By adamg on Sat., 10/22/2016 - 8:24 am
Curt Schilling: Jews so stupid, amirite? No, really, why are they so dumb? he asks.
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Well, I deduce the liberal talking point now.
By dmcboston
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 2:25pm
He's a drinker. You must know him so well. Hillary could probably drink (and swear) him right under the table. Course, that was a few years ago.
he hasnt looked great
By Scumquistador
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 6:59pm
since he had his battle with cancer pretty much.
Lucky for you...
By CopleyScott17
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 11:50am
...there are plenty of alt-right conspiracy-fetish radio shows and websites you and your ilk can wallow in. Your hero Trump might even have his very own network soon, even more hate-based, ignorance-promoting, reality-denying than Fox "News" (which I guess isn't conservative enough anymore?).
Now, now: no need to use code words like "alt-right".
By MC Slim JB
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 11:56am
Whatever happened to good old-fashioned "white supremacist"?
Alt-right is being used to
By anon
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 4:20pm
Alt-right is being used to label any Republican to the right of Charlie Baker. Meaningless term.
Bull.
By CopleyScott17
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 4:55pm
First, I doubt Baker has ever been seriously referred to as alt-right.
Second, it's not a meaningless term. It's how a specific group of people refer to themselves and their beliefs. I think they're abhorrent, but they're absolutely real. It's like saying pro-life is a meaningless term, or progessive, or any political category.
Seems you're just trying to deny reality or deflect criticism. How very Trumpist.
I think you read that wrong.
By boo_urns
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 5:09pm
They weren't talking about calling Baker alt-right. They said anyone who falls to the right of him. But a more accurate portrayal would be anyone to the right of Neocons like Bill Kristol, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, et al. That's where you start getting into alt-right territory. Even Bill Kristol, of all people, made a push to defeat Trump this election in the "Never Trump" movement.
You're right...
By CopleyScott17
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 5:32pm
...I did misread the Baker comment. Thanks! I think etiquette-wise I should leave it as is, but if anyone reads this chain please know I stand corrected.
Of course they did.
By anon
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 6:58pm
Neocons hate anyone they view as insufficiently hawkish. They hated it when Trump was bad mouthing George W. Bush and calling the Iraq War a disaster.
The neocons much prefer Hillary. She's a warmonger like they are.
A breath of fresh air
By anonism
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 12:51pm
Yeah, you need a breath of fresh air badly. You don't know squat about me, so your projections about me as some right-wing tool are way off the mark.
I don't live for right-leaning stuff; after all, I _do_ come to UH all the time - that alone should tell you something about me.
Trump ain't my hero. This election, BOTH candidates are bottom-of-the-barrel picks.
Realize, however, that it's one thing to favor Hillary Clinton, but it's quite another thing to ignore entirely all the non-fictional evil behind the sick, slick Clintonian empire (Act 2). Good luck to us all!
HRC is not a bottom of the barrel candidate by any means
By anon
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 6:21pm
That simply cannot truthfully be said regarding a former US Senator and Secretary of State with her education.
She left both these high offices in good standing.
She certainly has her flaws but that is simply a ridiculous statement.
Problem is...
By dmcboston
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 9:09pm
...as a Jedi, she went over to the dark side. Benghazi? Our guys hung out to dry. Libya? Forced error. No need to kill Kaddafhy (sp, always with him). He had a lid on it. She had him croaked. No plan 'B'. So, Libya, a rather stable country, is a shattered train wreck. Have fun explaining that one.
Senator? Carpetbagger that won a round and did nothing.
For the sake of the Republic, hold your nose and vote for Trump. The media will watch him like a hawk and he will be at loggerheads with some of Congress.
...as the Founding Fathers saw fit.
Hillary will spend four years hunting down her enemies and rewarding her friends.
She's a despicable woman. Hell, if she wins, I'll probably get audited...
Benghazi!
By CopleyScott17
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 9:54pm
FINALLY! That took much longer than I would have expected, but I knew dmcboston wouldn't disappoint. Anxiously awaiting Vince Foster and Travelgate. Your move, O-FISH-L!
Never mind, Fish...
By dmcboston
Sun, 10/23/2016 - 12:34am
...I got this one...
[URL=http://s1097.photobucket.com/user/clubcarbrew/medi...
Citations
By anon
Sun, 10/23/2016 - 3:26pm
Please.
And you wonder why they're the usual suspects?
By CopleyScott17
Sun, 10/23/2016 - 5:45pm
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/10/curt-...
Curt's Nazi collection
By anon
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 9:40am
Boston.com practicing some actual journalism.
