February 11, 2014

Frightening: The FCC Will Begin Investigating Bias In the Media (and By That, They Mean Conservative Bias)
— Ace

The transformation of America continues apace.


News organizations often disagree about what Americans need to know. MSNBC, for example, apparently believes that traffic in Fort Lee, N.J., is the crisis of our time. Fox News, on the other hand, chooses to cover the September 2012 attacks on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi more heavily than other networks. The American people, for their part, disagree about what they want to watch.

But everyone should agree on this: The government has no place pressuring media organizations into covering certain stories.

Unfortunately, the Federal Communications Commission, where I am a commissioner, does not agree. Last May the FCC proposed an initiative to thrust the federal government into newsrooms across the country. With its "Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs," or CIN, the agency plans to send researchers to grill reporters, editors and station owners about how they decide which stories to run. A field test in Columbia, S.C., is scheduled to begin this spring.

The purpose of the CIN, according to the FCC, is to ferret out information from television and radio broadcasters about "the process by which stories are selected" and how often stations cover "critical information needs," along with "perceived station bias" and "perceived responsiveness to underserved populations."

How does the FCC plan to dig up all that information? First, the agency selected eight categories of "critical information" such as the "environment" and "economic opportunities," that it believes local newscasters should cover. It plans to ask station managers, news directors, journalists, television anchors and on-air reporters to tell the government about their "news philosophy" and how the station ensures that the community gets critical information.

The FCC also wants to wade into office politics. One question for reporters is: "Have you ever suggested coverage of what you consider a story with critical information for your customers that was rejected by management?" Follow-up questions ask for specifics about how editorial discretion is exercised, as well as the reasoning behind the decisions.

Participation in the Critical Information Needs study is voluntary—in theory. Unlike the opinion surveys that Americans see on a daily basis and either answer or not, as they wish, the FCC's queries may be hard for the broadcasters to ignore. They would be out of business without an FCC license, which must be renewed every eight years.

The giveaway here is the FCC's focus on "underserved communities," which means minority communities, and, as minorities are largely Democratic voters and as the Democratic Party aggressively courts the minority vote with its rhetoric and policy proposals, this indicates that the inquiry will not be into MSNBC's bias, but into, for example, Fox's news judgment to treat the Trayvon Martin shooting with a skeptical eye.

Thus, erroneous left-leaning reportage on the Trayvon Martin shooting (such as claiming, in a major report, that Zimmerman called Martin a "c**n" on his 911 call; or NBC's deliberately editing Zimmerman into saying "he looks black" without prompting) or will not be a subject of inquiry, but FoxNews' decision to cover both claims and counterclaims will be the subject of inquiry.

Any corporation -- and any person, actually -- will usually opt for the path of least resistance. It's easier and safer to do the thing that government and society approve of-- you know you face no heat for saying the politically-correct, government-approved thing.

The FCC's rule seeks to make a progressive tilt in news bias not only "safe" as a matter of social mores and general industry bias towards the left, but also safe as regards the law.

This becomes ever-more frightening. This Administration simply does not seem to recognize any principle or ethical limits on what it can do as far as advancing the leftist cause.

I understand that leftists, of course, have the right to agitate politically for their preferred policies. I do not deny that.

But we are witnessing here the government -- the government! -- actively seeking to create a hostile and frightening legal environment for anyone who disagrees with the leftist cause.

They are basically putting people on notice that there is a "right" way to report the news, and a "wrong" way, and the right way will let you keep your broadcasting license, and the wrong way might just lose it for you.

This is so breathtakingly unconstitutional I don't know quite what to say. I understand that it is my duty as an American to accept when I've lost an election, to accept when the democratic processes return a result I disfavor.

But am I now required to further accept that, per government mandate, the leftist position on any policy question is to be officially favored?

The left pushes for an unbreachable wall between Church and State. But here they are pushing for a very porous and very low wall between State Power and Leftist Politics.

Shoe on the other foot: If President Romney directed the FCC to investigate whether this is a leftist bias in news reportage, with possible consequences for refusing to take part in a "voluntary" study, what would the left say then?

They would object. They would be right to object.

And yet here we are, as usual, with one rule for the left, and another one for anyone who disagrees with the left. Two legs good, four legs better.

Posted by: Ace at 01:27 PM | Comments (469)
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1 If you like your opinion. You can keep your opinion. (To yourself)

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 11, 2014 01:28 PM (/o+xv)

2 They told me if I voted for Romney we'd have more wars, high debt, corporate grift, high unemployment, government intrusion, aww hell. you know the rest.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 11, 2014 01:30 PM (/o+xv)

3 It's not utopia unless there are dream police.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 11, 2014 01:30 PM (XUKZU)

4 Is this thing on. Anyone here. Hello

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 11, 2014 01:31 PM (/o+xv)

5 I'm on it!

Posted by: John Boner at February 11, 2014 01:31 PM (Aif/5)

6 They would object. They would be right to object. And yet here we are, as usual, with one rule for the left, and another one for anyone who disagrees with the left. Two legs good, four legs better. Step back. Let. It. Burn.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2014 01:31 PM (E7Zh9)

7 But four legs really is better!

Posted by: Napoleon at February 11, 2014 01:31 PM (ZPrif)

8 But the idea that we'll get sent to the camps is just a silly fabtasy.

Posted by: steevy at February 11, 2014 01:31 PM (zqvg6)

9 What next?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 11, 2014 01:32 PM (IXrOn)

10
.... and what, exactly, does this have to do with shearing alpacas?

Posted by: fixerupper at February 11, 2014 01:32 PM (nELVU)

11 But four legs really is better! Back to the sheep euphamisms, huh?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2014 01:32 PM (E7Zh9)

12 Nazi is as Nazi does.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 11, 2014 01:32 PM (ZPrif)

13 I've been saying all along that media bias is a problem. Apparently now the Feds agree. Is anyone surprised by this?

Posted by: D-Lamp at February 11, 2014 01:32 PM (bb5+k)

14
3 more years....or 11 depending upon how pessimistic you are.

Lord help us.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 11, 2014 01:33 PM (n0DEs)

15 Tell them to go fuck themselves

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 11, 2014 01:34 PM (t3UFN)

16 And yet here we are, as usual, with one rule for the left, and another one for anyone who disagrees with the left. Two legs good, four legs better. Step back. Let. It. Burn. Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2014 05:31 PM (E7Zh9) Yeah, did you happen to see this? http://www.marketwatch.com/story/scary-1929-market-chart-gains-traction-2014-02-11

Posted by: D-Lamp at February 11, 2014 01:34 PM (bb5+k)

17 Politics is like a box of nuts, you never know how big a one you'll get.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 11, 2014 01:34 PM (XUKZU)

18

Don't shear me, bro!

It's still cold out there.

Posted by: Naked Alpaca at February 11, 2014 01:34 PM (eCZwh)

19 Actually I am serious, FOX is now big enough and powerful enough to tell the Feds to go fuck themselves

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 11, 2014 01:34 PM (t3UFN)

20 You Var Beeink Verry Fooolish, Vee Have Vay's of making you talk...

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 11, 2014 01:34 PM (/o+xv)

21 Just wondering if Ace is smelling any Reichstag smoke yet?

Posted by: maddogg at February 11, 2014 01:35 PM (xWW96)

22 Check out Venezuela now.
Riots over toilet paper and milk.

Posted by: navybrat at February 11, 2014 01:35 PM (AW7Gr)

23 The whole thing is unbelievable--yet it gets even more egregious--they are going to investigate local station owners--and they are starting in South Carolina? Wow. . With its "Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs," or CIN, the agency plans to send researchers to grill reporters, editors and station owners about how they decide which stories to run. A field test in Columbia, S.C., is scheduled to begin this spring.

Posted by: tasker at February 11, 2014 01:35 PM (RJMhd)

24 Actually I am serious, FOX is now big enough and powerful enough to tell the Feds to go fuck themselves ------- We do need the practice.

Posted by: FCC SWAT Team at February 11, 2014 01:35 PM (Aif/5)

25 Ahhhh.... so you have Freedom of the Press... and of Speech... But must be licensed to use them over OUR Airwaves... Uh.... question... how much of this News is even going over the Airwaves? I don't know ANYONE who has a regular TV antenna anymore. Ergo, the vast majority of this is CABLE.... so has the FCC TV group outlived their usefulness... due to technology advancement?

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 11, 2014 01:35 PM (84gbM)

26 This isn't geared to intimidating FoxNews. It's aimed at your local NBC and Fox affiliate's 6 PM news. FCC doesn't regulate cable anyway. This is aimed at TV and radio broadcasters.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 11, 2014 01:35 PM (ZPrif)

27 They way this year is shaping up, I'm beginning to think Obama can really pull this off! There doesn't seem to be anyone trying to stop him. Go big or go home. Can't win the lottery if you don't buy a ticket. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. What does he have to lose, as long as he has a jet on standby, and some destination that doesn't have extradition with the US.


Posted by: Gulo Gulo, It's a type of weasel. at February 11, 2014 01:35 PM (ClirY)

28

With its "Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs," or CIN, the agency plans to send researchers to grill reporters, editors and station owners about how they decide which stories to run.

 

 

What are you going to do about it?  That's clearly an enumerated power.

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at February 11, 2014 01:35 PM (A0sHn)

29 I understand that leftists, of course, have the right to agitate politically for their preferred policies. I do not deny that. Not when they would deprive others of the same, they don't. Time to finalize end games, folks.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at February 11, 2014 01:35 PM (naUcP)

30 15 Tell them to go fuck themselves Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 11, 2014 05:34 PM (t3UFN) . . . and they will tell you that you're out of business, because your broadcast license renewal has been denied.

Posted by: Iowa Bob at February 11, 2014 01:35 PM (wcvVw)

31 Radio was around when the drafters drafted the first amendment so radio is not covered.  In fact, if anybody went around saying they could broadcast their voice across thousands of miles to millions of listeners, they would have been burned as a witch. That's all we want to do, burn Rush Limbaugh as a witch.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 11, 2014 01:36 PM (XUKZU)

32 Yeah, did you happen to see this? http://www.marketwatch.com/story/scary-1929-market-chart-gains-traction-2014-02-11 Saw a story on that or something similar yesterday or last Thursday. About how the market is mimicking 1929.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2014 01:36 PM (E7Zh9)

33 This is so breathtakingly unconstitutional I don't know quite what to say. I know.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 11, 2014 01:36 PM (IXrOn)

34 I read something this scary and I hope at the end that Ace tells us it's an Onion news piece. Holy God, how did we get here, and how much worse is it going to get?

Posted by: GuyfromNH at February 11, 2014 01:36 PM (kbOju)

35 and they will tell you that you're out of business, because your broadcast license renewal has been denied. Posted by: Iowa Bob at February 11, 2014 05:35 PM (wcvVw) Yeah? Let them try that with FOX

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 11, 2014 01:36 PM (t3UFN)

36 Dystopian novels were a warning, not a guide for implementation.

Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at February 11, 2014 01:36 PM (CnA98)

37 Local TV affiliates in the South are the obvious targets. Goal is to turn local NBC and Fox affiliates into NPR.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 11, 2014 01:37 PM (ZPrif)

38 Obama did say he would have more flexibility after the election.

Posted by: Gulo Gulo, It's a type of weasel. at February 11, 2014 01:37 PM (ClirY)

39 I am as shocked as the writer for the Hartford Currant is that 85% of owners of newly banned guns did not just submit to the state. No way that these folks see things around them and believe that maybe "just another word for the things we do together" might actually be their enemy. Interesting times indeed.

Posted by: traye at February 11, 2014 01:37 PM (K2RA8)

40 You Vill Now Report to Ministry Of Information comrade.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 11, 2014 01:37 PM (/o+xv)

41 Who new 1984 was an instruction manual.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 11, 2014 01:37 PM (g1DWB)

42 19 Actually I am serious, FOX is now big enough and powerful enough to tell the Feds to go fuck themselves Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 11, 2014 05:34 PM (t3UFN) I can see that working out about as well as Mikhail Khodorkovsky's challenge of Putin.

Posted by: D-Lamp at February 11, 2014 01:37 PM (bb5+k)

43 I don't even know you anymore

Posted by: The country of Canada at February 11, 2014 01:37 PM (RYQAM)

44 Goal is to turn local NBC and Fox affiliates into NPR. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 11, 2014 05:37 PM (ZPrif) FOX would fight back and unless this is a "Tax", they'd win also

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 11, 2014 01:37 PM (t3UFN)

45 Almost all the local TV affiliates I've ever had are always reliably leftist already.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 11, 2014 01:38 PM (ZPrif)

46 Holy God, how did we get here, and how much worse is it going to get? Posted by: GuyfromNH at February 11, 2014 05:36 PM ............Please don't ask.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 11, 2014 01:38 PM (/o+xv)

47 I can see that working out about as well as Mikhail Khodorkovsky's challenge of Putin. Posted by: D-Lamp at February 11, 2014 05:37 PM (bb5+k) Yeah well this is still America, no matter what obama and holder may think

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 11, 2014 01:38 PM (t3UFN)

48

Socialism only survives by the forcible repression of the Truth.

 

In other words...fascism.

 

We're seeing it more every day.

This is what is behind that new IRS Regulation...requiring businesses to 'swear' that they aren't laying off anyone due to ObamaCare. 

Posted by: wheatie at February 11, 2014 01:38 PM (eCZwh)

49 This is so breathtakingly unconstitutional I don't know quite what to say.

-
You will say, "Javohl, Mein Fuhrer" if you know what's good for you.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 11, 2014 01:39 PM (XUKZU)

50 a media with guts would turn the cameras and mics and questions around toward the regulator. make them famous. but not these pansies.

Posted by: X at February 11, 2014 01:39 PM (KHo8t)

51 We're flucked.

Posted by: Y-not at February 11, 2014 01:39 PM (zDsvJ)

52 Notice "radio" is included. The left has been frothing at the mouth, trying to figure out a way to destroy conservative talk radio.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 11, 2014 01:40 PM (IXrOn)

53 We're gonna fight this tooth and nail!

lulz! Had you goin' there for sec, didn't we?

Posted by: Your betters in the GOP [/i] [/b] at February 11, 2014 01:40 PM (cxs6V)

54 Ummmmmmmmmmmm, If I wanted any shit from, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... You all..... I would squeeze your heads.

Posted by: Preznit Urkel X at February 11, 2014 01:40 PM (jucos)

55

I'm not too worried because most of the local affiliates, even the fox affiliates lean left just like the national networks, fox excluded,  because they service the greater metropolitan / urban  areas who are made up of mostly the Left anyway.  Even in the  South.  

 

 

Posted by: polynikes at February 11, 2014 01:40 PM (m2CN7)

56 Interesting times indeed. Posted by: traye at February 11, 2014 05:37 PM (K2RA When the Chief Executive of the State... the one who is supposed to enforce Law... will not Follow the Law... Why would you expect the PEOPLE to?

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 11, 2014 01:40 PM (84gbM)

57

3 more years....or 11 depending upon how pessimistic you are.

 

Lord help us.

 

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 11, 2014 05:33 PM (n0DEs)

 

Lifetime, baby.  Now, kneel before Zod.

Posted by: Caliph SCOAMT at February 11, 2014 01:40 PM (o44nj)

58 Fox and NBC and CBS, etc, don't own their affiliates.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 11, 2014 01:41 PM (ZPrif)

59 Let there be no doubt.

This is war.

The guns in this war aren't guns, they're federal power and regulations.

The right is unarmed, ineffective and poorly led (if led at all).

but keep watching reality shows, America.  Soccer practice is just around the corner.  Just pretend it's not happening.

I have more respect for the left than the right.  At least the left can bring the fight.  The right just buckles like a belt.

Posted by: tangonine at February 11, 2014 01:41 PM (x3YFz)

60 Holy God, how did we get here, and how much worse is it going to get? Posted by: GuyfromNH at February 11, 2014 05:36 PM (kbOju) Ever hear of an event called Kristallnacht? Yeah, that's just the start.

Posted by: D-Lamp at February 11, 2014 01:41 PM (bb5+k)

61 Well, they own some and don't own others. Depends on the market.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 11, 2014 01:41 PM (ZPrif)

62 26 This isn't geared to intimidating FoxNews. It's aimed at your local NBC and Fox affiliate's 6 PM news. FCC doesn't regulate cable anyway. This is aimed at TV and radio broadcasters. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 11, 2014 05:35 PM (ZPrif) ******************** Ya--well that is actually worse. The local media is still more conservative. they also have to be some what responsive to their audience because they are more dependent on ratings and add buys. The only course around the Liberal bias of the national media was possibly for Republican candidates to by pass the strangle hold that the Liberal media has on the nationalized media and go to the local media. And--it is interesting that they are going to start with South Carolina.

Posted by: tasker at February 11, 2014 01:41 PM (RJMhd)

63 Yep, record numbers more will leave the country. Record number of suicides, etc. This country was f*cked when it voted for the JEF, and doubly when they did it again.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 11, 2014 01:41 PM (IXrOn)

64 The time to move to the woods is drawing near. Fuck

Not really a bell tower guy I'm gonna hide instead.

