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jodymarie aimee

(3,975 posts)
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 05:27 AM Apr 2018

We are Democrats. Act like it.

So, a comic insults Sarah 3 Names for lying to the American people daily, and Ben Carson proposes folks who make $4 thousand dollars a year pay 3x their rent, and we, DU are more outraged about a comedy routine. We are Democrats. Act like it.

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Cary

(11,746 posts)
5. Are you attacking Democrats?
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 06:44 AM
Apr 2018

And if so are you suggesting that attacking Democrats is what Democrats are supposed to do? The posts I see are attacking Republicans for being cowards and losers. What am I missing?

 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
11. Then when is the M$M
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 07:20 AM
Apr 2018

going to demand that Trump apologize to John Tester? It seems to me that the M$M has already forgotten about that low life smear on a sitting Senator.

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Pepsidog

(6,252 posts)
16. You are correct. While my words seemed to be directed at DU members that was not my intention.
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 12:00 PM
Apr 2018

My comments were directed to all those in the MSM who are demanding an apology from Wolfe, not to DU members. Like Mika and Andea Mitchell. Any DU members who feel an apology is warranted well I respectfully disagree but would never seek to silence them.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,789 posts)
13. Easily double that. A lot is due to people falling into the media trap.
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 07:26 AM
Apr 2018

The media make money when people bicker on TV (or online panel equivalents). In social media other than DU, a lot of bots jack up emotions about issues like this.

Republicon strategists fire up bots and get their pundits bloviating on issues like this to take pressure away from tRump's mistakes and legal problems and off of Pruitt and Mnuchin and Pompeo and the rest of the sycophants / psycho-elephants.

OP is right to draw our attention back to tRump regime malfeasance.

I would add drawing our attention back to the Blue Wave activities.

bucolic_frolic

(42,679 posts)
12. I don't think DU is outraged by a comedy routine, and it's not a routine
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 07:22 AM
Apr 2018

it was serious caricature, satire, social commentary. In the long judgment of history and perspective, it will be judged for the piece of work it was. The in-yer-face schtick is very difficult to master, and to pull off in a high stakes environment in a friendly yet abrasive way and raspy screech is a very high achievement. She was mimicking the whole administration - approaches, policies, demeanor, class - and really took a bite out of it. This was a grand slam in a championship game.

Fresh_Start

(11,330 posts)
15. sadly...the idiocy of being upset with the comedienne and ignoring the a-hole on the other side
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 09:46 AM
Apr 2018

is exactly what the democrats have been doing.

dawg

(10,610 posts)
18. The circular firing squad *is* our nature ...
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 04:11 PM
Apr 2018

but, thank God, we're the ones who believe in evolution. We can change.

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