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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 20, 2016 12:59:19 GMT -5
Chuck Dixon is actually a pretty good (and sometimes great!) writer when he isn't parroting gibberish from the Fox News Fantasy World. Errors, fabrications and distortions from Peter Schweitzer's "Clinton Cash". Peter Schweitzer is Senior Editor at Large for Breitbart News. Reminding me of Breitbart News makes me feel bad for making fun of the National Review. (Not really.)
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 20, 2016 13:22:18 GMT -5
Just a reminder of how good Chuck Dixon was at one time. Anybody who's read very many of my Batman comments knows how much I love the Riddler, especially old-time Riddler stories from the 1960s and 1970s. And yet, my favorite Riddler story comes long past the character's heyday. I'm talking about the three-part story in Detective Comics #705, #706 and #707. This is the cover for Detective Comics #706. Query and Echo are so awesome! Part of me wishes they would be brought back, but then I think of how long it's been since DC put out a decent Riddler story. Zero Year was ... not good. It was written by Chuck Dixon and the art is by Graham Nolan and David Roach. I had heard that Dixon was a Republican but I had no idea that he fallen so far that he allowed his name to be attached to something as disgraceful as "Clinton Cash." If I ever meet him, I'll try REALLY HARD to stay away from politics. I'll pretend this book never happened and ask him about how much fun he had writing that Riddler story.
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 20, 2016 17:35:37 GMT -5
I thought some of you might find this interesting, especially in the wake of the "rigged election" narrative that some in the GOP are always trying to promote. How many votes out of a billion cast were fraudulent?I'm guessing the most thoughtful retort will be "Just because nobody could find them doesn't mean they aren't there."
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2016 17:55:07 GMT -5
I thought some of you might find this interesting, especially in the wake of the "rigged election" narrative that some in the GOP are always trying to promote. Because of nasties like Scott Foval. A democrat got fired. And this was shown on the Clinton News Network (CNN) (Expired video link)
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 20, 2016 17:56:18 GMT -5
I thought some of you might find this interesting, especially in the wake of the "rigged election" narrative that some in the GOP are always trying to promote. How many votes out of a billion cast were fraudulent?I'm guessing the most thoughtful retort will be "Just because nobody could find them doesn't mean they aren't there." The other thing that it interesting is that Republican's control the Secretary of State's office in 33 states. So are they doing the rigging? Or are they incompetent?
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 20, 2016 18:08:04 GMT -5
You know, you'd think that if Hillary was really that bad, then the conservatives wouldn't have to just make up so much stuff to make her look so bad.
Honestly, it makes me feel very comfortable doubting everything I've thought about Hillary for the last thirty years.
Yeah, it's easy to find things I find distasteful, or things I disagree with her on. It hasn't been that long ago that she was bragging about being best buds with war criminal Henry Kissinger. Yuk!
Her statement about Edward Snowden at one of the Democratic primary debates was a lot more vehement than it needed to be to get her point across. I very much disagree with her on that. Her position sounded just like a Republican hack repeating the talking points.
But so much of the crap thrown at her over the years is just inane gibberish. Some of it pretty blatant. Like the conservative version of Benghazi. You have to accept a bunch of ridiculous conservative talking points, such as "The bleeding-heart liberals don't want to acknowledge terrorism exists," to even begin to believe the nonsense peddled by the conservative media all these years. "They lied and said the riot was caused by a videotape because they didn't want to acknowledge the existence of organized terror groups." (Or whatever.) Uh, what? That doesn't even make any sense. Preliminary intelligence indicated the violence was caused by the video, but they updated the story when they got new information. (I guess I can see why this would confuse some people because they never change their minds based on updated information.)
And so and so on for a dozen more conservative claims about the Benghazi national tragedy that the GOP has been disgracefully exploiting for all these years.
And so on and so on for a dozen (two dozen? three dozen?) more scandals mostly manufactured by the GOP.
It might have helped the GOP a lot if so much of these ridiculous stories weren't based on GOP talking points. When you start digging around in the details, it doesn't take long before you stumble across something that sounds like some clumsy fan fiction put together by somebody who listens to too much talk radio.
