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Posted on 4/7/22 at 8:40 am to
Posted by Stingray
Shreveport
Member since Sep 2007
12445 posts
Posted on 4/7/22 at 8:40 am to
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So many "conservatives" on this board now behave like the Left over the last 20 years.


Wrong. We aren't having an emotional reaction to his death, we are recognizing a scum bag by way of cold logical thought.
Posted by Stingray
Shreveport
Member since Sep 2007
12445 posts
Posted on 4/7/22 at 8:41 am to
When I call the media, "the enemy of the people", I mean it.
Posted by Lsupimp
Ersatz Amerika-97.6% phony & fake
Member since Nov 2003
85886 posts
Posted on 4/7/22 at 8:43 am to
Oh boo hoo. I take the high road year after year here as I do in life. I just pointed out who he was and what he believed . I hope he rests in peace and his family finds comfort. But I’m not going to pretend he was anything other than a slurring hysterical Leftist who intentionally attempted to ruin lives with things he KNEW were lies. He was a shitbag in life. That’s his failing, not mine.
Posted by tigerpimpbot
Chairman of the Pool Board
Member since Nov 2011
68964 posts
Posted on 4/7/22 at 8:44 am to
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the last thing in my mind was to come onto a message board and gloat about his death

So many "conservatives" on this board now behave like the Left over the last 20 years.


We can always hope for a summer of severe illness and death.
Posted by jorconalx
alexandria
Member since Aug 2011
10868 posts
Posted on 4/7/22 at 8:44 am to
I’m tired of playing nice. frick em
Posted by CGSC Lobotomy
Member since Sep 2011
81611 posts
Posted on 4/7/22 at 8:53 am to
My reaction to his death - "Meh, moving on."
Posted by WhiskeyThrottle
Weatherford Tx
Member since Nov 2017
7115 posts
Posted on 4/7/22 at 8:54 am to
I wonder if he identified as a bigger train. . . Science and all.
Posted by LongueCarabine
Pointe Aux Pins, LA
Member since Jan 2011
8205 posts
Posted on 4/7/22 at 9:02 am to
What, no video to confirm shitbag’s death?
Posted by upgrayedd
Lifting at Tobin's house
Member since Mar 2013
138559 posts
Posted on 4/7/22 at 9:04 am to
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In his thrice-weekly commentaries, Boehlert insisted that mainstream-media reporters, especially those working for The New York Times, unfairly criticized Democrats while groveling before Republicans.
Posted by Mizooag94
Hillbillyville, MO
Member since Sep 2018
1641 posts
Posted on 4/7/22 at 9:07 am to
Wiki:

"Boehlert insisted that mainstream-media reporters, especially those working for The New York Times, unfairly criticized Democrats while groveling before Republicans"

Can Not Be Serious...
Posted by Lsupimp
Ersatz Amerika-97.6% phony & fake
Member since Nov 2003
85886 posts
Posted on 4/7/22 at 9:14 am to
RIP to Mr Boehlert:

quote:

Willfully risking death by refusing to take the miraculously safe and effective Covid-19 vaccine, Trump voters nationwide have embarked on one of the deadliest and most illogical movements in American history — they’ve morphed into QAnon-fueled, brainwashed, Covid zombies, immune to rational thought. Fresh off of backing a deadly insurrection and trying to overturn free and fair elections, they have set their sights on extinguishing American norms.

President Joe Biden addressed the nation Thursday in hopes of creating a path forward out of the pandemic entirely because Covid zombies, a radical menace, refuse to get vaccinated. They, along with local Republican officials, help fuel the Delta surge, which has shuttered school districts nationwide and set off local mayhem as Trump voters wage war on mask mandates. “Fights broke out and at least one person was handcuffed after a Missouri school board voted unanimously to mandate masking in schools amid a surge of coronavirus cases in the area,” read a recent dispatch.

The zombies are part of a deep-pocketed political and media crusade determined to keep the pandemic going, and gladly risking infections by embracing anti-science demagoguery. What’s telling is that while Trump was in the White House and the Beltway press glowingly profiled his supporters, preferably in red state diners, that’s not the story the media were telling. Anxious to brush off claims of liberal media bias, reporters fanned out to Trump bastions to eagerly record every utterance from his supporters. We witnessed a conveyor belt of stories about blue-collar voters in virtually all-white counties inside red states announcing that they really, really like Trump. (“Hitting it out of the ballpark”; “I think he’s doing a great job.”)

Yet virtually none of that gentle coverage hinted at a radical, conspiratorial dark side at play. Routinely depicted as hard-working folks in search of a political path, and thankful for Trump leadership, the Trump voter coverage deliberately failed to pull back the curtain and reveal even small glimpses of today’s manic, anti-mask and anti-vaccine mobs. Instead, the press presented a gauzy fantasy about what was going on in conservative America.


