April 24, 2014

Ride-Along News and the Drive-By Media
— Ace

Here's the insidious thing about the "Girls Make Less in Allowance Than Boys, #WarOnWomen" story and others like it.

When the media has decided something is Big News, they do a series of related (or barely-related) stories about it. The Media has obviously decided that the #WarOnWomen #FightPayInequality hashtags are Big News (because Obama told them they were).

I'll call these sorts of stories "Ride-Along News." These stories would not be reported, except that they are riding along with a bigger story.

In most cases they're either not stories at all, or they are microstories.

The purpose of these Ride-Along Stories is simply to keep the Big Story, vaguely, in the news, by frequently mentioning the basic theme of it in other contexts. You can't report on the #WarOnWomen #FightPayInequality hashtags when there's no new news; these sorts of Ride-Along micro-stories allow the media to indulge its biases and continue hitting the same themes and pushing the same political line without the effort of actually doing any new reporting on the actual story itself.

And of course which stories get selected for this Ride-Along coverage is shot through with ideological bias and, increasingly, simple partisan bias. The Democrats have decided the #WarOnWomen is one of the few cards they can play this election cycle; the media eagerly snaps to attention, understanding that Orders Have Been Given, and begins looking around for micro-stories to reinforce and propagate the Democrats' fall campaign themes.

Obviously, the media could choose to do Ride-Along reportage of stories that the Republicans are pushing. They could report on the continuing grim state of the economy; they could report on the economy as they would were it the responsibility of a Republican president, offering up heartbreaking slice-of-life stories about individual victims of the Great Recession.

Given that Clive Bundy is in the news, they could do a series of reports on federal land management, and how much land is under federal control, and the tensions this creates with locals, and so on.

Given that GM, while under the ownership of the Obama White House, pumped out a series of defective cars and concealed these defects from the public, the media could have done a series of Ride-Along stories about previous "government-private" partnerships -- like Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Solyndra -- and reported on how all of those worked out for the taxpaying citizen.

But they don't, of course.

The media's idea of "neutrality" is to cover both parties' stated lines, briefly (though with Democrats' lines getting the majority of coverage).

And then they fill up the news with Ride-Along stories reinforcing the Democrats' favored campaign themes, with no coverage at all -- no oxygen, no human interest, no Weird and Wacky stories -- for Republican themes.

Matt Lauer and Natalie Morales will swear on a stack of Bibles that it Just So Happens that this #WarOnGirlsAllowances just happened to become news at the same moment the president was pushing his #WarOnWomensPay campaign theme.

Of course, that's a lie. They chose the story -- a micro-story which isn't even a story; it's a poll by someone we never heard of before ("Junior Achievement"?), typed up by the leftwing Think Progress blog -- because it reinforces their political agenda.

Natalie Morales confesses exactly that in the piece linked below: "So basically, girls are doing more for less. This sounds kind of familiar right?""

Note if they were just casting about for any story on #WarOnWomen, whether it reinforced Democrat campaign themes or undermined them, they could have discussed that much-more rigorous and serious news that even in Pay-Equity-Crazy Sweden, women still work fewer hours, and still work more frequently in part-time jobs, and still favor the occupations imposed on women by the Oppressive Male Patriarchy, the so-called "caring" professions.

That's also an important data point in this alleged American #WarOnWomen, no? That's almost as important on this single poll by "Junior Achievement" on children's allowances, no?

But of course they didn't do that. No, they chose the silly, Buzzfeed-y non-story that not only kept the #WarOnWomen meme in the public consciousness, but also furthered the Democrats' preferred political line on the #WarOnWomen.

That story didn't agree with their Democratic worldview. (Not liberal ideologically, mind you, but straight-up partisan Democratic.)

I guess it's not true that the media will never do Ride Along stories on Republican attack lines. If a Republican attack line becomes powerful, they will of course begin doing Ride-Along stories to undermine it, check it, and refute it.

I trust everyone remembers the gangbusters business the media did in the "Everyone Lies, At Least Sometimes" stories when it became obvious that Bill Clinton had perjured himself under oath and then directly wagged his finger at the American public.

I ask again rhetorically: For how much longer does the childish media insist on maintaining this risible fiction that they are not Democratic propagandists?

And how can it be that an institution allegedly concerned with "reporting the truth" places such a critical importance on an official corporate position requiring lying about their political agenda?


From the Junior Achievement Website:

This survey was conducted online within the United States by Harris Poll on behalf of Junior Achievement USA from February 12-24, 2014 among 1,234 youths ages 8-18. This online survey is not based on a probability sample and therefore no estimate of theoretical sampling error can be calculated.

So it's not really a poll.

Gee, I guess Think Progress just forgot to report that, and NBC forgot to look into it.

But this story achieved its purpose: It got the #WarOnWomen story into the mainstream media another day.

It got into the mindspace of a few thousand low-information voters. This factoid will persist in their minds and influence their voting behavior.

That was Think Progress' goal, and that was NBC's goal.

Mission Accomplished.

thanks to @tsrblke.

Update: Commenters are telling me that Junior Achievement is an organization that sends corporate higher-ups to classrooms to, I guess, sell them on the idea of going into business, or excelling in whatever field they choose.

They say it's not partisan at all.

That may be true. And maybe they just did this non-poll as a fun-fact sort of thing.

But the Left has its paid professional meme generators at Think Progress, and they of course promoted the poll, and then NBC -- with apparently no fact-checking whatsoever -- put the Ride-Along News-Like Substitute on the airwaves a single day later.

The transmission from hard-left-wing/paid professional partisan propaganda outfit to the "mainstream" NBC took exactly 24 hours.

As Natalie Morales might say: "That sounds kind of familiar, right?"

Posted by: Ace at 09:23 AM | Comments (292)
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Posted by: maddogg at April 24, 2014 09:24 AM (xWW96)

2 Not first!

Posted by: EC at April 24, 2014 09:25 AM (GQ8sn)

3 For how much longer does the childish media insist on maintaining this risible fiction that they are not Democratic propagandists?


(stamps foot) who you calling childish, you naughty mans?

Posted by: the juicebox media, cuz bush! at April 24, 2014 09:25 AM (RPDkq)

4 I ask again rhetorically: For how much longer does the childish media insist on maintaining this risible fiction that they are not Democratic propagandists?



How much time you got?


Posted by: EC at April 24, 2014 09:25 AM (GQ8sn)

5 Latest map of the UK: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bl-KIq2CQAA__zr.jpg

Posted by: Sir Pug A Lott at April 24, 2014 09:27 AM (8c12T)

6 How in hell do the even know how much allowance any girl gets? Self-reporting? Why? Who was doing the asking? Horseshit smells the same no matter the horse it falls from.

Posted by: tcn at April 24, 2014 09:27 AM (lp+pe)

7 They never reach for the check so they don't need as much money.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 09:27 AM (LJ7Ze)

8 Again I ask, if women are, all things equal, 23% cheaper then men why do businesses hire men at all? Just hire women and you boost the bottom line. Why are the principles of labor economics seemingly suspended in this one instance?

Posted by: scofflawx at April 24, 2014 09:28 AM (y9ZJX)

9 2Not first!

Posted by: EC at April 24, 2014 01:25 PM (GQ8sn)

 

 

Thats right, poser! Heh.

Posted by: maddogg at April 24, 2014 09:28 AM (xWW96)

10 For how much longer does the childish media insist on maintaining this risible fiction that they are not Democratic propagandists? Somebody described it best in a comment earlier this morning: They are the "State Media Bureau".

Posted by: rickl at April 24, 2014 09:28 AM (zoehZ)

11 Love the news based upon polls. Because God knows we can't get out of the office and do any digging for a real story, Benghazi, Fast and Furious, et al.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 24, 2014 09:28 AM (HVff2)

12 For how much longer does the childish media insist on maintaining this risible fiction that they are not Democratic propagandists?

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All the way to the scene of the crash.

Posted by: fixerupper at April 24, 2014 09:29 AM (nELVU)

13 Dick envy takes many forms.........

Posted by: maddogg at April 24, 2014 09:29 AM (xWW96)

14 "I ask again rhetorically: For how much longer does the childish media insist on maintaining this risible fiction that they are not Democratic propagandists?" Shut up or I'll call you a racist again.

Posted by: Your Betters in the MSM at April 24, 2014 09:29 AM (eKZp1)

15

When the media has decided something is Big News, they do a series of related (or barely-related) stories about it.

 

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I would modify that slightly.  When the press thinks a certain story will help their political party, they do a series of related or barely related stories.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 24, 2014 09:29 AM (sBUAE)

16 You have a right to know when your news is biased, especially when that news sends a freezing wind of futility howling up your spine.

pg. 225, The Chernobyl Syndrome. Dean Ing. Baen Publishing. 1988

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 24, 2014 09:29 AM (L8umz)

17 Tell it to the $200 hooker!

Posted by: RolandTHTG at April 24, 2014 09:29 AM (QM5S2)

18
Wait just a minute here..... this is a ride along story to the last post about the stupid damn media isn't it?


btw, these women stories are battlespace prep for the Hillary campaign.

Posted by: Giuy Mohawk at April 24, 2014 09:29 AM (hJauc)

19 Harry Reid's Long, Steady Accretion of Power & Wealth http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles /2014/04/24/ harry_reids_long_steady_accretion_of_power__wealth.html#.U1lIcYjKRRU.twitter

Posted by: Costanza Defense at April 24, 2014 09:29 AM (ZPrif)

20 We have always been at war with the enemies of America.

Posted by: Minitru [/i] [/b] at April 24, 2014 09:29 AM (5ikDv)

21 I like ride-alongs...

when I did a ride-along I got to see the cop who shepherded me through my troubled youth beat the hell out of a barfighter

Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 09:30 AM (TE35l)

22 This is why we need FCC truth squads to stop the racist-homophobic-sexist bitter clingers from spouting their lies.

Posted by: Angel with a sword at April 24, 2014 09:30 AM (hpgw1)

23 The "War on women" thing got the election close enough to win on the margin of fraud last election, that's what they're hoping for this time around on at least a few races.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 24, 2014 09:30 AM (zfY+H)

24

For how much longer does the childish media insist on maintaining this
risible fiction that they are not Democratic propagandists?

 

 I see this sickness in some of my relatives who are Obama cheerleaders.  They try very hard to pick fights with me using made up history (It was Democrats who freed the slaves!) and the media's talking points. 

 

I don't use the term 'sickness' lightly. 

