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Interesting piece in the Financial Times piling on Glenn Beck’s supposed ratings troubles.
Most would kill to have Beck’s ratings “troubles.” Consider this: If half of Beck’s audience turned off the TV and never returned, he would still win decisively in total audience and the demo. Beck remains a dominant force on the cable news landscape, and any attempt to suggest otherwise ignores the raw data.
^It is just something else they can use to attack Beck. It’s like taking test and getting a 99, then you take a second test a little later and get a 92. They are both good scores on their own but someone could say “you’re becoming an idiot”. That is where Beck is kinda at right now.
Anthony Weiner wants Clarence Thomas (and, no doubt, every other conservative) to recuse himself on the Obamacare case. Good luck with that, weasel-boy,
Spud, I’ve been reading your tweet feed on the right hand side of the page. Good luck with your dad…I wish you and your family all the best during this difficult time.
That restraining order is terrifying. I’m generally not thrilled with the media enabling he’s been getting – especially from Piers “I’d like to get hammered with him ” Morgan – but NBC’s Jeff Rosen seems to have developed a relationship with Sheen that may be helping him.
Joe, at first I thought Huckabee was actually being a birther, except not even the birthers think Obama GREW UP in Kenya, so he obviously meant to say Indonesia like his spokesperson said.
But that doesn’t change the fact that this was obvious pandering. Obama spend 4 years in Indonesia. The rest he was in Hawaii until College at Occidental in LA for two years and then Columbia for two and then Harvard Law.
Sorry, Josh, in order for it to have been a mistake, he would have to have believed that the rebellion against the British he referenced happened in Indonesia. In order for that to work, he would have to transfer the entire history of Kenya to Indonesia, then make the mistake. It wasn’t a mistake. He fed that douchebag – who was babbling about birth certificates and “hating the West” – some crap about Kenya and the British and colonialism and “being raised by his father”. Not a lick of that is true.
Yes, I think the Volt is an overpriced crap car. That said, the auto manufacturers have to start start somewhere. The problem isn’t so much their inability to design a quality electric mobile as it is our technology hasn’t yet come up with a device for storage of energy that is anywhere near as simple and efficient as liquid petrol. When that happens – and it will happen – then building renewable energy vehicles that the consumers will want will become relatively easy.
If it was simply a matter of efficiency, there would be no argument. The problem is that the most efficient propulsion system for automobiles just went up a dollar a gallon because the Middle East is on fire. One way or another – electric, natural gas, hydrogen – we’ve got to find a way to get these cars down the road with stuff WE make.
We have to stop being wussies and start drilling off the Gulf shore again and also in Alaska..I mean in the gulf it stupid for us not to drill..Cuba and China are going to so the chances of a spill still even more so with them doing it…so there’s really no reason not too drill.
No argument there. But even the electric technology requires significant oil, coal, and/or nuclear power generation to supplement whatever other power supplies we have technology to use. When my Expedition comes available as a plug-in with 400+miles between re-energising, I’ll buy one.
Deep wells, bad; nuclear, good. The technology is a universe beyond Three Mile Island, and we need to get on it. When libs start spending 8 bucks a gallon on their hybrids, it’ll happen..
Ok fine, I’ll pull that one back. I think the right has a bizarre aversion to GM and fuel-efficient vehicles. I’ll leave it at that while I drive my roomy, 28mpg, 260 HP Chevy bikes-and-stuff hauler.
Joe, at first I thought Huckabee was actually being a birther, except not even the birthers think Obama GREW UP in Kenya, so he obviously meant to say Indonesia like his spokesperson said.
That’s an awfully poor excuse to give in convincing yourself that Huckabee isn’t a birther. I don’t know if he is or not, but just because typical birthers don’t say he grew up there doesn’t make Huckabee any less of a birther, if he is one. You can’t be that gullible.
Plus, like Joe said: if you bring up the country in a historical context, mentioning the Mau Mau uprising and the delivering of the Churchill bust (which many know was done with Kenya), how would it make any sense for him to rationalize it as “oh, I meant Indonesia”.
Huckabee dug himself into a hole and now he won’t be able to get out of it. And when you’re talking to a far-right radio nut like Malzberg, you have to pander to that base, just like politicians do with Rush. So, I know why he went down that road, but it probably ends up costing him.
So, I know why he went down that road, but it probably ends up costing him.
