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		Apparently, thousands of conservatives DID emigrate to Australia, since MSNBC is now beating FOX in the primetime ratings (dailykos.com)		36
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ginandbacon		2012-11-20 10:11:02 AM

9 votes:

Happy Hours: ginandbacon: Maybe you should direct that at the House GOP assholes

Go Team Dems! You tell those GOP assholes!

Rah rah rah! You're proving my point. You care more about denigrating the other party than you do about your country and for that I say fark you.

See? This is where you guys start to look a little unhinged. What have the House GOP majority actually accomplished in terms of legislation? They are the least productive Congress in 65 years. That's not partisan to point out. That's acknowledging reality. They couldn't even pass the farking Jobs for Veterans bill, or the Violence Against Women Act, or the Farm bill, or the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.

The leadership has sunk 1.5 million dollars into defending DOMA. Of the roughly 3,000 bills they have put to a vote, how many of those were about abortion and the names of bridges? And how many laws did they actually pass? 60 something. The worst record in my lifetime.

How is pointing this out partisan? Or should no American dare to question the effectiveness of their government when their government is the one you voted for? Because that would be "partisan"? No absolutely. I'm the partisan.

Happy Hours		2012-11-20 08:56:32 AM

8 votes:

Interesting, but I'm still disturbed that most of you treat this as a college football rivalry. Woohoo!!!!! The liberals are winning!!! Take that Fox News!.

Maybe we should care more about our country than we do about our political affiliation.

Tigger		2012-11-20 10:39:42 AM

5 votes:

nekom		2012-11-20 08:57:12 AM

5 votes:

I hate to break it to you, but Australia is NOT more conservative than the United States. No nation outside of the Islamic world is. Sorry, there's just nowhere for you guys to go. Liberals have tons of options, as there are PLENTY of nations more liberal than the USA.

A Dark Evil Omen		2012-11-20 04:10:31 PM

4 votes:

RyogaM		2012-11-20 04:25:20 PM

3 votes:

Happy Hours: Interesting, but I'm still disturbed that most of you treat this as a college football rivalry. Woohoo!!!!! The liberals are winning!!! Take that Fox News!.

Maybe we should care more about our country than we do about our political affiliation.

It's not about who's winning, it's about making sure that people get correct information about the world around them so that, when we try to address problems that arise, we at least have the same groundwork upon which to debate the proper remedy to that problem. We don't have that right now, because Fox news is lying to the people who watch it. Flat out, telling people things that are demonstratively untrue, like, that Romney was going to win in a landslide. Like scientists are all in major scan regarding global climate change. Like, Liberals hate real Americans, that Obama is a treasonous communist/fascist who wants to destroy the country. These untruths poison the political discourse and make it impossible to address problems because, 1) they deny the problems exist, and 2) even if problems exist, Republicans cannot work with treasonous Democrats to solve the problems because Democrats are evil.

The election was the first time I've ever heard my father, a Fox news junkie, admit that Fox news fed them a line of provable BS. For the first time, my father doubts that Fox is giving them the truth, and that is a good thing. And that is why I celebrate when Fox loses viewers, because that means people may start to turn to real sources of information and make it possible for Americans to come together again to address issue they all face.

jso2897		2012-11-20 04:15:30 PM

3 votes:

Happy Hours: ginandbacon: Maybe you should direct that at the House GOP assholes

Go Team Dems! You tell those GOP assholes!

Rah rah rah! You're proving my point. You care more about denigrating the other party than you do about your country and for that I say fark you.

