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post #161 of 216
9/7/08 at 7:28pm
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post #162 of 216
9/7/08 at 7:34pm
So then the prunes kick in and I go running into the stall in the private senate bathroom and there's Craig all like ...



and I was all like WTF get off your knees.
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post #163 of 216
9/7/08 at 7:45pm
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I'm starting to believe that the MSM portrays McCain in a favorable light in an attempt to keep the race close. The closer the race, the more viewers they get. More viewers = higher ratings.

Chris Matthews explicitly said that during the DNC. He said, with a straight face to Keith Olbermann, that he saw it as the press's job to "balance out the crowds." Olbermann just looked at him in disbelief and said "I'm not saying a thing."
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post #164 of 216
9/7/08 at 7:57pm
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So then the prunes kick in and I go running into the stall in the private senate bathroom and there's Craig all like ...
and I was all like WTF get off your knees.



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Chris Matthews explicitly said that during the DNC. He said, with a straight face to Keith Olbermann, that he saw it as the press's job to "balance out the crowds." Olbermann just looked at him in disbelief and said "I'm not saying a thing."

Yeah but you misunderstood the context. Matthews was talking about how they should stand up, scream and applaud whenever the crowd died down to keep up the noise and energy.

Go Obama, give me that thrill up my leg baby! Go Go Go!

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post #165 of 216
9/7/08 at 8:08pm
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The "unofficial" Sarah Palin bio.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

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post #166 of 216
9/7/08 at 8:16pm
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Chris Matthews explicitly said that during the DNC. He said, with a straight face to Keith Olbermann, that he saw it as the press's job to "balance out the crowds." Olbermann just looked at him in disbelief and said "I'm not saying a thing."

It seems those two have been s-canned from the MSNBC coverage of the race.
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post #167 of 216
9/8/08 at 5:00pm
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So then the prunes kick in and I go running into the stall in the private senate bathroom and there's Craig all like ...



and I was all like WTF get off your knees.

By the looks of that face, I'd guess it was McCain that was on his Knees.
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post #168 of 216
9/8/08 at 5:59pm
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Obama can't help it if he's a Harvard grad and you're a Wal-Mart shopper. Americans are so narcissistic that our candidates have to be just like us.

~ Bill Maher
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post #169 of 216
9/8/08 at 6:19pm
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Chris Matthews explicitly said that during the DNC. He said, with a straight face to Keith Olbermann, that he saw it as the press's job to "balance out the crowds." Olbermann just looked at him in disbelief and said "I'm not saying a thing."

Thank God the liberal media won't let either one of them near a live political event, again. Letting liberals get on the TV is a grave breach of the public trust and must be stamped out.
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post #170 of 216
9/8/08 at 6:37pm
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Obama can't help it if he's a Harvard grad and you're a Wal-Mart shopper. Americans are so narcissistic that our candidates have to be just like us.

God damn that guy can be funny sometimes.

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post #171 of 216
9/8/08 at 6:48pm
Uh oh.

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In a letter to Maria Bonaparte, Dr. Sigmund Freud wrote,

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"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'"

Apparently they want to be put on the ticket!

Keep hammering home that she's not running for president, she's a token female in a token position. She deserves better and the women of America deserve better than to be manipulated with tokens placed in token, subservient positions.

And then change the subject to McCain.
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post #172 of 216
7/8/09 at 8:40am
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RCP

Okay, there is not a better comedy set up than this. When no one manages to make a joke about it, it will be inexcusable. A husband forgetting or messing up an important (perceived or real) event in the courtship of his wife is 100% comedy fodder.

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While delivering the keynote address at the New Economic School in Moscow, President Obama claimed he met his wife while he was attending school. "I dont know if anybody else will meet their future wife or husband in class like I did, but I'm sure that you're all going to have wonderful careers," Obama said. Obama actually met his wife at a law firm.

Be prepared to have no one find it funny.

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post #173 of 216
7/9/09 at 8:27pm
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Caption: "Sarkozy, I'll have to get back to you on that." - Obama
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post #174 of 216
7/9/09 at 8:37pm
Sarkozy's heels are taller than hers.
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post #175 of 216
7/10/09 at 4:24am
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Sarkozy's heels are taller than hers.

So are Obama's.

That is a fine distraction though.... er, distinction. That is a fine distinction.
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post #176 of 216
7/10/09 at 7:05am
Distraction?

LIBERALS DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT OBAMA LOOKED AT A BUTT!

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post #177 of 216
7/10/09 at 7:23am
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Actually what is funny is the media will spend time defending it. They can't let their messiah get accused of anything, no matter how innocent. Sarkozy boy, you got triple busted though man.

