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uponit7771 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 10:31 AM Original message |
QUESTION: What can we call "progressives" who believe ANYTHING our extremely sloppy M$M says? |
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Zodiak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 10:33 AM Response to Original message |
1. What shall we call patronizing DUers who muse about names to call other DUers? |
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uponit7771 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 10:34 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Did I say DUer's? You must be one of them.... |
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Zodiak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 10:39 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. You do not have to |
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uponit7771 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 10:47 AM Response to Reply #7 |
12. "Where else do you find progressives?" Plenty on Slate, Thom Hartmann etc |
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Zodiak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 10:52 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Oh, I get it....it's only the people on slate and Thom Hartmann you want to call "sponges" |
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uponit7771 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 10:54 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. What?!? My point is on this board people take what the M$M says as gosple instead of fact checking |
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Zodiak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 11:09 AM Response to Reply #14 |
19. No, your point was to make up names to call people who disagree with you |
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Hutzpa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 12:06 PM Response to Reply #19 |
26. You are actually full of it |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 12:20 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. Yep. |
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Hutzpa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 12:50 PM Response to Reply #29 |
44. We are surrounded by this travesty on this board. |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 12:56 PM Response to Reply #44 |
48. I know.. |
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Zodiak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 01:57 PM Response to Reply #26 |
53. Specifically call out |
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Hutzpa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 01:58 PM Response to Reply #53 |
54. Glad you're proud of being obnoxious |
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Zodiak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 02:01 PM Response to Reply #54 |
56. No I am proud of the fact that I call someone acting like a bully what they are |
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Hutzpa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 02:14 PM Response to Reply #56 |
61. No one is acting like a bully besides you |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 10:33 AM Response to Original message |
2. "Americans". |
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uponit7771 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 10:35 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Not every America regurgitates EVERYTHING our sloppy ass'd M$M says as truth |
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DevonRex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 10:39 AM Response to Reply #2 |
8. How about American Idiots. I like Green Day. :) |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 11:16 AM Response to Reply #8 |
20. Redundant by my lights, but sure. Certainly it makes for a better song. :) |
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DevonRex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 12:03 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. Yeah. Otherwise it would have just been American American. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 12:07 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. No, it really doesn't. :) |
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John Q. Citizen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 10:37 AM Response to Original message |
5. Dashle didn't use the phrase "public option" in his Op-ed today. He just probably forgot. |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 10:41 AM Response to Reply #5 |
10. you really believe he wrote that? |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 12:23 PM Response to Reply #5 |
31. So obsess about |
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DevonRex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 10:38 AM Response to Original message |
6. Idiots. That's my term, anyway. They should know better than to believe the MSM. |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 10:39 AM Response to Original message |
9. and if the sloppy M$M says something you like |
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uponit7771 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 10:47 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. When it comes to unamed "officials" and "sources" I didn't beleive them under Bush either |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 12:26 PM Response to Reply #9 |
33. That's really big of you to stick up for the corporatemediaWhores |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 12:37 PM Response to Reply #33 |
38. unless it makes Obama look bad |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 12:40 PM Response to Reply #38 |
40. I don't really care that you don't see what's going on..enough |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 10:59 AM Response to Original message |
15. pumas n/t |
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DevonRex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 11:57 AM Response to Reply #15 |
22. +1. |
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Hutzpa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 11:02 AM Response to Original message |
16. Those are not progressives |
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frylock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 11:03 AM Response to Original message |
17. how stupid do you have to be to NOT understand the concept of the TRIAL BALLOON?! |
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Arkana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 11:05 AM Response to Original message |
18. Gullible? |
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Prism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 11:55 AM Response to Original message |
21. What do we call people who constantly insult progressives? |
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DevonRex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 12:04 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. People who realize that a lot of "progressives" aren't Democrats. |
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Prism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 12:07 PM Response to Reply #24 |
28. If it weren't for the liberal wing of the party |
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DevonRex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 12:21 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. I agree with that, certainly. My views are very far to the left. |
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Prism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 12:28 PM Response to Reply #30 |
34. I agree with all of those things |
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DevonRex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 12:36 PM Response to Reply #34 |
37. The drama has certainly stirred things up, hasn't it? It's made us |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 12:24 PM Response to Reply #28 |
32. Of course we would, Republicans discuss health care |
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Prism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 12:45 PM Response to Reply #32 |
41. It's just an interesting development |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 12:30 PM Response to Reply #21 |
35. It's insulting to be called on sucking up the corpopratemediawhores' |
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Prism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 12:37 PM Response to Reply #35 |
39. Propaganda is an interesting word |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 12:45 PM Response to Reply #39 |
42. That's not the way I |
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Prism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 12:56 PM Response to Reply #42 |
50. Maybe you should write the White House about their media strategy |
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Uzybone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 12:04 PM Response to Original message |
25. FOOLS |
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terip64 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 12:35 PM Response to Original message |
36. Cynical, the last 8 years would make the most hopeful among us cynical...n/t |
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uponit7771 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 12:48 PM Response to Reply #36 |
43. They should be MORE cynical of the media that led us to a needless war than Obama who was against... |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 12:51 PM Response to Original message |
45. Progressives? |
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uponit7771 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 12:52 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. Its starting to look that way, someone just posted something about "Low-level White House officials" |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 12:55 PM Response to Reply #46 |
47. There was one worried about Obama indocrinating school kids yesterday.. |
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uponit7771 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 01:22 PM Response to Reply #47 |
52. WOW....WTF!?!?! |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 12:56 PM Response to Original message |
49. Why do you feel the need to find an epithet for progressive Dems? |
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uponit7771 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 01:21 PM Response to Reply #49 |
51. Did you notice the quotes around "progressive" in my op title. I do think there are trolls on this |
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Zodiak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 01:59 PM Response to Reply #51 |
55. It is against DU rules to accuse people of being trolls. |
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Hutzpa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 02:01 PM Response to Reply #55 |
57. You ARE working overtime to piss on this thread |
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Zodiak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 02:06 PM Response to Reply #57 |
59. My problem is starting threads just to call people names |
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uponit7771 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 02:03 PM Response to Reply #55 |
58. I said there ARE trolls I did accuse anyone of being one....there's a difference and you can post... |
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Zodiak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 02:08 PM Response to Reply #58 |
60. You do not have to accuse anyone specifically |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 02:16 PM Response to Original message |
62. Only a sucker believes anything on the networks, CNN or papers like the Post |
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Amos Moses (551 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 02:58 PM Response to Original message |
63. What should we call Obama supporters that take right wing |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-03-09 03:01 PM Response to Original message |
64. I agree - I refuse to get excited and outraged over anything in the MSM |
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