Just had dinner in the hotel restaurant, and because God hates me, one of the tv’s had the always disgusting Sean Hannity on, prattling on with Marsha Blackburn about Keith Jennings. Fortunately the sound was off, but the graphics were great:
New Details Emerge about Safe Schools CZAR!
Land of Czars!
The last time I saw Marsha Blackburn, she was in whole hog on the Death panels bullshit.
It just never, ever stops with these people. Ever.
cleek
why stop? bullshit sells.
Zam
Perhaps Obama should appoint a Czars Czar to help end the controversy.
JK
Disturbing headlines
Fox News altered ‘Obama praise’ story to exclude ‘death threats’
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/09/fox-news-deleted-mention-of-death-threats-against-principal
N.E.A. SPOKESCOMMISSAR YOSI SARGENT has resigned
http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/85694
John, is there any chance that the search function for Balloon Juice could some day be upgraded to allow for keyword searching within the comments sections and also searching within date ranges?
General Winfield Stuck
@JK:
WE used to have that in the form of a dictionary function, but nolo more.
bey
What you need is the Ninja Remote
El Cid
Jesus Christ Super Czar!
Dr. I. F. Stone
It’s probably just like you describe in such God-awful places as West Virginia and the like. Dipshits and hicks everywhere one looks and goes.
tc125231
Declining civilizations are always full of arsewipes selling phony nostrums for mis-diagnosed ills.
Welcome to the fall of Rome.
Deschanel
What’s the etiquette these days, if you go into a bar or restaurant and they have FOX news unavoidably visible and audible?
I think I would kick up a stink if I had to eat while hearing or seeing Sean Hannity while i’m spending money in the place. And i’m one of those people who never ever complain in a restaurant. Partially for fear of spit in my food, but also just manners, servers have a tough job and i hate to complain about anything. But being exposed to FOX might do it. Politely ask them to change the channel- I might do that. or just walk out, find another place. An establishment showing FOX would definitely make me question giving them my business.
Warren Terra
er – never mind this comment. I’ve edited its contents away.
(If you saw it during the three minutes it was up, it was a proposed way to search temporally restricted parts of the Balloon Juice Archive, a method I’ve used successfully for other sites – but I just actually tested it, and for some reason it didn’t work. Sorry).
(P.S. more details: I was using a “site” argument in a Google query, but the question mark in Balloon Juice’s URL’s fouls it up. Oy.)
HRA
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/25/stabenow-kyl-maternity/
Check this out. Kyl wanted to eliminate maternity care in the health reform package. I was surprised that some health insurers do not provide it now.
I thought Republicans were solidly pro-life. ???
General Winfield Stuck
Pro Fetus is more like it. The unborn are numero uno fund raisers. Momma is expendable.
TenguPhule
Life ends at birth.
JK
@Deschanel:
I think the easiest solution is to just walk out and take your business elswhere. Hurting the bar or restaurant in their pocketbook is your best revenge.
Warren Terra
@ HRA, #11
We discussed Kyl a bit in the previous thread.
Ash Can
@General Winfield Stuck:
So is the fetus if it means requiring an insurance company to spend a few bucks on prenatal care.
General Winfield Stuck
@Ash Can:
, As long as it wasn’t aborted, the money still rolls in.
am watching tarkovsky solaris.
EnderWiggin
@Warren Terra:
Hopefully John is getting the normal SEO (search engine optimization) package added, which would give proper URLs and would address this.
Warren Terra
And, no doubt, a pony.
gnomedad
@Deschanel:
We have the technology.
slag
I’ve tried to make it all stop by eliminating my television reception and avoiding restaurants/bars with televisions. I’m even limiting my interwebs consumption these days, which officially means I’m now traversing through time backwards. So, when I start writing all my comments in Middle English, I’ll know I’ve succeeded in making it all stop. A pyrrhic victory, sure, but I’ll take what I can get.
Something Fabulous
have you read Calvin Trillin’s “Tummy Trilogy,” collected essays about food he learned about while on the road so much as a reporter during the 70’s? One of his first rules: Don’t Eat at the Hotel…
mandarama
I know she’s not as crazy as Bachmann or King, y’all, but I still deserve your pity–Blackburn is my congresscritter and I live right in her stronghold. I call her office frequently, to weigh in on various issues and tell the receptionist “I want to remind Congresswoman Blackburn that many of her constituents would appreciate real work instead of cheap talking points and media grandstanding.” That receptionist hates me.
Deschanel
Gnomedad, that is fabulous. Is there an app for that?
