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PoopStain
2008-12-20 2:07:40 AM  
Corporate media: It wants to know how much the hamster likes its popcorn, not why it's upside down and on its back.

The media were lazy the entire election season and this jackass has a complaint NOW? About a goddamn shoe thrower?

Here's journalism today: is this makin' money? No it's not! Half of the damn country doesn't trust you because they suspect your political beliefs don't line up with theirs, and the other half doesn't trust you because they suspect you fellate your corporate warlords in order to keep the checks coming.

Journalists amuse me. They are largely liberal yet in order to get paid they work for traditionally conservative corporations. In turn, they develop product that is suspect from all sides, or inane claptrap that is ridiculed from all sides.

Fourth establishment my ass. Years of glorified English majors getting promoted to editorial boards led to this. They haven't "sold out" because they never really had a product people wanted to buy.

Throw away the inane pretense of "objectiveness", get back to the yellow journalism days, and let's fight it out in the streets like the men we used to be.
 
ass2mouth
2008-12-20 2:27:02 AM  
[image from knowyourmind.co.uk too old to be available]

/GIS for never-ending spiral of shait
 
Iggy_Hiatus
2008-12-20 2:27:52 AM  
you know i thought that bush was asking for shoes man cause i saw the clip with no sound. i mean if the leader of the free world is asking for shoes i would throw mine at him too. if this happened in America, he would disappear labeled as a terrorist, deported to gitmo, have a "fair" trial, and live the rest of his life as a made man in gitmo cause they get better treatment than most people do here in america get.
 
the_chief
2008-12-20 2:28:52 AM  
This makes me pee out of my butt.
 
Britney Spear's Speculum
2008-12-20 2:31:37 AM  
Nice headline.

I've noticed on CNN they'll say something like "So why is everyone obsessed with people like Paris Hilton and Britney Spears?" I sit there and almost yell back at the TV "I DUNNO, YOU HAVEN'T TOLD ME YET"
 
coco ebert
2008-12-20 2:32:29 AM  
Navel-gazers. STFU and GBTW.

This is why I read the Economist. It's pretty clearly a conservative magazine but at least it's open about it and because its broken up into geographical sections, you know you're definitely going to get news about Latin America and Africa, two regions you barely hear about in the US media.
 
iamscotto
2008-12-20 2:34:36 AM  
I wonder how our tolerant, liberal friends would react if an American threw a shoe at St Obama?
 
The RIchest Man in Babylon
2008-12-20 2:34:40 AM  
YOUR HEAD ASPLODE!
 
platkat
2008-12-20 2:36:34 AM  
I was reading that article, but then I saw some pictures of Suicide Girls and got distracted.
 
platkat
2008-12-20 2:37:50 AM  

iamscotto: I wonder how our tolerant, liberal friends would react if an American threw a shoe at St Obama?


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Norad [TotalFark]
2008-12-20 2:40:49 AM  
Notice how sneaky CNN is? By and large, they are the driving force behind the Caylee Anthony murder story.

They've slowly built up the moral outrage, via Headline News and Nancy Grace, behind what should be another run of the mill "Mom kills daughter" story, that shouldn't even escape local coverage into a must-see 'What happens next???' national soap opera.

Some people I work with can't talk about anything else but this shiat.

And oh, MAN....Is CNN raking in the coin because of them.

Nice going, farktards. You have been successfully manipulated by the media. I wonder how that feels?
 
Sydney Opera House
2008-12-20 2:44:12 AM  

the_chief: This makes me pee out of my butt.


lol
 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark]
2008-12-20 2:48:48 AM  
On a scale of 1-10
How interested I was in the shoe thrower the day he threw the shoe: 1
How interested I am today: 0

Someone in the media must be failing, because I'm not interested at all. They need to get to work!
 
coco ebert
2008-12-20 2:50:28 AM  

iamscotto: I wonder how our tolerant, liberal friends would react if an American threw a shoe at St Obama?


We're just hoping that's all that will get thrown at him.
 
The RIchest Man in Babylon
2008-12-20 2:50:51 AM  

iamscotto: I wonder how our tolerant, liberal friends would react if an American threw a shoe at St Obama?


