General Political Thread

[JUDE]

PBO me, ASAP

[Guest Don Draper]

The right sits there cracking jokes about this current threat, even some going as far as saying it is a made up distraction. But if there was an attack you know that right would be calling for PBO's head because he didn't do anything. It smacks of hypocrisy.

So does the left. And the middle. And pundits, who seem to be on no discernable, coherent side. Human nature to be hypocritical.

 

And face it, the Yourube crack was funny. Some angry doinks find an obscure video from some yahoo and fire a rocket at an Embassy blaming the whole U.S. and the whole U.S. lobbing blame at them and a Secretary of State (note how I typed that whole title out, and on my phone , no less) for using one WORD over another.

 

So, not ha-ha funny, but a morbidly humorous critique of the state of things.

[Atticus]

I'm still surprised no one bombed anything in response to my pre-2010 YouTube video posting.

[NoJ]

Anyone else like that youtube video that started the ruckass? I laughed and laughed.

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

So does the left. And the middle. And pundits, who seem to be on no discernable, coherent side. Human nature to be hypocritical.

 

And face it, the Yourube crack was funny. Some angry doinks find an obscure video from some yahoo and fire a rocket at an Embassy blaming the whole U.S. and the whole U.S. lobbing blame at them and a Secretary of State (note how I typed that whole title out, and on my phone , no less) for using one WORD over another.

 

So, not ha-ha funny, but a morbidly humorous critique of the state of things.

 

...I like this guy

[KevinG]

So does the left. And the middle. And pundits, who seem to be on no discernable, coherent side. Human nature to be hypocritical.

 

And face it, the Yourube crack was funny. Some angry doinks find an obscure video from some yahoo and fire a rocket at an Embassy blaming the whole U.S. and the whole U.S. lobbing blame at them and a Secretary of State (note how I typed that whole title out, and on my phone , no less) for using one WORD over another.

 

So, not ha-ha funny, but a morbidly humorous critique of the state of things.

 

It is so ridiculous that an acceptable way to defend something is, "well the other guys do it too so it is ok."  It is childish. 

 

Yes I understand it is human nature to be hypocritical.  I know the left does it all the time and the right.  But does that make it ok?  No.

 

The point I am trying to make is that I wished there was some intellectually constancy with what people say and the actions they take.  Simple as that.  

 

I admitted I used Tweedling comments as a straw man to bring up the point of the hypocrisy of the right on this issue and pointed the finger directly at him (which was not the proper thing to do).  So in the grand scheme of things his comments doesn't really matter, funny or not.  

 

And seriously you all have a problem with me using PBO?  Whatever on that one.   

[Sir Stewart]

And seriously you all have a problem with me using PBO?  Whatever on that one.   

 

Whenever I read PBO in your posts, I feel like you put your dick in my ear.

[Tweedling]

I missed the White House briefing Monday but i DID catch The Tonight Show last night.

[lamradio]

Whenever I read PBO in your posts, I feel like you put your dick in my ear.

 

Now thats what I call an ear full!  

 

Shark Week! 

[caliber66]

Penis beim Ohr - I did not realize KevinG was German.

[Oil Can Boyd]

Sean Hannity v. Ryan Adams:

 

http://www.stereogum.com/1428872/sean-hannity-blasts-ryan-adams-following-twitter-spat/franchises/wheres-the-beef/

[Tweedling]

PBO is cool with me

[Atticus]

Sean Hannity v. Ryan Adams:

 

http://www.stereogum.com/1428872/sean-hannity-blasts-ryan-adams-following-twitter-spat/franchises/wheres-the-beef/

 

the switch from the tweets to his guests is just priceless.  thanks for a good morning laugh.

[Sir Stewart]

Miss Oklahoma!

[Guest Don Draper]

It is so ridiculous that an acceptable way to defend something is, "well the other guys do it too so it is ok."  It is childish. 

 

Yes I understand it is human nature to be hypocritical.  I know the left does it all the time and the right.  But does that make it ok?  No.

