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xchrom

(108,903 posts) Sun Dec 21, 2014, 07:56 AM Dec 2014

7 Demented Right-Wing Moments This Week: Fox Wants a Royalty Check From Colbert?

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/7-demented-right-wing-moments-week-fox-wants-royalty-check-colbert

1. Antonin Scalia: Torturing convicts is a no-go, but torturing suspects is A-OK.

Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia was asked this week by the BBC about the CIA’s fully exposed use of torture in the years after the 9/11 attacks, and he found, shall we say, some rather interesting hairs to split.

2. Fox Newsian: No fair. Colbert got rich off of our idiocy.

A shocking outbreak of truthiness and Christmas spirit occurred on Fox News on Friday. The Five gang was sitting around acknowledging that Colbert’s finale was pretty darn impressive. Among the things they marveled at was Henry Kissinger’s presence on the show and Kareem Abdul Jabar’s height.

3. Ann Coulter: Women who are raped just want attention.

Ann Coulter says she does not know anyone who has been raped. Odd, isn’t it. You’d think she’d be the warm and fuzzy female friend many a woman would turn to after a traumatizing event. Last week, the conservative radio personality appeared on the Lars Larson Show and asserted that the whole campus rape thing is an invented problem, and the Rolling Stone story proves it.

4. Fox Business Newsian: Elizabeth Warren is the devil.

Melissa Francis needs to get a grip. The Faux Business host promised that Wall Street will devote all of its resources to defeat its arch nemesis Elizabeth Warren should the reform-minded Massachusetts senator decide to run for president. They will do this, Francis says, because bankers and traders believe Warren is “actually the devil.” Yes, actually. And she agrees with those bankers and traders. “I mean, without question, Elizabeth Warren is the devil,” she said.

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7 Demented Right-Wing Moments This Week: Fox Wants a Royalty Check From Colbert? (Original Post) xchrom Dec 2014 OP

Kicked and recommended a whole bunch! Enthusiast Dec 2014 #1

... xchrom Dec 2014 #2

K&R DeSwiss Dec 2014 #3

Post removed Post removed Dec 2014 #5

how. dare. you....Thespian2 BlancheSplanchnik Dec 2014 #11

Proud to be on this jury...... msanthrope Dec 2014 #13

Proud to have been on this jury, too. It may have been "a joke", but rape has no funny component. marble falls Dec 2014 #14

thanks! BlancheSplanchnik Dec 2014 #15

Rape is not about desire or looks. It is about power, domination, and subjugation of women. Agnosticsherbet Dec 2014 #12

I will repeat here what I posted as a comment on Alternet Fortinbras Armstrong Dec 2014 #4

Cheny/Bush torturers were not interested in obtaining convictions Martin Eden Dec 2014 #6

Not trying to sound like a jerk..... daleanime Dec 2014 #9

Agree. Additionally Ineeda Dec 2014 #17

Depends how you define "intel" Martin Eden Dec 2014 #18

Whatever definition you use..... daleanime Dec 2014 #19

Excellent post. I would remind you that Scalia is the Louie Gohmert of the supreme court. Enthusiast Dec 2014 #7

Scalia doesn't care! He just doesn't care. Dustlawyer Dec 2014 #8

Very good idea..... daleanime Dec 2014 #10

What, you could only come up with 7? zeemike Dec 2014 #16

Enthusiast

(50,983 posts)

1. Kicked and recommended a whole bunch!

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Sun Dec 21, 2014, 08:14 AM

Dec 2014

Thank you, xchrom.

xchrom

(108,903 posts)

2. ...

Reply to Enthusiast (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 21, 2014, 08:19 AM

Dec 2014

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)

3. K&R

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Sun Dec 21, 2014, 08:26 AM

Dec 2014

Response to DeSwiss (Reply #3)

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BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)

11. how. dare. you....Thespian2

Reply to Post removed (Reply #5)

Sun Dec 21, 2014, 10:21 AM

Dec 2014

Sensible beings rape wisely?

Rape is a matter of aesthetics?

Rape is a compliment?

The worst insult FOR A WOMAN is that she's. NOT WORTHY OF RAPE?

What kind of crown do you think men wear, anyway?

msanthrope

(37,549 posts)

13. Proud to be on this jury......

Reply to BlancheSplanchnik (Reply #11)

Sun Dec 21, 2014, 10:37 AM

Dec 2014

On Sun Dec 21, 2014, 07:25 AM an alert was sent on the following post:

Look closely.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5987776

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

self explanatory

JURY RESULTS

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Sun Dec 21, 2014, 07:35 AM, and the Jury voted 6-1 to HIDE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Mixed feelings on this one...the poster probably thought they were being funny or clever when in fact they looked stupid...But not willing to hide for being stupid.
Juror #2 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Jeebus Christ....did you take a wrong turn at DI and end up here?
Juror #3 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Over the top and around the bend. The stuff banning is woven from. MIRT?
Juror #4 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #5 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: "What sensible human being would want to rape"???? I presume the person who wrote this thinks rapists pick their targets based on some sexual attraction; and are "sensible"? Seriously? I guess that explains rape as a weapon of war, as a weapon of torture as reported in the torture report, prison rape? What kind of person even thinks something like that?
Juror #6 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Rape is not a matter of sensibility. this is a really horrid post.
Juror #7 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: "Want to rape"? As if someone wanting to rape a woman is bestowing some sort of honor?