Posted by: Cheri at April 24, 2014 09:30 AM (G+Wff)

25 RCP, on Harry Reid, (D) Criminal That isnÂ’t the only problematic land deal Reid was involved with at the time. In 2002, he put $10,000 into a pension fund controlled by another friend, Clair Haycock. The payment gave Reid a sizable parcel of land in Bullhead City, Ariz. According to the Los Angeles Times, Reid purchased the land for one-tenth of its estimated value (and one-fortieth of what it had sold for a decade earlier). Two actions created suspicion afterward. First, Reid sponsored an $18 million earmark for a bridge that would connect Laughlin, Nev., and Bullhead City. This bridge would likely increase property values in the area. Reid also introduced legislation that would benefit HaycockÂ’s lubricant company. Reid aides denied that his support for the earmark or lubricant dealer bill was related to the land purchase. By 2011, ReidÂ’s initial $10,000 investment was valued at between $250,000 and $500,000. The property did not appear in his 2012 disclosure. While some of ReidÂ’s most lucrative deals involved land, he also benefited from investments in stocks. Near the end of the 2005, he invested between $50,000 and $100,000 in the Dow Jones U.S. Energy Sector Fund, which held shares in several major oil companies. According to National Review, the fund closed at $29.15 on the day Reid purchased. Nearly three years later, in August 2008, Reid sold some of his shares, which closed that day at $41.82. Two months later, Reid-supported legislation that would cost oil companies billions in taxes and regulatory fees passed. The Energy Sector FundÂ’s shares plummeted to $24.41 each.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at April 24, 2014 09:30 AM (ZPrif)

26 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at April 24, 2014 09:30 AM (PYAXX)

27 I'm paraphrasing from an earlier post I saw, but in a land that guarantees freedom of the press, how sad is it that the majority of the press is the propaganda arm of just one political party.

Posted by: LFW - Honorary Pointy Eared Vulcan at April 24, 2014 09:31 AM (5npD/)

28 Just hire women and you boost the bottom line. Why are the principles of labor economics seemingly suspended in this one instance? Because one week a month would be a blood bath?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2014 09:31 AM (uVkIH)

29 Up next, we will talk endlessly about how much coverage is being devoted to the talking point we have been pushing for the past week. 

Posted by: MFM at April 24, 2014 09:31 AM (DErq5)

30 Not joking: I know several adult women who go out on weekends intentionally without any money. They've told me that all they need to do is smile at random guys in the bar and they can drink for free for the entire night.

Posted by: Damiano at April 24, 2014 09:31 AM (j0wOO)

31 When the media has decided something is Big News, they do a series of related (or barely-related) stories about it. The Media has obviously decided that the #WarOnWomen #FightPayInequality hashtags are Big News (because Obama told them they were).



It has been my impression that the Democrats had dropped the stupid "war on women" meme because it was a miserable failure.  The stupid MFM just hasn't caught on yet because they are even dumber than Democrats.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 09:31 AM (T2V/1)

32 Exactly. The mainstream media creates the mainstream narrative. That's why they're called the mainstream media.

Posted by: Soothie § at April 24, 2014 09:31 AM (aqrfx)

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The "War on women" thing got the election close enough to win on the margin of fraud last election, that's what they're hoping for this time around on at least a few races.

 

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THIS

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 24, 2014 09:31 AM (sBUAE)

34 Because God knows we can't get out of the office and do any digging for a real story, Benghazi, Fast and Furious, et al.

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Not true.

A **bunch** of us spent whole lotta time and effort and bug killer flying three leg flights into Anchorage to research that snow-billy bitch's email looking for wrongdoing.

Dont You DARE tell me that investigative journalism is dead.

Posted by: THE MFM at April 24, 2014 09:31 AM (nELVU)

35 For how much longer does the childish media insist on maintaining this risible fiction that they are not Democratic propagandists? Probably for at least as long as our "betters" in Government will insist on pretending that the Federal Government is a "disinterested referee."

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at April 24, 2014 09:31 AM (PYAXX)

36 How can Ace question Matt Lauer and Natalie Morales. He should be sent to a camp or something.

Posted by: Chaos the Other Dark Meat at April 24, 2014 09:31 AM (oDCMR)

37 "btw, these women stories are battlespace prep for the Hillary campaign." Ding, ding, ding, ding!!!! We need a female POTUS to level out all this male/female inequality.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 24, 2014 09:32 AM (gOoFi)

38 Again I ask, if women are, all things equal, 23% cheaper then men why do businesses hire men at all?

All things aren't equal. If a man wants to take off six months to pursue a personal project that will not benefit the company, you're not legally required to hold his job open for him at the same pay and continue paying for his benefits in case he's not lying about coming back later.

Posted by: HR at April 24, 2014 09:32 AM (ZKzrr)

39 Girls allowances: mainstream news Cliven Bundy: fringe news

Posted by: Soothie § at April 24, 2014 09:32 AM (aqrfx)

40 I was involved in Junior Achievement when I was in elementary school. They use higher-ups in large corporations to go into schools to teach children about basic economic principles. My father was a liaison for them, as is my sister currently, and both of them are far as it gets from left-wing...as far as both of them are concerned they have no political lean in their program whatsoever.

Posted by: Business in Athens at April 24, 2014 09:32 AM (gKBKR)

41

Ace's question is even more important when you consider that Comcast now has lots of money riding on the administration giving them what they want on charging for net speed. 

 

The FCC has caved, according to yesterdays big news, and that means Comcast can start selling web access (really, thats what we are talking about.  Who would visit a web store that takes five minutes to load on your PC? Nobody) to Amazon, Ebay, Netflix etc.

 

This is the very essence of corruption.  Propaganda  in  exchange  for  money.

Posted by: MTF at April 24, 2014 09:32 AM (LISuA)

42 36 How can Ace question Matt Lauer and Natalie Morales. He should be sent to a camp or something. Posted by: Chaos the Other Dark Meat at April 24, 2014 01:31 PM (oDCMR) What kind of camp? Band camp?

Posted by: Sir Pug A Lott at April 24, 2014 09:33 AM (8c12T)

43 So Reid buys land for $10k at 1/10th estimated value, then uses his position to put in an earmark to have the Feds build an $18M bridge and boom! -- Reid's $10k investment is now worth $500k. Nice little 50x return in a less than a decade. Reid is a fricking investment genius. It's like he has some sort of psychic ability to tell where bridge are gonna be built in the future!

Posted by: Costanza Defense at April 24, 2014 09:33 AM (ZPrif)

44 Excellent post. Not only do these ride-along stories reinforce the Dem/Lefty narrative, they crowd out other legitimate news stories. You know, the ones they never have time to even mention - such as honor killings here in the US - because they're so busy ginning up outrage over faux WaronWomenz.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 24, 2014 09:33 AM (8zTpe)

45 Posted by: HR at April 24, 2014 01:32 PM (ZKzrr) Yeah, I think that was kind of the point of the comment. All things considered, there isn't a "gender pay gap." At least, not a measurable one.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at April 24, 2014 09:34 AM (PYAXX)

46 They've told me that all they need to do is smile at random guys in the bar and they can drink for free for the entire night. Me and my friends use to do the reverse of this. We'd make it a game to see how many drinks we could get women to buy us. A fat chick will pay you to sit and drink with her if you do it right.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 24, 2014 09:34 AM (gOoFi)

47 Swatting for video games...

http://news.yahoo.com/call-of-duty-swat-long-island-131101346.html?vp=1

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 24, 2014 09:34 AM (L8umz)

48 Here we go again with the weaponization of "science" (charitably this is "social science" and let's just grant that for the sake of argument right now.) The media has no idea what science is, so they see some numbers and assume it must be "science!" and then they report on it as such. But this is a poorly designed experiment at best. What is the makeup of their families? Is there any other covariant that might explain this? (Perhaps by chance your sample size included a bunch of families from group X, which doesn't tend to pay any allowance at all and for whatever reason skewed towards having female children.) What defines and "allowance." For a bit (not very long) my parents paid me to cut the grass, my sister wasn't old enough to use the mower, ergo I got an "allowance" and she didn't. Ageism perhaps, but hardly sexism. (Later they offered her the same deal, and she said "nah.") At best this is bad science, at worst it was a an experiment designed to have a known outcome to be peddled as propaganda. It wouldn't be the first time I've seen the latter.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) [/b] [/i] [/s] at April 24, 2014 09:34 AM (HDwDg)

49 A camp would be a resort compared to Endor.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 09:34 AM (LJ7Ze)

50 Matt Lauer looks like he's been attacked by a vampire who drains off testosterone instead of blood.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at April 24, 2014 09:34 AM (oFCZn)

51 In 1984, the number of magazine cover stories about Alzheimer's skyrocketed. This has been going on a very long time.

Posted by: Mega at April 24, 2014 09:35 AM (hHFOx)

52 How can Ace question Matt Lauer and Natalie Morales. He should be sent to a camp or something. Posted by: Chaos the Other Dark Meat at April 24, 2014 01:31 PM (oDCMR) What kind of camp? Band camp? This one time at band camp......

Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2014 09:35 AM (uVkIH)

53 "Why are the principles of labor economics seemingly suspended in this one instance? Posted by: scofflawx at April 24, 2014 01:28 PM"


When you pose this question to a lefty, the invariable resopnse is that men like being sexist/racist/etc more than they like improving the bottom line, and will therefore elevate their h8er! ideology over their own self interest.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2014 09:35 AM (knoK7)

54 btw, these women stories are battlespace prep for the Hillary campaign.

I still kind of expect a last minute replacement of Fauxcahontas.

Posted by: HR at April 24, 2014 09:35 AM (ZKzrr)

55 as far as both of them are concerned they have no political lean in their program whatsoever. What's the rule? Any organization or enterprise which is not specifically Conservative will inevitably turn Progressive.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at April 24, 2014 09:35 AM (PYAXX)

56 >>>I was involved in Junior Achievement when I was in elementary school. They use higher-ups in large corporations to go into schools to teach children about basic economic principles. My father was a liaison for them, as is my sister currently, and both of them are far as it gets from left-wing...as far as both of them are concerned they have no political lean in their program whatsoever. okay, thanks, I didn't know who they were. I kind of doubt your idea that they have no politics, though. Here's the thing: The people staffing it area almost certainly left wing, because they're media type people.

Posted by: ace at April 24, 2014 09:35 AM (/FnUH)

57 I had a friend who was a newspaper reporter for many years on several different papers around the country.  He said it took him a long time, but he came to realize that the job of newspapers was not to report the news, but to sell advertising.  The stories in the papers and on tv and on the internets are just incidental to the real purpose, selling stuff.

Posted by: huerfano at April 24, 2014 09:35 AM (bAGA/)

58 For how much longer does the childish media insist on maintaining this risible fiction that they are not Democratic propagandists? --- Until they get spanked, metaphorically.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at April 24, 2014 09:35 AM (APuJ7)

59 33
The "War on women" thing got the election close enough to win on the margin of fraud last election, that's what they're hoping for this time around on at least a few races.

