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Related: About this forumHBO's 'Newsroom': Tea Party - the American Taliban
It is a very witty commentary on our current political system, one that deserves proper attention.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Newsroom summary on the Koch brothers and AFP (American for Prosperity)
BlueCollar
(3,859 posts)JRPActor
(3 posts)I AM SURE FIRST COMPLETE SEASON WILL BE OUT ON DVD BEFORE ELECTION!
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)I don't have TV. I watch what I watch over the internet. I signed up for HBO specifically to watch that show, but it won't play. I don't understand why not. I've given up and reserved the DVD on Netflix.
gateley
(62,683 posts)SheilaT
(23,156 posts)Especially for someone without a TV.
gateley
(62,683 posts)Firebrand Gary
(5,044 posts)You beat me, my friend! Just got home and caught the episode on DVR. Such a great show! I really respect and appreciate what Aaron Sorkin is doing.
I sincerely hope that this starts to right the ship.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)I didn't know until tonight that there were clips on YouTube - I just assumed there weren't any because of copyright laws.
I looked long time ago on YouTube and all the videos back then were those ones that say go to so and so link and then when ya got there they wanted you to take surveys etc.
Anyway, I love all the little clips that I've found so far tonight
ashling
(25,771 posts)LittleGirl
(8,287 posts)to view any of these videos. If, like me, you don't have cable, you can't watch anything on those links.
ashling
(25,771 posts)cool stuff about the show at their site.
I gotta have a cap
My birthday is this Sunday if anybody is interested ... in getting me this cap!
LittleGirl
(8,287 posts)And Happy Birthday! Cheers.
jjewell
(618 posts)polichick
(37,152 posts)...because it seems most of the country can't remember. Brilliant to use old footage during the credits.
Perhaps I need to do some budget magic so I can add HBO to my lineup.
avebury
(10,952 posts)the time, just the few months of the year that they have on a decent show.
JRPActor
(3 posts)Astazia
(262 posts)I have been in love with this show from minute one & I was so worried they wouldn't catch up to the GOP-Tea Party presidential hopefuls & was so happy they were able to lay out the agenda of radical right, calling them out on their lies, & ,misrepresentations. TP folks say they love America but hate americans. I cannot wait to see the second season! Look forward to more episodes. For now, I'll be watching my DVR copies to keep that warm fuzzy feeling with progessive core. They were picked up for next season. Loved calling Reese out for hacking hacking. Was totally glued to every episode.
"The Newsroom" gives me goosebumps & touches my heart. Hits me where I live politically.
THIS IS REALITY PROGRAMMING, FOR LEFTIES!
xxoo Taz
oldsarge54
(582 posts)However, consider this. Anti-Liberalism, Tea Party and Fascist party. Subordination of government to industry, Tea Party and Fascist party (in Germany the industrialists made the false assumption they would control Hitler. Mussolini and Franco saluted when the money men talked). Supported traditional values, Tea Party and Fascist party (Kinder, Kuche, Kirche). Rile up the rank and file against migrant workers Tea Party and Fascist Party (latinos v gypsies). Anti gay, Tea Party and Fascists. Lip service to church values while living a hedonistic lifestyle behind nearly closed doors, Tea Party and Fascists. Military adventurism, Tea Party and Fascists. What is really scary is someone is funding websites that paint the Nazis as socialists, thus rehabilitating fascists. Why?
kenfrequed
(7,865 posts)When and if fascism comes to America it will not be labeled made in Germany; it will not be marked with a swastika; it will not even be called fascism; it will be called, of course, Americanism An uncredited New York Times reporter covering Halford E. Luccock in an article published September 12, 1938.
Take a look at the listing
romantico
(5,062 posts)I'm hoping they release THE NEWSROOM on dvd/blu ray before Christmas. I have HBO but so many people who have to listen to me talk about the show do not and I would love to buy or loan copies to them.
The media hates this show because it shows them what they ought to be doing. Plain and simple.
kenfrequed
(7,865 posts)I loved the West Wing (still wish it was available on bluray) and Sorkin's writing has always been great. I just can't spring for cable right now.
amerciti001
(158 posts)They can call themselves Tea Party, They can call themselves Conservatives, They can even call themselves Republicans,
but we should call them what they are- The American Taliban.
Just read the list of dogma and ideological garbage these so-called Tea Partiers sprew..
Ideological Purity
Compromise as weakness
A fundamentalist belief in scriptural literalism
Denying science
Unmoved by facts
Undeterred by new information
A hostile fear of progress
A demonization of education
A need to control womens body
Severe xenophobia
Tribal mentality
Intolerance of dissent
Pathological hatred of US Government
These so-called Christians really do want this Country as a Theocracy, just like Iran, Saudi Arabia, ...where the entire rule of Law is base on their perverted sense of Religious base Laws.
Want to see what this country would like under the Tea Party Taliban read on...
Taliban behead 17 at Afghan party 'with music and dancing'
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014208726
4:50 AM - By Mamoon Durrani (AFP) 3 hours ago KANDAHAR Taliban Islamist insurgents beheaded 17 civilians, including two women, who were holding a party with music in a southern Afghanistan village, officials said Monday. "I can confirm that this ... (AFP)
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BayAreaKen
(2 posts)After being brought nearly to tears last night at the conclusion of the season finale of HBO's "The Newsroom", I remembered that not everybody has HBO. As such, they can't see the show. So I thought I'd transcribe it for you.
All season long, the show has been highlighting what we here at DemocraticUnderground know: that there is an "American Taliban" in these United States. And they're called the Tea Party.
