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Mythsaje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 03:36 AM
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We're just getting started...
When David Gregory blames the bloggers and the internet for the political polarization in this country, he's not just "whistling dixie."

After all, it was the people on the internet that turned a political ideology into the equivilant of a swear word, not RW radio assholes like Rush Limbaugh, or "authors" (I use that term loosely, being that I am myself an author) like Ann Coulter.

Not really.

It had nothing to do with the Republicans attempting to create a one-party state and doing their best to marginalize at least half of the country, to eliminate any chance they had of retaining a voice in government.

It was US choosing, finally, to use this new medium--for which we should thank Albert Gore for having the foresight to help get it off the ground--to fire back at these yammering radio assholes and their Republican shitheel masters that caused the wide political rift to form.

It had nothing to do with the media fuckwads who, while at the same time buying into the whole "liberal media" myth, started replaying everything the Republican Party and the Bush Administration said like they were a pack of particularly stupid parrots.

It was because we, the people, used this wonderful new tool to disseminate REAL information that showed them for the profiteering fuckwads they truly were.

David Gregory can go piss up a rope. He can go fuck a rolling donut. He can take a long walk off a short pier. Because it's people like HIM that helped create this rift. And he sure as HELL isn't doing a damn thing to help heal it.

Assuming it can even be healed at this point.

On one side, predatory assholes who want to drain everything good and decent and caring from the world.

On the other side, decent, hard-working Americans who just want to be given a fair shake in life, who care about each other, and care about the world in which we live.

We know what side YOU'RE on, Mr. Gregory. The side of the walking, talking penises.

Why don't you go fuck yourself, you gawd-awful parasite. Your opinion isn't worth a wad of used toilet paper.

And we're not ANYWHERE near done. We'll keep telling the truth as long as you keep lying. We're contrary that way.

Deal with it.
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ClayZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 04:12 AM
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1. WooooooHooooo! K and R
:kick:

GREAT RANT!
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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 04:20 AM
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2. yes, fuck him.


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Adsos Letter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 05:47 AM
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3. If David Gregory had a hair on his ass...
he would grow a set of balls and start acting like a real journalist...like that 80+ year old Helen Thomas. Just imagine what just 2 more like her could accomplish at the pressers...
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Elspeth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 05:16 PM
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11. Please note that Helen does not have balls, as she is biologically female
Can we settle on "guts" as a euphemism for courage instead of still focusing on the most sensitive parts of the male anatomy?
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NI4NI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 06:41 AM
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4. k/r
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 07:43 AM
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5. The rift was already started in the 90s by right-wing bloggers like Drudge.
We're just returning balance to the universe.

By the way, if there were no blogs, then it would only make it easier for the t.v. moguls to push gov. propaganda. You can't base the foundation of a super power on a house of cards.
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Perry Logan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 07:53 AM
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6. It's the second civil war, people. This isn't over till the right are driven out of our country.
Edited on Mon Dec-03-07 07:53 AM by Perry Logan
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TheDoorbellRang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 08:47 AM
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7. Love this!
It reminds me of the beginning of Al Pacino's righteous rant in Scent of a Woman:

Trask: Are you finished, Mr. Slade?

Slade: No, I'm just gettin' warmed up. I don't know who went to this place, William Howard Taft, William Jennings Bryan, William Tell -- whoever. Their spirit is dead -- if they ever had one -- it's gone. You're building a rat ship here. A vessel for sea goin' snitches. And if you think your preparing these minnows for manhood you better think again. Because I say you are killing the very spirit this institution proclaims it instills! What a sham. What kind of a show are you guys puttin' on here today. I mean, the only class in this act is sittin' next to me. And I'm here to tell ya this boy's soul is intact. It's non-negotiable. You know how I know? Someone here -- and I'm not gonna say who -- offered to buy it. Only Charlie here wasn't sellin'.

Trask: Sir, you are out of order!

Slade: Outta order? I'll show you outta order! You don't know what outta order is, Mr. Trask! I'd show you but I'm too old; I'm too tired; I'm too fuckin' blind. If I were the man I was five years ago I'd take a FLAME-THROWER to this place! Outta order. Who the hell you think you're talkin' to? I've been around, you know? There was a time I could see. And I have seen boys like these, younger than these, their arms torn out, their legs ripped off. But there isn't nothin' like the sight of an amputated spirit; there is no prosthetic for that. You think you're merely sendin' this splendid foot-soldier back home to Oregon with his tail between his legs, but I say you are executin' his SOUL!! And why?! Because he's not a Baird man! Baird men, ya hurt this boy, you're going to be Baird Bums, the lot of ya. And Harry, Jimmy, Trent, wherever you are out there, FUCK YOU too!

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/specialengagements/moviespeechscentofawoman.html


This has been going on for years -- libs being blamed for the "division" in this country. I had to sit thru a commencement address by David Broder back in 2005 where he said if libs would just play nice, there wouldn't be these ugly divisions in the nation. I thought it was bullshit then and it doesn't smell any better today coming out of Gregory. Thanks, Mythsaje

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DCKit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 04:51 PM
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8. David Gregory is, and has been, a total WH TOOL for the duration.
Any time I see him parroting WH talking points I can't change the channel quickly enough.

Is it impossible to believe that the media will ever regain the standards they once held for reporting actual, unbiased news? The deceased icons of the industry should be haunting these asswipes nightly.
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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 05:09 PM
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9. If everyone just shut their mouths and submitted to the invincible will of great leader...
all would be well.
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sicksicksick_N_tired Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 05:15 PM
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10. You rant GOOOOD!!!!
:applause:
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 05:18 PM
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12. K&R
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HCE SuiGeneris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 05:20 PM
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13. Bravo!
I feel much better after reading that. :bounce:
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AuntPatsy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 05:54 PM
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14. Love the rant.......sadly there are those who will simply parrot this guys words
as if they were the gospel truth.
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