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 20, 2016 18:14:32 GMT -5
I thought some of you might find this interesting, especially in the wake of the "rigged election" narrative that some in the GOP are always trying to promote. Because of nasties like Scott Foval. A democrat got fired. And this was shown on the Clinton News Network (CNN) (Expired video link)Did you notice the part where the Democrat got fired for doing that? Or the part about how easy it is to turn a Trump supporter into a crazy person? And nothing in that video makes even a single step towards supporting the GOP's "rigged election" narrative. You know. The point that you ignored in the sentence you quoted. And you should be careful about using CNN coverage that's negative about the Democrats and then in the same comment calling it the Clinton News Network. (I could just as easily call it the Conservative News Network.)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2016 18:19:34 GMT -5
And nothing in that video makes even a single step towards supporting the GOP's "rigged election" narrative. "It's a very easy thing for Republicans to say they're bussing people in," Foval says in the video. "Well you know what? We've been bussing people in to deal with you fuckin' assholes for fifty years and we're not going to stop now. We're just going to find a different way to do it."
From around 2:40 in.
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 20, 2016 18:27:41 GMT -5
Oh God! James O'Keefe! This will fall apart pretty quickly (as always happens when O'Keefe is involved).
The faithful will internalize this and repeat it long after the fraud and deceit have been exposed (as always happens when O'Keefe is involved).
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 20, 2016 18:33:33 GMT -5
Lets take a look at some of the past history of James O'Keefe, shall we? Trump has funded O'Keefe through his foundation. O'Keefe's October Surprise shows he's still a hack and not a journalist.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 20, 2016 18:35:38 GMT -5
You have to accept a bunch of ridiculous conservative talking points, such as "The bleeding-heart liberals don't want to acknowledge terrorism exists," Perhaps "liberals" simply acknowledge that while terrorism exists, it still killls fewer American citizens annually than bee stings, and MASSIVELY fewer than the obscene quantity of firearms in private citizens's hands. But making a fuss about terrorism sounds so much better on TV. And it wouldn't do to suggest that nobody really needs a machine gun at home, no sir. Must defend ourselves! Against terrorists.
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 20, 2016 18:48:42 GMT -5
This latest O'Keefe hackery is still very new. (And the fact that CNN is reporting on it without carefully vetting it sort of dispels any serious consideration that CNN could stand for Clinton News Network.) But Snopes, god bless 'em, has already posted this: Project Veritas' Election 2016 "rigging" videos. From the article:
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 20, 2016 19:10:08 GMT -5
I'm posting this as a public service to Trump apologists. Just a head's-up about a fake story making the rounds in the conservative media. There's a video of black men allegedly vandalizing a car left unattended in a black neighborhood. The car is covered with pro-Trump bumper stickers and similar pro-Trump items. It was a "prank" that was picked up and reported as a real video by several conservative sites. (Hopefully they have taken it down by now. And maybe even printed an apology that they fell for it?) So I wanted to point this out before it gets posted as it could be very embarrassing. You're welcome! Right-wing sites report prank video as real.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Oct 20, 2016 21:53:07 GMT -5
I hate hypocrisy from both sides of the political spectrum
Do I recall incorrectly that for a few days after the 2000 election, Al Gore would not concede the Presidential election? And for years, even to this day, die-hard Democrats still insist that year's election was rigged.
How often do elections in the U.S. local and national have the initial loser demanding a recount? Is it not part of the process?
Does a defendant in a trial get asked if he plans to appeal his case if he loses? Would that even be thought of as a serious question? Again, part of the process
Now, Trump, as usually, totally mishandled the way he answered the question. And some politicians would answer it in a way to state that there is no way what so ever they will lose and the question is not worth a reply
But this sanctimonious BS coming from Democrats over something that hasn't happened yet is pitiful
Personally, I think Hillary wins by an avalanche and this all becomes moot. But give me a break
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Post by Spike-X on Oct 20, 2016 22:26:58 GMT -5
As I recall, Gore contested the result because it was very close, with many problematic issues having been revealed ('hanging chads' etc). He didn't start saying for weeks beforehand that the whole thing was rigged, and if the outcome wasn't to his liking he was going to take his ball and go home.
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