Ahh I saw that segment earlier on Maddow. Really good response to this birther bullshit.
granted the idea that obama wasn’t born in america is stupid, demanding him to provide proof as if you’re catch him in a lie is significantly more stupid…considering he’s the fucking president and has infinite resources at his disposal to fabricate anything he wants. just for the lols he should’ve “unearthed” a birth certificate placing trump’s birth in canada or some place.
Why cant we just ship all the Birthers to Alaska?
im not blaming any parties… race… etc.
i think honestly… we have lost touch with things around us… when ‘issues’ like this can become front line topics of the day/week/month… it shows we have lost that ability to stay with the serious topics an sensationalize gossip column topics like royal wedding an someone birth certificate… we might as well have a new channel for National Enquirer that u see on stands in grocery stores…
3 wars/fighting
energy issues
defense issues
economy issues
re-election timeline
homeland issues (unions…jobs)
We just have no serious focus and allow anything to distract n we give a name for it to sensationalize it even more (tea party… birther…) WTF… i honestly just give up. Love my country… just think my country is fuccin confused.
But then what would the news cover? Please don’t say the budget, climate science, wars overseas, etc. They’re SO boring.
There isn’t enough face palming that any number of people in one nation can do at this moment…
couldn’t agree more, so many different instances of shep being… you know… reasonable and a true conservative. that being said he’s in a low traffic time-slot as a simple token of “fair and balanced”.
@Cryoh: yeah… that’s pretty dead on.
in a unrelated note, check out this crazy allen west town hall where a constituent is arrested for attempting to ask a follow-up to a pre-screened question (he was only taking pre-screened questions) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKuaI90djrw&feature=feedu
I honestly believe that American society on a whole has reached an impasse. People have always talked about moral decay with the social changes of each decade, whether it be rock ‘n’ roll, civil rights, free love, gay marriage, and other purported “ills”. The media in its exhaustive milling for ratings has distorted what is important and also instills its hyperbolic tendencies onto the American masses. Instead of providing objective coverage, the news now is designed to cater select audiences and supplying them with what they want to hear, or what they believe they want to hear.
Critical thinking and objective analysis have now gone completely by the wayside, and is causing social fissures and political discord that from the looks of things, seem hopelessly beyond repair. To make matters worse, the pseudo-information spewed on partisan sites further poison people’s perceptions, while giving them the reassurance of absorbing “real news”.
Its amazing how some news networks, especially MSNBC ran with this story, it was all they talked about for weeks. And they still are!
I mean, I dont like Obama, I think he is weak and embarreses the USA by apologizing to Europe that we Americans might be ignorant, yeah, because 100,000+ US soldiers are still buried in Europe helping those lazy ass French get rid of the Nazis!! Anyways, the guy himself, Obama, is a clown and has no idea what he is doing.
Not saying Trump or anyway else really does either. But I am sick and tired of hearing the liberal media praise Obama for doing nothing and demonizing those who dont like his stands on certain issues, whatever they may be.
YO DAWG, I HEARD THE PRINCE IS GETTING MARRIED TOMORROW!!! ALRIGHT!!! OMFG WE’RE GONNA HAVE A NEW FUTURE QUEEN OF ENGLAND !!!11111111111111111111!
now i’m a gonna watch some american idolz kthxbai
while i certainly agree with you that obama is very weak, he never stands up to the gop. he starts almost every single debate with them by adopting 75%+ of their position… they immediately move the goal post and use obama’s new position which was allready a huge compromise as the “left” position. meanwhile the actual liberal or progressive position is completely discarded. couple cases in point: healthcare debate, progressives wanted single payer… was that even IN the negotiations? nope. we started by compromising to a public option and then compromised that away.
budget debate right now, do we use the progressive caucus’ budget as the left position and start compromising? nope. Obama takes a stance of a 3/1 ratio of cuts to revenue increases and then that’s the “left” position opposite to paul ryan’s plan.
where i really disagree with you though, where is the liberal media? only ones i know of are a few select talk radio, most shows on msnbc and some blogs/websites. i just can’t see how you justify claiming CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC are liberal.
So I live in Alaska. I just drove past a big SUV with a bumper sticker that read, “Don’t blame me, I voted for the American.”
We have enough of those douchebags here.
Such a conservative thing to say. If you actually watched or listened to the “liberal media” then you would know that many of these people are particularly critical of Obama, on many different issues. For example: caving in to extending Bush tax cuts for the rich, not keeping his promise to reform immigration, improving drilling safety standards, reform on financial institutions, not fully supporting gay marriage, etc. etc. the list goes on.
Faux news isn’t the only media outlet criticizing Obama, they’re just the ones with the biggest, loudest and most obnoxious megaphones.
“Liberal Media” has to be the most overused and cliche’ term I’ve heard in political discussion. Fox News holds umpteen top spots as far as media goes and how Americans receive their news and the airwaves are dominated by Rush/Hannity/Beck/Savage.
i love the fact that conservatives own talk radio even though they have crap ratings. how do they accomplish this? well they PAY the stations to carry these people with carrying fee’s.
money buys our politicians, then buys our media, then buys influence over a huge portion of the population.
You’ll probably here about this new revelation tomorrow more so than the Royal Wedding.
Some people have opened up the PDF in illustrator and found that the document has several layers that will show and hide the birth certificate’s [media=youtube]Pgev9a7VDxY[/media]
But few people are actually looking at this logically and not immediately jumping back on the birther bandwagon. By saying this could be down to using OCR scanning and conversion to PDF.
Yo Trump is a baller, look at what he just did.
Trump: I know other people are bringing up the birth cert, but I’m gonna bring it up again on TV now because I’m Trump. Not born in US blah blah.
White House: Uh, u dumb. Here’s the papers.
Trump: See I’m great at this shit, look what I just did! ONLY Trump can get results like this, people!
Incredible troll imo. God help us if he gets elected somehow though.
Dude, I dont watch Fox News. I watch MSNBC as an entertainment hub, seeing these shows like Rachel Maddow never say a negative thing about the Democrats and only negative things about the GOP is just as bad as anything Fox News can do. Fox News is for conservatives, MSNBC is for liberals. Plain and simple. Yin and Yang of the “news” channels.
Now I just read an article on CNN that Obama is only being called to show his birth certificate because he is half black. Now CNN is going to defend the president by pulling the race card? Really? Make a judgment about the man and the race card is likely to get pulled if you are white. Reverse racism ftl.
There’s a stark difference between making a judgment about the man and just pulling bullshit out of your ass, which is what the birthers and their like are doing. Personally, I’d say it’s less to do with his race and more to do with the simple fact that he’s a democrat, and thus they latched on to whatever they could cling to to discredit him.
But real talk, “reverse racism”? Really now? How about just racism?
That black guy is fucking niggardly ! WHAT? It means stingy, and you thought I was being racist because I mentioned that he’s black (he is! I’m being descriptive) and cheap? YOU’RE the racist!
That’s how birthers sound when they try to pretend it’s not about race.
Of course race is part of it!