Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[rjs246]

Krugman.

[Munson]

So, after Jon Stewart called out Meghan Kelly for the nazi stuff, Bill O'reilly went on the defensive a little bit.

And that was a mistake because Stewart nailed him/Fox even harder

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-january-27-2011/bill-o-reilly-defends-his-nazi-analogies

[Munson]

New Rule: With the Super Bowl only a week away, Americans must realize what makes NFL football so great: socialism. That's right, for all the F-15 flyovers and flag waving, football is our most successful sport because the NFL takes money from the rich teams and gives it to the poor teams... just like President Obama wants to do with his secret army of ACORN volunteers. Green Bay, Wisconsin has a population of 100,000. Yet this sleepy little town on the banks of the farg-if-I-know River has just as much of a chance of making it to the Super Bowl as the New York Jets - who next year need to just shut the hell up and play.

Now, me personally, I haven't watched a Super Bowl since 2004, when Janet Jackson's nipple popped out during half time, and that split-second glimpse of an unrestrained black titty burned my eyes and offended me as a Christian. But I get it - who doesn't love the spectacle of juiced-up millionaires giving each other brain damage on a giant flat-screen TV with a picture so realistic it feels like Ben Roethlisberger is in your living room, grabbing your sister?

It's no surprise that some 100 million Americans will watch the Super Bowl next week - that's 40 million more than go to church on Christmas - suck on that, Jesus! It's also 85 million more than watched the last game of the World Series, and in that is an economic lesson for America. Because football is built on an economic model of fairness and opportunity, and baseball is built on a model where the rich almost always win and the poor usually have no chance. The World Series is like Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. You have to be a rich bitch just to play. The Super Bowl is like Tila Tequila. Anyone can get in.

Or to put it another way, football is more like the Democratic philosophy. Democrats don't want to eliminate capitalism or competition, but they'd like it if some kids didn't have to go to a crummy school in a rotten neighborhood while others get to go to a great school and their Dad gets them into Harvard. Because when that happens "achieving the American dream" is easy for some, and just a fantasy for others.

That's why the NFL runs itself in a way that would fit nicely on Glenn Beck's chalkboard - they literally share the wealth, through salary caps and revenue sharing - TV is their biggest source of revenue, and they put all of it in a big commie pot and split it 32 ways. Because they don't want anyone to fall too far behind. That's why the team that wins the Super Bowl picks last in the next draft. Or what the Republicans would call "punishing success."

Baseball, on the other hand, is exactly like the Republicans, and I don't just mean it's incredibly boring. I mean their economic theory is every man for himself. The small market Pittsburgh Steelers go to the Super Bowl more than anybody - but the Pittsburgh Pirates? Levi Johnston has sperm that will not grow up and live long enough to see the Pirates in a World Series. Their payroll is about $40 million, and the Yankees is $206 million. They have about as much chance at getting in the playoffs as a poor black teenager from Newark has of becoming the CEO of Halliburton. That's why people stop going to Pirate games in May, because if you're not in the game, you become indifferent to the fate of the game, and maybe even get bitter - that's what's happening to the middle class in America. It's also how Marie Antoinette lost her head.

So, you kind of have to laugh - the same angry white males who hate Obama because he's "redistributing wealth" just love football, a sport that succeeds economically because it does exactly that. To them, the NFL is as American as hot dogs, Chevrolet, apple pie, and a second, giant helping of apple pie. But then again, they think they're macho because their sport is football, when honestly - is there anything gayer than wearing another man's shirt?

Maher FTW

[phattymatty]

Fox News graphic from over the weekend

[smeags]

 

[MDS]

its just easier to assume its that way

cant fault simpleton repubs

[phattymatty]

One of the best paragraphs I've read in a log time...

Look around. Do you see anyone who should be "proud of their life so far"? Of course not. The few people alive who could be proud of their lives are not proud people, so by definition those who claim to be proud of their lives should actually be deeply embarrassed and constantly ashamed of their shoddy, meaningless shuffle toward the assisted-care facility. What we mean, of course, is that the new dadaist poll of American Attitudes by CBS/Vanity Fair informs us that a whopping 92% of the people who take these polls are super proud of themselves, thus far. And why not?! They're the dumbest humans in the industrialized world, they're crippled by both debt and obesity, and they spend an average of 35 hours a week watching broadcast television and basic cable — leaving only 133 hours each week for watching Netflix and HBO and Showtime and Cinemax and updating their status ("eating something") on Facebook and flipping through catalogs while sitting on the toilet and going through the drive-thru again for "fourthmeal" and opening up collection agency notices and reading about Charlie Sheen pooping on a hooker or whatever. Also: Americans don't know what this "WikiLeaks" is all about. Did it get on Charlie Sheen's hooker?

The shocking results that will change your life forever:

    Many Americans are not sure what WikiLeaks is; most aren't interested in Prince William and Kate Middleton's April wedding; more than half the country knows exactly who New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is, enhancing his presidential potential ....

    Other attitudes gleaned from the poll: Sixty-nine percent of Americans feel they are not paid what they're worth; 92 percent say they are proud of their lives so far ....

    Forty-two percent of those polled say they are not sure what WikiLeaks is ....

    The wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton will be an inescapable media event this spring. But how much do Americans care? Little. Sixty-five percent say they aren't interested in any of the details. Twenty-one percent say they are interested in some of it, and a small number (9 percent) say they are only interested in whether the marriage will last. Only 4 percent want to know all of the wedding details, and wish they could go.

[MDS]

where is that from and am i supposed to be feel like less of a person for still not caring about princess william's wedding to whatsherface

[General_Failure]

No, I think scientists in the 40s said you don't have to worry about that.

[Munson]

Republicans say no again

http://www.theonion.com/articles/republicans-vote-to-repeal-obamabacked-bill-that-w,19025/

[smeags]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110204/ap_on_re_us/us_reagan_palin

[ice grillin you]

ronnie jr is a super liberal and a good cat

[rjs246]

The pathology of repeal.

[phillymic2000]

Fox News graphic from over the weekend

LOL!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1gwtPpfX14

I wish he would run for office. Could you imagine him in Congress!! it would be amazing!! "You don't farg with that kind of evil" So many great lines! "Iran, Iran, Iran, Iraq!!!"

[Diomedes]

white people dying out

Republicans sad, scared

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/05/us/05census.html?_r=1&hp