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OfflineGazzBut
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Re: The liberal media. [Re: wingnutx]
    #1999173 - 10/11/03 01:08 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

Interesting. I would have said

Yes(although the word imminent may have not been used its only a matter of semantics)
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Re: The liberal media. [Re: Xlea321]
    #1999200 - 10/11/03 01:17 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

:smile:

I dunno if that was really what I meant or what most americans would consider liberal.  I think this is focused more on news media.

Like, for instance.  Luvdem and I could watch the same CNN show, Washington Journal on any given morning... and Im going to have alot less to agree with then Luvdem will.  But he's gonna be pissed about the 2% that give an opposing viewpoint and when the pollsters call his house at dinnertime on a Friday night... maybe he is more likely to be home to tell them about it.  But Im just gonna get pissed off, turn off the television, bitch to my boyfriend that people are stupid and on friday, when they pollster calls..going to be out, because tv sure as hell isnt accurate or entertaining anymore and it's sole purpose is to manipulate the minds of it's viewers away from commonsense... so, Im going to miss the pollster.

But then again, I could see the american public shifting the blame from the news media and feigning shock about entertainment that showed a black man on television.  The horror.  But those people either live in the deep south or in the upperechelons of society :smile: 


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Re: The liberal media. [Re: Xlea321]
    #1999638 - 10/11/03 06:21 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

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Why not just admit you prefer right wing policies instead of this "best of bad choices" nonsense?



Are you truly so numb or are you being "disingenuous" again?

I've stated several times That right wing policies are superior to the left.

And whether you like me saying Bush was the best of bad choices is immaterial to me. For you see, it's the truth. But as truth is a foreign concept to you, it's not surprising you fail to recognize it.


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Re: The liberal media. [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #1999920 - 10/11/03 10:59 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

*yawn*


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Re: The liberal media. [Re: Xlea321]
    #2000083 - 10/11/03 12:05 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

the bias on the media is neither conservative nor liberal

it is a fascist bias

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Re: The liberal media. [Re: Xlea321]
    #2000288 - 10/11/03 01:58 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

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Alex123 said:
*yawn*



Indeed.


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Re: The liberal media. [Re: DoctorJ]
    #2000539 - 10/11/03 03:52 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

it's not what they cover or how they cover it,
but more of what they are not covering.


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Re: The liberal media. [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #2001847 - 10/12/03 02:20 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

Luvdem, I have a question for you. Do you think this is an example of liberal media?


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Re: The liberal media. [Re: PsiloKitten]
    #2001935 - 10/12/03 04:52 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

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PsiloKitten said:
Luvdem, I have a question for you. Do you think this is an example of liberal media?



That site requires registration. I don't register on those sites.

If you'd like to cut and paste it I'd be glad to read it.

Not every article is biased.


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Re: The liberal media. [Re: PsiloKitten]
    #2002129 - 10/12/03 08:29 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

The Media Get Recalled

by L. Brent Bozell III
October 10, 2003



Arnold won and Davis lost, as did Bustamante, as did Huffington. But no one was more rejected in this 61 percent Republican tidal wave in an overwhelming Democratic state than the liberal press. Consider the media recalled.


From the first signatures on recall petitions, the press was huffing and puffing with hysteria. Newsweek said the state ?was in thrall to an earnest crank...in the grip of what can only be described as a civic crackup.? The New York Times called it a ?throbbing political hangover.? Peter Jennings warned ?the recall is on the verge of unleashing a political tempest. Some in California would say political madness.?


When it was over, the press was still howling ?Foul!? Remember how, after the GOP landslide in 1994, Jennings compared the public to two-year-olds and complained ?the voters had a temper tantrum last week?? There must be something in the drinking water at ABC. On the morning of the Schwarzenegger victory, there was his colleague Linda Douglass claiming (with no evidence provided) that "Schwarzenegger acknowledged that the recall campaign was the result of a statewide temper tantrum."

Of course voters were upset, but national reporters didn?t dare to tread near what might be causing this troublesome discontent: skyrocketing spending, tripled car taxes, slipping bond ratings, overpaid public-employee unions. Once the movie star entered the race, all the spotlights ? and all the nit-picking scrutiny ? was directed at him.