UH - that's not what this is about. It was inevitable that the swing to the extreme right in America would end - the only question was when. This is encouraging evidence that it has begun. It actually seems a little ahead of schedule to me - not enough boomers have started kacking yet, by my reckoning. But there are other factors involved, and hey - if we're getting there already, great. Try to remember that folks like me don't agree with you - we think this change is GOOD for the country. I can't speak for anyone else, but if I didn't think it was, I wouldn't be happy about it. You can tell me I'm wrong, but you have no reasonable basis upon which to call me insincere.

vpb		2012-11-20 09:16:37 AM

3 votes:

ginandbacon		2012-11-20 09:10:55 AM

3 votes:

Rwa2play		2012-11-20 04:13:31 PM

2 votes:

Renart		2012-11-20 04:07:15 PM

2 votes:

Conservatives complaining about how this is no longer the America they grew up in crack me up. I was born and grew up in San Francisco and nearby. America is FINALLY starting to resemble the America I grew up in.

/But with fewer hippies.
//NTTAWWT

Holocaust Agnostic		2012-11-20 04:07:11 PM

2 votes:

abb3w		2012-11-20 02:10:37 PM

2 votes:

I wonder how much of this is from conservatives no longer being able to stand watching the news.

Darth_Lukecash		2012-11-20 01:04:23 PM

2 votes:

ambassador_ahab: I would totally become a lesbian for Rachel Maddow. Giggity giggity giggity!!!!

I already am a lesbian for Tachel Maddow..

A lesbian with an permanent organic strap-on

vpb		2012-11-20 10:45:48 AM

2 votes:

nekom: I hate to break it to you, but Australia is NOT more conservative than the United States. No nation outside of the Islamic world is. Sorry, there's just nowhere for you guys to go. Liberals have tons of options, as there are PLENTY of nations more liberal than the USA.

I thought those articles about GOPers wanting to leave the country were hilarious. Where would they go? Any country that has the sort of policies they think they want is a third world mud-hole. And mostly full of brown people to boot.

palladiate		2012-11-20 10:10:12 AM

2 votes:

Cythraul		2012-11-20 08:51:45 AM

2 votes:

0Icky0		2012-11-21 02:27:40 AM

1 votes:

Goodfella		2012-11-21 02:02:54 AM

1 votes:

Its because Foxnewz has finally, undoubtedly, indisputably been exposed for the yellow journalism fraudsters that they are.

CapeFearCadaver		2012-11-20 07:17:54 PM

1 votes:

Ablejack: O'Reilly cares about ratings. He has often argued that Fox's higher rating meant conservatism is evidently the more popular philosophy. Now I suppose Bill O'Reilly thinks the liberal voice better expresses the beliefs and concerns of our nation.

I wonder if they realize just how many people who don't agree with them watch/listen to them... I'm talking about Beck, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, etc....

/especially Rush

Don't Troll Me Bro!		2012-11-20 06:16:46 PM

1 votes:

Renart: Conservatives complaining about how this is no longer the America they grew up in crack me up. I was born and grew up in San Francisco and nearby. America is FINALLY starting to resemble the America I grew up in.

/But with fewer hippies.
//NTTAWWT

I love how social conservatives are, by definition, always going to lose. There has never been a time in history when socially excepted norms and customs were held constant for a sustained period. They have always been in a state of change. To fight for social conservatism is simply asking for a lifetime of being on the losing side, and also asking for history to remember you alongside all the other oppressive farkheads that history threw in the dustbin.

MyRandomName		2012-11-20 05:43:15 PM

1 votes:

ginandbacon: Happy Hours: ginandbacon: Maybe you should direct that at the House GOP assholes

Go Team Dems! You tell those GOP assholes!

Rah rah rah! You're proving my point. You care more about denigrating the other party than you do about your country and for that I say fark you.

See? This is where you guys start to look a little unhinged. What have the House GOP majority actually accomplished in terms of legislation? They are the least productive Congress in 65 years. That's not partisan to point out. That's acknowledging reality. They couldn't even pass the farking Jobs for Veterans bill, or the Violence Against Women Act, or the Farm bill, or the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.

The leadership has sunk 1.5 million dollars into defending DOMA. Of the roughly 3,000 bills they have put to a vote, how many of those were about abortion and the names of bridges? And how many laws did they actually pass? 60 something. The worst record in my lifetime.

