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Playing The Race Card From Both Sides Of The Deck

November 07, 2011 4:40 pm ET by Rob Tornoe

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    • Author by Jimijams (November 07, 2011 4:44 pm ET)
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      Truth and facts have a liberal bias.
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    • Author by Jimijams (November 07, 2011 4:45 pm ET)
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      Fox "News" pundit is one of the following; a fairly smart well educated man, whose parodical schooling makes him appear to the common person as an independen­t thinker, but in actuality is a republican talking point spout. Bill O'Reilly.

      A college drop out with little or no knowledge of history, math, geography or science. Sean Hannity.

      A complete no nothing beauty pageant contest in her mid forties that looks like a plastic version of the Barbie doll that your sister threw out. Gretchen Carlson, and the other two guys on Fox & Friends.

      A sociopathi­c, homophobic­, overweight cry baby who bemoans about everything­. Glenn Beck.

      A former/cur­rent/quitt­ing republican who held some obscure office while spewing his/her hate everywhere­. Everyone else on the cast of Fox "News" except the former Court TV/Maxim Editor/ republican gay icon. Bret Biar, Greg Gutfeld, and Shepard Smith.
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      • Author by danielsangeo (November 07, 2011 5:16 pm ET)
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        a fairly smart well educated man... Bill O'Reilly.


        Bwahahahahahahahahahahaahaaaahahahahahaaaa!

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyHzhtARf8M
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      • Author by WilliamP (November 07, 2011 6:38 pm ET)
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        No way. Bill O'Reilly is not well-educated. The guy's education in logic and rhetoric must have Aristotle spinning in his grave. Sorry Bill, Fox is not a good news station just because they get good ratings. That's an ad populum fallacy--something that a freshman philosophy student would recognize as faulty reasoning.
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        • Author by curiousindependent (November 08, 2011 7:40 am ET)
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          HAHAHAHA. Two bad you dont reeleyes, you marksist lib, that filosify is for wusses, and reesening is for eleetist snabs.

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    • Author by handsomejack54 (November 07, 2011 4:59 pm ET)
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      I'll be honest: I'm kind of impressed at the lengths conservatives/right-wingers go to defend one of their own from the mainstream "liberal media" but have little to no remorse going all out in attacking the president and his party for the most ridiculous B.S.
      It's as if the right is more dedicated to being team players than trying to play well with others.
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      • Author by curiousindependent (November 08, 2011 7:41 am ET)
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        Wow, you just realized that? They have been doing that since I have been alive, really. Though, it HAS gotten to be far worse over the last few years.

        I wonder what happened to change things?
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    • Author by BDA (November 07, 2011 5:10 pm ET)
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      There is so much truth to this comic, I cant believe it. Right down to the angry spittle erupting from his mouth. Cant have it both ways wingnuts...
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      • Author by foole (November 07, 2011 5:16 pm ET)
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        You would think the trogs couldn't have it both ways. But, the sheeple that follow them allow them to warp the facts and to treat the truth like Silly Putty. It's no wonder these people hate science and love religion sooooooooooooooooo much! Science is based on facts. Religion is based on faith. Science can be explained or even replicated in experiments. Religion is just magic. It is easy to see how delusional people would much prefer to believe in magic than believe in facts.
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        • Author by danielsangeo (November 07, 2011 5:21 pm ET)
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          I once thought about how people could accept without question, in "1984", how one day that Oceania could be at war with Eastasia while the next day, we weren't at war with Eastasia. I could not understand how people's memories could be so short and thought it was a fictional literary device.

          I was (sadly) mistaken.
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          • Author by neon desert (November 07, 2011 5:40 pm ET)
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            Yeah, Orwell didn't come up with the concept for 1984 just off the top of his head. This class of people has been a part of our society for a long time.

