Fox News Suspends Two Commentators for Crude Anti-Obama Rhetoric On-Air

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The only difference between what Peters and Dash said and Fox News’ normal fare is the crude language. In every other respect, this is absolutely standard Fox News rhetoric: Fox News suspends two commentators for profanity while criticizing Obama.

It’s just one more indicator of how debased and extreme the right wing media have become. They suspend these two, but it’s wink-wink nudge-nudge when Fox commentator Eric Bolling makes blatantly racist comments like, “Obama’s chugging 40s” and “inviting hoods to the hizzouse.”

Ralph Peters, a Fox News “strategic analyst,” called the president a “total pu—-” who “doesn’t want to hurt our enemies.”

A couple of hours later Stacey Dash, a Fox contributor, said the president “didn’t give a sh—” about Sunday night’s terrorism speech.

“Earlier today, Fox contributors Lt. Col. Ralph Peters and Stacey Dash made comments on different programs that were completely inappropriate and unacceptable for our air,” Fox senior executive vice president Bill Shine said.

“Fox Business Network and Fox News Channel do not condone the use of such language, and have suspended both Peters and Dash for two weeks,” he said.

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darthstar  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:05:51pm
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Kid A  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:06:54pm

Notice they were SUSPENDED, not fired.

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darthstar  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:06:54pm

Two weeks? For language inappropriate? How about for blatant disrpespect for the Presidency?

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Kragar  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:07:11pm

“We don’t disagree with the substance of what they said, but the words they used were over the line.”

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Brian J.  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:09:08pm

re: #4 Kragar

“We don’t disagree with the substance of what they said, but the words they used were over the line.”

Dare we hope that they see Hillary leading every Republican in nearly every poll, and Obama’s approval rating turning positive, and realizing that they’ve backed themselves into a corner?

No, of course not. But they still can’t openly declare themselves White Christian Supremacist News yet. That’s a good thing even if they’re getting respect they haven’t earned.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:09:38pm

offensive form only is what is condemned here - offensive content is not only commonplace at foxnews, but encouraged

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Kragar  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:11:30pm

“The President is a Secret Muslim homosexual pedophile who wants to kill real Americans and turn the US into a Caliphate run by the UN!”
“Agreed!”
“And he’s a total pussy!”
“LANGUAGE! FETCH ME MY CLUTCHING PEARLS!”

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De Kolta Chair  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:11:44pm
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jaunte  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:12:07pm

“Fox Business Network and Fox News Channel do not condone the use of such language”

“YOU HAVE TO USE THE CODE.”

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wrenchwench  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:12:08pm

Is this the pussy thread?

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Kid A  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:12:39pm

Fox News management right now.

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jaunte  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:13:23pm
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:13:44pm

re: #3 darthstar

Two weeks? For language inappropriate? How about for blatant disrpespect for the Presidency?

That only applies during a GOP presidency, and only in times when the GOP president is severely conservative.

//

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Ian G.  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:14:26pm

It’s also FOX SOP to have their “experts” be former Hollywood D-listers and some senile old man who liked it better when the blacks knew their place.

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KGxvi  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:16:23pm

re: #3 darthstar

theyz weren’t disrahspecten the presidency… just the guy currently in the office, you know that gawd dammed, no good…

And now a word from our sponsors…

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:16:44pm
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Mike Lamb  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:16:54pm

Fox News has a standard. Who knew?

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Ian G.  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:16:55pm

Over/under on the size of the Tsunami of angry calls they’ll get for such an act of “political correctness”.

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Kragar  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:18:24pm

Meanwhile, Carrie Fisher is awesome:

she replied to journalist Michael Calia’s observation that “There’s been some debate recently about whether there should be no more merchandise with you in the ‘Return of the Jedi’ bikini” with a terse, “I think that’s stupid.” She added, The father who flipped out about it, ‘What am I going to tell my kid about why she’s in that outfit?’ Tell them that a giant slug captured me and forced me to wear that stupid outfit, and then I killed him because I didn’t like it. And then I took it off. Backstage.”

