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Republican Talking Point Bingo
How to Play
- Make some friends
- Buy some beer (optional)
- Gather them
- Enter the number of players in the box over there and press the button
- Print the page that pops up
- Give one sheet to each player
- Turn on Fox News
- Mark off each talking point as you hear it
- The first player to mark an entire row (up, down, or diagonally) should call out "Clinton's fault!" and be declared the winner
- Repeat until nauseated
Additional Rules
- Talking points inside quotation marks should only be marked if the words are spoken more or less exactly. There is play in this though. Obviously "Weapons of Mass Destruction" can be marked off if they say "WMD's" and "Al Qaeda wants to kill your children" should count for "Terrorists want to kill your family". You get the idea. It doesn't have to be exact, but pretty darn close.
- Items not in quotes (which are also incidentally in italics) are more along the lines of talking themes. Obviously, any type of gay bashing will count for the Gay Bashing category. It's not like they're going to say "Let's get back to the gay bashing for a moment, Sean". Well, not often anyway.
- Any game-related disputes should be settled by voting with verifiable paper ballots. If paper ballots are not available, the strongest player should seize control in a (possibly bloodless) revolution.
I am not the first person to have this idea (see here and here), but as far as I can tell I am the first person to actually make the game. If anyone knows of prior art, I will gladly acknowlege and link to it.
The talking points I used are a set currently being used in the right-wing media. Over time they will grow stale. If this turns out to be popular, I will do my best to keep them updated.
The randomness of the game cards would improve with more talking points. Mrs. FatDave and I were only able to come up with 31. If you have suggestions, please leave them in the comments, and I will add my favorites to the program.
This was inspired by the Right Wing World segment of The Stephanie Miller Show