another defeat for the Bushies

POSTED BY: NewOldBrownCoat
UPDATED: Thursday, February 15, 2007 06:50
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RUE

Tuesday, February 13, 2007 7:48 PM

Fletch - you rolled a three fer!

Lottsa noise, flashing lights, free drinks !!

FLETCH2

Tuesday, February 13, 2007 7:55 PM

I'm sure it's a critical hit. By rights Pirate News should see the wisdom of my post and have a lucid moment of revelation and realise he's insane....

Well we can dream...

MALBADINLATIN

Tuesday, February 13, 2007 8:04 PM

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Originally posted by ShinyEd:
Deranged Bush Hate Syndrome strikes again...
These sad, tragic people are unable to enjoy life in any way, they are constantly on their manic alert for anything...anything that can be blamed on Bush...or anything, anything that can show a win over Bush. It eats away at them, day and night, 24 hours a day...sadly, there is no known cure.

Delusional Bush Suppoter Syndrome is alive and well. The strain of supporting a bungling ill spoken waste of skin has righties snapping like twigs. DBSS puts increasing amounts of distance between the aflicted and reality. In the advanced stages a common halucination involves armies of mindless and relentless "blamers". Kind of like Reavers! Like most insane people they think that they are right about everything. Don't try to reason with them, you'll just get them agitated and we'll have to up their meds.

"You can believe your eyes...or you can believe me." -Groucho Marx

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

Tuesday, February 13, 2007 8:46 PM

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Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
I especially loved ShinyEd's post above , where he's accusing someone of being a Bush Hater. I never mentioned El Prez by name, but only his partisans. Says more about Ed than about us Chix fans, don't it?

And Finnn, with his " turn for the worst" ( sic) , that's not a defeat. It usedta be " turn for the worse", not "worst" , and that certainly ain't a victory.... OH, except maybe if yer bringing democracy to the Iraqis

You and your smartass smugness can kiss my muscular buttocks any time you want. Admit it...I'm right about you and your ilk...yer life is dominated by Bush....you're obssessed with all he does..you can't wait to attack him at every corner, or throw praise at his enemies in relation to every single aspect of your limited world.....why else come up with such an absurd topic trying to tie the Ditsy Jerks Grammy wins with anything to do with Republicans.

I know it's a waste of time and energy to argue with a fool, a jerk and a troll, but it's so much fun to fight a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

Why tie the Dixie Chicks' wins with anything to do with Republicans? How 'bout because the MSM did? About the third sentence of every story about this recapitulated the controversy from before the War.
Now maybe you should go back to your comic books, and listening to Limbaugh on the radio... He's on channel... Come ta think of it, I don't know what channel he's on.
And , BTW, thanx. nobody's ever called me smug before.

CITIZEN

Wednesday, February 14, 2007 12:04 AM

You're smug, but then it's a occupational hazard when talking to an idiot...

More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.

WALKERHOUND

Wednesday, February 14, 2007 12:08 AM

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would you not play them at all? I mean they will still be popular with some fraction of your audience and so long as you were not

Well why not stop playing them all together? From a commercial stand point it come's down to % how much for how much against and how much don't care. As long as the keep playing % wasn't the largest then from a making $$ stand point it's a crap shot. Then ya add in the ability to get all the extra publicity (whether ya come out for or against). there are lot's of artist's that are never heard on country stations primarily because there not doing country music it's true but there would probably be at lest some over lap in listeners. I guess i don't really see any reason why particular stations or DJ's shouldn't have decide to stop playing there song's.

At the end of the day were talking about genre stations that focus on a particular segment of listeners. Primarily thay do that by the typ of music played but there is a component of at lest implied....shard world veiw (not really happy with that word choice). The chick's standing was damaged in there original genera but there are other genre’s and stations. They them selves talked about moving away from country (a fairly logical plan IMO). I’ve never been really sold on "blackball" as an strictly accurate description at lest on a more emotional/descriptive level. by the by you do still on occasion here some of there older songs on some country stations for what it's worth.

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some of the stuff the "bidness" pulls is commercialism first and patriotism second

Or patriotism first and commercialism second, ether or, six of one half dozen of the other....so on and so forth. just because somebody's doing or saying something that they think thay may profit by doesn’t mean that thay also don't believe it. Limbaugh (or Michal Moor)is a good example, generally i assume that he believes at lest in the general theory of what he say's. Even if he may be adding some % of "waahwho" hyperbole on top in the interest of generating more personal successes.

JONGSSTRAW

Wednesday, February 14, 2007 12:43 AM

JONGSSTRAW

Wednesday, February 14, 2007 12:58 AM

FINN MAC CUMHAL

Wednesday, February 14, 2007 1:04 AM

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Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
And Finnn, with his " turn for the worst" ( sic) , that's not a defeat. It usedta be " turn for the worse", not "worst" , and that certainly ain't a victory.... OH, except maybe if yer bringing democracy to the Iraqis

It is true that I generally draw a distinction between a ‘setback’ and a ‘defeat.’ And if that chip on your shoulder wasn’t so big, you probably would too, but if you want to mean “defeat” in your original argument, instead of a reversal, then that’s fine with me. It’s your story, but it won’t help your case any. You have yet to explain how the Dixie Chicks’ various Grammies constitute a loss for the GOP, much less a defeat.

On a related point, the Dixie Chicks really didn't deserve the death threats. That kind of thing is totally crazy, but as for the loss of popularity, that they probably did deserve. The Dixie Chicks made money off their image, when they decided to change that image, their revenues respond like it would with any other business. This isn’t a case of the Dixie Chicks having an opinion and being ridiculed for it; it’s a case of a business decision, albeit, perhaps impulsive but possibly calculated. And as a consequence they lost much of their US audience. Many US radio stations chose not to play them, not because they were being blacklisted for their opinions, but because the radio stations were making a business decision also. This is business, not charity, and the Dixie Chicks made a lot of money before that event and they're probably making even more now, so they sure as hell don’t need anyone’s charity. So the death threats and whatnot were fruitcakey, but the rest is all fair game.

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

-- Cicero

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, February 15, 2007 6:50 AM

Maybe they just like their music?

Occam's Razor comes to mind......

"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack

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