hyperbolic rhetoric

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_of_the_people Enemy of the People. That term has a very specific meaning, historically and legally. It has been extremely popular with Dictators and oppressive regimes, especially communist ones. It was also the usual description for Jews in Nazi Germany...

Well gun advocates have found their solution to people proposing political solutions that might mean less guns for them in the future: shoot them. The executive director of Gun Owners of America, Larry Pratt, a man who has considerable influence with GOP lawmakers including all this lovely...

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/06/20/joe-the-plumber-blames-gun-control-for-the-holocaust/ :jaw-dropp

I'm at a loss. What is wrong with people?

Rush Limbaugh has gone on a tirade against Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke, calling her a slut, a prostitute and a feminazi, and demanding that she post videos of herself having sex online. Fluke testified in favor of a mandate for insurance companies to cover contraceptive...

One phrase jumps out at you on this blog... I will give you a hint, the phrase contains a word that rhymes with "HOT-Z"! And using this word to describe Obama is only putting the Occupy Movement at the level of the Tea Party! What's next? Misspelled hyperboles...

This thread is a spin-off from the thread "Who says that Obama is our smartest president ever?". That thread is intended for examination of the claim that the media bombards us with hyperbolic claims about how intelligent Barack Obama is. But a number of off-topic posts in that thread are...

In a thread about Barack Obama writing the wrong date in a guestbook, BeAChooser asserted that: Ladewig replied by asking: I think that's a very good question. It's exactly the kind of question that people interested in applying skepticism to areas such as politics should be addressing...

On Saturday Michele had a little speaking engagement in New Hampshire where she compared tax increaes for the rich to the Holocaust http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/121023944.html

NJ Pro-Union protestors: "Gov. Chris Christie is a dictator who may shoot people!" "Christie is like Khadaffi...and turning into a dictator!" "We could be shot!" "Union Busters are terrorists!" Hl0uOhm_fek in case the above vid doesn't work, here's the direct link: Didn't they get the...

Attorney and "Ring of Fire" radio show co-host Mike Papantonio, guest-hosting on MSNBC Ed Schultz's radio program yesterday, revealed two things -- he hates old people and wants tea party retirees to hurry up and die. "you have these senile old boneheads that are ol-, I mean, check, look at the...

This has to be the most vapid piece of crap that I have read in a while... Ann Coulter: Repeal the 26th Amendment It takes to the 6th paragraph until she actually makes a cohesive statement. Some gems: "As we have learned from ObamaCare, young people are not considered adults until age...

http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=194993 On his October 10 radio show, Beck described how Soros, who was born in Hungary to Orthodox Jewish parents, “used to go around with this anti-Semite and deliver papers to the Jews and confiscate their property and then ship them off...

Joe the Plumber's watchful eye has never let us down yet. While we were out trying to keep America safe from this Obamanation, look what happened: All this right under our noses, too! Well, I never!1!!

http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/19480/gore-vidal-polanski-is-a-persecuted-jew/ So why is Roman Polanski in a Swiss prison cell? To hear author, intellectual, and seasoned provocateur Gore Vidal tell it, the famed director’s troubles have little to do with having drugged and raped a 13-year-old...

Foxnews and Sean Hannity, you never cease to make me laugh. Not a "ha ha" kind of laugh, but more of a forced, nervous chuckle accompanied by worried, darting eyes. Click on the link to see who was the lucky target of the inaugural two-minute hate. (33 seconds, really.)

In Harper's Magazine I read a partial transcript of O'Reilly's interview with Jermey Glick, whose father died in one of the towers on 9/11. After the interview, Glick says O'Reilly told to "get the f*ck out of here before I tear you to pieces." This comes from...