Faux News Spews; I Need Booze

[JMarie]

7 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

Americans don't want healthcare 

 

Melania had to remind him to put "hand on his heart"

 

[AmazonGrace]

Racist says what

[AmazonGrace]

Chief racist on Faux: how on earth  did this black dude learn to speak all civilized-like? 

 

[AmazonGrace]

 

[GreyhoundFan]

23 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

Chief racist on Faux: how on earth  did this black dude learn to speak all civilized-like? 

He is confused by the concept of education.

 

 

[AmazonGrace]

Has Gorka ever heard Trump speak 

 

[Cartmann99]

2 minutes ago, AmazonGrace said:

Has Gorka ever heard Trump speak 

 

I saw Sarah Palin and other nutters bitching about this on Twitter, so talking points have obviously been sent out for conservatives to attack the scary black president again.

[AmazonGrace]

Because Americans dream of bigotry, lies and no healthcare

[GreyhoundFan]

[GreyhoundFan]

[AmazonGrace]

 

[wotdancer]

20 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

 

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fox-skews/

It's complicated, but overall Snopes rules this to be false. 

[AmazonGrace]

Going to be interesting to see how they're going to handle demands for lie detector tests and FBI investigations and things like that to find the  moles in the administration while simultaneously claiming NYT made it up

[Howl]

On 9/9/2018 at 2:51 AM, AmazonGrace said:

Has Gorka ever heard Trump speak 

Seb Gorka is letting his nasty little goatee run free and is going full beard.  Does this pretentious ass think it lends gravitas to his fake PhD?

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[AmazonGrace]

 

[47of74]

According to Lou Dobbs Bush is a far left winger now.

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Fox Business News Host Lou Dobbs called former Republican President George W. Bush a liberal on his show,  Lou Dobbs Tonight, Thursday.

In a segment on free trade, the conservative host, who has interviewed President Donald Trump on numerous occasions, called President Barack Obama a “radical left-winger,” and said that Republican President George W. Bush was “a radical... What would you call him? A liberal himself. He wasn’t a conservative.”

Bush considered himself a “compassionate conservative,” and often had single-digit approval ratings from Democrats during his presidency.

Dobbs’s guest, Wall Street Journal editorial page assistant editor James Freeman avoided agreeing with Dobbs, but did concede that Bush “grew government in a big way.”

Of course anyone to the left of Himmler is an extreme leftist to the current incarnation of the GOP.

 

[GreyhoundFan]

"Someone tell Tucker Carlson what ‘E pluribus unum’ really means"

Spoiler

Pierre Eugene du Simitiere, a name largely forgotten by history, was one of the seemingly inexhaustible supply of polymaths roaming the byways of the newborn United States of America. A Swiss immigrant, he hobnobbed with Benjamin Franklin at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, when he wasn’t busy translating books or collecting treasures for what became the nation’s first history museum.

He was also an artist with a particular interest in emblems and seals — a booming business during an age when new states and new nations were in need of insignia. Simitiere is the man to thank (or to blame) for that radiant eyeball atop the pyramid on the back of the $1 bill. And, more relevant at the moment, he was the first to suggest “e pluribus unum” as a national motto.

The phrase can be translated “out of many, one.” It describes an action, not a passive state: Distinct individuals are being gathered into a unit, without necessarily giving up their differences. Simitiere apparently picked it up from a popular magazine — a sort of Reader’s Digest of the day — that used the slogan on its cover to signal that its articles were drawn from a variety of sources.

Nowadays, we call this aggregation, and what better name for the Founders’ enterprise? Aggregating one nation from a variety of disparate states — one people from many different homelands. Simitiere made this explicit by suggesting various symbols to represent this diversity in the centerpiece of the Great Seal. (He lost that argument to an angry-looking eagle.)

I don’t suppose we can expect the average television host to be hip to Simitiere. But even that creative Swiss American mind would boggle at the use Tucker Carlson of Fox News made of “e pluribus unum.”

It pains me to write about Carlson. I wouldn’t do it if the president didn’t watch his show. (Mr. President, please turn off the dang TV!) But he watches, and sometimes even repeats what he hears. He may well have heard Carlson mangle the motto during his misguided campaign to equate diversity with weakness.

Apparently, this started with a diatribe: “How, precisely, is diversity our strength?” Carlson asked, with sneering contempt slathered on the “precisely.” He had shown several speakers praising diversity on tape; so he answered them rhetorically. “Since you’ve made this our new national motto, please be specific as you explain it. Can you think, for example, of other institutions such as, I don’t know, marriage or military units in which the less people have in common, the more cohesive they are?”

The segment, which I read about the next day (at 57, I’m not old enough to watch Fox News), was a philosophical train wreck, beginning with the fact Carlson never defined “diversity.” Personally, I’m glad there is diversity in my marriage, because I wouldn’t want to be wed to a paunchy, balding man who sweats too much. I can think of many other strong marriages in which the partners are not exactly alike; “opposites attract” is an adage for good reason. And, I imagine, many military units thrive without being clones. Seventy-five years of war movies can’t all be wrong.

