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BUT RUSSIA!!!! TRUMP!!! COLLUSION!!! TREASON!!!

No!! President Trump!! Guilty of money laundering and influence for sale!!!!

It's even more fun when you understand that then citizen Trump helped Baby Doc Duvalier to launder money in order to help Haiti become a shithole.

Well, go start your own web forum. If you don't like what Twitter does, there's a whole world out there. Go to it. But I guarantee you, if you simply allow the cranks to control your medium, it will fester into nothingness.

Someone did, it's called Gab.ai, and it's specifically a haven for free speech.

Their version of censoring is to let everyone censor what *they* see on the site. An individual can "mute" other users or specific words, so if someone keeps posting things that bother you you can "mute" them so that you don't see them. If individual words trigger an unpleasant memory for you, you can mute individual words and you'll never see them.

The thing about calling people racist/sexist/nazi is definitely real.

Kellyanne Conway typing on her cell phone during a meeting of black dignitaries is definitely racist!

From that facebook post:

I sincerely doubt that Kellyanne Conway would be on the couch, shoes off, on her knees, looking at her phone, if the room was full of white dignitaries or CEOs that she actually actually respected.

Here's the full context which shows that she was setting her phone to take a group photo.

People are seeing racism everywhere right now, even where it doesn't exist!

Yup.

http://www.hannity.com/article...

http://www.politifact.com/trut...

Does the name COINTELPRO mean anything to you? Decades ago the government used illegal surveillance to attempt to quash the civil rights movement. What assurances do we have that they won't do this again? Why should we believe they have good intentions at all when they cannot comply with the 4th amendment?

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/national_world/2013/07/07/tea-party-only-one-of-irs-targets.html
http://www.hannity.com/article/irs-targets-political-candidates/17710
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/irs-targets-conservative-groups/

Seems they already started.

Recently, the government came out with the revelation that the largest threat to national security is (wait for it!!!)...

Veterans.

Seriously, you need to provide a citation or reference for this. It sounds like it should be true but that is not enough.

Right wing spin
Centrist spin Left wing spin

The original report was in 2009, penned by Arizona's own Janet Napolitano, a Democrat elected as governor in a state where the only way a Democrat can get in office is to look even more right-wing than Sarah 'Yukon Barbie' Palin.

The real problem is that people have lost their heads in the United States. The return of evangelicals has led to an atmosphere that is literally opposed to science. So, you get exactly what you expect. Opinions that are based on anecdote and wish thinking instead of data. The reason science works is because you start with the assumption that you don't know something until you can prove that you probably know it, with repeatable, verifiable results. When you start trusting the word of pill junkies and homophobic college dropouts versus the entire scientific community and their reams of data, get ready for some wide-reaching and catastrophic fuckups.

Canada kept the rules. The Canadian banking system is still the most sound. Every time we take cops off the financial beat, we end up with a banking crisis. These realities can be arrived at by simply reading about the last 30 years of panics, and the hundred years of bank panics that existed before the FDIC and sensible Great Depression legislation.

But leave it to the same fuckers from Harvard, who apparently can't even manage a college trust without running it into the ground.

The pro-market propaganda will continue, and probably destroy our economy beyond repair. And then some wise ass will say that it shows that the market does work, by wiping itself out.

hmmm this will go well with Hannidate!!! where like minded right wing rednecks kind find that special one!

Jesus christ! Last time I checked this was 'News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters.' Not the Sean Hannity show. Go over there if you want to discuss your political stance. I've had enough of this GW Bush sucks/Kerry sucks/Where are the WMDs.

Shut the fuck up and go to another board if you care that much.

What about the 10 seconds every quarter of an hour or so when colmes gets to speak?

The Sean Hannity Show != Hannity & Colmes.

(I might not agree with 95% of what Alan Colmes says, but at least he's more polite than 95% of the other liberals out there. You can disagree without being disagreeable. I'm sure there's a lesson in there somewhere for Howard Dean and his ilk, but I doubt they'll learn it.)

Interesting fact, Sean Hanity's speaking fee is $35,000. colmes gets less than $15,000.

You don't suppose that could be market forces at work, do you?

On my Windows XP boxes, QuickTime has been remarkably unstable through three major and countless minor releases. Crashes, weird artifacts that linger for the duration of playback, "corrupted" files that played fine under Win2K...

iTunes (which runs QuickTime underneath) streams Sean Hannity (in MP3) for me without a hitch on WinXP and Win2K. That's three hours a day with no glitches, unless there's a problem on the server side. (I know the problem is on their end because Winamp doesn't work any better if there's a problem with the MP3 stream.) They also do Windows Media and Real streams...I'll take WMA if I can't get MP3, but WMA takes much longer to begin playing than MP3.

I can't remember the last time I had RealPlayer installed on any of my computers. I simply haven't had a need for it. I almost broke down and was ready to install the Palm OS version on my Tungsten T when it became available, but then AeroPlayer made it to market first with both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis playback.

Yea. That was supposed to happen in the US by 2002. But I guess we missed that deadline. Haha!

