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#52 Oct 21 2008 at 11:10 AM Rating: Good

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Why? To hear what liberals, under the facade of neutrality, think the american people need to hear? I might as well just come here and see what you people are rambling about and save myself the effort.

Incidentally this kind of reporting is a primary reason main news outlets are laying off people by the 100's. Unfortunately for liberals pandoras box has been opened and the populace are no longer content with the main 3 news agencies as well as local newspapers for their sole source of information.

I always feel bad for the paranoid people who are convinced that every news outlet is so biased that they can't believe anything anyone tells them.

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#53 Oct 21 2008 at 11:13 AM Rating: Good

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I always feel bad for the paranoid people who are convinced that every news outlet is so biased that they can't believe anything anyone tells them.

To be fair, some definitely are. But anything like PBS, NPR, and C-SPAN are completely without bias.

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#54 Oct 21 2008 at 11:15 AM Rating: Good

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To be fair, some definitely are.

I agree. Like I said, I feel bad for those people who see that and assume that every news outlet is.

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#55 Oct 21 2008 at 11:24 AM Rating: Excellent

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Why? To hear what liberals, under the facade of neutrality, think the american people need to hear?

Ok, don't and sit here and cry about how you don't know WTF is going on. I can't say I really care either way.

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#57 Oct 21 2008 at 11:52 AM Rating: Excellent

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You mean like the ultra-liberal 40s and 50s?

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#58 Oct 21 2008 at 12:01 PM Rating: Good

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if Obama is elected he will work with congress to destroy talk radio by means of the fairness doctrine.

The fairness doctrine? You mean the obsolete FCC policy that Obama has openly said he's against?

ETA: He's come out against the Fairness Doctrine despite support from such Dem bigwigs as Nancy Pelosi and Big John Kerry. He's such a mav-rick, that one.

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#60 Oct 21 2008 at 12:17 PM Rating: Decent

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knoxsouthy wrote:

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But anything like PBS, NPR, and C-SPAN are completely without bias

You really think those are unbiased? Tell me you're not that stupid.

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Ok, don't and sit here and cry about how you don't know WTF is going on. I can't say I really care either way.

I know that Obama is out there talking about distributing wealth and that's not a good thing.

I would say yes to C-Span being unbiased.

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#61 Oct 21 2008 at 12:21 PM Rating: Good

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But anything like PBS, NPR, and C-SPAN are completely without bias

You really think those are unbiased? Tell me you're not that stupid.

I dunno how you can sit there and tell me these stations are biased. They're like reading an encyclopedia.

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#63 Oct 21 2008 at 12:26 PM Rating: Excellent

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Hey....don't get me wrong varrus.

The main reason I want Obama to win have nothing to do with me thinking he's a great guy who is the saviour of the world.

I don't.

I actually think he's a bit of an cnut, who will make lots of bad decisions regarding perpetuating the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and pandering to idiots who believe the US is threatened by foreigners, amongst other things......

No the reasons for me wanting Obama to win are, in no particular order :

1. The US has been in the hands of lots of old white cnuts for ever. Its time for a younger black cnut to have an innings, if only to piss off bigoted fucks like yourself. I'm frothing at the gash in anticipation of the apoplectic reactions from the religeous right.

2. I think McCain is a delusional old ****, who may die or become incapacitated at any moment. That would leave Palin. She is a creationist and a fundamentalist Christian and as such has no right to be in a position that requires rational, logical and analytical thought.

3. Obama might surprise me and actually be a really good president, who genuinly wants to improve the lives of his fellow human beings who share the planet with him.

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#64 Oct 21 2008 at 12:41 PM Rating: Default

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Mindel wrote:

knoxsouthy wrote:

if Obama is elected he will work with congress to destroy talk radio by means of the fairness doctrine.

The fairness doctrine? You mean the obsolete FCC policy that Obama has openly said he's against?

ETA: He's come out against the Fairness Doctrine despite support from such Dem bigwigs as Nancy Pelosi and Big John Kerry. He's such a mav-rick, that one.

