After suggesting that someone should take a Smoot in Sarah Palin's mouth. . .
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/martin-bashir-resigns-from-msnbc/
Frankly, I wouldn't' know who martin Bashir was without this story. Perhaps he and Alec can start their own network or join AlGorzera?
Quote from: Gaspar on December 04, 2013, 01:54:55 PM
After suggesting that someone should take a Smoot in Sarah Palin's mouth. . .
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/martin-bashir-resigns-from-msnbc/
Frankly, I wouldn't' know who martin Bashir was without this story. Perhaps he and Alec can start their own network or join AlGorzera?
Must be a slow news day for ya.
Quote from: Hoss on December 04, 2013, 03:22:16 PM
Must be a slow news day for ya.
^^^
It involved Sarah Palin, so we know the purpose of the above: :P
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Quote from: guido911 on December 05, 2013, 08:15:19 AM
^^^
It involved Sarah Palin, so we know the purpose of the above: :P
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You get that infection cleared up, Gweed?
Yes. Let the crapping in the mouths of those making slavery comparison's continue...
Quotehttp://detroit.cbslocal.com/2013/12/05/fast-food-workers-strike-for-higher-pay-in-metro-detroit/
MSNBC has been trying really hard lately to clean up their image by eliminating the haters, racists, and other inflammatory personalities. They have even started reporting the news rather than simply offering state sponsored commentary.
Quote from: Gaspar on December 05, 2013, 11:08:58 AM
MSNBC has been trying really hard lately to clean up their image by eliminating the haters, racists, and other inflammatory personalities. They have even started reporting the news rather than simply offering state sponsored commentary.
Now, if only Fox News could follow su....bwahahahaha!
Who am I kidding?
Quote from: Gaspar on December 05, 2013, 11:08:58 AM
MSNBC has been trying really hard lately to clean up their image by eliminating the haters, racists, and other inflammatory personalities. They have even started reporting the news rather than simply offering state sponsored commentary.
They got rid of Olbermann (not really "lately") Bashir and Baldwin...Still working? Ed "talk slut" Schultz and Mark "kind of a dick" Halperin...
I didn't realize Olberdoosh was back at ESPN until I saw him on The Deuce last night. Nothing to see there...
Quote from: Gaspar on December 05, 2013, 11:08:58 AM
MSNBC has been trying really hard lately to clean up their image by eliminating the haters, racists, and other inflammatory personalities. They have even started reporting the news rather than simply offering state sponsored commentary.
Then why is Sharpton still there?
Quote from: guido911 on December 05, 2013, 09:50:09 AM
Yes. Let the crapping in the mouths of those making slavery comparison's continue...
Yeah, the striking fast food workers, and the Walmart protesters never materialized here. They did not show because they are making more money than the loggers and those that work in the timber industry here. Fortunately things are improving, I live a mile from a Weyerhaeuser mill, they are running two shifts, and they just reopened the rail line between that mill and Coos Bay for shipment of actual lumber, and wood chip production. I have a different perspective on timber production after living here for two and a half years.
Also, there is a upswing in ship building. A ship builder in Charleston OR has completed two or three ships with more on order for the fishing industry. The basic ship is built there, then sent to Portland for final outfitting. Charleston has a population of about 2000 people and they have added about 150 new jobs.
Quote from: Gaspar on December 05, 2013, 11:08:58 AM
MSNBC has been trying really hard lately to clean up their image by eliminating the haters, racists, and other inflammatory personalities. They have even started reporting the news rather than simply offering state sponsored commentary.
Remind me again. Which network started with the haters, racists, inflammatory personalities, and party sponsored commentary rather than news? And which one responded in kind as defense? Who purchased the Wall Street Journal as back up? Fox or MSNBC?
FOX and Murdoch.
Quote from: dbacksfan 2.0 on December 06, 2013, 04:29:41 AM
Yeah, the striking fast food workers, and the Walmart protesters never materialized here. They did not show because they are making more money than the loggers and those that work in the timber industry here. Fortunately things are improving, I live a mile from a Weyerhaeuser mill, they are running two shifts, and they just reopened the rail line between that mill and Coos Bay for shipment of actual lumber, and wood chip production. I have a different perspective on timber production after living here for two and a half years.
