A Quick Word About Traditional Values
Submitted by fake consultant on Wed, 02/10/2010 - 11:38am
We all need a good laugh these days—especially if it involves a bit of skewering the other side at the same time—and I want you to take just a second and have a look at this important message from the Traditional Canadians for the Preservation of the Traditional Definition of All Things Traditional, courtesy of the CBC’s Rick Mercer Report:
Now, isn’t that better?
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hey...
...tell your friends!
"...i feel that if a person can't communicate, the very least he can do is to shut up." --tom lehrer, january 1965
It has gone EVERYWHERE !!
HAHAHAHAHAHA. I loved it. I have sent that to all 47 of my e-friends. And, a bunch of them are, like, HUGE righties. Cannot WAIT to see how they respond to this video.
Wish I could post some of the responses here, but even though they are all about "tradition" and "family values" and republican-christian values, they will definately lay the "F"-bomb on me and tell me how f...ed up I am. :)
Loved it. Love humor, especially political humor.
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love it, love it, love it...
...and i would encourage you to post some of those responses.
"...i feel that if a person can't communicate, the very least he can do is to shut up." --tom lehrer, january 1965
Feedback on "Traditional Values" video for fake consultant
Okay, I did, in fact, get some feedback on the "tongue-in-cheek" video you posted named "Traditional Values". As I said before, I probably couldn't post anything verbatum I got back after sending it out to my repug friends, but suffice to say that the responses I got are proof positive that the radical right has absolutely ZERO sense of humor and has a huge knowledge of four-letter words.
I loved the video. I loved how much it pissed off my rightie buds even more.
Again, thanks for posting it, fake.
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“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance" __ Robert Quillen
The radical right have no
The radical right have no sense of humor... You obviously haven't seen Sarah Palin. She cracks me up every time she is on TV. :)
strange notion of "radical"
You think Sarah is "radical right?" Seriously??
Truly, she's about as mainstream American as you can get.
I think y'all know better, actually. Wasn't it just yesterday that Foxtrot was alluding to people who love to quote Jefferson about the need to water the tree of liberty with the blood of patriots & tyrants, hinting darkly at bloody revolution? Those guys are the radical right. They're the Right's answer to the Left's Saul Alinsky, Che Guevara, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dorhn, etc..
Sarah is just a particularly bright and charming middle American. There's nothing radical about her.
'cept her Hubby
Oh, and also, she did the opening address at their 2008 convention too.
Progressives are the true conservatives.
Bright and charming.... Seriously?
What a nice description for an unbridled opportunist that probably still doesn't know Africa is a continent, not a country/nation. What do you find charming or mainstream middle america about a woman who flies around shooting wildlife from an airplane with an assault rifle?
I agree Palin isn't a radical. Palin doesn't have the conviction to be a radical. She'd (try to) speak enthusiastically today about gerbil farming and flocking wallpaper tomorrow if doing so would stroke her ego and the price was right.
Stan Bozarth
very bright and charming
Bright: Recall that Sarah went into the VP debate after having spent just a few weeks boning up on national issues, having spent her entire political career on State and local issues, and she was up against Biden, who has been debating national issues since dinosaurs roamed the earth -- and she held her own. In fact, she made fewer factual errors than Biden did. Now, that's impressive.
Also, when she was chosen for VP, she was the most popular governor in America. That's impressive, too. Maybe it means the people of Alaska know something that you don't. Maybe it means she did a good job.
Charming: What's the difference between Palin and Obama? One of them is a well turned out- let's be honest, darn sexy piece of eye candy. The other shoots her own food. :-)
If you want to believe that she's insincere, or if you want to believe chain-emails claiming that she doesn't know whether Africa is a continent or a country, I can't stop you. It is, nevertheless, nonsense; see: "Hoaxer Claims Credit for Palin Africa-Continent Story, MSNBC Fooled"
Nevertheless, she makes mistakes. Everyone does. E.g., I suspect that when Obama said he'd visited 57 States, it was just a slip of the tongue, not real ignorance. OTOH, your man Gore really did say recently that the earth is "millions of degrees" two km beneath the surface. That was not a slip of the tongue, that was real, impressive, Nobel-quality ignorance.
It's not the things you don't know that get you into trouble, Stan. It's the things you know that aren't so. -Will Rogers (paraphrased)
She did a great job quitting on those wise voters of Alaska
But maybe she was so competent that she knew she was incompetent and therefore quit mid-term.
Wow. Maybe she is a whiz!
Dave
You and I disagree on numerous issues. Probably gonna stay that way.
I've never met Ms. Palin. I'm sure she has some redeeming characteristics. George Bush must too, but I always sorta hoped his chain saw would get away from him. I don't like her politics and think she's ethically clueless in areas that seriously matter to me.
Popular doesn't mean squat to me. Politicians make a business out of being popular and most fail to do the people's work after elected. I suppose they're too busy planning to get re-elected and figuring our how to gulp as much as they can while they're at the public trough.
I see you're a wanna-be mind-reader too. I never mentioned any of the folks you reference above and you have no idea what I think about any of them. BTW, the link you gave says "the story about Sarah Palin not knowing whether Africa was a country or continent has yet to be debunked." Your stuff...not mine.