It didn?t matter that the people felt very obviously that Gov. Gray Davis was an incompetent in need of sudden retirement. It didn?t matter that the Lieutenant Governor who aspired to replace him had ties to a bizarre group believing several southwestern states should be sawed off America and handed back to the Mexicans. It didn?t matter than Gov. Davis tried to save himself by signing a bill to award illegal aliens with state-sanctioned driver?s licenses, making it easier for homeland-security threats to move right into the mainstream of California ? and perhaps other states as well.


What mattered were mangled statements Arnold supposedly made in 1975 during the filming of his breakthrough documentary ?Pumping Iron.? What mattered were wild claims about group sex at the gym that Arnold made in the pornographic magazine Oui in 1977. What mattered was an anonymous female, ?a former pro beach volleyball player,? who claimed that Arnold touched her breast on a Santa Monica street in 1980. No longer were we being admonished by the press to ?move on.? Now they were instructing the voters to back up.


The media labored hard against the recall. First it was a ?circus,? a freak show for pornographers, porn actresses, disgruntled child stars, and thong-underwear-selling self-promoters. Then it was Arnold, obviously too stupid even to form complete sentences in a debate. Then it was so unfair that a dedicated long-time public servant should be overturned by an actor with zero administrative experience, as if Davis?s experience ruining the state wasn?t the issue.


When these lines didn?t work, it was the media ? not just Democratic partisans, but the media ? who reached into the ugly bag and started throwing the unsubstantiated rumors and groping stories. The Los Angeles Times, which dismissed last-minute entreaties in 1992 to bring Juanita Broaddrick?s rape story to public scrutiny as ?toxic waste,? spent weeks goading women into telling anonymous tales about a comparatively meaningless boob squeeze in the 1970s. Tom Brokaw, who couldn?t bear to touch Broaddrick?s rape story with a ten-foot pole, even as it aired on his own network, dared to lecture Arnold that his behavior ?could be criminal.? The media hypocrisy is so obvious as to be transparent.


Which brings us back to ABC reporter Linda Douglass, who mangled Arnold?s alleged 1975 praise of Adolf Hitler. In 1975 he told an interviewer that he admired Hitler?s ?way of getting to the people,? but then added, ?But I don?t admire him for what he did with it.? Douglass artfully changed the quote and reported that he had said, ?I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it,? which gave license to Terry McAuliffe and Gray Davis to spend the final weekend pretending out loud that Arnold had swastikas tattooed to his biceps. When Arnold protested the story to Peter Jennings, the anchorman replied, ?But you had to know that this was all going to come out in a campaign. It is, after all, your past -- it isn't made up, is it?? In fact, ABC was making stuff up.


It?s obvious that Schwarzenegger, with his libertine movie-star misbehavior and social positions, not to mention his utter lack of political finesse in his pre-candidate days, was not the ideal conservative role model. But in the end, California voters just told the media to take their bias and shove it.

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Re: The liberal media. [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #2002148 - 10/12/03 08:46 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

Christ - that link is from the Media Research Center! You start a thread talking about the liberal slant in media, and you use an editorial from one of the most notoriously conservative (rabidly so, at times) organizations' websites to help you prove your point?

That is what circular logic means, in case you were never quite clear.

I don't think anyone is arguing that there are not individual journalists who are decidedly liberal in their slant. But all in all, with the exception of a few publications, the mainstream media ranges from slightly right of center to waaaaaaaay right of center.

And the article you wouldn't read was from the Washington Post... one of the few newspapers with an overall left-leaning stance, and it was a fair account of Rice's job as NSC advisor and how some cabinet members are making her job more difficult than it should be, unfairly so. Seems pretty neutral to me. But you'll have that.


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Re: The liberal media. [Re: GernBlanston]
    #2002260 - 10/12/03 10:42 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

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Christ - that link is from the Media Research Center! You start a thread talking about the liberal slant in media, and you use an editorial from one of the most notoriously conservative (rabidly so, at times) organizations' websites to help you prove your point?



To PROVE my point? No. To illustrate AN example, yes.