Also, there is a upswing in ship building. A ship builder in Charleston OR has completed two or three ships with more on order for the fishing industry. The basic ship is built there, then sent to Portland for final outfitting. Charleston has a population of about 2000 people and they have added about 150 new jobs.
They didn't materialize here either. Having a low paying, slave wage job is better than no job for most of us. A reasonable increase in the minimum is long overdue and the arguments against it have never been based on reality.
How has your view of the timber industry changed with your new insights?
Quote from: AquaMan on December 06, 2013, 07:32:16 AM
Remind me again. Which network started with the haters, racists, inflammatory personalities, and party sponsored commentary rather than news? And which one responded in kind as defense? Who purchased the Wall Street Journal as back up? Fox or MSNBC?
FOX and Murdoch.
Interesting reading on the history of the two networks. MSNBC actually hit the airwaves a few months ahead of Fox. Believe it or not, conservative icons Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham were joined by John Gibson at MSNBC in the early days. In later years, they even had Alan Keyes and Michael Savage as show hosts.
Doesn't get much more inflammatory on the conservative side than Savage, or arch liberals Keef Olberdoosh and Rachel Madcow.
Quote from: Conan71 on December 06, 2013, 11:49:31 AM
Interesting reading on the history of the two networks. MSNBC actually hit the airwaves a few months ahead of Fox. Believe it or not, conservative icons Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham were joined by John Gibson at MSNBC in the early days. In later years, they even had Alan Keyes and Michael Savage as show hosts.
Doesn't get much more inflammatory on the conservative side than Savage, or arch liberals Keef Olberdoosh and Rachel Madcow.
That's likely why Fox went so 'crazy-donkey-right', to compete.
Look how it's turned out.
Quote from: Hoss on December 06, 2013, 12:14:50 PM
Look how it's turned out.
They are making money hand-over-fist for the Murdochians.
Quote from: Conan71 on December 06, 2013, 12:49:41 PM
They are making money hand-over-fist for the Murdochians.
If that's the only thing you've gotten out of that, then you are no longer a recovering Republican. You've gone into remission.
Quote from: Hoss on December 06, 2013, 12:52:42 PM
If that's the only thing you've gotten out of that, then you are no longer a recovering Republican. You've gone into remission.
That's the whole point of politics as entertainment for MSNBC and Faux. Make big munneh. That's why we don't tune in at our house.
I never watch political programming anymore. The only political news I get on the tele is from CBS in the morning or evening. You will usually find Food Network, Discovery, Travel, or A & E on our tube.
Quote from: Conan71 on December 06, 2013, 01:13:59 PM
That's the whole point of politics as entertainment for MSNBC and Faux. Make big munneh. That's why we don't tune in at our house.
I never watch political programming anymore. The only political news I get on the tele is from CBS in the morning or evening. You will usually find Food Network, Discovery, Travel, or A & E on our tube.
Those and my mother has now got me hooked on DIY...oh and Discovery ID.
Quote from: AquaMan on December 06, 2013, 07:36:56 AM
How has your view of the timber industry changed with your new insights?
With responsible cutting and responsible re-planting it is a sustainable industry. The biggest problem here is that most of the forests are off limits as imposed by the state and the feds. In Washington state Weyerhaeuser has been doing responsible timber work for years. On the road from Castle Rock to Mt. St. Helens there are numerous areas that were harvested since 1981 that are now back to what they were then. (Not including the blast zone)
Yes there are areas near me that have been recently harvested and look barren, but they have already started the re-planting in those areas and in 30 years it will be ready for harvest again.
I'm not saying just go in and clear cut the crap out of it, and yes I get being environmentally friendly, but strangling an industry is not a good thing. Crap, in this state you can get fined for capturing rain water on your own land, for your own use.
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120726/news/207260314 (http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120726/news/207260314)
It seems impossible to escape FAUX. Waiting rooms, hospitals, coffee shops ad infinitum. I even had to ask a school cafeteria I was visiting to please change the channel lest I regurgitate. They actually had to get a woman with a key to unlock the controls to change the channel. Its like new age Pravda.
Quote from: Conan71 on December 06, 2013, 01:13:59 PM
That's the whole point of politics as entertainment for MSNBC and Faux. Make big munneh. That's why we don't tune in at our house.