;)
Cain
@TenguPhule:
That would make a pretty good ad “Prolife movement, their support ends at birth.”
cain
tripletee
I take bitter consolation from the fact that as Beck’s star has risen, Hannity’s has dimmed. You don’t really hear much about him anymore – he’s Bachmann-level stupid, but without the concomitant level of crazy. In this brave new blackity-black era, that makes him a back-bencher on Murdoch’s Hillbilly Pravda network.
Steeplejack
@General Winfield Stuck:
am watching tarkovsky solaris.
Good viewin’. I love me some Natalya Bondarchuk. (I can even remember her name!) Hey, a sentient planet trying to get acquainted can send her to me anytime. Just sayin’.
Warren Terra
One more reason it’s a shame the iPhone doesn’t have an IR port. I genuinely don’t understand that; with an IR port people’s iPhone could be their remote control for their TV and DVD, and it would make a lot of sense, and it would be one more reason for people to always have their iPhone in their hands. But Apple allegedly thought it would detract from the sleek lines.
Then again, apparently most phones don’t have IR ports these days, including the Android phones I glanced at online just now, and even the new Palm, although once upon a time Palm was quite proud of having IR ports. You’d think the phone makers would realize that there are still a lot of IR devices for a phone with flexible software to talk to.
Paul
I will never understand the appeal of Sean Hannity. He’s such a wimpy, whiny crybaby.
noncarborundum
@Paul: This is, apparently, a big draw among the wimpy, whiny crybaby set.
tc125231
@General Winfield Stuck: Actually, I believe the correct term would be “pro-breeder”. That’s why they are all against birth control.
They won’t be happy until this lovely planet is as decimated as it is in their power to make it become.
Francis
Just tuned into Fox and saw them rehashing the NJ schoolchildren “controversy”. What a joke!
This is much ado about nothing. It’s not like POTUS or the WH had anything to do with it. More nonsense taken out of context in order to create a distraction on behalf of the Repubs.
BTW, this is not unique to Obama. Check out this youtube clip from a Nixon documentary (2:44 minutes into the video).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP_oOJiuvW4&feature=PlayList&p=6AE90595B49D8C31&index=16
Personally I don’t think we should hero worship ANY president. But Jesus wingnuts…get a grip!
Francis
Whoops! Here’s the correct Nixon clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP_oOJiuvW4&feature=PlayList&p=6AE90595B49D8C31&index=16
Francis
One more time
DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)
In my mind, ‘pro-life’ describes people who are against the death penalty. I think ‘pro-birth’ is a better description for those who are against abortion. Pisses off the wingers when I argue this point with them. I point out that they can’t be pro-life and yet call for war. That they can’t be pro-life and for the death penalty.
It’s pro-birth. End of argument. Once it is born they could care less about the kid. If the same kid they fought to prevent being aborted later commits a murder, most of those same so-called pro-lifers will call for the death penalty.
They hate hearing this but I like pointing it out.
Napoleon
In other news from Wingnuttia, Ken Burns is secretly trying to sell us on socialism.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/2009/09/is-ken-burns-a-secret-propagandist-for-socialism.html
c u n d gulag
John,
You should do what I do. I ask them nicely to change the channel and if they say they won’t, I tell them I’ll spend my hard-earned money somewhere else. Goodbye.
That usually works like a charm. And if it doesn’t, I leave. Why should I eat while there’s something on TV that not only makes me lose my appetite, but makes me hurl?
Silver Owl
I do not stay in restaurants that show fox. I like to enjoy my meal and just can’t do that with the substandard level of Fox. Murdoch and Ailes sure do now how to ruin things.
HRA
#15 Warren Terra
The explanation is I left BJ last night after reading this thread last night to see what they had on Memeorandum before I went to bed. I came right back here to offer the url thinking it fit well where I had read Sean Hannity, Marsha Blackburn and Death Panels. It seemed to be a good place to offer what I had found. FYI I read BJ more often than I make remarks or give info. I have noticed it’s not unusual for others to go off subject in other threads. It did realize I was doing anything wrong.
HRA
Correction for last sentence in #39
I did not realize I was doing anything wrong.
Idissent
“God hates me” + “It just never, ever stops with these people. Ever.” = a clue
Evolved Deep Southerner
@HRA: Internet Traditions: You need to brush up, dude.
HRA
Evolved Deep Southerner: Have no clue what you mean. Just trying to be civil to someone who said I did wrong and offering an explanation for why I did it. BTW I am not a “dude”.
gocart moxart
I think Obama should appoint more communists/bolshevicks. You know, to keep the Czars in check. Team of rivals and all that.
Steeplejack
@HRA:
For what it’s worth, I didn’t take Warren Terra’s comment to indicate you were doing anything wrong. He was just pointing you to the discussion in the previous thread. If anything, I thought, he was being helpful.
rachel
@Paul: Beck makes Hannity look like a masculine, manly man’s man.