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THE BIG PURGE: SKEPTICAL REPORTERS TOSSED OFF OBAMA PLANE.
Everytime you try to warm up to this guy, he does some third world, banana republic, Chavez/Castro bullshit like this.
This lesson is: be prepared to buy Obama's bullshit hook, line, sinker and rowboat or he will be throwing you off the plane.
Erica Jong Tells Italians Obama Loss 'Will Spark the Second American Civil War. Blood Will Run in the Streets'
By Jason Horowitz | October 30, 2008 | Tags: PoliticsBarack ObamaDick CheneyErica JongGeorge W. BushJane FondaKen FollettMichael ChabonNormal MailerPhillip RothTom Wolfe.
[quote]Erica Jong, 1976. It seems that the final days of the presidential campaign have made Erica Jong and her friends more than a little anxious.
A few days ago, Jong, the author and self-described feminist, gave an interview to the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, the choicest bits of which were brought to my attention by the reliably sharp-eyed Christian Rocca, the U. S. Correspondent of Il Foglio, who published excerpts on his Camillo blog. Basically, Jong says her fear that Obama might lose the election has developed into an "obsession. A paralyzing terror. An anxious fever that keeps you awake at night." She also says that her friends Jane Fonda and Naomi Wolf are extremely worried that Obama will be sabotaged by Republican dirty tricks, and that if an Obama loss indeed comes to pass, the result will be a second American Civil War.
Here's a translation of Jong's more spirited quotes to the Milan-based Corriere, as selected by Rocca.
"The record shows that voting machines in America are rigged."
"My friends Ken Follett and Susan Cheever are extremely worried. Naomi Wolf calls me every day. Yesterday, Jane Fonda sent me an email to tell me that she cried all night and can't cure her ailing back for all the stress that has reduces her to a bundle of nerves."
"My back is also suffering from spasms, so much so that I had to see an acupuncturist and get prescriptions for Valium."
"After having stolen the last two elections, the Republican Mafia."
"If Obama loses it will spark the second American Civil War. Blood will run in the streets, believe me. And it's not a coincidence that President Bush recalled soldiers from Iraq for Dick Cheney to lead against American citizens in the streets."
"Bush has transformed America into a police state, from torture to the imprisonment of reporters, to the Patriot Act."
She also laments that not all of America's men of letters share her devotion to Obama.
"Tom Wolfe and John Updike are men of the right and Philip Roth is at this point a hermit who leads a monastic life in Connecticut, far from everything and everybody."
Luckily, she said there is her and Michael Chabon, who, she says, have "taken the place of Susan Sontag and Norman Mailer respectively."
They have the same political sensibilities, she said, but a better "sense of humor.[/quote]I guess I will be forced to vote for Obama in order to prevent these fucking fruitloops and thier equally nutty friend Barbara Streisand from having nervous breakdowns.
[QUOTE=El Alamo]Luckily, she said there is her and Michael Chabon, who, she says, have "taken the place of Susan Sontag and Norman Mailer respectively." [/QUOTE]In her dreams. Self propagandizing horseshit. She and Dickie Morris ought to do a book tour together.
[QUOTE=El Alamo]THE BIG PURGE: SKEPTICAL REPORTERS TOSSED OFF OBAMA PLANE.
Everytime you try to warm up to this guy, he does some third world, banana republic, Chavez / Castro bullshit like this.
This lesson is: be prepared to buy Obama's bullshit hook, line, sinker and rowboat or he will be coming after you[/QUOTE]Perhaps the reporters were "CockSuckers" El Alamo.
Of course then there would be justification for throwing them off his airplane.
Exon
[QUOTE=El Alamo]THE BIG PURGE: SKEPTICAL REPORTERS TOSSED OFF OBAMA PLANE.
Everytime you try to warm up to this guy, he does some third world, banana republic, Chavez / Castro bullshit like this.
This lesson is: be prepared to buy Obama's bullshit hook, line, sinker and rowboat or he will be coming after you[/QUOTE]Is this what is known as IRONY?
With complete respect and sympathy to those who lost family during the totalitarian regime in Argentina 1972 to 1981, I have to point out how the above statement reflects comparisons. Maybe those who put their own interests above others while speaking about populist messages and hand outs need further evaluation.
On Wednesday maybe we can go back to talking about Chicas. Hope and Crosby to all of you.
[QUOTE=Sidney]''What does he stand for? Why is everything secret? Why does the press cover it up?" I'm with Tito![/QUOTE]Syd, old sport, just a suggestion but if you removed your head from where it's been lodged for quite some time you'd very likely find the answers to these questions which perplex you so were obvious and well know to anyone not similiarly disposed. Poor Tito.