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THIS

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 24, 2014 01:31 PM (sBUAE)


I don't think so.  It was a shitty "electable moderate" Republican candidate.  Lets run another in 2016.  How about the Fat Man who Ate NJ?

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 09:35 AM (T2V/1)

60 42 36 How can Ace question Matt Lauer and Natalie Morales. He should be sent to a camp or something. Posted by: Chaos the Other Dark Meat at April 24, 2014 01:31 PM (oDCMR) What kind of camp? Band camp? Camps for Troubled Teens - with ovens.

Posted by: Chaos the Other Dark Meat at April 24, 2014 09:36 AM (oDCMR)

61 Yeah I guess Bundy is a "typical white person".

Posted by: noone, really [/i] [/b] at April 24, 2014 09:36 AM (5ikDv)

62 Reid's a genius real estate develop. It's like he somehow just *knows* when land is gonna be rezoned. It's amazing! A gift, really. RCP: There is quite a bit of smoke. In 1998, Reid invested $400,000 in an undeveloped residential property located on the outskirts of Las Vegas. Reid’s partner in the deal was attorney Jay Brown, whom Ralston describes as a “master manipulator.” Reid transferred his share of the property to a company Brown controlled in 2001. By transferring the land to Brown’s firm, Reid avoided legal liability and some taxes. But Reid didn’t note the transfer -- or that he had any stake in the company -- in his financial disclosure forms, despite rules requiring such transfers to be reported. By 2004, Brown’s company sold the land, which had been rezoned for a shopping center, and Reid received $1.1 million. He reported the sale as if he had always had control of the property. When the Associated Press asked Reid about the deal during a 2006 interview, he hung up on the reporter. A spokesman later said that “there were several legal steps associated with the investment during those years that did not alter Senator Reid's actual ownership interest in the land.” However, there was no physical proof that Reid had any stake in Brown’s company. The story may have caused Reid public embarrassment -- he amended his ethics reports to include the full history of the property -- but he walked away from the deal some $700,000 richer.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at April 24, 2014 09:36 AM (ZPrif)

63 btw, try to use 'ribald' today. It is an underused word these days.

Posted by: Soothie § at April 24, 2014 09:36 AM (aqrfx)

64 When the media lies, it is speaking its native tongue; Democratian.

Posted by: [/i] [/s] [/u] [/b] An Observation at April 24, 2014 09:36 AM (ylhEn)

65 At the risk of having things thrown at me, this is one of the drawbacks of the free market: the information reporting business is virtually free of government intervention and subsidy, its about the freest sector of the national market. And this is what happens sometimes, one portion gets control and rides it like a bronc buster as long as they possibly can.
Yes, there's competition now, and yes, part of the reason they've gone bat guano crazy IS the competition, but that doesn't save us from their ridiculous partisan cheerleading for now, or the near future, at least.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 24, 2014 09:36 AM (zfY+H)

66 Wide Load. Is Meghan McCain or the Fat Dixie Chick going to comment today?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 09:36 AM (LJ7Ze)

67 Junior Achievement is a thing. When I was in Catholic elementary school in the late '70s, JA had someone come in once a week or so to teach us about economics, the stock market, and business. No politics, just dollars and cents. It's possible that they've gone the way of all institutions and hung a serious left turn, but my first thought was that I bet that survey doesn't say what the MSM says it says.

Posted by: VKI at April 24, 2014 09:36 AM (qySNZ)

68 Camps for Troubled Teens - with ovens. Yeah, that's sorta how we looked at them too.

Posted by: Joseph Mengele at April 24, 2014 09:37 AM (gOoFi)

69

I ask again rhetorically: For how much longer does the childish media insist on maintaining this risible fiction that they are not Democratic propagandists?

 

Until a GOP / conservative candidate - whom the media cannot ignore, due to the virtue of the office they are competing for - calls them out on it and treats them as the propagandists they are. 

 

Which is to say, allow them no room in your campaign.  Do not give them access.  Very obviously give other media outlets - Drudge, Fox (perhaps), WaTi, bloggers - the time and attention usually given to MFM.  Routinely call them out as liars.  When asked a question by an MFM talking head, refuse to answer - or, if you must answer, begin by slamming them with a nasty fact your opposition research team has picked up: "I'll be glad to answer that abortion question, Joe, as soon as you answer my question about the dead intern in your office"  Hold virtual press conferences along the lines of a Bill Whittle video.  Refuse to participate in any "debate" hosted by an MFM stooge.

 

Kick them in the balls repeatedly.  They only have the power you give them.  Take it back.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 24, 2014 09:37 AM (zF6Iw)

70 The mainstream media creates the mainstream narrative. That's why they're called the mainstream media. Posted by: Soothie § at April 24, 2014 01:31 PM (aqrfx) This. It's all about The Narrative. People like being told stories; marketing right now is geared around telling authentic stories. The ability to tell conservative stories is increasing via alternate media, but it slow going.

Posted by: LizLem at April 24, 2014 09:37 AM (yRwC8)

71 You know the only way to protect wemmiz is to vote for Al Franken. If you don't all those misogynist Scandies will be dealing in sex slavery. Truth!

Posted by: Chaos the Other Dark Meat at April 24, 2014 09:37 AM (oDCMR)

72 47 Swatting for video games...

http://news.yahoo.com/call-of-duty-swat-long-island-131101346.html?vp=1

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 24, 2014 01:34 PM (L8umz)

 

Autoplay video.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 24, 2014 09:38 AM (DrWcr)

73 This is why "homelessness" becomes such a crisis during Republican administrations and it disappears during Democrat ones.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 24, 2014 09:38 AM (8ZskC)

74 This is why "homelessness" becomes such a crisis during Republican administrations and it disappears during Democrat ones.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 24, 2014 09:38 AM (8ZskC)

75 Dr. Death to the Barrel

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 24, 2014 09:38 AM (L8umz)

76 Dr. Death to the Barrel

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 24, 2014 09:38 AM (L8umz)

77 67 Did they wear those little plaid skirts?

Posted by: Roman Polanski at April 24, 2014 09:38 AM (LJ7Ze)

78 67 Did they wear those little plaid skirts?

Posted by: Roman Polanski at April 24, 2014 09:38 AM (LJ7Ze)

79 It would seem the world has gone all Italian.

Posted by: Chaos the Other Dark Meat at April 24, 2014 09:38 AM (oDCMR)

80 It would seem the world has gone all Italian.

Posted by: Chaos the Other Dark Meat at April 24, 2014 09:38 AM (oDCMR)

Posted by: Sir Pug A Lott at April 24, 2014 09:38 AM (8c12T)

Posted by: Sir Pug A Lott at April 24, 2014 09:38 AM (8c12T)

83 Damned Italicans.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2014 09:38 AM (uVkIH)

84 Damned Italicans.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2014 09:38 AM (uVkIH)

85 Oooh someone now barreled...

Posted by: LizLem at April 24, 2014 09:38 AM (yRwC8)

86 Oooh someone now barreled...

Posted by: LizLem at April 24, 2014 09:38 AM (yRwC8)

87 I answered my own question: This survey was conducted online within the United States by Harris Poll on behalf of Junior Achievement USA from February 12-24, 2014 among 1,234 youths ages 8-18. This online survey is not based on a probability sample and therefore no estimate of theoretical sampling error can be calculated. From the Junior achievement website. Emphasis added. Translation: "This is a crap poll, from which no actual knowledge can be drawn." Also 1-2-3-4 as a subject size? Yeah, it may also be bullshit, although that's speculative (the part about being a crap poll, that's methodological fact.)

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) [/b] [/i] [/s] at April 24, 2014 09:38 AM (HDwDg)

88 I answered my own question: This survey was conducted online within the United States by Harris Poll on behalf of Junior Achievement USA from February 12-24, 2014 among 1,234 youths ages 8-18. This online survey is not based on a probability sample and therefore no estimate of theoretical sampling error can be calculated. From the Junior achievement website. Emphasis added. Translation: "This is a crap poll, from which no actual knowledge can be drawn." Also 1-2-3-4 as a subject size? Yeah, it may also be bullshit, although that's speculative (the part about being a crap poll, that's methodological fact.)

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) [/b] [/i] [/s] at April 24, 2014 09:38 AM (HDwDg)

89
Well, I hope Natalie at least made a good sammich for Matt.

Posted by: Giuy Mohawk at April 24, 2014 09:38 AM (hJauc)

90
Well, I hope Natalie at least made a good sammich for Matt.

Posted by: Giuy Mohawk at April 24, 2014 09:38 AM (hJauc)

91 Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at April 24, 2014 01:34 PM (HDwDg) Off the top of my head: Demographically, women outnumber men. So if you divide "average allowance" by the total number of each gender, the male result would be higher. But OMG!!!! WAR ON WIMMENZ!!! INCOME GAP!!!

Posted by: Damiano at April 24, 2014 09:38 AM (j0wOO)

92 Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at April 24, 2014 01:34 PM (HDwDg) Off the top of my head: Demographically, women outnumber men. So if you divide "average allowance" by the total number of each gender, the male result would be higher. But OMG!!!! WAR ON WIMMENZ!!! INCOME GAP!!!

Posted by: Damiano at April 24, 2014 09:38 AM (j0wOO)

93 Hello Barrel!

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at April 24, 2014 09:39 AM (oFCZn)

94 Hello Barrel!

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at April 24, 2014 09:39 AM (oFCZn)

95 Posted by: Joseph Mengele at April 24, 2014 01:37 PM (gOoFi) So, when Joseph Mengele breaks the formatting, does he go to the barrel, or the ovens?

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at April 24, 2014 09:39 AM (PYAXX)

96 Posted by: Joseph Mengele at April 24, 2014 01:37 PM (gOoFi) So, when Joseph Mengele breaks the formatting, does he go to the barrel, or the ovens?

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at April 24, 2014 09:39 AM (PYAXX)

97

Also 1-2-3-4 as a subject size?

 

Hey, that's the combination on my luggage!

Posted by: President Skroob at April 24, 2014 09:39 AM (DrWcr)

98

Also 1-2-3-4 as a subject size?

 

Hey, that's the combination on my luggage!