I'm pretty liberal, so I'll take a shot at this:

First, a little cultural lesson: In the Arab world, showing the soles of ones shoes to someone is considered an insult, on the same level as flipping someone the bird here in 'Murica. Throwing your shoes would be akin to biatch slapping someone- it isn't meant to injure the person, but rather insult them.

So, if Obama managed to convince the rest of America to attack, say, California, based on false pretenses, cooked intelligence reports, and half-truths; killing several tens of thousands of Californians in the process, then occupied California for 7 more years, killing another couple hundred thousand people, and someone were to biatch slap "St. Obama," I'd be pretty okay with it.

That said, your comparison is f*cking retarded.
 
PoopStain
2008-12-20 2:53:41 AM  
Norad: Nice going, farktards. You have been successfully manipulated by the media. I wonder how that feels?

You're posting on Fark and asking that question?

You should go Fark yourself. I will go Fark myself as well.

Why fark? Because no matter how many times I post fark fark fark fark it ends up being the name of this website.
 
Britney Spear's Speculum
2008-12-20 2:54:36 AM  

The RIchest Man in Babylon: First, a little cultural lesson: In the Arab world, showing the soles of ones shoes to someone is considered an insult, on the same level as flipping someone the bird here in 'Murica. Throwing your shoes would be akin to biatch slapping someone- it isn't meant to injure the person, but rather insult them.


I always thought the 'Murrican equivalent was walking into someone's house and asking them if you can fark their wife.
 
Technogen
2008-12-20 2:55:22 AM  

PoopStain: Norad: Nice going, farktards. You have been successfully manipulated by the media. I wonder how that feels?

You're posting on Fark and asking that question?

You should go Fark yourself. I will go Fark myself as well.

Why fark? Because no matter how many times I post fark fark fark fark it ends up being the name of this website.



That's just farked up.
 
IrishSamurai9
2008-12-20 2:55:50 AM  
The RIchest Man in Babylon

I'm pretty liberal, so I'll take a shot at this:

First, a little cultural lesson: In the Arab world, showing the soles of ones shoes to someone is considered an insult, on the same level as flipping someone the bird here in 'Murica. Throwing your shoes would be akin to biatch slapping someone- it isn't meant to injure the person, but rather insult them.

So, if Obama managed to convince the rest of America to attack, say, California, based on false pretenses, cooked intelligence reports, and half-truths; killing several tens of thousands of Californians in the process, then occupied California for 7 more years, killing another couple hundred thousand people, and someone were to biatch slap "St. Obama," I'd be pretty okay with it.

That said, your comparison is f*cking retarded.

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The RIchest Man in Babylon
2008-12-20 2:58:04 AM  

Britney Spear's Speculum: I always thought the 'Murrican equivalent was walking into someone's house and asking them if you can fark their wife.


Sure, that could work too. I'd say its sufficiently insulting.

Technogen: PoopStain: Norad: Nice going, farktards. You have been successfully manipulated by the media. I wonder how that feels?

You're posting on Fark and asking that question?

You should go Fark yourself. I will go Fark myself as well.

Why fark? Because no matter how many times I post fark fark fark fark it ends up being the name of this website.


That's just farked up.


Its a krafing travesty.

/I think the filters work backwards too...
 
Bugs_Bunny_Practiced_Psychological_Warfare
2008-12-20 2:58:53 AM  
Concerned media is concerned.
 
doyner [OhFark]
2008-12-20 3:00:03 AM  

Norad: Notice how sneaky CNN is? By and large, they are the driving force behind the Caylee Anthony murder story.

They've slowly built up the moral outrage, via Headline News and Nancy Grace, behind what should be another run of the mill "Mom kills daughter" story, that shouldn't even escape local coverage into a must-see 'What happens next???' national soap opera.

Some people I work with can't talk about anything else but this shiat.

And oh, MAN....Is CNN raking in the coin because of them.

Nice going, farktards. You have been successfully manipulated by the media. I wonder how that feels?


I was at my parents' house the last couple weeks and they watch just about nothing but Fox. What was the only thing they reported? You guessed it, Caylee Anthony.