Posted by: The Hickster at February 11, 2014 01:41 PM (TI3xG)

65 It plans to ask station managers, news directors, journalists, television anchors and on-air reporters to tell the government about their "news philosophy" and how the station ensures that the community gets critical information.

Forward, Comrades!


Posted by: Joseph Stalin and the Revolution- the 2014 Undead U.S. Tour at February 11, 2014 01:42 PM (5ikDv)

66 *Ad* buys.

Posted by: tasker at February 11, 2014 01:42 PM (RJMhd)

67 37 Local TV affiliates in the South are the obvious targets. Goal is to turn local NBC and Fox affiliates into NPR. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 11, 2014 05:37 PM (ZPrif) They are going to force a leftest propaganda bent through threats and intimidation.

Posted by: D-Lamp at February 11, 2014 01:42 PM (bb5+k)

68 Yep, they keep trying to find new versions of the "fairness doctrine" bullshit. Fucking fascists.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 11, 2014 01:42 PM (/o+xv)

69 Two words: tempus fugit.

Posted by: Country Singer at February 11, 2014 01:42 PM (CWquH)

70 Nice try whoever wrote this post.

Posted by: Dr Spank at February 11, 2014 01:42 PM (38LLM)

71 TV and Radio don't have anything to worry about. All they have to do is report the facts, and leave opinion out of it. Facts are facts, how can reporting the facts, the bare minimum of fact get a TV or Radio broadcaster in trouble.

"The White House said today. . . ."
"The CBO said today. . . . "
"A democrat member of congress said today. . . "


Posted by: Gulo Gulo, It's a type of weasel. at February 11, 2014 01:42 PM (ClirY)

72 The most frustrating of all - the people that WE voted for are not doing a damn thing about any of this.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 11, 2014 01:43 PM (IXrOn)

73
The Senate voted unanimously on Oct 28th 2013 to confirm President ObamaÂ’s two nominations to the Federal Communications Commission, overcoming obstacles by Republican lawmakers.

The confirmations of Mr. Wheeler and Mr. O’Rielly bring the agency back to its full strength of five commissioners — three of them Democrats and two Republicans — and will allow the commission to get to work on several pressing issues that have not moved forward since the former chairman, Julius Genachowski, announced his resignation in March.




You are SO welcome!

Posted by: Your Republican Senators

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 11, 2014 01:43 PM (kdS6q)

74 For a group of people who constantly assure us that they are the best and the brightest and are always on the lookout for something about which to proclaim their perception and superior insight, it's amazing how these idiots don't realize (or at least won't acknowledge) they're following "Dictatorship for Dummies".  This is textbook stuff. 

Posted by: pep at February 11, 2014 01:43 PM (6TB1Z)

75

We're gonna fight this tooth and nail!

 

lulz! Had you goin' there for sec, didn't we?

 

Posted by: Your betters in the GOP at February 11, 2014 05:40 PM (cxs6V)

 

By "this", we mean "you", and by "you", we mean "the TEA Party, conservatives, and those who don't want the US to become North Mexico."

Posted by: El PRL management at February 11, 2014 01:43 PM (o44nj)

76 It plans to ask station managers, news directors, journalists, television anchors and on-air reporters to tell the government about their "news philosophy" and how the station ensures that the community gets critical information..................Translation. Nice news outlet you got here. Be a shame if something were to happen to it.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 11, 2014 01:43 PM (/o+xv)

77
4 billion rounds of HP 40 cal arent going to shoot themselves.

Posted by: fixerupper at February 11, 2014 01:43 PM (nELVU)

78 The time is getting nigh for that Article V.  This is really, really unbelievable. 

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 11, 2014 01:43 PM (Oa7B2)

79 #31

I think you're missing a 'not' in that first sentence.

Posted by: Epobirs at February 11, 2014 01:43 PM (bPxS6)

80

What does this have to do with keeping radio stations from intruding into others' frequencies?

Posted by: Powderhouse Rules at February 11, 2014 01:43 PM (Xv7f/)

81 My understanding is it's like McDonald's. McD's own some restaurants but most are owned by franchisee's who pay an annual fee for the right to be a McD's. Fox, CBS, NBC, ABC own some stations (often in the most lucrative markets) and let others pay an annual fee to be an affiliate and broadcast their content. I think.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 11, 2014 01:44 PM (ZPrif)

82 I have more respect for the left than the right. At least the left can bring the fight. The right just buckles like a belt. When the right does stand & fight, there won't be any left, left.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2014 01:44 PM (E7Zh9)

83 Well at some point in 2008 I thought that perhaps we were being over pessimistic about how bad the Obama presidency would be. Obama took our worst prognostications as a challenge to meet and exceed.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Laughing Maniacally While Throwing Matches. at February 11, 2014 01:44 PM (0q2P7)

84 I can bet you anything the reason they are starting with South Carolina is because it votes Republican but has a certain demographic breakdown. So--the nation already has PBS--to decide what they want to expose the public to--but since that isn't exactly pulling in the ratings now they want to control the local station owners?

Posted by: tasker at February 11, 2014 01:44 PM (RJMhd)

85 I have some very special questions to ask you, Mr. Ace. See this taser? I call it 'instant truth serum'.
 
Now, what shall we talk about?

Posted by: FCC investigator at February 11, 2014 01:44 PM (wNF3N)

86 This will get out of control! It will get out of control, and we'll be lucky to talk about it!

Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at February 11, 2014 01:44 PM (R+XDI)

87 Wow. The leftwing stations doctored the tape, deliberately misreported what was said, and doctored photos and video -- all to make Zimmerman look guilty. And why the fuck are they not being investigated?

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 11, 2014 01:44 PM (NRYdU)

88 Everything that is happening between now and Nov 2016 is designed to make it easier for hitlery clinton* to win and harder for a Republican to win. Everything. *or for obama to stay in the White House as our ruler indefinitely

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 11, 2014 01:44 PM (OA6Aw)

89 Yeah well this is still America, no matter what obama and holder may think Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 11, 2014 05:38 PM (t3UFN) How many divisions does the Pope have?

Posted by: Joe Stalin wannabe at February 11, 2014 01:44 PM (bb5+k)

90 brb, poising for action...

Posted by: lolGOP [/i][/b] at February 11, 2014 01:44 PM (5ikDv)

91 Your Republican Senators

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 11, 2014 05:43 PM (kdS6q)

Glad to help.

Posted by: John McCain, the guy who left hundreds of POWs unaccounted for, by design at February 11, 2014 01:44 PM (x3YFz)

92 Posted by: tasker at February 11, 2014 05:41 PM (RJMhd) Ramification? This is aimed at all the News Producers OUTSIDE of the New York / Washington DC MSM. The Federal Government finds it much easier to control a few Large entities... than to control lots of smaller entities (exhibit 1, the banking consolidation the Treasury and Fed engineered after the last self created bank crises). This is aimed at Fly Over Country...

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 11, 2014 01:44 PM (84gbM)

93 At what point does a "local news story" turn into a story covering "critical information needs"? And at what point do we all need to openly welcome our news FCC overlords? Yeesh.

Posted by: LizLem at February 11, 2014 01:45 PM (BF+2f)

94

33 This is so breathtakingly unconstitutional I don't know quite what to say.

***

Allow me to retort.  I am the President so I can do whatever I want.

Posted by: Jules Obama at February 11, 2014 01:45 PM (Xv7f/)

95 81 My understanding is it's like McDonald's. McD's own some restaurants but most are owned by franchisee's who pay an annual fee for the right to be a McD's. Fox, CBS, NBC, ABC own some stations (often in the most lucrative markets) and let others pay an annual fee to be an affiliate and broadcast their content. I think. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 11, 2014 05:44 PM ***************** That's my understanding of it also.

Posted by: tasker at February 11, 2014 01:45 PM (RJMhd)

96 The parallel is *not* Nazi Germany, it's the USSR. 

I urge every moron to read this book:  "Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe". 

It is all you need to know about the details of the creation of the USSR and Nazi Germany.  The USSR part is really both enlightening and utterly frightening.  Warning:  do not read it while stoned.

tinyurl.com/mjled7c

Posted by: SFGoth at February 11, 2014 01:45 PM (M3JDe)

97 Why would you expect the PEOPLE to? Posted by: Romeo13 at February 11, 2014 I was in the military during Clinton. I remember the talk then. I can't imagine what it is right now. I would expect a lot quite discussion of arm armed revolt. NOT that I am advocating, I'm just saying twenty years ago was nothing like what is happening now and there were lots of unhappy guys.

Posted by: traye at February 11, 2014 01:45 PM (K2RA8)

98 The Ministry of Truth arises

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 11, 2014 01:46 PM (Z/g31)

99 The only, and I mean only acceptable response is for each and every news organization to tell the FCC to go stuff itself. And, Congress needs to pass some legislation pronto to make clear that the FCC has exceeded its regulatory mandate by any action attempting to question content by any broadcaster, short of regulating outright obscenity. And, unicorns will spontaneously pop out of my ass.

Posted by: NYC Parent at February 11, 2014 01:46 PM (HEo6y)

100

This isn't geared to intimidating FoxNews.
It's aimed at your local NBC and Fox affiliate's 6 PM news.

 

Cold comfort.  Even if it were aimed right at MSNBC it would be a very bad, horrible, not good idea. 

 

I just heard a Howard Stern interview with Frank Zappa from 1986(ish).  Tipper Gore was trying to censor albums, it was such a flashback.  Zappa made the point, heartily concurred with, that the FCC's job is to keep broadcasters transmitting in the frequencies they're assigned.  Not to regulate or investigate content.

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at February 11, 2014 01:46 PM (A0sHn)

101 My friendsh, there is nothing to fear with Obama in the White House.

Posted by: John McCain at February 11, 2014 01:46 PM (vbK1S)

102 I'm just waiting for the decree that Conservatism is a crime.

Posted by: DangerGirl at February 11, 2014 01:46 PM (GrtrJ)

103 From wiki ---- In the broadcasting industry, an owned-and-operated station (frequently abbreviated as O&O) usually refers to a television station or radio station that is owned by the network with which it is associated. This distinguishes such a station from an affiliate, whose ownership lies elsewhere other than the network it is linked to. A good example would be the Washington, D.C. television market in the United States, whereby NBCUniversal-owned WRC-TV carries NBC programming, while 21st Century Fox-owned WTTG carries programming from Fox, another 21st Century Fox subsidiary. Therefore, both WRC-TV and WTTG are considered owned-and-operated stations. On the other hand, WJLA-TV and WUSA carry ABC and CBS programming respectively, but neither shares ownership ties with its parent network (WJLA-TV being owned by Allbritton Communications Company and WUSA by Gannett Company). As such, these two stations are considered affiliates.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 11, 2014 01:47 PM (ZPrif)

104 They're going to regret this! We going to write a strongly worded letter!

Posted by: Your betters in the GOP [/i] [/b] at February 11, 2014 01:47 PM (cxs6V)

105 I'm the president, I can do whatever I want.

Posted by: Colonel Obama at February 11, 2014 01:47 PM (3WKNG)

106 I pulled my copy of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" off the bookshelf this weekend to give it another read. I'm thinking that I don't need to bother - I can just keep coming here and reading the news.

Posted by: shredded chi at February 11, 2014 01:47 PM (Hz2MQ)

107 We don't even get ampersands - we're underserved and demand our own FCC commissar.

Posted by: Jean at February 11, 2014 01:47 PM (4JkHl)

108 >>>Allow me to retort. I am thePresident so Ican do whatever I want.

Posted by: Jules Obama at February 11, 2014 05:45 PM (Xv7f/)<<<



You were fantastic in that movie, and the Matrix.

Posted by: some white reporter at February 11, 2014 01:47 PM (vbK1S)

109 As far as corporations and congress opposing this, we now live in a Kick The Can Down The Road country. Nobody gives a shit about the future beyond the current fiscal quarter, not even the WSJ.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 11, 2014 01:48 PM (OA6Aw)

110 More wiki ---- In the United States, unlike Canada's O&O heavy geography, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) currently mandates that the total number of television stations owned by any company (including a television network) can only reach a maximum of 39% of the country.[1] Given this restriction, television networks only have O&Os in a fraction of the 210 designated market areas around the country (the remainder of the markets are served by affiliates owned by other media companies). Periodically, networks may sell O&Os, to comply with this FCC restriction. O&Os tend to be found in large urban centers like New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago and other markets typically among the 10 largest in the U.S. such as San Francisco, Dallas and Philadelphia, although they have also been found in markets as small as Green Bay, Wisconsin (DMA #69, 2006–07) in the past. Some networks such as Ion Television and non-commercial religious television networks like the Trinity Broadcasting Network and Daystar own the vast majority of their stations., with only a few privately owned outlets carrying their programming (in the case of TBN and Daystar, both networks own their stations directly and through subsidiary licensees, such as Community Educational Television for TBN and Word of God Fellowship for Daystar).

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 11, 2014 01:48 PM (ZPrif)

111 Now someone tell me again why I'm being ridiculous for continuing to by ammo. Paranoid knuckle dragger-that's me. Tick tock people tick tock.

Posted by: weirdflunky at February 11, 2014 01:49 PM (iGFVr)

112

Verrry scary. No question, this administration will push the left wing envelope as far as it can, in every way possible.

 

Serious question. With all the blogs to spread the word, the free flow of information via the internet, the Tea Party, the grassroots, and Fox News...will there be no serious pushback on this? This whole concept seems far fetched enough that even the Republican Party and ACLU might be able to say, "NO, JUST, NO."

 

Or is the frog already boiled?

Posted by: RM at February 11, 2014 01:49 PM (fRppw)

113

The time is getting nigh for that Article V. This is really, really unbelievable.

 

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 11, 2014 05:43 PM (Oa7B2)

 

That time passed 7 years ago.  All Article V will do now is cement the ObamiNation as the legal successor to the United States of America.

 

The time is nigh for a blast from the past (say, 1775) as the plan for the future.

Posted by: steveegg at February 11, 2014 01:49 PM (o44nj)

114 "Have you ever suggested coverage of what you consider a story with critical information for your customers that was rejected by management?" Get the hell out of my office!

Posted by: Meremortal at February 11, 2014 01:49 PM (1Y+hH)

115

89.   How many divisions does the Pope have?

Joe Stalin wannabe

***

 

More than you have.  More than you can imagine. 


( h/t Krauthammer.)

Posted by: John Paul II wannabe at February 11, 2014 01:49 PM (Xv7f/)

116
And this is just the stuff we know about.  Remember when you first heard about the IRS targeting conservatives?  Well them and the EPA, OSHA, and every other alphabet soup govt agency is probably doing it right now.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 11, 2014 01:50 PM (n0DEs)

117 I'm currently living a few hours outside Austin and can reliably say that the times I've watched their local broadcast news they are skewed much farther Left than when I was a kid. One local does town meetings on restricting gun ownership and is a 'partner' in signing everyone up for OCare. They've been 'nudged'. After you've been in the Federal government for decades it just makes sense to become China. It makes it so much easier to govern than that old messy Freedom and Constitutional Republic thing. The proles are so smelly.

Posted by: Daybrother at February 11, 2014 01:50 PM (t6Hin)

118 speaking of which, did you hear what that shithead Janet Yellin said today? Yellin said she's gonna just stay on course, continue the idiotic unsustainable monetary policies as Bernanke.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 11, 2014 01:50 PM (OA6Aw)

119 When the right does stand & fight, there won't be any left, left. Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2014 05:44 PM (E7Zh9) And I think this is why the right mostly stands silent. They dread what may need to be done. We have a "Let this cup pass before us" mindset.

Posted by: D-Lamp at February 11, 2014 01:50 PM (bb5+k)

120 Now someone tell me again why I'm being ridiculous for continuing to by ammo. Paranoid knuckle dragger-that's me. Tick tock people tick tock.>>

Because at some point you have enough ammo.


Posted by: Local P.D. ith an MRAP at February 11, 2014 01:51 PM (TI3xG)

121 92 Posted by: tasker at February 11, 2014 05:41 PM (RJMhd) Ramification? This is aimed at all the News Producers OUTSIDE of the New York / Washington DC MSM. The Federal Government finds it much easier to control a few Large entities... than to control lots of smaller entities (exhibit 1, the banking consolidation the Treasury and Fed engineered after the last self created bank crises). This is aimed at Fly Over Country... Posted by: Romeo13 at February 11, 2014 05:44 PM (84gbM) ************* I think that is exactly right. Wow it really is breath taking. You put this together with what Gabe is fighting--the "socialized law" theory--and it really is staggering. This is always how Leftism gets a foot hold. It always starts with complaining that life is unfair. The problem with that is what often happens is they end up making life more unfair for a larger group of relatively successful people to make life "more fair" for a few. That kind of power is corrupting and the redistribution of fairness always ends up with inefficient bureaucracy. Also who gets to decide what is fair? The select few who are so vain they think they can create Utopia on Earth. That has almost always ended badly.

Posted by: tasker at February 11, 2014 01:51 PM (RJMhd)

122 Tipper Gore was trying to censor albums, it was such a flashback. Zappa made the point, heartily concurred with, that the FCC's job is to keep broadcasters transmitting in the frequencies they're assigned. Not to regulate or investigate content.

