>> ^quantumushroom:
Bush is a lot smarter than the left will ever give him credit for being. And if he's not, it just makes the left look even more incompetent.Trill, he's not a movie star/empty suit like the Obamessiah. He's done well considering the American media is 90% leftist and wants him to fail. At least have the temerity to admit he's never gotten a fair shake from the press, even to oneself.
"If Bush is "stupid", even with test scores higher than Frenchy Kerry's, then it's a very poor reflection on your taxocrats in Congress that they DANCE to his tune; most Bush legislation has passed handily and easily."
I don't see this as being an argument for anything but your own biases. Not that I'm overly concerned. You're entitled to your opinion of Bush. At present, our American Congress is overrun with wannabe-Euros (called Democrats, taxocrats, victicrats) and they've got lower approval ratings than even Bush. All the same, just as Bush is given credit for the stuff libs call bad, so it goes he gets the credit for the legislation he passes.
"Torture" of head-sawing terrorists is fine with me. If you're not an enemy soldier of a standing army, you have no rights under any code of law. It's embarrassing that anyone would try to invent rights for the very scum that seek to destroy civilization. Good riddance.
Phone tapping in wartime? Yawn. There's 300 million Americans, good luck sifting through the transcripts, feds.
Americans are stupid? Dumb is everywhere, but Europe's finished, has been for a long time. You're not a model for humanity, you're a warning. Socialist economies have high unemployment and are grossly inefficient. Without a fight, you've surrendered any economic edge you might have had, kow-towing to "global warming" charlatans. You've lost your individual national identities in that despicable EU. Nanny-state government cancels tobacco, seizes your guns--without resistance--leaving you defenseless sheep to be culled by criminals and your lefty propaganda media, the model which our American bastard media likes to imitate, covers up the resulting mess. With the death of religion, which the "intelligentsia" of Europe deem a triumph, the last remnant of your ability to transmit cultural values is gone. You might as well start bowing to Allah now.


Again and again you use sweeping and deflecting terms like "the left" "the liberal". Every piece of criticism is swatted by the same gaping maw. This lends you no credability whatsoever, especially when it's so blatant. Racists have better slur propaganda than you have - at least they've thought it out. In the same way you swat every criticism of bush as "left" and "liberal" bullshit, we should treat you with the same lack of intelligence you treat us, and refer to any compliment of bush as "right" or "conservative" or whatever the respective terms are.

You STILL fail to address the point. People have been filming, recording and watching bush for 8 years, and the worldwide opinion (not just lefties, liberals, whatever other buzz word you'll throw out) is that he is a moron. I'm NOT going to say that he has never gotten a fair shake from the media when i've seen the man stand in front of an audience and claim to know the name of a general, and sit there flaccidly saying "his name is........general!" When i've seen the man make an empty, ventriloquistic speech about terrorism, and then demand that we "watch this drive!"

Sifting through even more of your propaganda and buzz-words, i see you make yet another basic error:
"just as Bush is given credit for the stuff libs call bad, so it goes he gets the credit for the legislation he passes."
-- But i haven't done that, don't you see? Again your gaping swatting maw has landed you in the wrong. I'm not a lib, and i never said he gets all the credit for what passes through congress good or bad. I say he's as involved with the good as he is with the bad - ie. not that much.

Firstly the problem with torturing "head-sawing" terrorists is that you're assuming everyone to torture is guilty. Not necessarily true is it? That's why most suitably evolved countries/states have gotten rid of it. People......

you know what? half way through this i realised that i could spend days talking to you and you'd still not get it. you're an idiot, and unfortunately the world must survive with idiots. i tried to show you where you were wrong and instead of reading it you just said more stuff that was wrong. you don't even discuss it - you just throw words like "lib" and "left" around like it answers all questions in the same way people cling to arguments for religion.

i'd just like to finish by saying that i never said americans were stupid, and by assuming i did, it only lends weight to my opinion that you don't read things, you don't pay attention, you are incapable of discussion.

you've made this a very hollow victory perhaps thinker has the stamina to set the record straight

lol *terrible ventriloquist..

God of War is the PS3 avatar...omg and kratos is a ventriloquist!

LOL

awful...truly, awful.

My favorite part was the guy on the sax - who had a solo and never moved a finger to play a variety of notes. He's a like a ventriloquist - with with a saxamaphone!

“There are just five or six companies in America that dominate the media landscape—giant multinational conglomerates. So there may be a lot of different voices but they’re coming from the same ventriloquist.”
--Jonathan Adelstein, FCC Commissioner

As a companion piece, see this Real News segment on the FCC's media consolidation. The public has responded almost unanimously against further mergers, yet the FCC steamroller keeps on going. Rest assured that the media companies do make a profit by increasing their size, but not by economies of scale as they claim. The key word here is "monopoly".

upvote for Jeff Dunham's daring. And he's a very good ventriloquist.

I don't think its a particularly compelling ventriloquist routine... I've seen better... and frankly, the material covered, does nothing to enhance the dialogue on racism, and really serves only to belittle a very serious subject.

In the past, I've downvoted this video, but I'm gonna stay my vote for now, as I'd like to see if it generates any sort of interesting commentary.

That's...impressive. I read the title and was thinking "how hard could it possibly be to desync with a ventriloquist dummy? Amateurs do that on accident!" I didn't imagine he'd desync himself!

"I'm fed up with people defending these criminals, just get on with it and get them all out of power, not just for America, but for the rest of the world too."

Jesus Christ finally a voice of reason.....guess you have to be somewhere else to see how completely fucked we are in the US.....If the Clinton Thing-It wins, and she probably will, if you gauge it with the symbol-addicts here on the sift, then it will be 40 years, that the Executive branch has been in the hands of 2 families...(counting Bush Senior's reign as VP with Reagan, yes, bush led, with his hand in the back of Reagan's skull, like a sick ventriloquist.)

Vote all these ands theirs to jail, and make their fucking children pay as well. America's lack of will to live always gets me riled......where the fuck is SKYNET when you need it......matter of time......

joedirt - It is pointless to expect any reality show to not pull a trick that will boost their ratings especially if they think they can get away with it. Have you seen the video of Fator's first AGT appearance (currently in the top 15 on VS)? The judges clearly set up Fator's Simpson Joke at the end but at the beginning of the performance they pretend to not know who he is. Which means that whole act where they pretended to dis him for being a ventriloquist and were then "suprised" by his performance was mostly likely a pretense. They must have seen his audition tapes beforehand; even talked to him before his performance to set up the simpson joke.

And why wouldn't they fake it? Their goal is to maximize ratings. Maybe all reality shows should be required to come with an explicit warning: "events in the show are more fake than they appear."

Regardless of the crap AGT pulls to boost its ratings I do think the top participants on AGT have real talent.

sooner or later a ventriloquist is going to be caught with a tape player in his pocket.

My dad was a magician and puppeteer (Punch and Judy) and I was a ventriloquist when I was a boy. Later, I got well.

please do

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“SG you mind if I put Ventriloquist Cat in your collective?”

SG you mind if I put Ventriloquist Cat in your collective?

My Dad was a magician (I was a ventriloquist - but I got well), and I would go to magic conventions with him. And there is magic that magicians have for each other, stuff that wouldn't impress the general public...kind of like how "The Aristocrats" is for comics.