Well. He didn't actually say much directly. His press secretary said "Senator Obama does not support re-imposing the Fairness Doctrine on broadcasters". But he qualified that with "He considers this debate to be a distraction from the conversation we should be having about opening up the airwaves and modern communications to as many diverse viewpoints as possible", and "That is why Senator Obama supports media ownership caps, network neutrality, public broadcasting, as well as increasing minority ownership of broadcasting and print outlets.".

I think it's pretty clear that his "opposition" to the fairness doctrine had less to do with an ideological disagreement with it, and a whole lot to do with not wanting to be embroiled in a discussion about it. Um... But the list of things he does want to do certainly puts him in the same room as those who do want the fairness doctrine.

What exactly does "Opening up communications to as many diverse viewpoints as possible" mean? Because that's the same argument used in support of the fairness doctrine. And honestly the list of things he does support are just as bad...

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#66 Oct 21 2008 at 1:04 PM Rating: Excellent

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My thing about obama is he's a marxist, look it up. He hangs around with his marxist buddies until it's no longer convienent and then pretends he never knew them.

He's not a Marxist.

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#67 Oct 21 2008 at 1:07 PM Rating: Good

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Or what's more likely is he'll be worse for the economy than Carter and send us into a full blown depression.

Worse than the last 8 years that got you teetering on the edge of a 'full-blown depression? Remains to be seen but I struggle to see how he could be worse than Bush has been.

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My thing about obama is he's a marxist,

Better a marxist than a creationist imo.

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He hangs around with his marxist buddies until it's no longer convienent and then pretends he never knew them.

That will be 'politics' then.....

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At least with McCain we know what we're getting.

Yup. An old geezer, who, when he dies, will be rplaced by a fundamentalist christian.

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I just feel sorry for those people we might have hired but decided against because of the tax ramifications.

So now you want to start caring for the downtrodden masses?

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#68 REDACTED, Posted: Oct 21 2008 at 1:08 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Look, Obama is a master of the tongue. He manages to say exactly what people want to hear to each and yet, no one blinks an eye or thinks to themselves for a minute about what he is actually saying to them.

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#69 Oct 21 2008 at 1:11 PM Rating: Excellent

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I really think you're going to find it's not as bad as all that.

For the first three years they'll be occupied with fixing the mess we're currently in; after that they'll push for health care and get shot down.

Relax.

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#70 Oct 21 2008 at 1:19 PM Rating: Decent

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Obama is about as far left as they come.

Sweet if it was true, but I doubt its veracity.

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When he turns America into a Socialist state like the EU Union, and, causes a depression I personally want to never hear this stupid "fair" arguement ever again from any of you, because it will fail, it has failed all over the world.

Also sweet, cos from what I hear, most of Europe is a pretty swell place to live.

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Life isn't fair, Life is reality. As is now just about anyone can become well off in the US.

I can also spout ignorant platitudes which I've stolen from Horatio Alger, but I won't, because they are trite and foolish.

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The only people that will be looking out for the greater good will be Fox, and Talk Radio, which Obama wants to cut off at the throat. Have fun with that.

Heavens fucking to betsy, not fox!

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#71 REDACTED, Posted: Oct 21 2008 at 1:19 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Samira, shot down? Are you kidding me. They can do whatever the hell they want when he becomes president.

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That's just what the liberals want you to thhink, Samira.

P.S. The EU is by far not as left as they come. The EU is not Marxist.

P.P.S. In before Obama is compared to Hitler as an orator.

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#73 Oct 21 2008 at 1:20 PM Rating: Excellent

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You will have a Far Left Congress (Fully by themselves meaning the repubs can't do ANYTHING, they can't filibuster, nothing, they will just be innocent on lookers at the travesty), a Left President, and a Left Media.

Sounds like the Republicans must have seriously fucked themselves over, huh?

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#74 Oct 21 2008 at 1:22 PM Rating: Good

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They will have over 60 senators, majority in the house, and president and backed by the left media. There will be nothing to stop them......

Again, you're making this scenario seem extremely appealing.

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#75 REDACTED, Posted: Oct 21 2008 at 1:22 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) I still don't understand why people bash fox, I guess it's just the left in this country, but anyone with a subjective eye can tell Fox is by far the most balanced.

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#76 Oct 21 2008 at 1:22 PM Rating: Excellent

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In before "I'm moving to some more right-wing country if Obama is elected, assuming I can find one. Iran, perhaps."

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