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Washburn • Nov 02, 2018 12:36 AM

@DanR sound logic!

Washburn • Nov 02, 2018 12:35 AM

If I didn't call out that Mitch rolled on floor with ball would that make me as bad as a Duke fan?

Washburn • Nov 02, 2018 12:32 AM

No COY expectations

Washburn • Nov 02, 2018 12:29 AM

Hmm doke fts look not awful

Washburn • Nov 02, 2018 12:22 AM

Simple. Bill will shorten the rotation until they're not bad. Too much talent to not have 5 guys at least that can play together

Washburn • Nov 02, 2018 12:20 AM

@BShark which one? Both?

Washburn • Nov 02, 2018 12:19 AM

@DanR lol

Washburn • Nov 02, 2018 12:18 AM

I'm in love with Dotson's speed

Washburn • Nov 02, 2018 12:18 AM

Come on KJ

Washburn • Nov 01, 2018 11:53 PM

Happy Game Day Fellas!

Washburn • Nov 01, 2018 11:52 PM

Hmm that sounds like the Self we know.

We all can learn from this Angel • Nov 01, 2018 02:01 PM

Let me backtrack. I'm trying to say there are serious issues embedded in what she's saying but the conclusion to attack the left is because she's bought off.

We all can learn from this Angel • Nov 01, 2018 12:54 PM

@DoubleDD She would use you like she used Kanye :joy:

We all can learn from this Angel • Nov 01, 2018 03:33 AM

Pseudo-profound bullshit. Her God chose her to "attack the left's narrative"... riiiight.

She took a massive dive off the deep end there. I would be looking for a conclusion in the realm of....

"My experience helped me to understand that we live in a world where social mores are crammed down our throats at every turn, leading to our identities being defined by others and not by ourselves."

And maybe...

"The effect of technology on our social consciousness should be seriously examined."

But being selected by God to "attack the left's narrative" seems a little far fetched considering she ran a site that mocked Donald Trump's penis size in 2016 ↗ and she didn't vote in 2016.

Now she's "the hottest thing out there" according to Trump. Could the power and the fame doing the conservative fund raising circuit maybe have something to do with her about-face?

Is her God actually a pile of :dollar: ?

I mentioned that the first time in a long time I watched CNN was the Hurricane Coverage to laugh how bad it was. I was struck by how disingenuous and disengaged Don Lemon was, trying to force feed people their own stories in order to check off some dramatic checkboxes like "but your pets can't go with you right! Huh. And you ma'am you're staying because you're an EMT and you want to stay to help these dog owners. Huh. Truly you are amazing. Huh." Quite apparent that he's full of sh--. So yeah @Woodrow I completely agree. He should be canned not only for being a racist but because he sucks at reporting, at least from what I saw.

@Woodrow I think reasonable people, regardless of political beliefs, will not have a problem with Don Lemon taking a permanent hike.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2018/10/31/cnn-host-don-lemon-said-white-men-are-biggest-terror-threat-this-country/?utm_term=.abfc75030446 ↗

One can only hope that this one trips him up.

Halloween • Oct 31, 2018 08:59 PM

9/16. There seems to be a bug with #11. It marked it wrong but didn't show the correct answer. Because I chose the answer most people chose I'll assume that I got it right and you probably did too.

Scrimmages and Exhibitions • Oct 31, 2018 08:48 PM

No tears for the Koch Zeroes.

The Business of Internet Outrage • Oct 31, 2018 04:17 PM

Today's The Daily was an excellent piece examining a specific homegrown hyperpartisan news aggregate on Facebook. Well worth the listen:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/podcasts/the-daily/mad-world-news-facebook-internet-anger.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fthe-daily&action=click&contentCollection=podcasts&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection ↗

@justanotherfan I was thinking the same thing.

JayHawkFanToo said:

@approxinfinity

I see what the issue is. You are lumping together the news division with the opinion shows. Shepard Smith has always been and still is part of the news group and not the opinion group like Hannity and Carlson are. He is now in the top news time slot which is in the afternoon while the top time slots for opinionix are in the evening. Smith is now so biased against Trump that he has lost credibility and viewership and he is making the news more like opinion which is not what the news division is or should be about, i.e. report the news not make the news.