Digital doesn't impress me. The stations that come in clearly over traditional analog broadcast are entirely in spanish. I don't speak spanish. In the US only poor people and hippies use "free" broadcast signals. And the programming on those channels reflects their target audience.

PBS (public television) is supported by donations, so their signal is really terrible (people don't donate the hundreds of thousands of dollars a week it takes to run a TV station). Upgrading to digital wouldn't help, because then they'd have to pay for that too.

I think we can draw similar lines along free Digital Radio. Who is going to listen to it? People who can afford CD, superCD or dvd-audio decks and music? People who can afford commecial free subsubscription service like XM, Sirius or others? No. People who can't afford a HD-Radio receiver in the first place are the main target. It simply does not make sense.

Me? I mostly listen to AM radio, so apparently digital doesn't mean much me to if I haven't even "upgraded" to FM. But AM is of suffienct quality to listen to talk radio (News, Weather, Limbaugh, Savage, NPR, Art Bell, Hannity, O'Reilly, etc).

What's the advantage for a business to run AM over FM? It's less costly to run an AM station(equipment and licesing). You can actually have a wider coverage area for less power. (FM has more consistent quality, but the signal drops off quickly. AM the quality degrades over the distance).

Attacking minor figures inevitably makes you look small. Whether justified or not, Bush made a major error calling for a boycott of the Dixie Chicks, it made him look like a small minded bully. He should have laughed it off. A President with real class would have called them up and talked to them in person.

(Responding to trolls is usually a Bad Idea, but I can't allow this assertion to remain unchallenged.)

Get back under your bridge. Bush never called for a boycott of anybody. There are some talk-radio hosts (Sean Hannity comes to mind as an example) who have suggested that the Dixie Chicks' treachery ought not be rewarded in the marketplace, but the administration hasn't said much one way or the other about the subject. If you're going to mindlessly bash people, at least get your facts straight.

"Their infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad. Be assured, Baghdad is safe, protected."

"They're not even [within] 100 miles [of Baghdad]. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion ... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion."

"Today we slaughtered them in the airport. They are out of Saddam International Airport. The force that was in the airport, this force was destroyed."
"NO", snapped Mr al-Sahaf, "We have retaken the airport. There are NO Americans there. I will take you there and show you. IN ONE HOUR!"

"Listen, this explosion does not frighten us any langer. The cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catchign them like fish in a river. I mean here that over the past two days we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target."

"It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait."

"They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind."

"Our initial assessment is that they will all die"

"Those are not Iraqi soldiers at all. Where did they bring them from?"

Sources:
zdnet article
Iraqi Info Minister Fan Site(down atm, but will be back soon)
Working Version of previous site as of 4-12-03 3:15AM CDT

Fox News rules by the way. Watch it everyday! Go Sean Hannity!

The site of a card carrying R, me!

I wonder if the real motive isn't a return to the Fairness Doctrine of a decade or two ago, requiring radio stations to give equal time to a variety of viewpoints? Democrats have tried and tried again to get their own talk show going, and it fell flat on it's face every time. But, if they can do it through legislation, I bet they would.

I hope this is not the case, but with Feinstein, one of the most liberal in Congress, behind this, I'm all but positive this is a huge part of this whole thing.

He claims to be truthful, which for the most part he is. If he is not, he admits it freely, just like when he is wrong.
Granted, he is an unlistenable, egotistical, smug, self riteous bastard; he is also funny as hell sometimes.
I admit that I am not a liberal by any stretch of the imagination but, most conservatives know better than to follow Rush blindly. Especially in the last 4 years when he has been becoming more and more a farce of himself.
Good conservatism is coming from Mike Reaganand Sean Hannity more than Rush any more but, the simple minded liberal keeps promoting Rush better than any conservative ever could.
(think: "AW!! this tastes terrible!! Try it!!")

outside of New York? check your local AM dial ...

Even that statement isn't true anymore. College radio is no longer a free-spirited playground of diverse music that it once was. Now, college radio is a proving grounds.

Pretty much nobody at UNLV listens to KUNV, the supposed college-radio station. A few years back, they switched from college-radio fare to jazz and similar crap, basically becoming kind of an NPR clone. They thought that was what their audience wanted, or there was more money in it, or something. They even moved out of the student union to an off-campus location.

Hell, I've just about given up on FM radio. KXTE (107.5) used to be OK, but their "x-treme radio" is sounding more and more like rap (the "style" of music where the "c" is silent). There's an 80s station (KSTJ, 102.7), but as someone else noted lately, many 80s stations tend to play from the same small group of 80s songs—and this one's no exception. (I appreciate that they avoid drek such as NKOTB, but (for instance) the only Depeche Mode they seem to have heard of is "Enjoy the Silence," "Personal Jesus," and "Blasphemous Rumours.") KEDG (103.5) used to be good, but they changed formats--first to R&B, then Spanish-language stuff, and now the latest Britney/Backdoor Boys/N'Suck tripe.

I stick mostly with talk radio nowadays. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and the local talk-show hosts are nowhere near as repetitive as what gets spun on most FM stations.