I told my dad who is a fan of Chris Matthews/MSNBC that I was going to get him books from Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly for Christmas. (Can I say Christmas here, or should I say 'Festivus'?)
Quote from: dbacksfan 2.0 on December 06, 2013, 01:19:33 PM
With responsible cutting and responsible re-planting it is a sustainable industry. The biggest problem here is that most of the forests are off limits as imposed by the state and the feds. In Washington state Weyerhaeuser has been doing responsible timber work for years. On the road from Castle Rock to Mt. St. Helens there are numerous areas that were harvested since 1981 that are now back to what they were then. (Not including the blast zone)
Yes there are areas near me that have been recently harvested and look barren, but they have already started the re-planting in those areas and in 30 years it will be ready for harvest again.
I'm not saying just go in and clear cut the crap out of it, and yes I get being environmentally friendly, but strangling an industry is not a good thing. Crap, in this state you can get fined for capturing rain water on your own land, for your own use.
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120726/news/207260314 (http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120726/news/207260314)
That seems reasonable. It seems like people tend to overstate then over react then over legislate in every state (but not Oklahoma...). Then the bumper stickers start, the hostility blossoms and the fight is on. Where did I read this quote? "The farther a community moves away from the truth, the more they are offended by hearing it."
If it means anything, the oil industry and agriculture fight the same battles.
Quote from: dbacksfan 2.0 on December 06, 2013, 01:23:43 PM
I told my dad who is a fan of Chris Matthews/MSNBC that I was going to get him books from Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly for Christmas. (Can I say Christmas here, or should I say 'Festivus'?)
I heard Glenn Beck has a new book out too.
:D
Quote from: dbacksfan 2.0 on December 06, 2013, 01:23:43 PM
I told my dad who is a fan of Chris Matthews/MSNBC that I was going to get him books from Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly for Christmas. (Can I say Christmas here, or should I say 'Festivus'?)
I beat you. I bought my Hannity style conservative brother in law a copy of, "Jimmy Carter, Gentleman Peanut Farmer" last Christmas. He loved it.
Quote from: AquaMan on December 06, 2013, 01:22:00 PM
They actually had to get a woman with a key to unlock the controls to change the channel.
Just curious. What channel did they change to and did it meet with your approval?
Quote from: AquaMan on December 06, 2013, 01:31:15 PM
I beat you. I bought my Hannity style conservative brother in law a copy of, "Jimmy Carter, Gentleman Peanut Farmer" last Christmas. He loved it.
Jimmy Carter isn't really a bad person. He was just not that great a President. I do think he has sometimes meddled where he shouldn't have a bit though.
Quote from: Red Arrow on December 06, 2013, 01:31:44 PM
Just curious. What channel did they change to and did it meet with your approval?
I vaguely remember that we moved it to what used to be referred to as the History Channel. And no, nothing meets my approval!
Quote from: Hoss on December 06, 2013, 01:18:24 PM
Those and my mother has now got me hooked on DIY...oh and Discovery ID.
There needs to be a beer network.
Quote from: Conan71 on December 06, 2013, 01:34:09 PM
There needs to be a beer network.
I'd lose my job if that were the case.
Quote from: Red Arrow on December 06, 2013, 01:33:15 PM
Jimmy Carter isn't really a bad person. He was just not that great a President. I do think he has sometimes meddled where he shouldn't have a bit though.
Agreed. Each president has to be judged by the major issues of his time and how he handled them. The last really good presidents by those criteria might have been Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower and (arguably) Kennedy.
Carter kind of carried some Southern Baptist flavor to his post presidential activities.
Quote from: Conan71 on December 06, 2013, 01:34:09 PM
There needs to be a beer network.
http://tunein.com/radio/Beer-OClock-p192614/ (http://tunein.com/radio/Beer-OClock-p192614/)
Quote from: dbacksfan 2.0 on December 06, 2013, 01:46:40 PM
http://tunein.com/radio/Beer-OClock-p192614/ (http://tunein.com/radio/Beer-OClock-p192614/)
Hah!
Quote from: Hoss on December 06, 2013, 01:34:41 PM
I'd lose my job if that were the case.
You might find a new one.
;D