I never said you were a fan of Fox, actually it is quite the contrary; however you did indicate that you watch it closely but your lack of knowledge of its line up would indicate the opposite and once you start citing numbers it indicates more of a Google search than actual hands on....or perhaps eyes on...experience. Just my observation.

So if I understand you correctly, you're making a distinction between news (Smith) and opinion (Carlson, Hannity, Ingraham) on Fox, and then saying that the news (Smith) is in fact biased. So, can I infer that the answer to my question is that no, you in fact do not watch Smith? It seems to me that distinguishing him as the "top news time slot" is meaningless/disingenuous, because the top slots PERIOD are in the evening, and you and many other Fox viewers, are not interested in the news (and also in many cases working at the time the news slot is running), and only consume the opinions.

Is that right?

I wonder if anyone on here enjoys CNN. I agree it's racist.

@JayHawkFanToo

So here's what Shepard Smith said about the caravan:

“There is no invasion. No one is coming to get you. There’s nothing at all to worry about.”

And yes, regarding the executive order conversation on birthright citizenship he was critical of Trump.

That makes me wonder, do you yourself watch Shepard Smith?

Did you, back in 2013 when he was the #3 trusted anchor on TV, before Fox decided to move him to the 3pm slot?

Is it any surprise that I know who the 8, 9, and 10 pm slot anchors are?

Why do you think Fox moved Smith to the 3pm slot and filled the 8, 9, and 10 pm slots with Carlson, Hannity, and Ingraham?

JayHawkFanToo said:

I don’t know what to make of your answer. You say you watch Fox News and yet you don’t know who Shepard Smith is and he has been with Fox News since its inception in 1996 and is the channel's chief news anchor and managing editor of the breaking news division. Smith is the former host of Fox News' evening newscast, The Fox Report with Shepard Smith, and Studio B. In 2013, Shepard Smith Reporting replaced Studio B. He is extreme anti Trump. Juan Williams, formerly of of NPR and PBS, has been with Fox for several year now since he was fired by NPR/PBS and he is a regular panel member on the. Sunday Fox show with Chris Wallace and several other show shows and extremely liberal and rabidly anti Trump. This is the equivalent of saying you follow KU basketball closely and yet don’t know who Kurtis Townsend or Norm Roberts are.

This is a major stretch. I never claimed to be a fan of Fox News. I was very explicit in saying that my attention to Fox News centers around the shows that do the most damage, specifically Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, who are the #2 and #3 rated hosts in 2018, whereas Shepard Smith is #19.

I have seen countless utter horsesh-- clips from these two clowns (Carlson and Hannity) and I'm certain how I feel about them. I don't dispute that there should likely be less detestable people on Fox; I told you I'd watch Smith or Williams. Was there any particular coverage that you think was well done and unbiased that I should look up? Are they tearing Trump a new a-hole for wanting to change the Constitution via executive order?

Jayhawks in NBA • Oct 31, 2018 12:45 AM

@bmensch1 nice! Are Hunter and Landen roommates?

Here's his grandfather Frederick Drumpf's naturalization form, page 7:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2328175/fred-trump-will-2.pdf ↗

He sailed to the US in 1885, and was naturalized in 1892.


In August 2018, Melania's parents were made citizens through "chain migration"

Which of these quotes sound right...

"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore."

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

or...

"We pick out people. Then they turn out to be horrendous. And we don’t understand why. They’re not giving us their best people, folks"

"And that’s what we’re doing with our country, folks. We’re letting people in. And it is going to be a lot of trouble. It is only getting worse."

"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?"

“CHAIN MIGRATION must end now! Some people come in, and they bring their whole family with them, who can be truly evil. NOT ACCEPTABLE!”

@JayHawkFanToo I pay attention to Fox News more than I do CNN and MSNBC, because Fox News poses the greatest threat to our country at the moment. I think we know why ↗.

To a resonable observer, the MSM is a lot more closely allied with Liberals/Democratic Party that Trump is with Fox.

Being more in league with the truth is not the same as being "closely allied wiht Liberals/Democratic Party". Corrolation is not causation.

There are several hosts/analysts at Fox that are very anti-Trump starting withe Shepard Smiths and Juan Williams and even Chris Wallace is very anti Trump although not as overt as the others. Is there anyone at CNN or MSNBC or any of the networks that are equivalent?

