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Old 07-30-2009, 01:26 PM   #81
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I may get grilled by some posters for this, but I care not.
Alex Jones HATES Glenn Beck for his propaganda.

http://www.infowars.com/glenn-becks-...-911-truthers/

Fema camps;
http://www.infowars.com/glenn-beck-m...n-fox-friends/

They just make fun of him here;
http://www.infowars.com/glenn-beck-tears-of-a-clown/

Enjoy.
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Old 07-30-2009, 01:26 PM   #82
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So you're ok with liberal bias as long as there is no conservative bias?

edit: damn, Vlad beat me to it
Exactly. If by "conservative bias" you mean "giving Glenn Beck a show"--then yes, I'm opposed to conservative bias.

If conservative bias actually means George F. Will, P.J. O'Rourke and Peggy Noonan, I'm a little more okay with it. But in practice it means Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Lou Dobbs and all the members of the ######bag patrol. You can put Keith Olbermann in that category too; though he doesn't bother me nearly as much (for obvious reasons...), he still represents precisely what's wrong with American news media: too much slant, too much spin, too much bias, too much polarization, not enough content.

I'll say it again: we have it pretty good up here.
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Old 07-30-2009, 01:39 PM   #83
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When CNN Headline News has their primetime program as Showbiz Tonight and Fox "News" has O'Reilly then you know we have it good here.

I mean seriously, Showbiz Tonight! and a friggin news channel as their main primetime news program! What a joke.
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Old 07-30-2009, 01:41 PM   #84
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Exactly. If by "conservative bias" you mean "giving Glenn Beck a show"--then yes, I'm opposed to conservative bias.

If conservative bias actually means George F. Will, P.J. O'Rourke and Peggy Noonan, I'm a little more okay with it. But in practice it means Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Lou Dobbs and all the members of the ######bag patrol. You can put Keith Olbermann in that category too; though he doesn't bother me nearly as much (for obvious reasons...), he still represents precisely what's wrong with American news media: too much slant, too much spin, too much bias, too much polarization, not enough content.

I'll say it again: we have it pretty good up here.
That's how I see it too.

There seems to be an extra meaness and wilful blindness in the Fox commentators compared to the MSNBC people. It's more entertainment than news on either side.
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Exactly. If by "conservative bias" you mean "giving Glenn Beck a show"--then yes, I'm opposed to conservative bias.

If conservative bias actually means George F. Will, P.J. O'Rourke and Peggy Noonan, I'm a little more okay with it. But in practice it means Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Lou Dobbs and all the members of the ######bag patrol. You can put Keith Olbermann in that category too; though he doesn't bother me nearly as much (for obvious reasons...), he still represents precisely what's wrong with American news media: too much slant, too much spin, too much bias, too much polarization, not enough content.

I'll say it again: we have it pretty good up here.
It's easier to like if it generally agrees with your political views. I do agree with you re FOX - I can't watch that stuff, even though it's supposedly "right" wing. Really, nobody represents me - fiscally conservative, socially liberal - except perhaps the Economist. But on TV, I find the "lefty" stuff lame and naive, and the supposed "right" stuff moronic and over-the-top. I guess that's why the GOP can't elect anyone in the NE - hardly anybody in the party speaks for "Rockafeller" (sp?) Republicans...
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It's easier to like if it generally agrees with your political views. I do agree with you re FOX - I can't watch that stuff, even though it's supposedly "right" wing. Really, nobody represents me - fiscally conservative, socially liberal - except perhaps the Economist. But on TV, I find the "lefty" stuff lame and naive, and the supposed "right" stuff moronic and over-the-top. I guess that's why the GOP can't elect anyone in the NE - hardly anybody in the party speaks for "Rockafeller" (sp?) Republicans...
Me and you both.
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