at the Piggly-Wiggly or Benedict the barista. This is a phenomenon that I am never going to understand. Could he just have his Roosevelt's confused? I could see someone (especially a right winger) calling FDR a communist (since he WAS a socialist, and many right wingers don't know the difference). Teddy, who was an actual, honest to god goverment-should-be-small-and-unions-suck Republican? There's no way even tea party nutsos can think that. |
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Post by berkley on Nov 7, 2015 19:01:02 GMT -5
Hillary came over surprisingly likable on Jimmy Kimmel: I think she hit all the right notes here. I've always found her likeable, as far as that goes. Her policies, like those of almost any politician with a chance of getting elected, are too far to the right end of the spectrum for me, but I've always thought she was a good speaker and generally presented herself well. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 9, 2015 11:48:26 GMT -5
I was traveling for a few days (family business) and only caught snatches of the news, but it appears that the last few days have been full of a new show that I've started calling "S#!T My Neurosurgeon Says." These long long presidential campaigns often provide too much daily and hourly information even for a longtime political junkie like me. (I started reading Newsweek regularly in 1973 because I was trying to figure out what Watergate was all about. I was nine years old.) So I usually take a week or so here and there where I merely glance at the news and make sure I'm not missing anything and mostly ignore the news if nothing that I find super-interesting is going on. But I find the Ben Carson phenomenon fascinating. He says the dumbest stuff, stories that don't really make sense, they don't even sound right, and now the fact-checkers have started picking over his book "Gifted Hands" (which some are now calling "Grifted Hands," which isn't very nice but I don't think it's the least bit unfair), and he plays the victim and claims he's being targeted by the Liberal Media (TM) and the secular progressives. But he's not flaming out. He is raking in the cash! The rubes love him! I'm starting to think he is a brilliant operator trying to make some cash and setting himself up for life as a media commentator for the conservative media (commonly known as the media). Actually becoming the nominee and even then going on to the presidency would be icing on the cake. And I don't have enough faith in my fellow Americans to rule it out. Here's the latest installment of "S#!T My Neurosurgeon Says" from Daily Kos: Ben Carson think media criticism of his lies is worse than birtherism . |
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 9, 2015 12:07:34 GMT -5
Carson might well be the William Jennings Bryan of the 21st Century, at least judging by the scathing obituary H. L. Mencken wrote for Bryan in The American Mercury. Cei-U! Everything old is new again! |
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 9, 2015 13:35:13 GMT -5
So if you want to see a bunch of videos with Ben Carson saying batpoop crazy things - including some batpoop crazy things you hadn't heard of before - here's a link to The Daily Banter. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Nov 10, 2015 9:49:34 GMT -5
I don't understand his popularity at all, as much as I hate Trump's brand of polotics the guy is charismatic so I can sort of get the pull he commands...but Carson has like zero charisma.
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Post by the4thpip on Nov 10, 2015 12:13:34 GMT -5
I am glad I don't have to do my job (career counseling psychologist at the Unemployment office) in the US right now.
At this point, every mouth breathing idiot's gotta think that he, too, could be a neurosurgeon.
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Post by berkley on Nov 11, 2015 3:24:26 GMT -5
I don't understand his popularity at all, as much as I hate Trump's brand of polotics the guy is charismatic so I can sort of get the pull he commands...but Carson has like zero charisma. I've never seen any charisma in Trump, myself, ever since Spy magazine was referring to him as "the short-fingered vulgarian". He has an obsession with thrusting himself into the spotlight but I don't think that's the same thing as charisma. |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 11, 2015 9:06:43 GMT -5
I don't understand his popularity at all, as much as I hate Trump's brand of polotics the guy is charismatic so I can sort of get the pull he commands...but Carson has like zero charisma. I've never seen any charisma in Trump, myself, ever since Spy magazine was referring to him as "the short-fingered vulgarian". He has an obsession with thrusting himself into the spotlight but I don't think that's the same thing as charisma. He's the spoiled child in the room who has to be the center of attention, screaming "Look at me! Look at me!" |
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Post by shaxper on Nov 11, 2015 9:21:14 GMT -5
The more we talk about Carson and Trump, the less we talk about Bush and Rubio -- and that's exactly what their supporters want. The Republican candidate for president needs to remain completely neutral and inoffensive until after the primaries.
In related talk, someone explain to me how we have a "liberal" media when Trump and Carson are all we are talking about? Even NPR did a segment on Trump's teenage years yesterday morning.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2015 9:49:37 GMT -5
I don't understand his popularity at all, as much as I hate Trump's brand of polotics the guy is charismatic so I can sort of get the pull he commands...but Carson has like zero charisma. I've never seen any charisma in Trump, myself, ever since Spy magazine was referring to him as "the short-fingered vulgarian". He has an obsession with thrusting himself into the spotlight but I don't think that's the same thing as charisma. what's interesting, is that everyone from Howard Stern, to Bill Maher are on record saying what a nice, and even tempered man Trump is in private. this public "persona" that we're seeing is all flash and smoke. . apparently he's quite an engaging person when dealing with folks one on one. |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 11, 2015 11:01:14 GMT -5
The more we talk about Carson and Trump, the less we talk about Bush and Rubio -- and that's exactly what their supporters want. The Republican candidate for president needs to remain completely neutral and inoffensive until after the primaries. In related talk, someone explain to me how we have a "liberal" media when Trump and Carson are all we are talking about? Even NPR did a segment on Trump's teenage years yesterday morning. Because everyone loves the sideshow? And train wrecks? |
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