How is pointing this out partisan? Or should no American dare to question the effectiveness of their government when their government is the one you voted for? Because that would be "partisan"? No absolutely. I'm the partisan.

Lol. Love how liberals ignore the whole senate side of the equation. Please show me the senate budget. Please show me the senate votes on house passed bills. Reid blocks more legislation than any other person in congress. Grow up.

Holocaust Agnostic		2012-11-20 04:56:52 PM

1 votes:

John the Magnificent: Holocaust Agnostic: Happy Hours: Interesting, but I'm still disturbed that most of you treat this as a college football rivalry. Woohoo!!!!! The liberals are winning!!! Take that Fox News!.

Maybe we should care more about our country than we do about our political affiliation.

Why? If there are 12 clowns yukking it up on stage and someone runs out there to try and get them to be serious, what is he? He's the 13th clown, and the saddest of the lot.

Even sadder is how profound you thought that was as you were typing it.

If you wankers are gonna get all misty eyed about how everything would be better if Democratics and Republicans just need to come together and then everything will be fixed, I reserve the right to vomit trite faux-intellectual analogies right back at you.

meat0918		2012-11-20 04:34:06 PM

1 votes:

There had to be some conservatives out there that realized Fox News was lying and pushing a very skewed and unsupported by reality narrative and have finally turned it off.

ghare		2012-11-20 04:27:42 PM

1 votes:

Wyalt Derp		2012-11-20 04:25:18 PM

1 votes:

Most true Conservatives stopped watching Fox a while ago, it's far too liberal and left-leaning now.

FirstNationalBastard		2012-11-20 02:12:27 PM

1 votes:

ShawnDoc: Only amongst the 18-54 year old demographic. Once you throw in the geriatric crowd, Fox News wins handily.

Advertisers don't care about the geriatric crowd, so they're meaningless.

Lionel Mandrake		2012-11-20 01:59:05 PM

1 votes:

Diogenes: I never took this seriously when Bill-O and Olbermann were having their ratings spats. Why should it matter to me now? I know what I like to watch. What everyone else watches is their business.

I only care to the extent that Hannity is annoyed/angered/bothered by drawing less of an audience than Maddow. That has to stick in his craw, and that happies me.

Diogenes		2012-11-20 01:40:49 PM

1 votes:

I never took this seriously when Bill-O and Olbermann were having their ratings spats. Why should it matter to me now? I know what I like to watch. What everyone else watches is their business.

The Stealth Hippopotamus		2012-11-20 01:05:34 PM

1 votes:

Happy Hours: Maybe we should care more about our country than we do about our political affiliation.

I think we do. But we are a member of a political party because we think they are better for the country.

FirstNationalBastard		2012-11-20 01:04:57 PM

1 votes:

People are just watching and waiting for Rachel Maddow to introduce Veronica De La Cruz to the ways of sapphic love.

GAT_00		2012-11-20 09:35:09 AM

1 votes:

Big farking whoop. Who the hell watches cable news anyway?

ambassador_ahab		2012-11-20 09:30:29 AM

1 votes:

djkutch: They gave us Hitler and the Wiener Schnitzel.

I think you're confusing 2 completely different countries that start and end with the letter "A"

Dusk-You-n-Me		2012-11-20 09:19:38 AM

1 votes:

I'd like to see the numbers for Up With Chris. Fantastic show, seems to be building a following.

Cythraul		2012-11-20 09:18:31 AM

1 votes:

nekom: I hate to break it to you, but Australia is NOT more conservative than the United States. No nation outside of the Islamic world is. Sorry, there's just nowhere for you guys to go. Liberals have tons of options, as there are PLENTY of nations more liberal than the USA.

I'm a liberal. But due to my limited education, I don't really have tons of options. I'm stuck here. Not that I'm complaining, much. I'd probably hate living in another country anyway. Would be too much of a culture shock. With maybe the possible exception of Canada... maybe.