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post #178 of 216
7/10/09 at 7:45am
Thank you for posting that link.

It seems that Obama wasnt looking at Lulas wifes butt, as wed all thought.

Youve see the video too. But you still accuse the media (read: one news station) of defending Obama, who, it turns out, has done nothing he needs to be defended from.

Youre actually angry that Obama hasnt done anything. It irritates you that he wasnt looking at someones butt and that someone pointed it out. And this, for you, is media bias.

Holy fucking shit.
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post #179 of 216
7/10/09 at 7:58am
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It seems that Obama wasn’t looking at Lula’s wife’s butt, as we’d all thought.

It's hard to tell. He is clearly helping a woman down on his right and looking at where she is about to step; if you look at the step-down it is quite tall. He had just stepped down and might have just been surprised at how far the drop was and looked down.

Before I saw the video I just thought he was checking the ass out, and I thought it was funny.
Now it looks ambiguous, and I'm disappointed because I wanted him to be checking her ass out because that's funny. Now it's boring and he's even more of a dork than I thought.

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Actually what is funny is the media will spend time defending it. They can't let their messiah get accused of anything, no matter how innocent. Sarkozy boy, you got triple busted though man.

What is it he's supposed to be "accused of"? Looking at an ass?

"Well if George W Bush had looked at a woman's ass..."
blah blah blah

Sarkozy is checking the ass out all the way, and there's not a damn thing wrong with that. The dress sits very nicely on that woman's ass. I identify with the short Frenchman on this one.
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post #180 of 216
7/10/09 at 8:07am
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It's hard to tell. He is clearly helping a woman down on his right and looking at where she is about to step; if you look at the step-down it is quite tall. He had just stepped down and might have just been surprised at how far the drop was and looked down.

Before I saw the video I just thought he was checking the ass out, and I thought it was funny.
Now it looks ambiguous, and I'm disappointed because I wanted him to be checking her ass out because that's funny. Now it's boring and he's even more of a dork than I thought.



What is it he's supposed to be "accused of"? Looking at an ass?

"Well if George W Bush had looked at a woman's ass..."
blah blah blah

Sarkozy is checking the ass out all the way, and there's not a damn thing wrong with that. The dress sits very nicely on that woman's ass. I identify with the short Frenchman on this one.

Well there could be a bit wrong with it as various sites have claimed the ass was between 16-17 years old.

I agree that there isn't anything to really accuse of and I saw nothing wrong. Yet the news spent time defending it is the point.

I posted the attempted defense trying to put Obama in a good light. Give me a break.

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post #181 of 216
7/10/09 at 8:21am
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I posted the attempted defense trying to put Obama in a good light.

Was Obama in a bad light?

Did you watch the video? Do you not see that Obama stepped down off a high step? Do you not see that Obama is helping someone down the high step? Is it not common for people to look down at the high step they just stepped off of?

I think it's amazing that you need Obama to have been checking the girl out. You need it, and that's why you aren't even addressing what the video plainly shows. Because you need this to have been a mini-scandal and you need THE MEDIA to cover it up, because you need validation for your paranoid partisan worldview.
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post #182 of 216
7/10/09 at 8:30am
I, too, wanted Obama to be looking at that fine ass. But I'm perturbed by this:

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Well there could be a bit wrong with it as various sites have claimed the ass was between 16-17 years old.

I agree that there isn't anything to really accuse of and I saw nothing wrong. Yet the news spent time defending it is the point.

I posted the attempted defense trying to put Obama in a good light. Give me a break.

No. You didn't. You posted a video that ACTUALLY EXPLAINS where he was looking and then called it the "media's" " attempted defense" of their "messiah."

It's truly as if it doesn't really matter what you've seen, or what's actually occurred.
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post #183 of 216
7/10/09 at 8:58am
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It's truly as if it doesn't really matter what you've seen, or what's actually occurred.

We call it "blind faith", my friend, come walk with me in the light.
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post #184 of 216
7/10/09 at 9:43am
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Caption: "Sarkozy, I'll have to get back to you on that." - Obama

Caption: "Who farted?"

Seriously though, the photo is purely circumstantial, I'm sure. No ifs, ands or but(t)s about it.

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post #185 of 216
7/10/09 at 10:08am
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I'm sorry you don't like my addressing your intentions.

It doesn't matter whether I like it. The posting guidelines forbid it.

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But it's impossible to respond to you without discussing your intentions when you refer to Obama as "the media's messiah", for example.