[QUOTE=Exon123]Perhaps the reporters were "CockSuckers" El Alamo.
Of course then there would be justification for throwing them off his airplane.
Exon[/QUOTE]They were removed due to space restrictions to allow other reporters on. I guess McPain wouldn't choose reporters who reported favorably over reporters that did otherwise.
The garbage you guys come up with to try and discredit him only reinforces the fact that he's the best choice.
Muslin, terrorist, socialist, and now he censors the press? Keep trying.
For all of you who have derided and otherwise discounted FOX News as having some perversely conservative bias, I submit the results of the PEW's Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism statistical analysis of the 2008 campaign coverage:
How the Press Reported the 2008 General Election.
[url]http://journalism.org/node/13436[/url]
How Different Media Have Covered the General Election
[url]http://journalism.org/node/13307[/url]
Of course, I'm sure that someone here will find a website that "proves" that the PEW Research Center is secretly controlled by the neo-cons, but I don't care.
Thanks,
Jackson
[QUOTE=Jackson]For all of you who have derided and otherwise discounted FOX News as having some perversely conservative bias, I submit the results of the PEW's Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism statistical analysis of the 2008 campaign coverage:
How the Press Reported the 2008 General Election.
[url]http://journalism.org/node/13436[/url]
How Different Media Have Covered the General Election
[url]http://journalism.org/node/13307[/url]
Of course, I'm sure that someone here will find a website that "proves" that the PEW Research Center is secretly controlled by the neo-cons, but I don't care.
Thanks,
Jackson[/QUOTE]Wiki says they are on the up and up. I have to admit to being surprised. I watch Fox from time to time and just can't say that my experience matches their results. I wonder if they (Fox) get one of those speed talkers to say a whole bunch of nice things about Obama between 0300 and 0302 or something.
(for those of you humorly challenged, that was a joke)
Here is my question.
Quoting from the same article.
"On the evening newscasts of the three traditional networks, in contrast, there is no such ideological split. Indeed, on the nightly newscasts of ABC, CBS and NBC, coverage tends to be more neutral and generally less negative than elsewhere."
Can we once and for all, forever and ever, stop seeing the phrase "liberal bias in the media" now? Because now declared in an article sited by "El Jeffe" himself we see there isn't. Jax perhaps you can set up a script or something that replaces "liberal bias in the media" with oh I don't know, maybe "idiotic piece of bullshit."
Because of the terrible defeat coming on Wednesday, Sarah has been practicing for her new job at Cattos. I think she's hot!
[QUOTE=Jackson]For all of you who have derided and otherwise discounted FOX News as having some perversely conservative bias, I submit the results of the PEW's Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism statistical analysis of the 2008 campaign coverage:
How the Press Reported the 2008 General Election.
[url]http://journalism.org/node/13436[/url]
How Different Media Have Covered the General Election
[url]http://journalism.org/node/13307[/url]
Of course, I'm sure that someone here will find a website that "proves" that the PEW Research Center is secretly controlled by the neo-cons, but I don't care.
Thanks,
Jackson[/QUOTE]This post definitely falls under the "Who you gonna believe me or your lying eyes?" category. Or as Dickie Smothers said "The Truth is whatever you can get somebody else to believe."
Have not had a chance to read the links and looking forward. Let's see what's not being said here. Of course it is a limited category, the General Election, and says nothing about the past 8 years of Faux News. An unprovoked invasion of another country and trumpeting numerous associated lies comes to mind for starters.
[QUOTE=Bacchus9]This post definitely falls under the "Who you gonna believe me or your lying eyes?" category. Or as Dickie Smothers said "The Truth is whatever you can get somebody else to believe."
Have not had a chance to read the links and looking forward. Let's see what's not being said here. Of course it is a limited category, the General Election, and says nothing about the past 8 years of Faux News. An unprovoked invasion of another country and trumpeting numerous associated lies comes to mind for starters.[/QUOTE]I'm completely surprised at your assessment.
I never would have guessed that you would have had this opinion.
Thanks,
Jackson
BTW: "Faux News"? Is that more of the famous liberal name-calling?
[QUOTE=Jackson]BTW: "Faux News"? Is that more of the famous liberal name-calling?[/QUOTE]Jihadist, Terrorist, Socialist, Muslim, Messiah oh wait that is conservative name calling.
Joe, erstwhile non plumber, "earnest" confronter of Obama, Republican salt of the earth heartthrob, now is a singer. Will some really tall animal please hunker down and take a shit on this moron? Pretty please.
After November 4, maybe McCain and Palin will join up with Joe and tour the heartland with songs of the great Depression and homespun tales of conservative woe.
[url]http://www.prefixmag.com/news/joe-the-plumber-to-become-joe-the-talent-less-coun/22692/[/url]