Displaying 541 To 570 Of 1,116 Comments Bill Maher’s Big Lie Contribution? Was Maher calling the President a liar? Maybe, but that’s not the only possibility. It could be that Maher is simply avoiding cognitive dissonance. Bill Maher is not hesitant in expressing his belief that people of faith are both stupid and deluded (His movie “Religulous” illustrated that fact clearly.) But he knows that President Obama is extraordinarily intelligent. So how can he reconcile these things in his own mind? By believing that the President is only putting on a show of being Christian. By believing that Obama is secretly a secular humanist. I think Maher is being narrow-minded about the issue. He should realize that there is no contradiction in finding an intelligent person who is also a person of faith. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 14, 2011 @ 10:19 am Your Valentine’s Day open thread I’d like to wish a Happy Valentine’s Day to Driftglass and Bluegal of The Professional Left. They just announced that they are getting married. I have been listening to their podcast for a long time, and did not even know that they were getting romantically involved with one another. (For some reason I like to imagine that after a long political debate, they simply threw themselves into one another’s arms…) I hope they have a healthy and happy marriage, and stay together for a long time (as my own wife & I have. We’ve been married for 23 years now!) » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 14, 2011 @ 5:20 am Here’s what that asteroid strike might look like (for those who haven’t seen it:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zvCUmeoHpw I like the music selection for it. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 14, 2011 @ 5:48 am It sure fooled me at first! Great Photoshopping. » Posted By Buddy McCue On March 14, 2011 @ 10:48 am Thom’s always seemed like a trustworthy guy; I believe him when he says this. And remember that John McCain did something like this openly during his 2008 presidential campaign. His website offered “points” to blog commenters who put his talking points on the internet. These points could be collected and traded for prizes. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 17, 2011 @ 7:12 am I noticed that! At least they should be consistent about it. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 15, 2011 @ 11:37 am I haven’t either. I’ve managed to recommend this place to a few people over there, and haven’t been caught yet. Some people are saying that you can get your account deleted for doing that. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 15, 2011 @ 11:36 am And I wouldn’t want to choose which one’s worse.[img]http://media.divinecaroline.com/ext/article_images2/misc/lesser.jpg[/img] » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 15, 2011 @ 11:22 am Yeah, I get that; it’s just plain wrong that she’s being treated like a viable candidate. I was only noticing that the individual claims are true in a literal sense: She does say what she wants, etc. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 15, 2011 @ 11:21 am I know what you mean. BTW, welcome to here. I’m glad you came over. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 15, 2011 @ 11:00 am That IS ridiculous. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 15, 2011 @ 10:58 am The number “9?” That’s just incredible. It did seem to differ from thread to thread. There were some places where I could not type the word “trash.” I was trying to say that Blue State liberals shouldn’t bad-mouth us Southerners by calling us “white trash” or “trailer trash.” I didn’t think we deserved to be insulted for simply living in a particular region of the country. I didn’t want to substitute some other word, but I couldn’t get my comment posted at all with that word in it. Frustrating as hell. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 15, 2011 @ 10:45 am Sarah really doesn’t deserve credence as a viable politician of course, but I find that I really can’t argue with the statements in that lead paragraph. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 15, 2011 @ 10:23 am “Giraffe?” Good grief. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 15, 2011 @ 10:18 am I see ’em moving. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 14, 2011 @ 3:21 pm Alright, now I’m curious. Despite myself, I’ve got to go and see. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 14, 2011 @ 1:42 pm The false equivalency between Left and Right is a comfort for those who don’t want to pay very much attention to politics. The Republicans will do something outrageous, and the reaction of these self-described centrists will usually be “But both sides do it, don’t they?” The mainstream media helps further this view of things. If there is no way to draw a false equivalency, then news doesn’t get reported. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 14, 2011 @ 4:49 am A Short List of Pres. Obama’s Accomplishments I agree with you already. That’s not a concession. But WHY is Obama having such a communication problem? He is articulate as hell. He is intelligent enough to see the media for what it is. I really don’t understand his problem. