A Flea in the Fur of the Beast

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Tag: conservative

Today in Cognitive Dissonance

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#schadenfreude

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The choicest cuts from conservatives who are beginning to realize that Fox News’ content is manufactured.

* “I used to feel that I got it straight, and I got an independent conservative view. Now, what I get is some wholly owned subsidiary of the RNC.”
* “To tell you the truth, a lot of conservatives see Fox News as being somewhat skewed on certain issues.”
* “Conservative points of view are becoming more rare on Fox and/or treated with scorn.”
* “It is my belief that Fox News is hoping to become acceptable enough to the Left in this country to gain big corporate accounts.”
* “Let’s face it, cable news is a notch above just being on the Internet.”

Logic, White Men Talking About Contraception Edition

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Grasping at Straws, Hashtag Edition

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Behold the new GOP argument, in hashtag form: #HeMadeItWorse.

There’s no interpretation of that argument that doesn’t lead back to, “But we really fucked it up in the first place.”

Holiday in Arizona

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You know you’re too conservative when even FOX Nation is telling you to cut it out.

Sentence of the Day Tossup

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“FreshBerry has no drains at all, YoBe funnels its liquid waste into a giant roof cistern clogged with dead pigeons, and Yogurt Mountain simply heaves its wastewater on the street one bucket at a time,”

or

“The plural of ‘anecdote’ is ‘data’ in the conservative mind.”

—From Gin and Tacos