The transcript below is not the complete episode. For that, you'll have to subscribe to HBO and watch it on demand or get the DVDs of the first season when they're available. It is however -- as complete as I could make it -- the news "broadcast" on last night's show. It really was something to behold. It was our dream broadcast. I hope this transcript is valuable to you, in whole or in part. I don't have the time to embed video right now (as I'm WAY late for work).
August 24, 2012: "The Newsroom" -- The Greater Fool -- the news transcript as broadcast by Will McAvoy
Good Evening, Im Will McAvoy. Today is Monday, August 8 [2011].
And this past Friday, for the first time ever, Standard and Poors downgraded the credit rating of the US Treasury. You would think that would be tonights top story. Or you might think it would be the Dow closing down 634 points on its worst day of trading in 3 years. Or the austerity riots in Europe. Or any statements of the Republican candidates running for president. Or the President himself. But its not.
Tonights top story is a woman named Dorothy Cooper.
Dorothy Cooper is a 96 year old resident of Chattanooga Tennessee and has been voting for the last 75 years. This year, she has been told she cant. A new law in Tennessee requires residents to show a government issued photo ID in order to vote. Dorothy Cooper doesnt have a drivers license, because Dorothy Cooper doesnt have a car. Dorothy Cooper doesnt have a passport; a vacation abroad was never in her future.
Tennessee isnt alone. At this moment, 33 states have proposed or already adopted the same voter id laws that have disqualified Dorothy Cooper from the one fundamental thing that we all do as Americans. Its estimated that 11% or roughly 20 million people dont have government issued voter ids and will be disenfranchised this November. Why? To crack down on the terrible problem of voter fraud. Governor Rick Perry of Texas, who is about to enter the presidential primary race, is serious about cracking down on the problem:
>Video of Perry: Making sure that there is not fraud, making sure that someone is not manipulating that process makes all the sense in the world to me.<
Me too. Because voter fraud is such a huge problem that during a five year period in the Bush Administration, when 196 million votes were cast, the number of cases of voter fraud reached 86. Not 86,000. 86. Heres what that number looks like as a percentage of votes cast. .00004%. Four one hundred thousandths of a percent. This would be called a solution without a problem, but its not. Its just a solution to a different problem.
Republicans have a hard time getting certain people to vote for them. So life would be a lot easier if certain people just werent allowed to vote at all. Im ashamed to say that 32 out of the 33 voter id laws were proposed by Republican legislators, and passed by Republican controlled statehouses. And signed into law by Republican governors. I am not ashamed to say that I, however, am a Republican. And that brings us to tonights second story.
Im what the leaders of the Tea Party would call a RINO: Republican in Name Only. And thats ironic because thats exactly what I think about the leaders of the Tea Party. Because the most conservative Republicans today arent Republicans.
Republicans believe in a prohibitive military. We believe in a common sense government. And that there are social programs enacted in the last half century that work but that there are way too many costing way too much, that dont. We believe in the rule of law and order and free market capitalism. The Tea Party believes in loving America but hating Americans. Tea Party Congressman Allen West of Florida.
>Video of West: I must confess, when I see anyone with an Obama bumper sticker, I recogonize them as a threat to the gene pool. <
They believe in loving America, but hating its government. Conservative activist, Grover Norquist.
>Video of Norquist: I dont want to abolish government, I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub. <
And they believe that anybody who disagrees with the Tea Party has sinister anti-American motives.
>Video of Herman Cain: The objective of the liberals is to destroy this country. The objective of the liberals is to make America mediocre. <
Most of all, you must never, under any circumstance, seek to reach a compromise with your opponent. Or do any of what Democrats and genuine Republicans both call governing. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell:
>Vidieo of McConnell: Our top political priority over the next two years should be to deny President Obama a second term.<
And one other plank in the Tea Party platform. If you are poor, it means that you are either too lazy or too stupid to be rich. Heres Andre Bauer, Tea Party Leader and the Lt. Governor of South Carolina [McAvoy reads Bauers words] : My grandmother was not a highly educated woman but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed.
Its almost hard to believe that Republicans cant get Dorothy Cooper to vote for them.
During Tea Party rallys and in campaign speeches, weve been told that America has been founded as a Christian nation and if the founding fathers were here today, theyd tell us so. Heres John Adams in the treaty of Tripoli: As the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion. And heres Thomas Jefferson: that our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions. And heres the first amendment to the US Constitution: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.
Whats more frightening than the perversion of our great history is that sensible strong smart Republicans, the very men and women who should be standing up to radical fundamentalism, are so frightened in losing primary battles to religious zealots that theyve thrown in the towel on sanity. So we get this:
>Video of John McCain: Yes, that the constitution established the United States as a Christian nation.<
Its ironic because the biggest enemy of the phony Republican isnt Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid or Hillary Clinton or Barak Obama. Its this man. [image of Jesus Christ]. He said Heal the sick. Feed the hungry. Care for the weakest among us. And always pray in private.
On screen behind McAvoy while he reads:
- Ideological purity
- Compromise as weakness
- A fundamentalist belief in scriptural literalism
- Denying science
- Unmoved by facts
- Undeterred by new information
- A hostile fear of progress
- A demonization of education
- A need to control womens bodies
- Severe xenophobia
- Tribal mentality
- Intolerance of dissent
- A pathological hatred of the US government
They can call themselves the Tea Party. They can call themselves Conservatives. And they can even call themselves Republicans. Though Republicans certainly shouldnt. But we should call them what they are: The American Taliban. And the American Taliban cannot survive if Dorothy Cooper is allowed to vote.
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