It ends up costing him with liberals and independents like myself who think he’s a pretty cool dude with a bass in his hand. When some pandering jerk like Newt does something like this, I barely notice. When someone I like pulls this crap..
Again, as Laura pointed out, Sarah Palin does not play this game. I may not like her much, but when it comes to Christian values about slander and lying, Huck to learn a thing or two from her.
Ok, here’s my plan Two and a Half Men: They get Sheen to do a “calling home” shot in the last minute of the show for a few episodes..then Sandy Duncan moves in.
You’re gonna need some Three’s Company/Valerie/Hogan Family history for this one..
Gutfeld would get it..he has a mind like a sieve for this stuff. He’s my age, and apparently watched as much TV as I did as a kid. And remembers all of it.
-Sheen & Irony-
The following excerpted from a Wiki entry of the movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”:
This forces Rooney to flee the scene, dropping his wallet in the process. When the police show up, they take Jeanie (Jennifer Grey) in for prank calling, and while at the police station, she talks to a drug addict (Charlie Sheen), who tells her that she needs to stop worrying so much about Ferris and more about herself. Jeanie becomes increasingly annoyed with the addict, but is found kissing him when her mother arrives to pick her up…
Joe, I’d join you in defending GM and the Volt but I’m too tired, so I’ll just say this: The Volt is much cheaper to drive per mile than any car. It is more expensive to buy (even minus the tax rebates and such), but if you lease it you definitely save a lot of money. The car is a technological wonder that is much more sophisticated than the Toyota Prius and much more practical than the Nissan Leaf.
Josh, at this point the Volt’s ‘Car of the Year’ awards are looking more and more in the same vein as Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize: hopeful wishcasting gone awry.
At the risk of being banned for life for turning this into the Dreaded Car Talk/Charlie Sheen Thread From Hell, lemme splain:
Car Of The Year is reserved only for all new models, and denotes the most significant new car, NOT the BEST one. In 2004 it was the second generation Prius for it’s advanced hybrid technology; in 2006, the redesigned Honda Civic for advancing the quality of sub-$20,000 compact cars so much that their competitors (Toyota Corolla, Nissan Sentra, Chevrolet Cobalt, etc.) suddenly looked ancient.
The Chevy Volt is a technological leap forward for passenger automobiles whose imprint will be seen on practically every car built 10 years from now. Got it, people who get things?
March 2, 2011 at 8:56 am
Interesting piece in the Financial Times piling on Glenn Beck’s supposed ratings troubles.
Most would kill to have Beck’s ratings “troubles.” Consider this: If half of Beck’s audience turned off the TV and never returned, he would still win decisively in total audience and the demo. Beck remains a dominant force on the cable news landscape, and any attempt to suggest otherwise ignores the raw data.
March 2, 2011 at 10:21 am
^It is just something else they can use to attack Beck. It’s like taking test and getting a 99, then you take a second test a little later and get a 92. They are both good scores on their own but someone could say “you’re becoming an idiot”. That is where Beck is kinda at right now.
March 2, 2011 at 10:45 am
Anthony Weiner wants Clarence Thomas (and, no doubt, every other conservative) to recuse himself on the Obamacare case. Good luck with that, weasel-boy,
March 2, 2011 at 11:04 am
Laura…roflmao. Anthony Weiner does bear a striking resemeblance to being a “weasel-boy”.
March 2, 2011 at 12:06 pm
I realize that none of us is interested in this, but it seems as though he actually behaves reasonably well on television.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/bizarre/insane-sheen-im-more-famous-obama
March 2, 2011 at 12:11 pm
Spud, I’ve been reading your tweet feed on the right hand side of the page. Good luck with your dad…I wish you and your family all the best during this difficult time.
March 2, 2011 at 1:32 pm
I did not know that J$ had a YouTube page, but it somehow came up as a recommendation on mine. How do they know?
http://www.youtube.com/user/johnnydollar01
March 2, 2011 at 1:32 pm
- Sheen -
That restraining order is terrifying. I’m generally not thrilled with the media enabling he’s been getting – especially from Piers “I’d like to get hammered with him ” Morgan – but NBC’s Jeff Rosen seems to have developed a relationship with Sheen that may be helping him.
March 2, 2011 at 1:35 pm
How do they know?
I assume Dark Forces are tracking if you click links at J$’s page.