Fair and balanced, man. It's not just CNN. Sensationalism knows no political affiliation.
 
PoopStain
2008-12-20 3:01:11 AM  
The RIchest Man in Babylon: That said, your comparison is f*cking retarded.

Wait two years, and you will eat your words. Obama is going to have to make hard decisions, most of them short term aren't going to please his base, and opinion will turn for some people.

His comparison isn't retarded. You will question why people disrespect our new President at some point.

I find this prescient:

coco ebert: We're just hoping that's all that will get thrown at him.

I do, too. Given the left's giddiness for wishing GW Bush death over the last 8 years, I can't say any of you deserve kid glove treatment. But conservatives are usually a lot more polite on average.
 
rackrent
2008-12-20 3:02:22 AM  
Had a friend suggest that the shoe-throwing thing might be Bush II's legacy internationally, much like his father's legacy is throwing up on the Japanese Prime Minister. He's probably right.
 
MorrisBird
2008-12-20 3:04:32 AM  

PoopStain: I do, too. Given the left's giddiness for wishing GW Bush death over the last 8 years, I can't say any of you deserve kid glove treatment. But conservatives are usually a lot more polite on average.


Concern troll is concerned.
 
coco ebert
2008-12-20 3:07:11 AM  

PoopStain: But conservatives are usually a lot more polite on average.


Ha ha ha. Good one. Because when I think of "polite", I think of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Ann Coulter.

/Maybe I missed teh sarcasm?
 
555-FILK
2008-12-20 3:07:45 AM  

The RIchest Man in Babylon: YOUR HEAD ASPLODE!


Read the first paragraph and called it a no-go. I'm too tanked to read all that b.s.
 
IrishSamurai9
2008-12-20 3:09:03 AM  
rackrent

Had a friend suggest that the shoe-throwing thing might be Bush II's legacy internationally, much like his father's legacy is throwing up on the Japanese Prime Minister. He's probably right.

For folks who possess an IQ slightly lower than a stalk of broccoli, your friend is probably right.
 
coco ebert
2008-12-20 3:09:56 AM  
Get your news from these guys: Link
 
dylanthomas
2008-12-20 3:11:43 AM  
Obama has been set up to fail from the start.

it'd be like going to see a show and hearing, "ladies and gents, jebuz h christ himself, here to entertain you tonight!"

and you'd be like . . . meh, he was KINDA funny, but not "how i mey your mother' funny

i weep for humanity

/not the sausage king of chicago
 
The RIchest Man in Babylon
2008-12-20 3:13:11 AM  

PoopStain: The RIchest Man in Babylon: That said, your comparison is f*cking retarded.

Wait two years, and you will eat your words. Obama is going to have to make hard decisions, most of them short term aren't going to please his base, and opinion will turn for some people.

His comparison isn't retarded. You will question why people disrespect our new President at some point.


Don't get me wrong, there will ALWAYS be people who dislike the President- I'm sure there will be PLENTY of people wanting to throw shoes at Obama in two years- hell there are plenty that want to now. The point, however is that this Iraqi guy has a pretty good reason to be pissed off at Bush, and to make the comparison as is right now is ridiculous at best. The point I was responding to was the original poster's nonequivalent partisan comparison.


I find this prescient:

coco ebert: We're just hoping that's all that will get thrown at him.

I do, too. Given the left's giddiness for wishing GW Bush death over the last 8 years, I can't say any of you deserve kid glove treatment.

Look, if Obama tramples all over the Constitution, disregards the rights of American citizens, and international law the same way Bush has, I'll be right there with you throwing metaphorical shoes. But until then, to use the left's treatment of Bush as an excuse to go full froth after Obama is absurd.

But conservatives are usually a lot more polite on average.

Put down the big brush, buddy. Each side has their fringe- and I don't think either side can claim the high ground here.
 
PoopStain
2008-12-20 3:13:12 AM  
MorrisBird: Concern troll is concerned.

Go back to your hole. Who pays you? (pops)

Do the work. As for you?

