Is your mother a whore? FOX news wonders ... !

[rubato]

http://www.newshounds.us/2006/09/14/jon ... o_mark.php

Whose news abuses you?

A reference only the highly culturally literate will get w/o googling.

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[Jarlaxle]

Rube is hitting the bottle again...

[Sean]

You have a strange definition of high culture Daddy Rubato...

[dales]

Scratching Peace Symbols In Your Tombstone ~ Words and Music by Charles Manson

First they made him sleep in the closet (x2)

Then they made him sleep out in the hall

When I got a little bit older

They made me sleep against the wall

Then, I was so young and tender

But now I'm oh, so big and hard

Now that I'm a little bit older

I got's ta sleep's in ma backyard


(Family)

When he was just about three

All the girls would drive to see

Who could hold him on their knee

But now its plain to see

Now that he's big and hard

He's got to stay in the back yard

He had a job and got fired

slept on the ground so hard

and I'm so sure some day

Some pretty girl will come his way

and then his mama will say,

“Boy, with girls, you don't play!”

And it's so plain to see

What his mama wants him to be

Locked up and not to be free

To play with you and me

Now I sleep out in the graveyard

Seems my mama up and died


and now I just lay around her tombstone

Scratching peace symbols in the si - - - - - - - de.


(Chorus)

I'm scratching peace symbols in your tombstone

I'm scratching peace symbols in your mind

I'd like to know how'd you get there (x2)


Can't you hear, oh can't you hear up here, as I'm

(repeat chorus)


The only thing you know is what they told you

The only thing you know is what they said

and showed you by the ashes

that all that was true and real is dead, but I'm

(repeat chorus (variation))

I'd like to know how'd you get here

I'd like to know, I'd like to know how'd you get here


My mama told me just what she said

Stay away from girls and my bed

But the woman with the thoughts is all dead

Cause there's a cloud of lead in our head


I'm scratchin' / tombstone

I'm scratching / mind

[Jarlaxle]

You have a strange definition of high culture Daddy Rubato...

He is just plain strange, period, and seems to be getting stranger.

[rubato]

The link is worth checking out. Jon Stewart points out a dishonest tactic made common by Faux news.

http://www.newshounds.us/2006/09/14/jon ... o_mark.php

"...
Jon Stewart Explains the 'Cavuto Mark'
Reported by Judy - September 14, 2006 - Comments (73)

Jon Stewart, that keen observer of American journalistic practices, has revealed the use of a new kind of punctuation mark by Fox News -- the Cavuto -- which Stewart says is cleverly used to turn any statement, no matter how outrageous, into a simple, seemingly fair, question. With video.

On the "Daily Show" on Wednesday (September 13, 2006), Stewart aired a segment on the increasing use of question marks in the chyrons of 24-hour news channels. He ribbed CNN a little for its use of questions on the lower third of its screen -- questions such as "Can Your Purse Make you Sick?" or "What If ... ?"

Stewart's real target, however, was Fox News. He strung together a number of examples from Fox News' Neil Cavuto's "Your World" show to demonstrate how Fox News uses questions to ask attack questions about Democrats and other news media and supportive questions about Republicans. Examples: "Have the Democrats Forgotten the Lessons of 9/11?" "Is the Liberal Media Helping to Fuel Terror?" or "The Best President?"

"Technically that's not really a question mark at the end of that. It's a similar punctuation symbol known as the 'the Cavuto.' It's named for the 'journalist' who pioneered its use," Stewart said.

"...Cavuto's not saying these things. He's just asking, like, 'Is your mother a whore?' What? I'm not saying she's a whore. I'm just wondering out loud if she is a whore. All I'm saying is that reasonable people who have banged your mother for money can disagree."

Stewart then has his own chyron with a question mark. I won't spoil it for you. Enjoy!
... "

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[rubato]

The quote "Whose news abuses you" came from an artist named Larry Sultan who sued a Calif. billboard company for breach of contract and won ...

But the story is worth looking into for those with a curiosity about facts, the arts &c ...

This is what started it:



And this is a link to "whose news ... " &c.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikemandel/2960481024/


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[Sue U]

Or, "Whose news amuses you" (there's an alternative M left in the display).

[rubato]

Or "Whose News Uses You" by only reading the upright letters.

I didn't notice that Larry Sultan had died until now.

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