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MadBadger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 09:33 AM
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WTF? IS this Amateur Hour on MSNBC?
Edited on Tue May-06-08 09:36 AM by hnmnf
Did I just hear Penn Jillette say that Obama did well in February cuz its Black History Month and Hillary did well cuz either March or April is "White Bitch" Month? I mean I did just hear that, right? Add that to the high school like "flirting" between Lee Cowan, Joe Scumborough and Mika Bre....whatever her name is. I mean seriously? Brokaw must be rolling in his grave..figuratively speaking of course.
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lisa58 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 09:35 AM
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1. Haven't they figured out...
...that they don't have enough to talk about to be on ALL DAY with election coverage?
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livetohike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 09:36 AM
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2. Over 4000 American service members dead in Iraq and
no one is talking about it. No one. I've already sent one e-mail to MSNBC today....not that it matters :grr:.
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Kaylee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 09:36 AM
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3. You're kidding......
:wow:
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berni_mccoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 09:37 AM
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4. I think they are all intoxicated at this point.
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 09:37 AM
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5. Well Penn Jillette is a comedian....
I think he was pointing out the idiocy of the MSM's obsession with the demographic analysis of elections. But I could be wrong...
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MadBadger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 09:37 AM
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7. Inexcusable. He should recognize that he isnt on HBO and shut his trap.
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Texas Hill Country Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 09:38 AM
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9. it is why they put him on the air? relax and get a sense of humor
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MadBadger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 09:39 AM
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10. Are you telling me to relax and get a sense of humor? HE CALLED HER A WHITE BITCH
Is bitch in play now?
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meow mix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 09:45 AM
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21. figures he's ok with that..
verifys my suspicions too.
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global1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 10:29 AM
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33. When Tina Fey And Amy Poeler Called Her A Bitch On SNL Weeks Back It Was OK?.......nt
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 04:47 PM
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47. That is terrible ~ where is the FCC on this kind of insult

Still looking at the clips of Janet Jackson!
:puke:
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OzarkDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 09:40 AM
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11. Who's up next? Skunk Baxter?
Commenting on foreign policy and nuclear disarmament as it relates to talks about a Steely Dan Reunion Tour? :eyes:
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 09:46 AM
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25. i worked with skunk. he's a little to the right of petraeus.
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 09:48 AM
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26. Penn Jillette would not be my 1st (or even 10th) choice to
be an on air political satirist. Ever since they had an episode of BULLSHIT! on Showtime defending Wal-Mart, he lost his luster for me...
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Boz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 09:45 AM
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19. Penn is a Libertarian AND Comedian
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 11:20 AM
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34. That's exactly what I was thinking.
It was supposed to be offensive and it was supposed to make us think.

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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 04:40 PM
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43. I guess my outrage meter isn't set as high as some peoples...
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 07:48 PM
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48. My outrage meter is set on high
but not in the way that many here can understand.

I find myself more upset with some posters not allowing others to hold adult conversations without them getting into a shouting match. The shouting comes from all sides and it angers me all the way around.

I wouldn't mind talking to a Republican on this forum, as long as they are civil. I'd love to get a completely different view of the the Dem race and I'd love to get some feedback on how they felt about their own race. As of this time no one on DU seems allowed to voice a different opinion-even those from their own party.

I don't know. Maybe I'm just tired, cranky and starving (but tired of looking at food all day long!). Maybe a dirty martini, a hot bath and an early bedtime is what the doctor ordered for today.
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Eurobabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 09:37 AM
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6. I tunred off the poison when I saw FATTimmeh.
:puke: Switched to CNN. :hi:
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OzarkDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 09:38 AM
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8. Why is an illusionist doing political commentary on national news?
What a circus the news media has become. Don't educate the masses, entertain them! :sarcasm:
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lisa58 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 09:40 AM
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12. If only it was entertaining...
...it's out-and-out insulting and they don't care.
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OzarkDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 09:42 AM
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14. What a disgrace
are they trying to chase away their women viewers?
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K8-EEE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 09:43 AM
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17. He's an expert at "illusion" so probably naturally a GOP shill
Where/why do they get these people?
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Teaser Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 09:41 AM
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13. Penn Jillette making jerky comments...
OH NOES!!!! THIS NEVER HAPPENS.
ITS TEH END OF TEH WORLD!
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DAGDA56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 09:43 AM
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15. Some NBC focus group probably said people were tired of the Rev Wright story...
...so now they're flopping around trying to find the next "big story", and marking time until then.
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DeepModem Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 09:43 AM
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16. I believe Mika and Joe just disowned the "bitch" comment; Mika said she was "insulted" by it.
Joe said his mother talks about how hard it is for women -- that strong men are praised, while strong women are, I guess, called names.