It is possible and you can PM lundy to educate on this matter. He is quite good at explaining it.

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If the content of the post is subject more to your "intentions" than the actual facts, as demonstrated in the video you linked to, then you cannot object to them being questioned.

It can be ignored. I can object to them being questioned and will soon report posts. There has been ample warning and a quick scrutiny of posting history would show the trend rather well established.

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In other words, you started it.

I'm make sure not to play handball together on the playground. In the meantime, follow the posting guidelines. They are up in the top left.

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Furthermore, since nothing I wrote was insulting I'm not certain it counts as an "attack".

"Get help", however, certainly is ad hominem, and actually designed to be insulting, and I believe I'll report it.

Please feel free to do so. I welcome the scrutiny.

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post #186 of 216
7/10/09 at 10:40am
I must confess I pity the poor moderator here, who, I imagine, must receive a lot of PMs from you.

I'll leave it at that, adding only a to show you that I'm having a high old time.
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post #187 of 216
7/10/09 at 11:05am
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It would take an understanding that trolls whose sole purpose is to spew manifestos at a captive audience will erode all discourse and chase away moderate, fair-minded contributors. And this is exactly what has happened.

I disagree. I think there are several fair-minded contributors here. They sometimes get buried in all the rhetorical ad-hom infested malarkie, but they haven't gone away.

If I ever find myself in a place I hate, I leave.

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post #188 of 216
7/10/09 at 11:07am
There is an "ignore" capability that takes care of the problem.

It isn't a virtue to not use it.

Oddest thing, my mother will complain about pain then tell me how she doesn't use pain killers, like she's performing some virtuous act. It makes no sense to me.
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post #189 of 216
7/10/09 at 11:15am
Taskiss, that's an excellent point.

I think that the poster we're talking about (Trumptman) seems to be somewhat ubiquitous, however. I remember when this place was full of posters who've all disappeared. I remember some names and some hilarious debates and a lot of foul language but I don't remember a single poster with such a malignant grip on a forum. I remember a lot more life and a lot less single-minded anger apparently designed to repel people.

I think I'm just nostalgic. But I remember how this place used to be. I think that's why I'd like to see the posting guidelines amended to make the kind of thing I'm objecting to bannable.
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post #190 of 216
7/10/09 at 11:22am
I don't think it's accurate or fair to single out any one PO participant.

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post #191 of 216
7/10/09 at 11:26am
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I don't think it's accurate or fair to single out any one PO participant.

While that's true some make themselves a little difficult to ignore.
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post #192 of 216
7/10/09 at 11:36am
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Taskiss, that's an excellent point.

I think that the poster we're talking about (Trumptman) seems to be somewhat ubiquitous, however. I remember when this place was full of posters who've all disappeared. I remember some names and some hilarious debates and a lot of foul language but I don't remember a single poster with such a malignant grip on a forum. I remember a lot more life and a lot less single-minded anger apparently designed to repel people.

I think I'm just nostalgic. But I remember how this place used to be. I think that's why I'd like to see the posting guidelines amended to make the kind of thing I'm objecting to bannable.

It isn't hard to be ubiquitous when certain participants find it "impossible to respond to you without discussing your intentions."

They have gone away because they could not realize this. If you go and find the threads on it, you will see that, ironically, they called down and begged for the very moderation that got them banned. Sadly if the previous moderation hadn't let them learn such bad habits, they would probably be here today.

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7/10/09 at 11:47am
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It isn't hard to be ubiquitous when certain participants find it "impossible to respond to you without discussing your intentions."

They have gone away because they could not realize this. If you go and find the threads on it, you will see that, ironically, they called down and begged for the very moderation that got them banned. Sadly if the previous moderation hadn't let them learn such bad habits, they would probably be here today.

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It isn't hard to be ubiquitous when certain participants find it "impossible to respond to you without discussing your intentions."

So in other words the imagined motivation of other posters here compels you to start so many threads?

In this case I vote for the egg not the chicken.
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post #194 of 216
7/10/09 at 11:53am
Trumptman, you've played the posting guidelines like a maestro. I won't rise to it, but yes, I've seen it. You scrupulously observe the letter of the guidelines, pissing on the spirit, and you're as provocative as you can be. You intend to get people banned.

No, no one "has" to respond. People can ignore you. But they shouldn't have to. You're very clever indeed, and I acknowledge your skill in the pwnage. But I don't respect it, and it's my belief that this place would prosper if the posting guidelines were changed to make that bullshit stop.

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post #195 of 216
7/10/09 at 11:55am
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So in other words the imagined motivation of other posters here compells you to start so many threads?