Posted by: President Skroob at April 24, 2014 09:39 AM (DrWcr)

99 Dr. Mengele to The Barrel, stat!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2014 09:39 AM (knoK7)

100 Dr. Mengele to The Barrel, stat!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2014 09:39 AM (knoK7)

101 Or as we keep noting, they could do stories on actual wars on women, such as honor killings, enforced clitorectomies, being stoned for being raped and on and on and on. Radio. Silence.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at April 24, 2014 09:39 AM (mf5HN)

102 Or as we keep noting, they could do stories on actual wars on women, such as honor killings, enforced clitorectomies, being stoned for being raped and on and on and on. Radio. Silence.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at April 24, 2014 09:39 AM (mf5HN)

103 Amazon has a sort of ride-along program too.  It's pervasive.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 24, 2014 09:39 AM (BAS5M)

104 Amazon has a sort of ride-along program too.  It's pervasive.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 24, 2014 09:39 AM (BAS5M)

105
In mah belly now ya Nazi italicizer!!

Posted by: The Barrel at April 24, 2014 09:40 AM (nELVU)

106
In mah belly now ya Nazi italicizer!!

Posted by: The Barrel at April 24, 2014 09:40 AM (nELVU)

107 Forget MSLSD and CNN. How can we get a majority of Americans to completely ignore TV?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 24, 2014 09:40 AM (CMkNk)

108 Forget MSLSD and CNN. How can we get a majority of Americans to completely ignore TV?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 24, 2014 09:40 AM (CMkNk)

109 Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at April 24, 2014 01:35 PM (PYAXX) Meh, I suspect something less political. Wanna get some quick free press: release something shitty like this.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) [/b] [/i] [/s] at April 24, 2014 09:40 AM (HDwDg)

110 Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at April 24, 2014 01:35 PM (PYAXX) Meh, I suspect something less political. Wanna get some quick free press: release something shitty like this.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) [/b] [/i] [/s] at April 24, 2014 09:40 AM (HDwDg)

111

You could turn this whole 'War on Women/Pay Inequality' claim around on them.

 

Tell me Ms. Pelosi, Clinton, Boxer, Feinstein, McCaskill, Maloney, Hagen,  et. al. you are all millionaires working for the government.......How exactly did that happen?   I work for the feds and I want to be a millionaire too!  Where do I start?

Posted by: Cheri at April 24, 2014 09:40 AM (G+Wff)

112 Already there.

Posted by: Joseph Mengele at April 24, 2014 09:40 AM (gOoFi)

113 So, when Joseph Mengele breaks the formatting, does he go to the barrel, or the ovens? He does a couple of lines of cyanide.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2014 09:40 AM (uVkIH)

114

"When the media has decided something is Big News, they do a series of related (or barely-related) stories about it. The Media has obviously decided that the #WarOnWomen #FightPayInequality hashtags are Big News (because Obama told them they were)."

 

 

The NYT used to do that and called it "flood the zone".  I remember it very well as it tried to bring to life a campaign to get Augusta Golf Course to accept women members.  It didn't work for Augusta because, seriously, no one was too upset that highly priviliged females could not golf at that one club.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Let the Warmth of Spring Grow your Rage at the Outrage Outlet at April 24, 2014 09:41 AM (hLRSq)

115 63 btw, try to use 'ribald' today. It is an underused word these days. Posted by: Soothie § at April 24, 2014 01:36 PM (aqrfx) Also, niggardly. Bang, zoom!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 24, 2014 09:41 AM (CMkNk)

116

Ah, fuck it.  Sorry.

 

Barrel time

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 24, 2014 09:41 AM (zF6Iw)

117 So what's next.... Federally mandated Minimum Monthly Allowance? I suppose Social Security deductions will taken out.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at April 24, 2014 09:41 AM (bMHBT)

118 Demographically, women outnumber men.

Not under the age of 19.
http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-03.pdf

Posted by: HR at April 24, 2014 09:41 AM (ZKzrr)

119 Caret Browsing? How does it work?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 09:41 AM (LJ7Ze)

120 A woman Republican candidate for Senate in MI has a good ad take on the "War on Women" http://tinyurl.com/l888gjz

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2014 09:41 AM (XyM/Y)

121 Junior Achievement is the second cousin once removed of Junior Samples.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/s] [/u] at April 24, 2014 09:41 AM (HsTG8)

122 98 So what's next....

Federally mandated Minimum Monthly Allowance? I suppose Social Security deductions will taken out.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at April 24, 2014 01:41 PM (bMHBT)

 

It's a tax!

Posted by: John Roberts at April 24, 2014 09:41 AM (DrWcr)

123 I ask again rhetorically: For how much longer does the childish media insist on maintaining this risible fiction that they are not Democratic propagandists?

Posted by Ace

Until it becomes financially or personally inconvenient.

Until individual 'reporters' are called out and shamed.

Good thing the GOP has a plan to make that happen, right?

Good thing the GOP has been working for the past 5 years to interrupt the Dem-Media complex, right?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 24, 2014 09:42 AM (ujux6)

124 Posted by: Damiano at April 24, 2014 01:38 PM (j0wOO) It's a raw percentage of people who get allowances vs. people who don't. But look at the age range, 8-18. More likely what you got was a bunch of people who logged on to complain they didn't get an allowance. And for whatever reason it skewed girl. I'm guessing this was an open poll, because if you're going to go find a sample, you might as well make it a model sample (otherwise what's the point.)

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) [/b] [/i] [/s] at April 24, 2014 09:42 AM (HDwDg)

125

the job of newspapers was not to report the news, but to sell advertising.

 

-- 

 

I used to work in the industry, and back then, the price of the paper didn't cover the cost of newsprint and ink.  93+% of revenue was advertising.  Which, if you look at    how many newspapers have died over the past decade, sort of proves the point.  The news organizations, print     and television, are actively losing    money by       slanting their coverage to assist their     chosen policital party.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 24, 2014 09:42 AM (sBUAE)

126 "but he came to realize that the job of newspapers was not to report the news, but to sell advertising" This. X 10,000. It is long past the time to dismiss the 20th century fiction of the "impartial press". No one from previous times would believe that as a culture, we believed such a lie. "news" organizations have always been highly partisan - and we need to recognize (and publicize) that fact.

Posted by: anon a mouse at April 24, 2014 09:42 AM (gXRIG)

127 Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at April 24, 2014 01:40 PM (HDwDg) Two things. 1- Funny how you only generate quick headlines when your subject matter agrees with Democrats or can be used as a cudgel against Conservatives. 2- I wasn't saying that they *are* progressive (yet). Simply that it is inevitable that they will be if they are not specifically Conservative.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at April 24, 2014 09:42 AM (PYAXX)

128 Not joking: I know several adult women who go out on weekends intentionally without any money. They've told me that all they need to do is smile at random guys in the bar and they can drink for free for the entire night. I saw exactly one of Paris Hilton and Nicole Ricci's (sp?) shows. The concept was super-rich girls who drop $3k a day in shopping without batting an eye have to go travel around and work at real jobs for like $100 a day. So anyway, they're living in this family's house, and they decide they don't wanna. So they go to the liquor store, only they don't have any money. So they get some chump to spend like $600 on booze, and then don't invite him to party with them. Then they go to the nicest hotel in the area, introduce themselves, and ask to be put up in the nicest suite for free, and the manager agrees! Advertizing, baby! Soo, yeah, oppressed wimminz.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/s][/i][/b][/s] at April 24, 2014 09:42 AM (8ifMA)

129 Andrea Mitchell = What Natalie Morales will look and sound like in 40 years

Posted by: kbdbear at April 24, 2014 09:42 AM (aTXUx)

130

  "Ride-Along News."

Neat turn of phrase....

Posted by: backhoe at April 24, 2014 09:42 AM (ULH4o)

131 For how much longer does the childish media insist on maintaining this risible fiction that they are not Democratic propagandists? It's turtles all the way down, man. Btw folks, tinyurl.com is your fucking friend. Sheesh.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 24, 2014 09:42 AM (da5Wo)

132 13.2% of boys have been diagnosed with ADHD. 10% are on medication.

You'd think that'd be a big story, huh? Or the fact that they're falling behind academically and more girls than boys now graduate from college.

Ah, but fuck boys. They're loud and rebellious. FUCK THEM. They need to be controlled, conditioned, shamed and broken. For the good of society, of course.

Posted by: Warden at April 24, 2014 09:42 AM (bmp0d)

133 Did you see that Georgia Boy get the word Negus at the spelling bee?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 09:42 AM (LJ7Ze)

134 >>Or as we keep noting, they could do stories on actual wars on women, such as honor killings, enforced clitorectomies, being stoned for being raped and on and on and on. Yep. Kermit Gosnell. Also, seen any MSM coverage of the rape victim who's about to be hanged in Iran? How about the trend in gender-based abortion in the UK and the head of their version of Planned Parenthood saying she's A-OK with it? Or any coverage of a true War on Women warrior Ayan Hirsi Ali? MSM says: Local news stories.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 24, 2014 09:42 AM (8zTpe)

135 102 Junior Achievement is the second cousin once removed of Junior Samples. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ at April 24, 2014 01:41 PM (HsTG Any relation to Candy Samples?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 24, 2014 09:43 AM (CMkNk)

136 "Good thing the GOP has a plan to make that happen, right? Good thing the GOP has been working for the past 5 years to interrupt the Dem-Media complex, right?" Right. Wait, wha...?

Posted by: GOP at April 24, 2014 09:43 AM (gOoFi)

137 I saw Skewed Girl open for Smashing Pumpkins in 1979.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/s] [/u] at April 24, 2014 09:43 AM (HsTG8)

138 Planned Parenthood hardest hit. DRUDGE REPORT ‏@DRUDGE_REPORT UPDATE: Oregon county puts stop to incinerating aborted babies for electricity... http://drudge.tw/1idkIqt

Posted by: Costanza Defense at April 24, 2014 09:44 AM (ZPrif)

139 110 Andrea Mitchell = What Natalie Morales will look and sound like in 40 years Posted by: kbdbear at April 24, 2014 01:42 PM (aTXUx) That presupposes that Mrs. Greenspan looked like Natalie Morales 40 years ago. Something that I strongly doubt.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 24, 2014 09:44 AM (CMkNk)

140 118 I never laid a hand on her.

Posted by: William Ray Bob Clinton at April 24, 2014 09:44 AM (LJ7Ze)

141 And I want to add, on the topic of conservative narrative, and related to the Monster Hunter Nation article in the side bar... I got to go to the SLC Comic-Con, was a surprising bastion of conservative minded geeks! Larry Correia was there and did several writing panels, he was wonderful. When one of your panelists quotes Mark Steyn when talking about Star Wars (a diff guy), and Orson Scott Card is openly praised and discussed, and actors like Adam Baldwin can talk about guns and get whoops of approval, you are in a safe geek space. Had over 100K attendees, now the third largest comic-con in the nation. They are going to continue having it every Sept and April. Any conservative minded fiction writers or artists here might think about attending, is worth it. We could do a meetup there; Morons Assemble!