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:19:44pm

Trump doing what Trump do==>

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Charles Johnson  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:20:31pm

Breitbart’s audience of knuckle-dragging goons absolutely loved Stacy Dash’s profanity, of course. (They also want to fuck her.)

breitbart.com

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:20:49pm

And it’s not like they need to as this was on cable, where such stuff is allowed. Had this been OTA, that would have been a different story.

And, I hope everyone realizes, Fox News does NOT have a Free-to-Air Nationwide News broadcast, unlike NBC, CBS, or ABC. That way, they can’t get an FCC license pulled as there is no way they’d ever allow their likes of Hannity, O’Reilley, etc. to ever hit the public airwaves, even at zero-dark-thirty.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:22:16pm

re: #20 The Vicious Babushka

Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States

when even ted cruz condemns his suggestion, trump’s followers should realize that trump is merely trolling them

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Kid A  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:22:26pm

Perhaps?

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jaunte  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:23:00pm

re: #21 Charles Johnson

Dash said, “It’s ridiculous. His speech was an epic fail. It was like when you have to go to dinner with your parents, but you have a party to go to afterwards, that’s what it felt like. He was just trying to get thorough it because he wanted to go to this event afterwords.

More of that expert Breitbart copy proofing.

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b_sharp  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:24:03pm

RWNJs are in love with the narrative. Substance means nothing to them, it’s all about how it looks & makes them feel.

But they consider liberals to be the emotional ones.

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KGxvi  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:24:28pm

re: #22 Eric The Fruit Bat

yeah, but basic cable channels still tend to adhere to FCC standards, because of sponsors or something… which is why Jon Stewart was regularly bleeped on the Daily Show.

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Kragar  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:25:05pm

re: #21 Charles Johnson

Breitbart’s audience of knuckle-dragging goons absolutely loved Stacy Dash’s profanity, of course. (They also want to fuck her.)

breitbart.com

How exactly does one have sex while on a rascal scooter?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:25:07pm

re: #21 Charles Johnson

Breitbart’s audience of knuckle-dragging goons absolutely loved Stacy Dash’s profanity, of course. (They also want to fuck her.)

breitbart.com

They’d have to remember to say “Radical Islamic Terrorism” or they’d never get it up.

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Mike Lamb  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:25:13pm

re: #20 The Vicious Babushka

Trump doing what Trump do==>

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It’s like a poorly written column from the Onion.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:25:21pm

re: #27 KGxvi

yeah, but basic cable channels still tend to adhere to FCC standards, because of sponsors or something… which is why Jon Stewart was regularly bleeped on the Daily Show.

And South Park.

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Testy Toad T  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:25:23pm

I wonder if Republicans even accept the basic premise that there are some problems that are really hard to solve and may not have a nice tidy answer.

That sort of requires you to think about the problem from several angles. I’m thinking they might actually not. They may actually not accept the premise that some problems cannot be solved simply or easily.

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jaunte  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:25:49pm

re: #20 The Vicious Babushka

Trump doing what Trump do==>

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:26:40pm

re: #24 Kid A

Perhaps?

UNPROFESSIONAL BUT ACCURATE!!!!

/

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:27:16pm
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:27:25pm

re: #33 jaunte

Challenge Accepted!!!1

/

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:27:48pm
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Dr. Matt  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:28:50pm

Fox….Klassy as ever.

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Kid A  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:29:51pm

If I were Obama I’d ban Fox from the White House grounds and instruct my staff to ignore them completely. No interviews, no q&a, nothing. And I mean that. Fuck that piece of shit network.

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No Depression  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:29:56pm

I hate that Ralph Peters douche. He has this really annoying nasally voice and always goes on pretentious long-winded monologues full of anti-Obama derp. He’s just awful all around.

