Why are so many Australians so invested in the MInutia of US politics?

[Patooka]

Fox News and worldwide affiliates. Those fucks drive a lot of media as other properties chase the shiny clickrage bait

Yep.

Ask me about how channel 9 and Fairfax got together. Also ask me who Costello is.

Those were the dark days. Before the empire.

 

[Tigers!]

What if it had been a rock?

What if it had been a hand-grenade? What if it had been a tactical nuclear weapon??

It wasn't. It was an egg. Imagination is well and good, but should never be a basis for outrage.

Such a pity Nugent didn't use an egg then. He used a car instead.

 

[bilby]

What if it had been a rock?

What if it had been a hand-grenade? What if it had been a tactical nuclear weapon??

It wasn't. It was an egg. Imagination is well and good, but should never be a basis for outrage.

Such a pity Nugent didn't use an egg then. He used a car instead.

Indeed. Thereby rendering the two cases incomparably different, and giving the lie to your bullshit implication that they are somehow related.

I suppose the above is a close as you can get to an apology for attempting to link the two unrelated events, apparently in an attempt to make a bullshit political point about how terrible left-wing protesters are for not ignoring incipient facism.

 

[Tigers!]

What if it had been a rock?

What if it had been a hand-grenade? What if it had been a tactical nuclear weapon??

It wasn't. It was an egg. Imagination is well and good, but should never be a basis for outrage.

Such a pity Nugent didn't use an egg then. He used a car instead.

Indeed. Thereby rendering the two cases incomparably different, and giving the lie to your bullshit implication that they are somehow related.

I suppose the above is a close as you can get to an apology for attempting to link the two unrelated events, apparently in an attempt to make a bullshit political point about how terrible left-wing protesters are for not ignoring incipient facism.

You do read far to much into people's comments.

 

[steve_bank]

Huh???

In the p-re Internet days major print media all had gossip columns.

The Intent cret6aed 24/'7 'global gossip'.

Look at any major online media platform ant is i filed wit relatively rival issues.

Look art all the attention given to Merkel's father who she has been estranged form for years. People eat it up.

What's up with American fascination wit the corrupt anachronistic inbred British royals?

 

[WAB]

What if it had been a rock?

What if it had been a hand-grenade? What if it had been a tactical nuclear weapon??

It wasn't. It was an egg. Imagination is well and good, but should never be a basis for outrage.

Such a pity Nugent didn't use an egg then. He used a car instead.

Indeed. Thereby rendering the two cases incomparably different, and giving the lie to your bullshit implication that they are somehow related.

I suppose the above is a close as you can get to an apology for attempting to link the two unrelated events, apparently in an attempt to make a bullshit political point about how terrible left-wing protesters are for not ignoring incipient facism.

You do read far to much into people's comments.

That could be said of at least a dozen people at this BB. And that would be a very charitable way of saying it.