March 2, 2011 at 1:36 pm
He looks like a foreigner. Bears watching.
March 2, 2011 at 2:32 pm
-Bears watching-
A mama grizzly?
March 2, 2011 at 3:01 pm
No trampoline, though.
March 2, 2011 at 3:29 pm
I hate that video. Drugged bear lands head first on the ground. Hysterical.
March 2, 2011 at 3:56 pm
I think Shep just plays it because it Pi$$es people off. He can pretty much do what he wants to because FNC needs him more than he needs FNC.
March 2, 2011 at 6:16 pm
Welcome to the Tea Party.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/
March 2, 2011 at 6:30 pm
Joe, at first I thought Huckabee was actually being a birther, except not even the birthers think Obama GREW UP in Kenya, so he obviously meant to say Indonesia like his spokesperson said.
But that doesn’t change the fact that this was obvious pandering. Obama spend 4 years in Indonesia. The rest he was in Hawaii until College at Occidental in LA for two years and then Columbia for two and then Harvard Law.
I don’t think this is “Tea Party” pandering just dumb pandering by Huckabee. But what do I care. I am running against him for the GOP nomination: http://americantruthmachine.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/yes-im-really-running-for-president-not-really/
March 2, 2011 at 6:36 pm
Sorry, Josh, in order for it to have been a mistake, he would have to have believed that the rebellion against the British he referenced happened in Indonesia. In order for that to work, he would have to transfer the entire history of Kenya to Indonesia, then make the mistake. It wasn’t a mistake. He fed that douchebag – who was babbling about birth certificates and “hating the West” – some crap about Kenya and the British and colonialism and “being raised by his father”. Not a lick of that is true.
March 2, 2011 at 6:47 pm
Josh, I’ll vote for you if you can find one person here who will admit that the Chevy Volt is not a “crappy car”. Buy American, pansies.
March 2, 2011 at 7:04 pm
I bought an Expedition. I think that pansy Volt might actually fit inside my ride.
March 2, 2011 at 7:15 pm
Yes, I think the Volt is an overpriced crap car. That said, the auto manufacturers have to start start somewhere. The problem isn’t so much their inability to design a quality electric mobile as it is our technology hasn’t yet come up with a device for storage of energy that is anywhere near as simple and efficient as liquid petrol. When that happens – and it will happen – then building renewable energy vehicles that the consumers will want will become relatively easy.
March 2, 2011 at 7:25 pm
If it was simply a matter of efficiency, there would be no argument. The problem is that the most efficient propulsion system for automobiles just went up a dollar a gallon because the Middle East is on fire. One way or another – electric, natural gas, hydrogen – we’ve got to find a way to get these cars down the road with stuff WE make.
March 2, 2011 at 7:32 pm
We have to stop being wussies and start drilling off the Gulf shore again and also in Alaska..I mean in the gulf it stupid for us not to drill..Cuba and China are going to so the chances of a spill still even more so with them doing it…so there’s really no reason not too drill.
Plus the Volt is a crappy car.
March 2, 2011 at 7:36 pm
No argument there. But even the electric technology requires significant oil, coal, and/or nuclear power generation to supplement whatever other power supplies we have technology to use. When my Expedition comes available as a plug-in with 400+miles between re-energising, I’ll buy one.
March 2, 2011 at 7:38 pm
At least in Alaska they will drill on land. I’m not opposed to Gulf oil drilling, but those deep wells are kinda dumb. Eh?
March 2, 2011 at 7:45 pm
Deep wells, bad; nuclear, good. The technology is a universe beyond Three Mile Island, and we need to get on it. When libs start spending 8 bucks a gallon on their hybrids, it’ll happen..
The Volt: you guys don’t know crap about cars.
March 2, 2011 at 8:27 pm
The Volt: you guys don’t know crap about cars.
Ok fine, I’ll pull that one back. I think the right has a bizarre aversion to GM and fuel-efficient vehicles. I’ll leave it at that while I drive my roomy, 28mpg, 260 HP Chevy bikes-and-stuff hauler.
March 2, 2011 at 8:52 pm
That’s an awfully poor excuse to give in convincing yourself that Huckabee isn’t a birther. I don’t know if he is or not, but just because typical birthers don’t say he grew up there doesn’t make Huckabee any less of a birther, if he is one. You can’t be that gullible.