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Tigger2  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:30:01pm

re: #19 Kragar

Meanwhile, Carrie Fisher is awesome:

The dog in that is awesome haha

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De Kolta Chair  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:30:09pm

Flippin’ omelette alert======>

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Dr. Matt  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:31:15pm

If Stacey Dash insulted Trump, the right would be calling her a “ghetto queen” and a “thug”.

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No Depression  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:31:24pm

re: #42 De Kolta Chair

Huh?

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I think he’s trying to say Americans have egg on their face. Total fail at being clever.

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KGxvi  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:31:57pm

re: #31 The Vicious Babushka

it’s weird, since I went to appletv, I watch SP via hulu now, and they don’t bleep stuff. It took me a few episodes to realize something was different.

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wrenchwench  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:32:00pm

re: #32 Testy Toad T

I wonder if Republicans even accept the basic premise that there are some problems that are really hard to solve and may not have a nice tidy answer.

That sort of requires you to think about the problem from several angles. I’m thinking they might actually not. They may actually not accept the premise that some problems cannot be solved simply or easily.

The Republicans are one of those problems.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:32:30pm

re: #42 De Kolta Chair

Flippin’ omelette alert======>

Howie Kurtz thinks he’s pretty clever….

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jaunte  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:32:36pm

re: #42 De Kolta Chair

They don’t seem to be following the news.

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No Country For Old Haters  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:33:08pm

re: #42 De Kolta Chair

Huh?

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Wingnuts live in a media-created alternate reality where being awful is considered a virtue, and being able to think is considered to be weak. They’re morons.

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Kragar  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:33:32pm

re: #42 De Kolta Chair

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:33:40pm

re: #48 jaunte

They don’t seem to be following the news.

These attacks against ISIS leaders are a distraction from the war on ISIS.

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jaunte  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:34:52pm

re: #51 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

If Stacy Dash doesn’t feel safe, we have failed and must wear the omelette.

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KGxvi  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:35:35pm

re: #42 De Kolta Chair

I love that he doesn’t censor “pussy” or “shit” but goes with “flippin” over “fuckin”

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Dr. Matt  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:36:22pm
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Kragar  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:36:25pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:36:52pm

re: #50 Kragar

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Could be worse…we could be wearing quiche.

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Kragar  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:37:05pm

re: #54 Dr. Matt

So, basically like every other gun humping shit for brains before they go nuts.

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Belafon  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:37:13pm

re: #53 KGxvi

I love that he doesn’t censor “pussy” or “shit” but goes with “flippin” over “fuckin”

I use “n*****” in context (usually when quoting someone else), but would never say it on my own.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:37:34pm
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Dr. Matt  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:37:48pm

re: #57 Kragar

So, basically like every other gun humping shit for brains before they go nuts.

Everyone stay away from Erick son of Erick

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No Country For Old Haters  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:37:50pm

re: #55 Kragar

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Tigger2  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:38:35pm

re: #42 De Kolta Chair

Flippin’ omelette alert======>

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I think he mistake that laughing sound the world is making is going towards the President when really it’s the world laughing at the Republicans.

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jaunte  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:39:25pm
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Ian G.  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:39:50pm

re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth

We might be soon. I imagine that Pam Geller isn’t alone on the right in lionizing Ratko Mladic.

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KGxvi  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:39:59pm

re: #58 Belafon

It’s just funny because I’d’ve figured Kurtz would have done “pu—-” and “sh—” or some such instead of typing them out. Just interesting where some people draw the very arbitrary lines on word usage.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:40:34pm

She seems nice==>

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Dr. Matt  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:41:17pm
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Ian G.  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:41:38pm

re: #48 jaunte

Reality has no place in the wingnut mind. Otherwise, the disappearing glaciers of Glacier National Park might have them asking themselves whether there might be something to the climate change “hoax”.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:41:56pm
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Jack Burton  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:42:55pm

re: #68 Ian G.

Reality has no place in the wingnut mind. Otherwise, the disappearing glaciers of Glacier National Park might have them asking themselves whether there might be something to the climate change “hoax”.