Posted by: LizLem at April 24, 2014 09:44 AM (yRwC8)

142 She's a Democrat but she has her good points. A Democrat candidate in MA says the Democrat machine has lost all credibility on the "War on Women. The machine doesn't like challenges to Fauxchohantas: http://tinyurl.com/l888gjz

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2014 09:45 AM (XyM/Y)

143 Soo, yeah, oppressed wimminz. Posted by: bonhomme

Assuming every woman in America is Paris Hilton makes Sotormayor look logical.

Posted by: HR at April 24, 2014 09:45 AM (ZKzrr)

144 119 Planned Parenthood hardest hit. DRUDGE REPORT ‏@DRUDGE_REPORT UPDATE: Oregon county puts stop to incinerating aborted babies for electricity... http://drudge.tw/1idkIqt Posted by: Costanza Defense at April 24, 2014 01:44 PM (ZPrif) The president of Planned Parenthood should be allowed to abort as many babies as she can eat, raw, on national television. (Be careful what I wish for, right?)

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 24, 2014 09:45 AM (CMkNk)

145 Posted by: ace at April 24, 2014 01:35 PM (/FnUH)

You may be completely right about the organization itself, as I last did JA ~20 years ago. But as another commenter said, it's really nothing but economics, basic stock market principles, etc. and I don't think that has changed. 

Posted by: Business in Athens at April 24, 2014 09:45 AM (gKBKR)

146
Lets see.... I have a wife and 2 daughters... *does quick math on per capita spending of my income* .... carry the one....divide by 4... eat some Pi... and nope, the survey is completely and utterly deceptive.



Posted by: Giuy Mohawk at April 24, 2014 09:45 AM (hJauc)

147 "More likely what you got was a bunch of people who logged on to complain they didn't get an allowance. And for whatever reason it skewed girl." Do tell.

Posted by: Pinterest, Instagram, etc... at April 24, 2014 09:46 AM (gXRIG)

148 75 67 Did they wear those little plaid skirts? Funny you should ask .... http://tinyurl.com/madf98l

Posted by: kbdbear at April 24, 2014 09:46 AM (aTXUx)

149 The president of Planned Parenthood should be allowed to abort as many babies as she can eat, raw, on national television. (Be careful what I wish for, right?) Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 24, 2014 01:45 PM (CMkNk) Cue the tasteless "Tastes like chicken!" jokes...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/s] [/u] at April 24, 2014 09:46 AM (HsTG8)

150 Assuming every woman in America is Paris Hilton makes Sotormayor look logical.

Posted by: HR at April 24, 2014 01:45 PM (ZKzrr)

 

Not every American woman is Paris Hilton, but they frequently do charm and manipulate men into giving them all kinds of free shit.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 24, 2014 09:47 AM (DrWcr)

151 People always seem to think that because the press has a special mention in the Constitution that somehow they should comport to a higher standard of behavior.

But that's not true and never has been.

The Media has always been biased. Newspapers were created for the purpose of bias and manipulation of the news and opinions of the day.

The major difference these days is that it appears as if too many of the public don't spend much time closely examining the motives and facts of a story or the outlet producing the story.

And there's been dishonest statements by known biased media creators that they are not biased. But that probably was also claimed before.

I think what gets most perturbed is that there is a seeming monolithic institution being created where only one side of any story gets most of the air/viewing time and this has warped our culture.

The public is being actively thwarted in it's ability to casually glean the truth from differing accounts because the accounts don't differ much and ancillary or as Ace points out Ride Along events are all slanted in one direction.

This is a function of the media's business model and business owner's drive to monopolize as much of the potential buyers as can legally be done.

Due to the First Amendment guarantees this also means a monopoly on the promulgation of supposed facts and the homogeneity of the Media politically.

Not much can be done about it without a massive influx of money to support the build up of competing outlets.

But that may not happen due to the apparent eminent collapse of the US.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 24, 2014 09:47 AM (JS0vr)

152
Did you see that Georgia Boy get the word Negus at the spelling bee?

----


Naggers.

Posted by: fixerupper at April 24, 2014 09:47 AM (nELVU)

153 was Bohner briefed on the Benghazi rat line , and if so is that why he is so reticent to establish a select committee?

Posted by: Avi at April 24, 2014 09:47 AM (p/izY)

154 If women can do everything men can do, how come they've never been able to successfully oppress a whole gender?

Posted by: RoyalOil at April 24, 2014 09:48 AM (VjL9S)

155 Oregon proudly announces new plan to burn 50% fewer dead babies this year!

Posted by: Costanza Defense at April 24, 2014 09:48 AM (ZPrif)

156 133 Did you see that Georgia Boy get the word Negus at the spelling bee? ---- Naggers. Posted by: fixerupper at April 24, 2014 01:47 PM (nELVU) Did his knees grow?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 24, 2014 09:48 AM (CMkNk)

157 Stupid A-Hole Troll on the other thread has no idea how things work here.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 09:48 AM (LJ7Ze)

158 Clive Bundy is super racist yo...and so are all his supporters.

Posted by: MFM at April 24, 2014 09:49 AM (M+evy)

159 What is it about leftists, ovens and humans?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 24, 2014 09:49 AM (CMkNk)

160 113 - Ah, but fuck boys. They're loud and rebellious. FUCK THEM. They need to be controlled, conditioned, shamed and broken. For the good of society, of course.


That's what WE'VE been doing all along, thank you.

Posted by: Hollywood Directors at April 24, 2014 09:50 AM (RPDkq)

161 Stupid A-Hole Troll on the other thread has no idea how things work here.

----


Ummm.... yer gonna hafta narrow that one down.......  alot.

Posted by: fixerupper at April 24, 2014 09:50 AM (nELVU)

162 135 If women can do everything men can do, how come they've never been able to successfully oppress a whole gender? Posted by: RoyalOil at April 24, 2014 01:48 PM (VjL9S) Oh, yeah? Obviously you have failed to notice whose stompy boots are on each and every tranny's neck.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/s] [/u] at April 24, 2014 09:50 AM (HsTG8)

163 141 Posted by: Hollywood Directors at April 24, 2014 01:50 PM (RPDkq)

We're on it!

//NAMBLA SCOUTS

Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 09:50 AM (TE35l)

164 Other reasons consumers may see higher premiums in 2015, he said, include the Obama administration’s decision to allow Americans to keep their health insurance plans for an additional year even if the plans did not meet the coverage requirements of the health law. Altmire said that most consumers signed up through the exchange were previously uninsured Americans who may have delayed seeking medical care, making them potentially more costly to insure. “A lot of them aren’t in the best of health,” he said, noting that consumers who signed up at the outset of open enrollment were likely the ones who needed it most. “We expect it to cost more to insure them because of deferred health needs.”

Altmire said Florida Blue was encouraged by a post-February surge in sign ups among young adults, but that the insurer did not enroll as many of the so-called “young invincibles” as it had hoped, to help spread the risk across a wide pool — another factor potentially affecting premiums next year.

Posted by: Obama For-ks America at April 24, 2014 09:51 AM (e8kgV)

165 You'd think that'd be a big story, huh? Or the fact that they're falling behind academically and more girls than boys now graduate from college.

Ah, but fuck boys. They're loud and rebellious. FUCK THEM. They need to be controlled, conditioned, shamed and broken. For the good of society, of course.

Posted by: Warden at April 24, 2014 01:42 PM (bmp0d)

 

We have academic and court systems of the feminists, by the feminists, and for the feminists.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 24, 2014 09:51 AM (DrWcr)

166 Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at April 24, 2014 01:42 PM (PYAXX) Fair enough point I suppose. As for #1 though, I suspect these guys know marketing, and they know the media is biased and that the dems are far better and keeping stories alive than the GOP. Self-interest is weird that way.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) [/b] [/i] [/s] at April 24, 2014 09:51 AM (HDwDg)

167 The whole new thread old thread thing where everyone keeps moving to the newer threads. It's now on about zombie germ theory now.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 09:52 AM (LJ7Ze)

168
Also girls jeans - $4 millon.

boys jeans - $9.99

"hey honey, just buy them the boys, they're the same thing"
Yeah, that didn't fly.

Posted by: Giuy Mohawk at April 24, 2014 09:52 AM (hJauc)

169 Or as we keep noting, they could do stories on actual wars on women, such as honor killings, enforced clitorectomies, being stoned for being raped and on and on and on.

Radio. Silence.

Posted by: alexthechick

 

This.  There is a documentary coming out that was produced by some very brave muslim women on how women/girls are treated so badly in the muslim world.  I don't remember the exact name but it is something like the 'muslim diaries'.  Of course the assholes at CAIR are protesting this documentary as being unfair and full of lies.  I hate these people.

Posted by: Cheri at April 24, 2014 09:52 AM (G+Wff)

170 >>If women can do everything men can do, how come they've never been able to successfully oppress a whole gender? I suppose some of it has to do with the difference in size and physical strength between men and women, but apparently we're not allowed to recognize any differences between the sexes. Gender/sex is fluid or somesuch.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 24, 2014 09:52 AM (8zTpe)

171 There is a documentary coming out that was produced by some very brave muslim women on how women/girls are treated so badly in the muslim world. I don't remember the exact name but it is something like ....goats before ho's.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2014 09:54 AM (uVkIH)

172 Women can fold clothes much better and faster.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 09:54 AM (LJ7Ze)

173 Its not a question of people wanting the press to not be tilted. We don't care if the press is biased, they always are. We just want them to be HONESTLY biased. Its okay to be tilted, if you're up front about it and honest. Its this "oh no we just report the news, this is just how it is" attitude that annoys people

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 24, 2014 09:54 AM (zfY+H)

174 After a gunman donned protective gear and unleashed heavy artillery, killing 12 and severely injuring dozens more at a Colorado movie theater two years ago, no one received more acclaim than Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates.

Now, Miami Beach City Manager Jimmy Morales and Mayor Philip Levine want Oates to lead Miami Beach’s 373 sworn officers. It is a department that has come under fire for questionable shootings and embarrassing incidents that have drawn national attention in recent years — and one that has been searching for a strong dose of positive publicity.

Posted by: Holmes For-ks America at April 24, 2014 09:54 AM (e8kgV)

175 >>Of course the assholes at CAIR are protesting this documentary as being unfair and full of lies. Ask The van Gogh how his short film "Submission" was received by the Muslim community. Oh...

