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If people were to refer to our economy under Bill Clinton as "socialism" they would seemingly get laughed at, yet Obama who seems to have a similar centrist-moderate approach despite some more liberal sounding rhetoric in his speeches, is suddenly "dooming our country with socialism" all because of what exactly, he wants to roll back Bush's tax cuts on the top 2%?

 

Well, it's just going to make the Republicans look like even bigger idiots, since new data is saying that we will start to turn things around economically in the early fall of this year, not in a year or two like some were predicting.

 

Also, somewhat related...I saw a really compelling news story on PBS the other day about Cuba's impending economic boom (oil discoveries and new resorts going up). Any chance Obama could finally open up relations with that country so it's not just Canada and Europe making money off a country 50 miles from our coast?

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Does Jim Cramer on The Daily Show count as "coverage"?

 

Because to my mind Stewart asked tougher questions and posed a more serious stance in his discussions with Cramer than I've ever heard on other news networks.

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Does Jim Cramer on The Daily Show count as "coverage"?

 

Because to my mind Stewart asked tougher questions and posed a more serious stance in his discussions with Cramer than I've ever heard on other news networks.

 

Seeing how more than half the other news shows on cable are more entertainment than hard news, I would say "Yes, absolutely."

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Well, it's just going to make the Republicans look like even bigger idiots, since new data is saying that we will start to turn things around economically in the early fall of this year, not in a year or two like some were predicting.

 

Also, somewhat related...I saw a really compelling news story on PBS the other day about Cuba's impending economic boom (oil discoveries and new resorts going up). Any chance Obama could finally open up relations with that country so it's not just Canada and Europe making money off a country 50 miles from our coast?

 

I see no reason why not. Some of the reasons we haven't opened up relations with some countries are just laughable. Cuba is one of them. Let's be friends.

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Well, hopefully Obama is the kind of president who isn't going to stick to Cold War rhetoric, and will be able not to kowtow to the population of just one major US city.

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Does Jim Cramer on The Daily Show count as "coverage"?

 

Because to my mind Stewart asked tougher questions and posed a more serious stance in his discussions with Cramer than I've ever heard on other news networks.

 

Stewart is taken more seriously by the mainstream press than Olberman, Hannity, and O'Reilly combined.

 

 

Okay, that probably proves nothing.

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Well no shit. All those networks are the pretty representations of moneyed interests, reflecting moneyed interests. They're utterly worthless.

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Guest Czech please!

The Daily Show and Countdown are both tolerated by their moneyed interests because they make money. (At least The Daily Show does. I haven't seen many ads on MSNBC that indicate the inventory is in demand.)

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The Daily Show and Countdown are both tolerated by their moneyed interests because they make money.

 

Czech's having a Howard Zinn moment.

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I'm not saying that Viacom isn't a corporation, but it's like the kid who is so far below the radar in school that he can do whatever he wants.

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You'd think that Glenn Beck is exactly the kind of person Republicans would categorically shun.

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Fox News hit an all time low by editing this old clip:

 

 

and putting it in this new story:

 

When you take a 6-month old clip, edit it so it looks like the person is saying the exact opposite of what he really was, and then claim someone just said it this weekend, you are not a news network.

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Someone wanna recap? I really don't want to watch the video.

It's Glenn Beck crying. anyways

 

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For strange reasons all my own, I doubt that Fox News would choreograph one of their anchors to make fun of their latest multi-million dollar retard investment.

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Oh. You're right then, Czech. Glen Beck doesn't seem capable of being genuine or honest.

Sorry for not clarifying!

 

What's weirdest of all is that there's no sound coming from the studio audience. They must have felt like they were held hostage.

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We shouldn't be surprised. He's a Mormon. He knows all about cult figures. His "9/12 principles" or whatever seem to have either a watered-down-for-mass-consumption Mormon flair (all the nationalism/family values stuff), or self-evident rudimentary libertarianism (free speech, gov't works for me) that anyone can get behind so as to distract you from the 300-level Glenn Beck insanity coming down the pike, like North American Unions or turning Mexicans into fuel.

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Shepard Smith is a mole inside Fox News on behalf of real journalists. Remember, during the Katrina crisis he was the guy in New Orleans being shouted down by Sean Hannity while trying to tell the public (rather, the Fox News watching public) that it was a horrible situation down there. I'll bet he gets canned within the year, unable to stand the bullshit anymore.

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