Plus, like Joe said: if you bring up the country in a historical context, mentioning the Mau Mau uprising and the delivering of the Churchill bust (which many know was done with Kenya), how would it make any sense for him to rationalize it as “oh, I meant Indonesia”.
Huckabee dug himself into a hole and now he won’t be able to get out of it. And when you’re talking to a far-right radio nut like Malzberg, you have to pander to that base, just like politicians do with Rush. So, I know why he went down that road, but it probably ends up costing him.
March 2, 2011 at 9:00 pm
So, I know why he went down that road, but it probably ends up costing him.
It ends up costing him with liberals and independents like myself who think he’s a pretty cool dude with a bass in his hand. When some pandering jerk like Newt does something like this, I barely notice. When someone I like pulls this crap..
Again, as Laura pointed out, Sarah Palin does not play this game. I may not like her much, but when it comes to Christian values about slander and lying, Huck to learn a thing or two from her.
March 2, 2011 at 9:42 pm
Rumsfeld does Opie and Anthony. Only in America.
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/02/25/rumsfeld_lizard_person&source=newsletter&utm_source=contactology&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Salon_Daily Newsletter (Not Premium)_7_30_110
March 2, 2011 at 9:42 pm
Oops, bad words. In case O&A wasn’t clue enough.
March 2, 2011 at 10:04 pm
Ok, here’s my plan Two and a Half Men: They get Sheen to do a “calling home” shot in the last minute of the show for a few episodes..then Sandy Duncan moves in.
You’re gonna need some Three’s Company/Valerie/Hogan Family history for this one..
March 2, 2011 at 10:13 pm
^ I han’t a bloody clue…
March 2, 2011 at 10:15 pm
^ ’70s sitcom trivia, mate. Or Emilio Estevez could step in, ala Alias: Smith & Jones. Ok I’ll stop.
March 2, 2011 at 10:17 pm
Ah. I was too busy studying to spend much time watching the telly.
March 2, 2011 at 10:27 pm
Gutfeld would get it..he has a mind like a sieve for this stuff. He’s my age, and apparently watched as much TV as I did as a kid. And remembers all of it.
March 2, 2011 at 10:41 pm
-Sheen & Irony-
The following excerpted from a Wiki entry of the movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”:
This forces Rooney to flee the scene, dropping his wallet in the process. When the police show up, they take Jeanie (Jennifer Grey) in for prank calling, and while at the police station, she talks to a drug addict (Charlie Sheen), who tells her that she needs to stop worrying so much about Ferris and more about herself. Jeanie becomes increasingly annoyed with the addict, but is found kissing him when her mother arrives to pick her up…
March 2, 2011 at 11:00 pm
I can’t follow that up. The only thing I remember from that scene is he had better hair than Tucker Carlson.
March 3, 2011 at 7:00 am
Joe, I’d join you in defending GM and the Volt but I’m too tired, so I’ll just say this: The Volt is much cheaper to drive per mile than any car. It is more expensive to buy (even minus the tax rebates and such), but if you lease it you definitely save a lot of money. The car is a technological wonder that is much more sophisticated than the Toyota Prius and much more practical than the Nissan Leaf.
March 3, 2011 at 7:01 am
The Volt wasn’t named North American Car of the Year for nothin’.
March 3, 2011 at 8:32 am
I hear they are thinking of replacing Sheen with John Stamos. Was this discussed here already? Sorry.
March 3, 2011 at 8:34 am
^ How about Ted McGinley?
March 3, 2011 at 10:52 am
Josh, at this point the Volt’s ‘Car of the Year’ awards are looking more and more in the same vein as Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize: hopeful wishcasting gone awry.
March 3, 2011 at 11:55 am
At the risk of being banned for life for turning this into the Dreaded Car Talk/Charlie Sheen Thread From Hell, lemme splain:
Car Of The Year is reserved only for all new models, and denotes the most significant new car, NOT the BEST one. In 2004 it was the second generation Prius for it’s advanced hybrid technology; in 2006, the redesigned Honda Civic for advancing the quality of sub-$20,000 compact cars so much that their competitors (Toyota Corolla, Nissan Sentra, Chevrolet Cobalt, etc.) suddenly looked ancient.
The Chevy Volt is a technological leap forward for passenger automobiles whose imprint will be seen on practically every car built 10 years from now. Got it, people who get things?