Those are all interesting "common goods" that I would love the Right Wing to actually embody.

It is only individual freedom and responsibility, I've noticed, when it is your freedom and somebody else's responsibility. (I can provide anecdotal evidence in proof of that statement, from the lives of my super conservative relatives.)

Being fiscally responsible is a great thing -- so why the continuing huge tax cuts to the wealthy, where it has been proved over and over that those cuts will not help the economy and only drive us deeper in debt? And all that crap about death panels, when it has been proven that when folks plan for end of life issues, huge amounts of unnecessary, expensive and ultimately painful prolonging of life treatment are avoided?

Following the Constitution. You support the ACLU, right? They fight for the Constitution all the time. The Right Wing doesn't own the Constitution, it belongs to all of us. Including the checks and balances inherernt in the document.

Free markets. Huh. Well, Teddy Roosevelt was conservative, but he recognized that truly "free" markets are not in the best interests of the country. Unless you like lead paint in children's toys?

Life is lived on a curve -- with the far right and the far left holding positions that try to drag the middle around.

We're on the same curve, though.

Liberals don't disagree with your list of common goods. They just want to implement them in differing ways. For example -- individual freedom. Libs get behind that in a big way for personal choices in the bedroom. Gay marriage and the reproductive rights are individual freedoms, right? But Libs get a little torqued when someone else's individual freedom may cost innocent lives -- hence their concern over gun control.

All this is off topic, though. Tucker Carlson is a raving red baboon butt of a human being who cares nothing for a reasoned conversation when he can make a living out of his Monkey Island antics. (Primate Island, I know, that just isn't as funny.)

The fact that Jon Stewart hates him makes me very happy.



>> ^lantern53:

Which part of the 'right wing drivel' is BS?
The part about individual freedom and responsibility?
The part about fiscal responsibility?
The part about following the Constitution, which is the founding document of this country?
The part about free markets?

So what makes you think that Beck and others on the Right are the only shills, but Al "I-invented-the-internet" Gore is sincere in his desire to "save" an earth that doesn't need saving, and not just make billions off of his "carbon credit" scam?

The left still loves Bill Clinton because he (and Gore) supposedly stand up for 'the little guy.' But behind closed doors, when Bill's own little guy stood up, he threatened to fire women that didn't "kiss it". You would think equality-minded leftists would be repulsed by such vulgar displays of power BUT NO.

Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, aka Obama's and Hillary's life instruction manual, teaches how to...heckle and talk sh1t.

Different wings, same turkey.

>> ^VoodooV:

Tucker IMO, is another one of those douche bags like Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck who is smart enough to know that a lot of the right wing drivel is BS. They're just simply paid to pander to the base so pandering to the base is what they will do. Beck is a former DJ after all. He's just being paid to say a lot of shit. He was railing against the health care system too before his masters told him to blast the Democrat Health Care system.
They're just paid hit men. It's people like Palin who are the true believers that you need to worry about. (either that or she's the greatest actresses of all time)
Seriously, if someone paid you a butt load of money to heckle people and talk shit, you wouldn't be too quick to dismiss it.
I'm not saying they don't deserve what they get, however.

>> ^kymbos:

Oh, Stewart, Please go after Tucker. Oh please, oh please, oh please.


Stewart already effectively got Tucker fired when Crossfire was canceled almost immediately after Stewart went on the show and destroyed it and Tucker at the same time. Tucker is the TKO'd boxer lying on the floor muttering incoherently about how could have won if his coach had let him go back in.

That reminded me of Jon Stewart's smack-down of Tucker Carlson. Awesome stuff.

Next week on Videosift Eye for the Politician Guy... Tucker Carlson - bow ties... really??

"Have you picked up any girls doing this, honestly?"


It was at this point where his words overcame his bowtie on my doucheometer. It would've been earlier but that bowtie is so douchey that it was actually cleaning the vagina that is Tucker Carlson.

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I have a feeling Tucker Carlson is going to be showing up on some future Worst Person In The World segments now that he's been signed up to have a show on Fox.

Yes, the few Canadians you know represent all Canadians. All 2,000 of them right?

>> ^Rotty:
Although Carlson was incorrect and rude in calling all Canadians retarded, he's hit on a valid point about being resentful. My observation go way before Carlson...he was probably wearing a bow tie and knickers in high school during my early encounters. I must say that Canadians are not shy about their attitudes. They'll sit down with you at dinner and bemoan the great American opulence, stupidity and wastefulness. They'll reside (in the US) next door to you and plant a Canadian flag in their front yard. They'll recite all the musical, comedic and media persons from Canada now in the US (Rush!!!, Peter Jennings...yada...yada...yada).
Carlson is right, many Americans really don't care. I don't spend my time worrying about Canada and keeping count on who does what and where. Look, you can have hockey back...it's not our fault that the bulk of teams are American. And yes, the Aneheim (Mighty) Ducks did win the Stanley Cup in 2007 - making Henri Richard turn in his grave, I'm sure. The only time I really consider Canada is when I start hearing the complaints. And then it's "On ,yeah...the Canadian thing...".

Tucker Carlson, tire iron upside the head.

Well, Tucker Carlson is a douche, so well.. there you go.

Tucker Carlson est une Sac de Douche

What's the sound of one s'more falling in the forest when your brain's in a vat?

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How can I have some more if I havn't had anything yet????? :-D

In reply to this comment by ObsidianStorm:
I look forward to it - break out the marshmellows...

s'mores, anyone?

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>> ^drattus:
Let's see. He helped to take down Crossfire, he gets one high level candidate after another on his show, he says something and the news media picks it up, sounds like a serious commentator to me.
The mistake we too often make is to confuse the way someone makes a living with who they are. Jon did the same thing Olbermann did a few years ago. He decided that someone with a platform should probably say something, then he realized he was someone with a platform. If the real news would do real news then comedy shows wouldn't be known for some of the best political analysis out there these days. As long as the so called "news" is doing what they are doing, then someone needs to say it.


That was around when the Iraq war started, and that was when the Daily Show started being a good show.