I recall it differently.  Tipper was trying to get a ratings system for games and albums, so that parents could make informed choices about what their kids listened to.  Zappa acted like a total tool at the hearing, and got called down for it by Tom ?, (can't remember his last name), but Jewish.  It was the only time I ever saw Zappa look abashed.

Posted by: pep at February 11, 2014 01:51 PM (6TB1Z)

123 Slash the FCC's funding?

"Power of the purse"?

What in the world are you talking about? Never heard any such nonsense.

You'll have to excuse us. We'll be late to the trough for the noon feeding.

Posted by: Your House GOP at February 11, 2014 01:51 PM (gqT4g)

124 This might be targeted more at radio -- specifically ClearChannel and Cumulus. There's more consolidation there.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 11, 2014 01:51 PM (ZPrif)

125 There is no "Truth" in Pravda

Can't seem to find it in NBC either

Posted by: kbdabear at February 11, 2014 01:52 PM (aTXUx)

126 71 TV and Radio don't have anything to worry about. All they have to do is report the facts, and leave opinion out of it. Facts are facts, how can reporting the facts, the bare minimum of fact get a TV or Radio broadcaster in trouble.

Posted by: Gulo Gulo, It's a type of weasel


Uh, yeah, about that. Facts are irrelevant if you don't cover the story.

Posted by: Dr Spank at February 11, 2014 01:52 PM (38LLM)

127 100 comments and no mention of minitrue? For shame.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Laughing Maniacally While Throwing Matches. at February 11, 2014 01:52 PM (0q2P7)

128 This is not altogether unheard of.  At the start of WWI Teddy Roosevelt rounded up all the Jap TV Broadcasters and told them to knock off all the funny stuff or he would send them to Concentration Camp.

Posted by: Joey Biden at February 11, 2014 01:52 PM (jucos)

129 A couple of FCC commissars getting knee capped might solve the problem

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 11, 2014 01:52 PM (t3UFN)

130 Do you know why Yellin is staying the course? Because she, like Bernanke, know of no other way to do things. Print money, buy bonds, lower interest rates, and keep that bubble floating.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 11, 2014 01:52 PM (OA6Aw)

131 This is an all out attack on this country. Using every single agency as a backdoor in.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 11, 2014 01:52 PM (IXrOn)

132 111 Now someone tell me again why I'm being ridiculous for continuing to by ammo. Paranoid knuckle dragger-that's me. Tick tock people tick tock.

Posted by: weirdflunky at February 11, 2014 05:49 PM (iGFVr)

My guess is you probably own more than you'd be able to shoot.  That's not the key, here.  The key to winning this back is...

... and I can't believe I'm saying this in the US of A:  winning hearts and minds.

We can't shoot our way through this.

Posted by: John McCain, the guy who left hundreds of POWs unaccounted for, by design at February 11, 2014 01:52 PM (x3YFz)

133
..... minitrue???

Posted by: fixerupper at February 11, 2014 01:53 PM (nELVU)

134 Holy God, how did we get here, and how much worse is it going to get?

Posted by: GuyfromNH at February 11, 2014 05:36 PM (kbOju)

 

I've lived a varied and interesting life, one with lots of ups and downs.  One of the things I've learned never to ask is, 'How much worse can it get?' The answer is usually--but thankfully not always--lots. Lots worse.

Posted by: troyriser at February 11, 2014 01:53 PM (2jF2B)

135 Also check out the story on some bill in CA to have a "kill switch" on any cell phone. They are selling this POS legislation as a way to deter theft of cell phones. Which is crap and scary as hell to think the Gov. Could have the power to shut off anyone's phone. Then again they are probably listening anyway. I used to think people were being tinfoil helmet wearers over this shit. But Status update: Camel's nose fully under tent.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 11, 2014 01:53 PM (/o+xv)

136 They dread what may need to be done.
We have a "Let this cup pass before us" mindset.

Not sure I agree, but a very interesting way to put it.

Posted by: pep at February 11, 2014 01:53 PM (6TB1Z)

137 So--the nation already has PBS--to decide what they want to expose the public to--but since that isn't exactly pulling in the ratings now they want to control the local station owners? Posted by: tasker at February 11, 2014 05:44 PM (RJMhd)

B-b-b-but Downton Abbey and Sherlock and Big Bird!

Posted by: LIV at February 11, 2014 01:53 PM (BF+2f)

138 fkn mclame sock!

Posted by: tangonine at February 11, 2014 01:53 PM (x3YFz)

139 Well, the kid's recent science project was building a crystal radio set. Guess I'll be needing that in the Underground. 'Hillary has a long mustache. Hillary has a long mustache...."

Posted by: --- at February 11, 2014 01:53 PM (MMC8r)

140 Tom Lantos was the congress critter that gave Zappa a slap down, IIRC.
Democrat from San Mateo.

Posted by: navybrat at February 11, 2014 01:53 PM (AW7Gr)

141 somebody please tell ace that the rest of us understood long ago that this is a war. Everytime people like him cheer up for crap like gay marriage and abortion on demand to sound hip and trendy and mix well in the manhattan crowd, he is actually making way for the new fascists. They will never return the favour to you, no matter how you want to believe it. Everytime somebody here writes 'my leftist friend' is a little win for them. You never read them at the Daily Kos saying 'my conservative friend', they say 'my conservative asshole retard boss/neighbour/client/acquaintance'. Ace, the friend of my enemy is still my fucking enemy, it does not matter if he 'pretends' to be my friend. This is why you should not bother to cheer for pure leftist causes such as gay rites and women rites. But yet you do.

Posted by: fromabroad at February 11, 2014 01:54 PM (rnV3B)

142 The road to fascism always starts on the left

Posted by: mark peters at February 11, 2014 01:54 PM (C27nK)

143 It's not paranoia if they're actually out to get you.

Posted by: Dr Spank at February 11, 2014 01:54 PM (38LLM)

144 As a broadcaster, let me say bullshit. Can you say "Voices?" Back when we had 3 over the air networks and a AM radio ONLY, they could pull this shit. Over-the -Air broadcasting is going the way of print if you listen to Madison Ave. The interwebs have won. Only to supplant Cable, which supplanted over-the-air TV broadcasting. Red-headed stepchild child Radio gave a voice to conservatives. Thank you Rush. Filet-Mignon Clyburn is retarded. LP TV, Low power radio can give voice to the minorities, but guess what? They have Obamaphones, and aren't watching news or listening to AM talk stations.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 11, 2014 01:54 PM (EKOIc)

145 Posted by: traye at February 11, 2014 05:45 PM (K2RA Understood.... Its Bill Clinton's signature on my USN Retirement Certificate... My Son is USN Active Duty now... We could at least bitch in private... as we did not have the PC spies amongst us.... Today I am told it is different. PC Spies are everywhere.... and they KNOW all communication is monitored (for security purposes of course)... any dissent will get you kicked out (because they will not promote you, and now it is up or out).

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 11, 2014 01:54 PM (84gbM)

146 I've lived a varied and interesting life, one with lots of ups and downs. One of the things I've learned never to ask is, 'How much worse can it get?' The answer is usually--but thankfullynot always--lots. Lots worse.

Posted by: troyriser at February 11, 2014 05:53 PM (2jF2B)

lol.  yeah.  never ask that question.

Posted by: tangonine at February 11, 2014 01:54 PM (x3YFz)

147 Why was Zimmerman calling Trayvon a "Corn" again? Creepy Ass-corn?

Posted by: HoboJerky, Hash Hunter at February 11, 2014 01:54 PM (E8IHS)

148

"The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed — where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest ; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.";   -- Silveira vs. Lockyer, 312 F.3d 1052 (9th Cir. 2002), opinion of Kozinski, J. 

Posted by: Raspail at February 11, 2014 01:54 PM (Xv7f/)

149 We can't shoot our way through this.

Posted by: John McCain, the guy who left hundreds of POWs unaccounted for, by design at February 11, 2014 05:52 PM (x3YFz)

 

Yes, we can.

Posted by: The Founding Fathers at February 11, 2014 01:54 PM (2jF2B)

150 Well Beck they're locked loaded and riding out. Who do you think they're hunting?

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Laughing Maniacally While Throwing Matches. at February 11, 2014 01:54 PM (0q2P7)

151 Nevergiveup, those FCC chaps need to have dates.  With Wendy Davis.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 11, 2014 01:54 PM (Z/g31)

152 "53 We're gonna fight this tooth and nail! lulz! Had you goin' there for sec, didn't we? Posted by: Your betters in the GOP at February 11, 2014 05:40 PM (cxs6V)" The GOP has the Tea Party to vanquish, they will be perfectly fine with this.

Posted by: Decaf at February 11, 2014 01:54 PM (3WKNG)

153 "Yellin said she's gonna just stay on course, continue the idiotic unsustainable monetary policies as Bernanke."

The Fed can't stop at this point. Can. Not. Stop.

Economies get hooked on continuing doses of "stimulus" just as humans get hooked on continuing doses of stimulants. In both cases, the cold-turkey withdrawal is violently distressing.

Posted by: torquewrench at February 11, 2014 01:55 PM (gqT4g)

154 A couple of FCC commissars getting knee capped might solve the problem Posted by: Nevergiveup

Well, yeah.

Posted by: Tonya Harding at February 11, 2014 01:55 PM (6TB1Z)

155 any dissent will get you kicked out (because they will not promote you, and now it is up or out). Posted by: Romeo13 at February 11, 2014 05:54 PM (84gbM) Then they fucked up by letting me move ahead

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 11, 2014 01:55 PM (t3UFN)

156 Well the government apparently has the authority to tell you where you can and can't build an airplane factory, so this is a feature, not a bug for them.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 11, 2014 01:55 PM (/o+xv)

157

We have nothing to fear with Brack Obama in the White House.

Posted by: The Ad Council at February 11, 2014 01:55 PM (JdEZJ)

158 My guess is you probably own more than you'd be able to shoot. That's not the key, here. The key to winning this back is... ... and I can't believe I'm saying this in the US of A: winning hearts and minds. We can't shoot our way through this. Posted by: John McCain, the guy who left hundreds of POWs unaccounted for, by design at February 11, 2014 05:52 PM (x3YFz) I keep a little extra, i.e., "more than I can shoot," around to help out friends, family, and neighbors should the need arise.

Posted by: Country Singer at February 11, 2014 01:55 PM (CWquH)

159 Comrades!
You will turn on your channel to the desired Station  every morning and evening 6  sharp.

Posted by: willow at February 11, 2014 01:55 PM (nqBYe)

160 If I ran one of these radio stations, I would begin every segment on one of those 8 topics with "as required by the fascists at the FCC, here is a story on Topic X"

Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at February 11, 2014 01:55 PM (R+XDI)

161 Where the hell are all the whistleblowers? Are all Democrats really soulless?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 11, 2014 01:56 PM (IXrOn)

162 The time is nigh for a blast from the past (say, 1775)as the plan for the future. Posted by: steveegg at February 11, 2014 05:49 PM (o44nj) Do not discount the possibility that these announcements and these other offenses against the conservative electorate may be calculated to provoke a backlash. They may very well be wanting the hotheads to start some shit with them. Obama's a fool, but thuggery doesn't take much thinking, and if he knows how to do anything, it's this.

Posted by: D-Lamp at February 11, 2014 01:56 PM (bb5+k)

163 such as gay rites and women rites. But yet you do.

Posted by: fromabroad

Gay rites?

There's a church I won't be joining.

Posted by: weft cut-loop[/i] [/b] at February 11, 2014 01:56 PM (cxs6V)

164 gawd this is Orwellian isn't it? Critical Information Needs. Who the hell decides what is critical information/ We already have the 'early warning system" and the national emergency weather system--other than that what is-- "critical"?

Posted by: tasker at February 11, 2014 01:56 PM (RJMhd)

165
Any revolutionary knows that the first thing you do is seize the radio and TV stations.  Then, shut off the power ....

Posted by: Che Alinsky at February 11, 2014 01:56 PM (Xv7f/)

166 Tom Lantos was the congress critter that gave Zappa a slap down, IIRC.
Democrat from San Mateo.

Yup, thanks.

Posted by: pep at February 11, 2014 01:56 PM (6TB1Z)

167 It's clear on the tape that Zimmerman says "let me pop that corn".

Posted by: Chris Matthews at February 11, 2014 01:56 PM (38LLM)

168 We already have the 'early warning system" and the national emergency weather system--other than that what is--

"critical"?

Posted by: tasker at February 11, 2014 05:56 PM (RJMhd)

"social justice"
"climate change"

et al infinitum

Posted by: tangonine at February 11, 2014 01:57 PM (x3YFz)

169

Don't forget to wipe your butt.

 

Brought to you by:

The Toilet Paper Manufacturers of America

and

Posted by: The Ad Council at February 11, 2014 01:57 PM (JdEZJ)

170 The key to winning this back is... ... and I can't believe I'm saying this in the US of A: winning hearts and minds. We can't shoot our way through this. How do you beat MOAR FREE SHIT?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2014 01:57 PM (E7Zh9)

171 WH, "We will choose all the news fit to print for you."

enjoy.

I'm not un-nerved by this at all, comrade.

Posted by: willow at February 11, 2014 01:57 PM (nqBYe)

172 Are all Democrats really soulless?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 11, 2014 05:56 PM (IXrOn)


----


Well.... they're not REALLY Democrats anymore..... are they?

Posted by: fixerupper at February 11, 2014 01:58 PM (nELVU)

173 This shit is really getting out of hand....

Posted by: Portnoy at February 11, 2014 01:58 PM (8N1kd)

174 Posted by: The Ad Council at February 11, 2014 05:55 PM (JdEZJ) FYI, I throw all of your CD's in the trash.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 11, 2014 01:58 PM (EKOIc)

175 I keep a little extra, i.e., "more than I can shoot," around to help out friends, family, and neighbors should the need arise.

Posted by: Country Singer at February 11, 2014 05:55 PM (CWquH)

I used to also, then that damn boat sank...

Posted by: tangonine at February 11, 2014 01:58 PM (x3YFz)

176 Yellin said she's gonna just stay on course, continue the idiotic unsustainable monetary policies as Bernanke. Posted by: Soothsayer at February 11, 2014 05:50 PM (OA6Aw) I would be shocked if she implemented any other policy. At this point in our fiscal degradation, the only way to pretend nothing is wrong is to keep pumping paper into the system.

Posted by: D-Lamp at February 11, 2014 01:58 PM (bb5+k)

177

We are here to help you live the perfect life.

 

Brought to you by:

 

People for Perfect Lives

 

and

Posted by: The Ad Council at February 11, 2014 01:59 PM (JdEZJ)

178

Posted by: pep at February 11, 2014 05:51 PM (6TB1Z)

 

Never understood the Zappa love.

 

If I had to choose a hippie to like I  would choose Donovan. 

Posted by: polynikes at February 11, 2014 01:59 PM (m2CN7)

179 Two legs good, four legs better. At the risk of feeding a stereotype, I actually prefer chicken to dog.

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at February 11, 2014 01:59 PM (2m+Da)

180 This is going to be a post about the debt limit increase with only 38 republican votes seconds after I do this but....

http://www.replacethespeaker.com/?c=

Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at February 11, 2014 01:59 PM (kxSZr)

181 Woodrow Wilson imposed draconian censorship in WW1.  But it was a war.  This schmuck and his lackeys, don't need no stinking war.

So once they centralize their control of the media to just NYC, what happens if Iran manages to nuke NYC?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 11, 2014 01:59 PM (Z/g31)

182 100 This isn't geared to intimidating FoxNews. It's aimed at your local NBC and Fox affiliate's 6 PM news. Cold comfort. Even if it were aimed right at MSNBC it would be a very bad, horrible, not good idea. I just heard a Howard Stern interview with Frank Zappa from 1986(ish). Tipper Gore was trying to censor albums, it was such a flashback. Zappa made the point, heartily concurred with, that the FCC's job is to keep broadcasters transmitting in the frequencies they're assigned. Not to regulate or investigate content. Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at February 11, 2014 05:46 PM (A0sHn) Up until the early 80's, the FCC used to audit radio and television stations' financial records to "make sure they were financially strong". As part of the FCC license, each station must give qualified candidates the "best rate available" for advertising, squeezing out long term advertisers. Broadcasters must also give airtime for public service announcements and special affairs programming. In other words, non profits and the government get free air time, And the FCC wants to make sure that your staff is "diverse". They can't tell you what you need to do to be diverse, they just "know" what it looks like. Not diverse enough? Your license renewal gets real tricky. They also get around to worrying about transmitting and signals every once in a blue moon.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly known as MrCaniac at February 11, 2014 01:59 PM (HxSXm)

183 Of course you all will have choice, as long as it's on our approved list of outlets that specialize in truthiness.

Posted by: Your Betters in the Government at February 11, 2014 01:59 PM (jucos)

184 Never fear.  I'm sure Issa is already scheduling a hearing.  And who knows, perhaps he will once again get someone to retire with full benefits over this.  That's the ultimate victory you know.

Posted by: buzzion at February 11, 2014 02:00 PM (LI48c)

185 so.

Will this be another hill ignored by our betters?

