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We interrupt this lengthy and never ending factual-indictment of modern American politics for the truly important news.
Facing criticism that the cable-network once known as “The Learning Channel” had become too dependent on shows about human termite-queens, “little people”, and people so intelligent they still didn’t know they were pregnant after giving birth, “TLC” has tried it’s best to class up the joint.
No, not Sarah Palin’s Alaska.
But this, something of a natural pairing with Palin’s show, and something she and Glenn Beck can watch together:
Or as it’s known at TLC, the other show about “hoarders” — um, that isn’t about Kate Gosselin, the Duggars, or called “The Little Hoarders“.
If TLC is able to finding some height-challenged, tattoo-addicted, Mormon-polygamist sect that doesn’t know how its very many babies were made, we can finally see who gets raptured around this country.
And now back to your local cross Quran burning, unleash “U.S.A.!” chant.
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And this is the carnival facade that masks a much deeper insidious agenda – the dumbing down of our cultural& political discourse allows the likes of Mr Sarah Palin to quietly work for a whites only Republic of Alaska. Look at Senator wannabee Joe Miller “also too ” this is the final goal for his campaign’s attack on the ‘federal gummint ” -his desire to devolve the national park system( AND ALL OF ITS NATURAL RESOURCES ) in Alaska to the state . The end goal is an Alaska where people of color and those traitor dirty fooking hippies need not apply ,.
And then lets not even get started about FatBoy Armey , the Koch Brothers and Freedom Works…
Many people think Sarah Palin, R Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity and Boehner and the Extreme Right Wing are not very smart. They are wrong. The third-reich used to believe that if you tell a lie, make it a whopper and then, people will fall for it. Well, these folks are doing just that. According to Palin the problem is not Big Oil, its the environmentalists. For limbaugh, the problem is not the unemployed, its the Unions and the minorities. For Beck the problem is not discrimination or the wars against the muslim middle east, its about honor..and on and on.. And yes, alot of folks are falling for “big lies” and turning their backs on common sense, because they are desparate and desparation breeds impulse selection. Scary times indeed. And because people that believe in progress and truth do not use these tactics we do not look exiting. Scarey days … indeed…
Every day spent on the mosk or the Sad and Moldering Strangeness Tour is another day not spent talking about the clown who augured us in.
I wonder how much they would like the show if the roles were reversed and it was a woman with multiple husbands? Yeah, there would be less kids and more sex.
Who feeds all those people? Are they on welfare (like in reality)?
Good morning, pups. It’s Dowd and Friedman this morning. MoDo addresses “Lincoln’s Forgotten Fort,” and says Fort Stevens in Washington is an endangered battlefield. Coming to a historical site near you: Wal-Marts and Gen. Robert E. Lee slot machines. The Moustache of Wisdom, in “Saudi Time,” says a Middle East peace plan from King Abdullah has been floating out there in the ether for years now, and it’s time to bring it out of the air.
Here they are.
The coffee and tea are ready, the cold drinks are in the fridge, and I’ve got a variety of bagels with cream cheese. As dreadful as The “Learning” Channel is I don’t think it’s any worse than what they’ve done to the History channel. What used to be history (well, lotsa battles anyway) now devotes most of its time to ancient aliens, swamp people, Nostradamus and the like. Wretched crap. Have a great day.
The Moustache did not mention at all that the elected government of Palestine is not at the table as they were disinvited. The people at the table are both clients of the US and any agreement between them will be irrelevant. Until the freely elected government of Palestine is recognized and involved in “peace” talks the process will be a sham.
The reason that the US does not want the elected government involved is that they know there really is common ground between Hamas and many factions in Israel. However if Hamas and Israel signed an accord Israel would be forced to live up to it by, yet another, UN resolution and would be roundly condemned by the “rest of the world” if and when they broke the agreement as, of course, they have done many times in the past.
Without including the true government of Palestine the path is left open for protests to any “agreement” to be condemned as terrorism and the MCI/Israel/US government to continue their slaughter of innocent Palestinians.
OT, Obama is a miserable failure and the HP has become troll central.
Gee… wonder why cable subscriptions are way down?
And yet there are some who would preserve “the American way of life.” Idiots and imbeciles are thick upon the ground in North America, eh?
Yes, they are.
Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, et al, are so smart, they’ve found a way to make stupidity pay. Everyday they deliver hours of blatantly ridiculous content to an audience of ignorant listeners who believe every word of it. It’s enough to make me wonder if the First Amendment freedom of speech has to be reevaluated.
How long till Rick [Man on Dog] Santorum gets to pitch his show?
If the History Channel showed real history, people might get the impression they could get together and accomplish great things. They might get inspired to create some. That would be a big mistake for the advertisers. We’re supposed to get fulfillment chasing after more crap. Hence the aliens and Nostradamus.
Hey AEI, like your commercial alternative to PBS there.
This is real? I thought it was a joke. Reminds me of something out of the film “Idiocracy.” …which, I did enjoy.
Speaking of learning, I read this yesterday at Counterpunch about education in the US. While reading it I thought, this guy is maybe a little over the top. But today I’m thinking, everything is so frigging warped in this country, maybe I’m just not paying enough attention to what kind of a monstrous system it really is.
Please don’t insult people into tattoos by comparing them to Sarah Palin.
But yes, TLC’s programming has become tragic.
I need some brain bleach. That is just disgusting.
I rarely watch tv, and this is why. Complete waste of time, plus it makes you stooooooopit just to see it.
I do wonder a bit about all of these shows pumping up the volume on Mormon polygamy. I realize some of it is bc it’s sensational and exciting (to some). Used to be not so long ago, that the Mormons kept all this under wraps and one didn’t speak about it. Guess the Mormons want to bring their sexual practices out in the open.
That said, there are other societies in other countries that practice polygamy AND polyandry for various reasons. Mostly in those countries, it’s because of economics or lack of much choice in life partners.
With the Mormons these days, it just seems like a lot of greed, gluttony and sexual proclivities run amok. But didn’t Brigham Young invent Mormonism (much like L. Ron Hubbard invented Scientology) so that he could f*ck around? Always seemed that way to me, and watching this little clip here, would seem the same applies to this guy (what a creep, btw).
Yes, our nation is being deliberately dumbed down, and that’s for sure.
This is the modern variation on the Victorian freak show.