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Nice Planet © 2009

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Old Pio said:
Just a reminder: it was that unconscionable media whore Geraldo Rivera who compared Shawn Hornbeck (the kid kidnapped and raped for years in Missouri) to Lee Boyd Malvo, who was in fact the principal shooter, responsible for most of the deaths. Nice.
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Didn't Malvo later claim that he had lied when he said he was the main shooter since they couldn't give him the death penalty and it would result in less on Muhammed? I can't seem to find a definitive source of who did what though. But yeah Geraldo sucks, that goes without saying.
 
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French Rage said:
Didn't Malvo later claim that he had lied when he said he was the main shooter since they couldn't give him the death penalty and it would result in less on Muhammed? I can't seem to find a definitive source of who did what though. But yeah Geraldo sucks, that goes without saying.
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You're right, Wiki confirms he now claims he wasn't the principal shooter. Although the truthfulness of anything he says is suspect. I just got a huge case of the red azz when Rivera compared a boy who had survived countless humiating crimes, with another kid who willingly participated in spree killings. Call me old fashioned, but. . . . . .

And it was O'Reilly who called upon his extensive training in psychiatry to declare that Hornbeck "liked" what was happening to him, since he apparantly had chances to escape but didn't. Bill had evidently never heard of Stevie Stayner (another kid who "liked" getting raped every night!).
 
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Old Pio said:
I don't remember. You're right, Wiki confirms he now claims he wasn't the principal shooter. Although the truthfulness of anything he says is suspect. I just got a huge case of the red azz when Rivera compared a boy who had survived countless humiating crimes, with another kid who willingly participated in spree killings. Call me old fashioned, but. . . . . .

And it was O'Reilly who called upon his extensive training in psychiatry to declare that Hornbeck "liked" what was happening to him, since he apparantly had chances to escape but didn't. Bill had evidently never heard of Stevie Staynor (another kid who "liked" getting raped every night!).
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Yeah it's hard to trust anything Malvo or Muhammed said, they should both get what Muhammed's getting, 17 isn't like 10, it's not that far from 18.

Geraldo will say anything to get on TV more, and O'Rielly always like to brag about how much of a tough and awesome and self-sufficient guy he is (I'm surprised this past month he didn't say how he would have been able to pilot that Colorado balloon himself and would have singlehandedly taken it Afghanistan and used it to defeat bin Laden).
 
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French Rage said:
Yeah it's hard to trust anything Malvo or Muhammed said, they should both get what Muhammed's getting, 17 isn't like 10, it's not that far from 18.

Geraldo will say anything to get on TV more, and O'Rielly always like to brag about how much of a tough and awesome and self-sufficient guy he is (I'm surprised this past month he didn't say how he would have been able to pilot that Colorado balloon himself and would have singlehandedly taken it Afghanistan and used it to defeat bin Laden).
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I'm a conservative (news flash :) ) and am therefore supposed to be in thrall to this guy. Frankly, I find him pompous, boring and predictable. I just don't get it. I rarely watch him and only caught his diatribe against Shawn Hornbeck because I was following that case closely and was astonished at the parallels with the Stayner case from years before.
 
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Old Pio said:
I'm a conservative (news flash :) ) and am therefore supposed to be in thrall to this guy. Frankly, I find him pompous, boring and predictable. I just don't get it. I rarely watch him and only caught his diatribe against Shawn Hornbeck because I was following that case closely and was astonished at the parallels with the Stayner case from years before.
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Anyone can be pompous, boring, and predictable regardless of how much you're supposedly to theoretically agree with them on stuff (i.e. Olbermann , Rhodes, etc. for me), having a given stance and not being an ******* about it are sadly two different axes and some people fail to master both.
 
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French Rage said:
Anyone can be pompous, boring, and predictable regardless of how much you're supposedly to theoretically agree with them on stuff (i.e. Olbermann , Rhodes, etc. for me), having a given stance and not being an ******* about it are sadly two different axes and some people fail to master both.
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What we're talking about here is the polarization and tabloidization of debate in this country. Many of our liberal posters rant endlessly about Limbaugh, Hannity and O'Reilly. They're entertainers (and don't especially appeal to me) so I don't consume their products. I would recommend the same for them.

Unfortunately, it's the extremes that dominate our national conversation these days. It's the extremes that get noticed. Most of the rest of us are somewhere in the middle and are at least willing to concede the other side has a point, without necessarily agreeing. Nobody's ever concerned or angry or P.O.'ed anymore--they're "outraged." Now a few things really are outrageous, but not everything all the time.
 
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Not AS bad as some of the entries...but my spotlighted quote might enhance the NP designation (bolded on my prerogative):

http://www.startribune.com/local/67092082.html

Game officials warned the student section about making inappropriate comments toward the Fairmont coach and team during a volleyball match last Thursday. After a penny was thrown on the court, students in that section were ejected from the gym.
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Gee, I wonder what the comments were about.......
 
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Slap Shot said:
I'm more alarmed (or rather perhaps surprised) by the fact that every student in that class has a Mac in front of them. Is it like that in every class now?
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It's probably one of those loser non-science-or-engineering classes where students like Macs, communism, and killing puppies.
 
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French Rage said:
It's probably one of those loser non-science-or-engineering classes where students like Macs, communism, and killing puppies.
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Easy enough to tell. How pretty are the girls?

Everything has its price, Grasshopper.
 
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