Posted by: willow at February 11, 2014 02:00 PM (nqBYe)

186

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

Posted by: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at February 11, 2014 02:00 PM (Xv7f/)

187 How do you beat MOAR FREE SHIT?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2014 05:57 PM (E7Zh9)

I was a married E-3 with a kid.  Qualified for food stamps.  Refused to take them.

Pride and self worth.

That's how.

Posted by: tangonine at February 11, 2014 02:00 PM (x3YFz)

188 I keep a little extra, i.e., "more than I can shoot," around to help out friends, family, and neighbors should the need arise. Posted by: Country Singer at February 11, 2014 05:55 PM (CWquH) Give that man a cigar!

Posted by: weirdflunky at February 11, 2014 02:00 PM (iGFVr)

189 I used to also, then that damn boat sank... Posted by: tangonine at February 11, 2014 05:58 PM (x3YFz) That reminds me, I need to check that roof leak, it may have ruined all my stuff.

Posted by: Country Singer at February 11, 2014 02:00 PM (CWquH)

190 go fuck themselves

We ought to put that on all ballots and leave vacant any office it wins for that term.

Posted by: DaveA[/i][/b][/s] at February 11, 2014 02:00 PM (DL2i+)

191

Zappa was no hippie.

Posted by: freaked at February 11, 2014 02:01 PM (JdEZJ)

192
Heh.... this reminds me of those PBA's that would pop up during the movie Starship Troopers.   I thought they were "ironic".... at the time.

Now they seem...... prescient.

Posted by: fixerupper at February 11, 2014 02:01 PM (nELVU)

193 BREAKING NEWS... FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai arrested after thousands of images of child porn were found on his computer.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 11, 2014 02:01 PM (oFCZn)

194 It's about damned time! We have hoped and hoped that President Obama would act to stamp out hate and incorrect thinking in the news media!

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, Vermont at February 11, 2014 02:01 PM (jUeGo)

195 168 We already have the 'early warning system" and the national emergency weather system--other than that what is-- "critical"? Posted by: tasker at February 11, 2014 05:56 PM (RJMhd) "social justice" "climate change"et al infinitum Posted by: tangonine at February 11, 2014 05:57 PM (x3YFz) ****************** The article is behind a pay wall. The FCC should be made to define what they mean by-- "Critical Information".

Posted by: tasker at February 11, 2014 02:02 PM (RJMhd)

196 129 A couple of FCC commissars getting knee capped might solve the problem Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 11, 2014 05:52 PM (t3UFN) I am wondering if some of the building animosity will eventually spill over into assaults. There's a lot of ominous shit going on right now.

Posted by: D-Lamp at February 11, 2014 02:02 PM (bb5+k)

197 ( ace, welcome back we miss you )


Unpeople have no rights.


No, I'm not being facetious.  We joke about the camps but that is where this always ends. 


I don't know what to say.   This is outrageous.  This is *insane*.   And there is nothing, nothing that seems to be able to stop it.


I know how this story ends.   Do.   Not.   Want. 



Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD, you taunty bitch. at February 11, 2014 02:02 PM (Gk3SS)

198 So, tell me....how do you decide which places on the internet to frequent? And how do you decide which subjects to comment on?

Posted by: Boot. Stomping. at February 11, 2014 02:02 PM (1Y+hH)

199 Woodrow Wilson imposed draconian censorship in WW1. But it was a war. This schmuck and his lackeys, don't need no stinking war.

---

Oh.... there's a war.   Its with US.

Posted by: fixerupper at February 11, 2014 02:02 PM (nELVU)

200 Tell the FCC to go fuck themselves, and if they EVER dared pulled a major networks license they would have those MILLIONS of viewers/listeners looking to hang every member of the FCC.

Posted by: Knightbrigade at February 11, 2014 02:02 PM (/fexR)

201 Posted by: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at February 11, 2014 06:00 PM (Xv7f/)

THIS... But don't wait until that starts happening to resist.  Start today.  Now.

Posted by: tangonine at February 11, 2014 02:02 PM (x3YFz)

202 Posted by: Soothsayer at February 11, 2014 05:50 PM (OA6Aw)

I'm pushing 80% equities because there is no other place to put my money.

As long as she is doing this, I'll take advantage, and hedge with commodities.


Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 11, 2014 02:02 PM (QFxY5)

203 How can you not 'get' Zappa? Titties and Beer, man.

Posted by: garrett at February 11, 2014 02:02 PM (2m+Da)

204 178 Posted by: pep at February 11, 2014 05:51 PM (6TB1Z)

Never understood the Zappa love.

If I had to choose a hippie to like I would choose Donovan.

I don't really think of Zappa as a hippie.  He was almost a proto-punk, or perhaps a beatnik who lingered too long.  Either way, it was about the p***y, not a political stand.

Posted by: pep at February 11, 2014 02:03 PM (6TB1Z)

205 Obama's a fool, but thuggery doesn't take much thinking, and if he knows how to do anything, it's this. Posted by: D-Lamp at February 11, 2014 05:56 PM (bb5+k) Let's hope it's a miscalculation, like obamacare, which is pissing off more than half of the electorate. Or, when journalists found out they were being targeted and spied on. This is something that many legal landed immigrants have fled their countries from, and what Americans have been proud of throughout much of its history - the free press. The right to speak freely. I'm not sure how the country will take this. If they hear about it, that is. Hey, Chris Christie? What's your take on this?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 11, 2014 02:03 PM (IXrOn)

206 alex,  alextopia or Smod  ,, either would be welcome.

Posted by: willow at February 11, 2014 02:03 PM (nqBYe)

207 Zappa was no hippie.

Posted by: freaked at February 11, 2014 06:01 PM (JdEZJ)

 

Sorry I just assumed anyone that named  their daughter  Moon  Unit   had  some hippie in him. 

Posted by: polynikes at February 11, 2014 02:03 PM (m2CN7)

208 AR 210-35: Civilian Inmate Labor Program http://tinyurl.com/kzmcla5

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 11, 2014 02:03 PM (6bMeY)

209 Pop-ups?  In Stalin's time they were posters put everywhere extolling to everyone the glories of the Soviet Union and Iosef Stalin.  The USSR even had a giant heavy aircraft, multi-engine that had its own printing press aboard, that would overfly the country and drop leaflets.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 11, 2014 02:03 PM (Z/g31)

210 198
So, tell me....how do you decide which places on the internet to frequent?

And how do you decide which subjects to comment on?

Posted by: Boot. Stomping. at February 11, 2014 06:02 PM (1Y+hH)

here, let me google that for you...

...really?

Posted by: tangonine at February 11, 2014 02:03 PM (x3YFz)

211 UPDATE: FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai commits suicide in holding cell.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 11, 2014 02:04 PM (oFCZn)

212 What the fucking fuck??

Posted by: Still no sign of sig at February 11, 2014 02:04 PM (q177U)

213 The key to winning this back is... ... and I can't believe I'm saying this in the US of A: winning hearts and minds. We can't shoot our way through this. Posted by: John McCain, the guy who left hundreds of POWs unaccounted for, by design at February 11, 2014 05:52 PM (x3YFz) There is NO ARGUMENT which you can make to the FREE SHIT ARMY which will persuade them to vote conservative. They are too stupid to understand that perpetual free shit is impossible, and they will simply keep pulling that lever which gives them the goodies.

Posted by: D-Lamp at February 11, 2014 02:04 PM (bb5+k)

214 The sad thing is that all of the MSM will go right along with this, smiling all the way- when they should be horrified and fight back any and every way that they can. First amendment. What's that? Welcome to your new Journ-o-list Future assholes, may you have joy of it.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 11, 2014 02:04 PM (0cMkb)

215 These half assed fascist busy bodies are going to continue to poke and poke and nudge and poke this GIANT. Sooner or later (probably sooner) there's gonna be one push to far. May the Good Lord have mercy on us all when that day comes.

Posted by: weirdflunky at February 11, 2014 02:04 PM (iGFVr)

216 Many a breave man stormed the beaches of Normandy and Iwo Jima and many another long forgotten place so that you could listen to the radio without being offended by contrary opinion.  Don't let these men have died in vain.  Stop the free expression of offensive opinion and fact.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 11, 2014 02:04 PM (XUKZU)

217 i'm so bummed, this is all bs.
fkn b.s.

they need to be made to speak to this.
a microphone in every face .

Posted by: willow at February 11, 2014 02:04 PM (nqBYe)

218 Posted by: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at February 11, 2014 06:00 PM (Xv7f/)

And that, my friends, is what makes an author a great, a classic, and not Philip Roth or J.D. Salinger.

Posted by: pep at February 11, 2014 02:04 PM (6TB1Z)

219

162...Do not discount the possibility that these announcements and these other offenses against the conservative electorate may be calculated to provoke a backlash.


 

They may very well be wanting the hotheads to start some shit with them. 

 

Posted by: D-Lamp 

 

-----------

 

Well yeah...there's a reason why they're doing those 'Domestic Terror Drills' featuring conservative 2nd Am supporters as "the enemy".

 

Posted by: wheatie at February 11, 2014 02:05 PM (eCZwh)

220 Pride and self worth.
That's how.

That's so far off the mainstream I can't map it in this comment box without Pixy thinking I'm spam.

http://is.gd/gbG572

Posted by: HR at February 11, 2014 02:05 PM (ZKzrr)

221

Now someone tell me again why I'm being ridiculous for continuing to by ammo. Paranoid knuckle dragger-that's me. Tick tock people tick tock.

Posted by: weirdflunky at February 11, 2014 05:49 PM (iGFVr)

1) You're outnumbered

2) You're outgunned

3) You're outarmored

Posted by: twit of the year at February 11, 2014 02:05 PM (LHgfw)

222 hello my little darlings I know it's Tuesday, but we're getting ready for a winter storm, so I decided it was Friday Opened a nice bottle of red

Posted by: spypeach at February 11, 2014 02:05 PM (10H0T)

223 Zappa was the anti hippie. He constantly mocked them.
Zappa was also highly anti authoritarian. I think this was due to a set up obscenity charge he faced as a young man. A local cop hired him to record some music that the cop sang that had f bombs in it. Zappa took the gig and got busted. Classic case of entrapment.

Posted by: navybrat at February 11, 2014 02:05 PM (AW7Gr)

224 Critical Information Studies (CIS) ***** Critical Information Studies (CIS) considers the ways that culture and information are regulated and their relationship to commerce, creativity, and other human affairs. CIS captures the variety of approaches and bodies of knowledge needed to make sense of interesting, important phenomena such as copyright policy, electronic voting, encryption, the state of libraries, the preservation of ancient cultural traditions, and markets for cultural production. It necessarily stretches to a wide array of scholarly subjects, employs multiple complementary methodologies, and influences conversations far beyond the gates of the university. This field can serve as a model for how engaged, relevant scholarship in other areas might be done. Economists, sociologists, linguists, anthropologists, ethnomusicologists, communication scholars, lawyers, computer scientists, philosophers, and librarians have all contributed to this field. CIS interrogates the structures, functions, habits, norms, and practices that guide global flows of information and cultural elements. Instead of being concerned merely with one's right to speak (or sing or publish), CIS asks questions about access, costs, and chilling effects on, within, and among audiences, citizens, emerging cultural creators, indigenous cultural groups, teachers, and students. Central to these issues is the idea of semiotic democracy, the ability of citizens to employ the signs and symbols ubiquitous in their environments in manners that they determine.

Posted by: tasker at February 11, 2014 02:05 PM (RJMhd)

225 First they came for the gun owners, and the media said nothing. Then they came for the wealthy, and the media cheered income inequality . . .

Posted by: flounder at February 11, 2014 02:05 PM (Kkt/i)

226

Do not discount the possibility that these announcements and these other offenses against the conservative electorate may be calculated to provoke a backlash.

 

They may very well be wanting the hotheads to start some shit with them.

 

Obama's a fool, but thuggery doesn't take much thinking, and if he knows how to do anything, it's this.

 

Posted by: D-Lamp at February 11, 2014 05:56 PM (bb5+k)

 

I'm not discounting that, or the likelyhood that, with significant help from the rest of the world, we would be utterly crushed (there are, other than Israel, no allies left). The problem is the trajectory we are on is that we either die with our boots on or die while licking the jackboots of the Left, and the window of a political solution is all but closed.

Posted by: steveegg at February 11, 2014 02:05 PM (o44nj)

227 FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai commits suicide in holding cell.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 11, 2014 06:04 PM (oFCZn)


----


Stop teasing.

Posted by: fixerupper at February 11, 2014 02:05 PM (nELVU)

228
I know how this story ends. Do. Not. Want.



Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD, you taunty bitch. at February 11, 2014 06:02 PM (Gk3SS)

I know you refuse to talk to me, but I've got your back.

Posted by: tangonine at February 11, 2014 02:05 PM (x3YFz)

229 Zappa was no beatnik either. Early Zappa mocked hippies, flower children, the establishment, pretty much everything. Heluva musician though.

Posted by: freaked at February 11, 2014 02:06 PM (JdEZJ)

230 The sad thing is that all of the MSM will go right along with this, smiling all the way-

when they should be horrified and fight back any and every way that they can.

-

You mean like senate and congress just sit there fat, dumb, and happy as they are being rendered irrelevant?

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 11, 2014 02:06 PM (XUKZU)

231 did I just post three smiley faces? Seriously? I'm putting myself in the barrel.

Posted by: spypeach at February 11, 2014 02:06 PM (10H0T)

232 I was a married E-3 with a kid. Qualified for food stamps. Refused to take them. Pride and self worth. That's how. We've already lost then. Uncle Sugar is maling it too inviting to suckle at the teat.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2014 02:06 PM (E7Zh9)

233 You have nothing to fear from an Obama administration. ooops..............I pooped my pants.

Posted by: John McCain, Senile Git at February 11, 2014 02:06 PM (0cMkb)

234 Solution: Win some elections

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 11, 2014 02:06 PM (t3UFN)

235 *couriers to AlextheChick some brownies*

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 11, 2014 02:07 PM (Z/g31)

236 Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at February 11, 2014 05:55 PM (R+XDI)

That would be fantastic. I listen to iHeartRadio for my talk news, out of convenience, and even on a conservative SLC based talk radio station, the "news" they report between the shows skews leftist. If I have to hear them repeat the Grammy winners one more time (because that is, you know, REAL news for LIVs), and hear how Macklemore is "so inspirational", I am going to lose it. Same with the National Science Foundation PSA lecturing me on the rise of the oceans due to global warming. Or the Canola companies pushing their products through a Heart Association PSA, even though Omega 6's are now under intense scrutiny.

Posted by: LIV at February 11, 2014 02:07 PM (BF+2f)

237 ain't about FOX cuz they aren't subject to FCC permits. Must be local talk radio, syndication like Rush.

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at February 11, 2014 02:07 PM (KgN8K)

238 Nobody played a sarcastic guitar before Frank.

Posted by: garrett at February 11, 2014 02:07 PM (2m+Da)

239 Took  some clothes to the dry-cleaners.  Had a sign up:   OUT OF BUSINESS BECAUSE OF OBAMACARE.  Had to go three miles  out of the way to another dry cleaners.  I do so hate the president  and his mindless thugs.

Posted by: Soona at February 11, 2014 02:07 PM (kPiYr)

240 I've been reading a book called "Shakespeare's Restless World:  A Portrait of an Era in Twenty Objects" and in it discovered that it was considered treasonous to discuss the succession as Elizabeth neared the end of her life with no clear heir apparent. In fact, a law was passed to make public discussion of the issue illegal. Sadly, it seems we are reverting to something too similar with King Barky and his pet FCC. Didn't he say just yesterday that he could do whatever he wants?


Posted by: Retread at February 11, 2014 02:08 PM (cHwk5)

241 1) You're outnumbered
2) You're outgunned
3) You're outarmored


Posted by: King George at February 11, 2014 02:08 PM (R6JT1)

242 They are too stupid to understand that perpetual free shit is impossible, and they will simply keep pulling that lever which gives them the goodies.

Even rats grasp that when pulling on the bar shocks you, you stop pulling.  Time to attach the electrodes.

Posted by: pep at February 11, 2014 02:08 PM (6TB1Z)

243 This is the same as the earlier story of obamas goons choking the businesses into silence of the destruction and unemployment increases due to obamacare. tyranny banana republic fascism whatever you want to call it make it stop

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 11, 2014 02:08 PM (IXrOn)

244

You have nothing to fear from an Obama administration.

 

Brought to you by:

 

United Senile Gits of DC

 

and

Posted by: The Ad Council at February 11, 2014 02:08 PM (JdEZJ)

245

“It's 6:08 on Radio Free America; this is Uncle Sam, with music, and the truth until dawn. Right now I've got a few words for some of our brothers and sisters in the occupied zone: "the chair is against the wall, the chair is against the wall", "John has a long mustache. John has a long mustache". It's 6:09, Americans. Another day closer to victory.”

Posted by: Jed's radio at February 11, 2014 02:08 PM (Xv7f/)

246 History well remembers how confident the Reagan revolutionaries were when they swept to power in 1980. Prepared to roll back decades of New Deal federal expansion. Why, they were going to sharply cut back every one of those darned alphabet-soup federal monstrosities, and get rid of some of them altogether.

So when Reagan left eight years later, the grand total of abolished federal agencies was... one.