Maybe someone else was listening with full attention to this, and can confirm.
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MadBadger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 09:46 AM
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24. I caught the end of it. I switched though when he said it, thinking "Not again"
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newmajority Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 09:48 AM
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27. Yeah, Joe Scarborough is an expert on women
Or at least, on women turning up dead in his office.
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MadBadger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 09:50 AM
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28. And Joe ALWAYS Lets the woman talk, especially Mika and Rachel
ALways very courteous.
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 09:44 AM
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18. no one watches msnbc in the morning
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City Lights Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 09:45 AM
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20. IMHO, the only hour that isn't amatuer hour at MSNBC is when Countdown
is on.

For the most part, the rest of the stuff they air is as toxic as the other cable nooze stations.
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 10:08 AM
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32. ...
didn't you get the memo? Keith is now under the proverbial bus. His criticism of Hillary is apparently worthy of blacklisting one of the few progressive voices in the MSM...:eyes:
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newmajority Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 09:45 AM
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22. Penn Jillette is a right wing moron
He's such a Repuke apologist that he even got himself a role in a "celebrate 40 years of covering up the JFK assassination" TV show a while back.

Fuck that mulleted asshole
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 09:45 AM
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23. ALL DAY they don't have jack shit to talk about.....speculation news...all day
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Qanisqineq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 09:58 AM
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29. Penn Jillette is a major league asshole
to steal a phrase from Bush.
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newmajority Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 10:00 AM
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30. Big time
to steal a phrase from Darth Cheney.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 11:21 AM
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35. He is a gun nut
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 10:05 AM
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31. I can't even turn on MSNBC first thing in the morning because of SWILL from Joe Scumborough
That man, Joey the Scar, is shamelessly pandering in favor of HRC whom he refers to as "My Girlfriend." :puke:

I'm also so very disappointed with Mika and whomever is "blessed" to sit in the third chair. Mika giggles continuously and acts helplessly "ultra-feminine" while the 3rd chair Guy is always deferential to Joey the Scar. It's a putrid little coffee clutch.

"Morning Joe? " More like "MONARCH Joe." :puke:
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Erin Elizabeth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 11:27 AM
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36. Broadcast journalism, with rare exceptions, is a joke.
A total and utter joke. Jon Stewart proves that on his show almost every night with the clips he shows. They're just absurd.
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Political Heretic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 11:30 AM
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37. You've got to be kidding me. Was that really said?
Both of those things are jaw-droppingly stupid and outrageous.
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MadBadger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 11:32 AM
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38. Both were attempts at comedy. The first one could be considered funny, the bitch part...no way.
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Political Heretic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 11:43 AM
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39. Yeah um no... they are both pretty over the top
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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 11:46 AM
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40. Morning Joke Scarborough is the worst! Working hard after Kerry interview to turn Obama into Dukakis
Now NBC's Brian Williams is asking Michelle Cottle if this Clintons are trying to do this, as well?

The media is next to worthless.
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MadBadger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 11:48 AM
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41. Joe was arguing for Obama to do something that he HAS been doing.
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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 12:17 PM
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42. And Joe Scarborough damn well knows that he has!
Both Joe and Pat Buchanan are working full time to make Hillary our nominee. They are so transparent.

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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 04:42 PM
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44. Can we stop calling it "news" yet?
It's craptastic!
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zulchzulu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 04:46 PM
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45. I like Jillette until he opens his piehole about politics
He's a Repiglified moolyak.

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DemocratSinceBirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 04:47 PM
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46. Jillete Is Good When He Debunks Conspiracy Theories Or Shows The Idiocy Of Laws Against Prostitution
But he's way out of line on this...
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