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06:43 < Mercster> mmhmm
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09:18 <@Dolemite> mr0ning, be0tches and h0ez!
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22:12 < Mercster> haha
22:12 < Mercster> keith olbermann
22:12 < Mercster> king dickhead
22:15 <@Evilpig> before:  http://gallery.wilpig.org/v/Miscellaneous/Computers/DSC00888.JPG.html
22:15 <@Evilpig> after:  http://gallery.wilpig.org/v/Miscellaneous/Computers/DSC00969.JPG.html
22:15 < Mercster> i dont watch fox news either, or cnn
22:15 < Mercster> all three are a joke
22:16 < Mercster> cnn is probably the most reasonable, after msnbc took the lead in being fucking crazy
22:16 < Mercster> i just watch the PBS newshour with jim lehrer, and then read off of my google news page
22:17 < Mercster> i have a low tolerance for talking heads, or frankly, editorial in general
22:17 < Mercster> most people tend to read the editorial content they agree with, to bolster their already-held opinions
22:17 < Mercster> im fine with just making my mind up given the facts.
22:18 < Mercster> keep opinions to a minimum
22:18 < Mercster> ill have the opinions
22:18 < Mercster> and ill blather about them on irc
22:18 < Mercster> ;-)
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22:25 <@Dagmar> Dude...
22:25 <@Dagmar> Olbermann is usually going reasonably mellow stuff, HOWEVER
22:25 < Mercster> ...
22:26 <@Dagmar> He's got an awesome talent for just chewing out the general population without raising his voice
22:26 <@Dagmar> ...and on that one you can tell he's pissed about how stupid people are being.
22:26 < Mercster> he's just as rabid as limbaugh or o'reilly, but not nearly as smart
22:27 <@Dagmar> It's almost hilarious that he's on MSNBC which was basically a propaganda mouthpiece for Bush
22:27 < Mercster> well MSNBC has run to the far, far left
22:27 <@Dagmar> LIke, he's the one token guy on their network who was allowed to speak truth.  Everyone else has to tote the party line
22:27 < Mercster> Fox News has always been in the far right
22:27 < Mercster> CNN decided to get more serious and ran to the center
22:28 <@Dagmar> Yeah they sort of have a female version of him
22:28 < Mercster> although its still got a slight liberal bias
22:28 < Mercster> yeah the lesbian
22:28 < Mercster> she's all sorts of confused
22:28 < Mercster> like i said, i dont watch any of it
22:28 <@Dagmar> I find it funny that CNN is now spinning articles along hte lines of "Oh we agree people are saying bad things about the Ground Zero Mosque"
22:28 < Mercster> id just as soon watch maddow as i watched hannity
22:29 < Mercster> they're both boring to me
22:29 <@Dagmar> Rachel Maddow is much better than that idiot Hannity
22:29 < sdodson_> tv sucks
22:29 < sdodson_> news at 11
22:29 < Mercster> my idiot-dar isnt tuned finely enough to tell a difference between the two
22:29 < Mercster> they're just saying what waterheads want to hear
22:29 < Mercster> what they already believe
22:30 < Mercster> "yeah he's right!"
22:30 <@Dagmar> Except Hannity likes sucking political dick
22:30 < Mercster> "Damn right!"
22:30 < Mercster> "hey i agree with that!"
22:30 < Mercster> *eats another bonbon*
22:30 < Mercster> fuck that shit
22:31 < Mercster> now PBS has a perception of being to the left, and the newshour isnt completely void of POV, but it's actually a damn fine program
22:32 < Mercster> most of the interviews and analysis is measured
22:33 < Mercster> there's often two or more people who disagree, but it almost never devolves into a shouting match of taunts and direct challenges
22:34 < Mercster> some kind of pseudo-intellectual version of UFC
22:35 < sdodson_> is UFC cooler than MMA?
22:35 < Mercster> was that supposed to make sense
22:36 < sdodson_> Mercster: nah
22:36 < Mercster> k
22:36 < Mercster> speaking of MMA
22:36 < Mercster> i have 3 hours of WEC waiting for me on my brand spanking new DVR
22:41 < Mercster> so i got that goin' for me
22:48 <@Dagmar> heheh cool
22:59 < Mercster> another fun thing about the PBS newshour is watching to see if judy woodruff wears a clown outfit
23:00 < Mercster> she either dresses subdued, or just goes all the way fucking out
23:00 < Mercster> im no fashionista, but its still pretty funny
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23:27 <@Dagmar> Hrm.. Looking at Google Images I don't see anything that would qualify as a clownsuit, but I'll take your word on it
23:29 < Mercster> im tellin ya, sometimes its *really bad*
23:29 < Mercster> i like her anchoring, she's fine on substance pretty much
23:30 < Mercster> she presents the facts soberly and does a good job of making sure both sides of an issue have an opportunity to state their case
23:30 < Mercster> but sometimes she'll come out with some funky-ass colored thing with weird angles and bigass fuzzy buttons and shit
23:30 < Mercster> its pretty hilarious
23:31 < Mercster> she was dressed real plain tonight
23:36 < Mercster> smartly, but subdued
23:36 < Mercster> in good taste i think for being on TV presenting what's supposed to be news
23:44 <@Dagmar> well.
23:44 <@Dagmar> http://books.google.com/books?id=r1zne2mZDW8C&pg=PA409&lpg=PA409&dq=chin+waggle&source=bl&ots=lWlWE-PtbG&sig=VPq2jN9FREJtFSuqdxCR-jZv4KQ&hl=en&ei=RLZsTLa0OoT68AarwPG2Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCQQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=chin%20waggle&f=false
23:44 <@Dagmar> The problem being that the book on the left, Little Brother, is _not_ actually the book whose pages are shown on the right... For The Win
23:46 < Mercster> is that a conspiracy
23:49 < Mercster> time for WEC
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