Comments on: Media Double Standards

By: merl

merl — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:44:53 +0000

Just imagine if a liberal were to run an ad showing McCain morphining into Osama binLaden. Consertaves would freak, soil their panties and faint.

By: tom truthful

tom truthful — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:35:10 +0000

jmaster - well said; and, indeed the Party did leave you, me, and many well-intentioned fiscally conservative, socially moderate types.
Today’s Repug Party only cares about two attributes: Are you White? Do you have Big Money?
(Exceptions will be made in some cases for A, if you have B.)
Anyone else moronic enough to support these gutless cowards, well, you’ve all gotten your way and your wish these last 8+ years.
St. John would be the coup de grace.
As for the Dems, only their incredible ineptitude keeps them in the running as the Avis of our time.
Vote Libertarian!
That’s the straight ticket.

By: jmaster1999

jmaster1999 — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:24:43 +0000

J Lichty wrote: “Its not just small town people they look down upon it is all republicans. They cannot fathom even a single issue where someone might be attracted to a Republican candidate. They have this construct that we are all stupid and evil, which is strange dissonance to reconscile, but they have no problem thinking that we have tricked everyone into believing us, even though we are so stupid.”

That is not the construct at all, J. 1) Single issue? Well, the “Solid South” used to vote consistently Democratic, but after the Civil Rights Acts in the 1960’s the Southern white vote is mostly Republikkkan. So it’s no leap of logic to infer that extending equal rights to blacks is a very big issue with Republikkkans, or at least, the Southern ones. 2) Stupid and evil? Not quite - the leaders are evil; the followers are stupid; only the Southern followers who switched allegiance over the Civil Rights Acts are both. 3) Tricked everyone into believing us? Not everyone. Just those Republikkkans who continue to place party ahead of country. I for one left the GOP a long time ago, although personally it feels more like the party left me.

By: Nunya D. Binness

Nunya D. Binness — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:39:39 +0000

The simple difference between these two statements:

“John McCain : “Target: Bush-Backing, Surge-Loving, Economically Clueless Geezer.” and

“Obama : Jeremiah Wright-Backing, Surrender-Loving, Foreign Policy-Clueless Slickster.”

is that the McCain statement is based on verified facts and the Obama statement is based on false GOP propoganda. McCain does back Bush, he clearly loves the surge, and he admits that he is economically clueless. You dislike liberals so much because they see reality based on the facts while you prefer to to let people like Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh define your reality.

Do your research on John McCain. Visit http://www.therealmccain.com or http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/14763.html for his ever expanding list of Flip-Flops.

By: Village Lady

Village Lady — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:41:26 +0000

This is hilarious!

By: Pale Rider

Pale Rider — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:37:39 +0000

Just try to imagine the frenzy of outrage that would ensue if a right-wing journal were to put on its cover Barack Obama’s face in a bulls-eye, along with the words “Target: Jeremiah Wright-Backing, Surrender-Loving, Foreign Policy-Clueless Slickster.”

Yeah, I think the Secret Service might have an issue with that.

Really, did you think before you wrote that? Or is there a perfectly innocent reason why you think it would be OK to put a bulls-eye on a picture of a black man?

To me, a person born and raised in a town of 350 people in the middle of flyover country, the bulls-eye represents a target that one shoots at. What does it mean to you, city boy? Something to shoot suction-cup tipped darts at?

By: Teresa

Teresa — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:20:10 +0000

Do you ever read a little rag called The National Review? The cover this week is an extremely unflattering picture of Michelle Obama with the headline, “Ms. Grievience”.

By: J.E. Dyer

J.E. Dyer — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:05:50 +0000

Such a uniter, that Obama. I haven’t seen Americans erupting in such a paroxysm of mutual admiration and common purpose since… since… oh, fugeddaboudit.

By: J. Lichty

J. Lichty — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:17:21 +0000

Its not just small town people they look down upon it is all republicans. They cannot fathom even a single issue where someone might be attracted to a Republican candidate.

They have this construct that we are all stupid and evil, which is strange dissonance to reconscile, but they have no problem thinking that we have tricked everyone into believing us, even though we are so stupid.

By: lester

lester — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:36:36 +0000

I don’t think you can really say New York Magazine = the mainstream media.

what’s the conservative equivelent of New York magazine: rush limbaugh? whatever it is i’m sure they would have something equally smart aleecky about the dems.

and yes, neocons posturing as populists is a little much. Bill kristol is no “yahoo”

By: Roy

Roy — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:27:05 +0000

It all started with ” Easy Rider”.

By: Grumpy Old Man

Grumpy Old Man — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:45:56 +0000

Johnstown.

By: Grumpy Old Man

Grumpy Old Man — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:45:27 +0000

Strange bedfellows. Commentary, home of the author of Making It and now his Dauphin, defending small-town America against the city slickers. Why not move the editorial offices to Johnston, Pa.? Rents are no dobut cheaper and the huntin’s probably a damn-sight better.

Here’s a snippet by a West Coast songwriter, presumably liberal but mostly a satirist:

Last night I saw Lester Maddox on a TV show
With some smart ass New York Jew
And the Jew laughed at Lester Maddox
And the audience laughed at Lester Maddox too
Well he may be a fool but he’s our fool
If they think they’re better than him they’re wrong
So I went to the park and I took some paper along
And that’s where I made this song.