The media was strangly silent about this type of thing when Clinton was involved, yet waited until only days before the election to do a story with witnesses who couldn't be named.


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That is what circular logic means, in case you were never quite clear.



I'm aware of what circular logic means which is why this wasn't claimed as PROOF. Perhaps a bit of thought before you leap to a conclusion like that is in order.


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I don't think anyone is arguing that there are not individual journalists who are decidedly liberal in their slant.



Far more than you seem prepared to admit.


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But all in all, with the exception of a few publications, the mainstream media ranges from slightly right of center to waaaaaaaay right of center.



Sure they do. There is ONE right leaning news channel, no right leaning networks, few right leaning papers and magazines. The only area conservatives seem to have an advantage in is talk radio.


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And the article you wouldn't read was from the Washington Post...



No shit? If I hadn't attempted to follow the link how would I know registration was required? If I know it is, I'm obviously aware of the source. Won't read? Bullshit. I said I would read it if it's pasted here. I simply do not go to most sites where cookies and registration are required.


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Re: The liberal media. [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #2002362 - 10/12/03 11:53 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

The media was strangly silent about this type of thing when Clinton was involved

Since when was Clinton the champion of the left?


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Re: The liberal media. [Re: Xlea321]
    #2002607 - 10/12/03 02:15 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

*The media was strangly silent about this type of thing when Clinton was involved, yet waited until only days before the election to do a story with witnesses who couldn't be named.

The media's been strangely silent when it comes to Bush's connections to big oil and the Saudis. It has been equally silent concerning Dick Chaney's connections to Enron.


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Re: The liberal media. [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #2002680 - 10/12/03 02:49 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

That link doesnt require registration. Answer the questions however you wish. It's the Washington Post.. dont be lazy.
It doesnt ask your for your email or anything.. Sheesh.

Gern, I agree.

But the fact is, most conservatives swear this huge bias! Just because an idea differs with theirs, they tend to blow the few into the many. It gets to the point where they can even create a world in their head that allows them to think the only media outlet in which conservatives have an advantage is maybe radio.

Us liberals or actually, Im a commonsenser, realize that the media is right leaning and get gleeful when we see someone actually telling the other side of the story.


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Re: The liberal media. [Re: PsiloKitten]
    #2002907 - 10/12/03 04:36 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

You can sheesh all you want. When I click on it, it takes me to a registration page (or whatever you'd like to call it) It also requires cookies. I do not accept cookies. I don't register on most sites.

Pretty fucking sad when you can't even take someones word for that.


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But the fact is, most conservatives swear this huge bias! Just because an idea differs with theirs, they tend to blow the few into the many.



Substitute the word liberal for conservative and your sentence becomes an accurate one.


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It gets to the point where they can even create a world in their head that allows them to think the only media outlet in which conservatives have an advantage is maybe radio.



That's the only place they do, like it or not.


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Re: The liberal media. [Re: Xlea321]
    #2002909 - 10/12/03 04:36 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

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Alex123 said:
The media was strangly silent about this type of thing when Clinton was involved

Since when was Clinton the champion of the left?



You just outdid your previous moronic question record.


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Re: The liberal media. [Re: Rose]
    #2002912 - 10/12/03 04:37 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

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Cervantes said:
*The media was strangly silent about this type of thing when Clinton was involved, yet waited until only days before the election to do a story with witnesses who couldn't be named.

The media's been strangely silent when it comes to Bush's connections to big oil and the Saudis. It has been equally silent concerning Dick Chaney's connections to Enron.



You should stop reading papers that only have funnies in them then.


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Re: The liberal media. [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #2002925 - 10/12/03 04:43 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

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The media was strangly silent about this type of thing when Clinton was involved, yet waited until only days before the election to do a story with witnesses who couldn't be named.



Ok, excuse my ignorance, but what exactly are you talking about?


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Re: The liberal media. [Re: silversoul7]
    #2002959 - 10/12/03 04:56 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

Well Arnold was accused of groping, Clinton was accused of raping and grouping, yet the same people who are so quick to pile onto Arnold, didn't react with the same "moral" indignation.

I realize Clinton was more or less before your time, but try googles on the following.....
Juanita Broderick
Kathleen Willey
Paula Jones


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