The Civil Aeronautics Board.

Take that, wicked CAB bureaucrats!

(All of whom were immediately absorbed into other alphabet soup agencies such as FAA, where they continued business pretty much as usual.)

Posted by: torquewrench at February 11, 2014 02:08 PM (gqT4g)

247 Just more of Obama's 'pivotal experiment.'

Posted by: --- at February 11, 2014 02:09 PM (MMC8r)

248 Critical Information Studies was founded by this guy; Siva Vaidhyanathan (born June 16, 1966) is a cultural historian and media scholar and is a professor of Media Studies and Law at the University of Virginia. Vaidhyanathan is a frequent contributor on media and cultural issues in various periodicals including The Chronicle of Higher Education, New York Times Magazine, The Nation, MSNBC.com, and Salon.com. He is a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities and the Institute for the Future of the Book.[citation needed] From 2004 through 2008 he maintained a blog, Sivacracy.net,[1] on which he frequently commented on media and technology issues, as well as his love of sports. [...] Critical Information Studies is a term coined by Siva Vaidhyanathan in 2006 to describe an emerging, transdisciplinary field concerned broadly with the politics of information in contemporary, connected societies. It first appeared in print in an essay he authored entitled, "Critical Information Studies: A Bibliographic Manifesto," which was the afterword to a 2006 special issue of the journal Cultural Studies.

Posted by: tasker at February 11, 2014 02:09 PM (RJMhd)

249 Didn't he say just yesterday that he could do whatever he wants?

He's got a pen and a phone.

Posted by: HR at February 11, 2014 02:09 PM (ZKzrr)

250 221
Now someone tell me again why I'm being ridiculous for continuing to by ammo. Paranoid knuckle dragger-that's me. Tick tock people tick tock.
Posted by: weirdflunky at February 11, 2014 05:49 PM (iGFVr)

1) You're outnumbered
2) You're outgunned
3) You're outarmored

Posted by: twit of the year at February 11, 2014 06:05 PM (LHgfw)

Pretty much.  Unless you and 7 of your closest friends have spent 20+ years with an 18 prefix on your MOS, you're going to die folded over like a pretzel with your intestines on your face.

Trigger pulling in this next war ain't going to be like 1860.

Posted by: tangonine at February 11, 2014 02:09 PM (x3YFz)

251 sane news organizations (if we have any left) should refuse to participate

Posted by: runner at February 11, 2014 02:09 PM (yrk2K)

252 Took some clothes to the dry-cleaners. Had a sign up: OUT OF BUSINESS BECAUSE OF OBAMACARE. Had to go three miles out of the way to another dry cleaners. I do so hate the president and his mindless thugs. Posted by: Soona at February 11, 2014 06:07 PM (kPiYr) wow We really need to start spreading images of this around. Good for them for telling it like it is.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 11, 2014 02:10 PM (IXrOn)

253 The crocodile needs to feed.

Posted by: Zombie Winston Churchill at February 11, 2014 02:10 PM (Kkt/i)

254 Ever wonder how many of us will end up regretting posting our thoughts here?

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at February 11, 2014 02:10 PM (l3vZN)

255 Whats most funny is you can go back to any ridiculous trumped up claim made by the Left about Bush and replace it with 'obama' and it would be true today. obama is exactly the lawless tyrant the Left claimed Bush was. Surreal..

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 11, 2014 02:10 PM (OA6Aw)

256

"Didn't he say just yesterday that he could do whatever he wants?"

Maybe he can flap his ears and FLY!

Posted by: freaked at February 11, 2014 02:10 PM (JdEZJ)

257 FSA weapons training is either gang-banging or X-Box/PS3.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 11, 2014 02:11 PM (Z/g31)

258 So once they centralize their control of the media to just NYC, what happens if Iran manages to nuke NYC? Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 11, 2014 05:59 PM (Z/g31) We buy the Iranians a drink?

Posted by: D-Lamp at February 11, 2014 02:11 PM (bb5+k)

259 He's got a pen and a phone. Posted by: HR at February 11, 2014 06:09 PM ......and a remote control, and a lamp, and a dog, and a chair,

Posted by: President Jerk at February 11, 2014 02:11 PM (/o+xv)

260 Now someone tell me again why I'm being ridiculous for continuing to by ammo. Paranoid knuckle dragger-that's me. Tick tock people tick tock.
Posted by: weirdflunky at February 11, 2014 05:49 PM (iGFVr)

1) You're outnumbered
2) You're outgunned
3) You're outarmored

-

If it were to come to that, the moment of truth would be when the military/police are ordered to shoot you and they will either shoot you, or join you.  It will be whether they see you as just like them or see you as a societal outsider.  I don't know which way it would go but clearly, one should not jump the gun.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 11, 2014 02:11 PM (XUKZU)

261 122 Pep The way I remember it was that Tipper was trying to censor albums and congress came to the happy medium of rating labels.

Posted by: Darth Randall at February 11, 2014 02:11 PM (xWgW3)

262 254 Ever wonder how many of us will end up regretting posting our thoughts here?

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at February 11, 2014 06:10 PM (l3vZN)

You're already on a watch list.  Believe me.

Posted by: tangonine at February 11, 2014 02:11 PM (x3YFz)

263 obama has a whim and a throne

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 11, 2014 02:11 PM (OA6Aw)

264 So is this it then? Have we tipped over into dictatorship? How easily this great nation fell.

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at February 11, 2014 02:12 PM (RZ8pf)

265 So once they centralize their control of the media to just NYC, what happens if Iran manages to nuke NYC? Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 11, 2014 05:59 PM (Z/g31) I'm actually thinking the New York media is a greater threat to this nation than a Nuclear Missiled Iran.

Posted by: D-Lamp at February 11, 2014 02:12 PM (bb5+k)

266 And it was Zappa who ripped in to Tipper and the bunch. It's a hoot to watch.

Posted by: freaked at February 11, 2014 02:12 PM (JdEZJ)

267 #122

There was rather more than that at stake. Tipper wasn't stopping at a ratings system. The stuff she was calling for would put pressure on retailers, structured in such a way that it was simply easiest to not carry products Tipper and her cronies disapproved.

And at the same time, Tipper's husband was deeply involved in legislation affecting the record business. Funny coincidence, that.

Check out Zappa's book for more details.

Posted by: Epobirs at February 11, 2014 02:12 PM (bPxS6)

268 112 Verrry scary. No question, this administration will push the left wing envelope as far as it can, in every way possible. Serious question. With all the blogs to spread the word, the free flow of information via the internet, the Tea Party,the grassroots, and Fox News...will there be no serious pushback on this? This whole concept seems far fetched enough that even the Republican Party and ACLU might be able to say, "NO, JUST, NO." Or is the frog already boiled? Posted by: RM at February 11, 2014 05:49 PM (fRppw) The diners have eaten the frog soup and are leaving the restaurant. 30 years ago the FCC and congress decided that "women and minorities" needed more of a voice in the new media world, so they granted 3-4 Class A FM stations to minorities and women in almost every radio market. The first thing these minorities and women did was to find a radio ownership group to build and operate the radio station for them. At the end of the first year on air, the owner sold the station to the radio group. It happened all over the country, and this is how the Clear Channels and Cummulus' came into being. They bought 2nd rate signals at the price that first rate signals were being sold for. Here in town, a local guy owns the station I worked for, and he bought the 4 best signals in the market. Clear Channel bought the 4 worst during the same period. The local guy is cleaning up in the ratings and in advertising dollars while Clear Channel is running ads for "I-Heart Radio".

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly known as MrCaniac at February 11, 2014 02:12 PM (HxSXm)

269 Ever wonder how many of us will end up regretting posting our thoughts here? Posted by: Jinx the Cat at February 11, 2014 06:10 PM (l3vZN) They will never take me alive. Of course that is because I am an old fart, but still

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 11, 2014 02:12 PM (t3UFN)

270 I'm sure the Republicans will be all over this. Especially if they win the Senate. I was going to 'bwa-ha-ha,' but I don't feel like it now.

Posted by: --- at February 11, 2014 02:13 PM (MMC8r)

271 And the latest tactic by the Republicans is to just go along with obama and forego to the pretending-to-fight stage.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 11, 2014 02:13 PM (OA6Aw)

272

Posted by: twit of the year at February 11, 2014 06:05 PM (LHgfw)

 

You seem to be under the impression those who would resist would be idiots. There is an array of viable, historically proven, winning strategies for engaging superior forces and it doesn't entail hopeless stand-up fights and foolhardy tactics.

Posted by: Zombie George Washington at February 11, 2014 02:13 PM (2jF2B)

273 The left has an amazing ability to dance right up to and onto to the red line . I'd guess there are 5 to 15 million people wondering when someone is gonna' open the ball . Let's hope we don't make Solzenhitzens mistake and later burn with shame . Or however you spell the crazy russian name .

Posted by: awkward davies at February 11, 2014 02:13 PM (WK8VM)

274 He's got a pen and a phone. Posted by: HR at February 11, 2014 06:09 PM ........And some blow, and some hookers and some sex toys and some Mom jeans with the design on the pocket. So back the fuck off and don't harsh my mello mother fuckers. I do what I want, when I want.

Posted by: President Choom at February 11, 2014 02:13 PM (/o+xv)

275 The FCC has been fascist from the outset. How has it ever been acceptable for a government organization to determine what's fit to broadcast?

Posted by: gewa76 at February 11, 2014 02:13 PM (k8m83)

276 Except Iranians don't drink fermented grapes...   IIRC

And they tend to hang their male dates from lampposts.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 11, 2014 02:13 PM (Z/g31)

277 The FCC will never go overboard here. That earlier problem? The one where they rewrote their own authority to control the internet? It was a learning experience. When the federal judge said they couldn't control the web and they ignored him and then when Congress wrote a sternly worded letter, well they learned from that. They learned that they needed far more support from the armed agencies of the Executive branch and a much worse economic climate.

Posted by: Daybrother at February 11, 2014 02:14 PM (xmib/)

278 264 So is this it then? Have we tipped over into dictatorship? How easily this great nation fell.

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at February 11, 2014 06:12 PM (RZ8pf)

Well, it *did* take 100 years of negligence.  It wasn't overnight.

Posted by: tangonine at February 11, 2014 02:14 PM (x3YFz)

279 1) You're outnumbered
2) You're outgunned
3) You're outarmored

Posted by: twit of the year at February 11, 2014 06:05 PM (LHgfw)

 

 

So were the VC and North Vietnamese.  So were the  Taliban.  So were the Cuban rebels in the 1950's. 

 

Once one gets out of the urban  sewers that many on the left call cities, the hearts and minds are already on our side. 

Posted by: Soona at February 11, 2014 02:14 PM (kPiYr)

280 And it was Zappa who ripped in to Tipper and the bunch. It's a hoot to watch.

Posted by: freaked at February 11, 2014 06:12 PM (JdEZJ)


---


Wasnt that Dee Snyder from Twisted Sister???

Posted by: fixerupper at February 11, 2014 02:14 PM (nELVU)

281 Trigger pulling in this next war ain't going to be like 1860.
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And the Feds would do well to remember it....

Posted by: B at February 11, 2014 02:14 PM (6iEQd)

282 The FCC has been fascist from the outset. How has it ever been acceptable for a government organization to determine what's fit to broadcast? Posted by: gewa76 at February 11, 2014 06:13 PM (k8m83) Well I never thought so

Posted by: Soupy Sales at February 11, 2014 02:14 PM (t3UFN)

283 The entire country is headed to black markets. I hope AOSHQ has a back up plan for when they go dark. And, let's us know how to tunnel in.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 11, 2014 02:14 PM (IXrOn)

284

Pretty much. Unless you and 7 of your closest friends have spent 20+ years with an 18 prefix on your MOS, you're going to die folded over like a pretzel with your intestines on your face.

 

Trigger pulling in this next war ain't going to be like 1860.

 

Posted by: tangonine at February 11, 2014 06:09 PM (x3YFz)

 

And for them, the ObamiNation has drones.

Posted by: steveegg at February 11, 2014 02:14 PM (o44nj)

285 Three more years of this with essentially nothing or nobody to stop them. Forget the GOP; "useless" doesn't begin to describe them. There is simply no meaningful mainstream social resistance to the left. All resistance is taking place on the fringes. And Obama is systematically shutting down the fringes. Breitbart, with his dynamism and balls, was breaking through, but he was one in a million. And he's gone.

Posted by: rrpjr at February 11, 2014 02:14 PM (s/yC1)

286 Posted by: King George at February 11, 2014 06:08 PM (R6JT1) Second look at King George?

Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at February 11, 2014 02:14 PM (CnA98)

287 Yes, obama is pretty much a king. As far as kings go, obama is a benevolent king. Lucky us.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 11, 2014 02:15 PM (OA6Aw)

288 I was a married E-3 with a kid. Qualified for food stamps. Refused to take them. Pride and self worth. That's how. Posted by: tangonine at February 11, 2014 06:00 PM (x3YFz) For every one of conscience, there are probably a hundred without.

Posted by: D-Lamp at February 11, 2014 02:15 PM (bb5+k)

289 I actually think that the military and the police would split down the middle if it all broke open. The way for them to tighten the screws would be gradually.

Posted by: --- at February 11, 2014 02:15 PM (MMC8r)

290 You're already on a watch list. Believe me. Posted by: tangonine at February 11, 2014 06:11 PM (x3YFz) I've been on a list since the early 1980s. Used to listen to shortwave and sent reception reports to communist countries. The envelopes from Radio Moscow always arrived at the house opened.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 11, 2014 02:15 PM (oFCZn)

291 A Gabe and Ace day. Kind of like Yin Yang. I feel very balanced.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 11, 2014 02:15 PM (IXrOn)

292 Great --there's an opsec definition for "critical information": critical information Web definitions Specific facts about friendly (e.g., U.S.) intentions, capabilities, or activities vitally needed by adversaries for them to plan and act effectively so as to guarantee failure or unacceptable consequences for accomplishment of friendly objectives. http://www.opsecprofessionals.org/terms.html

Posted by: tasker at February 11, 2014 02:16 PM (RJMhd)

293 They should be broadcasting Russian Women's Curling instead of the US match. The Russian captain is the hotness.

Posted by: garrett at February 11, 2014 02:16 PM (2m+Da)

294 Since the government has their own radio station, NPR, news that deviates from their model will have to be deemed suspect.

Posted by: Dr Spank at February 11, 2014 02:16 PM (38LLM)

295 torquewrench at February 11, 2014 06:08 PM (gqT4g)

The Interstate Commerce Commission went away too. Turned into Department of Transportation. Freight rates went down the tube. JBHunt and Walmart got big. Lotta minimum wage labor got jobs driving interstate truckload irregular routes making the best money they had ever made which was about a quarter of what the teamsters union drivers were making.

Posted by: Gulo Gulo, It's a type of weasel. at February 11, 2014 02:16 PM (ClirY)

296 Ever wonder how many of us will end up regretting posting our thoughts here?

YOLO

Posted by: King George III at February 11, 2014 02:16 PM (R6JT1)

297
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai commits suicide in holding cell.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis





The body of FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Fort was found by a jogger early this morning in Marcy Park.

A suicide note and the icepick Mr. Fort used to stab himself repeatedly in the base of the skull was found next to the deceased.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 11, 2014 02:16 PM (kdS6q)

298

Look on utube for "zappa and tipper". Also when he was on Crossfire. He didn't look like a hippie anymore and was not afraid to call someone an asshole.

 

Posted by: freaked at February 11, 2014 02:16 PM (JdEZJ)

299

In his fight against Tipper and censorship, Zappa found some allies who, on first blush, seemed unlikely -- John Denver.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgSjjD6rRu4

Posted by: Raspail at February 11, 2014 02:16 PM (Xv7f/)

300 He's got a pen and a phone.

Posted by: HR at February 11, 2014 06:09 PM (ZKzrr)


And the IRS, and HHS, and now the FCC.


*insert John Adams' quote about this form of government being suitable to a virtuous people*

Posted by: Retread at February 11, 2014 02:16 PM (cHwk5)

301

"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it." -George Orwell

Posted by: Heck's Angel at February 11, 2014 02:17 PM (rCS6C)

302 >>> somebody please tell ace that the rest of us understood long ago that this is a war...They will never return the favour to you, no matter how you want to believe it. Posted by: fromabroad at February 11, 2014 05:54 PM (rnV3B)
The problem is that no one can have a civil convo about anything anymore; unless you are full bore, 100% agreement with leftist agendas and leftist tribes and the culture of those tribes, you are a despicable unperson. Being for things like women and gay rights is good; the problem is that the cultural elites/media/progressives want to reward those rights through totalitarianism, not a more sensible live-and-let-live, libertarian approach.

But in general, You are not far off. To rephrase something I said earlier today: our Europhile founders like Washington and Franklin had to learn the hard way that no matter what they did, how sophisticated and smart they were, Europeans would never accept them as a cultural equals, so they might as well be proudly American instead and make a clean break. The sooner our conservative "betters" relearn this lesson, replacing the Europeans with the left, the better. Sadly they never will.

