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willwriteforfood
06/11/09

In reply to Palins, David Letterman Continue To Take (Sometimes Cheap) Shots
Last night I wrote two checks: one to Planned Parenthood and the other to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which had been tracking von Brunn for decades. It was a pitiful gesture but it made me feel like I was doing something.

The rising level of right-wing anger and rhetoric is seriously scaring me and I used to think I was just being paranoid but now I know I'm not. Impotent anger has turned dangerous, you guys, and I don't know how to stop it.
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cynopt
06/11/09

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Ugh, someone at Jezebel is *really* desperate to look like they're reaching across the aisle on this Palin/Letterman crap, especially for a series of cheap yuk-yuk political jokes. Sarah Palin is not a feminist icon, she is not a role model for anyone; she is a hypocrite, pure and simple. If Palin was really that concerned with protecting her ever-multiplying spawn, she would not have spent the last year whoring her entire family out for the sake of her political career.
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Rosaxé
06/11/09

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Does anyone know how O'Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh or any other Fox News asshats reacted to yesterday's shooting?
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willwriteforfood
06/11/09

@Rosaxé: Apparently O'Reilly had nothing to say. He didn't mention it. I'm sure he's working up to it, though, figuring out a way to blame Obama and his socialist leanings.

Glenn Beck said now the targets for extremists will be Jews and conservatives. Not sure how he managed to work that one out.

Michelle Malkin pretty much called Shepard Smith a pussy for being concerned about the rise in racist emails the network has been getting (gee, you think!?) and saying the DHS report warned against guys like von Brunn. I can't even watch her...everything out of her mouth is a flat-out lie and and she says them so easily, like she doesn't care what's true or not.
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NefariousNewt
06/11/09

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Note to Shepard Smith: I'd have a lot more sympathy for you if you woke up and determined that Fox News is indeed the mouthpiece for intolerance that it is, and moved to CNN.
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SarahMC
06/11/09

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Then there's this gem.

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NefariousNewt
06/11/09

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I am still waiting for the day that Bill O'Reilly is charged with hate speech.
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queenieinmanhattan
06/11/09

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Shepard Smith has my respect for being someone who actually admits when he's wrong. Sad that this is so unusual, but it really is.
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morninggloria
06/11/09

@queenieinmanhattan: I feel like there's this idea in media that advancing to the top is so cutthroat that you can't ever rescind anything you say ever, only backpedal and qualify, which makes you look slimy, myopic, and bullheaded.
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lijakaca
06/11/09

@morninggloria: Add politics to media and ITA.
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morninggloria
06/11/09

@lijakaca: The line between politics and media no longer exists. To be a media personality is to be a political personality and vice versa.
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lalaland13
06/11/09

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I don't think Sarah and Todd Palin were that offended-they just saw it as a chance to issue press releases acting offended. I think Letterman knows that, too. Not that he's been perfect, but I loved how he tore the Palins apart last night, then asked them on the show. My favorite joke was the "So then I bought $150,000 in clothes to make myself feel better."
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stoprobbers
06/11/09

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Oh my god, ENOUGH with this JEWS BUSINESS!! I'm done with it. Fucking done with it.
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PinkSoxHat
06/11/09

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You know what happens when my boss sets a deadline that I think is difficult to reach, even when it falls right after a holiday weekend? I shut the hell up and get to work, or I lose my job. And I don't even have a staff to read things for me and tell me what I should do. STFU, Republicans.
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morninggloria
06/11/09

@PinkSoxHat: Yeah, I wish that they had an actual boss with the power to fire them. Instead of the American people, who can't, like, get together and be all, "You're fired!" because they have a hard enough time getting together to HIRE them.
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Tart of Darkness
06/11/09

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Targeting the children of someone in politics? Not okay. Not, not, not okay. That's why I gave up on late night "comedians" like Letterman and Leno and probably Conan.

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, though. They are late night funny with class. Bless them both.
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lijakaca
06/11/09

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Rone-ry? That's from Team America, right? Took me a while to figure it out.

Fox News scares me in their outright pandering and slightly less obvious incitement of right-wing nutjobs. I used to be able to ignore it when I thought everybody saw through the scam, but now it's just scary how many people actually use it as a "news" source.
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oh.geez.
06/11/09

@lijakaca: Where I live, if you go in ANY business with televisions- they're tuned to Fox News. They're thought of as THE OFFICIAL WORD OF TRUTH in right- wing, conservative strongholds of this country.
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PinkSoxHat
06/11/09

@oh.geez.: I live right outside of BOSTON and the restaurant that is closest to me and has cheap beer (so, my usual) always has one TV on Fox News. The other day the guy at the bar next to me tried to strike up a conversation by saying that it was a shame Tiller was killed, but, yah know, he was killing babies. Without a word I gathered my belongings and moved to the other end of the bar. Fox has gotten into everything!
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Jackiewsu
06/11/09

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I don't care how funny a punch line she is. Can we all just not mention Sarah Palin or the rest of her clan. She's like Candy Man or something, the media says her name 3 times and the public has to deal with her terrifying interviews and quotes for weeks. It's not worth it.
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morninggloria
06/11/09

@Jackiewsu: (laughter)
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linnyt is a walking cliché
06/11/09

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I thought the biggest issue about the DHS report was that it advised that ex-military people would be more likely to go batshit on someone. People got mad because it seemed like a stereotype or something? I don't know. I can't really remember because I didn't pay that much attention to the fuss about the report.
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bluewine
06/11/09

@linnyt is a walking cliché: There was all kinds of fuss about it. My one-and-only conservative family member tried to convince me that he would probably end up on some extremist list because they were targeting 'white men who attend church weekly'.

Reality isn't a friend of the conservatives.
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morninggloria
06/11/09

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David Letterman should just have Jezebel commenters write the Palin jokes. They'd be much funnier and Dave wouldn't look like a sexist asshole.
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