 

The point I am trying to make is that I wished there was some intellectually constancy with what people say and the actions they take.  Simple as that.  

 

 

The whole world is hypocritical, and the whole world finds intellectual constancy elusive - that's exactly why it's so easy for politicians and pundits to pick on administrations.  The intersection of "no new taxes" and a budget crisis.  When you single Tweedling out for his inconsistency (or, his consistency sprinkled with humor, off-color though it may be), you're holding him to the same impossible standard that he is (or anyone is) when they're critiquing the words/actions of an elected official.

 

Ending hypocrisy one message board poster at a time shouldn't be your burden to carry.

I always thought that sweet Anna-Marie had a good head on her shoulders.

[uncool2pillow]

I follow Ryan Adams and tried to figure out why he & Hannity were all up in each other's panties, but couldn't.  This is ridiculous.

[KevinG]

The whole world is hypocritical, and the whole world finds intellectual constancy elusive - that's exactly why it's so easy for politicians and pundits to pick on administrations. The intersection of "no new taxes" and a budget crisis. When you single Tweedling out for his inconsistency (or, his consistency sprinkled with humor, off-color though it may be), you're holding him to the same impossible standard that he is (or anyone is) when they're critiquing the words/actions of an elected official.

 

Ending hypocrisy one message board poster at a time shouldn't be your burden to carry.

 

I always thought that sweet Anna-Marie had a good head on her shoulders.

Never said I was trying to end hypocrisy, just pointing it out and the inconsistencies of the right was all am trying to do. I have posted several times in this conversation that I was not signaling out tweedling but using his comments as a spring board.

 

I think it important to point out hypocrisy in all forms. I would hope others do the same. Hypocrisy is not ok.

[Guest Don Draper]

Well, you've got a full dance card then.

[JUDE]

"Obligatory page 78 PBO"

[Guest Don Draper]

May god bless you and keep you.

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

I missed the White House briefing Monday but i DID catch The Tonight Show last night.

 

I missed our celebrity in chief...was he promoting his new movie? His new CD?

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

Never said I was trying to end hypocrisy, just pointing it out and the inconsistencies of the right was all am trying to do. I have posted several times in this conversation that I was not signaling out tweedling but using his comments as a spring board.

 

I think it important to point out hypocrisy in all forms. I would hope others do the same. Hypocrisy is not ok.

 

You must be really fun at cocktail parties.

[lost highway]

And here's where I feel federal budget woes should be pinching the Pentagon first:

 

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/08/08/209878158/egypt-may-not-need-fighter-jets-but-u-s-keeps-sending-them-anyway

 

I mean, I'm all for putting Americans to work, but if we're going to spend a billion, why give Egypt another 200 tanks to rust in their lot with over a 1,000.  We could be building high-speed rail with that money.  Criminey.  Someone once said something about some kind of military industrial something-or-other complex:

 

[KevinG]

You must be really fun at cocktail parties.

Especially when I stick my dick in people's ears.

[Hixter]

And here's where I feel federal budget woes should be pinching the Pentagon first:

 

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/08/08/209878158/egypt-may-not-need-fighter-jets-but-u-s-keeps-sending-them-anyway

That's not Pentagon money that's being spent. It's the State Department -- complain to John Kerry.

 

 

I mean, I'm all for putting Americans to work, but if we're going to spend a billion, why give Egypt another 200 tanks to rust in their lot with over a 1,000.  

It's not as if a thousand tanks are a ridiculously large number -- in the 1973 war Egypt fielded almost 2000 tanks. In the 1991 Gulf War, the U.S. and its allies drove 1500 tanks into Iraq when the ground war started.

 

 

 

We could be building high-speed rail with that money.

 

It's easy to get starry eyed when a billion dollars is mentioned, but it's not all that much money in the grand scheme of things. California's high-speed rail project is estimated to cost $100 billion if it ever gets built -- and that's only one state. It would cost trillions to build a nationwide rail system across the country.