Posted by: LizLem at February 11, 2014 02:17 PM (BF+2f)

303 And why you buy ammo at gun shows with cash...

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 11, 2014 02:17 PM (Z/g31)

304 As long as she is doing this, I'll take advantage, and hedge with commodities. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 11, 2014 06:02 PM (QFxY5) If you don't take delivery, you only own them on paper.

Posted by: D-Lamp at February 11, 2014 02:17 PM (bb5+k)

305 297 Did he have his car keys with him?

Posted by: Zombie Vince Foster at February 11, 2014 02:17 PM (6bMeY)

306 I'd guess there are 5 to 15 million people wondering when someone is gonna' open the ball .
Let's hope we don't make Solzenhitzens mistake and later burn with shame .
Or however you spell the crazy russian name .

Posted by: awkward davies at February 11, 2014 06:13 PM (WK8VM)

I will agree with my ammo compadre upthread, and state that the difference between those poor russians, and us, is that we're armed to the teeth.

Door kicking will be met with about 23 million veterans, many of whom are trained (many far better trained that the wannabe SWAT team members).

We will not go easily into that dark night. 

But... pick your fight, and don't go cowboy.

Posted by: tangonine at February 11, 2014 02:18 PM (x3YFz)

307 Miss me yet?

Posted by: Zombie King George at February 11, 2014 02:18 PM (Kkt/i)

308

296 Ever wonder how many of us will end up regretting posting our thoughts here?

***

 

We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

Posted by: Ben Franklin at February 11, 2014 02:18 PM (Xv7f/)

309 Just 3 more years of obama; you really believe that? But obama does leave, then what? 8 years of hitlery clinton, who by comparison will make obama look like Nixon. As president, hitlery is going after private property. Mark my words.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 11, 2014 02:18 PM (OA6Aw)

310
Ever wonder how many of us will end up regretting posting our thoughts here?
Posted by: Jinx the Cat





First they came for those who linked to their blogs in their sigs, and I said nothing....

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 11, 2014 02:19 PM (kdS6q)

311 Pres Choomy: Reginald!!!!. (clap clap) Reggie: Yes Sir! Pres Choomy: Bring me my afternoon spleef. And turn on the closed circuit DOD feed. I feel like droning some bitter clingers today. Yes, I also want some M&M's,....and one more thing. Before you go, you will blow me.

Posted by: King President Choom at February 11, 2014 02:19 PM (/o+xv)

312 I'm not sure how the country will take this. If they hear about it, that is. Hey, Chris Christie? What's your take on this? Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 11, 2014 06:03 PM (IXrOn) The people who vote for him will at best not give two shits about it. More likely they will say "It's about time we did something about those fuckers!"

Posted by: D-Lamp at February 11, 2014 02:19 PM (bb5+k)

313 This is so breathtakingly unconstitutional I don't know quite what to say. The quote is, "I won."

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b] at February 11, 2014 02:19 PM (0HooB)

314 Still time to get on board. Best hurry. They're coming.

Posted by: That Sailboat at the End of Every Zombie Movie at February 11, 2014 02:19 PM (/mQMC)

315 Here's a little campfire music courtesy of Frank Zappa to go with your new future living arrangements- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saIaoQtwZWw

Posted by: naturalfake at February 11, 2014 02:20 PM (0cMkb)

316 #254, reading here and other places lets me know I'm not alone. I've been out of work for over two months since the DOD contract I was on was cut, the wife moved back home prior to a very amicable split, and I don't get out much trying to make the savings last.

#250, not just 18 series, 11s and some 19s, plus our opposite numbers in the USMC or NAVSPECWAR will do OK. We have had the last fourteen years to see the weaknesses of the .gov in a COIN environment, and way too many guys still in who had no problem shooting Haji in the face won't do our own.

Still, beats getting old and ending up in some government nursing home, huh? Better to go down swinging. But as Michael Vanderboegh insists over at Sipsey Street Irregulars, "don't fire on Fort Sumter."

Posted by: SGT Dan's Cat at February 11, 2014 02:20 PM (jUeGo)

317 Posted by: tangonine at February 11, 2014 06:09 PM (x3YFz) You may be right. But I'll tell you this-there's a lot of us boys in the South that pulled the trigger for "The Man" that aren't altogether ready for the re-education. Not every part of this country is full of Nancyboy wet dreams. Tick tock tick tock.

Posted by: weirdflunky at February 11, 2014 02:20 PM (iGFVr)

318

- He who fights too long against terrorists becomes a terrorist himself.

Posted by: Heck's Angel at February 11, 2014 02:20 PM (rCS6C)

319 Dack Thrombosis at February 11, 2014 06:15 PM (oFCZn)

I know a guy had a ham license, sent QSL cards to POBox 88, Moscow. He's on the list at the KGB and the CIA.

So when you buy a firearm . . . .you go on another list.

Since NSA is sniffing internet traffic, you go on still another list.
If you comment on certain web sites, especially with comments that fit a profile, ya, there's a list for that too.

Posted by: Gulo Gulo, It's a type of weasel. at February 11, 2014 02:20 PM (ClirY)

320 I will not regret it. A bad as it is, I stand about what I believe. I am not Thomas More and can never aspire to such heroism. I'm not a saint except insofar as that description applies to all Christians, I can complain about Obama policies and I think he's a narcissist but as More says, "I do none harm, I think none harm,,,,,," I pray for Obama and for all the country. I expect I'm on a list. I don't apologize for it. I don't excuse it. From "A Man For All Seasons" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbocq5AQWb8

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 11, 2014 02:21 PM (XyM/Y)

321 Boy, is this news a sight for sore eyes!

Posted by: Bob Costas at February 11, 2014 02:21 PM (h1gQR)

322 209 Pop-ups? In Stalin's time they were posters put everywhere extolling to everyone the glories of the Soviet Union and Iosef Stalin. The USSR even had a giant heavy aircraft, multi-engine that had its own printing press aboard, that would overfly the country and drop leaflets. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 11, 2014 06:03 PM (Z/g31) I have been thinking lately that a good counter regime tactic might be putting up soviet style posters everywhere with Obama's image on them, extolling his great accomplishments. Thinking outside the box here.

Posted by: D-Lamp at February 11, 2014 02:22 PM (bb5+k)

323

 

Is anybody checking the Capitol sprinkler system?

Posted by: Fook Godwin at February 11, 2014 02:22 PM (Xv7f/)

324 I have been thinking lately that a good counter regime tactic might be putting up soviet style posters everywhere with Obama's image on them That got him elected the first time.

Posted by: --- at February 11, 2014 02:22 PM (MMC8r)

325 Boy, is this news a sight for sore eyes! Posted by: Bob Costas at February 11, 2014 06:21 PM....Hey Bob, know how you make a Venetian blind? .......BOINK! Woop woppo woop wooop.

Posted by: Minnfidel channeling the Stooges at February 11, 2014 02:23 PM (/o+xv)

326 I have been thinking lately that a good counter regime tactic might be putting up soviet style posters everywhere with Obama's image on them

I think he'll still sell you some from his 2008 campaign.

Posted by: HR at February 11, 2014 02:23 PM (ZKzrr)

327 Hi boys and girls I'm Jimmy Carl Black and I'm the indian of the group!

Posted by: freaked at February 11, 2014 02:23 PM (JdEZJ)

328 Ever wonder how many of us will end up regretting posting our thoughts here? Posted by: Jinx the Cat AllenG will be the only survivor because they think he has a blog and he doesn't.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 11, 2014 02:24 PM (oFCZn)

329 Well yeah...there's a reason why they're doing those 'Domestic Terror Drills' featuring conservative 2nd Am supporters as "the enemy". Posted by: wheatie at February 11, 2014 06:05 PM (eCZwh) Signs are that they are deliberately baiting and provoking. I think he wants an excuse to crack down on his political enemies.

Posted by: D-Lamp at February 11, 2014 02:24 PM (bb5+k)

330 Not plannin' on going cowboy tangonine . I have some skills but I know I'm not Jason Bourne and would be outmatched If I ever caught the eye of Sauron , we're going to need good leaders .

Posted by: awkward davies at February 11, 2014 02:24 PM (WK8VM)

331 And the hits just keep on 'acomin': New Surgeon General is a gun grabber: http://tinyurl.com/mxfsnxk

Posted by: Country Singer at February 11, 2014 02:24 PM (CWquH)

332

322 .  I have been thinking lately that a good counter regime tactic might be putting up soviet style posters everywhere with Obama's image on them, extolling his great accomplishments.

Thinking outside the box here.

 

***

 

Been there. Done that.



http://tinyurl.com/ljmguwx

Posted by: Obama's graphic designer at February 11, 2014 02:24 PM (Xv7f/)

333 Ever wonder how many of us will end up regretting remember posting our thoughts here?

Posted by: freaked at February 11, 2014 02:24 PM (JdEZJ)

334 Boy, is this news a sight for sore eyes!

Posted by: Bob Costas at February 11, 2014 06:21 PM (h1gQR)


I've been at work all day, supporting the free-loading FSA. Is it true little Bobbie has pink eye in both eyes now, and has been pulled from Olympic coverage?


Over/under on that improving the coverage?



Posted by: Retread at February 11, 2014 02:25 PM (cHwk5)

335 the cancer is spreading He ought to fit right in. North Carolina Democrats picked a former convict, sexual predator and former Nation of Islam leader Benjamin Chavis as its executive director. thegatewaypundit

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 11, 2014 02:25 PM (IXrOn)

336 How does the FCC plan to dig up all that information? First, the agency selected eight categories of "critical information" such as the "environment" and "economic opportunities," that it believes local newscasters should cover. It plans to ask station managers, news directors, journalists, television anchors and on-air reporters to tell the government about their "news philosophy" and how the station ensures that the community gets critical information.
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The licensing process used to be consumer-driven.  That is, viewers were invited to send their opinions on coverage to the FCC.  The emphasis, now, appears to be government-driven.  The government will determine what topics are important, and everyone involved in broadcast will be interviewed/grilled on how he/she makes a decision based on the employee's "news philosophy".

Posted by: mrp at February 11, 2014 02:25 PM (JBggj)

337 I'm too old and fat to become a freedom fighter.  I am not proposing this at this time but it might make a statement if an organized group of people decided to surrender their lives voluntarily in a coordinated effort to demonstrate their concern.  I find killing people, especially the innocent, abhorrent. I'm never going to shoot an IRS agent.  But under some circumstances I could see surrendering my life for the benefit of my children and grandchildren if I thought it could make a difference.  Suppose one person from every city of 100,000 were to do so simultaneously and forward videos expressing their reasons.  How would the general public react? I will remember the Buddhist priests burning themselves in Vietnam.  

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 11, 2014 02:25 PM (XUKZU)

338 I'm on so many lists, from communist lists to far right wing wacko lists, that I'm essentially unclassified... Until they come up with the Who the hell knows with this guy he's fucking crazy list.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 11, 2014 02:26 PM (oFCZn)

339

It says right here son that you posted this on this date at this time from this IP. Here'a a copy of the report that shows it.

 

But I don't remeber posting that!

 

That's ok. We do.

Posted by: The NSA at February 11, 2014 02:26 PM (JdEZJ)

340 We've run out of hills. Now we'll simply die on the fields.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at February 11, 2014 02:26 PM (Ng/f0)

341
He ought to fit right in.
North Carolina Democrats picked a former convict, sexual predator and former Nation of Islam leader Benjamin Chavis as its executive director.

thegatewaypundit Posted by: artisanal 'ette
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His immediate predecessor was forced to resign a couple of days ago for unspecified reason(s).

Posted by: mrp at February 11, 2014 02:27 PM (JBggj)

342

329.    Signs are that they are deliberately baiting and provoking. I think he wants an excuse to crack down on his political enemies.


****

 

I repeat.  Is anyone checking the Capitol sprinkler system.


Posted by: Fook Godwin at February 11, 2014 02:27 PM (Xv7f/)

343 I'd help you guys out, but unfortunately all my guns and ammo fell off the boat in an unfortunate accident while I was salmon fishing on Lake Superior. Tragic thing that.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 11, 2014 02:27 PM (/o+xv)

344 there are some people fighting for us “I am filing a lawsuit against President Barack Obama because he has publicly refused to stop a clear and continuing violation of the 4th Amendment,” Paul said in a statement. “The Bill of Rights protects all citizens from general warrants. I expect this case to go all the way to the Supreme Court and I predict the American people will win.”

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 11, 2014 02:27 PM (IXrOn)

345 I'm too old and fat to become a freedom fighter.

Posted by: Henry Knox at February 11, 2014 02:27 PM (R6JT1)

346
Also in FCC news:

Free Press ‏@freepressm

Today the @FCC's new prison phone rates take effect. No more predatory phone calls! #phonejustice





Yep.  Sure glad these guys got rubber-stamped by the opposition....

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 11, 2014 02:28 PM (kdS6q)

347 Has our speaker expressed grave concern yet?

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at February 11, 2014 02:28 PM (Ng/f0)

348 Ever wonder how many of us will end up regretting remember posting our thoughts here? Posted by: freaked
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Not for a second.  I'm an American.

Posted by: mrp at February 11, 2014 02:28 PM (JBggj)

349 You're a good man, Walrus Rex.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 11, 2014 02:29 PM (XyM/Y)

350 I have been thinking lately that a good counter regime tactic might be putting up soviet style posters everywhere with Obama's image on them, extolling his great accomplishments. Thinking outside the box here. Put it on a roll and call it toilet paper.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2014 02:29 PM (E7Zh9)

351 254 Ever wonder how many of us will end up regretting posting our thoughts here? Posted by: Jinx the Cat at February 11, 2014 06:10 PM (l3vZN) Half a dozen times in the last fifteen minutes. I urge everyone to exercise caution in their commentary.

Posted by: D-Lamp at February 11, 2014 02:29 PM (bb5+k)

352 Aww, damnit. I was all set to sell a gun (the only one I have of that caliber) and all the ammo I have for it. Now I figure that might be a good gun for any good neighbor who doesn't have one if times really call for it. (Don't worry morons, I wasn't going to be with one less gun, I was going to get a larger caliber one to replace it and also a pistol caliber carbine too)

Posted by: traye at February 11, 2014 02:29 PM (K2RA8)

353 Jimmy Carl Black A good guy. May he rest in peace.

Posted by: Daybrother at February 11, 2014 02:29 PM (yjvIn)

354 Has our speaker expressed grave concern yet? Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at February 11, 2014 06:28 PM .......................No, there's no coms in the tanning booth.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 11, 2014 02:29 PM (/o+xv)

355 I grew up on the Left. The hard Left. I saw this coming 20 years ago. No precise prediction, just a feeling of sick certainty. Because they're relentless and vicious and respect nothing. They hate us. Actually, it's not mere hate; they don't recognize us as human beings. We're subhuman to them. This is something about the Left people on the Right NEVER grok. You better start. We can be treated in any manner that's required for them to get their way; if it comes to it, even killed. No problem. Their coldbloodnedness and self-righteousness and need for control is a line extending into infinity.

Posted by: rrpjr at February 11, 2014 02:29 PM (s/yC1)

356 The Bedford Incident is on tonight 8:10 Sony Movie Channel.

Posted by: steevy at February 11, 2014 02:29 PM (zqvg6)

357 Oblammer poster, no problem http://www.zazzle.com/resist_obama_posters-228733738199294644

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 11, 2014 02:29 PM (aDwsi)

358
I'm too old and fat to become a freedom fighter.
Posted by: Henry Knox




Try to get your camo fatigues with pleated pants.  They're more slimming than the flat front...

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 11, 2014 02:30 PM (kdS6q)

359 Has our speaker expressed grave concern yet? I'm certain he has. And if that doesn't work, I'm quite certain he'll issue a strongly worded letter. *belch*

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b] at February 11, 2014 02:30 PM (0HooB)

360 296 Ever wonder how many of us will end up regretting posting our thoughts here? YOLO Posted by: King George III at February 11, 2014 06:16 PM (R6JT1)

Heh. Well I'd rather converse with the good folks here, and possibly be punished for it one day, than live a long life, unmolested by the gov, alone, my political thoughts bubbling within. The HQ is the best pressure release valve around.

Posted by: LizLem at February 11, 2014 02:31 PM (BF+2f)

361 The Bedford Incident is on tonight 8:10 Sony Movie Channel ------------------------- Captain: "If fires one, then I'll fire one". Launch Control: "Aye, aye Captain, fire one!" Whoosh.....

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 11, 2014 02:31 PM (aDwsi)

362 It just occurred to me how odd it is we like JUSTIFIED when every episode shows the federal government doing whatever they want. In fact, it's been said more than once in the series "...whatever we want" when a bad character asked Raylan or another marshal what they were fixin to do. It's satisfying and entertaining the Law harass and hurt the bad guys, but..

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 11, 2014 02:31 PM (OA6Aw)

363 Make a campaign contribution to a politician, you're on a list.

Posted by: Gulo Gulo, It's a type of weasel. at February 11, 2014 02:32 PM (ClirY)

364 The goal of the left has always been to terrorize, humiliate, and then destroy the middle class. The middle class will probably be like the outer party from 1984 in a decade.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at February 11, 2014 02:32 PM (Ng/f0)

365 I have said nothing I haven't said before and need to be cautious about.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 11, 2014 02:32 PM (XyM/Y)

366

mrp That was supposed to be:

Ever wonder how many of us will end up remember posting our thoughts here?

