April 2012
51 posts
“Watching the coverage this past week has been like watching sausage made. The old line about that you’d never want to eat it if you did see it. We watched the covering of a story unfold and it was ugly to watch for its latent bias and practical conviction of George Zimmerman.”
—Fox News’ Liz Trotta, calling the media coverage of Trayvon Martin too biased against George Zimmerman. Trotta has been recently in the news for insisting that women in the military are raped too much.
March 2012
29 posts
Fox News hired a doctor to confirm that President Obama’s son would look nothing like Trayvon Martin. That’s fucking investigative journalism and science at its finest.
I found a video for those who can bare to watch.
I couldn’t even watch a full minute.
Fox News, you are so pathetic.
Lou Dobbs, you’re such a sweaty blubbery white embarrassment. How many networks have you been fired from?
Journalism!
“Females will be further distanced from their traditional feminine characteristics that (sadly, some wrongly insist) suggested they were not being real “girls” if they were extremely physically violent. Young teens and many pre-teens will be awakened to the fact that they are capable of extreme violence, given the right set of circumstances. A few psychologically vulnerable teens—who would have come to no good anyhow—may be inspired to replicate the film’s violence.”
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Dr. Keith Ablow, resident Fox News psychiatric quack, on the results of The Hunger Games, which he insists “adds to the toxic psychological forces it identifies.”
Fox News has also established The Hunger Games as a “cautionary tale against big government.”
“I apologize for the language. I don’t apologize at all for the substance of my advice. I was trying to save lives.”
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Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera, sort of apologizing but not really at all for his comments that wearing a hoodie killed Trayvon Martin.
Blaming victims, saving lives: the American motto.
“I have a different take… on that. I am urging the parents of Black and Latino youngsters to not let their children go out wearing hoodies. I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin’s death as George Zimmerman was… You’re gonna be a gangsta wannabe? People are going to perceive you as a menace. That’s what happens.”
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Fox News host Geraldo Rivera, arguing that had Trayvon Martin been dressed more appropriately, he would have not looked so suspicious and would not have been murdered.
Fox News Coverage of the Trayvon Martin Case Criticized | The Daily Beast →
thedailybeast.com
It’s an explosive story with ingredients that Fox News should be well familiar with: race, guns, and crime.
But as the shooting death of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin makes national headlines, Fox’s coverage is becoming a story in its own right—from its slow start behind other networks to its attempt to shift the story onto the more comfortable turf of gun control….
“You never know motivations. But Fox has a habit in the stories they pick: they did more than 90 segments on the New Black Panther story, but they certainly don’t dedicate that kind of coverage to Trayvon Martin,” Rabin-Havt said. “I can’t tell you why they pick the stories they pick, but it does say a lot about the network.”
So, I accepted an offer from the University of Washington's doctorate program for Political Science, officially moving to Seattle in the fall! Who wants to hang out?
A plea to techie tumblrers
Hi guys. So, I’m about to embark on a big adventure, a doctorate program, and I am starting to think that I need some new equipment. First thing about me, I am super (impressively) cheap. I have one of the now rare black Macbooks from 2008, and I have done everything in my power to avoid getting a new one. My philosophy is that it works, so why bother getting another one? However, it doesn’t work all that well. The hard drive and most of the other parts have been replaced a few times, but it’s just getting old. Programs tend to crash, it’s generally slow, etc. As much as I don’t want to, I think I may need to invest in a new computer for the next 6-8 years of my education.
However, I really hate the current Apple options. The macbook air doesn’t have a cd drive, and the Macbook pro is big and so expensive. I don’t think I can justify spending that much for a laptop.
In doing quick math I have deduced that I can buy a desktop IMac (beautiful, massive screen) and a cheaper PC laptop for the same price or less than a Macbook pro. All I really use it for is blogging, Netflix, looking at pictures of cats, word processing, and maybe running statistics programs. My questions to you, Tumblr universe, are thus: is is stupid for a grad student to invest the majority of their computer fund into a desktop? Is a macbook really that much better than it’s much cheaper, equally stylish PC cousins? Have you recently given up Apple?
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These are the axes:
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Bodies are inherently valid
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Remember death
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Be ugly
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Know beauty
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It is complicated
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Empathy
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Choice
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Reconstruct, reify
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Respect, negotiate
” —Mark Aguhar (via buttfacebutthead)There is a photo post going around stating "there is a genocide in Syria, share this if you care."
The situation in Syria is absolutely terrible, violent state repression. This is indisputable. However, I think that it is irresponsible to assign the word genocide to events that do not seemingly constitute genocide, especially on politically-based blogs. Available documentation suggests that what is going on in Syria is not currently classifiably as genocide. It is a violent crackdown of state repression against civilians.
Article II of the Genocide Convention defines genocide as “[A]ny of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) killing members of the group; (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”
An example of a Syrian event that could be possible labeled genocide is the scorched earth campaign perpetrated by Assad’s government in the city of Hama in 1982. This attack targeted Sunni Muslims specifically and was intended to massacre the population directly.
Other examples of genocide: the Guatemalan state’s destruction of the Maya population and the Armenian genocide.