Thank you very much for participating in our Jury system, and we hope you will be able to participate again in the future.

marble falls

(57,075 posts)

14. Proud to have been on this jury, too. It may have been "a joke", but rape has no funny component.

Reply to msanthrope (Reply #13)

Sun Dec 21, 2014, 10:43 AM

Dec 2014

BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)

15. thanks!

Reply to msanthrope (Reply #13)

Sun Dec 21, 2014, 10:46 AM

Dec 2014

Agnosticsherbet

(11,619 posts)

12. Rape is not about desire or looks. It is about power, domination, and subjugation of women.

Reply to Post removed (Reply #5)

Sun Dec 21, 2014, 10:31 AM

Dec 2014

You appear to have zero understanding about the nature of rape.

You seem to share you apparent lack of understanding concerning Rape with Ann.

You should consider apologizing for turning rape into a joke and a political comment.

Fortinbras Armstrong

(4,473 posts)

4. I will repeat here what I posted as a comment on Alternet

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Sun Dec 21, 2014, 08:46 AM

Dec 2014

I would suggest that Justice Scalia acquaint himself with the case of Brown vs. Mississippi, 297 U.S. 278 (1936).

Raymond Stuart, a white planter, was murdered on March 30, 1934. Arthur Ellington, Ed Brown and Henry Shields, three black tenant farmers, were arrested for his murder. At the trial, the prosecution's principal evidence was the defendants' confessions to police officers. During the trial, however, prosecution witnesses freely admitted that the defendants confessed only after being subjected to brutal whippings by the officers. One of the deputies testified

with reference to the whipping of the defendant Ellington, and in response to the inquiry as to how severely he was whipped, the deputy stated, 'Not too much for a negro; not as much as I would have done if it were left to me.'

Chief Justice Hughes, speaking for a unanimous court, summed up with "It would be difficult to conceive of methods more revolting to the sense of justice than those taken to procure the confessions of these petitioners, and the use of the confessions thus obtained as the basis for conviction and sentence was a clear denial of due process."

So gosh, Mr. Scalia, there is a legal precedent saying you can't torture suspects. Perhaps if you knew something about constitutional law, you would have known this.

Martin Eden

(12,863 posts)

6. Cheny/Bush torturers were not interested in obtaining convictions

Reply to Fortinbras Armstrong (Reply #4)

Sun Dec 21, 2014, 09:53 AM

Dec 2014

They were looking for intel, and it didn't matter a whole lot whether it was good intel as long as it could be used to support their case for invading Iraq.

daleanime

(17,796 posts)

9. Not trying to sound like a jerk.....

Reply to Martin Eden (Reply #6)

Sun Dec 21, 2014, 10:16 AM

Dec 2014

But it wasn't Intel they wanted, it was an excuse. Something they could use as political cover. To allow it to be called Intel buys into their scheme and helps them out.

Ineeda

(3,626 posts)

17. Agree. Additionally

Reply to daleanime (Reply #9)

Sun Dec 21, 2014, 11:10 AM

Dec 2014

it was punitive -- plain and simple sadism, and they took great pleasure in it.

Martin Eden

(12,863 posts)

18. Depends how you define "intel"

Reply to daleanime (Reply #9)

Sun Dec 21, 2014, 11:46 AM

Dec 2014

I thought I was pretty clear in pointing out the illegitimacy of their usage.

daleanime

(17,796 posts)

19. Whatever definition you use.....

Reply to Martin Eden (Reply #18)

Sun Dec 21, 2014, 01:44 PM

Dec 2014

it makes it easier for those who want to use the other one. It was never about any kind of 'intel'.

And, yes you were, but these rats deserve no wiggle room.

Enthusiast

(50,983 posts)

7. Excellent post. I would remind you that Scalia is the Louie Gohmert of the supreme court.

Reply to Fortinbras Armstrong (Reply #4)

Sun Dec 21, 2014, 10:07 AM

Dec 2014

He knows little outside of his tight ideological world.

Dustlawyer

(10,495 posts)

8. Scalia doesn't care! He just doesn't care.

Reply to Fortinbras Armstrong (Reply #4)

Sun Dec 21, 2014, 10:07 AM

Dec 2014

I would like to also comment that Rolling Stone should do a huge, in-depth story on campus rape, military rape, office sexual harassment, and whatever I have left out concerning the subject of rape. We all knew that pieces of shit like Coulter would use RS's monumental screw up to say that there is not a rape problem and that women are making this up. The story needs to be impeachable, thorough, and graphic! This is what they should do to make up for their fustercluck!

daleanime

(17,796 posts)

10. Very good idea.....

Reply to Dustlawyer (Reply #8)

Sun Dec 21, 2014, 10:18 AM

Dec 2014

that every one would sent to the Rolling Stone.

zeemike

(18,998 posts)

16. What, you could only come up with 7?

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Sun Dec 21, 2014, 10:56 AM

Dec 2014

Must not watch much TV then.

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