And I don't regret anything I have said either but I guess I was trying to say that someone collecting data can change it to show that you said something you did not.

Posted by: freaked at February 11, 2014 02:32 PM (JdEZJ)

367 I can only hope that the list of my socks, including 'Michele Obama's Landing Strip', makes it into official court records.

Posted by: garrett at February 11, 2014 02:32 PM (2m+Da)

368 Actually, it's not mere hate; they don't recognize us as human beings. We're subhuman to them.

On the bright side, I'm used to that. 

It's Rib Bone Tuesday.  If I eat in, I can have a beer before I come back to work.  If I carry out, I might get home to have a beer earlier.  Hrm.

Posted by: HR at February 11, 2014 02:33 PM (ZKzrr)

369 More flexibility folks.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at February 11, 2014 02:33 PM (/djtm)

370 Signs are that they are deliberately baiting and provoking. I think he wants an excuse to crack down on his political enemies. Posted by: D-Lamp at February 11, 2014 06:24 PM (bb5+k) I'm astonished a hot head hasn't gone nuclear yet. It will only take one hot head with some skills and bit of luck and that wrecking ball will start swinging.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 11, 2014 02:33 PM (oFCZn)

371 Half a dozen times in the last fifteen minutes. I urge everyone to exercise caution in their commentary. Posted by: D-Lamp Waaay too late.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 11, 2014 02:33 PM (aDwsi)

372 Global warming hammering Georgia. Stay safe Georgian morons.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 11, 2014 02:33 PM (IXrOn)

373 Don't kid yourself. WalrusRex would sell us out for a Chimichanga and a half bag of kitty-litter.

Posted by: garrett at February 11, 2014 02:34 PM (2m+Da)

374 Try to get your camo fatigues with pleated pants. They're more slimming than the flat front...

I have never wanted for lack of a poofy shirt and knee britches.

Posted by: Henry Knox, copilot to Burt Reynolds in Cannoball at February 11, 2014 02:34 PM (R6JT1)

375 361 Yeah,but ASROC is a standoff weapon yet they are in torpedo range of the Soviet sub.

Posted by: steevy at February 11, 2014 02:34 PM (zqvg6)

376 24 Actually I am serious, FOX is now big enough and powerful enough to tell the Feds to go fuck themselves

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We do need the practice.

Posted by: FCC SWAT Team at February 11, 2014 05:35 PM (Aif/5)


Agreed. The local Fox affiliates here could be teeming with 2nd Amendment supporters.

Posted by: Ohio National Guard at February 11, 2014 02:35 PM (M5T54)

377 Here is one of the first studies commissioned by the FCC **** In response to the Federal Communications CommissionÂ’s request (FCC12Q0009), the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Communication and Democracy, together with a national, non-partisan, multi-disciplinary network of social scientists, legal scholars, journalists, and communication experts, the Communication Policy Research Network (CPRN), presents a critical literature review and assessment of the provision of, and barriers to, critical information needs for all Americans in the contemporary media ecosystem. This report is prepared in the context of radical and far-reaching changes in the ways all Americans are able to meet their information needs, changes that are both worrisome and promising. [see FCC Report on Information Needs of Communities, July 2011]]

Posted by: tasker at February 11, 2014 02:35 PM (RJMhd)

378 It says right here son that you posted this on this date at this time from this IP. A very good reason to allow open access to your wi-fi on an infrequent basis. Courts have already ruled that an IP address does not equal an individual. Not that doing this will guarantee success against a lawless administration. We've become a banana republic without bananas.

Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at February 11, 2014 02:36 PM (CnA98)

379 I've been at work all day, supporting the free-loading FSA. Is it true little Bobbie has pink eye in both eyes now, and has been pulled from Olympic coverage? Over/under on that improving the coverage? Posted by: Retread at February 11, 2014 06:25 PM (cHwk5)

Yes, he has. But iproved coverage? Matt Lauer is his replacement, so...no, probably. But hopefully there will be SLIGHTLY less political commentary, since Matt will be on his best behavior.

Posted by: LizLem at February 11, 2014 02:36 PM (BF+2f)

380 And you guys thought life under an authoritarian government would be bad.


Exaggerators!  Shame on you.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at February 11, 2014 02:36 PM (BZAd3)

381 Qualify for food stamps, general assistance, section 8 housing assistance, WIC, Social Security. You're on a list.

Draw a paycheck, IRS withholding, and Taxpayer Identification Number a.k.a. SSN, you're on a list. Register to vote, you're on a list.

All Obama has to do is issue an executive order to cross reference  those lists, and draw up a profile.

Posted by: Gulo Gulo, It's a type of weasel. at February 11, 2014 02:36 PM (ClirY)

382 #250, not just 18 series, 11s and some 19s, plus our opposite numbers in the USMC or NAVSPECWAR will do OK. We have had the last fourteen years to see the weaknesses of the .gov in a COIN environment, and way too many guys still in who had no problem shooting Haji in the face won't do our own.

Still, beats getting old and ending up in some government nursing home, huh? Better to go down swinging. But as Michael Vanderboegh insists over at Sipsey Street Irregulars, "don't fire on Fort Sumter."

Posted by: SGT Dan's Cat at February 11, 2014 06:20 PM (jUeGo)

Having spent 27 years in service to my country, in various forms, I pray, every night (I really do) that it won't come to that.  I'm guessing you've seen death.  It's not something you want.

I'm a guy who had a finch slam into his window and raced outside, scooped it up, and cried like a baby (the finch recovered).  Friends, family... I've had enough war.  Lifetimes worth.  It weighs on you.

But.  That oath I took didn't have an expiration date and when I see the stars and stripes and hear the national anthem I still tear up.

When I walk my shepherd for her evening stroll, every now and then it's around 1700 and retreat plays at the local base some miles away.  From the geography, it echoes off the canyons.  I face.  Go to parade rest for retreat, then snap to attention and salute for To The Colors.

I do not want to fight on my own soil.  God help us all.


Posted by: tangonine at February 11, 2014 02:36 PM (x3YFz)

383 I can only hope that the list of my socks, including 'Michele Obama's Landing Strip', makes it into official court records. Posted by: garrett at February 11, 2014 06:32 PM .............LOL. Will the court please enter into the record> Sir, on March 14th is it true you posed under the pseudonym of Michele Obama's Landing Strip? Is it also true that in that post you said, and I quote. "Now Barry, go put on your mom jeans, I just got a new strap-on". And tonight I want you to pretend I am Reggie." Is that true sir!!!!!" I want the truth!

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 11, 2014 02:36 PM (/o+xv)

384 More: The report presents a multidisciplinary overview of available data and literature from the past two decades covering a wide range of social science and communications research approaches that can complement existing FCC research on ownership, localism, and diversity, and inform stated FCC goals (as per Sec. 257) to ‘identify and work to eliminate barriers to market entry,’ to develop policies to advance the goals of diversity, to assess the need for government action and targeted policies to address existing gaps in media ecosystems’ ability to serve and deliver critical information to the American public.

Posted by: tasker at February 11, 2014 02:37 PM (RJMhd)

385

We are here to provide your critical information needs.

 

Brought to you by:

 

The University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Communication and Democracy,

 

and

Posted by: The Ad Council at February 11, 2014 02:37 PM (JdEZJ)

386 And one more time-this time for the evening crew Breath prayers against anxiety: http://tinyurl.com/89gkooy Stay safe in the storms and God bless you sisters and brothers in the South. I'll be praying for you all.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 11, 2014 02:38 PM (XyM/Y)

387 Ok.  Deep breath ... the next book I will order from Amazon will be Weigel's
biography of John Paul II "Witness To Hope".  JPII's message to the people of Poland: "Be Not Afraid".
And yes, the KGB tried to kill him for that.

Posted by: mrp at February 11, 2014 02:38 PM (JBggj)

388 The review therefore recommends the application of a wider set of analytic tools and performance metrics to measure the provision of and barriers to information in the public interest for all the pluralities of the American public, including but not limited to women and marginalized or at-risk communities. We seek to elucidate changes in demographics and in media systems, and the relations between them.

Posted by: tasker at February 11, 2014 02:38 PM (RJMhd)

389 Posted by: tangonine at February 11, 2014 06:36 PM (x3YFz) Ditto

Posted by: Country Singer at February 11, 2014 02:38 PM (CWquH)

390 That got him elected the first time. Posted by: --- at February 11, 2014 06:22 PM (MMC8r) No, I mean SOVIET STYLE. not artsy fartsy. Something that evokes the Soviet style cult of personality enjoyed by Stalin and Mao.

Posted by: D-Lamp at February 11, 2014 02:38 PM (bb5+k)

391 I just hope they don't bring up the couch f**ker sock.

Posted by: freaked at February 11, 2014 02:38 PM (JdEZJ)

392 Yes it's true. Vlad the impaler accidentally got Bobby in both eyes.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 11, 2014 02:38 PM (/o+xv)

393 How about these commercial run by the government ad council on how to save on energy costs?This from a government with more than $17 trillion in debt and continuing to borrow 40 cents of every dollar they spend.

Posted by: steevy at February 11, 2014 02:39 PM (zqvg6)

394
Half a dozen times in the last fifteen minutes. I urge everyone to exercise caution in their commentary.
Posted by: D-Lamp




Sorry, but I sold you out to the feds an hour ago.

Got $250 and a tshirt.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 11, 2014 02:39 PM (kdS6q)

395 including but not limited to women

Have these people never seen a morning newscast?  It's all pablum for incurious, limited-interest women.

Posted by: HR at February 11, 2014 02:39 PM (ZKzrr)

396 tasker, it's 'non partisan' so we're safe. We'll be well represented, someone will stand up for our point of view. This is America where diversity is our strength. Where everyone has a right to freely express their opinion, as long as it's not hate speech.

Posted by: Gulo Gulo, It's a type of weasel. at February 11, 2014 02:39 PM (ClirY)

397 Will the leftards continue clapping even when their clap is silenced? Wouldn't put it past them.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 11, 2014 02:39 PM (IXrOn)

398 This is so breathtakingly unconstitutional I don't know quite what to say. I understand that it is my duty as an American to accept when I've lost an election, to accept when the democratic processes return a result I disfavor.

Speak for yourself.

None of the people who voted for Obama are in any way qualitatively American, and they do nothing at all to preserve the rights of Americans (the only reason to permit the nation to exist).

Not a single one of us owes them the slightest consideration.

Posted by: Methos at February 11, 2014 02:39 PM (hO9ad)

399 How many millions of our tax dollars are being wasted on this clearly unconstitutional and totally unnecessary "investigation" of media bias?

Posted by: Trivial Pursuer at February 11, 2014 02:39 PM (/sohm)

400

Heh, a leftard begins to peel the thick scales from his light sensing spots. The best parts are the nasty comments to his article.

http://tinyurl.com/pe8xeb4

Posted by: maddogg at February 11, 2014 02:40 PM (xWW96)

401 Nobody wants to fight except the left . They're full of piss and vinegar . That is becoming something of a problem .

Posted by: awkward davies at February 11, 2014 02:40 PM (WK8VM)

402 No, I mean SOVIET STYLE. not artsy fartsy.

They were SOVIET STYLE.

http://www.art-for-a-change.com/Obey/

Posted by: HR at February 11, 2014 02:40 PM (ZKzrr)

403 Been there. Done that.http://tinyurl.com/ljmguwx Posted by: Obama's graphic designer at February 11, 2014 06:24 PM (Xv7f/) Too Subtle, and that's the point. Make them OBVIOUSLY communist propaganda posters. Make it so obvious even the mildly dumb people will notice that they are communist propaganda posters.

Posted by: D-Lamp at February 11, 2014 02:40 PM (bb5+k)

404

If I had my way I'd come in like a wrecking ball with two meat cleavers and the the first thing to go would be that insipid Ad Council.

Posted by: freaked at February 11, 2014 02:40 PM (JdEZJ)

405 Texas Cops Bust ‘Banana’ Toting An AK-47 Where to begin.... weaselzippers

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 11, 2014 02:40 PM (IXrOn)

406 Signs are that they are deliberately baiting and provoking. I think he wants an excuse to crack down on his political enemies.


Posted by: D-Lamp at February 11, 2014 06:24 PM (bb5+k)

 

 

---------------------------------------------

 

 

Yup.  They've been pushing, pushing, pushing, ever since the Tea Party started  being the fly in their soup.  They want us to break.   They so want one of us to be the next terrorist.

Posted by: Soona at February 11, 2014 02:40 PM (kPiYr)

407

The very fact that this could be proposed is shocking.

 

It occurs to me that as the Muslim faith does not deem it necessary to distinguish between religious and civil law, nor does the religion of liberalism deem it necessary to distinguish between their objectives and civil law.

 

Just like my idiot relatives who think it should be illegal for Fox to "tell lies" on the air, they feel that it is only necessary for something to be desired by them to justify it being imposed on all.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at February 11, 2014 02:41 PM (TQbuA)

408 I have some socks here that I would have a hard time explaining to my wife and sons, much less to the Federal Persecutors. I just hope the camp is in sunny Alabama and not the Dakotas.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at February 11, 2014 02:41 PM (l3vZN)

409 Is anyone bothering to ask the DHS why they are buying all that  high powered  ammo?  Link on Drudge to a new purchase.  I just can't believe no one seems to be the least bit concerned over this.

Posted by: Havedash at February 11, 2014 02:41 PM (G1XMn)

410 395 including but not limited to women Have these people never seen a morning newscast? It's all pablum for incurious, limited-interest women. Posted by: HR at February 11, 2014 06:39 PM (ZKzrr) It's insane all the way down. They do go on: The groups we are a part of also shape our information needs in many ways: by ethnicity, race or immigration; by religion; by occupation or income; by gender and family situation; our health or abilities. Every individual AmericanÂ’s needs are built up from intersections of these memberships as well as individual tastes and preferences. The challenge in discussing how Americans meet their information needs is to capture this diversity while framing a social scientific approach that can generalize to inform policy for a rapidly changing America. well ya--a "rapidly changing America" since Obama has been in power.

Posted by: tasker at February 11, 2014 02:42 PM (RJMhd)

411 250 only way i could see guns working at all is if every single gun owner rolled a die and it was somewhat like 1-4 go to nearest overpass 5 - go where you want 6- stay home. why? well, y'all would bunch up like a bunch of idiots otherwise.

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at February 11, 2014 02:42 PM (KgN8K)

412 Hola!

Posted by: John Boehner at February 11, 2014 02:42 PM (obTkq)

413 I was speaking of the Federal Budget of course.

Posted by: freaked at February 11, 2014 02:42 PM (JdEZJ)

414 You know, a fucking riot is an ugly thing...

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at February 11, 2014 02:42 PM (TQbuA)

415 409 Is anyone bothering to ask the DHS why they are buying all that high powered ammo? Link on Drudge to a new purchase. I just can't believe no one seems to be the least bit concerned over this. Barack Obama is a fine man and I look forward to working with him.

Posted by: John Boehner at February 11, 2014 02:43 PM (obTkq)

416 I plead the 5th!

Posted by: The Chicken at February 11, 2014 02:44 PM (/o+xv)

417 Make it so obvious even the mildly dumb people will notice that they are communist propaganda posters.

Also, it's interesting that you think the masses will think "communist propaganda" is bad or wrong if they can manage to identify it.  Like fucking Che Guevera, may he rot in Hell--they think he's a fucking role model and a symbol of freedom.

How many times have CCCP symbols or uniform styles been worn in pop music videos, on fashion runways, in catalogs?  People eat that shit up because it's "cool."

Posted by: HR at February 11, 2014 02:44 PM (ZKzrr)

418 You know, a fucking riot is an ugly thing... Posted by: Ray Van Dune
===
A good film.  But not a great film like Populaire.

Posted by: mrp at February 11, 2014 02:44 PM (JBggj)

419 I do not want to fight on my own soil. God help us all. Neither do I, or any of us, if I were to hazard a WAG. However, it's becoming increasingly clear that we are being mischaracterized by Washington in a blatantly obvious attempt to create a domestic enemy where one never previously existed. But if it came to it, remember that it wouldn't be the first time.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b] at February 11, 2014 02:45 PM (0HooB)

420 Alright.  Ribs.

And then back to work so people who hate me can get their free shit.