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2015/08/25/...
What's the issue?
By anon
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 12:57pm
He collects WWII memorabilia and within that collection is some Nazi stuff. If a museum had a WWII collection wouldn't this also be the case?
im no shill for schill but
By Scumquistador
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 7:06pm
that article is insufferable and it seems like, per that very article, he does indeed have a large collection. "Of the nearly 200 photographs Schilling posted, more than three dozen include swastikas."
you need to have your head pretty far up your ass to think that because ~20% of photos of his collection have OMG SWASTIKAS that it means anything. this dude does enough actual dumb shit without manufacturing fake reasons to dump on him.
oh, and, relaying the contents of a facebook post he made is not journalism lmao.
As far as Nazi collections go....
By Ron Abbott
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 7:26pm
Lemmy had a huge collection of Nazi memorabilia. Try calling him a bigot.
Lemmy had the good sense not to run for office
By anon
Mon, 10/24/2016 - 12:46am
And also not to spew bigoted bullshit on social media.
He shouldn't even be mentioned in the same discussion with this other one.
Who is Lemmy?
By Ron Newman
Mon, 10/24/2016 - 11:39am
and what team does he play for?
He plays electric bass for
By MattyC
Mon, 10/24/2016 - 11:56am
He plays electric bass for the great Heavy Metal Parking Lot in the sky. (Apologies to Priest)
He would also tell Herr Schilling to kiss his arse.
Lemmy Kilmeister from Motörhead
By anon
Tue, 10/25/2016 - 8:59am
But really only needs one name.
He's legend. And was never a buffoon like this other one.
Recently passed. RIP Lemmy
Christian Curt supports Serial Sinner Trump
By anon
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 9:56am
Trump has been married 3 times, cheated on his first 2 wives, and coveted many more women. So why does Christian Curt support Trump?
(And please do tell us more about how you covet 10 year old girls Curt. Please proceed.)
he's not fooling anyone
By neuroboy
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 10:11am
What a horse's ass. To me at least, he knows exactly what he's doing campaigning as "Aww shucks, I'm not PC, I'm just a regular guy asking a question" candidate which is the only strategy he has to win a senate campaign in MA. The barely concealed smug expression on his face is telling--he was probably waiting the entire interview to spring this one. The only credit he deserves is taking Tapper by surprise and trying to get him to say something he can point to in a Senate campaign about the liberal media bias. Thankfully Tapper doesn't take the bait. I feel as though the shocking things said during this presidential campaign give a mouthbreathers like Schilling a chance to ride in its slipstream and say pretty much anything that makes him look like a populist as long as it's not outright racist or rapey. Unfortunately, I think we'll be seeing more of this in the next few years.
Unfortunately
By anon
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 10:15am
Curt did get Tapper to state he doesn't vote in presidential elections. If true, shame on Tapper, if he was just deflecting, shame on him for lying.
Better answer would have been "its none of your f'ng business"
I believe what he said
By boo_urns
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 12:02pm
Is that he doesn't specifically endorse Democrats or Republicans, which, "shame on him" for claiming to be unbiased as a news person, right? That doesn't mean he doesn't vote, though; that doesn't logically follow.
Many news organizations have explicit policies
By MC Slim JB
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 12:11pm
that forbid anyone in the news side of the house from publicly endorsing any candidate or party, though of course voting is allowed and an entirely private matter, as it should be. The same rules generally don't apply to the business side of the house. (That latter accounts for a lot of the media people recently accused by the right of betraying their bias with political contributions: most of them aren't reporters.)
Jake Tapper said he "doesn't vote in presidential elections
By anon
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 12:25pm
Check out the full interview below. Adam posted an excerpt . At around the 5:50 mark, Tapper says "I dont vote in presidential elections" after Curt tries to get him to say who he is voting for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzZkAuvTtC0
Indeed
By boo_urns
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 4:14pm
You got me there. Has he elaborated elsewhere as to why that is?
Apparently the former
By MattyC
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 9:26pm
Apparently the former managing editor of the Washington Post (not sure on the detail, heard it on BUR Friday morning) also did not vote, in order to keep a clear heart in terms of journalistic integrity and not picking sides, even in the privacy of the mind.
I think it shows an amount of integrity to put aside your rights in order to further democracy by providing the best impartial information and assessment that you can.