Let's talk about Alaska: Last time I checked its GDP was in the top ten of all states. They have no sales tax, minimal property taxes and the lowest gas tax in the nation. No state income tax. How do you suppose they run their government? Other than taxing the hell out of corporations (duh...A Republican no-no) they run their government off contributions from the rest of us...including you if you pay taxes. Most highly subsidized state in the nation.
So, if you think folks oughta pay their own way...then Palin's (and other Alaska politicos) leadership is good for Alaska and a good shafting for the rest of us. Sure she's popular...she bought her popularity with your pocketbook and mine.
Sound familiar.
Stan Bozarth
what you believe
It says, "Their latest prank was to completely fool MSNBC, with only an e-mail. 'Eisenstadt' fired off a missive to someone at MSNBC claiming that he was the 'McCain source' who leaked the story about Palin's Africa confusion."
What we have here is a Fox News reporter claiming that an anonymous person in the McCain camp claimed that Palin didn't know whether Africa was a continent or a country. Then a known hoaxer who had been impersonating someone in the McCain camp claimed that he was the Fox reporter's anonymous source for the accusation. But the Fox reporter then denied that the hoaxer was his source, though he would never say who was his source, and as of 15 months later nobody else has ever admitted to it, and nobody in the McCain camp has even agreed with it.
There was never any documentation or recording or other evidence to support the accusation, nor even anyone who was willing to admit making the accusation.
It sounds like a made-up anonymous smear, from some unscrupulous political hack with a grudge, but it might even have just been a simple misunderstanding. E.g., perhaps someone said "South Africa," and someone else heard "Africa," or vice-versa.
The NY Times hinted that they thought the accusation about Palin was a hoax, though they seemed a trifle unsure; Google finds plenty of others were not unsure at all: it was obvious nonsense.
I guess you think everyone at Fox is infallible, but cummon, this is ridiculous. Could an accusation possibly be any flimsier? And yet you believe it?
I've often observed that what most people believe is largely determined by what they want to believe, rather than what evidence suggests. If you think that you aren't one of those people, please explain why you believe such a flimsily supported accusation against Palin, but do not believe that Obama thought he'd visited 57 States, even though he was caught on videotape saying so in front of a large audience, with a microphone in his hand?
And what about Al Gore's claim on TV that the Earth is "millions of degrees" hot, two km beneath the surface? Do you believe your own ears, that he is really that ignorant?? Did you vote for that goof for President??? Do you regret it????
The Opportunist
There are a significant number of people who believe this is true, and this is the meme that Sarah herself uses when speaking of 'real Americans', she being one of those.
The country continues to slide to the right leaving folks like me, who basically have had a reasonably consistent set of beliefs and sensibilities for the past 40 years, to appear further and further 'left'. We are not moving much, but the center sure seems to be. At near light speed it would give new meaning to 'red' and 'blue' shift.
There cannot fail to be more kinds of things, as nature grows further disclosed. - Sir Francis Bacon
Um, no
I alluded to Jefferson in a post, but c'mon, man. All that watering the tree of liberty with the blood of patriots and tyrants stuff....well, not what I meant. But, then, if you want to make it out as such, you have the First Amendment behind you.
Just like your above post here. You think mark1888 was saying Sarah Palin is a radical rightie but in fact, mark1888 was saying Sarah Palin is a joke.
Again, Dave. Get a clue.
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And not a very good joke at that
Thanks for covering, Foxy. I'm out of town for a couple of days without good access ... just a quick check in.
Gotcha Blue
Actually, I hope Palin runs for Prez against Obama. It will be a sure win for Obama. She is soooo "oh, gosh" and such. That wears thin quickly.
She is just a little cutie for the repugs that has the rightie men all excited....but, when you go down to actual knowledge of current events and qualifications for being in a national leadership position, she is, as said before, a JOKE.
Bat them baby blues/browns, sugar. That is all you got.
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next time
I think the Repubs learned a good lesson last go round when they ran an old man and young unknown woman. I would be surprised if the Repubs don't think it through a little more carefully next time. They may use Sarah to get out the vote and whip up the troops but I can't imagine her running again. And I would think Hillary may be the next Dem candidate, not Obama. Obama is looking a lot like Carter and when the blood gets in the water............
I would not be opposed to it
I think it was historic that we elected a black president (well, half black at least). I love it that we are a people that recognize people for things other than their color and I honestly believe Obama was elected because of what he proposed and because of what people truly believed he could do for our country.
Having said that, I think that we have progressed, as a country, into an era of huge uncertainty both with regard to our fiscal situation overall and with our focus as a people nationally.
Hillary Clinton would bring to us a dedication to many of the centrists beliefs that are apparent today and (trash me if you want for saying this), she would bring Bill back. Bill Clinton, despite his personal faults, was probably one of the best presidents we ever had and Hillary and Bill, regardless of their personal problems of the past, to me, would be a welcome addition to our leadership in our country.
God, I just KNOW I am going to get it for this.
Just me being me. Got to be honest about beliefs. If not, you just succumb to everyone elses beliefs.
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“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance" __ Robert Quillen