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39 minutes ago, GSG said:

 

What does this have to do with education? 

I think it's a call back to the furries' scandal/lie that has been talked about on the thread with kitty litter and etc.

"fight! fight! fight!"   

This argument over who can be the crappiest GOP leader/minority leader of the house is going to be fun to watch.  How many factions will they split into do you think?  The end result being an even less valuable 2 year duration because they can't get along to do anything.  

Methinks the Liz Cheney for speaker might actually be the winning ticket for the dems if we indeed lose the house.

1 minute ago, Danny Bateman said:

NBC just called the Arizona Governor's race for Hobbs. Meaning the Trumpist candidates ran in swing states all lost. Except Lombardo in Nevada and I'm not even sure calling him a Trumpist is accurate. He's more of your run-of-the-mill ring kisser.

 

I think we're entering the phase where everyone except the hardcores pretend they never supported him.

First however, we have at least 4-6 months of fighting about how unfair and "cheaty" and mean the elections were.

4 minutes ago, commando said:

apparently all elections ever held without required voter id cards has been illegal according to the far right wing nut jobs.

Well yes of course, UNLESS a GOP candidate wins.  Then it's all good.

7 minutes ago, commando said:

i am 60 years old and have never had to show ID to vote in Nebraska.

Almost the same age ... NE, KS, Boston, MA and suburban MA and never had to show it either.

@alexhortdog95 welcome.  Glad to have you here and hope you don't bang your head against the wall too much.

16 minutes ago, Lorewarn said:

 

 

Mass shootings on college campuses don't happen every day.

 

Mass shootings on college campuses that have P5 D1 football programs where the perpetrator and victims are related to the football program especially don't happen every day. 

Gotcha - so because it involved football players we should wait to announce our college coach.  

I find it interesting that we have all these unwritten rules about what should be impacted and what isn't when a tragedy by shooting happens.  Not to be catty, (but it will come across that way)  life seems to go on for every other mass shooting daily, I find it odd that we'd halt a coaching announcement because of an event that took place halfway across the country just because the victims are fb players.  I get that their practices, regional games etc might be impacted this next week, but I guess I missed what happened locally after Parkland and Broken Arrow and Raliegh and others within the last couple weeks - is the impact really just driven by who was killed?

9 minutes ago, chamrocck said:

Did maybe the UVA tragedy put the brakes on our announcement?

Why would it?  Is there a VA coach in consideration?  Honestly can't keep track.   And sadly, we can't wait just cuz there's been a campus shooting, there will always be another one.  If we were to postpone life cuz of college or high school shootings we'd never name a coach.

25 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

Ahhhh, the GOP is only getting the minority racist vote.   Gotcha.   Just the 15-18% of black voters who hate other blacks huh.    And those racist 40% of Hispanics.   Geesh 

Said nothing about that.  I can't explain why anybody votes GOP right now, much less minorities.  I only commented that people having bias and negative opinions about people of other races is not limited to whites.   Geesh 

2 minutes ago, TGHusker said:

Primarily due to the economy.  Not from the MAGA philosophy.  

And you don't have to be white to be racist.

1 hour ago, nic said:

After an abortion? I had friends with a baby born with trisomy 13 ….I think. We went and saw the baby too. It lived several days. They chose a normal delivery, and the baby survived as long as it could. They tried to make the baby comfortable.

And if that "law" had been put into place the medical staff would have had to take drastic measures to improve/save the life of that baby that everyone knew was not likely to survive a year.  They wouldn't have just provided comfort, and many of the procedures and things they would have been legally forced to do would have been painful and traumatic for the baby and its family.

2 hours ago, Lorewarn said:

 

 

I'd argue that Chappelle is not transphobic. I mean, I probably won't, because it would be tiresome and unlikely to change the minds of people who believe he is, but I'm of the opinion that transphobia is not an accurate descriptor of his saga making jokes about trans people.

 

But with that being said, I think too many people are now suddenly fans of Chappelle because they believe he is transphobic and is now a part of their team. 

Yeah I don't neccessarily disagree with you.  I'm just not sure what I'd call him.  He's used that community to further his career and to build a new population of followers.  His cruel comments regardless are distasteful and hurtful.  I do watch SNL weekly (on Sunday am's) but will choose not to this week.

33 minutes ago, nic said:

Does Alaska have a runoff if no one hits 50%?

 

CLOSEDPolls are closedReporting 80.1% in
AK 01 Toggle Favorite
D  Mary Peltola  In		101,441	47.26%
R  Sarah Palin		57,035	26.57%
R  Nick Begich		51,927	24.19%
O  Chris Bye		3,716	1.73%
O  Total Write-Ins		540	<1%

 

No - they'll move to rank choice voting.

36 minutes ago, nic said:

I haven’t watched SNL in decades….I think I will tune in. 

 

 

"SNL" writer Celeste Yim, whose pronouns are they/them – featured in their Instagram bio -- reportedly posted a message to their social media story amid Chappelle’s scheduled appearance.

