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[Darvi]

Well duh, I don't think anybody means it literally.

Actually, I guess some people actually do.

[Nadaka]

At this point I think the most damning thing he could say about Obama is: "I know that I have had suspicions in the past, but having produced his birth certificate, I am willing to fully endorse Obama as the next president"

[Mictlantecuhtli]

I wish Trump would just die already and stop attention whoring himself via any means possible.

[PTTG??]

... black.

Anyyeee way....

I wanted to ask a quick question on behalf of Romeny here for a minute...

Let me preface this by saying that I hope Romney is eaten by sharks, and secondly that I think public broadcasting is essential. However, given that Romney has stated he will cut funding for NPR and PBS, can NPR be neutral in its broadcasting? And _is_ it being neutral?

Just this morning, there was a segment on the death of George McGovern, focusing on the tragedy of his loss to Nixon, and how he inspired a generation of liberal activists. Last week there was a retrospective on the death of Bin Laden. I'm not saying NPR would be in the wrong for broadcasting entirely factual things that happen to benefit the president... which is certainly better than total fabrication for groups like Fox. Still, I don't like the idea of a publicly-funded organization intentionally (or even subconsciously) influencing politics.

Unless there's something fundamentally wrong about a candidate, I don't think NPR should mention it. I want to hear about a Psychopath running (red or blue), but if he feeds orphaned baby seals in his spare time, that's his campaign's responsibility to discuss.

[Karnewarrior]

Well they can't ignore the campaign in it's entirety, but Romney kind of brought it on himself when telling america he'd be cutting PBS.

Why did he do that, again? Are there people who hate PBS? Are there people who think PBS isn't already chock full of some of the cheapest TVshows out there? I swear they still use greenscreen tech from the mid-seventies.

[mainiac]

Are there people who hate PBS?

Yes, sadly.

[nenjin]

Why did he do that, again? Are there people who hate PBS?

The idea of a publicly funded news organization that doesn't reflect conservative beliefs and positions strikes them as a waste of tax payer money.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Because you're only a good conservative if you want to destroy small and effective government programs and give their relative pennies national defense, which can never be cut for any reason.

NASA, PBS, and NPR all have to go or we let the terrorists win.

[Owlbread]

Because you're only a good conservative if you want to destroy small and effective government programs and give their relative pennies national defense, which can never be cut for any reason.

NASA, PBS, and NPR all have to go or we let the terrorists win.

The Americans calling their vast amounts of militaria "defence" is like buying a heavy machine gun for your house, a tank and an apache helicopter and explaining you need them for self defence.

Defence is a bit of an ugly newspeak word nowadays. At least in Kitchener's time they had the balls to call men like him "Secretary of State for War", not the evasive "Secretary of State for Defence".

[mainiac]

Used to be called the department of war until the 20th century.

[Scelly9]

Because you're only a good conservative if you want to destroy small and effective government programs and give their relative pennies national defense, which can never be cut for any reason.

NASA, PBS, and NPR all have to go or we let the terrorists win.

The Americans calling their vast amounts of militaria "defence" is like buying a heavy machine gun for your house, a tank and an apache helicopter and explaining you need them for self defence.

Well, a lot of people do. (Or at least they do with the machine gun part.)

[GlyphGryph]

Let me preface this by saying that I hope Romney is eaten by sharks, and secondly that I think public broadcasting is essential. However, given that Romney has stated he will cut funding for NPR and PBS, can NPR be neutral in its broadcasting? And _is_ it being neutral?

I wouldn't say they have a liberal bias, but I think it's pretty clear that most organizations have a self-preservation bias and I find it hard to find fault with that.

I've honestly listened for a long while, and with the exception of the stupid woman who talks sometimes during the day and makes me want to punch her face every time something stupid comes out of her mouth (which is more than half the time) and the local programming (which sometimes takes on a partisan slant, usually liberal but occasionally conservative) I've found them to be truly and remarkably neutral, especially considering how easy it would be for them to act partisan - the conservatives already think they are and make no bones about wanting to destroy them, so I doubt they'd be losing much if they did.

[RedKing]

Used to be called the department of war until the 20th century.

1947, to be specific. And interestingly enough, the Navy had its own department seperate from the War Department (up until 1949, when Army, Navy and the newly-created Air Force were all rolled into DoD).

The switchover to "Defense" was primarily a propaganda thing to blunt Soviet claims that the US was an aggressive imperialist capitalist pigdog.

[Zangi]

The Soviets are right though....

[Nadaka]

The Soviets are right though....

Pot meet Kettle.