(np) big O, say it isn't so...

Tue Mar 27 05:51:55 CDT 2012

Yes, it is. It also works. You can do it with "nucular" too.

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
> Kind of elitist to test someone's vocabulary as a gate to considering their
> opinion on the television news that they watch, dontcha think?
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> AsB4,
> ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
> Henry Mu
> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
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> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> You have hit on a major part of the Straussian Neo-Con Strategic
>> Tautology. If you continually brand the respected press as biased to
>> the left, you can then disparage or dismiss any criticism,
>> fact-checking, or straight up negative reporting. This has the added
>> benefit of forcing the mainstream to the right in order to appear
>> balanced.
>>
>> Try this little game: The next time someone tells you "The mainstream
>> media is biased to the left", ask them "Shouldn't that be 'are biased
>> to the left?'". This will result in a brief discussion of the
>> definition of "media". You can end the discussion with the following
>> observation: "If you don't know that the word is a plural, you don't
>> know what it means. How can you comment on something that you don't
>> know the meaning of? You must be parroting  something that you heard
>> on the mainstream radio. I have to dismiss all of your opinions on the
>> matter." This will be followed by sputtering and gasping. Be prepared
>> to duck.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > How can the NYT, NPR, Washington Post, MSNBC, et al thought of as
>> > slanting
>> > right when everyone who admits to being conservative/right-wing insists
>> > that
>> > those news outlets are leftwing commie finks?  Apparently both sides
>> > think
>> > that if you give any voice to the people that they oppose, then you're
>> > one
>> > of the people that they oppose.  I've always detested that "if you ain't
>> > with us, you're against us" bully-talk BS.
>> >
>> >
>> > AsB4,
>> > ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
>> > Henry Mu
>> > http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Bled Welder <bledWelder at hotmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Even as a lad ive never been able to listen to npr. God save us from
>> >> that
>> >> saccharine neutral democratic mildew. NYT, well shit, how do you not
>> >> love
>> >> the Times. Sure we know in advance it will Always support anykind of
>> >> foreign
>> >> US military aggression as long as the Admin says its for the sake of
>> >> freedom
>> >> and democracy. Pacifica is not comparable. Franlky i think npr and nyt
>> >> slants Right, which is to say, corporate and military.
>> >> I may not agree with much Pacifica since eight years ago. On this
>> >> blessed
>> >> holy elite list i can (very very drunk now) remind people that pure
>> >> democracy is an obvious stupidity+-on Pacigica radio i would have beem
>> >> canceled.
>> >> But im curious why you bring Goodman et al, Pacifica, into Fair and
>> >> Balanced.  Do they claim that¿ Thayre not commercial based¡ Whats fair
>> >> and
>> >> balanced in our battle against right wing american corporate fascism¿
>> >> Which
>> >> is to say
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >>
>> >> From: Henry M
>> >> Sent: 26 Mar 2012 17:22:47 GMT
>> >>
>> >> To: Pynchon Liste
>> >> Subject: Re: (np) big O, say it isn't so...
>> >>
>> >> NPR, NYT, and a few other major news orgs slant their news.  Democracy
>> >> Now, and Pacifica in general, slant their pieces so far that they fall
>> >> over
>> >> and only one side is left facing up and visible.  When there's the
>> >> rare call
>> >> in to question pretty much any of their social/political programs, from
>> >> their anti-vacine medical authority to a woman that I've heard
>> >> supporting
>> >> the notoriously corrupt former mayor for life of Washington, DC, (life
>> >> ain't
>> >> easy for an actor or politician named ) Marion Barry, it get's
>> >> interrupted
>> >> and shouted down just like on Fox "News."  Intolerance for, and willful
>> >> ignorance of, the center is rampant on both sides of pretty much all
>> >> socio-political discussion.
>> >>
>> >> AsB4,
>> >> ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
>> >> Henry Mu
>> >> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Bled Welder <bledWelder at hotmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I agree with you, absolutely. "Democracy Now" is a stupid name, always
>> >> felt thatway.  Whats fair and balanced about anything? Its a sad
>> >> democratic
>> >> minded notion. I do think that Goodman truly believes in democracy in
>> >> theory. Unlike many of her guests, who will never go further in so
>> >> admitting
>> >> it than to backwardsly suggest we dont currently live in a democracy.
>> >> Good,
>> >> so weve got That first step already done for us!
>> >>
>> >> An Ode to Noontime Vodka
>> >> Vodkvodka
>> >> VO
>> >> dka
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >>
>> >> From: Henry M
>> >> Sent: 26 Mar 2012 16:54:37 GMT
>> >>
>> >> To: Pynchon Liste
>> >> Subject: Re: (np) big O, say it isn't so...
>> >>
>> >> Fair and balanced, just like Democracy Now.
>> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Scahill
>> >>
>> >> AsB4,
>> >> ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
>> >> Henry Mu
>> >> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:05 AM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Jeremy Scahill is a highly respected investigative journalist, who has
>> >> testified before Congress and appeared in interviews on every major
>> >> network
>> >> (including frequent appearances on the Rachel Maddow show, on the very
>> >> pro-Obama MSNBC.  He's what every journalist should aspire to be:
>> >> brave,
>> >> intelligent and truth-seeking.
>> >>
>> >> Laura
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Henry M
>> >> Sent: Mar 26, 2012 9:18 AM
>> >> To: Pynchon Liste
>> >> Subject: Re: (np) big O, say it isn't so...
>> >>
>> >> Why does one choose to believe Democracy Now and Al Jazeera more than
>> >> the
>> >> New York Times, while someone else chooses Fox "News" over the MSNBC?
>> >> Who
>> >> is Jeremy Scahill?  The only thing that Wikileaks provided was a cable
>> >> from
>> >> Saleh to Petraeus.  Do you believe everything that Saleh says?  Then
>> >> why do
>> >> believe what Saleh says in a cable?
>> >>
>> >> The mainstream American press isn't exactly uncritical of Obama and the
>> >> wars.  What is the current explanation (that does not hammer Occam's
>> >> Razor
>> >> into paranoid oblivion) for why they don't have this story?
>> >>
>> >> AsB4,
>> >> ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
>> >> Henry Mu
>> >> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Michael Bailey
>> >> <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>  Henry M wrote:
>> >> > Ooo, wikileaks and prism magazine!  Now I can be sure of the truth!
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> wikileaks is pretty credible, isn't it?   I mean, the objections on
>> >> record are for its revelations being problematic for diplomacy, not
>> >> inaccurate.
>> >>
>> >> prism magazine quoted Obama's own record of the conversation.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/02/03/readout-presidents-call-president-saleh-yemen
>> >>
>> >> I dunno, seems pretty strong to me.  My president, right or wrong?
>> >>
>> >> I suppose we should dismiss any news from al-Jazeera too?
>> >>
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