Posted by: Lizzy at April 24, 2014 09:54 AM (8zTpe)

176 Assuming every woman in America is Paris Hilton makes Sotormayor look logical. Touche. But if you listen to the Feminists in America, it doesn't matter if you're Paris Hilton or Michelle Obama, you're a victim of the patriarchy and therefore oppressed.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/s][/i][/b][/s] at April 24, 2014 09:54 AM (8ifMA)

177 Husbands are the oppressed gender if there is one.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 09:54 AM (LJ7Ze)

178 One of the doctors killed at the CURE hospital in Kabul has been identified.  A pediatrician from Chicago.
http://tinyurl.com/lg87prq

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 24, 2014 09:55 AM (L8umz)

179 Had over 100K attendees, now the third largest comic-con in the nation. They are going to continue having it every Sept and April. Any conservative minded fiction writers or artists here might think about attending, is worth it. We could do a meetup there; Morons Assemble! Posted by: LizLem at April 24, 2014 01:44 PM (yRwC Morons at a ComicCon. Do. Not. Cross. The. Streams.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at April 24, 2014 09:55 AM (mf5HN)

180 119 Planned Parenthood hardest hit. DRUDGE REPORT ‏@DRUDGE_REPORT UPDATE: Oregon county puts stop to incinerating aborted babies for electricity... http://drudge.tw/1idkIqt --- Does this mean we can start going up to Democrats and asking them "When did you stop incinerating aborted babies for electricity?!?"

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at April 24, 2014 09:56 AM (APuJ7)

181 158 Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 01:54 PM (LJ7Ze)

bbb-bbbut honey I honestly thought the dog shit would clean the clothes.....

//every retard "husband" in ever detergent commercial made the last 15 years.

Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 09:56 AM (TE35l)

182 132?
In the early '80's I was hired to print a series of glass negatives from the rollover from the 1800's to the 1900's. The papers here were proudly "democrat" or "republican." They told you where they stood. Nothing wrong with that. Tell me where you stand? I can deal with it.

Posted by: backhoe at April 24, 2014 09:56 AM (ULH4o)

183 Had a huge fight with my (conservative but non-political) rail-fan husband last weekend. He started to read to me from some train magazine (zzzzzz) about multiple instances of mismanagement and corruption involving various New Jersey transit officials. I told him to get back to me when the magazine reported on the same for New York, especially considering the multiple deadly train crashes over the past year or two.

He absolutely refused to believe that this information was "in the news" because of Chris Christie. He kept saying that a train magazine has no political agenda. He just doesn't get that all these other publications crib their "news" from the MSM and the MSM sets the agenda. It seems so simple to me but I've run into this problem before with non-political people - they just can't or won't see it.

Posted by: jeannebodine at April 24, 2014 09:56 AM (2LJqa)

184 Oregon with exciting new plan to be 15% less bone-chillingly evil this fiscal year! Exciting goals include: 25% fewer dead baby fires. 10% fewer lynchings 5% fewer human sacrifices. Portland Mayor Charlie Hales said the plan sounded nice, but was concerned the state was being rushed into this by right-wing pressure groups. "Oregonians should be deciding how many dead baby fires we have. Not right wing tea party groups funded by the Koch Brothers waving their bibles at us." "Sure, fewer dead baby fires sounds nice, but we can't compromise our progressive values just to appease the talk radio kooks. Rush Limbaugh doesn't run Oregon. Rush Limbaugh doesn't get to decide how many dead babies we burn in the winter."

Posted by: Costanza Defense at April 24, 2014 09:56 AM (ZPrif)

185 Maybe GM can build an electric car that runs directly on those inconvenient recycled clumps of cells and avoid the middleman generating station altogether. Planned Parenthood & Mother's Health Clinics on each corner like gas stations used to be. Next, if we could only brew up good automotive lubricants instead of being punished with a child. Empowerment!

Posted by: claire cloggenstein, of the california cggensteins at April 24, 2014 09:56 AM (RPDkq)

186 Don't bodies actually need fuel to burn? They are mostly water and probably a net loss to incinerate.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 09:57 AM (LJ7Ze)

187 161 Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at April 24, 2014 01:56 PM (APuJ7)

Nah we're denouncing Bundy!

//GOPe

I'd go Hunter S Thompson Gozno and ask Oregon why if Canadian babies are a good carbon friendly energy resource we are not burning American babies and emptying cemetaries....

I'm evil like that

Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 09:58 AM (TE35l)

188 Groan: Mooch Compares Campaigning For President To Being In The MilitaryÂ… Weasel Zippers: Yeah just like being in the Military? Asshole

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 24, 2014 09:58 AM (t3UFN)

189 I should point out that 100% of what is Billboard Top 40 in pop is driven by young--teen and pre-teen--girls because they are the ones with the money to spend.

Think: Beiber.

Allowance gap, indeed.

War hell, they've completely destroyed popular music.

Posted by: RoyalOil at April 24, 2014 09:59 AM (VjL9S)

190 Oregon with exciting new plan to be 15% less bone-chillingly evil this fiscal year! Exciting goals include: 25% fewer dead baby fires. 10% fewer lynchings 5% fewer human sacrifices. Portland Mayor Charlie Hales said the plan sounded nice, but was concerned the state was being rushed into this by right-wing pressure groups. Sub-optimal optics are sub-optimal.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2014 09:59 AM (uVkIH)

191 Groan: Mooch Compares Campaigning For President To Being In The MilitaryÂ… Weasel Zippers: Yeah just like being in the Military? Asshole Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 24, 2014 01:58 PM (t3UFN) I mean I go everywhere in a limo when I am on Duty? And the food- like a 5 star restaurant

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 24, 2014 09:59 AM (t3UFN)

192 Morons at a ComicCon. Do. Not. Cross. The. Streams. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at April 24, 2014 01:55 PM (mf5HN) Never before in human history have so few caused so much chaos. "And tonight on the 11o'clock news...."

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 24, 2014 09:59 AM (da5Wo)

193 So Oregon hospital(s?) use aborted babies a fuel but can't manage to sign up a single person for their Obamacare/Oregon health care exchange. Interesting priorities there....

Posted by: Lizzy at April 24, 2014 09:59 AM (8zTpe)

194 I don't feel no ways tired.

Posted by: Hillary Africanus Clinton at April 24, 2014 10:00 AM (LJ7Ze)

195 I don't feel no ways tired.

Posted by: Hillary Africanus Clinton at April 24, 2014 10:00 AM (LJ7Ze)

196 Groan: Mooch Compares Campaigning For President To Being In The MilitaryÂ… --- Yes, because Tom Cruise describing moviemaking as such went over SO well with the people. Hell, even Mark Wahlberg ripped him a new asshole over that one.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at April 24, 2014 10:00 AM (APuJ7)

197 Groan: Mooch Compares Campaigning For President To Being In The MilitaryÂ… --- Yes, because Tom Cruise describing moviemaking as such went over SO well with the people. Hell, even Mark Wahlberg ripped him a new asshole over that one.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at April 24, 2014 10:00 AM (APuJ7)

198 173 Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 24, 2014 01:59 PM (da5Wo)

You know BC we could have a MoMe at GenCon or Comic-Con...

Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 10:00 AM (TE35l)

199 173 Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 24, 2014 01:59 PM (da5Wo)

You know BC we could have a MoMe at GenCon or Comic-Con...

Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 10:00 AM (TE35l)

200 Portland Mayor Charlie Hales also pointed out that Portland has a long standing agreement on supplying dead babies for the occult sacrifices held during town hall meetings to appease the Elder Gods and was concerned that venerated tradition might be impacted.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at April 24, 2014 10:01 AM (ZPrif)

201 MoronCon?  New name for the meet up?

Hey EC, remember that non-profit thing you were thinking of?  I sense an opportunity...

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 24, 2014 10:01 AM (L8umz)

202 Portland Mayor Charlie Hales also pointed out that Portland has a long standing agreement on supplying dead babies for the occult sacrifices held during town hall meetings to appease the Elder Gods and was concerned that venerated tradition might be impacted.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at April 24, 2014 10:01 AM (ZPrif)

203 MoronCon?  New name for the meet up?

Hey EC, remember that non-profit thing you were thinking of?  I sense an opportunity...

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 24, 2014 10:01 AM (L8umz)

204
Help, I'm being oppressed. Come and see the violence inherent in the system.

Posted by: Little girls at April 24, 2014 10:02 AM (hJauc)

205 You know BC we could have a MoMe at GenCon or Comic-Con... Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 02:00 PM (TE35l) Morons at a Con is either the Greatest Idea Ever or the Worst Idea Ever.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 24, 2014 10:02 AM (da5Wo)

206 >>Groan: Mooch Compares Campaigning For President To Being In The MilitaryÂ… She also likened the White House to a prison.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 24, 2014 10:02 AM (8zTpe)

207 Sorry, I'm catching up from the last thread. A. Matt Lauer makes $25 million a year. Shut up, baldy. B. I defy anyone to make the case that raising girls COSTS LESS than raising boys. Bullshit upon bullshit.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 24, 2014 10:02 AM (659DL)

208 Infinite page loads. Is Pamela Geller here?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 10:02 AM (LJ7Ze)

209 75, Roman, we did wear the most hideous plaid uniforms you've ever seen. Knee-length, gray plaid, polyester, with gray knee socks and blue shirts with a Peter Pan collar. The '70s were a cruel time.

Posted by: VKI at April 24, 2014 10:03 AM (qySNZ)

210 Morons at a Con is either the Greatest Idea Ever or the Worst Idea Ever.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 24, 2014 02:02 PM (da5Wo)


Some from column A, some from column B.




Posted by: EC at April 24, 2014 10:03 AM (GQ8sn)

211

Infinite page loads. Is Pamela Geller here?

 

--

 

Just her breasts.

 

 

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 24, 2014 10:04 AM (sBUAE)

212 The Hugo/Larry Coreia story from the side bar shows how far into our culture this same problem of lefty politicization has penetrated.   The Hugo's have really been snake-bit this year: first they had the lefties complaining about the proposed host making fat jokes,  scaring the delicate female writers worried about what dress they were going to buy for the ceremony (that really, truly, is what the leader of the pack said, in writing, was her concern) , and now the lefties are mad about an undesirable righty being nominated.

Posted by: MTF at April 24, 2014 10:04 AM (LISuA)

213 Hey EC, remember that non-profit thing you were thinking of? I sense an opportunity...
----------
Either that or a large disturbance in the Force

Posted by: LFW - Honorary Pointy Eared Vulcan at April 24, 2014 10:04 AM (l2max)

214 Hey EC, remember that non-profit thing you were thinking of? I sense an opportunity...



Well, we would have to trick convince leftards into giving us their money and come up with a pittance lefty-ish goal, like feeding homeless puppies and kittehs.


Posted by: EC at April 24, 2014 10:04 AM (GQ8sn)

215


"They chose the story"

I'm think they don't choose much.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn there are minders in the newsrooms.