But it snowed today… somewhere!!!11!

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jaunte  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:43:52pm
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Shiplord Kirel  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:44:09pm

re: #48 jaunte

They don’t seem to be following the news.

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How the 21st century right would have reacted to the flag-raising on Iwo Jima:

Limbaugh: “Stalin is at the gates of Berlin while our state controlled media stages a photo op on a godforsaken rock somewhere.”
Mark Levin: “That big fat idiot Roosevelt is doing nothing, nothing I tell you! Now, Stalin, that’s a real manly man!”
Alex Jones: “False flag!”

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:44:21pm

re: #32 Testy Toad T

I wonder if Republicans even accept the basic premise that there are some problems that are really hard to solve and may not have a nice tidy answer.

That sort of requires you to think about the problem from several angles. I’m thinking they might actually not. They may actually not accept the premise that some problems cannot be solved simply or easily.

Conservatism today is all about binary thinking, and that encourages the belief in, and expectation of simple answers.

For example, “What does ISIS want?”

A reasonable answer points to the their desire to have Western societies isolate and alienate their Muslim populations, so that those Muslims turn to ISIS, and to that end they employ terror to encourage us to hate and fear all Muslims.

The Conservative answer is, “To kill us!”

So how do you deal with ISIS?

A reasonable answer is to attack them militarily where you can do so cleanly to avoid civilian casualties; to utilize whatever intelligence capabilities you have to catch terror plots before they can be put into action; and to make sure Muslim populations in the West and elsewhere see us as a friend, not an enemy.

The Conservative answer is, “Carpet bomb them! Send in the ground troops! Stop worrying so much about civilian casualties! KILL! KILL! KILL!!!” with no memory of how well that worked for us before, and no thought to what people whose families we’ve just killed might want to do to us on that account.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:44:59pm

re: #49 No Country For Old Haters

Wingnuts live in a media-created alternate reality where being awful is considered a virtue, and being able to think is considered to be weak. They’re morons.

The Common Clay of the New West?
//

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:45:17pm

I can’t wait for The Donald to receive a call from Old Man Rupert himself, telling him that one of his board members, Al-Waleed Bin Talal bin Abdulaziz al Saud (who is a board member of News Corporation) doesn’t take too kindly to Mr. Trump rhetoric and religious bigotry.

What’s next, Trump saying we won’t allow Emirates, Ethiad, Qatar and Saudia to land flights in the US?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:45:48pm

re: #72 Shiplord Kirel

How the 21st century right would have reacted to the flag-raising on Iwo Jima:

Limbaugh: “Stalin is at the gates of Berlin while our state controlled media stages a photo op on a godforsaken rock somewhere.”
Mark Levin: “That big fat idiot Roosevelt is doing nothing, nothing I tell you! Now, Stalin, that’s a real manly man!”
Alex Jones: “False flag!”

And, for once in his life, Jones would be something like right.

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jaunte  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:46:15pm
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Tigger2  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:48:15pm
haha
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De Kolta Chair  Dec 7, 2015 • 1:48:58pm

re: #44 No Depression

I think he’s trying to say Americans have egg on their face. Total fail at being clever.

Thanks, I thought it was a new fad.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 7, 2015 • 2:00:23pm

re: #79 De Kolta Chair

Thanks, I thought it was a new fad.

Didn’t want’ to be the last to don a frittata?

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Rocky-in-Connecticut  Dec 7, 2015 • 2:39:03pm

Hmmm…next, will Trump call for national ID Cards based on religion? Similar to ID cards common in some Muslim countries? How is one supposed to know if one is Muslim or not upon entering the country?

These people do not want “freedom” in the traditional American sense. They want their own exclusive Christian Theocracy complete with easily identifiable
Indicators like an ID card system of someone’s personal beliefs. In other words, they want their own Christian Saudi Arabia.

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surlymarv  Dec 7, 2015 • 2:56:35pm

Not too surprising this language came out of the mouth of a guy whose name also means Vomit Dicks.


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