Thursday, August 11, 2011

Jon Stewart in Britain

Some of us are deprived of the Daily Show short of watching it on Channel 4.

FWM made a silly comment about censorship, but this has more to do with digital rights and distribution rights than censorship. I can watch it, but not on the Comedy Central Site. That's when the above message shows up for me.

I did catch his piece on Shitzkreig though.

8 comments:

  1. I don't remember the censorship comment but it sounds like something I would do.

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  2. You did indeed, but I won't look it up.

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  3. I believe you. And I am sure it probably isn't worth looking up.

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  4. Now you guys are talking. There's entirely too much "looking up" stuff around here.

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  5. Well, MikeB, with both Laci and I, you get a lot of 'looking up stuff'.

    We're fact based in forming our opinions, and we go for a complex view of life and the world, not the bumper-sticker thinking which drives far too much ideology and too much disinformation - sadly a lot of it on the right, I would dare to say a majority of it.

    I'm personally heartily sick of ignorance and factually false ideology driving our country into hell, be it those who deny evolution, or climate change, or who come up with alternate realities about guns and violence.

    I couldn't think of better poster children for that than the candidates posturing and pouting and spewing bullshit in Iowa this week, and claiming it is truth, justice and the American way, when their idea of how to shove the right wing religious, culture war, failed economic policy, conspiracy driven, exclusionist and xenophobic world view is anything but that.

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  6. "Bumper-sticker thinking"--an example:
    "when their idea of how to shove the right wing religious, culture war, failed economic policy, conspiracy driven, exclusionist and xenophobic world view is anything but that."

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  7. I'll put my abilities to think independently and to provide a factual basis for my positions up against yours any day of the week Tenn Budd, and back it up.

    I don't see YOU doing that, and I don't see the Right wing nuts doing so either.

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  8. TennBudd challenged me on:

    the "right wing religious, culture war, failed economic policy, conspiracy driven, exclusionist and xenophobic world view"

    religious - attempts to eliminate the very scientifically based education in evolution, with the unscientific, religion based creationism and intelligent design teachings;

    culture war - right wing homophobia, as an example, in the Iowa plege that was signed by Santorum, Bachmann and Romney, and supported but not signed by all of the other candidates in Iowa;

    failed economic policy - Reagan trickle-down economics is widely debunked, as is the notion that tax cuts 'grow the economy'; example, the 'corporate tax holiday' in 2004 under 'W', http://www.cbpp.org/files/4-8-11tax.pdf
    or "Hewlett-Packard Co., for instance, returned $14.5 billion to the U.S. at a 5.25 percent tax rate and reduced its workforce by 14,500 employees within a year."

    conspiracy driven - birthers, for starters; the list of other conspiracies promoted by the righ is a long laundry list; anything from Glenn Beck is an excellent example, or Bachmann;

    exclusionist and xenophobic world view - most of the right wing positions on immigration, foreign diplomacy, any of the states trying to pass legislation banning the non-existent threat of sharia law, or the states trying to legislate that English is the only official language

    (DO show me, if you can - and you cannot - WHERE it says in the Constitution that English is our official language or our only language)

    Further the phrase 'exclusionist' would be additionally encompassed by right wing racism....did you need me to identify that for you again? Or were the quotes from yesterday on slavery sufficient?

    Right Wing Bumper Sticker passing for thinking; it is probably an insult to the concept of thought and thought processes to call what the right is promoting 'thinking'.

    I'm guessing that the coward who called me a 'hack' on the subject of economics was unable to understand the economic data in the links I provided.

    I'm still waiting Tenn Budd for you to support the idea that abstinence only sex ed is even remotely successful, in any way.

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