Idiot troll is weak with work, intelligence, responses, or personal responsibility. Also weak on legal matters, intelligence about religion, and general computer advice. Trolls late at night instead of caring for his children. (pops)

How are those kids doing? Are you drunk yet?
 
dylanthomas
2008-12-20 3:13:15 AM  
fark needs a drunk filter?
 
coco ebert
2008-12-20 3:13:57 AM  

dylanthomas: Obama has been set up to fail from the start.

it'd be like going to see a show and hearing, "ladies and gents, jebuz h christ himself, here to entertain you tonight!"

and you'd be like . . . meh, he was KINDA funny, but not "how i mey your mother' funny

i weep for humanity

/not the sausage king of chicago


Wow, you REALLY need to change your handle.
 
smage
2008-12-20 3:17:24 AM  

The RIchest Man in Babylon: First, a little cultural lesson: In the Arab world, showing the soles of ones shoes to someone is considered an insult, on the same level as flipping someone the bird here in 'Murica. Throwing your shoes would be akin to biatch slapping

spitting on someone- it isn't meant to injure the person, but rather insult them.

FTFY

biatch-slapping someone is more about establishing/reasserting control or dominance; throwing shoes is more about showing gross contempt/disrespect (hence the more apropos spitting analogy). Might seem pedantic to some, but there is a pretty serious difference in intention between slapping someone and spitting on them. To better put it into perspective: when Saddam was ousted, people gathered in the streets to "shoe-slap" images/likenesses of him; if a similar event were to happen "in the West," the shoe slapping would be replaced with spitting and carry the exact same meaning/intent.
 
Britney Spear's Speculum
2008-12-20 3:17:38 AM  

The RIchest Man in Babylon: Britney Spear's Speculum: I always thought the 'Murrican equivalent was walking into someone's house and asking them if you can fark their wife.

Sure, that could work too. I'd say its sufficiently insulting.


So can I?
 
MorrisBird
2008-12-20 3:18:16 AM  

PoopStain: How are those kids doing?


At 28, 25 and 21 years of age, they're just fine, thank you. I don't know who you think I am, but you're mistaken.
 
The RIchest Man in Babylon
2008-12-20 3:19:30 AM  

smage: FTFY

biatch-slapping someone is more about establishing/reasserting control or dominance; throwing shoes is more about showing gross contempt/disrespect (hence the more apropos spitting analogy). Might seem pedantic to some, but there is a pretty serious difference in intention between slapping someone and spitting on them. To better put it into perspective: when Saddam was ousted, people gathered in the streets to "shoe-slap" images/likenesses of him; if a similar event were to happen "in the West," the shoe slapping would be replaced with spitting and carry the exact same meaning/intent.


You are 100% right on. I agree completely with your revision. Well played.

Britney Spear's Speculum: So can I?


You SON OF A DOG!

*throws shoes*
 
IrishSamurai9
2008-12-20 3:20:04 AM  
coco ebert

Get your news from these guys: Link

That's rich. Why not just link to NPR?

If you want unbiased news, read like 4-5 papers and then use the gray matter between your ears to discern the truth ...

Financial Times (Slight conservative)
Wall Street Journal (Slight conservative)
New York Times (Slight liberal)
Washington Post (Slight liberal)

/My reading list in order.
 
dylanthomas
2008-12-20 3:22:09 AM  
Wow, you REALLY need to change your handle.


not drunk enough?
 
log_jammin
2008-12-20 3:23:45 AM  

PoopStain: conservatives are usually a lot more polite on average.


followed with....

PoopStain: Go back to your hole. Who pays you? (pops)

Do the work. As for you?

Idiot troll is weak with work, intelligence, responses, or personal responsibility. Also weak on legal matters, intelligence about religion, and general computer advice. Trolls late at night instead of caring for his children. (pops)

How are those kids doing? Are you drunk yet?
 
IrishSamurai9
2008-12-20 3:24:19 AM  
dylanthomas

not drunk enough?

Thread winner.

/Well played.
 
coco ebert
2008-12-20 3:27:00 AM  

IrishSamurai9: coco ebert

Get your news from these guys: Link

That's rich. Why not just link to NPR?

If you want unbiased news, read like 4-5 papers and then use the gray matter between your ears to discern the truth ...