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 14, 2011 @ 3:57 pm You hit the nail on the head when you say “The corporate MSM makes up their own narratives as they go along.” There always seems to be an over-arching “storyline” in the mainstream media, and a consensus view of how the story goes. If facts fit the storyline, they are reported. When they don’t fit, they are not reported. I hate that word “narrative” when it applies to journalism. Fiction has its place, but not on the news. I don’t want to be told stories; I just want them to report what happens, whether it fits the agreed-upon narrative or not. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 14, 2011 @ 4:26 am Transcript Theatre: Outtakes From Bill O’Reilly’s Interview With President Obama Alright, I admit that I didn’t know what a “Q rating” was either. I read the explanation on the page you linked to, and I have to say, it does make a lot of sense that there would be such a thing. I’ve always suspected that familiarity was more important than most factors in marketing. Why else would they make sequels to movies that weren’t very popular to begin with? The average consumer out there just wants to see familiar names and things he recognizes and remembers. If he can say, “Oh yeah; I’ve heard of that,” he feels a little smarter. A version of the advertising ploy “appeal to vanity.” I remember thinking about this during the 2000 presidential election. I’m sure it helped Bush Jr. that people were able to say to themselves: “President Bush? Oh yeah, that sounds familiar; I’ve heard of that.” » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 13, 2011 @ 6:07 am Everything from “Over There” belongs “Here!” Most Popular on HuffPost: Christina Aguilera Falls On Stage At Grammys Grammy Awards 2011 LIVE Wayne Rooney’s Bicycle Kick Goal Is Greatest Of His Career (VIDEO) Just a snapshot of what most people are reading “over there.” » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 15, 2011 @ 11:47 am I voted for Nader too, but it didn’t matter much. In this very Red state I live in, I always feel like I’m just casting my one little Blue vote into a sea of Red ones. If I lived in a “swing state,” I might’ve re-thought my position and refrained from voting for Ralph Nader. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 15, 2011 @ 10:55 am Those headlines certainly were awful, weren’t they? Oftentimes the headlines were so exaggerated (and so obviously devised to create controversy) that they parted ways with the facts of the article that followed. That really irked me. I would be enticed to read the article from the sensationalistic headline, and then halfway through the article, realized that I had been manipulated. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 14, 2011 @ 4:29 am Yeah we don’t have to doublespace A r i a n n a ‘ s name or resort to phonetic spelling when talking about the Aitch-Pee or anything like that. Welcome to here. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 13, 2011 @ 7:11 am I always liked that guy. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 13, 2011 @ 5:16 am I’m going to say something nice about Arianna. I think her accent is charming. I could listen to it all day; it’s very attractive. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 13, 2011 @ 5:07 am When are we going to wake people up to the fact that the MSM isn’t any kind of “liberal media?” To the die-hard Right, the answer is never. I can see it from their point of view. To a true conservative, there aren’t different points of view; there is only one way to think, and everything else is wrong. It’s like this: Imagine a newspaper that ran a weekly feature on the different major religions of the world. Each week for ten weeks, they feature a different one. To the die-hard Right, that means that the newspaper is only 10% right, and 90% biased against the Truth. While most of us would consider such a newspaper fair and even-handed, the true conservative will always see that as “liberal media.” » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 13, 2011 @ 4:59 am Whenever I read a post that starts with “You Libs” I always hear Rush Limbaugh’s manner of saying it in my head (I hear a lot of Rush where I work. Where I am, when men want to sound strong and smart, they imitate Rush as closely as they can.) If you haven’t heard him say “These people are LIBS!” it isn’t difficult to imagine. He spits it out with a contemptuous lip-curling sneer. When the trolls imitate that, we are supposed to hang our heads in shame. That’s what they expect, anyway. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 13, 2011 @ 4:51 am Egypt from space: I KNEW Cairo was a big city, but this is an impressive picture. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 14, 2011 @ 4:14 am WATCH LIVE: Mubarak Resigns! Egyptians Celebrate! I sure hope it turns out well. As far as the Muslim Brotherhood goes, the fears of the Right are pretty unfounded. I read that they aren’t even fielding a candidate in the elections, and even if they did, a recent straw poll shows that only 15 to 25% of people would vote for them. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 11, 2011 @ 3:10 pmComments Posted By Buddy McCue
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