Posted by: HR at February 11, 2014 02:46 PM (ZKzrr)

421 Oooh I finally found Critical Information Need #8 Available data and research indicate that: 1) There is an identifiable set of basic information needs that individuals need met to navigate everyday life, and that communities need to have met in order to thrive. While fundamental in nature, these needs are not static but rather subject to redefinition by changing technologies, economic status and demographic shifts. 2) Low-income and some minority and marginalized communities within metropolitan and rural areas and areas that are “lower-information” areas are likely to be systematically disadvantaged in both personal and community opportunities when information needs lag or go unmet. 3) Information goods are public goods; the failure to provide them is, in part, a market failure. But carefully crafted public policy can address gaps in information goods provision. Defining Critical Information Needs Critical information needs of local communities are those forms of information that are necessary for citizens and community members to live safe and healthy lives; have full access to educational, employment, and business opportunities; and to fully participate in the civic and democratic lives of their communities should they choose. To meet these needs, communities need access to the following eight categories of essential information, in a timely manner, in an interpretable language, and via media that are reasonably accessible, including information about: 1. emergencies and risks, both immediate and long term; 2. health and welfare, including specifically local health information as well as group specific health information where it exists; 3. education, including the quality of local schools and choices available to parents; 4. transportation, including available alternatives, costs, and schedules; 5. economic opportunities, including job information, job training, and small business assistance; 6. the environment, including air and water quality and access to recreation; 7. civic information, including the availability of civic institutions and opportunities to associate with others; 8. political information, including information about candidates at all relevant levels of local governance, and about relevant public policy initiatives affecting communities and neighborhoods. We have identified two broad sets of critical information needs: (1) those fundamental to individuals in everyday life, and (2) those that affect larger groups and communities. They take different forms across the eight core areas of need that we have identified. Among the most basic are needs for information about the myriad elective offices in even a small American community: without basic information about candidates and their positions Americans do not even have the opportunity for informed participation in democratic life. Similarly, as public policy decisions are made across the range of areas we have discussed, citizens need access to the policy choices that face them, notice about opportunities to participate, and information on decisions that will affect them.

Posted by: tasker at February 11, 2014 02:46 PM (RJMhd)

422 why? well, y'all would bunch up like a bunch of idiots otherwise.

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at February 11, 2014 06:42 PM (KgN8K)

The stupid people will be dead within the first 48 hours. 

Loot the bodies for ammo.

Posted by: tangonine at February 11, 2014 02:46 PM (x3YFz)

423 People eat that shit up because it's "cool."

Leave no room for ambiguity or prerequisite knowledge by your audience when you crop and photoshop.

Posted by: John Stewart at February 11, 2014 02:46 PM (R6JT1)

424 Let's see .... Election Day, 2014 is the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November ... dumdeedumdeedum .... that would November 4, wouldn't it?

Posted by: mrp at February 11, 2014 02:48 PM (JBggj)

425 396 tasker, it's 'non partisan' so we're safe. We'll be well represented, someone will stand up for our point of view. This is America where diversity is our strength. Where everyone has a right to freely express their opinion, as long as it's not hate speech. Posted by: Gulo Gulo, It's a type of weasel. at February 11, 2014 06:39 PM (ClirY) ************* LOL! Okay I'm off to go drink again. First Ace with the-- "nihilistic despair" and now this^. Oy. Sometimes there just isn't enough chocolate.

Posted by: tasker at February 11, 2014 02:48 PM (RJMhd)

426 They were SOVIET STYLE. http://www.art-for-a-change.com/Obey/ Posted by: HR at February 11, 2014 06:40 PM (ZKzrr) Not easily discernible as such regardless of their pedigree. I mean posters that look like Castro's, or Che's, or recognizable SOVIET style posters where the leader is looking off into the distance or something.

Posted by: D-Lamp at February 11, 2014 02:49 PM (bb5+k)

427 And then back to work so people who hate me can get their free shit. You realize I'd get more free shit if you'd work a little harder or put more hours in? I'm getting really tired of your slackish attitude.

Posted by: Free Shit Army[/i] at February 11, 2014 02:50 PM (CnA98)

428 last week the Republicans gave obama the so-called Farm Bill It's only Tuesday, and the R's have already given obama a debt ceiling hike. Can you imagine what the R's would be giving obama if this wasn't an election year?

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 11, 2014 02:50 PM (OA6Aw)

429

I really think it's past time to start talking about  states' nullification or secession.  We need to start badgering our governors.

Posted by: Soona at February 11, 2014 02:50 PM (kPiYr)

430
However, it's becoming increasingly clear that we are being mischaracterized by Washington in a blatantly obvious attempt to create a domestic enemy where one never previously existed.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at February 11, 2014 06:45 PM (0HooB)

Word of the day:


a·sym·met·ric  (ā′sĭ-mĕt′rĭk) also a·sym·met·ri·cal (-rĭ-kəl)adj.1. Having no balance or symmetry.

Posted by: tangonine at February 11, 2014 02:50 PM (x3YFz)

431

Good God tasker! Is that the sort of BS that led to the Ad Council?

 

Commercial for things like use a "child safety seat" and brush your teeth, and crap like that are because we need to know to be able to be perfect people?

Posted by: freaked at February 11, 2014 02:50 PM (JdEZJ)

432 Who keeps stealing my spaces!!??

Posted by: freaked at February 11, 2014 02:51 PM (JdEZJ)

433 We need to start badgering our governors.

Posted by: Soona at February 11, 2014 06:50 PM (kPiYr)

Get control of your county sheriffs first.  In most states, they are the end-all, be-all of law enforcement.  Snatch up those elections and then move on.

Posted by: tangonine at February 11, 2014 02:51 PM (x3YFz)

434 It just occurred to me how odd it is we like JUSTIFIED when every episode shows the federal government doing whatever they want. In fact, it's been said more than once in the series "...whatever we want" when a bad character asked Raylan or another marshal what they were fixin to do. It's satisfying and entertaining the Law harass and hurt the bad guys, but.. Posted by: Soothsayer I understand what you are saying but in the series Raylan acts in a Justified manner ethically and morally. Even when he got Nicky(?), Sammy(?) killed he did it in defense of his family--An unethical action that may end his career. Rooting for a good guy that acts according to a moral code is rooting for the individual and Freedom regardless of whom he represents officially. It is a story after all. If a Federal agency were going door to door seizing guns in no-knock raids without warrants (like in Cal right now) and dragging innocents to jail and shooting dogs and kids would you root for the guy in a cowboy hat that shot the SWAT commander dead in his driveway suddenly stepping out from the dark as he got home from work? Normally never. Not in a million years because that guy would be a stone killer and monster that needed to be arrested. But in the fictional story of Civil War II, yes. Yes you would. Sabotage Federal vehicles? Not ever in today's world. Waterboard or not? March on DC or just don't vote? What you do and when you do it can make a difference. It is the difference in saying, "I'm armed and I'll defend the Constitution" and actually making a real time threat against someone IRL. But, I'm with ya on this. It is why I hope our political differences never ever come to violence. It won't stop.

Posted by: Daybrother at February 11, 2014 02:52 PM (VqE9i)

435 How many times have CCCP symbols or uniform styles been worn in pop music videos, on fashion runways, in catalogs? People eat that shit up because it's "cool." Posted by: HR at February 11, 2014 06:44 PM (ZKzrr) Sure, but have you ever seen it applied to OUR government officials? The point is to provoke an ominous feeling. It's a psyops sort of tactic.

Posted by: D-Lamp at February 11, 2014 02:52 PM (bb5+k)

436 it's becoming increasingly clear that we are being mischaracterized by Washington in a blatantly obvious attempt to create a domestic enemy where one never previously existed. But if it came to it, remember that it wouldn't be the first time. Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at February 11, 2014 06:45 PM (0HooB) And this is how the Soviets did the Kulaks. "Kulak" means "tight fisted" in Russian, or so I read the other day. It starts with propaganda.

Posted by: D-Lamp at February 11, 2014 02:54 PM (bb5+k)

437 I can only imagine the transcripts. from the show trial...... The Federal Government in Govt. Vs. AOSHQ would like to call the following to the witness stand. Would the following individuals please step forward. Charlie Browns Dildo, The Chicken, Laurie David's Cervix, Sandra Fluke's Cooter, Crispie Crème, SMOD You Taunty Bitch, Empire OF Jeff, Bawney Fwank, Juan McLame....

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 11, 2014 02:55 PM (/o+xv)

438 Soviet and Red Chinese style? See the MLK Jr memorial statue.

Posted by: jake just down york rd frm towson at February 11, 2014 02:55 PM (GYxV4)

439 "A guy who used to be in Washington knew that his phone was tapped, used to answer, Fuck Hoover, " -George Carlin

Posted by: --- at February 11, 2014 02:56 PM (MMC8r)

440 way up on 255 plus AtC have the correct when they say we're unpeople and that its not hate but worse. you've no idea. these smarmy lefty kids - not all pajamaboys- will line up insanely happy to go shoot flyover unpeople, run camps, be executioners. they wouldn't hurt a fly, otherwise. and yes, unchecked that is coming, i believe.

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at February 11, 2014 02:58 PM (KgN8K)

441 I think we're moving beyond "unconstitutional" and into "totalitarian".

Posted by: The Mega Independent at February 11, 2014 02:59 PM (4/o9U)

442 And this is how the Soviets did the Kulaks. "Kulak" means "tight fisted" in Russian, or so I read the other day.

It starts with propaganda.


Posted by: D-Lamp at February 11, 2014 06:54 PM (bb5+k)

 

 

----------------------------------------------

 

 

I'm also remembering what Justice Scalia said last week about the fact that we should  not be making a joke about the "camps".  According  to him, they are a real possibility.  I think he was giving us all a warning.

Posted by: Soona at February 11, 2014 02:59 PM (kPiYr)

443 434 It just occurred to me how odd it is we like JUSTIFIED when every episode shows the federal government doing whatever they want.
In fact, it's been said more than once in the series "...whatever we want" when a bad character asked Raylan or another marshal what they were fixin to do.
It's satisfying and entertaining the Law harass and hurt the bad guys, but..

Posted by: Soothsayer

Gotta call BS on this one.  Time and again, the office in which the marshals work is queried on "is he a federal fugitive?"  As in, "is this within the purview of our authority?"

And you're forgetting all the times Raylan has let a minor offense go in order to seek the 'real' bad guy.

Local politics is local politics. 

I don't know where you live but where I'm from, the LE does what's best for the community.  Hell, in HS, our sheriff paid for part of our senior keg on the condition no one drives.  It's called smart.

Posted by: tangonine at February 11, 2014 03:01 PM (x3YFz)

444 441 we've been there, but for certain segments of the population, for about 30 years. Obama is expanding that, and now we notice. plenty of precedent. what are you complaining about?

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at February 11, 2014 03:04 PM (KgN8K)

445 So Orwell was off by 30 years. Other than that, though, dead on.

Posted by: tsj017 at February 11, 2014 03:06 PM (tIcJF)

446

#250, not just 18 series, 11s and some 19s, plus our opposite numbers in the USMC or NAVSPECWAR will do OK. We have had the last fourteen years to see the weaknesses of the .gov in a COIN environment, and way too many guys still in who had no problem shooting Haji in the face won't do our own.

 

Still, beats getting old and ending up in some government nursing home, huh? Better to go down swinging. But as Michael Vanderboegh insists over at Sipsey Street Irregulars, "don't fire on Fort Sumter."

 

Posted by: SGT Dan's Cat at February 11, 2014 06:20 PM (jUeGo)

 

Those weaknesses are because of a ROE that won't be followed against us. After all, Islamokazis are not the Left's class enemy.

Posted by: steveegg at February 11, 2014 03:09 PM (o44nj)

447 http://tinyurl.com/pe8xeb4

Posted by: maddogg at February 11, 2014 06:40 PM (xWW96)


I'm serious - I thought it was only the right.  I really truly thought that the left in its entirety, went over the cliff.  If there's one...



Maybe.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at February 11, 2014 03:10 PM (BZAd3)

448 Get control of your county sheriffs first. In most states, they are the end-all, be-all of law enforcement. Snatch up those elections and then move on. Posted by: tangonine at February 11, 2014 06:51 PM (x3YFz) Ours rides a Harley in his spare time. And someone walked up to him while he was blocking off an intersection with his squad car for the county Christmas parade and gave him 6 quarts of moonshine. I'm pretty sure we're in good shape.

Posted by: Country Singer at February 11, 2014 03:13 PM (CWquH)

449 Remember when the Left was squealing about the Patriot Act making it possible for the feds to look at your library card history?
Good times!

Sure it's been mentioned above,, but how soon until they apply this to the internet?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 11, 2014 03:13 PM (POpqt)

450 Posted by: SGT Dan's Cat ------------ Michael Vanderboegh also posits that should there be actual violence, the counter revolutionary leaders will all be killed within days. And the problem with that (for the Empire) is that there will be no one left alive to negotiate a cease fire with. Thus beginning the long asymmetrical war.

Posted by: Daybrother at February 11, 2014 03:16 PM (6cF0M)

451 Want to really be appalled.  Probably 90% of the news media would pass the ObamaFCCail's tests right off the bat without even trying or noticing.

Posted by: DaveA[/i][/b][/s] at February 11, 2014 03:24 PM (DL2i+)

452 My Sheriff's name is Hoss. I think we're safe.

Posted by: toby928© at February 11, 2014 03:25 PM (QupBk)

453 I am so burned out on this stuff. I think I am officially overwhelmed. I wish I were back in Texas.

Posted by: Some Asshole at February 11, 2014 03:27 PM (cgeZi)

454  I will remember the Buddhist priests burning themselves in Vietnam.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 11, 2014 06:25 PM (XUKZU)

 

You first.

Posted by: troyriser at February 11, 2014 03:41 PM (2jF2B)

455 393 How about these commercial run by the government ad council on how to save on energy costs?This from a government with more than $17 trillion in debt and continuing to borrow 40 cents of every dollar they spend. Posted by: steevy at February 11, 2014 06:39 PM (zqvg6) It only costs the government the price of a stamp to mail the ads to radio/tv stations. They run these ads as "public service announcments", so they run them gratis. They do make sure that the FCC knows how many of these were run during the license period when their license comes up for renewal.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly known as MrCaniac at February 11, 2014 03:53 PM (HxSXm)

456 Any one hear about a new E15 gas that is being sold in Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas ? 15% ethanol which shouldn't be used in any car older than 2012. Screws up fuel lines and engines. Auto mfgrs. claim using it will void warrantees. Supposedly Scopes verified. Only link I have is an e-mail.

Posted by: seamrog at February 11, 2014 03:54 PM (1qRIh)

457 Isn't posting content from behind a paywall bad form if not worse?

Posted by: print police at February 11, 2014 04:06 PM (f/qE7)

458 Ya klutz, you act surprised. Just go ahead and send me to bad land again. You are pissing me off with your flagrant stupidity. Aint you got decent grounding yet? Call it what it is.

Posted by: butternut at February 11, 2014 04:06 PM (+8yte)

459 I should learn by now not to be shocked by anything that comes from the Obama Regime, but this is shocking. I expect I will blog on this in the morning.

Posted by: WannabeAnglican at February 11, 2014 04:16 PM (ShQEE)

460 Can I haz CWII?

Posted by: drill_thrawl at February 11, 2014 04:36 PM (rdiUQ)

461 And somehow keeping SoCons out of Congress will cure this sort of stuff from the Democrats?

I have a feeling that there's many in the GOP who are secretly cheering this stuff on. (and not in the favor of conservative thought)

And I would bet the majority of them aren't SoCons. (of course some will be  against the smut being pushed out of the TV but that's different from the news a bit.)

No it'll be the establishment and the FiCons who are tired of being dissed for their support or lack of support for some morals in Congress and in the country.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Lone Wolf Lunatic) at February 11, 2014 04:49 PM (LSDdO)

462 445 So Orwell was off by 30 years. Other than that, though, dead on. Posted by: tsj017 at February 11, 2014 07:06 PM (tIcJF) No one could foresee the Ronaldus Magnus; postponed the destruction a bit. But all good things must end.

Posted by: LizLem at February 11, 2014 05:04 PM (9++oZ)

463 #446, one hopes that enough of the Empire's cutting edges, of which we were once a part, will flinch at bleeding their own kind. If not, my spot in the nursing home goes to someone else.

#450, Michael V also knows with all his medical issues he wouldn't last a week on the run. I'm sure some Feds pray every night for his health- if he drops dead even knowing his medical history, half of us will always wonder whether or not he was whacked.

Posted by: SGT Dan's Cat at February 11, 2014 05:51 PM (nranl)

464 This is not the hill to fight on, we just don't have the cards. It's not a political winner, and it takes the eye off the ball.

Posted by: John B. at February 11, 2014 05:55 PM (Cs9Ps)

465 Pull the licenses. I fucking triple dog dare you. Do it. DO IT!

Posted by: Cackfinger at February 11, 2014 07:25 PM (OsCtd)

466 254 Ever wonder how many of us will end up regretting posting our thoughts here?

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at February 11, 2014 06:10 PM (l3vZN)


I felt that way in 2008, and it took 6+ months before I felt "safe" and now I feel like an idiot for not listening to myself!

Posted by: Amy Shulkusky at February 11, 2014 10:04 PM (3ONFH)

467 No, we're already at the point of Four Legs Good, Two Legs BAD.

Posted by: Beverly at February 11, 2014 11:26 PM (RgEC0)

468 I warned you: http://wannabeanglican.blogspot.com/2014/02/10th-anniversary-i-warned-you.html (And excellent post, Ace. I once again give you a big mention.)

Posted by: WannabeAnglican at February 12, 2014 06:22 AM (ShQEE)

469 The answer to every question asked by the FCC should be: "We report on what we want to. We have protection from the First Amendment to do just that and it isn't to place of government to tell us what we can or cannot say."

Posted by: Robert Matthews at February 12, 2014 09:39 AM (C/mkZ)

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