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Committed to the idea that Trump's white voters were the most important, and most authentic, voices in American politics, the media spent years celebrating them, marveling at their loyalty in the face of Trump's erratic behavior. It was relentless. Over the span of just four days in early 2017, the New York Times published a long profile on women who voted for Trump, a piece on Trump fans who traveled to the inauguration, and an adoring profile of a Trump voter who lied about Hillary Clinton during the campaign and profited from his fake news business. Later, even a Trump supporter who had nice things to say about Nazis received a gentle Times profile. (Actual Trump voter Times headlines: "These Guys Really Like Trump"; “Trump’s Fights Are Their Fights. They Have His Back Unapologetically")

Today, those Trump voters have mobilized as Covid zombies and gone from insisting the pandemic was a hoax in 2020, to embracing every illogical anti-vaccine trope that Tucker Carlson regurgitates. And they still think the vaccine is more dangerous than the virus. Trump voters have collectively lost their minds as the virus runs wild in red states.

Even as some prominent anti-vaccine zealots kill themselves off, the close-minded hysteria intensifies as fanatics now physically assault local school board members, lodge countless death threats, and cause chaos for teachers and students. This is a kind of cult-like mania rarely seen in modern American history. There have been unhinged right-wing political mobs before — think back to the Tea Party movement, which flourished as soon as America elected its first Black president. That however, was fueled by a willful misreading of Obama’s economic policy and bailout strategy. The current day right-wing madness is more akin to the Salem witch trials, where hysterical, organized mobs conjure up imaginary demons and then set out to administer vigilante justice. “Community groups within our conservative stronghold thought they could buck the Fox News narrative and persuade reluctant Republicans to get vaccinated,” explained Dr. Rob Davidson, an emergency room physician in western Michigan. “They recruited local Republican leaders to encourage their supporters to get their shots. But instead of getting more people vaccinated, these public servants got death threats.”

Yet the press is still normalizing the insanity. After documenting several instances of Trump voters storming school board meetings and comparing mask mandates to sex trafficking and to Hitler’s rise to power (“This is what Hitler wants. Hitler wants everybody divided. If we all stay divided, who wins? Hitler wins”), the New York Times’ Michelle Cottle insisted that what the Covid Zombies are doing “is nothing new.” In reality, it’s unprecedented. In The Atlantic, Elizabeth Bruenig tsk-tsked liberals for “shaming” Trump voters who are bypassing an FDA-approved vaccine in order to ingest horse paste.

Five years ago, the press made excuses for Trump’s bigoted base during the campaign by claiming they were motivated by “economic anxiety.” Then news outlets spent four years courting Trump voters in cozy diners and presenting them as authentic voices from the heartland. Now they’re Covid zombies, and the press missed the story.
This post was edited on 4/7/22 at 9:21 am
Posted by Bayou Brat
Member since Jul 2021
1023 posts
Posted on 4/7/22 at 9:14 am to
He reminds me of Trey Gowdy.

Posted by hogcard1964
Alabama
Member since Jan 2017
18765 posts
Posted on 4/7/22 at 9:16 am to
"Eric Boehlert, a veteran journalist who was a fierce critic of right-wing misinformation and hypocrisy in the news media, died on Monday in New Jersey. He was 57."

Uhm yea, about that...
Posted by Bass Tiger
Member since Oct 2014
55193 posts
Posted on 4/7/22 at 9:19 am to
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jorconalx Chin-Drooling anti-Trump, anti-Fox psycho Eric Boehlert meets train unexpectedly.

Oh frick off. If liberals went the way of the Dodo bird I would be perfectly happy with it


Today, 40-50% of Republicans would be considered moderate democrats just 20 years ago.
Posted by LSUvet72
Member since Sep 2013
13103 posts
Posted on 4/7/22 at 9:19 am to
Was it a fossil burning train or an electric train he was racing to the cross road ?

Those fossil trains are hard to stop... electric ones stop faster.

Lesson: No one should race trains either fossil or electric.

Posted by roadGator
Member since Feb 2009
156777 posts
Posted on 4/7/22 at 9:21 am to
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liberals went the way of the Dodo bird


Most true liberals have.
Posted by Midget Death Squad
Meme Magic
Member since Oct 2008
28414 posts
Posted on 4/7/22 at 9:21 am to
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we would be better served not making these kind of posts even if the left does. that's why they're the left.




You're getting downvoted by the same people who will cry that the left are evil and morally vacant when they cheer the passing of any warriors from the right. The hypocrisy on this board is astounding.
Posted by habanos
Alabama
Member since Feb 2014
1937 posts
Posted on 4/7/22 at 9:21 am to
Let's go for a bike ride friend!
Posted by Lsupimp
Ersatz Amerika-97.6% phony & fake
Member since Nov 2003
85886 posts
Posted on 4/7/22 at 9:22 am to
Read the article above that he posted . Holy crap the hysteria.
Posted by CAD703X
Liberty Island
Member since Jul 2008
92724 posts
Posted on 4/7/22 at 9:25 am to
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train won. I felt like there were so many more sky- screaming years with clever new ways to call Republicans racistsexisttransphobicwhitesupremacistNazis ahead, but alas , when you ride your bike into a train, even your association with MSNBC/CNN/The Puffington Host/ Daily Kos etc, can not save you.

RIP. Say hi to Castro, Che, Mao , Stalin et al for us.
I'll allow it
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