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ChipperbackDemocrat

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Tue Apr-24-07 08:21 AM
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A good response to this lunacy

Edited on Tue Apr-24-07 08:22 AM by ChipperbackDemocrat

A good response to those who feel the tragedy at Virginia Tech was "caused by liberals".

From Conceptual Guerilla

http://www.conceptualguerilla.com/?q=node/633

"conservatives overlook another interesting fact about the entertainment business. It is pure "free market" capitalism. All that morally bankrupt nihilism on the silver screen is bought and paid for by the movie going public. It is nothing more than supply and demand in action. Hollywood teen sex and slasher movies are produced for one simple reason. That's what people want to watch. As for television, conservatives never seem to get around to asking who pays for it. Jerry Bruckheimer doesn't get grants from the National Endowment For The Humanities. Neither is George Soros subsidizing the daily output of shit-coms, cop shows and "reality TV." Every bit of that schlock is financed by American corporations like Ford Motor Company and Coca-Cola -- not to mention all the Insurance Companies, oh and Wall Street brokerages who run 12 minutes of commercials for every hour of electrical shit beamed into your living room."

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ms liberty

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Tue Apr-24-07 08:48 AM
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1. Wow - that is good! KR&B n/t

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Rydz777

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Tue Apr-24-07 09:03 AM
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2. All very true

and as we cease to manufacture things like electronics, we produce more and more "content," having become the world's largest exporter of schlock, dreck, and pornography.

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The Magistrate

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Tue Apr-24-07 09:11 AM
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3. An Excellent Piece, Sir!

A pleasure to give it its first recommendation for the Greatest page.

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JNelson6563

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Tue Apr-24-07 10:03 AM
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4. More like School of the Americas

and I don't know of many Dems/Liberals who think that's a good idea.

Julie

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