"...fire one redneck and everyone loses their minds!"

[WilliamPitt]

(h/t to DUer MynameisBlarney who brought this to my attention and asked me to separate-thread it)

[Wounded Bear]

1. No shit. We live in a twisted world...

[Cosmocat]

6. America in 2013 (soon to be 2014)

This is why I am the wet blanket when people here get convinced "the tide is turning" or "the republicans are done!"

People in this country are beyond perfectly happy, they are in fact ANXIOUS to see cuts to SS and Medicare, while being on a hair trigger ready to jump on board with whatever ridiculous victimization drama the right wing feeds them.

It, sadly, is hopeless short of a MAJOR turn of events.

[CFLDem]

23. Never misunderestimate the stupidity of people in large groups.

Remember that ~50% of people are dumber than average.

[heaven05]

28. 47% of them voted for romshit(ney)

[awoke_in_2003]

26. Wish posts could be rec'ed. nt

[Kurovski]

2. What's a veteran?

OMG, please don't kill me.

[MynameisBlarney]

5. A veteran is someone that served in the military

[Kurovski]

18. Yes, but

which country?

[MynameisBlarney]

20. Pretty sure the meme is referring to US Millitary veterans.

Because the while the GOTP loves to claim they are the only ones to support veterans, they work night and day to deny them benefits and healthcare.

[weissmam]

31. By definition

Just having served in the military does not make you a veteran , a veteran is someone that has veterans status which be from having served in the military and having met certain requirements during time of conflict also it can also define someone that has a military pension, which requires the person to retire from the military , usually 20 years or service or more,

[Kurovski]

33. Make a joke, and garner new knowledge and full clarification.

I love it.

Thanks.

[NightWatcher]

3. I'll be stealing this now,

thanks

[MynameisBlarney]

4. Hehehe

[nolabear]

7. Two words: Martin Bashir.

I didn't like what Bashir said. I thought it was dreadful. But it was a completely different kind of statement fired at an individual in response to a horrific statement of her own. Duck Boy's words are so much worse. And what's First Amendment for the goose...

[calimary]

8. I actually did like what Martin Bashir said. One had to take it in its full context -

and understand the metaphor he was using to illustrate a point. Basically a "how would she like it if..." or an invitation to she-who-utterly-fails-to-understand to imagine walking in the shoes of the actual slaves and understanding the actual mistreatment and VERY REAL suffering they endured - while so blithely, casually, and thoughtlessly flinging around the "slavery" reference. Yeah, it was a little coarse. But not if you considered it in full context. He was trying to teach her something. And, I suspect, she did not understand the lesson. Which would be both typical and not surprising.

On the other hand, I also thought it was the longest, most elaborate, and most staggeringly imaginative way I've ever heard - of someone telling somebody else they should eat shit.

[leftynyc]

9. A closer analogy would be

Alec Baldwin. Both made these comments not on their shows but off-air. Liberals clean up after their assholes, conservatives give theirs a parade.

[Enthusiast]

11. This is quite good.

"Liberals clean up after their assholes, conservatives give theirs a parade."

[leftynyc]

13. Can you believe it?

Jindal, Cruz, Palin - all of them defending this vile person. An entire network defending him (while moronically screeching about the first amendment). How anyone isn't embarrassed at being a republican these days is beyond me.

[WilliamPitt]

14. " Liberals clean up after their assholes, conservatives give theirs a parade."

Please turn off the Internet. We're done for the day.

[Iliyah]

17. Love it "Liberals clean up after their assholes, et al"!

1st Amendment ONLY applies to the right wingers/conservatives and no body else per them.

[liberaltrucker]

19. My new sigline, with credit of course

[leftynyc]

21. Awesome!!

That's a very nice birthday present to wake up to!!

[awoke_in_2003]

27. Nicely put. nt

[Gothmog]

10. The First Amendment only applies to State Actors

Unless a governmental entity is doing the censorship, the First Amendment does not apply. Here the TV network is free to take whatever steps they want and there is no violation of the First Amendment. This is basic constitutional law. Here is a brief explanation of this requirement from Cornell Law School http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/state_action_requirement

The state action requirement stems from the fact that the constitutional amendments which protect individual rights (especially the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment) are mostly phrased as prohibitions against government action. For example, the First Amendment states that “[c]ongress shall make no law” infringing upon the freedoms of speech and religion. Because of this requirement, it is impossible for private parties (citizens or corporations) to violate these amendments, and all lawsuits alleging constitutional violations of this type must show how the government (state or federal) was responsible for the violation of their rights. This is referred to as the state action requirement.

[spanone]

12. ain't that america

[2banon]

15. Ok. I get it now. Everyone's watching F*cks Noose... Yikes! eom

[underpants]

16. Didn't Family Guy pull this sort of stunt a few weeks ago?

Just in time for Christmas... Just saying

[TRoN33]

22. 'Everyone' only applied to the SOUTH and their racist stooges!

[avaistheone1]

24. It's pretty simple.

Duck Dynasty is a billion dollar enterprise. (Can you believe it? )

Martin Bashir...not so much.

So who is MSM going to be stirred up about....hmmm?

[earthside]

25. You know the right-wing is losing ...

... when their latest hero and champion is an essentially made-up TV entertainment show character.

Really --- lefties, liberals, progressives and Americans with common sense ought to be (and probably are) just laughing and chortling at the foolishness and silliness of the right-wing, Tea Party-Repuglicans.

[heaven05]

29. I do laugh,LOUD

but the 47% that call themselves RWer's, christians and bigots still are dangerous to the country's 'freedoms'.

[malthaussen]

30. Yeah, right. And they're laughing all the way to the bank.

Sanctimony buys no groceries.

-- Mal

[NuclearDem]

32. *ultra-rich yuppie frat boy pretending to be a redneck

[rhett o rick]

34. What has me cornfused is who are the Fox idiots railing against?

It wasnt liberals that fired the dumbass. In fact liberals should defend his right to say what he wants. It was the corporations that censored or censured him, not because they objected to what he said, but because he was endangering their profits.