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Koppel Tells Hannity He is Bad for America

What many seem to be missing is that Koppel is condemning opinion based shows, when Koppel himself is rendering an opinion.

I guess it's just not the 'correct' opinion from Koppel's point of view, and, I guess, as such, needs to be exterminated, extinguish, destroyed, and those that hold those counter-opinions the same, for the mere temerity for having opinions other than his.

More and more Koppel just sounds like the typical liberal / progressive.
 
EnigmaO01 said:
Well let me put it this way: I would never hire a plumber to be my dentist and and would never hire my dentist to do my plumbing. The same goes for politicians. Don't elect is crooked businessman with no experience in politics to run the country. What we now see is the result.

If you don't like your politicians vote them out of office. For God's sake don't replace them with assclowns.
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We send crooked businessmen to congress all the time and 19 of them became the POTUS.
 
RetiredUSN said:
We send crooked businessmen to congress all the time and 19 of them became the POTUS.
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I think most of them are lawyers. But that makes it O.K. then ?

The logic here fails me.
 
RetiredUSN said:
The ass that just left the office was a lawyer, where did that get us?
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That's your opinion that he was an ass. And you know what they say about opinions.

Now here are some facts:Trump hasn't succeeded in getting anything out of the gate so far except a EO's and a few of them are going nowhere. He has the lowest approval rating of any president at this point in his term and it appears it will only go farther down. He has no leadership skills and only knows how to bully to get what he wants. So far bullying congress isn't working.

Obama had experience in politics as a senator and he was an expert on constitutional law. A grad of Harvard Law Magna cum laude on Harvard Review. I don't believe Trump graduated from anything. And even better Obama wasn't a failure in business, wasn't a narcissist, sociopath, and serial liar.

My guess from observation is, but can't verify it, is that Obama's I.Q. eclipses Trumps by at least 20 points. Trump is lucky if he has an above average I.Q. The way the man keeps sticking his foot in his mouth doesn't show high intelligence.

I'll take the "ass" over the no experience in politics assclown we have in office now.
 
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Chomsky said:
That unfortunate quote of Obama's has been strongly mis-characterized for political purposes.
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Obama's quote strongly mis-characterized, I don't think so. What he said was in clear plain old English with no misunderstanding.

But neither should anyone lose sight of the infrastructure that allows for this success. Success doesn't occur in a vacuum. Americans become successful due to them living in America and being able to avail themselves of all this great country has to offer.
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You never answered the question

Koppal got an education, big F...... deal. So that makes him what?

And using your words you can address those words to Koppal;

"But neither should anyone lose sight of the infrastructure that allows for this success. Success doesn't occur in a vacuum. Americans become successful due to them living in America and being able to avail themselves of all this great country has to offer."

Who provided that school for him to get an education. He didn't risk anything, like a person risking starting a business.

All Koppal does is go around disparaging others that don't believe as he does.
 
Fearandloathing said:
I more refined and full explanation of the point I was making.

I have heard Limbaugh on the radio once while driving across the continent. I heard enough to know he's a bully with a microphone, and someone from the US sent me a copy of a "Being George Washington" by Glenn Beck. He can't write worth ****, repeats himself every third paragraph. I quit rather than trying to figure out what he was trying to say. I entered it in 'CBC's most horrible literature contest'

It's very hard to have respect for people who repeat what these geeks are saying.
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The anger is especially disturbing to me as well. Relatives of mine, who used to be quite balanced, have gone totally overboard, after watching FOX News for a few years. Have you seen the Samuel Ward video of Tea Party footage? It's mostly from around the Obama/Romney campaign, but talk about anger.... And these Tea Party rallies were all promoted by FOX News. I believe this is the kind of crap Koppel is talking about.

Misinformation, Lies & Fear about Obama (VIDEO)
 
Media_Truth said:
The anger is especially disturbing to me as well. Relatives of mine, who used to be quite balanced, have gone totally overboard, after watching FOX News for a few years. Have you seen the Samuel Ward video of Tea Party footage? It's mostly from around the Obama/Romney campaign, but talk about anger.... And these Tea Party rallies were all promoted by FOX News. I believe this is the kind of crap Koppel is talking about.

Misinformation, Lies & Fear about Obama (VIDEO)
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I do not own a television. I get all my news either from print or reliable newspaper sites on the internet. I have listened to one broadcast in that genre, 20 some years ago as I was driving to the source of the Mississippi to camp for a day or two and all I could get on the radio was something called Rush. He banged the table 27 per minute, I couldn't tell what he was angry about, seemed to be everything. I found myself way over the speed limit and braaked her down [Nissan 300 T-Tops out] and no sooner had I come under the legal limit than I got pulled over by a State cop.