A couple of sentences later, supposedly still on topic, Carlson backflipped. Social media should welcome a greater diversity of ideas, he said. And I guess he deserved some credit for answering his own question: A robust exchange of ideas is — “precisely” — one example of diversity lending strength.

Now here’s where the motto comes in. Instead of a nice Emily Litella-style “never mind,” Carlson maintained on a follow-up show that “e pluribus unum” vindicates his argument. In his telling, “out of many, one” connotes that “our differences mean less than our common identity as Americans.” He is defending that common identity from the fragmenting forces of diversity; protecting the “unum” from the “pluribus.”

Wrong again: The “pluribus” and the “unum” are not in conflict. What the slogan actually signals is that our differences are essential to our common identity as Americans. If diversity were not the essence, the core, the strength of America, the motto could just be “unum.”

No two people are alike, yet everyone is created equal. Embracing this paradox is the American way.

It is not my role to try to make sense of another commentator’s mind-mush; battling my own is a full-time job. But it seems Carlson’s real target here is the style of identity politics that magnifies difference while minimizing common ground. I believe most Americans reject such extremism, because we believe all manner of people can share the common ground of liberty.

But that’s not what he said. Instead, Carlson equated “differences” with disunity and with weakness. No amount of swirling red, white and blue graphics can obscure the un-American pallor of that. I hope the president wasn’t listening.

 

[fraurosena]

Calling @JMarie, calling our Faux News Investigator! 

Will you be able to watch and report back to us? 

 

[JMarie]

7 minutes ago, fraurosena said:

Calling @JMarie, calling our Faux News Investigator! 

Will you be able to watch and report back to us? 

 

DVR is set!

[JMarie]

No popcorn for me, but there's this:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjxNnqTcHhg&index=1&list=RDNjxNnqTcHhg

 

Okay, now it's time to get down to business.

Thankfully, there is much coverage of the hurricane on Fox News, so people can actually know what's going on outside of the Fox News building.  Also, it will give Carlson and Hannity less time to blather on about conspiracy stuff.  Carlson's first.

"In a last minute twist today, Senator Diane Feinstein of California says she has sent a letter, about (Brett) Kavanaugh, to the FBI.  It's a secret letter, written by a secret person, containing a secret allegation, about possible misconduct in high school, some 35 plus years ago."  Really?  That's how he's going to kick off a new show?  Carlson calls the allegation a "crock" because if it were true, it would have been referred to the Maryland state police (Kavanaugh went to high school in Maryland), and not the FBI.

More confusing talk about Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.

The FBI mysteriously closed the National Solar Observatory in Sunspot, NM last week - "maybe it's something, maybe it's nothing, we're gonna keep on it"

Filmmaker Michael Moore is a hypocrite

Finally, at 8:35, Michael Avenatti is allowed on the air.  Just for reference, when Hannity interviewed Roseanne, she got the entire hour.  Carlson says that Avenatti wanted Carlson to stop calling him by a 'certain unflattering nickname," and Carlson "hasn't agreed to that demand, but as a gesture of good will, we will not use that nickname."  What do you think is on the chyron immediately after?  "Creepy Porn Lawyer." I guess Carlson was betting Avenatti won't ever want to see this interview, so he'll never know, right? "Does American Want Creepy Porn Lawyer As Pres?"  as another chyron.  Avenatti plays along, answering Carlson's stupid questions, and asks if they're going to get to questions about his client (and five minutes into the interview, no less).  Avenatti strikes back by asking why Carlson doesn't refer to Trump as the "creepy porn president" and Carlson tells him to settle down.

Oh, then there's arguing about the cost of Avenatti's suits while Stormy Daniels performs in "seedy strip clubs."  Avenatti is tough, and Carlson's voice gets higher and faster.  Carlson seems awfully proud that he devoted 12 minutes to the interview.  I recommend everyone look for the interview in the morning.  It'll be worth the search.  Also worth seeking out is the commentary by (high school dropout and Fox News commentator) Mark Steyn.

Carlson has a new book coming out, and on the same day as Stormy Daniel's book.  Coincidence?

Okay, on to Hannity.

"The Left Blames Trump For Everything" - because the Left thinks Trump is colluding with Mother Nature.  Just another example of Trump Derangement Syndrome. (many clips from the evil MSM channels)

Peter Stzrok and Lisa Page, again

Diane Feinstein vs. Brett Kavanaugh, again

Gregg Jarrett (still plugging his new book, which was released on July 24) and Sara Carter offer nothing new about Strzok and Page.

Back to Feinstein vs. Kavanaugh, with Joe diGenova commenting (fun fact: diGenova's wife was the attorney for Scooter Libby.  Guess who got pardoned this year by Trump?  Go ahead, guess)

How do people voluntarily watch this, night after night???  I don't know.  The only thing I know for sure is that I drank the last of my vodka tonight.  Fuck.

 

 

 

 

[AmazonGrace]

 

 

[Cartmann99]

1 hour ago, AmazonGrace said:

 

 

Bless their hearts...

[JMarie]

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tucker-carlson-michael-avenatti_us_5b9b15b8e4b013b097790d42

[Cartmann99]

Anything or anyone that goes against Dear Leader will be attacked:

Also, for the millionth time, PUERTO RICANS ARE AMERICANS!!!