Financial Times (Slight conservative)
Wall Street Journal (Slight conservative)
New York Times (Slight liberal)
Washington Post (Slight liberal)

/My reading list in order.


Actually, I do read an assortment of media outlets. If you look above, I wrote that I read the Economist on a weekly basis. McClatchy were the only guys to not fall in line with the administration line on the Iraq War when most newspapers did, including your "slighty liberal" New York Times and Wash Post. I don't look at newspapers in terms of ideology but in terms of who is willing to search for truth even when the official government line states otherwise.

Btw, the Wall Street Journal's news articles are not liberal or conservative but their editorial page is extremely conservative, not slightly so.
 
Norad [TotalFark]
2008-12-20 3:28:54 AM  
This entire thread needs to pass a breathalyzer before posting.

Me includded.
 
PoopStain
2008-12-20 3:29:50 AM  
The RIchest Man in Babylon: Put down the big brush, buddy. Each side has their fringe- and I don't think either side can claim the high ground here.

There is no high ground. That's my point.

There. Is. No. High. Ground.

People have been racing for the low ground since before Nixon - but he gave everybody an excuse to get up in their business.

No heroes will ever exist, ever again. It's all a farce. There will be no Woodward and Bernstein, there will be no Watergate, and there will be no 'expose'. Everyone is tied so closely to someone else that to call bullshiat is simply to announce you quit your job.

Obama will be exceptional at dealing with a destroyed economy. He's probably the smartest President we've had since Teddy Roosevelt.

Circumstances will not work in his favor. I'm glad we have a smart man leading us through this, but we're all farked regardless.

Why? Because you and I are talking about impending doom on a farking web site. This doesn't feed us, this doesn't get us to work, and this doesn't do shiat. We are all an exercise in worthless expended energy.

Once the fark comments trickle down on the main page to under 10, you will know we are in a depression.
 
PoopStain
2008-12-20 3:31:21 AM  
log_jammin: followed with....

To him? Absolutely not. He's been demonstrably rude over and over and over again.
 
MorrisBird
2008-12-20 3:32:00 AM  

PoopStain: We are all an exercise in worthless expended energy.

Once the fark comments trickle down on the main page to under 10, you will know we are in a depression.


I think one of us is already. Did you forget your medication today?
 
The RIchest Man in Babylon
2008-12-20 3:32:46 AM  

PoopStain: The RIchest Man in Babylon: Put down the big brush, buddy. Each side has their fringe- and I don't think either side can claim the high ground here.

There is no high ground. That's my point.

There. Is. No. High. Ground.

People have been racing for the low ground since before Nixon - but he gave everybody an excuse to get up in their business.

No heroes will ever exist, ever again. It's all a farce. There will be no Woodward and Bernstein, there will be no Watergate, and there will be no 'expose'. Everyone is tied so closely to someone else that to call bullshiat is simply to announce you quit your job.

Obama will be exceptional at dealing with a destroyed economy. He's probably the smartest President we've had since Teddy Roosevelt.

Circumstances will not work in his favor. I'm glad we have a smart man leading us through this, but we're all farked regardless.

Why? Because you and I are talking about impending doom on a farking web site. This doesn't feed us, this doesn't get us to work, and this doesn't do shiat. We are all an exercise in worthless expended energy.

Once the fark comments trickle down on the main page to under 10, you will know we are in a depression.


Well jeez. Aren't you a killjoy.

Here's some puppies and kitties to cheer everyone up!

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IrishSamurai9
2008-12-20 3:33:17 AM  
coco ebert

Btw, the Wall Street Journal's news articles are not liberal or conservative but their editorial page is extremely conservative, not slightly so.

You just got owned on your knowledge of Dylan Thomas and you're going to lecture me on the editorial page of the WSJ?

Heh, that's even richer. The WSJ and NYT are like the polar opposites in the justice league of politics and, whether you think you're with the "good guys" or not, if you read just WSJ or the NYT, you're only exercising like 1/10th of your brain ... which based on your contribution to this thread might be a 50% improvement ...
 
MorrisBird
2008-12-20 3:35:28 AM  

PoopStain: To him?her? Absolutely not. He's She's been demonstrably rude over and over and over again.


FTFY.
 
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