I think that's odd
By boo_urns
Sun, 10/23/2016 - 11:54pm
If you've ever read Freakonomics, they talk about how economists don't vote (or, at least in presidential elections), because they view it as a futile exercise, for the most part (where it usually doesn't come down to a single vote so they can feel good about sitting it out, or something close to that). But, as a journalist seems a bit different. Of course, if there were a means of publishing a journalist's voting record it could, in fact, prove some sort of bias. But, I believe that sort of record is considered a private right, as far as "privacy" and the constitution are concerned. As a journalist, you've likely researched a lot of, if not all of, the facts enough to the point where you can vote in good faith and still provide accurate journalism to your readers.
Then again, I'm not a journalist, so I don't try to talk myself out of such civic practices. It'd be interesting to hear them pressed on the issue further.
I've heard people who won't vote for either
By FDR democrat
Tue, 10/25/2016 - 11:57pm
State that it doesn't in MA b/c HRC is locked. Just me, but I want my vote to count against this reality TV cretin whose name should no longer be spoken. I want my vote to be tallied against this threat to America.
I wouldn't vote Republican for dog catcher but I've never seen the likes of this one. I wouldn't vote for Michael Moore for prez over many people either, just to give some perspective.
I'm voting for a mandate against this scumbag.
In 3 weeks time
By BullDetector
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 10:40am
The GOP is going to get a beating not seen since Barry Goldwater lost. When that happens there will be a pause for some soul searching. They are going to have to decide if they want to become a national party again or break into smaller parties.
People are going to turn on Trump because he will be blamed for a Clinton Presidency.
He will make the shunning of Sarah Palin (memba her?) look tame.
The schilling schtick is done after this election.
It's a failed election strategy.
New U-Hub funding scheme
By anon
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 11:27am
Here's the plan. For any particular post, Adam can set the over/under on the amount of anon posts it will incur and then we can all place wagers on either side. So a post about the drought might be set at say 5 but an article about Southie might be set at 50.
Anyways, what specific variety of Christian is Schilling? I want to be able to ask the right people why he's such a dummy.
Answer
By anon
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 11:34am
The stupid variety
Curts religion
By anon
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 11:43am
According to this Curt was attending something called "Baseball Chapel"
http://townhall.com/columnists/marvinolasky/2005/0...
And according to this, at least some members of Baseball Chapel think Jews are doomed because they dont believe in J.C.
http://townhall.com/columnists/marvinolasky/2005/0...
Born-again
By Sock_Puppet
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 11:54am
Thanks to his Shonda
Oh?
By MostlyHarmless
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 11:15pm
Does he have 2 belly buttons?
Um, New U-Hub funding scheme
By dmcboston
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 2:53pm
Better...AG holds the popcorn concession...
[URL=http://s1097.photobucket.com/user/clubcarbrew/medi...
This was excruciating to
By Felicity
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 12:26pm
This was excruciating to watch. Dude is painful to look at. I cannot fathom the amount of social ineptitude it takes, to interrogate the person interviewing you. So disrespectful and clueless. What an oafish, rude, boor.
Who are the media that we
By anon
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 12:57pm
Who are the media that we should respect them?
The media aren't special
By Another anon
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 6:12pm
Nor deserve any extraordinary respect. That's just it. Schilling isn't showing common courtesy or decency to a person he's having a conversation with.
This is baseline stuff. Felicity nailed it: the man is an obnoxious boor. I wouldn't vote for him for dog catcher.
Putting his best foot forward?
By anon
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 2:17pm
Good lord. He's trying to appeal to people and win arguments and votes? Can you imagine how unbearable this man must be in private?
Makes Trump look like a charming intelligent gentleman.
Warren must be like a kid on Christmas Eve anticipating this present.
Boy, Adam, you're way off base here
By anonism
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 12:57pm
I think it's your predisposition to hate all things Schilling--and perhaps all things Republican--that led you to write this post.
How is it that you consider Schilling's question so damn insincere/stupid/ignorant -- or whatever?
I admit
By anon
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 1:04pm
to having a predisposition to hate all things Schilling, except for 2004 of course.
You won't get an answer.
By anon
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 1:48pm
You won't get an answer.
This is one of those instances where liberals will feign exasperation. They have no words other than stuff like "Wow. Just wow."
I thought my headline summed it up
By adamg
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 2:13pm
But the question shows he is an idiot, of the authoritarian sort. He assumes his opinion on Israel is the only right one. He ignores that even in Israel not all Jews support his/Netanyahu's views. He doesn't really care what the answer is, he just thinks he's bring clever in calling American Jews idiots. He's also just wrong: There are Republican Jews.
Not that you're wrong, Adam
By Roman
Sat, 10/22/2016 - 2:18pm
but if it was a Jewish Republican who was considering a Senate run Mass that asked that question live on CNN, would it have made the front page of UHub with quite the same snark?
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