Isn't that how it's really done? Can't leave anything to chance.




Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Bonehead liberal at April 24, 2014 10:05 AM (xggaJ)

216 We need a female POTUS to level out all this male/female inequality. I hope it works better than electing the post-racial president has helped race relations

Posted by: Schwalbe: The Me-262© at April 24, 2014 10:05 AM (9Bdcz)

217 185 Those Peter Pan collar blue shirts were still being used in the early nineties.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 10:05 AM (LJ7Ze)

218 192 We need a female POTUS to level out all this male/female inequality. I hope it works better than electing the post-racial president has helped race relations --- I'm fairly certain we've got the First Female President right now. Or at least the first eunuch one since Moochelle apparently has his balls in her purse.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at April 24, 2014 10:06 AM (APuJ7)

219

And looks like they just destroyed Bundy...now he is not symathetic at all to the moron hordes.

Oh well, he had his chance, I guess. The guns will be coming soon.

With the media's overt help.


Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Bonehead liberal at April 24, 2014 10:06 AM (xggaJ)

220 Infinite page loads. Is Pamela Geller here?

--

Just her breasts.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 24, 2014 02:04 PM (sBUAE)




Hehehe....you said 'loads'....hehehehehehehehehe!!!



Posted by: EC at April 24, 2014 10:06 AM (GQ8sn)

221 Well, we would have to trick convince leftards into giving us their money and come up with a pittance lefty-ish goal, like feeding homeless puppies and kittehs. Posted by: EC at April 24, 2014 02:04 PM (GQ8sn) PETA already "takes care" of the puppies and kittehs. IYKWIMAITYD

Posted by: RWC at April 24, 2014 10:07 AM (fWAjv)

222 Incinerating babies isn't about energy generation, its about disposing of the evidence.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 24, 2014 10:07 AM (zfY+H)

223 Never before in human history have so few caused so much chaos. "And tonight on the 11o'clock news...." Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 24, 2014 01:59 PM (da5Wo) "Sources are still unclear as to how the alligators got loose in the elevator."

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at April 24, 2014 10:07 AM (mf5HN)

224 Is this related to the Lebowski Urban Achievers?

Posted by: scofflawx at April 24, 2014 10:07 AM (y9ZJX)

225 PETA already "takes care" of the puppies and kittehs.

IYKWIMAITYD

Posted by: RWC at April 24, 2014 02:07 PM (fWAjv)




Look at the flowers, Sparky....



Posted by: EC at April 24, 2014 10:08 AM (GQ8sn)

226 199 Never before in human history have so few caused so much chaos. "And tonight on the 11o'clock news...." Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 24, 2014 01:59 PM (da5Wo) "Sources are still unclear as to how the alligators got loose in the elevator." --- "To which Mrs. Clinton replied 'But I don't even like the taste of vagina...'"

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at April 24, 2014 10:08 AM (APuJ7)

227 NBC is probably more leftwing than HurrDurrProgress.

Posted by: talldave2 at April 24, 2014 10:08 AM (/s1LA)

228 LOOK! RACISSST SQUIRREL !!!!!!

Posted by: MSM Reporting on Bundy at April 24, 2014 10:08 AM (aTXUx)

229 I think incinerating corpses would consume more energy than it would provide.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 10:08 AM (LJ7Ze)

230

Just spitballin' here but what about the inequality between boys and girls as it relates  to boob access? 

 

Girls have two and 27/7/365 access.

 

Moobs are no  consolation prize.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 24, 2014 10:09 AM (BAS5M)

231

("Junior Achievement"?)

 

And proud we are of all of them!

Posted by: Maude Lebowskie at April 24, 2014 10:09 AM (DErq5)

232 Never before in human history have so few caused so much chaos.

"And tonight on the 11o'clock news...."
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 24, 2014 01:59 PM (da5Wo)


"Sources are still unclear as to how the alligators got loose in the elevator."

---

"To which Mrs. Clinton replied 'But I don't even like the taste of vagina...'"

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at April 24, 2014 02:08 PM (APuJ7)


-----


.... and then Bill and Hillary laffed and laffed and laffed and laffed.

Posted by: fixerupper at April 24, 2014 10:09 AM (nELVU)

233 How many NBC employees live in the hood?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 10:09 AM (LJ7Ze)

234 It's more "stray voltage", Ace.  it's all the same thing..

Posted by: Chi-town Jerry at April 24, 2014 10:10 AM (Z7PrM)

235 "Sources are still unclear as to how the alligators got loose in the elevator." Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at April 24, 2014 02:07 PM (mf5HN) "However, we can confirm that it was someone in a small Darth Vader costume who released the polar bears. To what purpose....we can only speculate..."

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 24, 2014 10:10 AM (da5Wo)

236 209 How many NBC employees live in the hood? --- Outside of Gene-Gene The Dancin' Machine from The Gong Show?

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at April 24, 2014 10:10 AM (APuJ7)

237 I think incinerating corpses would consume more energy than it would provide. Hobo alkies actually generate a nice, steady blue flame. A friend told me this.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 24, 2014 10:10 AM (8ZskC)

238
A REAL war on a woman from a Democrat Funder:

http://tinyurl.com/l7g9gl8

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 24, 2014 10:10 AM (hJauc)

239 The Hugo/Larry Coreia story from the side bar shows howfar into our culturethis same problem of lefty politicization has penetrated. The Hugo's have really been snake-bit this year: first they had the lefties complaining about the proposed host making fat jokes, scaring the delicate female writers worried about what dress they were going to buy for the ceremony (that really, truly, is what the leader of the pack said, in writing, was her concern), and now the lefties are mad about an undesirable righty being nominated. Posted by: MTF at April 24, 2014 02:04 PM (LISuA)
This is the point where I tell the story of being involved in a fandom where there was much hyperventilating about my very presence in it because icky libertarian cooties and how all of that whinging suddenly went away when I said fine I would leave and, oh, by the way, stop paying for all that extra shit for which I was the only one who paid. Funny. That.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at April 24, 2014 10:11 AM (mf5HN)

240 only at AoS are there 27 hrs in a day for boobs..

Posted by: Soothie § at April 24, 2014 10:11 AM (vT9IG)

241 This is the point where I tell the story of being involved in a fandom where there was much hyperventilating about my very presence in it because icky libertarian cooties and how all of that whinging suddenly went away when I said fine I would leave and, oh, by the way, stop paying for all that extra shit for which I was the only one who paid. Funny. That. --- What kind of fandom? Please don't say "Furries"...

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at April 24, 2014 10:12 AM (APuJ7)

242 After five years of delays, reviews and excuses, President Obama has apparently “all but decided to deny the permit for the [Keystone XL] pipeline,” according to Rolling Stone author Jeff Goodell. Goodell claimed that Obama's decision really is about politics, despite claims from the administration and Democrats that was not the case. “Although no final decision has been made, two high-level sources in the Obama administration told me recently that the president has all but decided to deny the permit for the pipeline – a dramatic move that would light up Democratic voters and donors while further provoking the wrath of Big Oil,” Goodell said. Sign Up for the Politics Today newsletter! Goodell said Obama's motivation behind the pipeline decision came from two factors: The obvious first being what Goodell described as the “politics of climate change,” which is just code for money. Billionaire Tom Steyer is mentioned in the very next sentence. The other motivation is Obama’s perceived mark on history. “Taking action on climate is one of the most important goals in the president's second term,” White House adviser John Podesta told Goodell. “He feels a profound and urgent obligation to get as much done as he can before he leaves office.” Goodell said how Obama came to his decision was a “closely guarded secret,” but that he was told by members of the administration that the pipeline would be rejected. Weasel Zippers: Shocka. And of course a gutless move to wait till after the election but par for this Admin.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 24, 2014 10:12 AM (t3UFN)

243 What kind of fandom?

Please don't say "Furries"...

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at April 24, 2014 02:12 PM (APuJ7)



Whedon-verse?

Posted by: EC at April 24, 2014 10:12 AM (GQ8sn)

244 Whatever it is, I've never heard of it!

Posted by: Charlie Gibson at April 24, 2014 10:12 AM (/AHDz)

245 Whedon-verse? Posted by: EC at April 24, 2014 02:12 PM (GQ8sn) *backs away from EC very quickly*

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 24, 2014 10:13 AM (da5Wo)

246 " Oregon county puts stop to incinerating aborted babies for electricity... " -------------- Why? That's what I'd like to ask the Pelosis and Obamas of this world. Other than "it upsets the benighted little people," what possible reason could they have for caring?

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 24, 2014 10:13 AM (dfYL9)

247 "However, we can confirm that it was someone in a small Darth Vader costume who released the polar bears. To what purpose....we can only speculate..." Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 24, 2014 02:10 PM (da5Wo) True fact: Boy BFF has campaigned for years for me to dress up like a Jawa for Halloween.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at April 24, 2014 10:13 AM (mf5HN)

248

only at AoS are there 27 hrs in a day for boobs..

 

 

Sorry, sorta got a bit excited there thinking about them.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 24, 2014 10:13 AM (BAS5M)

249 This is the point where I tell the story of being involved in a fandom where there was much hyperventilating about my very presence in it because icky libertarian cooties and how all of that whinging suddenly went away when I said fine I would leave and, oh, by the way, stop paying for all that extra shit for which I was the only one who paid. My interest is piqued: which fandom?

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at April 24, 2014 10:14 AM (iANqq)

250 Doesn't that asshole billionaire own the trains that transport the keystone oil? A pipeline would cut into his business. Warren Buffet of Omaha.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 10:14 AM (LJ7Ze)

251 Japanese MP who was angry that Michelle didn't join president on Tokyo trip makes extraordinary claim that Obama CHEATS and their looming divorce is 'an open secret' Kazuyuki Hamada, a member of the upper house of Japan's parliament, is miffed that Michelle Obama is staying home as her husband tours Japan He claimed on his blog that a marital rift is responsible for the president's stag trip to Tokyo Mrs. and Mrs. Obama, he wrote, have already decided to divorce after he leaves office – a claim mirroring one in the National Enquirer Hamada claims Michelle Obama knows her husband is cheating on her and using the Secret Service to hide the evidence He wrote a 2009 'birther' book titled 'Who is Obama?' that argued the president likely wasn't born in the United States

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 24, 2014 10:14 AM (t3UFN)

252 What kind of fandom for AtC ? Belt fed weapons of course ! Or sexy footwear , I forget which .

Posted by: awkward davies at April 24, 2014 10:15 AM (whqez)

253 Keystone provides     cheap energy and jobs.        That cannot be allowed.  Democrats rely not only upon gaia worshippers' donations, but also on a continued bad economy to keep people dependent.  FDR redux.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 24, 2014 10:15 AM (sBUAE)

254
only at AoS are there 27 hrs in a day for boobs..