I have never heard of the first two people. I wonder what their viewership numbers are. I do appreciate you calling out that there are a few hosts that are reasonable, and I promise you I will seek them out. Do you possibly have clips in mind that I should check out? No worries if not; would save me time. My biggest concern is those people that are in bed with Trump and have the biggest viewership (Hannity, ex), i.e. the people doing the most damage, and most exemplifying state run media.

I keep thinking back to the binge watching of Jordan Peterson I did a few months back. He had some decent moments, but one thing that stuck out as flat wrong and damaging was his argument that conservatives are more moral people. Maybe this is true if you think that conservatives self-identify more as being absolute in their convictions, but the truth of the matter is that Donald Trump has shown how far conservative morals can slide, and have slid. This is not just a "he's got moral issues but his policies are good with me" kind of thing. You can't absolve yourself of his influence over you. He's build a tower of rhetoric and lies around him that you have to buy into, and have bought into by taking Fox News seriously.

His relationship with Fox News is undeniable, and once again, the things they say on Fox are verifiably BS. Just as importantly, the BS and hateful things that Trump says and his administration does that they do not report or explain away invalidates their credibility as a news source. They do enough to be seriously damaging to the grasp that the people of this country have on reality.

@JayHawkFanToo this administration separated children with no means of reuniting them with their parents, and refused to acknowledge that this was a policy, thereby causing no update to the software or procedure to reunite. The inability to reunite is terrible; either a collosal f--k up, or a deliberately negligent and cruel act, in an effort to further dissuade undocumented immigrants.

Someone beat me to it:

You could rewrite Billy Joel's "We Didnt Start the Fire" complete with all the morally corrupt or incompetent stuff Trump and the Republicans have done in his first two years alone.

@DoubleDD Look, if you can prove that something I quote is factually incorrect, I hope you know I'd be the FIRST to acknowledge it.

@DoubleDD that's because the things that Fox News says are verifiably BS, and they're so in bed with Trump they make Russian hookers look tame.

@DoubleDD I don't think you're wrong about the double standard regarding racial politics, or that the Democrats had a heavy hand to play in "creating" Trump. But Trump goes way beyond just seeking equality regarding race politics. He's a hate monger.

@DoubleDD I don't think you will. Sorry man. I just don't think you would give a liberal candidate a chance, even if he/she were the better option.

I don't watch MSNBC, or CNN. I watched a little CNN during the Hurricane so I could make fun of their reporting. That's about it.

Beaty • Oct 28, 2018 03:06 AM

@Crimsonorblue22 winning on a butt fumble is exciting!

@DoubleDD i was being serious. The way you defend Trump I would have assumed you thought Obama was the Devil.

I hope that you are still someone who might vote for the next candidate that isn't endorsed by Fox if they are the better candidate.

@BShark funny thing... You said you are for humanity and common sense. Trump said this would be the election of Kavanaugh, the caravan, some other wedge issues I can't recall and... common sense. He's right about that! I hope common sense is still common and we can elect people that aren't complicit.

@DoubleDD you voted for Obama? Man, have you considered that you might have changed a lot since then?

Winning! • Oct 28, 2018 12:29 AM

@Crimsonorblue22 BTW I had to go right after game. I checked the app, and it was laggy, but didn't appear to have the postgame fwiw. I'm not sure if the game was actually on the app even.

Winning! • Oct 27, 2018 10:28 PM

Nice!

Winning! • Oct 27, 2018 10:27 PM

Had he kept running to the open space he could have killed it

Winning! • Oct 27, 2018 10:26 PM

Ok well that works

Winning! • Oct 27, 2018 10:25 PM

Uh uh yeah let's punt lol

Winning! • Oct 27, 2018 10:23 PM

Deh.

Winning! • Oct 27, 2018 10:21 PM

Wellp.... one more first down pls?

Winning! • Oct 27, 2018 10:19 PM

Need a first down at least

Winning! • Oct 27, 2018 10:17 PM

Hoooo 1:11 left... can we get out of our end zone and escape with this?

Winning! • Oct 27, 2018 09:48 PM

Fun game. Let's get a touchdown here.

Champions Classic • Oct 27, 2018 03:43 PM

@Crimsonorblue22 :100: