Air America is in trouble...

ylexot

ylexot

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Government officials are reviewing a skit which aired on the network Monday evening -- a skit featuring an apparent gunshot warning to the president!
The announcer: "A spoiled child is telling us our Social Security isn't safe anymore, so he is going to fix it for us. Well, here's your answer, you ungrateful whelp: [audio sound of 4 gunshots being fired.] Just try it, you little bastard. [audio of gun being cocked]."
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Funny how the liberal radio station is promoting the use of guns...which they want to take away.
 
AC/DC

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ylexot said:
Funny how the liberal radio station is promoting the use of guns...which they want to take away.
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:nono: It's only a problem if the public have the guns, they are allowed to have them............and the criminals of course. :duh:
 
vraiblonde

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The announcer: "A spoiled child is telling us our Social Security isn't safe anymore, so he is going to fix it for us. Well, here's your answer, you ungrateful whelp: [audio sound of 4 gunshots being fired.] Just try it, you little bastard. [audio of gun being cocked]."
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:shocking:

Hey, Rraley - anything you'd like to say to your fellow Democrats?

Death threats against the President should be punished. I don't care who you are or which party the President belongs to, this is just wrong. Yet they can just go on and on and nobody checks them.
 
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xusnret

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AC/DC said:
:duh: If there were ever a true candidate for a lightning strike......
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MM + lightning strike hummm.... reminds me of this story from oddly enough:


BERLIN - More than 1,000 toads have puffed up and exploded in a Hamburg pond in recent weeks, and scientists still have no explanation for what's causing the combustion, an official said Wednesday.


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Both the pond's water and body parts of the toads have been tested, but scientists have been unable to find a bacteria or virus that would cause the toads to swell up and pop, said Janne Kloepper, of the Hamburg-based Institute for Hygiene and the Environment.


"It's absolutely strange," she said. "We have a really unique story here in Hamburg. This phenomenon really doesn't seem to have appeared anywhere before."


The toads at a pond in the upscale neighborhood of Altona have been blowing up since the beginning of the month, filling up like balloons until their stomachs suddenly burst.


"It looks like a scene from a science-fiction movie," Werner Schmolnik, the head of a local environment group, told the Hamburger Abendblatt daily. "The bloated animals suffer for several minutes before they finally die."


Biologists have come up with several theories, but Kloepper said that most have been ruled out.


The pond's water quality is no better or worse than other bodies of water in Hamburg, the toads did not appear to have a disease, and a laboratory in Berlin has ruled out the possibility that it is a fungus that made its way from South America, she said.


She said that tests will continue. In the meantime, city residents have been warned to stay away from the pond.
 
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rraley

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Hmmm...I don't think that this was meant to be a death threat. It was tasteless though and doesn't really help the message...but I don't think that this was intended to suggest that the president should be shot. Just my opinion.

Rather than make a stupid skit such as this, why doesn't Air America actually talk about the perceived drawbacks of President Bush's proposed Social Security reform?
 
Mikeinsmd

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xusnret said:
MM + lightning strike hummm.... reminds me of this story from oddly enough: BERLIN - More than 1,000 toads have puffed up and exploded in a Hamburg pond in recent weeks,
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This happen to Michael Moore..... Too good to be true.
 
willie

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rraley said:
Rather than make a stupid skit such as this, why doesn't Air America actually talk about the perceived drawbacks of President Bush's proposed Social Security reform?
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This is the HUGE problem with all of Air America's programming, skits and hysteria. I try to listen to it in the truck but there is never anything of substance ever discussed. When the Dow dropped Franken was screaming that if George had his way, all of your money is now gone! Franken and Rhodes don't have a clue. It's beyond me how anyone can take them seriously. The gunshot skit is everyday play with those clowns.
 
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rraley

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Larry, I'm on academic probation for what? Not having your opinion on this one? Come on, Franken, et. al. aren't trying to kill President Bush. Have you ever seen a skit on SNL or any other variety show like this? It was a skit that seems to convey Air America's message to people who try to change Social Security. It's a metaphor; get over it...kinda like when sometimes you say "I swear I could just kill him over this..." or "I will kill you if you do that."

I mean this is like when some of my leftist friends are trying to say that Jon Cronyn from Texas was trying to incite terrorist activity against judges when he made his statements regarding recent violence against judges on the Senate floor. Overreaction by the left on that, overreaction from the right here on this.

Regardless, it is still tasteless and something that doesn't help the message against Bush's Social Security reform. I think that rather than try to "take the AM waves back" from Limbaugh, etc., we should try to take back the government...may be more effective.
 
vraiblonde

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rraley said:
It was a skit that seems to convey Air America's message to people who try to change Social Security. It's a metaphor; get over it...kinda like when sometimes you say "I swear I could just kill him over this..." or "I will kill you if you do that."
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You are being deliberately obtuse and, what's more, you know it.
 
FromTexas

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I agree with Raley, its not a real threat. However, it is an excellent example of the vehemence of the radical left and their inability to deal directly with an issue.
 
Toxick

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rraley said:
Overreaction by the left on that, overreaction from the right here on this.
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It's not "the right" who is "overreacting" to this.

It's the secret service, and this kind of reaction to this sort of behavior is nothing new, and it's not a neo-con thing.


I seem to remember a rapper who superimposed his picture like he was hiding behind a tree getting ready to leap out and bust a few cizzaps in the ass of President Bush the Elder. The Secret Service was on him like stink on you-know-what.

There are more of these sorts of incidents.


Nobody should be surprised by this reaction. It is (or it should be) common knowledge that threatening the president even when it's a joke or a skit is not protected by the first amendment, and I'm pretty sure it's a criminal offense. Whether it's illegal or not, it is, most definitely, the fastest and most efficient way to get the Secret Service to come crawling up your a-hole with microscopes and tweezers.

It is their job to protect the president, and they take it very seriously.


It was not only tasteless and crude, it was plain effing stupid.
 
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rraley

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First of all, nice word choice, vrai..."obtuse," quite a scholarly word.

To Toxick, have you seen the posts here from other conservatives? They seem to be quite adament that Air America meant to incite people to kill the president.

To quote vrai...
Death threats against the President should be punished
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This wasn't a death threat; it was a joke. A couple days ago I told a friend that i could just kill Howard Dean for the direction he's leading my party...should I be investigated? Should they stick to me like glue? Probably not.

I can understand the Secret Service looking into it, but for the general public to be up in arms about something as casual as this is ridiculous. It is hyperbole of the worst kind.

I would like to echo what FromTexas said...this sorta thing is what hurts the left and it's why the Democratic Party isn't succeeding very much recently.
 
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