And in all 57 states too!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 24, 2014 10:15 AM (hJauc)

255 54 btw, these women stories are battlespace prep for the Hillary campaign.

I still kind of expect a last minute replacement of Fauxcahontas.

Posted by: HR at April 24, 2014 01:35 PM (ZKzrr)


Yeah, something along the lines of "Hillary the Pioneer passes the torch to Elizabeth the New Star." I'm wondering if Hillary is damaged in some way and the party is convincing her to Take One for the Team.

Posted by: joncelli at April 24, 2014 10:15 AM (RD7QR)

256 Whedon-verse? Posted by: EC at April 24, 2014 02:12 PM (GQ8sn) Yup. Hell hath no fury like a fangirl betrayed.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at April 24, 2014 10:15 AM (mf5HN)

257 Doesn't that asshole billionaire own the trains that transport the keystone oil? A pipeline would cut into his business. Warren Buffet of Omaha.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 02:14 PM (LJ7Ze)



Yes.  He owns the rail lines I think. 


This is a huge payday for him.

Posted by: EC at April 24, 2014 10:15 AM (GQ8sn)

258 Belt fed weapons of course ! --- Yeah, like that would be one with a strong lefty following.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at April 24, 2014 10:16 AM (APuJ7)

259 They never rode in my Oldsmobile!

Posted by: Zombie Ted Kennedy at April 24, 2014 10:16 AM (nbGZj)

260 Whedon-verse?
Posted by: EC at April 24, 2014 02:12 PM (GQ8sn)


Yup.

Hell hath no fury like a fangirl betrayed.


Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at April 24, 2014 02:15 PM (mf5HN)



Ha!  I was right!



Posted by: EC at April 24, 2014 10:16 AM (GQ8sn)

261 232 Whedon-verse? Posted by: EC at April 24, 2014 02:12 PM (GQ8sn) Yup. Hell hath no fury like a fangirl betrayed. --- Can we see you as either Kayleigh or Buffy? As I understand it, you're the right height to portray SMG.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at April 24, 2014 10:16 AM (APuJ7)

262 233 Posted by: EC at April 24, 2014 02:15 PM (GQ8sn)

Indeed...

but hey the moderates told me Ogabe would "see the light and approve it" after he got the Gaia Kult's money

Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 10:17 AM (TE35l)

263 Online polls are inherently biased: they require effort on the part of the pollee to register their opinions. That's the bias - only motivated people will waste their time like that(1). Of course, as the old saying goes, when you're on the internet, no one knows you're a dog. Or in this case, whether ThinkProgress salted the poll. "Oh, yes, I'm between 8 and 18, and I don't get an allowance." *wink*wink*nudge*nudge* (1) same with comment cards at restaurants

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie © at April 24, 2014 10:18 AM (1hM1d)

264

Doesn't that asshole billionaire own the trains that transport the keystone oil? A pipeline would cut into his business. Warren Buffet of Omaha.

 

--

 

Yes, Warren Buffet.  Coincidentally, members of Buffet's staff    wrote a proposal on government intervention on banks, and also coincidentally, Buffet invested millions    into certain banks shortly before his staff's recommendations were put into law, and certain banks happened to receive a windfall.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 24, 2014 10:18 AM (sBUAE)

265 Can we see you as either Kayleigh or Buffy?

As I understand it, you're the right height to portray SMG.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at April 24, 2014 02:16 PM (APuJ7)



What about Cordelia?

Posted by: EC at April 24, 2014 10:18 AM (GQ8sn)

266 The armor that video game chicks wear only seems to cover their naughty bits. I don't think that would work.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 10:18 AM (LJ7Ze)

267 if obama set out to ruin America he would not be doing anything different than he is right now. Elections matter

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 24, 2014 10:18 AM (t3UFN)

268 Tom Steyer's eco-fascist PAC is pretty clever. They don't run ads about green energy and AGW. They run adds about War-on-Wymmmynz and Rapey Culture and OMG!!! He's banning tampons!!!!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 24, 2014 10:18 AM (dfYL9)

269 Ace, perhaps I'm jaded, but many of us have built up an immunity to bullshit. We see it coming 10 miles away and it has 0 effect.

Posted by: tangonine at April 24, 2014 10:19 AM (x3YFz)

270 >>I'm wondering if Hillary is damaged in some way and the party is convincing her to Take One for the Team. Hello, Benghazi no accomplishments as SoS. More like they've finally recognized Hillary is damaged blah, blah, blah.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 24, 2014 10:19 AM (8zTpe)

271 The armor that video game chicks wear only seems to cover their naughty bits. I don't think that would work.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 02:18 PM (LJ7Ze)



That's because those are the most vulnerable parts.



Posted by: EC at April 24, 2014 10:19 AM (GQ8sn)

272 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 24, 2014 01:41 PM (CMkNk) I expect the NoVAMoMe to be a ribald event unless Cochran is niggardly with his shout-outs to passing RINOs.

Posted by: Hrothgar [/i][/s][/b] at April 24, 2014 10:19 AM (o3MSL)

273 I expect the NoVAMoMe to be a ribald event unless Cochran is niggardly with his shout-outs to passing RINOs.


One thing for certain...



The whiskey must flow!


Posted by: EC at April 24, 2014 10:20 AM (GQ8sn)

274 It's time to get Assault Keyboards off the streets!

Posted by: WarOnDrive-By Media at April 24, 2014 10:20 AM (nbGZj)

275 Nice Ace. I like the term "micro-story". Makes a lot of sense to explain the chain of command. There is a medical condition, Hydatid Cyst, where there is a parent worm encased in a cyst surrounded by lots of smaller daughter cysts. They work together and take up a lot of room in your internal organs. It doesn't end well.

Posted by: Daybrother at April 24, 2014 10:20 AM (6Qyxy)

276 Elections matter Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 24, 2014 02:18 PM (t3UFN) Yes, and they matter even more when an incumbent with a demonstrated track record is up for re-election, see Obama, 2012.

Posted by: Hrothgar [/i][/s][/b] at April 24, 2014 10:21 AM (o3MSL)

277 I expect the NoVAMoMe to be a ribald event unless Cochran is niggardly with his shout-outs to passing RINOs. Posted by: Hrothgar at April 24, 2014 02:19 PM (o3MSL) Bannion has mentioned an award for RINO of the Year. I'm supposed to yell at that person apparently. I still say it wasn't that loud.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 24, 2014 10:21 AM (da5Wo)

278 The white supremacist accused of killing three people during a Passover eve shooting rampage near a Jewish facility in Kansas was once busted paying for sex with a black man dressed as a woman, according to a new report. Frazier Glenn Cross — then known as Frazier Glenn Miller — was arrested after police officers spotted him having sex with the prostitute in the backseat of a car in Raleigh, N.C., in the 1980s, WTVD-TV reported on Thursday. “It’s pretty shocking,” Doug McCullough, a former federal prosecutor who was investigating the former Klansman at the time, told the news station. “Because of his personal stances that he had taken and what he was now accused of engaging in.” Gee the only good thing about all this: It's makes my family look almost normal

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 24, 2014 10:21 AM (t3UFN)

279 AtC as Inara?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, now posting with Pale Moon at April 24, 2014 10:21 AM (X2NEw)

280 My laptop doesn't have a handle that goes up but it is black.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 10:21 AM (LJ7Ze)

281

"I defy anyone to make the case that raising girls COSTS LESS than raising boys. Bullshit upon bullshit."

****

This. Times a million.

Posted by: Lea at April 24, 2014 10:21 AM (lIU4e)

282 257 The hair care products alone would cover the cost of a boy.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 10:23 AM (LJ7Ze)

283 Nude! Er....NOOD.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, now posting with Pale Moon at April 24, 2014 10:23 AM (X2NEw)

284 Morons at a Con is either the Greatest Idea Ever or the Worst Idea Ever. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 24, 2014 02:02 PM (da5Wo) You'd need a posse to offset the social justice warriors who will want to lynch you. At PAX I drew the "Republican" Cards against humanity t-shirt. Everyone with other shirts who wanted to stand next to me had shirts that said "Makes me cry." or "Santa gives bad kids" etc. There is no "Democrats" card in the deck (and thus no shirt.) None of them realized I wore the shirt as a descriptor/social experiment.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) [/b] [/i] [/s] at April 24, 2014 10:23 AM (HDwDg)

285 The ride along also contains bread for the barely literate mobs: daily affirmations of what that mob wants to hear.

Sickening.


Posted by: noone, really [/i] [/b] at April 24, 2014 10:25 AM (5ikDv)

286 I still say it wasn't that loud. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 24, 2014 02:21 PM (da5Wo) Everything is relative, but my ears still hurt!

Posted by: Hrothgar [/i][/s][/b] at April 24, 2014 10:25 AM (o3MSL)

287 "I defy anyone to make the case that raising girls COSTS LESS than raising boys. Bullshit upon bullshit." **** This. Times a million. Posted by: Lea at April 24, 2014 02:21 PM (lIU4e) mmhmm. Give a boy a rope and a stick. Feed him every now and then (he'll hunt his own food, mostly), and yer done.

Posted by: tangonine at April 24, 2014 10:25 AM (x3YFz)

288 37 "btw, these women stories are battlespace prep for the Hillary campaign." Ding, ding, ding, ding!!!! We need a female POTUS to level out all this male/female inequality. Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 24, 2014 01:32 PM (gOoFi) Just like Katrina set the stage for Obama.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at April 24, 2014 10:35 AM (Y92Nd)

289 If companies can pay women 77% of what they have to pay men for the same job, why would any company hire any men ?

Posted by: Rowe For-ks America at April 24, 2014 10:44 AM (e8kgV)

290 Nevergiveup #172

Heh,  Reminds me of Sgt. Apone from Aliens;

Every formation a parade.  Every meal a banquet.  Every paycheck a fortune.  I love the corps!

You reminded me of that line, and I needed the smile -- and damn if Cameron didn't get it back then, before he fell into the Libbie abyss with Spielberg.

Posted by: acethepug at April 24, 2014 11:47 AM (VHuBk)

291

"A **bunch** of us spent whole lotta time and effort and bug killer flying three leg flights into Anchorage to research that snow-billy bitch's email looking for wrongdoing."

 

Heh. I do love this site. 

Posted by: RM at April 24, 2014 12:09 PM (fRppw)

292 to all women who think they are paid less than men for the same work: If you were hotter, you would get paid more.

Posted by: plithy at April 24, 2014 04:37 PM (TD9KB)

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