Vinyl Turnip, I don’t know your permanent location, but you have all of the wit and incisiveness of an Alabama boy. I went to that big rockety place in Huntsville and snapped this photo. Gotcha!
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I now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.
The only advice I have for the OP is to do what I do when I allow my husband his two hours a week to watch the Discovery channel: hum show tunes.
If that’s not your thing hum Black Eyed Peas songs or the latest Jonas Brothers ditty. If you really get into it, you won’t notice the latest theory on Rommel’s march to the desert or even that gasbag on the radio.
If they were, how would Boortz get a show?
Thank you. I’ve also been told that I don’t sweat that much for a fat girl.
I started to pop in here yesterday and say “I thought curlcoat doesn’t have any kids!”.
You also hear debt consolidation ads. Dave doesn’t have any control over what commercials the local radio stations air during his show. If I were advertising a debt consolidation program, the one place I would NOT advertise is during Dave’s show, because he is very vocal about his disapproval of such products. You’re not going to reach the right listeners.
It’s interesting that Boortz would choose to compare Muslims to cockroaches. That’s what the Hutus were calling the Tutsis in the lead up the the Rwandan genocide. Interesting that Boortz would choose that specific way to dehumanize a group of people.
Due respect, but this doesn’t really work as an analogy. Colbert’s “Stephen Colbert” character is pure satire, portraying pretty much the polar opposite of Colbert’s actual beliefs and ideology.
Boortz, meanwhile, presents a slightly exaggerated version of himself. Yes, he advises (or used to, at any rate) that he is merely an entertainer and that nothing he says is to be believed without independent confirmation, and he occasionally floats a bullshit story to underscore that point. But it’s clear the vitriol he spews against Obama, the Clintons, Democrats in general, “government” schools, etc. ad nauseum is something he truly feels, as is the naked admiration he holds for the likes of Limbaugh and Hannity.
Of course I could be wrong: he might be the Greatest Troll of All Time, an infiltrator of the highest order, an undercover “made man” at the highest echelon of La Cosa Nostra a Destra, and Andy Kaufman might be gyrating his sequinned hips in his grave… but I doubt it.
I didn’t realize that anybody actually takes that kind of rhetoric SERIOUSLY. I mean, I guess I did know that on some level, but I honestly didn’t realize that they had opposable thumbs and could therefore post on the Internet.
You might, if you’re trying to reach people in need of debt consolidation.
At least, that would appear to be the thinking of the advertisers.
Actually fairly accurate. It’s not the entire city, but most of it.
SWMBO is originally from New Orleans and still has family there. When we go over to visit, we get caught up on the latest doings. When we told them about the family that I mentioned, it sparked a conversation that lasted well over an hour about the fundamental problem in NOLA - people would rather draw welfare than work, and the state won’t cut them off.
Well, if your family had a conversation about it, then it must be true. You’ve shown yourself to be such a perspicacious analyst of American society that i can only wonder at the deep and nuanced discussions you have with the other cro-magnons in your kinship group.
How dare you slander the good name of cro-magnons!
Were any of the people in the room the same ones who collected welfare and refused to work? Or was this just the consensus opinion of a group of people who had never actually met a person on welfare, but were nontheless convinced they are all so lazy they would never consider working?