In this case I vote for the egg not the chicken.

Wow.... it is almost like stuff is restated wrong on purpose.

It isn't had to be ubiquitous when the other people intentionally break the posting guidelines and get themselves banned and then post under pseudo-accounts and get themselves perma-banned.

Lundy discussed it here.

Claiming the names don't apply because it is "intent" or other nonsense doesn't fly.

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7/10/09 at 11:59am
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Wow.... it is almost like stuff is restated wrong on purpose.

It isn't had to be ubiquitous when the other people intentionally break the posting guidelines and get themselves banned and then post under pseudo-accounts and get themselves perma-banned.

Lundy discussed it here.

Claiming the names don't apply because it is "intent" or other nonsense doesn't fly.

Well it's not the names of posters here that we've been discussing.

By the way if you're wondering mine's been the same since 1999 before the first big AI blackout.

And I have no other personas.
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post #197 of 216
7/10/09 at 12:13pm
And it was calling you names that Lundy was discussing.

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- One or more of you will take trumptman's bait and call him a name. Poof.

Have I called you by anything other than your handle?

Has Mumbo?
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7/10/09 at 2:38pm
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It's not about one poster or one political ideology. It's about the rules. Look at the financial market's collapse; shitty rules lead to shitty results.
This is a shitty set of rules.

A political discussion forum can only flourish as long as no one is allowed to use the forum as a soapbox. How can that not be clear?

Look at AppleOutsider's rules in the overall Posting Guidelines. That would be 20x better than having only 2 rules for the most contentious forum on the site.

AO Bullet 1 - While mild cases of silliness, lameness, offensiveness, crudeness, and vulgarity are tolerated, it should be kept to a dull roar. Excessive use can be edited at the moderators' discretion.

AO Bullet 2 - AppleOutsider is not a forum to spew vitriol against people, organizations, or theologies. AppleOutsider is for serious discussions; so, the moderators and administrators expect a level of maturity from all members at all times.

AO Bullet 3 - Threads with no original content will not be allowed. Example: posting a link or quoting and article while contributing little to nothing of your own.

AO Bullet 4 - Angry rants will not be allowed. The purpose of AppleOutsider is to foster discussion between forum members, not to vent anger or to push an agenda.

AO Bullet 5 - Evangelizing viewpoints with no attempt to foster discussion will not be allowed. All threads in AppleOutsider must be open to comment and the topic starter must start the discussion.

Those rules use incendiary verbage like "spew vitriol", "angry rants", and "evangelizing viewpoints" and they wouldn't improve a thing. They are all subject to interpretation and there is no way they would be equally enforced.

What one considers "spewing vitriol", another might consider "sharing beliefs".

The current rules are fine. Let people speak their minds and not allow personal attacks.

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7/10/09 at 6:57pm
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And it was calling you names that Lundy was discussing.

Have I called you by anything other than your handle?

Has Mumbo?

Jimmac, the point is that people should follow the rules and also secondly, I don't like seeing people banned. If you go back to into any thread in which someone has "lost it", I told the person before hand they were walking the line. It isn't hard to spot. When several posts in a row are all...you this..you that.. pretty soon it the next post is you are this and you are that.

That said.... seems like what we all thought was a cute laugh is actually a right wing racist smear according to MSNBC.

So yes, I was right about the media being unable to tolerate anyone even smirking at their messiah.

FRISCH: You know, one of the things that was said on Free Republic was comparing President Obama to Michael Jackson, calling him a pedophile. Thats the length to which this kind of stuff will be twisted....Were seeing a misconstruction of a photo. To many people online, this has racial overtones. You know, this is like the antiquated racist stereotype of an oversexed black man being a predator, and thats the way some conservative circles are talking about it online, and thats unfortunate. And the problem here is that its not even true. This didnt even happen. You know, if- if he hadnt have been watching a step and tumbled down the steps, wed probably be talking about him falling.

Pathetic....

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7/11/09 at 12:06am
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Jimmac, the point is that people should follow the rules and also secondly, I don't like seeing people banned. If you go back to into any thread in which someone has "lost it", I told the person before hand they were walking the line. It isn't hard to spot. When several posts in a row are all...you this..you that.. pretty soon it the next post is you are this and you are that.

A review of the facts appears to suggest that this isn't true at all.

We all know why you post picture after picture of Obama photoshopped into fascist propaganda, adding nothing to the thread but ramping up the tension. I've seen you do this again, and again, and again. You game the rules like a Portuguese soccer player who takes a dive for a penalty and then spends the rest of the game whining around the referee waving imaginary red cards.
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