I told him why I was speeding and when I noticed I slowed. We had a talk about American politics and I didn't get a ticket. I can imagine someone already angry that life handed them a **** sandwich would have their resentments inflamed by that rhetoric and the rhetoric of how lesser, lazy people are way better off.

That's not just anger, that's hate mongering.

The longer I'm on these boards the more I love my country.
 
Fearandloathing said:
The longer I'm on these boards the more I love my country.
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I just can't imagine living in a country like yours where health care isn't a cluster chuck like ours. And our politicians don't even know how to work with each other anymore to get anything done. It seems like partisanship is some kind of pathogen that has infected the population.
 
EnigmaO01 said:
I just can't imagine living in a country like yours where health care isn't a cluster chuck like ours. And our politicians don't even know how to work with each other anymore to get anything done. It seems like partisanship is some kind of pathogen that has infected the population.
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Now that you mention it I do like our health care system and do not regret one dime I paid into it.

Please, what isn't a cluster **** in the US. 17 months to probate a will? I get next day mail delivery from Montreal, day after service from Munich but a letter from the US is at best ten days, the last three weeks!

I don't see anyone making decisions based on what's good for the country, but rather what's good for them.
 
Fearandloathing said:
I do not own a television. I get all my news either from print or reliable newspaper sites on the internet. I have listened to one broadcast in that genre, 20 some years ago as I was driving to the source of the Mississippi to camp for a day or two and all I could get on the radio was something called Rush. He banged the table 27 per minute, I couldn't tell what he was angry about, seemed to be everything. I found myself way over the speed limit and braaked her down [Nissan 300 T-Tops out] and no sooner had I come under the legal limit than I got pulled over by a State cop.

I told him why I was speeding and when I noticed I slowed. We had a talk about American politics and I didn't get a ticket. I can imagine someone already angry that life handed them a **** sandwich would have their resentments inflamed by that rhetoric and the rhetoric of how lesser, lazy people are way better off.

That's not just anger, that's hate mongering.

The longer I'm on these boards the more I love my country.
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Cool story!
 
EnigmaO01 said:
That's your opinion that he was an ass. And you know what they say about opinions.

Now here are some facts:Trump hasn't succeeded in getting anything out of the gate so far except a EO's and a few of them are going nowhere. He has the lowest approval rating of any president at this point in his term and it appears it will only go farther down. He has no leadership skills and only knows how to bully to get what he wants. So far bullying congress isn't working.

Obama had experience in politics as a senator and he was an expert on constitutional law. A grad of Harvard Law Magna cum laude on Harvard Review. I don't believe Trump graduated from anything. And even better Obama wasn't a failure in business, wasn't a narcissist, sociopath, and serial liar.

My guess from observation is, but can't verify it, is that Obama's I.Q. eclipses Trumps by at least 20 points. Trump is lucky if he has an above average I.Q. The way the man keeps sticking his foot in his mouth doesn't show high intelligence.

I'll take the "ass" over the no experience in politics assclown we have in office now.
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I tired of people extolling Obama's constitutional "brilliance" years ago. This is a myth.
 
akyron said:
All False statements involving Barack Obama | PolitiFact

He was a brilliant liar in any case.

It's a long read.
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That's a very biased article, with no backup for any of the falsehoods mentioned. Also, could be taking a lot of statements out of context. Typical right-wing lying rhetoric. Most of these types of articles were released by heavily financed Oligarch-backed lobby groups. You show that you fall prey to their efforts.
 
Media_Truth said:
That's a very biased article, with no backup for any of the falsehoods mentioned. Also, could be taking a lot of statements out of context. Typical right-wing lying rhetoric. Most of these types of articles were released by heavily financed Oligarch-backed lobby groups. You show that you fall prey to their efforts.
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I am genuinely happy you were able to keep your doctor. I was not.
 
Fearandloathing said:
Now that you mention it I do like our health care system and do not regret one dime I paid into it.

Please, what isn't a cluster **** in the US. 17 months to probate a will? I get next day mail delivery from Montreal, day after service from Munich but a letter from the US is at best ten days, the last three weeks!

I don't see anyone making decisions based on what's good for the country, but rather what's good for them.
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:applaud
 
akyron said:
I am genuinely happy you were able to keep your doctor. I was not.
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Do you recall Obama telling the Republicans in Congress, that if they can improve the ACA, write it up. But they did nothing, didn't they?
 
Media_Truth said:
Do you recall Obama telling the Republicans in Congress, that if they can improve the ACA, write it up. But they did nothing, didn't they?
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Nope. They sure did not. That's why we excoriate them aggressively now.
They had eight years to get it right and messed that up as badly as any democrat. They had no faith in winning the election and were ill prepared to do anything concerning governing.

No idea what your point is supposed to be there.
 
Hannity will put a pistol in his mouth someday
 
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