Good journalism is honest journalism. Hyperbole does not strengthen an argument, it delegitimizes it.
*If there is evidence of genocide that I am missing in the news reporting, please let me know and I will correct this post.
“Fox News: Fair and Colicky.”
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Jon Stewart on the Daily Show, March 14, 2012, discussing the whining of Fox News contributors about Game Change.
Rick Santorum complaining about Fox News loving Mitt Romney more than him. →
washingtonpost.com
In other news, Mitt Romney complains about being treated poorly on Fox News.
Is it November yet?
“Fox, shut the fuck up about how victimized you and you alone are. Nobody cares.”
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Jon Stewart on the Daily Show, March 13, 2012.
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I hope that Rick Santorum sits down to watch a documentary that he expects to expouse feminist pedagogy and be really inspiring but instead it’s just slut-shaming, classist rhetoric in a misguided attempt at feminist discourse.
February 2012
55 posts
“Danica Patrick is such a.. pretty girl. She makes a lot of money and sponsorships because of it. But what’s not attractive is that she’s sexy and she knows it… Oh I’ve got a few words [to describe Patrick], it starts with a b, and it’s not beautiful… She always has a chip on her shoulder trying to prove something.”
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Fox 5 news anchor Ross Shimabuku, on Danica Patrick’s question to a report about why female athletes must always be described as “sexy,” and imploring him for another word to describe her.
Shimabuku was suspended today for a week without pay for his comments after he apologized… by admitting that he “gets nervous on the air” and has “TV anxiety.”
“Fox News: rooting for America to fail since 2008.”
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Jon Stewart, on Fox News’ refusal to acknowledge the economy’s rise and instead discussing how it’s actually not that great “if you don’t feel great about it.”
“I read on a conservative blog last night that this could be the intent of the Obama administration, they just want the Catholic institutions to close down.”
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Fox News’ Steve Doocy on Barack Obama’s original plan requiring Catholic institutions to provide insurance coverage for birth control to all women. Some Catholic institutions have threatened to close down in the event of this adjustment.
“A conservative blog” is my favorite source for unbiased, responsible fact-reporting.
The Worst Things Said On Fox News | The Huffington Post →
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The 10 worst Fox News moments, the video version.
h/t peaslepuff
How do you identify yourself, religiously? Sorry if this is a personal, or offensive question, I'm literally just curious.
I don’t identify myself religiously, really. I have a hard time explaining my belief system because I don’t even really understand it myself all the time. I can tell you the things I am not: I am not an atheist. Sometimes I believe in monotheism, sometimes I don’t. I am not a Christian, or a Muslim, or Hindu, or Jewish, or Buddhist.
I believe in doing the right thing because it is the right thing. I believe that the world around me is so fucking beautiful that there is no way I could ever fathom or contemplate it’s creator or maintenance, no matter how many years I spent pouring over the answers. I believe that the connections we have with one another, the connections that cradle your fear, soothe your anxiety, tear into your bones, set them on fire, rip out your heart and gently sew it back together are the things worth believing in. I believe in love, and I believe that we are all powerful. I believe in science. I believe in progress. I believe that you don’t have to know all the time, that you can be wrong, that you can give up, that you can get better, and that no one can tell you what you believe.
I love Jon Stewart so much. Please find my blog and think I'm funny and ask me to come hang out with you for even five minutes.
Can I start a “Jon Stewart on Tumblr” petition somewhere?
“[Gaines] is confusing an opportunity for life with the promise of dependency. This is a very old, cliched argument. Pro-life doesn’t mean you have to provide the life with cradle to grave services for somebody who’s born. Blacks, 33% of abortions, they’re 13% of the population. Racists would love that statistic. And he’s defending that statistic. He should get a medal from the KKK!”
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Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld, responding to Ludwig Giles, the African American leadership and engagement director for Planned Parenthood, after he alleged “hypocritical pro-lifers of pretending to care about black children before they’re born but not caring at all after.”
Republican Plan of Action:
1. Force all women to carry pregnancies to term
2. Provide no services or support for them and their children
3. Complain when the children grow up that they drain the system
4. “Why don’t you get a job?”
5. CLASS WARFARE!!
Maybe if we just staunchly encourage kids otherwise, they won't have sex.
Foolproof.
“The president’s liberal friends in Hollywood [are] targeting a younger demographic using animated movies to sell their agenda to children.”
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Fox News’ Lou Dobbs, on the movie version of Dr. Suess’ The Lorax
I am 99.9999% sure that when Theodor Suess Gisel wrote The Lorax in 1971 he thought, “This will be really wonderful propaganda in the event that we eventually have a black president and he and his liberal friends are inspired to use it as anti-capitalist, Occupy Wall Street material!” and not “Look, a fun, colorful book about caring for the Earth and being a good person!” Pretty positive.
“She probably wouldn’t even have had the prescription pills if it wasn’t for Obama….I get it, they’re both black ladies! I like you, Eric Bolling, finally someone who is willing to say what only assholes are thinking.”
—Louis Black on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, on Fox’s Eric Bolling’s comment to Rep. Maxine Waters that she should step away from the crack pipe over banking regulations, lest she end up like Whitney Houston.