"I’m trans and non-binary. Transphobia is murder and it should be condemned," Yim stated, according to Reddit.

Wait - because of the transphobic host NOW you'll tune in?  

10 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

How many MAGA heads realize electing him and devoting their love for him was a huge mistake?

 

 

Ummmmm is this a serious question?   

Maybe .03%

That won't be admitted out loud for 20-30- years.  That whole generation of voters will have to die off before true retrospective analysis can be done.

1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said:

Wouldn't it be nice if Republicans actually believed this too? 

 

Also, wouldn't it have been nice if this guy would have won?

 

 

OH made a huge mistake.  Ryan ran a great campaign, and is about as mainstream middle of the road as any politician.  

3 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

I’m not the biggest fan of Biden.  But, he’s  doing well in this press conference. 
 

I can disagree with policies. But, he’s proving much of the “mush brain” Republican mates is BS. 

Too many ignorant people thinking slurry words due to a speech impediment is reflective of his intelligence.  And come on, if I was taped talking all day long the amount of missteps and mispoken weird stuff that comes out of my mouth, I'd be locked away.

7 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

 

 

OK, I'm a little confused on this attitude from Democrats.  They still very easily could lose both chambers of congress.  So, this feels like the Nebraska 2021 football season where.....hey....we only lost by less than a TD.  Ummm...you still lost.  Now, if they end up holding one of the chambers...then I can see this attitude.

They may (imo they won't) but based on historical perfomance in midterms with a president in their party in power (esp during tough economic times) the number of people voting and the lack of losses from the dem ticket was indeed overperforming what they were expected to do.  Youth vote matters.  Roe matters.  Candidate character matters.  

54 minutes ago, nic said:

Did AIM do the video….I assumed project veri-whatever. So how does who did the video change what she said? Are you assuming it’s cut and doctored?

Yes the video was from AIM - I typically just check the source before I read/watch something so I understand any inherent bias by the source.  To be honest after seeing who sponsored this I didn't watch.  That sort of gotcha by a group that is known foundationally for pushing conspiracies and untruths doesn't warrant my time.

Someone on this board laughed at the fact that a state is trying to say the department of justice shouldn't be allowed inside polling place.  Yeah, that's totally normal.  That person is a rational, level headed smart guy.

Brett should have lost all his credibility when he was caught sending out pictures of his little green bay packer to women he didn't know.

40 minutes ago, nic said:

Colorado senator Bennett's wife caught on camera saying the Dems will quietly defend the police.

 

 

 

Accuracy in Media (AIM) is an American non-profit conservative^[1][2] news media watchdog founded in 1969 by economist Reed Irvine.

AIM supported the Vietnam War and blamed media bias for the U.S. loss in the war. During the Reagan administration, AIM criticized reporting about the El Mozote massacre in El Salvador. During the Clinton administration, AIM pushed Vince Foster conspiracy theories. During the George W. Bush administration, AIM accused the media of bias against the Iraq War, defended the Bush administration's use of torture, and campaigned to stop the United States from signing the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). It described 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama as "the most radical candidate ever to stand at the precipice of acquiring his party's presidential nomination. It is apparent that he is a member of an international socialist movement." It also criticized the media's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[3]

AIM, which opposes the scientific consensus on climate change, has criticized media reporting on climate change. The organization gives out the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award. Past recipients include Marc Morano (who runs the climate change denial website ClimateDepot), Tucker Carlson, and Jim Hoft (who runs the far-right conspiracy website Gateway Pundit).

Controversies[edit]

War coverage[edit]

AIM was critical of media reports about the harmful effects of Agent Orange, a military herbicide with adverse health effects for humans, in the Vietnam War.^[4] AIM blamed the U.S. media for the loss in the Vietnam War.^[4] AIM criticized the 1983 PBS documentary series Vietnam: A Television History as being pro-communist. According to The New York Times, one of AIM's greatest accomplishments was the documentary, Television's Vietnam: The Real Story in response to the PBS series.^[6][4][16]

AIM charged the alliance conducting the NATO Kosovo intervention in 1999 with distorting the situation in Kosovo and lying about the number of civilian deaths in order to justify U.S. involvement in the conflict under the Clinton administration.^[17]

AIM supported the Iraq War and accused the media of bias against the Iraq War in 2007,^[5] and alleged bias in mainstream media's coverage of the 2012 Benghazi attack.^[13] In 2008, AIM asserted "Waterboarding Is Not Torture" in a sub-heading. The article said that Guantanamo Bay detainees "are enjoying hotel living conditions" and that torture is what "left-wingers associate with anything that makes an accused terrorist uncomfortable".^[5]

Human rights[edit]

In 1982, The New York Times reporter Raymond Bonner broke the story of the El Mozote massacre in El Salvador. The report was strongly criticized by AIM and the Reagan administration, and Bonner was pressured into business reporting, later deciding to resign.^{[citation needed]}

AIM was critical of journalist Helen Marmor, who in 1983 produced a documentary for NBC concerning the Russian Orthodox Church.^[18] AIM contended that "it ignored the repressive religious policies of the Soviet state."

