The Obama Thread - Page 6

Bubblehead1980 · 09-25-10, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

Oh, really?

I meant to say, mostly Lefties.

Sailor Steve · 09-26-10, 01:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980

The one's complaining about the Obama posts were the Lefties, of course.The Left are pros at whining, thats why they are Liberals.Oh he makes more money than me, oh I think so and so was discriminated again, oh not enough diversity, oooh ooh teacher teacher etc etc Doubt they whined when every other post was relating to Bush as said.Then again, until the end Bush was not hated nearly as much as Obama because well Bush was not always wrong unlike Barry.

And you still claim to be fair and balanced? Only someone on the far, far right uses terms like that.

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lol if it were only that easy but this is a discussion forum, these are things that should be discussed.

But you never discuss things. Instead you make wild pronouncements and try to demean anyone who disagrees. The only person you're making look foolish with this nonsense is yourself.

antikristuseke · 09-26-10, 02:20 AM

He is fair and balanced in the same way Fox news is fair and balanced.

JokerOfFate · 09-26-10, 02:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980

I meant to say, mostly Lefties.

I'm also left handed.
Thats not a fair point I don't know there are many left handed people here and also how would you know if they're left handed or not?

XabbaRus · 09-26-10, 05:14 AM

And that Bubblehead is why I made a dump thread as all the obama related topics end up in the same place all the time.

As for me being a liberal and lefty I'd love to know how you know that.
To be honest I put them all together as they were cluttering up the forum. Obama's politics and that of the US really hasn't anything to do with me as it doesn't affect me so my political leanings either left or right have nothing to do with me lumping it all together.

You say you are studying law but heck I wouldn't have know unless you said.

Oberon · 09-26-10, 09:37 AM

Tea Party law obviously

Sailor Steve · 09-26-10, 11:35 AM

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Originally Posted by JokerOfFate

I'm also left handed.
Thats not a fair point I don't know there are many left handed people here and also how would you know if they're left handed or not?

Because they are typically gauche, sinister, or both.

Gerald · 09-26-10, 11:41 AM

Tea party,sucks

STEED · 09-26-10, 03:58 PM

Last orders please.

Gerald · 09-26-10, 04:01 PM

tater · 09-26-10, 04:02 PM

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Originally Posted by antikristuseke

He is fair and balanced in the same way Fox news is fair and balanced.

The news on Fox (not the other shows that are explicitly opinion shows) is slightly right of US center. Very slightly. There have ben several university studies of broadcast media, and they seem to land the major outlets similarly. Fox is slightly right, NPR is slightly left, and all the other TV/radio outlets are left of NPR. On the one I most recently recall, NPR, while left, was also closest to the center—followed by Fox, actually (Fox is considerably less "right" than CBS is "left" for example.

Just offering a reality check, though when virtually all the other media is (editorially) an echo chamber, it probably seems farther right than it actually is. Again, the actual NEWS shows, not crap like hannity, o'reiley, etc.

I don't watch Fox—or any TV news-myself, though I listen to NPR every morning.

antikristuseke · 09-26-10, 04:14 PM

True ennough, but the actual news segments there are few and far between. The vast majority of their programing seems to bew opinion pieces presented as fact. I am not saying others are better, mind you. I used to watch fox news when I needed a laugh.

Edit: Anyway it is not the direction of the slant that bothers me, but the fact that a channel that has ****ing news in its name does not actually deal with news.

tater · 09-26-10, 04:32 PM

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Originally Posted by antikristuseke

True ennough, but the actual news segments there are few and far between. The vast majority of their programing seems to bew opinion pieces presented as fact. I am not saying others are better, mind you. I used to watch fox news when I needed a laugh.

Edit: Anyway it is not the direction of the slant that bothers me, but the fact that a channel that has ****ing news in its name does not actually deal with news.

That's not terribly fair. Try watching CNN or MSNBC(CNBC, etc) some time. Look for a NEWS show. LOL. Even "Headline News" is now rarely news. Lat time I decided to watch some TV news, I tried (unsuccessfully) to find any on ANY 24/7 "news" channel. They were all doing talk shows, the only "news" was the crawler.

So they ALL do it (cable outlets).

And those shows are opinion, plain and simple. Who exactly thinks they are "fact" and not opinion shows?

I used to sometimes watch TV news. I liked Brit Hume's news on FOx, seems much the same as any other TV news to me.

I think ALL broadcast media news suffers from the lack of a stated editorial policy. I read the NYT. I know it is leftist. It says so right on the editorial page. That allows the reader to filter the information. If you know that paper X only ever endorses a Republican for some minor office, and always goes dem on "real" elections, then you know that their news stories will also be biased in that direction (ALL news (real news) is biased, too, period).

Having a stated editorial slant is at least honest. All TV news acts as if they are unbiased, which is BS.

frau kaleun · 09-26-10, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Because they are typically gauche, sinister, or both.

Links, bitte?

antikristuseke · 09-26-10, 04:36 PM

We don't get those channels here, no longer get fox either for that mater. Did you miss the part where i stated that I am not saying the other "news" networks are better?

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XabbaRus Navy Seal Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 5,330 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	And that Bubblehead is why I made a dump thread as all the obama related topics end up in the same place all the time. As for me being a liberal and lefty I'd love to know how you know that. To be honest I put them all together as they were cluttering up the forum. Obama's politics and that of the US really hasn't anything to do with me as it doesn't affect me so my political leanings either left or right have nothing to do with me lumping it all together. You say you are studying law but heck I wouldn't have know unless you said. __________________

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antikristuseke Silent Hunter Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Estland Posts: 4,330 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	He is fair and balanced in the same way Fox news is fair and balanced.

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antikristuseke Silent Hunter Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Estland Posts: 4,330 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	True ennough, but the actual news segments there are few and far between. The vast majority of their programing seems to bew opinion pieces presented as fact. I am not saying others are better, mind you. I used to watch fox news when I needed a laugh. Edit: Anyway it is not the direction of the slant that bothers me, but the fact that a channel that has ****ing news in its name does not actually deal with news.

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antikristuseke Silent Hunter Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Estland Posts: 4,330 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	We don't get those channels here, no longer get fox either for that mater. Did you miss the part where i stated that I am not saying the other "news" networks are better?