            Good authors find what's all around us that we're not recognizing and light it up.
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            • Author by danielsangeo (November 07, 2011 5:52 pm ET)
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              Agreed. But when I was first introduced to 1984, I was young and naive.
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              • Author by neon desert (November 07, 2011 6:04 pm ET)
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                That's the great thing about not being so young any more. I can now recognize how naive I am, so there's very little that surprises me these days.
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          • Author by bintx (November 07, 2011 5:51 pm ET)
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            Authoritarianism, which is what this is, has always been around. It's seen on both sides of the political spectrum, but more prominently among folks who consider themselves "conservative." Most researchers believe that, at any given time, they make up about 20-25% of the population. It's only when that number gets above 25% that there is trouble . . . we're teetering right now.
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      • Author by wookie (November 07, 2011 7:32 pm ET)
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        I'm still thinking the Koch brothers are playing Trading Places. I mean pushing Cain after saying that Obama is simply an inexperienced black celebrity coasting by on racial guilt?
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    • Author by CoolSlaw (November 07, 2011 5:25 pm ET)
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      Sometimes an image and humor can bring to life a concept better then words. This cartoon encapsulates so perfectly the cognitive dissonance that always seems to follow in the wake of a popular black republican.
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      • Author by papajohn (November 07, 2011 6:26 pm ET)
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        What is really funny is that the "Right" are foolish enough to believe that the Mainstream Media were actually "propping up" Barack Obama.

        John
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        • Author by CoolSlaw (November 08, 2011 11:53 am ET)
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          It's not haha funny, but yes.

          The talkers and pundits know full well that the mainstream lazy and sensational corporate media HATE the intellectual and squeaky clean President Obama. The media ownership class HATE that President Obama is only a good friend and frequent suck-up to multinational corporations, and not completely owned and controlled by them.

          They've created an echo chamber where their viewers and listeners may never sully their eyes and ears with the actual words and raw speeches of the evil Obama. That's how they can continue the illusion and charade to convince them that the media is "in the tank" for Obama.
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    • Author by shaggles (November 07, 2011 6:26 pm ET)
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      Awesome. Although I have to play devil's advocate again and point out that the right is mostly claiming the MSM is going after Cain (which they aren't really anyway) because he's a conservative black.
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      • Author by neon desert (November 07, 2011 11:41 pm ET)
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        And following through on that concept, they'd be going after him if he was a conservative white. So why mention his skin color at all?

        In the words and manner of Samuel L "Jules" Jackson, Well allow me to retort - Because the right says that the left thinks that blacks should prefer Dems because they give them free stuff. (notice there's a whole heterosexual wedding cake-full of mind-reading layers to eat through to reach that conclusion). The left, according to agreed-upon rightie talking points, thinks it's "entitled" to support from the black community, by virtue of the liberal "entitlements" given to the black community. In other words, the right starts with the premise that most of the minority community is lazy and can be bought with welfare and affirmative action, and the left is exploiting that weakness. Observe how the GOP is real anxious to get the word out, through Cain, that "if you're not rich, blame yourself", as if the bulk of the minorities have no concept of - or at least an aversion to - self-reliance.

        Given that that's GOP S.O.P., isn't it a little hard to understand why someone would be supportive of it when it demeans the class of people to which you belong? So yes, his detractors ARE going after Cain NOT because he's a conservative black, but at least partially because he's a black GOP supporter.
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    • Author by draftedin68 (November 07, 2011 6:28 pm ET)
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      Close, but your artist needs to add a little more hate to the eyes.

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    • Author by highlyunlikely (November 07, 2011 6:31 pm ET)
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      Excellent. Even the cons can't not get the punchline, to deliberately use a double negative for emphasis.
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      • Author by eweston8542983 (November 07, 2011 8:50 pm ET)
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        Looks like at least two of them are holding tight to their ignorance.
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        • Author by curiousindependent (November 08, 2011 7:49 am ET)
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          And their cowardice. I notice that neither has actually grown a set and posted.
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