Vince Foster conspiracy theory[edit]

AIM received a substantial amount of funding from Richard Mellon Scaife who paid Christopher W. Ruddy to investigate allegations that President Bill Clinton was connected to the suicide of Vince Foster.^[19] AIM contended that "Foster was murdered",^[20] which is contrary to three independent reports including one by Kenneth Starr.^[21] AIM faulted the media for not picking up on the conspiracy,^[22] and applied itself for Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) disclosure of Foster's death-scene photographs. Its suit to compel disclosure was denied by the District Court of Columbia in a summary judgment, unanimously affirmed by the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.^[23]

AIM credited much of its reporting on the Foster case to Ruddy.^[24] Yet, his work was called a "hoax" and "discredited" by conservatives such as Ann Coulter,^[25] it was also disputed by the American Spectator, which caused Scaife to end his funding of the Arkansas Project with the publisher.^[26] As CNN explained on February 28, 1997, "The [Starr] report refutes claims by conservative political organizations that Foster was the victim of a murder plot and coverup", but "despite those findings, right-wing political groups have continued to allege that there was more to the death and that the president and First Lady tried to cover it up."^[27]

United Nations[edit]

AIM has been critical of the United Nations and its coverage by the media. In February 2005, AIM alleged that United Nations correspondents, including Ian Williams, a correspondent for The Nation had accepted money from the UN while covering it for their publications. AIM also asserted that the United Nations Correspondents Association may have violated immigration laws by employing the Williams' wife.^[28][29] Williams and The Nation denied wrongdoing.^[30][31]

AIM has campaigned against the United States signing the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).^[5] AIM writes, "UNCLOS is a foot in the door for a wide-ranging international agenda... America's survival as a sovereign nation hangs in the balance."^[5] AIM argued that signing up to UNCLOS could lead to the prohibition of spanking children.^[5]

Climate change[edit]

AIM rejects the scientific consensus on climate change.^[5] In 2008, AIM wrote, "the theory of man-made global warming is designed to increase government control over our economy and our lives through higher taxes and energy rationing."^[5]

In November 2005, AIM columnist Cliff Kincaid criticized Fox News for broadcasting a program The Heat is On, which reported that global warming represents a serious problem (the program was broadcast with a disclaimer). Kincaid argued the piece was one-sided and stated that this "scandal" amounted to a "hostile takeover of Fox News."^[32] In 2006, Kincaid criticized Fox for "tilting to the left" on the issue of climate change.^[33]

AIM criticized the media for not covering a 1995 study on climate change, which it argued cast doubt on climate change. One of the authors of the study responded to AIM, "The paper... focused on a discrepancy between observations and theoretical climate model predictions—the sort of thing that climate change deniers love to take out of context and hype. The conservative organization Accuracy in Media took note of the study, citing lack of media coverage of it as some sort of evidence of media bias in coverage of climate change—something that I, to this day, find puzzling as the paper actually dealt with a relatively obscure technical detail of climate models and hardly challenged the mainstream view that human activity was leading to the warming of the globe."^[34]

Barack Obama[edit]

In 2008, AIM described Barack Obama, who was at the time a candidate in the 2008 presidential election, as "the most radical candidate ever to stand at the precipice of acquiring his party's presidential nomination. It is apparent that he is a member of an international socialist movement."^[5] AIM titled one of its reports, "Is Barack Obama a Marxist Mole?"^[5] In the lead-up to the 2008 election, AIM wrote, "there is a pattern of people who hate America showing up at critical junctures in Obama's life and career to influence and advise him."^[5]

COVID-19 Pandemic[edit]

In March 2020, the president of AIM, Adam Guillette, took a stance on the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, asserting that the media is exaggerating the pandemic.^[3]

Accuracy in Media Award[edit]

The organization gives out the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award, which has attracted controversy for some of its recipients.

In 2010, AIM gave the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award to political activist Marc Morano, who is known for running the website ClimateDepot, which rejects the scientific consensus on climate change.^[35][36][37]

In 2011, AIM gave the award to Tucker Carlson.^[38]

In 2013, AIM gave the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award to Jim Hoft, who runs The Gateway Pundit, a website renowned for publishing falsehoods and hoaxes.^[39][40][41]

Hitler Truck[edit]

In 2022, AIM sponsored an ad campaign against antisemitism that used a truck with a digital image of Hitler giving the Nazi salute. The image included the text: “All in favor of banning Jews, raise your right hand.” Several rocks were thrown at the truck. The use of the imagery was criticized by the Anti-Defamation League and the UC Berkeley chapter of Hillel International^[42]

15 minutes ago, JJ Husker said:

Binged through Peaky Blinders over the last few weeks. Very good series on Netflix. Probably has been mentioned earlier in this thread.

One of the best scenes in a movie ever:  

1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said:

Right in front of Denny's.

MMMMM late night Moon Over My Hammie and Chocolate Cream Pie.